Journey to the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty, which is considered one of the four greatest classic novels of Chinese literature and perhaps the most popular literary work in East Asia.

The journey to the West has strong roots in Chinese mythology, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy. Throw in elements of myths, modern fiction and add a big spoonful of classic line-art characters will give you our latest offering.

The style of the decks is going to be a continuation of the manga-styled characters as in our Geung Si & Vampire decks.

Designed by Sin Yee Lam (Co-founder & Lead designer of HypieLab Company, Hong Kong)

Standard Bicycle Edition is printed on Premium Stock with superior gold metallic ink. Manufactured by The United States Playing Card Company. Made in USA.

HypieLab's part 2 of their Journey to the West project introduces the Bicycle Wukong & Bicycle Bull Demon King Playing Cards. Inspired by the classic novel, these cards continue the manga-style character designs seen in their Bicycle Geung Si & Bicycle Vampire (Western Vampire) decks, blending traditional Chinese storytelling with a modern artistic approach.

Journey To the West is a Chinese novel published in the 16th century during the Ming Dynasty, which is considered one of the four greatest classic novels of Chinese literature and perhaps the most popular literary work in East Asia. The adaptation of "The Journey to the West" by HypieLab, designed by Sin Yee Lam, creatively blends Chinese mythology, Taoist and Buddhist philosophy with modern fiction.

Incorporating classic line-art characters, this production offers a fresh, artistic take on the traditional narrative, appealing to both contemporary and traditional audiences. The standard Bull Demon King Bicycle Edition cards feature premium stock with gold metallic ink, made by the United States Playing Card Company in the USA. The Bull Demon King premium deck elevates this with gold cold foil on the cards and hot foil stamping on a premium cloth paper tuck case. While both editions feature the same characters on court cards, the premium edition showcases them in a distinct aesthetic style.

Created in the 1960s.  Sun Wukong is also known as The Monkey King and is a popular story figure in China. He has super powers and was born from an ancient rock. He first appeared as the main character in a Chinese novel of the 1500s called Journey to the West. The images on the cards are based on Wukong\'s adventures in that book. 孫 (Sun, pronounced as soon instead of son) is his surname, and 悟空(wu-kong) is his first name. Therefore it is correct to express his full name as Sun Wukong or Sun Wu-Kong in English. 悟 (wu) means to realize and 空 (kong) means emptiness, so 悟空 has a Buddhist meaning in Chinese. Poker is transliterated to 撲克 in Chinese, and they transliterated 撲克 back to English as Pu Ke - last 2 paragraphs by Digipunk

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