Saiyuki Calendar Boys
Jan. 18th, 2008 03:28 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
chomijiSo I finally received my lovely 2008 Saiyuki Reload Calendar, and I have it artfully positioned so that I can see it from where I'm sitting by merely turning my head about 30°, but no one walking by my office can see it from the door.
And it is very artistic, and mildly distracting (it's Hakkai's blissed-out face that I find the most attention-grabbing on this first page), but it's not much use as a calendar. The numbers are really hard to see, and the day-of-the-week labels not much better. I'm going to have to print out one of those blank calendar pages available on the web, for practical purposes ... .
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Date: 2008-01-30 07:07 pm (UTC)Hee, we've got the same split here that we had on "Ne Me Quitte Pas" vs. "Home from the Sea, Home from the Hill." I actually prefer "Be There" for desert island, because I find the misunderstandings in the 585 "Burial" painful. I do re-read it ... but I don't really, really enjoy it until Hakkai has made his decision to go after Gojyo. And I do very much love Hakkai's comment to Gojyo at the end: "Really, you make a terrible villain ... ."
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Date: 2008-02-02 03:50 am (UTC)No, it's not that long ... but it's plenty icky while it lasts: Hakkai has nowhere else to go, really, and nowadays Gojyo is just about the only person he has. And Gojyo has suddenly realized that by saving Hakkai, he's now sort of responsible for him, and he feels like he's becoming a stranger in his own house. And then Banri shows up - a living, breathing reminder of when he didn't have to think so hard about life, and right, and wrong ... .
It's a tough little section. Was I talking to you about the fact that perhaps the reason why Gojyo doesn't fight there at the last, just before they're about to shoot him, is that Banri has betrayed him, and he feels all alone - which he has already explicitly, in this arc, stated is a Bad Thing for him?
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Date: 2008-02-05 09:52 pm (UTC)I think he was past caring - he's thinking something like "I never expected anything more - not from me and not from anyone else." He's made his last bitter joke, laughing at them for expecting Banri to come back, and made his last act of defiance by kicking that one guy. And that was going to be it. Until he hears Hakkai's voice ... that reaction he has when Hakkai quotes that "Jack of all trades" line from their "Be There" scenes - that's when he gets his courage and his will to live back, all at once, because he realizes that Hakkai is saying that they're two of a kind, and he's not going to leave without Gojyo - or he's going to die trying. I'm sure Gojyo was going to try to fight at that point, for Hakkai - until Hakkai pulled off the limiters ... .
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Date: 2008-02-08 08:14 pm (UTC)I wonder how far out she's plotting Reload - whether she was deliberately saving the full view of Hakkai's other form for this latest (in the English tankoubon) sequence or whether she was just coming to various scenes (like the rescue scene) and saying to herself "Hmmm ... not yet." We do get the one quick shot of him vined-out in the raincoat, with the gangmembers shouting in fear. And then he's all buttoned-up again, doing his "Tut! Looks like no more rain"" thing ... .
I think I already mentioned that someone once pointed out that when Hakkai decides to go after Gojyo, he swears for the first (and thus far only) time in the series.
BTW, do you realize that your comment above is now on page 9 of my inbox? And it was only 2 days ago? XD