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I Won't Bend, I Break
You know how Reload 7 was basically 'Gojyo and Hakkai are sheerest awesome?' Well, Reload 8 was 'Goku is made of win.'
I love how well Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai fit in. Or at least, how functional they are. They're clearly a valuable part, or could be a valuable part of just about any village or community, and all their misfit natures... it's all emotional, you know?
"You're like, really a girl."
Oh, Goku. Total flirting failure.
"And don't think you can touch my sister just because you're alone with her, punk."
LOL! I loved the Pippi/Goku relationship - they were delightful together, and I loved Goku's conversations about how Sanzo is his foster father, and he's never really been around women before.
Also, Pippi? Total hottie. Why is she wearing so many clothes in the freaking desert?
I actually was spoiled for the fact that she was going to die, but I was hoping (praying) that I was wrong. Or just in denial.
I love her so much. She's acerbic, caring, and clear eyed. (Unless the subject is Lord Kougaiji.) I'm so, so pissed about her arc. While in one sense it's fantastically Saiyuki, with the idea of living your life with pride, but I am so fucking pissed that she died in the end. (Well, we don't explicitly see it, so I can imagine she's alive, except I totally can't right now.) That said, she died because she had tits.
The whole 'life with pride, start as you mean to go on, the ones who live are the ones with the strongest will' is HUGE theme with Saiyuki, but how often do the MEN who pull that die?
That's right, never.
The main four have survived just about everything, as has Kougaiji, and then you have characters like Hazel, Gat, and Nii, and it's just... the whole cast is so freaking male dominated, and despite Minakura's fabulousness, it gets really freaking old.
Besides which, you have so, so many women in refridgaraters. Kanan, MamaShaw - the most important chicks are all dead, and Yaone would be too if Kou hadn't saved her (twice). Also, virgin or whore representation it totally present and accounted for.
"She told you not to be sad. That means... it's okay for ya to live. Even if people say that you're monsters. Even if you don't know who ya are. Even then."
Ah, Goku, growing up. I love his Seiten Tensei angst.
I loved the Goku/Pippi first kiss (for both of them, I bet). Way better than what I was expecting.
And then I presume she punches him in the stomach, which makes it ten times hotter.
"...she would have grown up gorgeous."
Which made me both wibble and want to smack Gojyo, like, 'sure say nice things now that she'd dead.'
But I do like that he treated Pippi exactly like he treated Sanzo, especially cause I think Sanzo and Pippi have a lot in common, except for the fact that when Sanzo lives with pride, he, ya know, lives.
On another subject, Hazel is clearly anyone's rentboy. Oh, yes, manipulate me into doing something, and I'll find out and do it anyway,
unless the big, strong seme I'mfucking traveling with stops me.
Speaking of... I wanted more Gat backstory than one panel!
Also, the ending panel, with Gojyo describing Sanzo, Goku describing Gat, and Hakkai describing a "narcissist who speaks in an awful Western accent." cracked me up hardcore.
I love how well Goku, Gojyo, and Hakkai fit in. Or at least, how functional they are. They're clearly a valuable part, or could be a valuable part of just about any village or community, and all their misfit natures... it's all emotional, you know?
"You're like, really a girl."
Oh, Goku. Total flirting failure.
"And don't think you can touch my sister just because you're alone with her, punk."
LOL! I loved the Pippi/Goku relationship - they were delightful together, and I loved Goku's conversations about how Sanzo is his foster father, and he's never really been around women before.
Also, Pippi? Total hottie. Why is she wearing so many clothes in the freaking desert?
I actually was spoiled for the fact that she was going to die, but I was hoping (praying) that I was wrong. Or just in denial.
I love her so much. She's acerbic, caring, and clear eyed. (Unless the subject is Lord Kougaiji.) I'm so, so pissed about her arc. While in one sense it's fantastically Saiyuki, with the idea of living your life with pride, but I am so fucking pissed that she died in the end. (Well, we don't explicitly see it, so I can imagine she's alive, except I totally can't right now.) That said, she died because she had tits.
The whole 'life with pride, start as you mean to go on, the ones who live are the ones with the strongest will' is HUGE theme with Saiyuki, but how often do the MEN who pull that die?
That's right, never.
The main four have survived just about everything, as has Kougaiji, and then you have characters like Hazel, Gat, and Nii, and it's just... the whole cast is so freaking male dominated, and despite Minakura's fabulousness, it gets really freaking old.
Besides which, you have so, so many women in refridgaraters. Kanan, MamaShaw - the most important chicks are all dead, and Yaone would be too if Kou hadn't saved her (twice). Also, virgin or whore representation it totally present and accounted for.
"She told you not to be sad. That means... it's okay for ya to live. Even if people say that you're monsters. Even if you don't know who ya are. Even then."
Ah, Goku, growing up. I love his Seiten Tensei angst.
I loved the Goku/Pippi first kiss (for both of them, I bet). Way better than what I was expecting.
And then I presume she punches him in the stomach, which makes it ten times hotter.
"...she would have grown up gorgeous."
Which made me both wibble and want to smack Gojyo, like, 'sure say nice things now that she'd dead.'
But I do like that he treated Pippi exactly like he treated Sanzo, especially cause I think Sanzo and Pippi have a lot in common, except for the fact that when Sanzo lives with pride, he, ya know, lives.
On another subject, Hazel is clearly anyone's rentboy. Oh, yes, manipulate me into doing something, and I'll find out and do it anyway,
unless the big, strong seme I'm
Speaking of... I wanted more Gat backstory than one panel!
Also, the ending panel, with Gojyo describing Sanzo, Goku describing Gat, and Hakkai describing a "narcissist who speaks in an awful Western accent." cracked me up hardcore.
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There's just one thing I am dying to know: Is Pippi's actual name mentioned in volume 8? A scanlation I have hints that her name is Tsu.
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