I had seen it before, but can't remember where.
It's the coolest show ever. There's a monkey character, and a pig character, and a bunch of traditionally dressed Chinese people. I didn't know the premise until I just looked it up on the internet.
Apparently the show is based off of a story from the 16th century of the Ming Dynasty. It's about a Buddhist monk's trip to India in search of Buddhist texts called 'sutras.' The Boddhisattva Guanyin (physical form of Buddha) by direction from Buddha (spirit of Buddha/God) gave the task to that monk and his three disciples. Those three disciples and a dragon prince decide to help the monk find the sutras in order to atone for their past sins.
The story is an allegory where their search for sutras is like the individual's search for enlightenment.
The legend is considered one of the four great classical novels of China, and the tv series is really famous.
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