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5:39 pm, Feb 28 2008
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anyone here ever read the original stories of the journey to the west? With sun wukong and xuanzang and the rest of the gang? If not I know you've read manga that have been heavily influenced by it.

Dragonball and Saiyuki especially. I actually grew up on the stories of sun wukong, my dad would tell them to me like fairy tales when i was a little kid, and when i first saw DB and Saiyuki, it was a huge blast from the past.

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actually i got it at the library today, b/c i read somewhere temari from naruto was somewhat based on a character in it.

also that jet li/jackie chan movie has some vague references to it.

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I finished DB. Is that close enough?

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Read it?
Tried
Loved the movie though ;D
Wait, is this the Monkey King story?

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Quote from E-chan52
Read it?
Tried
Loved the movie though ;D
Wait, is this the Monkey King story?

yep and his friends
my chinese roomate said it's great

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Then yes. I know of it.
And I love it ;D
I swear I;'ve watched the movie at least 5 times. And it has super long episodes.
I think i watched the new version twice. biggrin

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Read It and watched the movie about 3 times, excellent story

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I haven't read it, but I've watched TV adaptions of it from Hong Kong. I remember that I cried during one of the episodes. Looking back on it now, it wasn't that sad. It was about how some kind of skeleton demon was masquerading as a pretty girl and infiltrated the party, fooling everyone. Everyone except for Sun Wukong that is.

And so Sun Wukong got punished and left behind because everyone thought he was being paranoid and attacking an innocent girl. And after he got left behind, the demon showed its true colors and started wounding and killing people, including seriously injuring the master monk. And how Chu Bakai (sp? you know, the perverted pig) finally realized their mistake and ran to find Sun Wukong for help.

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I read it...It was supposed to be a just requirement for Chinese class but I ended up liking it

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I finished DB. Is that close enough?

No, it's not.

On topic, I own the book.

The edition I have is actually split into four seperate books, because its over 2,300 pages in length, total.

I got it about four years ago, having wanted to read the original for many years (Not just because of how it influenced Dragon Ball, either).

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I haven't read it, but I've watched TV adaptions of it from Hong Kong. I remember that I cried during one of the episodes. Looking back on it now, it wasn't that sad. It was about how some kind of skeleton demon was masquerading as a pretty girl and infiltrated the party, fooling everyone. Everyone except for Sun Wukong that is.

And so Sun Wukong got punished and left behind because everyone thought he was being paranoid and attacking an innocent girl. And after he got left behind, the demon showed its true colors and started wounding and killing people, including seriously injuring the master monk. And how Chu Bakai (sp? you know, the perverted pig) finally realized their mistake and ran to find Sun Wukong for help.


The chinese pinyin is zhu bajie aka zhu wuneng

Did you ever read the whole thing Kaioh?

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