Journey to the West Season 2

Answer 1

The second season of Journey to the West,"Assembly"(episodes 17 - 38), was broadcast in 2019. This season continued the plot of the previous season, telling the story of the change in the Heavenly Palace 16 years ago and the story of the westward team finding or rescuing their former companions 16 years later. In this season, the animation had many highlights in terms of story content and special effects.

In terms of the story, it included the plot of the four master and disciple who had over a hundred grudges, entered the netherworld, walked through the Yellow Springs, passed through the strange door, encountered the Six Paths of Reincarnation, entered the Abyss of Darkness, and met the Bull Demon King, White Bone Demon, and other demons. They saw many suffering souls in the netherworld, which made the white wolf realize the importance of life and return to the world of the living through the path of the netherworld to obtain a new life.

In terms of production, the animation retained the essence of the original manga, while making improvements and upgrades in the animation form, such as gorgeous special effects and fighting scenes. For example, the fierce battle between Wukong and Three-Eyed, Bajie's Reiki gathering moment, and Wujing's battle scene in the Flowing Sand River. Among them, the Flowing Sand River battle scene added a large number of particle effects to restore the sandstorm effect, which was expensive. In the 25th episode, the "Battle of Wujing in the Flowing Sand River" was upgraded again and again, putting the presentation effect first.

The animation was adapted from the manga of the same name. The manga had more than 16 billion views on the entire Internet, of which the number of views on the single platform of tencent animation exceeded 11 billion, with a score of 9.8. The comic won the "14th China Animation Golden Dragon Award-Best Story Comic Gold Award". The second season of the animation,"Assembly", was named the annual animation work at the Sansheng Annual Summit. Its broadcast volume contributed significantly to the 2.5 billion total broadcast volume of the "Journey to the West" animated album, which was four times more than the first season. The online Short videos platform also produced 15,000 related UGC-related works, with a total broadcast volume of 1.5 billion.