Anime Obscureness: Saiyuki

Guess that I found on the "Show" list on YouTube?
(Squeals! Top left clockwise: Sanzo: the serious priest , Hakkai: the motherly figure, Gojyo: the smoker, and ladies man, Goku: the happy, hungry kid)

This is the first anime I ever watched knowing that it was an anime-japanimation--whatever you want to call it. And even though I'm trying not to draw anime things as often, Saiyuki is one of my BIGGEST sources of inspiration I had, just because the style was so different, at least for the more older male and female characters. (Notice how in other animes, you cant tell if someone is 16~37 years of age?)

Anyways- the show got a little more cornball to me: Redhead and Monkeyboy fight, demon comes, flashback, victory, off to the west. The show is 50 episodes long, but does it need that many? 30 would be enough, really. At least it's not Inuyasha long. (shudder)

Still awesome.

And the comic relief, although it feels like there may be too much, is nice. The anime is not intended to be too serious- sometimes characters pick on each other for the way they are drawn, like Gojyo and his wierd antenna hairs. And for some reason, when the show does go down a very serious path, you cannot help but miss the show's little corny jokes.

Also, if you are a girl, there is quite a bit of eye candy, and potental yaoi moments. oolala.


Oh, and female characters are okay and fun too like the merciful goddess (too lazy to find a pic of her)...wait, damn, she don't count as a girl really--she's a hemanphrodite. Oh well, anyways, all FEMINIME characters have huge boobs. Why? I dernos. I don't seem to get it. Probably to draw more attention to them. I mean, all the guys are soo pretty.