9.0/1010 votesLoading...#1 - Who Am I?
Season 2 Episode 11 - Aired 1/20/1980
The pilgrims eat some freshly picked mushrooms, and lose their memories. Monkey wanders off and joins a band of outlaws. They think he's the Fungus Prince who was banished by his father, King Seven Souls. The king wants to kill Tripitaka, so they plan to capture him and claim a reward. Tripitaka leaves Pigsy and Sandy and gets captured by Monkey and the outlaws. Yu-Lung sets out to help Monkey get his memory back so he can save Tripitaka.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: James Miki
8.8/1013 votesLoading...#2 - Two Little Blessings
Season 1 Episode 23 - Aired 3/11/1979
Forty years before the pilgrims' journey to India, two lovers Chun-Ying and Yu-Lee disobey the God of Fertility Ju-Lee by eloping together - love is forbidden in his country. As punishment, he separates them and turns the young Yu-Lee into an old woman, the Keeper of the Well of Small Blessings. To regain her youth and her man, she must make Tripitaka drink the magic water. Things get very strange indeed when Pigsy and Sandy drink the water and become pregnant.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.6/109 votesLoading...#3 - The Foolish Philosopher
Season 2 Episode 10 - Aired 1/13/1980
A snobby princess has been kidnapped by a fish monster who wants to marry her, but she continually refuses because he's too common. She sends two little water sprites to get help from her parents. They meet Tripitaka and his disciples, who offer their help. Tripitaka and Monkey escort them to the king and queen, while Sandy and Pigsy go to rescue the princess. Things aren't looking good for Sandy when the fish monster captures him.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.6/109 votesLoading...#4 - What is Wisdom?
Season 2 Episode 12 - Aired 1/27/1980
Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy and Tripitaka are on their way to the palace in The Land of Search for Understanding; the king insists on interviewing all pilgrims who pass. Following an argument, Monkey stays behind, and an evil magician turns him invisible. Posing as a Taoist priest, the magician persuades the naïve king to hold a contest between him and reluctant Tripitaka to determine which is better - Taoism or Buddhism. The magician plans to take over the kingdom - will he succeed?
Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.6/109 votesLoading...#5 - Give and Take
Season 2 Episode 17 - Aired 3/2/1980
While Tripitaka and his disciples sleep, The Illiterate Vampire appears and plans to bite Tripitaka. The others wake, and chase him away. The next day, the pilgrims see a display of wanted posters - the king is rewarding people for killing monsters, 10 gold pieces per monster. Pigsy meets a blind girl selling flowers in the street, and becomes fond of her. To raise 100 gold pieces for an operation to cure her blindness, Pigsy goes into business as a monster-killer.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: Yu Tagami
8.6/109 votesLoading...#6 - The Fake Pilgrims
Season 2 Episode 19 - Aired 3/16/1980
While taking a rest from their journey, the pilgrims are confronted by four sorcerors who are impersonating them. They plan to assassinate Tripitaka and his followers, to improve their ranking in the sorcery community. By wreaking havoc on villages, the imposters ensure that the real pilgrims are blamed and made unwelcome everywhere they go. Monkey decides that Tripitaka should continue alone for a while. The disciples split up, and become targeted by their clones. Will Tripitaka ever see them again?
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Writer: Takayuki Kase
8.6/1012 votesLoading...#7 - Pretty as a Picture
Season 2 Episode 20 - Aired 3/28/1980
The pilgrims are welcomed to a village headman's house. He shows the disciples a screen that has a picture of the beautiful Goddess Sorosvati painted on it, along with the six other Gods of Good Fortune. During the night, the goddess magically steps out of the screen, tricks Tripitaka, and takes his place on the pilgrimage. While she enchants the others, Monkey discovers Tripitaka trapped in the screen. Can Monkey free Tripitaka and get the goddess back on canvas?
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Writer: James Miki
8.5/1013 votesLoading...#8 - Pigsy, King and God
Season 1 Episode 21 - Aired 2/25/1979
The pilgrims arrive at the Kingdom of Red Hog, where pigs are sacred. The people hail Pigsy as their new King and God. Tripitaka discovers that the current king is a disguised demon, the Spirit of the Red Hog, and that he murdered the old king. Helped by rebels, Monkey and Sandy set out to save Princess Green Lotus and stop the evil swine before the whole country is converted to hog worship.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.4/1013 votesLoading...#9 - The Vampire Master
Season 1 Episode 19 - Aired 2/11/1979
The Prime Minister of the Kingdom of Buddha's Law invites Tripitaka and his disciples to stay as his honoured guests. He tells them of the difficulty in controlling the black magicians, shape-changers and bandits who live in the nearby mountains. Tragedy strikes when Tripitaka becomes critically ill with Tibetan Fever. Meanwhile, Pigsy leads the guards in a search for the vampire responsible for a girl's murder. He makes a shocking discovery.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Writer: Yu Tagami
8.4/1012 votesLoading...#10 - The End of the Way
Season 1 Episode 26 - Aired 4/1/1979
Tripitaka and his disciples are just a few days away from reaching India - they can clearly see the Gold Temple of the Thunderclap ahead. The King of All Geological Ages appears and says he'll stop them reaching India. Pigsy finds the king's beautiful wife strangely familiar, he knows her from somewhere. The king captures Tripitaka and puts the indestructible Iron Collar of Death on him, to choke him to death. This looks like the end for Tripitaka.
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Writer: Eizaburo Shiba
8.4/1012 votesLoading...#11 - The Land with Two Suns
Season 2 Episode 5 - Aired 12/9/1979
The pilgrims enter a land where night never falls. For five hundred years, ever since the vulture demon Konsei-Maoh stole Dainichi Buddha's sun-mirror, as soon as one sun sets another one rises. Tripitaka offers the villagers their help and Monkey, who has an old score to settle with the demon, is more than happy to oblige. Things take a turn for the worse after Monkey bumps into a familiar face, and the demon sets his sights on Tripitaka.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.4/109 votesLoading...#12 - Am I Dreaming?
Season 2 Episode 7 - Aired 12/23/1979
Every night, Tripitaka's sleep is disturbed by a recurring dream. In it, he's being attacked by Lord Yuki, ruler of The Devil's Hell. One night, after Tripitaka nearly sleepwalks off a cliff, the disciples decide they must take immediate action. They think up ways of expelling the demon from Tripitaka's body. Things don't quite go to plan though - before long, Tripitaka ends up in very hot water, and Monkey gets pulled into the dream too...
Director: Akikazu Ota
Writer: James Miki
8.4/109 votesLoading...#13 - The Fountain of Youth
Season 2 Episode 13 - Aired 2/3/1980
Tripitaka is shocked when his three followers bathe in a pool and are transformed into babies. It's a Fountain of Youth, and it belongs to two Spirits of Time Passed. Tripitaka must make one of these spirits cry, and use the tears to change his disciples back. Leaving Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy with a babysitter, Tripitaka goes in search of these cannibalistic spirits. Believing Tripitaka won't return, the babysitter decides to sell the three babies at the local market.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: James Miki
8.4/109 votesLoading...#14 - A Shadow So Huge
Season 2 Episode 15 - Aired 2/17/1980
Chen-Gold, the world's richest man, is advertising for a husband for his only daughter, beautiful Mai-Sun. Possessed of the Spirit of Greed, he eats gold in order to turn himself golden. To feed his habit, he enslaves men to work in his gold mines. When Sandy tries to help an escaped slave, he becomes enslaved himself. Meanwhile, Pigsy puts himself forward as a possible husband for Mai-Sun. Tripitaka wonders where Pigsy and Sandy have gone, and sends Monkey to investigate.
Director: Akikazu Ota
Writer: Takayuki Kase
8.4/109 votesLoading...#15 - Such a Nice Monster
Season 2 Episode 18 - Aired 3/9/1980
A gentle monster dresses up as a puppy dog and calls himself ""a good dog"" in an attempt to make friends. He desperately wants to be liked, but all the villagers are terrified of him. The pilgrims arrive at the monster's country, and Tripitaka tells his disciples to go ahead and make friends with him. After Pigsy, Monkey and Sandy fail, Yu-Lung befriends the good dog, and comes up with a plan to make the villagers like him.
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.4/1012 votesLoading...#16 - Hungry Like The Wolf
Season 2 Episode 24 - Aired 4/20/1980
After losing their way, the pilgrims find themselves heading towards Mt. Blue Wolf, a place where hideous wolf demons swagger like peacocks. Their leader, Blue Wolf Demon, craves human flesh, and sets his sights on the tasty Tripitaka. While looking for food, Dragon falls off a cliff. He is rescued by a farmer called Ri Shishin, who turns out to be a wolf in sheep's clothing; Blue Wolf Demon makes him an offer he can't refuse to hunt down Tripitaka.
Director: Akira Inoue
Writer: Yu Tagami
8.3/1012 votesLoading...#17 - The Fires of Jealousy
Season 1 Episode 24 - Aired 3/18/1979
The pilgrims enter the Kingdom of Lo-Chun, the Queen of Fire, where they are prevented from continuing their journey by the active volcanoes in the Fire and Flame mountain range to the west. The Queen of Fire has a magic fan that can extinguish the fires. Ever since her husband, the Spirit of Water Buffaloes, left her for a human woman, she's lived as a recluse. So getting her to lend them her fan could be quite a challenge.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Writer: N/A
8.3/1011 votesLoading...#18 - Better The Demon You Know
Season 2 Episode 14 - Aired 2/10/1980
After wandering through endless wilderness, Tripitaka and his starving disciples find themselves in a small town in the middle of nowhere. For two years, ever since her son and his human bride abandoned her, the bloodthirsty demon Kari-Temo Hanja has been appearing at weddings in the town and kidnapping the brides. Monkey goes to seek help from Senju Kannon Bosatsu, the Bodhisattva of endless fulfilment, who was once the demon's master. Meanwhile, Tripitaka decides to pay the demon a visit...
Director: Yoshiyuki Kuroda
Writer: N/A
8.3/1011 votesLoading...#19 - Mothers
Season 2 Episode 21 - Aired 3/30/1980
The pilgrims enter a country where an evil wasp witch with a magic whip flies on her chariot and steals children from their parents. The witch lives in a poison mountain called Kijo, and has a hundred or more children of her own. No one knows what she does with the stolen children. While Sandy and Pigsy help the villagers set traps and prepare themselves to fight the witch, Monkey decides to pay her a visit.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: Hirokazu Fuse
8.2/1014 votesLoading...#20 - Outrageous Coincidences
Season 1 Episode 20 - Aired 2/18/1979
To escape from a deadly blizzard in the Himalayan foothills, Monkey, Pigsy, Sandy and Tripitaka take refuge in a small cave. With Tripitaka's death from starvation looking imminent, Monkey tricks Pigsy into going out into the cold to sacrifice himself to provide food for the master. Grief-stricken Tripitaka believes he has eaten his disciple, and becomes possessed by the spirit of Pigsy.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Writer: James Miki
8.2/1011 votesLoading...#21 - Keep on Dancing
Season 2 Episode 16 - Aired 2/24/1980
A young goblin, Yung-Hu, is desperately in love with a married human woman called I-Ling. I-Ling and her husband, Kwo-Fong, are excited that the pilgrims are approaching, because they want to learn about Buddha. Tripitaka is deeply offended by I-Ling's awful Buddhist dance, and the pilgrims leave. The goblin father disguises himself as a priest and convinces Kwo-Fong to join Tripitaka's pilgrimage to India, to become a Buddhist. With Kwo-Fong out of the way, Yung-Hu goes to see I-Ling.
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.2/109 votesLoading...#22 - At the Top of the Mountain
Season 2 Episode 26 - Aired 5/4/1980
Tripitaka has an ominous dream that his mother is dying, and becomes very preoccupied the next day. Concerned about his master, Monkey cloud-flies back to China, and finds Tripitaka's mother, Wing-Chow, infected with a deadly plague. Just before dying, she tells Monkey that her son, original name Hsüan Tsang, must continue his journey to India. Monkey returns and impersonates Wing-Chow, to pretend she's alive, fearing that Tripitaka would stop his journey and return to China if he knew the truth.
Director: Jun Fukuda
Writer: Hirokazu Fuse
8.1/1015 votesLoading...#23 - Monkey Meets the Demon Digger
Season 1 Episode 15 - Aired 1/14/1979
While climbing a mountain, the pilgrims discover a man who's been digging a tunnel through the mountain for the past twenty-two years, to provide an easier route for travellers. Ever-helpful Tripitaka tells his reluctant disciples that they must all stay and help dig the tunnel until it's finished. When Monkey uses his magic to help speed things up, Tripitaka is furious and dismisses him. Without Monkey around, the pilgrims fall into grave danger.
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Writer: James Miki
8.1/1015 votesLoading...#24 - The Most Monstrous Monster
Season 1 Episode 16 - Aired 1/21/1979
Desperate to please Chun-Shou, the woman he hopes to marry, the unhappy King of Unicorns promises to find a new toy for her spoilt brat son, little Chen. When he hears about Monkey's magic wishing staff, he decides this would be ideal. By capturing Tripitaka and using his all-powerful magic ring, the king plans to defeat Monkey and steal his precious wishing staff. While Monkey struggles to resist the king's magic ring, Pigsy finds it difficult to resist Chun-Shou.
Director: Kazuo Ikehiro
Writer: Motomu Furuta
8.1/1012 votesLoading...#25 - Village of the Undead
Season 1 Episode 22 - Aired 3/4/1979
In a deserted village, the evil male demon Wun-Lung and three beautiful witches await the arrival of Tripitaka, Monkey, Pigsy and Sandy. If they can make the four travellers believe in them, they'll be brought to life. They plan to capture Tripitaka and his disciples one by one, and convince them of their existence by killing them. Who'll be the first pilgrim to fall into the trap?
Director: Satoshi Aoki
Writer: Hirokazu Fuse
The Best Episodes of Monkey
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Buddhist priest Tripitaka and his three disciples Monkey, Pigsy, and Sandy, travel from China to India to fetch the Buddhist scriptures. They have been sent...
Genres:Action & AdventureComedySci-Fi & Fantasy
Network:Nippon TV
Best Episodes Summary
"Who Am I?" is the best rated episode of "Monkey". It scored 9/10 based on 10 votes. Directed by Satoshi Aoki and written by James Miki, it aired on 1/20/1980. This episode scored 0.2 points higher than the second highest rated, "Two Little Blessings".