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I answered no siblings and got Hakkai?

Well, he no longer has any siblings...

True. I guess I didn't think of it that way, but as morbid as it is... couldn't a dead sibling be as much (if not more) problematic then a living sibling? That is a lot of emotion to deal with, especially if you enter a relationship after the death.
*I know I can come off as snotty on the internet, but that is not my intention here.

OMG U SNOT!

Well, I was being silly. :D I'd say, actually, that she had a stronger identity to him as a lover than a sister, since they didn't grow up together. And Hakkai is the absolute definition of emotional baggage. XD No way would I enter a relatinship with him. I'd pick Gojyo over him, and that's saying a lot, since Gojyo's right up there in the Emotional Baggage Sweepstakes.

But we all know that I always prefer the cranky one anyway. XD

Is it bad that any time I see Sanzo or Mello I associate it with you? I don't think I could date Gojyo, as all the excessive flirting would drive me nuts. (But then I have only read volumes 1-9 so I could be missing a lot.) I was actually trying to get Goku. (I even picked the living for food option as that actually is a big chunk of my social activities.)

Well, I certainly don't think it's bad. XD

Gojyo would be a good friend to have, but not a date. Goku brings out the mother in me - I just want to wrap him in a blanket and give him a cup of cocoa.

Once you get into Reload, you get a lot more cool backstory on everyone. XD

The bit about Sanzo being tall made me smile a bit. I have been amused in teh past at scenes in the anime where Hakkai and Gojyo seem to tower over him.

Yeah. He'd be tall compared to, say, me, but as far as the show goes? XD

(http://guru.theotaku.com/view.php?action=retrieve&id=214)

Have you seen

derjmeister's quiz below? XD

I'm not sure it's possible to get an unexpected result on this quiz if you know a lot about Saiyuki. Near the end, I was just randomly picking answers because I knew which ones were the Sanzo answers and was avoiding picking them on purpose, because....well, I knew I was going to get Sanzo if I picked the Sanzo answers. He's my favorite, so of course. That's why these quizzes drive me insane, because there's no way to get an unbiased answer!

I actually made a parody of this kind of quiz a few years ago, first as a "which Fushigi Yuugi character are you?" quiz, because it's almost impossible NOT to get the result you want. Then last year, I made a Saiyuki one.

http://www.quizilla.com/users/rabidjackal/quizzes/Most%20Obvious%20%22Which%20Saiyuki%20Character%20Are%20You%22%20quiz%20EVAR/

I got angry emails from Hakkai fangirls.

Wow, I love that quiz.

I was wondering why Hakkai fangirls would complain, and then I gamed the test to get the Hakkai result. XD

Thanks. XD It's obviously a pretty one-dimensional test, but that's generally how those things are. Interestingly, most of the friends I made take the test (ones who had no idea what Saiyuki was) got the Sanzo result. I apparently am friends with many violent people. The emails I got were along the lines of "OMG HAKKAI IS NOT CREEPY AND SHE WAS HIS GIRLFRIEND DIDN"T YOU WATCH THE ANIME?!?!?!"

(uhhh, deleted the previous comment because of a possible spoiler...sorry. >.> I know you know the spoiler, but I dunno about other people randomly reading this.)

:D I think most of the people on my friendslist know it, but whatever works. XD

And I want to slap fangirls who take the anime as canon with a paper fan. If we believe the anime, then Sanzo is allergic to cats, Gojyo's hair is pink, and that the ikkou star in light operas (http://telophase.livejournal.com/586530.html) on the side.

I caught that post the first time, but it still made me laugh for about five minutes just now. I love the anime, but not in an "artistic" sense. I just love it because it's so very inane. Also the voices are sexy. But the inanity is number one for me. The episodes taken from the manga tend to be better, anyway.

Like, the anime is almost so very removed from the manga that it borders on doujinshi-esque. Like, I bought a doujinshi at AX this year called VIVAVIVAVIVA and featured a pink cover upon which Sanzo is wearing a white coat with a fluffy collar (that looks like it was made by Laura Bennett) and looking like he needs to have red lipstick on (which is why I bought it, because WTF?). Inside, there is a story in which Sanzo is visited by the disembodied head of John Travolta (???) while wearing a disco suit and busting a move. I think whoever wrote this doujinshi was a consultant for the anime series.

I just spent a happy few minutes going back over some of my Engrish reports for Gunlock. And I really need to make that DON'T CRY EMO HAZEL icon.

That doujinshi artist may have been a consultant, but they didn't do any writing because OBVIOUSLY that is far more dynamic and creative than anything that *did* get animated. XD

Those were intensely hilarious Engrish reports. Though one of your examples of how Gunlock was drawn by bad fanartists is only a few seconds away (I think) from a douga I own.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/defiantdrifter/checkitout.jpg

I should scan the original sketch, because the lead artist who who did it (it's an A1, so done by the lead artist, I guess, according to the vendor people) actually widened Sanzo's ribcage and narrowed his waist considerably from the original sketch. Very odd.

Good lord. XD

Okay. Here's the original sketch: http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/defiantdrifter/checkitout2.jpg

And here's an overlay I did of the two in photoshop. The original is in reddish and the eventual used-in-gunlock version is in bluish. http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v513/defiantdrifter/checkitout3.jpg

Check out his arm in particular, which has been majorly lengthened and beefed up. It really makes me wonder a lot about production.

Wow. They made him seriously stiffer. I agree that in the first one, his upper arm was a bit on the short side, but it's like the person doing the original vaguely understood shoujo, but the second one had no clue that something other than the shounen aesthetic exists.

Heh...yeah, totally gamed (got Hakkai....) but I have to say

derjmeister's results are probably more spot on. XD

And papercut death to the moronic Hakkai fangirls....why do I always wind up with so many morons in the group? (A lot of the Inuyasha fangirls weren't much better.) Ahh well.

Bwahaha. Yeah. I noticed a while ago how easy it is to get the results you want.

derjmeister's quiz rocks. :D

Sanzo is most certainly not "tall". He's 5'8" or thereabouts. Does no one do any homework before making these things?

Dear gods. Is that light opera scene from Gunlcok? I haven't seen past the first SRG DVD yet. O_o

Yes it is. :D If you want to see my reviews of it, click on the "Engrish" tag, where I've been shoving my rants/amusing thoughts/etc of the cracktastic Kong Kong bootlegs of Gunlock and, more recently, Wolf's Rain.

There are spoilers behind cuts, unless you find the ones that are called "Telophase's Out-Of-Context-Theatre".

Okies. I don't mind spoilers. Spoilers is where I get a lot of my Saiyuki junky fixes from. :-P

The first report (http://telophase.livejournal.com/296036.html) has the most OMGWTFBBQ ROFL thing in the comments. You'll know it when you read it. XD

Where does Yaone keep all those mice? ROFL :-D

Man, I thought Google's translations were aweful. Babelfish is worse?

Have you seen Backgammon Remix? The Engrish in there is a laugh a minute when it's readable at all. I almost dread someone doing a translation of Saiyuubito.

Meanwhile, I'm hoping someone will do a fan translation of the first evah Saiyuki doujinshi RFB put up. I want to know what that youkai lady (Koushou?) is saying when she's sparking Sanzo. =-P

No, I haven't seen it. :D

Aarg, I've been going back trhough those reports and reading the comments and laughing. XD I need to stop doing that and get back to art. AAAAAAARRRGH!

LOL. Reading these reminds me of the horrible job the local cable/satellite tv companies do of close captioning. Sometimes the captioning is more entertaining than the actual show. =-P

...I got Dokugakuji. Excuse me while I yawn my head off.

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Yeah, you can totally game it.

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