Saiyuki Vol. 1

[Machine Translation] In the early days of the creation of heaven and earth, at the summit of Mount Huaguo in Dongsheng Shinshu, Hyo-rai Province, a sacred stone was born from a stone egg. A stone monkey was born from a stone egg that was fed with the spiritual energy of a sacred stone. The stone monkey becomes the king of monkeys, but feeling compassion, he sets off on a journey to learn the 72 transformations from a hermit and takes the name Sun Wukong. He was eventually called to the heavenly realm and appointed as the "Monkey King of the Monkey Kingdom," but he incurred the wrath of the Emperor of Heaven when he stole the "Fairy Peach," "Fairy Wine," and "Fairy Sweets. Wukong then defeats an army of 100,000 heavenly soldiers, but is finally trapped in Wu Xing Mountain by Sakyamuni Buddha... Superstar Son Goku is born! With the elastic Nyori-Bo at his side and riding on the Kin-To-Un, he flies 108,000 ri in a single bound! The "Journey to the West" is brought back to life with fresh text and illustrations.

天地開闢のその昔、東勝神州、傲来国は花果山の山頂。仙石が霊気をえて石の卵から一匹の石猿が生まれた。石猿は猿たちの王となるが無情を感じて旅に出て仙人に七十二変化の術を学び、孫悟空と名乗る。やがて天界に召されて「斉天大聖」に任ぜられるが、仙桃、仙酒、仙丹を盗み、天帝の怒りを買う。悟空は十万の天兵からなる追討軍を蹴散らすが、ついに釈迦如来の手で五行山に閉じこめられた…。スーパースター孫悟空誕生!伸縮自在の如意棒を小脇にかかえ、〓(きん)斗雲に乗れば十万八千里をひとっ飛び!新鮮な文章と挿絵で甦る『西遊記』。