Saiyuki Ibun

Saiyuki Ibun
Cover of the first tankōbon volume, featuring Koumyou Sanzo
最遊記異聞
(Saiyūki Ibun)
Genre
Manga
Written byKazuya Minekura
Published byIchijinsha
ImprintZero Sum Comics
MagazineComic Zero Sum WARD
DemographicShōjo
Original runSeptember 16, 2009 – May 16, 2013 (on hiatus)
Volumes1

Saiyuki Ibun (Japanese: 最遊記異聞, Hepburn: Saiyūki Ibun) is a Japanese manga series that serves as a prequel to the Saiyuki series Kazuya Minekura wrote and illustrated. The series tells the story that takes place about 40 years before the events of the main story at Taisoji, a priest training temple known as the greatest in Shangri-La. the story of those who would become the future Sanzo monks, including the one who would later be known as Koumyou Sanzo.

Saiyuki Ibun began serialization in Ichijinsha's shōjo manga magazine Comic Zero Sum WARD since September 2009, with its chapters collected in one tankōbon volumes. The series has been on an extended hiatus since May 2013.

A drama CD released in July 2014, by Ichijinsha and a stage musical adaptation of the manga that serves as the sixth stage musical of Saiyuki Kagekiden series, which run at Tokyo Dome City's Theatre G-Rosso from September 4, to 9 2018.

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