The Monkey King

西遊奇伝・大猿王

Saiyuukiden Daienou

2 volumes

1998 – present

Based on the 16th-century Chinese fantasy adventure classic Journey to the West, Katsuya Terada's version of the Monkey King legend is a brutal, lust-driven saga described as a Buddhist take on Conan the Barbarian. The Monkey King raised absolute hell as the most fearsome ape in Ancient China—until the Lord Buddha himself dropped an entire mountain on him. Now the Monkey King is up for parole under one condition: he must escort a Buddhist nun through the demon-infested wasteland of the Silk Road on an impossible quest—reach India and bring back a collection of sacred scrolls.