Sun Wukong confronts the pig Zhu Ganglie and finds out something unexpected about him.

This episode has frequent mention of rape and occasional mentions of alcohol and drinking. We also briefly bring up Sun Wukong’s torture headband and the attempt at executing him by burning from previous chapters.

Links:

“Zhu Bajie” on Wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhu_Bajie

Episode artwork is a circa 1840 woodblock print by Utagawa Kuniyoshi: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Saru 申 (Monkey) (BM_2008,3037.01007).jpg

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