The Journey to the West's book gives a vivid introduction to the characteristics of each character. Painters and animators only need to make reasonable imagination and dig deep on this basis, and they can complete the creation of main characters in personnel design. The degree of freedom is high, the creative space is large, and the degree of finished product reduction is self-evident.
When Journey to the West is adapted into an anime work, the threshold for scriptwriting will not be very high. As long as the staff responsible for arranging stories are willing to spend more time studying, many interesting animation bridges can be inserted on the premise of ensuring the smooth progress of the main story and not changing the spiritual core of the original work. After all, you don't have to consider whether it can be realized. As long as the brain hole is big enough, you can catch the attention of the audience. In addition, the concise main line is also very conducive to shortening the creative cycle of the adapted works, allowing the finished products to enter the market as soon as possible, completing a set of capital circulation from investment to production and listing, and finally gaining profits.
In The Journey to the West, there are many monsters in folk fairy tales, and these monsters often have very obvious characteristics, such as Niu Wangmo, Huang Fengguai, goldfish monster, nine head worm and so on. These images themselves are very vivid, and they are good creative references for cartoonists and animators. In contrast, if it is adapted into film and television dramas and live-action movies, in order to achieve the same visual expressiveness and charm as animation works, it is necessary to invest more manpower and material resources in 3D model design and environmental rendering, with high cost and long creation cycle, and the actual effect may not meet expectations.
To sum up, The Journey to the West is suitable to be adapted into an animation work because his characters are vivid, novel in setting, clear in main line and strong in myth, which is more suitable for animation temperament.