Minekura Kazuya - Saiyuki, vol. 01-09 (Eng. trans.) (reread)

[oyceter]

Really, this is just an excuse to use my shiny new icon! Yay ikkou love! Yay Sanzo waving a gun around!

I noticed more random and fun things this time around! I adore Minekura and how she sneaks these little things in.

Comments

[helen_keeble]

Putting my hands over my ears and going LALALALALALA as I dash-scroll to the comments button...

I'm currently reading Saiyuki for the first time - since I acquired the whole first series at once, courtesy of Amazon's sale, this is SAIYUKI WEEK for me. Random comments about it on my LJ should be appearing all week. *grin*

... so you see, I obey your command to talk about Saiyuki. Do I get a cookie?

[rachelmanija]

Goku gives you a cookie!

[helen_keeble]

Goku... gives someone else food? Voluntarily?

HE IS AN IMPOSTER! BURNINATE! BURNINATE HIIIIIIM!!

[rachelmanija]

I see you've gotten to volume four...

[coffeeandink]

- Kougaiji rescues Yaone from being taken away to Hyakugan Maoh. Imagine, in another life, she might have met Kanan!

I thought the point was that if Kougaiji hadn't rescued Yaone, she would have met Kanan's *fate*--and Hyakugan Maoh's men wouldn't have hit Hakkai and Kanan's village and Kanan wouldn't have been kidnapped. So in a sense Kou's act of kindness destroyed Kanan and Gonou's lives.

Need to run out the door but am so excited to read the rest of your post!

[flemmings]

it never even occurred to me that there might've been a situation of the Maoh going "Got a nice tasty youkai slavegirl en route to me--darn, she got taken away! Guess I'll go kidnap this human girl named Kanan instead."

As far as I can tell that seems to be someone's fanon interpretation that's not borne out anywhere in the manga. Hyakugan Maoh has a reputation for taking women, raping them and killing them (I believe the Japanese says 'eating' but it's been a while since I read the manga.)

[coffeeandink]

Hey! It is my very own cracked fanon interpretation, though I would not be at all surprised to see it elsewhere. It is the kind of cracked fanon interpretation fans come up with, after all.

I thought what was unusual about Kanan is that she was human--that Hyakugan Maoh had a reputation for keeping his depredations to youkai--but I may very well have imagined that. I will try to look for evidence for, against, or completely nonexistant when I get home.

[telophase]

Does Dokugakuji's name really translate to "in the corner"? I remember that the HK bootlegs I've got of Gunlock have Yaone as Eight Hundred Mice for one episode, and Doku as In The Corner a few times.

[oyceter]

It does! It's something like "in a corner alone," which is even sadder! doku=alone, kaku=corner, ji-sharp

I want your HK bootleg so much!

[telophase]

XD It's not a great version because at least a third of the episodes are corrupted and unwatchable, but since the animation and writing is so bad, that doens't really affect it. I may be able to copy it to other DVDs, but I may not - beep me in a couple of weeks and I'll give it a try. :)

[flemmings]

It does! It's something like "in a corner alone," which is even sadder! doku=alone, kaku=corner, ji-sharp

To note: kaku can mean corner, yes, but it also means 'animal horn.' Doku means alone but also 'single' ie one. The way ji is written- ie not in any of my kanji dictionaries- says to me that Dokugakuji is someone else imported from the novel originally, and unfortunately my hanzi dictionary says that character means 'female rhinoceros.' Single-horned female rhino, guys. ^^;;

[rachelmanija]

I wonder if Kougaiji hadn't rescued Yaone, if she'd been taken instead of Kanan. Man, I could do a five-story set just riffing off of variations of that. Yaone gets taken instead and Kanan is still with Gonou when he meets Gojyo some other way! Yaone and Kanan meet in the cell! Yaone fails to save Kanan, but does poison the guards and meets Gonou on her way out! Kougaiji shows up to rescue Yaone, finds her dead and Kanan alive, and rescues Kanan instead! Etc!

The whole four-way Kid!Ikkou flashback section, when it cuts from Goku wailing to young Sanzo thinking, "Did I hear a voice?" just kills me.

[oyceter]

Yes you should totally do that! (no, really, I am in no way bad and trying to tempt you away from real work)

Gonou gets there too late to save Kanan but drags Yaone out instead! Gonou somehow gets confused and rescues Yaone instead!

[rachelmanija]

OK, I've been inspired. Expect a story on this theme to go up some time this weekend or early next week.

[oyceter]

WHOO!!

More fic is never a bad thing.

[oyceter]

*pats*

*promises some tonight*