I wish I'd gotten hold of JttW as a small thing, I'd have been all over it - legends and myths and fairy tales were about my favorite things ever to read when I was young (and probably why when I started reading for novels SF/F appealed to me best...) As it is I suspect I miss a major part of the joke of Saiyuki, since before it my only exposure to the original story was by way of Dragon Ball ^^;;
Anyway, I think when you have the time that you'd like Saiyuki - as long as the, er, loose interpretation of JttW doesn't throw you too much! ^^; (though I'm biased; it's one of my major animanga fandoms, I've ficced for it and all; it just hits so many of my nakama-ship buttons. ^^ But then I know you share some of those buttons with me, so~)
(and hee, yup, before Gintama, Hakkai was my major association for Ishida! The seiyuu are pretty much all the anime has going for it. They're fantastic, but otherwise it's kind of a mess, low production values, runs out of manga. The later series and some of the OAVs are worth checking out but yeah, the manga's definitely superior.)
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Date: 2011-04-07 02:45 am (UTC)Anyway, I think when you have the time that you'd like Saiyuki - as long as the, er, loose interpretation of JttW doesn't throw you too much! ^^; (though I'm biased; it's one of my major animanga fandoms, I've ficced for it and all; it just hits so many of my nakama-ship buttons. ^^ But then I know you share some of those buttons with me, so~)
(and hee, yup, before Gintama, Hakkai was my major association for Ishida! The seiyuu are pretty much all the anime has going for it. They're fantastic, but otherwise it's kind of a mess, low production values, runs out of manga. The later series and some of the OAVs are worth checking out but yeah, the manga's definitely superior.)