Links to Saiyuki essays

[telophase]

(This entry is to collate the various links I've collected around LJ about Saiyuki, so I have one place to point people to in one of my Tpop columns. Feel free to add others in the comments.)

Many of these links will contain spoilers. Browse at your own risk. Don't forget to read the comments, either: there's some good links going in there.


International Saiyuki Week posts - This started as a tongue-in-cheek homage to Saiyuki in March 2006, and grew a bit larger than we expected. :)

http://telophase.livejournal.com/389207.html - An abortive attempt to collate where the manga and anime converged and diverged. :)

http://cicer.livejournal.com/110265.html - Talk about translations of one particular passage.

http://sesame-seed.livejournal.com/130467.html - Essay on characters in Saiyuki Gaiden.

http://grendelity.livejournal.com/1061.html
http://grendelity.livejournal.com/1462.html - Two posts analyzing the first chapter in the Burial arc of Saiyuki Reload.

http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/444551.html
http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/445325.html
http://coffeeandink.livejournal.com/445718.html - A close reading of six pages from volume 5 of Saiyuki.

http://louiselux.livejournal.com/261564.html - A look at the relationship between Gojyo and Sanzo in volume 7 of Saiyuki.

http://snowyheart.livejournal.com/14512.html - A look at the grid structure in paneling in Saiyuki.

http://louiselux.livejournal.com/287984.html - A close look at the part in book 7 of Saiyuki where Sanzo falls off the cliff, and how it mirrors Gojyo falling off a cliff in a later flashback.

http://rilina.livejournal.com/208896.html - Using Saiyuki as a springboard to discuss story arc, backstory, and characterization.

http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/114625.html - Commentary on the art in volumes 1-3.
http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/115134.html - Commentary on the art in volume 4
http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/117087.html - ... in volume 5
http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/120815.html - ... in volume 6
http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/127992.html - ... in volume 7
http://kate-nepveu.livejournal.com/132356.html - ... in volume 8

http://telophase.livejournal.com/353508.html - Discussion comparing the art in Saiyuki to Fullmetal Alchemist.

http://loligo.livejournal.com/146412.html - Essay on Buddhism and how it appears in Saiyuki

http://ranith.livejournal.com/5922.html - Analysis of the mahjong game in the beginning of Saiyuki volume 9, which corresponds to the action happening in the story at the time.

http://rachelmanija.livejournal.com/291503.html - Levels of realism and anachronism in fiction, with reference to Saiyuki

Comments

[harukami]

Back in 2005 I wrote:

http://users.livejournal.com/_diesmiling_/816.html - "We're not Even Related, so What's with All the Incest?"

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Cool, thanks! :D

[kate_nepveu]

The greenapple2004 post is 403 Forbidden.

Man, now I want to do volume 9. *shakes fist at frightening quantity of work looming over the next 30 days*

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Oops, I shall remove it forthwith. (I was trying to remember to check which ones were locked and which weren't)

[snarp]

(There's a hyphen that shouldn't be there in the second Grendelity post's address.)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

THanks - I'd forgotten to put a space in before it, and LJ parsed it as part of the URL.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Woooo. Added to honeydo list. I've been meaning to track these down and read them for a while.

I read an essay about incest in harukami's journal. I don't know if it's the same one she just now mentioned. I've got the one I read bookmarked if you need a quick link.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Ah. Checked my LJ memories. It's the same essay.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

XD Thanks anyway. :D

[miyukis-4.livejournal.com]

I wrote a speculation about Goku's punishment here:
http://miyukis-4.livejournal.com/3773.html

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Nice one, thank you!

[chaoticvein.livejournal.com]

These are beau~tiful. Sankyuu for compiling this.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

You're welcome! :D