Shenmo fiction

1997 anime film directed by Hayao Miyazaki

1766 short story collection by Pu Songling

Japanese manga series

subgenre of Chinese fantasy fiction

is a 1984 platform video game developed and published by Capcom for arcades. It is loosely based on the Chinese novel Journey to the West. The player assumes the role of a monkey boy (who is patterned after Sun Wukong from the story) and fights their way from one side to another, eventually reaching the statue of Buddha. One battles bats, rats, and mad bombers along the way with his fighting rod that shoots balls of fire.

Japanese anime television series