Nobody's talking about this one. A show that takes Journey to the West and treats it like a conspiracy thriller, where the entire pilgrimage was orchestrated by heaven to cover something up. The animation is sparse and uneven, but the writing trades spectacle for something rarer: a story where every character is playing angles, where trust dissolves the moment you understand the game, where the Sutra itself becomes a weapon in a war you didn't know was happening. It refuses to make anyone simply good or evil. By the end you're not cheering for the pilgrimage to succeed. You're trying to figure out who actually benefits if it does.

Xi Xing Ji is a 16-episode action fantasy ONA in which the Journey to the West turns out to be a scheme devised by heaven. The sacred Sutra has been missing for more than ten years, and heaven sends its army out to hunt for it. To keep the Sutra from landing in heaven's hands a second time, the journey westward begins once again.