Journey to the West - Legends of the Monkey King
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Journey to the West - Legends of the Monkey King is a 1999 Chinese cartoon show produced by China Central Television
China Central Television
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. It is based from Chinese novel, Journey to the West
Journey to the West
Journey to the West is one of the Four Great Classical Novels of Chinese literature. It was written by Wu Cheng'en in the 16th century. In English-speaking countries, the tale is also often known simply as Monkey. This was one title used for a popular, abridged translation by Arthur Waley...

. The English Language version of the show was produced by Cinar
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 (now known as Cookie Jar Entertainment
Cookie Jar Entertainment
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). It first aired on Teletoon
Télétoon (Canadian TV channel)
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 in Canada and was originally aired on the Cookie Jar Toons
Cookie Jar Toons
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 block on This TV
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 in the United States from 2009 to 2010.

Summary

The Monkey King has been imprisoned underneath the mountain for five centuries for his mischef in the heavens. One day, the Goddess Quan Yen told Monkey that the Monk Tripitaka
Tripiṭaka
' is a traditional term used by various Buddhist sects to describe their various canons of scriptures. As the name suggests, a traditionally contains three "baskets" of teachings: a , a and an .-The three categories:Tripitaka is the three main categories of texts that make up the...

 will sent him free and Monkey will join him on a pilgrimage from China
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 to India
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. The next day, Tripitaka came and set Monkey free the two started to Journey to the west. Along the way, they meet two new friends, Pigsy and the Hermet Sandy
Sha Wujing
Shā Wùjìng is one of the three disciples of Xuánzàng in the classic Chinese novel Journey to the West, although versions of his character predate the Ming novel. In the novels, his background is the least developed of the pilgrims and he contributes the least to their efforts...

 who joins them on the journey and together, they faced many dangers and evil creatures and Sorcerers and learn to get along.

Cast

  • Thor Bishopric - The Monkey King
  • Terrence Scammell
    Terrence Scammell
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     - Tripitaka
  • Mark Camacho
    Mark Camacho
    Mark Camacho is a Canadian actor who has starred in many films, and more notably, some voice acting roles, such as Oliver Frensky in Arthur, Lyle in Animal Crackers, Dad in Rotten Ralph, Harry and Dragon in Potatoes and Dragons, Spritz T...

     - Pigsy
  • A.J. Henderson
    A.J. Henderson
    A.J. Henderson is a Canadian voice actor, born in Montreal, Quebec.- Biography :He is very prolific, having done voices for numerous anime, cartoons, and video games...

    - Sandy
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