For TV shows I grew up with the BBC adaptation of the Japanese TV version, called ‘Monkey’. The Journey to the West, Revised Edition, Volume 1. lint2015 The novels and the manga adaptations have been licensed for release in North America by Yen Press. An anime television series produced by A-1 Pictures , known simply as Sword Art Online , aired in Japan between July and December 2012, with a television film Sword Art Online: Extra Edition airing on December 31, 2013, and a second season, titled Journey to the West manga. These manga are directly or loosely based on the Journey to the West novel by Wu Cheng'en. See all manga tags. In 2007, there were widespread expressions of anger in China about Japanese adaptations of the classic Chinese novel The Journey to the West, in which the monk goes to India in search of the Buddhist scriptures and is turned into a woman. Through their parodies—which translation theorists have seen as a form of "radical translation On Anime and Manga - Other Titles, a GameFAQs message board topic titled "We need a true adaptation of Journey to the West in anime". An adaptation of the fairy tale Journey To The West, Dragon Ball has an appeal that has made it mainstream. Goku's journey to become the strongest didn't stop at the page and screen, however. Related: 10 Bravest Dragon Ball Characters, Ranked As far back as the 1980s Dragon Ball had games on the Japanese Nes. Didn't give me a comic rec but recommended the rest of the 4 Chinese classics. That's a lot of words to say that I don't know either but I would like to know. There are a few live action movies and series that are pretty good. They're still going to be missing stuff because the story is very long. drskag • 1 min. ago. The July issue of Kadokawa 's Dengeki Maoh magazine announced on Friday that Kenta Ishizaka 's Zatsu Tabi -That's Journey- manga has an anime adaptation in the works. Kadokawa did not reveal more N4W6.