CHAD MONKEY | Overly Sarcastic Productions: The Monkey King, Journey To The West Part 1 Reaction

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[@Brutalyte616]

Wukong didn't accidentally blackmail the dragons by being annoying. He scared the shit out of them by casually lifting up a 9-ton pillar and saying he'd use it as a staff when the dragons just thought of it as a support beam. Understandably, somebody picking up part of your palace-sized house and using it as a weapon is rather disturbing, and if you were not inclined to deal with the monkey with the 9-ton ear-piercing, you would gladly hand him all the clothes he wants and promptly start moving once he's out the door.

[@BuddySbgRoblox]

Correction, the staff is what the east dragon king used to show other ppl how rich are the dragons. There are three in total "staffs" that appeared in the timeline. The east dragon: Golden staff The west dragon: Sky pillar(there were another monkey that had the title "the great sage stronger than heaven" that later got killed) And macaque's staff.

[@Brutalyte616]

@@BuddySbgRoblox Yes, but it's still a pillar and the Dragon King of the East was understandably very unnerved that Wukong considered part of his house a suitable weapon.

[@BuddySbgRoblox]

@@Brutalyte616 You can still say that. But im gonna say one thing, the pillar (at least in the live action show) is outside of the temple, not inside. So i don't consider it as a part of his house.

[@black97_0]

Airier: "HOW MANY IMMORALITIES DOES HE NEED?" me and Son Wukong: "yes"

[@neojay7522]

I thought the same thing XD

[@RedwoodTheElf]

7:40 remember, this isn't a normal monkey, but a magical monkey made of stone. Of COURSE his lifespan is already weird. How many types of immortality does Sun Wukong need? All of them. All the types. You invent more types, he needs them.

[@Heavenly_Spirit1]

Did somebody say immortality? Wukong is on his way.

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

Oh boy, here i go not dying again!

[@Teh10Sorrow]

I mean is it not normal for monkey to be born from stone and fire laser eyes?

[@brachylp3400]

@@Heavenly_Spirit1 Wich Wukong are we Talking About here cuz Warframes got Reworked to be less immortal but still Kinda is

[@MusicFan752]

You're not dealing with the average monkey!

[@statusgaming3121]

Ah yes the yearly series.

[@ivylives559]

My FAVOURITE yearly series

[@shade08538]

Welcome to the yearies, the annual yearly year of the year awards that awards the finest in years this past year

[@meisterband8603]

Just like most abridged series

[@poochyenajones1362]

Well, it goes at the similar pace as the journey in the book. I think by her latest upload chapter-wise, chronologically it's been like 8 years in the book.

[@DJ-skittles]

The adventure in the books takes place over the course of 13 years

[@wildcardjoey4776]

TECHNICALLY, the peaches, wine, and pills just increase lifespan by 10,000 years EACH, the messing with the ledgers means they can't collect his soul, he is made of stone as they are want to forget, and as long as one continues practicing the Tao they will continuously reset their aging, so he's less outright immortal after all the stacking and moreso unbelievably close to it. Edit: fixed comma

[@jled787]

Lao Tzu attempting to burn off the peaches, wine and pills out of Wukong instead just burned off the remaining mortality out of Wukong.

[@marmyeater]

@@jled787 And gave him the ability to see evil.

[@parkersmith8711]

nah I'm pretty sure it is just strait up immortality

[@marmyeater]

@@parkersmith8711 no

[@parkersmith8711]

@@marmyeater no

[@SelfZin]

For those wondering how Immortal Wukong is, he technically has 79 layers of immortality or an 8-fold immortal 1) 72 Earthly Transformations (72 Bain) - Every transformation gives Wukong an extra life 2) Ledger(s) of the Dead - Erasing his name means his soul can not be taken to Hell, therefore immortal 3) Peaches of Immortality - Grants him immortality (the peaches also makes his body lighter and stronger, gives the ability to fly, etc.) 4) Heavenly Wine 5) Laozi's Pills of Longevity/Immortality 6) Braiser of Eight Trigrams - Extracts the impurities of mortality granting him even more immortality (also grants him the ability to recognize evil) *7) Ginseng Fruit - consuming one of theses fruits grants you 47,000 years of life (more powerful then the Peaches of Immortality) *8) Buddha Food - When reaching Buddha's temple the pilgrims were given Buddhist equivalents of the stuff listed above *Has not appeared in the OSP series as of the writing of this comment

[@themmofifty7615]

It's not so much that Sun Wukong can swim, being a stone monkey he just sinks to the bottom, but because he's immortal he can't really drown. This becomes important later in the story where he outright admits to having disadvantages fighting underwater and asks Sha Wujing (Aka Sandy the sand river demon) to dive down to help the monk after he's captured by swimming demons.

[@KrystianZieba-kc8tx]

Whats scary is that the 72 transformations thing is not how that technique works. It allows for BONUDLESS transformations as long as you don't try to become omnipotent... The 72 is actually the extra lives you get thanks to the power. To put into perspective how broken the power is, if monkey met someone stronger he can become a different form capable of matching the opponent. Which he DID in his war with heaven.

[@RedwoodTheElf]

Not to mention being able to make dozens of COPIES of himself in any form he can take, so he can easily overpower anything by outnumbering it with copies of itself.

[@NoxAtlas]

I'd always like to think of Journey to the West as a D&D campaign. Wukong is the experienced power gamer who drags his newbie friends along who have no idea how this game works. Tripitaka is the underpowered pacifist who always drags the party down, Sandy just wants a nice game with his friends, and Pigsy is pissed that Wukong always steals the show and makes it his job to sabotage the whole game out of spite. And the DM is desperately trying to nerf Wukong so the newbies can play too

[@Raiden4019]

@@NoxAtlas This... is surprisingly accurate.

[@theirishviking9278]

@@NoxAtlas and the horse is the player who showed up once

[@weldonwin]

So this is the true origin of the "This Isn't Even My Final Form" Meme

[@TensuMakadi]

A thing to note that OSP and many others leave out is that Journey to the West is also very much a type of religious fiction and you should keep in mind the many religious beliefs throughout China when considering the story and symbolism

[@gokbay3057]

I mean OSP kinda mentions it. "Everyone sucks but the Buddha", showing how Wukong beats up Celestial Court and messes with Lao Tzu but Buddha being able to easily beat him, the Taoist immortal villains + Buddhist good guys, etc.

[@TensuMakadi]

​@Gokbay They really don't, an end card that simply say the author is x hence y and z doesn't highlight the fact that the story is based roughly on the true history just of a religious figure with fabricated events as it was written one thousand years after the figure died. They also leave out the fact that there is a lot of unanswered questions about the origin of the story due to the fact that while published in the late 1500s it was A) published anonymously and B) proceed by two other similar but briefer versions. Too be clear what I am saying is they leave out the fact that this is a fictional telling of an actual real life event and likely a compilation of religious folk lore.

[@marocat4749]

Its kinda religious propaganda too, like the jade mporer, conicuism, sun wukong, budhism?!, and th daoists.

[@anyathepanther7977]

The great Monk, Xuan Zang, is the OG Damsel in Distress. Also the chinese Version of Immortality is a Bit complicated. You have like 3 diffirent versions. One where you dont die of old Age, one where you cant die of sickness and the probably most known is the heavenly Immortality where all of the causes are off the Table. Last one needs to be recharged every once in a while with either of the Heavens Fruits, Wine or Medicine.

[@brigidtheirish]

Though ODing on all three seems to make the heavenly type permanent.

[@impartialthrone2097]

@@brigidtheirishOr he just ate/drank enough of it for the Heavenly type to last until he reaches enlightenment at the end, becoming a Buddha.

[@runedoom]

Fun fact: just like how cheese is a loaf of milk, vodka is potato tea.

[@lazerwolf952]

I think the reason the monkey king can duplicate himself is simple. Since it involves his hair, and he has perfect control over his shape-shifting, I believe what he does is he shape shifts each strand of hair into a perfect copy of himself.

[@demonfox132]

He has to chew or blow on them to tranform. So I think it part of the 72-tranformation magic he learned. Other in-animat opjects he can transform pretty easily

[@markfrey6664]

Airier: How many kinds of immortality does he need? Me and Wukong: ALL OF THEM!

[@trethidskies4609]

Fun Fact: Dream of the Red Chamber, one of the other Chinese great classical novels, is 120 chapters, and one translation runs over two and half thousand pages long.

[@gokbay3057]

Romance of the Three Kingdoms is the dramatized version of the Records of the Three Kingdoms which is a more grounded historic text. As the name indicates it covers the Three Kingdoms period of China, 220AD to 280AD (thought both books start from 180s). (Also regarding Goku, "Son Goku" is literally how you read the Chinese characters for "Sun Wukong" in Japanese (since Kanji is basically Hanzi, aka Chinese characters. They also often have multiple readings in Japanese).)

[@jkosch]

Due to a policy called mutualism (treat back the way you are treated), Chinese names are written in the corresponding Japanese kanji, and are pronounced in one of two ways: On-yomi: Sounds based on Chinese pronunciation at the time Kanji was imported from China 1,500-2,000 years ago (but still tweaked by what sounds do natively exist in Japanese) or Kun-yomi: Sounds that had existed as native pronunciation in Japanese before Kanji (a Japanese reading) (eg. Deng Xiaoping comes out as To Shohei in the more common reading). For example Consort Yu/Yu Mei-ren is actually pronounced as GuBijin in the Japanese reading (and if you listen to the voiced parts of FGO that is what they go with).

[@eruantien9932]

And because there's more than one language in the Chinese family, and the languages have evolved over the centuries, some characters got imported more than once (giving multiple on-yomi); and sometimes were used to represent more than one Japanese word/sound (giving multiple kun-yomi). Random example, the character 応 is pronounced as "yīng" in Mandarin, and in Japanese has the kun-yomi readings "ata", "masani" and "kota", and the on-yomi readings "ou", "you" and "nou" (note that "ying" is conspicuously absent). But as a family name it can instead be "Oo" (sounds like "ou" due to phonetic shift over the last few centuries), and as a personal name it can be "Kotau" or "Kotae" by itself, or "Taka", "Masa" or "Nobu" as part of a name (or many of the aforementioned readings. And there's probably more possible readings for names that I've never heard of. There's a reason why Hololive tends to write their talents' personal names in kana, it makes them a lot easier to search on YT/Twitter.

[@DanGamingFan2846]

I've heard of some mischievous monkeys, but this is ridiculous. The sheer level of immortality SunWukong develops is insane, and your reactions to his antics and badassery are priceless. Red and Blue do such great work, and I will forever love their content and this annual series. Thank you for finally checking it out. ❤

[@Airier]

It's a blast so far, so I'm really looking forward to seeing what comes next. 😁

[@Dahaka-rd6tw]

@@Airier Can you react to 'Lord of the Rings but it's D&D' series by 'XP to Level 3'?

[@loganshaw4527]

​@@Airier meanwhile Sips maybe a descendant of the monkey king.

[@vao519]

The elixir doesn’t make you always sober, it just sobered him up upon eating

[@jordanhansen5934]

Yeah it’s like fast acting super medicine that also extends your life. Alcohol is technically a poison, so the pills purged it from his system. Though the immortality still stuck around.

[@samfisher6606]

One of the best things about OSP are the jokes and in-jokes they put in their drawings, like the Jade Emperor reading Dragonball Z

[@bthsr7113]

He didn't accidentally blackmail them by being annoying. He accidentally threatened them by being oblivious to his own op status.

[@rafibausk7071]

You're definitely right about that thing with Goku and fighting. Me and my friend watched Cooler's Revenge a few weeks ago. And part of the opening of that film is literally his wife thinking he's got brain damage because as he's caring about something other than fighting.

[@marmyeater]

Funny, considering his brain being damaged is why he didn't kill everyone and take over the world.

[@loganshaw4527]

Wait I thought that other thing is food.

[@wildcardjoey4776]

The 'first empower of China' you're thinking of is actually the Yellow Emperor, whom, if memory serves was the first, fifth, or sixth but I don't remember which

[@Historyfrek4ever]

I recomend Hades and Persephone by Red, she analysis in it the background of Hades from cultural stand point and it is super interesting. (She also does this to few other deities.) From Blue: either Pope Fights, or some architectural/city history analysis, he but a lot of passion into those those

[@laurentiuvladutmanea3622]

Well, if you are curious to see more from OSP, then these would be the ones I would recommend from the them: From Red, I would recommend the videos on Dionysus, Aphrodite, Hermes, and Hades and Persephone(in order), together with the rest of their summary of Journey to the West. Other ones I would recommend would be her videos on Cu Chulainn, on the Epic of Mwindo, on the Journey of Ra, her video on Quetzalcoatl and the one on the Five Suns. From Blue, his videos on Renaissance Hijinks, on Minoan Greece, on Mycenaean Greece, on the Bronze age Mesopotamia, on Women who made History, and his new video on Great Zimbabwe are great ones.

[@Justic_]

To add on to Reds videos, I'd also add her videos on Norse mythology, mainly Loki and the Wild Hunt, since I feel they're similar in nature to the videos on Gree Myth you recommended, as well as her Trope Talk on Dragons and perhaps the one on Kaijus. As for Blue, I feel not bringing up his rankings on architecture, namely domes, is also quite the disservice.

[@cyberdragoon1432]

@@Justic_ Don’t forget Blue’s Pope Fight

[@marocat4749]

Th norse are pretty good, and yeah the lindworm. oh an the video with th bets and the sumerian gods. And for fun, stranger in a strange land, i love deep thoughts with heinlein XD And linfamy has a good channel tht has allkinds of weird japanese stuff animated funny, history but also enough wird mythologs.

[@leeshajoi]

I highly recommend watching the rest of OSP's Journey to the West series. You can really see Red's writing and drawing improve over time.

[@movespammerguyteam7colors]

Ah, the Senzu Beans originated as immortality pills.

[@AUDHDMK]

You should definitely watch Lego monkie kid! It's based off jttw and has an amazing plot with a new take on the monkey kings story! With new characters but with familiar tales and background! It has such a lovely grasp on re-creating the same vibe that jttw gives off :DDD

[@b3rz3rk3r9]

You, my man, chose a great series to react to. Red gets this elephantine series down pat while basically emphasizing the seriously goofy parts of the story.

[@thegloriouswizard5270]

Honestly, anything by OSP is good stuff. Pick a direction and run with it!!

[@littlebitsofterror5788]

I am currently listening to the Audiobook and oh my god I can understand why Red didn’t want to explain it in it’s entirety.

[@thewittywhygaming6487]

I am so glad we've gotten you addicted to this channel. :)

[@jacksonlai7590]

This is a great series, you’ll enjoy the rest

[@donnaminar4689]

All of Red's and Blue's work is super fun. I tune in every Saturday to see what is next. One recommendation I have is Red's three episodes on Dante's Divine Comedy. I like them so much, I go back and watch them every once in a while.😄😄

[@mercedesortega2292]

Quick fact for what you said at 3:46 Xuan Zang actually doesn't appear till chapter 9 in the book, the first 7 chapters are about Sun Wukong, While chapter 8 is about Guanyin flying over to see if the journey was possible and finding the future disciples of the journey, then in chapter 9 is when we learn of Xuan Zang and his parents.

[@MizukiStone44]

You've got quite a lot of irons in the fire right now. Might want to finish a few reviews before starting more at this point. Edit: That said... this was a really good pick to go with!

[@TimeturnerJ]

Oh, there was nothing _accidental_ about his blackmailing of the dragon kings 😌😂 Sun Wukong is a menace. And a king who is very used to (and proficient at) giving orders. The fact that the gods are scared enough to bow and obey his every word without a peep should tell you all you need to know about just how terrifying the Monkey King really is. xD

[@9Godslayer]

To be fair, fear leaves an impression so it is technically still impressive.

[@antonymash9586]

You might like their take on the Ptolemies and their dynastic shenanagines.

[@exceedcharge1]

romance of the three kingdoms is the plot of dynasty warriors

[@vaclavmusil1197]

I like the Miscellaneous Myths videos the most, where I would recommend The Theogony (basically the greek creation myth), but Red herself said that a good starting point would also be The Trojan War (for obvious reasons).

[@hibaum6555]

It's funny how the Monkey King would have won the bet, had just gone a little bit further.

[@Brutalyte616]

Well that's the thing. He physically cannot leave the universe, and therefore cannot leap out of Buddha's palm, because the Buddha is literally one with the universe itself.

[@lynnzerben]

If you like astronomy stuff, Red has done a bunch of star myths. The most resent one was Ursa Major. They've released an enamel pin of it. You can't order it any more, but they bring back all their pin designs every year for Black Friday. You know, if you're interested in spending money of cool stuff. There's also Sun Wukong vinyls.

[@doubledamn2599]

The Demon Kings weren't really in an 'alliance' with Sun Wukong, it was more of a non-aggression pact to keep their own kingdoms (and themselves) alive.

[@chrisschoenthaler5184]

Might as well go through the full series of this. After that? I personally love the Trope Talk series. That said, the stories of Cú Chulainn and Fionn Mac Cumhaill are fun.

[@RevolutionaryLiger]

6:45 I feel like this might be the origin of the treasure behind the waterfall trope. Glad your seeing this though, I hope you enjoy the rest of the series.

[@anguirosuchus55]

9:25 The Jade emperor isn't the first emperor of China, he is the first emperor, PERIOD. As in he has been ruling for the equivalent of hundreds of millions of years up to that point with the power position of Zeus. Also, the duplication thing is by pulling off some of his hair, blowing on it, and casting a spell; from here on out, if you see the Monkey King making objects, animals or people appear out of thin air, it's his hair.

[@panettas06]

I'm dying of laughter, "the monkey king" I think is one of the most delusional but beautiful stories that have ever existed (I love Chinese mythology). I got to know this beautiful world, thanks to a lego cartoon that came out in 2021 (if I'm not mistaken) and that I absolutely suggest you see as soon as you finish with monkei king, aka "Lego Monkei Kid". it's a separate story set in the future, but that relates to monkei king and there are hundreds of references to the original story and hundreds of references to other tv series. The animations are fantastic and I, despite being 16 years old, died laughing in some episodes. I think it's a nice and peaceful thing to see and I think it's a good product.

[@weldonwin]

Just wait until Airer gets to the history videos, *POPE FIIIIIIIIIIIIGHT!!!*

[@emilygratz9203]

*And this is how Lego monkie kid was born.* Lol

[@FatalFrameAlchemist]

Some early recommendations: all of the Journey to the West videos, the videos talking about the origins of Greek gods(Hermes, Aphrodite, Dionysus, Hades/Persephone), and my personal favorite is the myth of Medea.

[@Jopsyduck]

"How many types of immortality does he need?" Yes

[@MB-wq4fp]

3:33 This is true! After watching Red’s first 3 videos on this, I decided to get a copy of The Journey to the West and read all 2500 pages. Sun does take up the first 7 chapters BEFORE Tripitaka even shows up as a baby!

[@theendersmirk5851]

22:03 answer: seven including achieving status as a Buddha by the end of the story. Wu Kong is the universe's most prolific accidental contingency plan creator.

[@ucnguyen6375]

15:45, yes, this is the original Death Note, the Underworld have a note that contained name of every human beings and their dates of death, the King of the Underworld just crosses their name out when their time come. In some version, this note is held by a god on heaven who is also the Southern Cross stars

[@blackshadow37_Wraith]

fun fact: sun wukong's iron pillar was actually built to measure the depths of the ocean

[@ace_of_cakes]

With the names being a mouthful thing, I believe in the original Chinese, most of the words are one or two syllables, so the names are a lot shorter. They only become a mouthful when you translate them into other languages where the same words have more syllables.

[@blackshadow37_Wraith]

i am so HAPPY right now the journey to the west vids are some of OSP's most popular vids glad your tackling them ^^

[@The-tv3ht]

Make this a series, all of the videos about the journey of the west are gold!!!

[@nekipeh7373]

14:14 ngl, i always think that bird is Duolingo owl, since its a meme about being "haunted" by this "demon" owl to study language but thats just me lol

[@ashadowangel]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS Oh god I love this series of OSP! And now you're reacting to it \o/ (I haven't even clicked the play button on the video yet =D That's how hyped I am for this

[@BrittanyArtPoetry]

I love your reaction to overly sarcastic productions, keep going.

[@TheArcSet]

Hairy Goku. Hairy Goku! Thanks for this reaction. This is one of the series that sold the channel to me :) . Also, I got a Saiyuki manga bundle from a book club, before I really knew what manga was, so it still has a place in my nostalgia.

[@ch33les99]

Check out the Trope Talk series from OSP they do a good job of analyzing popular writing trends

[@jamescook5783]

You need to watch Blue's video on Thebes. The sheer historical pettiness is breathtaking

[@9Godslayer]

Also, there are reasonable people in bureaucracies but the rules keep them from doing anything useful.

[@aniflowers1998]

YES! I was hoping you would react to OSP's Journey to the West! :D I hope you continue with the other videos of the series! :3

[@marmyeater]

12:59- Yes, and it was used to measure the depth of the flood that covered the entire world so that the gods could see how soon the water would go back to normal; hence its size changing abilities.

[@Tzilandi]

"If he works for us, we OWN him." Arier, have you ever listened to The Stupendium's song "The Fine Print"? I think you'd like it; it's essentially an entire song about this exact topic.

[@Karak-_-]

Should have read the fine print, my friend, should have read the fine print.

[@seanmcfadden3712]

First video I've seen from your channel... And it convinced me to subscribe. Well done.

[@nightrocker1343]

If I remember correctly, The Prehistory of the Universe vid is under Blue's Bad History Playlist, AKA the Box of Shame. Basically Blue took a bunch of older videos that no longer meet his standards and put them in that Playlist as a way of going "Hey, You can learn from this if you judge it critically." I recommend starting with Blue's video on Sappho or Ana Komnena.

[@Solqueen86]

Fun fact Dragon Ball not only had Goku as Son but also had Yamcha as the Kappa, Oolong as the Pig demon, and Bulma as the Monk and their adventures were like Son Wu kong's with mixes of other Chinese myths with it ending with a fight with a Demon King and his group that try to take over the region (King Picolo)

[@bthsr7113]

Son Wukong certainly got his parent's brain.

[@jackwriter1908]

12:28 yep, that's what our favorite Monkey would never do save someone from his kidnappers more then once... twice... thrice(?)...

[@magefizzbane3968]

Finish watching the Journey to the West series, then jump into one of their Detail Diatribes. They're hour(ish) long video essays, basically, breaking down certain subjects. Their two videos on Superman, Superman: Collateral Damage and Satirizng Superman are both incredible. If you like the Netflix adaptation of Castlevania, they also did one entirely focused around Dracula, his motivations, thought process, and how he's written, which is absolutely incredible. I would highly recommend it as you also seem to be something of a writer! In that vein as well, Red also has a series called 'Trope Talk', where she breaks down various tropes. An INCREDIBLY good video from that is their Trope Talk on Magnificent B*stards, AKA Charismaniacs.

[@marmyeater]

10:47- Just a note: it's not actually 72 things. He can transform into anything he can imagine.

[@sethcole9154]

I'm glad you're sticking with this. If you want to switch things up, I recommend Blue's Valentine's Day specials about best couples in history

[@jasondennison8911]

Airier: “That sounds like torture.” Me: “That sounds like PoPo” 😁

[@aformofmatter8913]

You should absolutely watch part 2, as well as the entire rest of the series! As far as other things I'd recommend, Red has some short & sweet mythology videos; you could watch a handful of them in 1 half-hour video

[@PrayerWarrior4]

Omgosh the DB and DBZ references! Love this series! Thank you!!

[@victorvaldez8869]

Thinking of the OSP Lovecraft special you did, they have other Halloween specials that you might want to check out. Red does something close to what Dominic Noble does on his channel with Lost In Adaptation, but for Halloween in years previous to the Lovecraft special, she did lost in adaptation style comparisons of both Bram Stoker's "Dracula" & Mary Shelley's "Frankenstein" versus movie/pop-cultural interpretations of those works. Both are pretty far from any film adaptation to date & she delivers it in her great, sarcastic style the channel is named for.

[@seirramoon388]

osp you got red who does the myths and legends stuff, blu who focuses on IRL history and sometimes they invite a third member and there cat Cleo for gaming.

[@teatusnoone6332]

im hyped for this reaction

[@BackSet]

"How many types of Immortality does he need?" AlL oF tHeM!!!

[@Birdthefeatheredone]

A Blue video I would recommend is Pope Wars. Also, the child who was sent to arrest WuKong was Nezha who you might now as a lancer in FGO.

[@MartinGasparini86]

son wokong is a stone monkey basically a living statue

[@000Dragon50000]

PFFFFT I was not expecting a Fate/UBW Abridged reference in this video. :o

[@ceruleanwalker1069]

It begins!!! That was totally the earth demon from Jackie Chan adventures.

[@islasullivan3463]

I could be wrong but I did hear that the long grandiose names of places in sounds different in Chinese as each word in English would be one syllable in Chinese.

[@raw6668]

@Airier Hey Airier, they have playlists of their content. Including every video done under a particular presenter (Red or Blue). Just pick one and start playing them. Maybe do one over the other every other week.

[@HunhowsShadowStalker]

Sun Wukong is around 7 or 8 times immortal at the end of JTTW. My guess is that he did it in case that, if he encountered something that would take away his immortality, he'd have back-up immortality.

[@intenseowl1255]

Just putting this here. most tropes you're about to see were created by the journey to the west.

[@lemonkesgruncle2469]

the 72 earthly transformation allows one to transform into anything they want. the 72 represent the 72 lifes that its user has so you have to kill sun wukong who has hundreds of thousands of layers of immortaility (each immortality pill=one layer) 72 times and a version of him self that is as powerful as his enemy (doesn't work on buddha and the jade emperor).

[@animneeedits]

Besides the series I love looking at the Greek myths there's something about the commentary that always makes you go back and watch these videos they're good distractions

[@addison_v_ertisement1678]

Hey, I couldn't help but notice that you have autoplay on. I don't know if you intentionally have that on, but it's the play sign on a bar below the red line when the video is paused. You can turn that off, and your video won't automatically skip to the next video.

[@scyfrix]

The Garuda probably wouldn't appreciate being called chickens, but hey.

[@jordanhansen5934]

With the red eyes, Sun decided to reverse the process and absorb the energies of the distillation process and the brazier. This gave him another layer of immortality and the ability to see demons (thus the red eyes).

[@GameMaster-sh7tr]

LETS GO JOURNEY TO THE WEST! My favorite OSP series

[@jonathangoodwin5609]

I hope you plan on reacting to the whole journey to the west series from this creator. Its one of my favorite stories that I never read.

[@eclipseandflaresgacha]

I read this certain comment on one of the videos red made and they gave a pretty good idea make Wukong teach people in the heavenly army instead of putting him in charge of the peachs it is time comsuming and might help him mature plus it can be not boring

[@Justic_]

Oh, so you did decide to go for Journey to the West... well, buckle in, because it's gonna take a while... and it's not finished yet. Also, I can't remember if you were already playing FGO at the time of Sanzangs event, or if you played the rerun, but Sanzangs event also referenced lots of the iconic, mostly the early parts of the Journey to the West, so some stuff in the first few parts will probably seem familiar from that as well, aside from how generally, the Journey to the West just had a huge influence on a lot of stories in that cultural sphere even until today (including, as I just recently learned, a lego animated series that seems actually really cool). Romance of the Three Kingdoms, from what I recall, is semi-historical. Pretty sure it's where characters like Lu Bu are from, and what the Dynasty Warrior-games are based on. Speaking of based on games, I remember hearing that the Suikoden-games are heavily based on Water Margin. (Also going for another FGO-reference, it's also the work that the Assassin of Shinjuku, Yan Qing is from, he's part of the group of 108 that serves as main characters of the story from what I recall. Also, it also has some basis in history from what I remember hearing). On that note, the 2nd guy Wukong fights is Nezha, also present in FGO (chinese lancer girl with the flame wheel shoes, those are kinda Nezhas trademark item).

[@marmyeater]

The peaches, pills, and wine all lengthen life by many thousands of years. They aren't normally an: 'eat one and live forever', type deal.