Tall, blonde, emotionally unavailable. :) In the world of Saiyuki, he's a Buddhist priest with less-than-holy behavior: smoking, drinking, gambling, and he's been given the task of travling with three companions, Hakkai, Gojyo, and Goku, to the West to stop an experiment to revive the youkai (demon) lord Gyumaoh. But it's a lot more than that: the theme of the story seems to be that the journey is more important than the destination. Saiyuki runs to 9 volumes, and then Saiyuki Reload picks up after that and is still being released in Japan. It's been made into an anime, too, which more-or-less follows the manga, although it diverges into a story arc that doesn't occur in the manga.

Here's a yousendit upload (http://s17.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=03MHL49QP00KN1JCLN6Z0KLYGQ) of the fan translation of Book 1 - 25 megs - and you read it right to left, Japanese style. If you like it, Tokyopop's translating it and publishing it here, and just released Book 8, and their translation is significantly better than the fan one. :) They're going on a one-book-per-month schedule during the summer, so they'll finish Saiyuki and start Reload this summer.