#that man really looked at the static monk & lecherous demon of earlier versions

[sketching-shark]

Fully aware that you can only do so much with a shorter work than with a ~1,400 page epic, but you still have to give it to the 16th century’s Wu Cheng’en for writing a more complex and nuanced version of the Monkey King than like...99.9% of all 21st century adaptations