![]() ![]() Journey to the west and Mahabharata are prototypes of over-the-top 300 episodes long shonen anime after all ![]() There's only so many ways you can write "and an immortal, nigh omnipotent monkey god swoops down and kicks the ever-loving crap out of everything" before it gets tedious. If I remember correctly, it's because Sanzang has to face 81 (9x9) trials as that's a spiritually significant number combination. I actually got interested originally because of the old Monkey series.Īnd I wish OSP would hurry up with the next one in their series. The Waley translation is the first one I read (in school, no less), and afterwards I made a point of getting the Yu translation as several Christmas and Birthday presents. It was still in print last time I checked. This means that you get the bulk of the story in a single volume. He cuts out most of the poetry, most of the repeated/uninteresting stories and concentrates on the more interesting ones. My recommendation for an abridgement is Monkey: A Folk-Tale of China (1942), an translation by Arthur Waley. However, I recommend getting an abridgement first - you don't want to pay out a lot of money for four books and then find you don't like it. That said, it is an excellent translation and if you want the while thing I fully recommend it. It is also four large volumes, and likely to cost quite a bit. The Yu translation is a scholarly translation (soggy with footnotes) and includes all the poetry (of which there is a lot - it seems like the characters can't go two pages without attempting to poem). ![]() Be absolutely sure what you want to read first! ![]()
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