The Monkey King (manga)
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The Monkey King | |
西遊奇伝 大猿王 (Saiyukiden Daienou) |
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Genre | Action, Fantasy, Shenmo, Adventure |
Manga | |
Written by | Katsuya Terada |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Seinen |
Magazine | Ultra Jump |
Original run | 18 October 2002 – present |
Volumes | 2+ |
The Monkey King (西遊奇伝 大猿王 Saiyukiden Daienō?, literally - "Legendary Journey to the West: The Great Monkey King"), also known as Katsuya Terada's The Monkey King, is a dark fantasy manga series, written and illustrated in full color by Katsuya Terada.
Story
The story is based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West. Katsuya Terada's take on the legend of the Monkey King in a savage, lusty saga that The Portland Tribune calls "a Buddhist version of Conan the Barbarian.":[citation needed]
External links
- The Monkey King's Manga site (Dark Horse Comics)
- The Monkey King (manga) at Anime News Network's encyclopedia
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- Articles containing Japanese-language text
- Wikipedia requested photographs of anime and manga
- Manga series
- 2002 manga
- Articles with unsourced statements from February 2010
- Chinese mythology in anime and manga
- Fantasy anime and manga
- Seinen manga
- Shenmo fiction
- Works based on Journey to the West
- Dark Horse Comics titles
- Anime and manga stubs