Urasai!

[telophase]

In case anyone's wondering where this standard icon of mine comes from, I made it out of one of the comedy bits after the credits in Saiyuki Reload. Someone's edited them together and put them up on YouTube.

(I'm trying to figure out if they edited together the ones I cut from the show and uploaded to a community, or they edited them themselves. I thought the telling one would be #2, which had the sound off by a bit in the one I did, and it seems the sound's off by a bit in it ... but not as much as I remembered. So I remain unsure. :D)

Comments

[chisotahn]

Urasai is wonderful. My friends and I did a homage at Fanime this year. :D

The scarf was over six feet long, hand-knitted from scratch by our Gojyo, because Hakkai (me) can't knit. XP (Also, please ignore the idiotic face I'm making in that picture; I was laughing.)

[rurounitriv.livejournal.com]

*chortles* Funny stuff!

[cest-jolie.livejournal.com]

Thanks for the link, that was hilarious!

[moonlit-page.livejournal.com]

I love the fanservice costume one the best.

[tokyoghoststory.livejournal.com]

man i shoulda kept watching that show!

[kulimar.livejournal.com]

Hey, thanks for linking that clip. If I hadn't seen it I wouldn't know how funny Saiyuki probably is. I only picked up the first volume of the manga and just didn't get compelled to the middle. I think I'm interested in seeing it now. :)

-Kaz

[telophase.livejournal.com]

The Saiyuki takes a bit before it ramps up and really starts hitting you - volume 4 or 5 is about the point where people are either addicted or they give up. Minekura's art changes dramatically by that point, and the real story gets going, as opposed to the episodic sort of stuff near the beginning.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

* er, the Saiyuki *manga* I meant to say.

[kulimar.livejournal.com]

I see. Sounds like it pulled a Fushigi Yugi then (which I still haven't see all the way through, but people insist the second half is brilliant) :p

Cheers

-Kaz

[szzzt.livejournal.com]

I can't recommend the Saiyuuki manga enough, as opposed to the anime. I've only seen small bits and pieces of the anime, but it makes my eyes hurt. The manga has stunning (http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/444551.html), beautiful (http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/445325.html), amazing art (http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/445718.html), and unsurprisingly that art quality didn't make it into the anime. (Also see our host telophase's analysis (http://telophase.livejournal.com/90883.html) of Saiyuuki art!)

But I think people still become fangirls through the anime because, for the most part, the characterization and plotting of the manga shines through.