hah!

[telophase]

A couple of weeks ago I ordered the Saiyuki Series Perfect Guide Sayubito that a few of you on my f-list have been crowing about. Did it from amazon.co.jp and ahve been all proud that I managed to figure out from this all-Japanese email that there was a problem with my credit-card number (I think I typed it in wrong - the card itself is fine), and got it taken care of. I didn't pay for fast shipping or anything, so wasn't expecting it for another four weeks.






I now have an icon for those times when I'm really happy or feeling insufferably smug with myself. XD

Oh, and have a more-typical Telophase icon as well:

Comments

[rachelmanija.livejournal.com]

I thought you were going to say, "a head."

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Every single one of you is going to be so disappointed every day when I check my mail and find no head, aren't you? XD

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Although I found smelly stuff in the mail today, too, and a DVD from Netflix that I thought had been lost, so overall it was a really good mail day, despite the lack of a head.

(oooooooo, Bordello smells gooooooooooooooood - hope it works on me)

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

He looks more like he's "turning Japanese" than being smug.

But maybe that's just my brain piping up from the gutter.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Um.

You may have a point there.

Things that make me go hmmmmmm

[luxetumbra.livejournal.com]

So interesting that she's drawing him more and more without the limiter nowadays.

Re: Things that make me go hmmmmmm

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Huh. I hadn't thought of that. Although he is in civvies right now, and when she draws him in modern clothing, he doesn't get the limiter. Hakkai doesn't get his, either, although I only checked the one picture in this book. Sanzo has his chakra-mark thinger and Gojyo retains his scars, however.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

So, what is this book? Should I be ordering it for my artbook collection?

[telophase.livejournal.com]

It's not really an artbook. It's got color plates in the front featuring the major characters in Reload, with a bunch of text probably about the character (pages 1-16)

Page 17 is a section header.

Story Digest - summaries of each book of Saiyuki and the first 5 of Reload, I think, with lots of reprints of manga pages, very small, each book gets one two-pge spread. pp 18-45

Saiyuki Chronological Table - Two-page spread with a timeline, rest of it in Japanese.

Dictionary - PAges 48-61, all in Japanese. No clue what it is other than, perhaps, lisitng the people and places and things in the Saiyuki world and explaining them?

Comparitive Analysis of Saiyuki - Essay by Minekura, that I and several other poele want desperately to get translated. :) pp 62-69, primarily text.

Question & Answer - veeeeeery teeny font, lots of questions (in Japanese) and, presumably, answer. pp 70-73, with what looks like tiny reproductions of fanart.

Design Works - Pages like usually show up in the back of her artbooks - reproductions of pencils. pp 74-92. Might be worth it for this, since I don't think a lot of these have been reprinted from the previous artbooks. Some have, I think.

Interview - Solid text, with a few more tiny reproductions of fanart, it looks like. Presumably an interview of some sort (I AM SO INSIGHTFUL). pp 94-101 (pg 91 was a contents page before this section)

Impressions - Seems to be messages from other pro artists, some with theri versions of the characters, some jsut text. pp 102-109

Goods - your standard two pages listing tankoubons and CDs and such.

The final page is the table of contents.

The ISBN is 4-7580-5166-6 if you're interested in it. It cost 1500 yen and I paid an additional 1500 yen shipping trhough the Japanese Amazon.com, and I've seen it in one or two places online for 3000-3500 yen, so ti's all much of a muchness, I assume.

[mscongeniality.livejournal.com]

Sounds like some damned good stuff...if only I understood Japanese.

Stoopid language barrier....

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Yup. There is that teeny little problem.

[fourthage.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the info. I'll put it on my when-I-have-cash-free list.

[octopedingenue]

If I were the type of person to use the word "glomp", I would be all over the SWEET WIDDLE MONKEY AWWWWWWWW. Ahem.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I just realized that his face in this picture is the perfect example of a "XD".

[octopedingenue]

He is the CUTEST THING EVER. I am officially too wibbly to pick a favorite Saiyuki character from the main four, but Goku tries really hard sometimes.

Would you mind if I stole the picture for icon purposes? I need Saiyuki icons to fill up all that new empty space (which is so far translating into many icons of "Goku being adorable" and "Gojyo and Hakkai being sexy and married", but surely Sanzo will deign to make an appearance at some point).

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Please go right ahead - I'm not one of the people who think that me merely scanning something makes it anathema for anyone to take. XD

(I always have the desire to download pics from anyone who says "OMG NO DOWNLOADS THEY'RE COPYRIGHT TO ME BECAUSE I SCANNED AND CLEANED THEM UP!!!!" even if I have absolutely no desire whatsoever to have those pictures.)

(This icon I love because he's JUST SO DARLIN' in it, even though it rarely fits with whaterver I'm posting)