Tag: Journey to the West
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The Gang Watches Nezha 2
Ao Run, the Dragon King of the West (Or should I say queen?) shows up in Nezha 2 and receives the Purah-from-Tears-of-the-Kingdom treatment. So I decided to draw a funny little comic of what it would be like if the pilgrimage crew went to go see the movie. For context, in the XYJ lore, the…
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Someone should fix the Wikipedia page for The Magic Lotus Lantern
Update 6/4/2025: I initially wrote this back in March of 2024, I have since then done way more research and will be posting an update to this subject detailing new information I’ve uncovered. Interestingly, as of April 2025, the Wikipedia page has also updated its page, but mostly in the grammatical and structural sense. The…
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Symbolism in Journey to the West
XYJ (Xi You Ji, the name in Chinese) doesn’t just serve as a brilliant piece of literary fiction, it dramatizes the historical journey of Tang Sanzang (Xuanzang) as a sort of spiritual allegory. The main purpose and intent of the novel appears to be the promotion of Buddhism, as it’s very clear that the end…
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Journey to the West Research notes chapters 1-7
Journey to the West is my favorite thing in the entire world and I recently decided to re-read through the first 7 chapters (the ones exclusively about the Monkey King) in preparation for a project I’m working on. I wanted to note interesting things I found and noticed while reading the novel, including a lot…
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Mystery of the Mandrill in Journey to the West
So in Journey to the West there’s basically four crazy powerful celestial primates that do not belong under any of the classical categorizations of gods, spirits, demons or mortals. They are the: The Stone Monkey of Luminous Wisdom The Red-Buttocked Horse Monkey The Long Armed Gibbon The Six Eared Macaque They each have a unique…
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