Saiyuki Ramblings.

athena8 posted some more translations of the Sanzo-ikkou Q&As from the Saiyuki Saiyubito guide:



They’re on her livejournal here.

And reading them got me to thinking about how much fun Minekura must have, tooling and playing with the relationships between her characters, both in the manga and without, because these Q&As encapsulate that theme perfectly. There really is something for everyone, as moshesque pointed out a while back. Fans of 393 can read things like this and say, “OMG Goku and Sanzo know each other so well it’sfate!” Fans of the 353 look at these things and think, “OMG the flirting theyaresodoingit!” Fans of 585 can nod their heads and say, “they are so married!” (It's not necessarily always about the pairings; that's just the mood I'm in today.)

I love Minekura’s sense of fun, and I wish I had her subtlety and skill at balancing. She whips out the heavy touch (the sledgehammer of angst, some might say, based on the last chapter of Reload from Zero-Sum) when it’s needed, and the light touch when it is not.