Journey To The West 1999 Page

The 1999 Journey to the West is not the most faithful adaptation. It is not the most beautiful. It is not the most mature.

What elevates "Journey to the West 1999" is that it doesn't hide the hypocrisy of the Celestial Bureaucracy. In one episode, a lion demon is revealed to be a pet of a Bodhisattva. The Bodhisattva scolds the monkey for "killing" the demon, to which Sun Wukong replies, "If you had kept your pet locked up, we wouldn't be in this mess." journey to the west 1999

Conversely, the closing theme

We didn't just watch it; we acted it out in the schoolyard. We fought over who got to be Wukong (and begrudgingly let the slow kid be Sha Wujing). We used sticks as the Ruyi Jingu Bang. We drew the "Fiery Eyes" on our foreheads with red markers. The 1999 Journey to the West is not

, the series was a massive undertaking that took nearly six years and significant financial investment to complete. What elevates "Journey to the West 1999" is