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Saiyuki
Topic Started: Dec 3 2008, 05:25 PM (218 Views)
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Go-Go Koala-walas!
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So after reading the first volume of the manga, I fell in love with Saiyuki. And I have to admit, the anime was a let down to begin with. It was obviously done on a low budget--the animation for some of the scenes is REALLY BAD and the voice acting and sound quality was....well, let's just say it was a disappointment.

But even though the quality isn't that great, it's grown on me. I've watched 2 episodes today and I'm waiting for a 3rd to finish loading (despite my desperate need to work) I'm actually using Saiyuki for my breaks!

Have you guys seen or heard of it? What are your thoughts?




And my favorite character is Gojyo....for obvious reasons. :squeeze :drool :excited :ye :charm
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disco stick!
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i think i heard of it... its sort of old right? i think they are showing that now on crunchyroll... unless its not that same story... its about the idk monkey story or something loosely based?
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loosely based indeed. the journey to the west aka Monkey.
manga > anime
most definitely
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oh so this bitch read it? and held out on telling me how great it was!!!
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Lol! they also have two other stories that follow the Saiyuki arc, but i don't know anything about them.
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i have copies of the journey to the west aka monkey on pdf if anyone is interested
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Yes please!! :wtf
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oooh sorry i didn't save it. i did save Jin Ping Mei (The Plum in the Golden Vase). it is chinese erotica from a long time ago. it used to be banned during mao's leadership. :-/
gomen!

class notes :awesomesauce :awesomesauce
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Popular because of its multilevel:
First adventure story
Dispenser of the spiritual insight
Extended allegory of the pilgrim journey to the Indian west stand of the journey for enlightenment

Monkey had to be in a rock; dormant for many years.
His name: Sun WuKong
Awareness of the emptiness
This is important for Buddhism.
He feels that he can fight all the gods from heaven. He has many powers.
He studied martial arts and stuff. He is an elder sage equal to heaven because of this.
Mortal realm- commoners live
Heaven- (there is no hell); higher beings- gods and goddesses
Monkey lived with all these other monkeys on Fruit and Flower Mountain. One day, they found water at their mountain land. They see the cave and they try to go inside water curtain cave. But they did not want to; Monkey went in with bravery. Soon thereafter, he became King Monkey. He later learned to fight from a Buddhist. Later he gets a weapon. It was a very big stick. It used to be a pillar under earth. He fought a dragon king and gained the stick for the win. The stick could extend and shrink.
He learned 72 transformations.
Rabbit, tiger, etc
He could blow a strand of his hair and it could become anything he wanted.
He used a cloud to travel.
He is childlike but also a cunning mind along with his acrobatic skills gained popularity.

Four travelers:
Brave
Had to fend off monsters and spirits
Monsters are earth spirits and become ghosts because of meditation and training.
Heaven spirits: they are spirits from heaven who are tired of the immortal world. They come to the mortal realm to amuse themselves. Day in heaven is a whole year on earth.
Monsters try to attack tripitaka.
They thought they can gain immortality by eating his flesh.
Few of the monsters tried to stop the pilgrimage.

81 Calamities
Each attack is treated as a calamity. All these four peoples had to go through these to achieve Buddha. The Buddhism text can be holy. They had to have suffered a lot to achieve their “reincarnation.”

Historical text:
Based on the real event in Tang Dynasty
There is a pagoda: great wild goose pagoda
This pagoda temple is where the starting and ending point of the journey. There was a real man named Xuanzang who traveled. The supernatural are, of course, not.
He went through numerous hardships and trials.
He stayed in India for a decade. He stayed at a university for a decade. He learned more Buddhism and Indian cultures. He brought copies of the Buddhism to China.

Pig:
Zhu Bajie
He used to be a handsome general in Heaven. He had ambitions for women. This led him into disaster. He got drunk at a ceremony and flirted with a moon goddess. She was a concubine with a God. The God got angry and punished him. The god was Emperor Jade. He sent him to the Mortal Realm. An error occurred in his reincarnation circle: half man and half pig. He was supposed to be reincarnated to human. Whoops!
He still showed many interests in women even with his ugly form. He had 36 transformations. He could transform into a handsome man even.
Whenever he got drunk, he’d turn back into his original form. The women would always get frightened by this.
Not as powerful as Monkey, but still had his usefulness.

River monster:
Shawujing
Curtain general
Emperor Jade needed people to serve him. So he had a man in charge of the curtains rising. Shawujing broke the crystal goblet of a goddess by accident during a party. He got sent to the Mortal Realm. He stayed at the flowing sand river. He is the least powerful one. He is the most obedient and logical.
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Thank you for the notes! I'll read all of them after all of my homework is done....i don't see the end any time soon
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not a problem. i am just sorry i didn't keep the pdfs.
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It's alright! I'm sure I'll get the chance to read them someday.
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