Rhapsodies

I’ve been a fan of Wu Cheng’en‘s Journey to the West since I had a picture book about Monkey’s early adventures as a kid. From there it was only a matter of time before I read the synopses to the whole story to reading the abridged version Monkey by Arthur Wale and then finally the whole thing. (These days I’m partial to the Anthony Yu translation.)

So I’m always interested in media versions of it from anime shows that are loosely based on it like Dragon Ball and Starzingers to the more straighter versions that go from good like the CCTV version, to insulting like the Lost Empire, to everything in between.

So all I can say is this new one with Donny Yen looks… promising.