TV Tokyo |network_other= Anime Network Anione TV GMA 7 (March 6,2006) GONG |first_aired=4 April 2000 |last_aired=27 March 2001 |num_episodes=50 }}, commonly known as Saiyuki, is a popular manga series created by Kazuya Minekura. The story is loosely based on the famous Chinese novel Journey to the West (X?yóu Jì). In 1999 the Saiyuki OVA by Tokyo Kids was released. A year later it was adapted into an anime series by Studio Pierrot, which won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 2000. The Gensomaden Saiyuki: Requiem movie appeared in theaters in Japan in 2001. A sequel to this movie is the Gensomaden Saiyuki: Kibou no zaika OVA, which is actually animation taken from an interactive game. There are two sequels to Saiyuki, and . The descriptions and summaries in this article are based on the English-adapted Saiyuki anime as d