Big Fat Saiyuki Meta Idea - Not!

[chomiji]

I thought I had glommed onto a really, really great idea! And then I thought of one really, really big problem with it. It had to do with Pippi the youkai girl ... .

- she's Nataku.

It was when I was looking at that weird up-from-below view of her and Goku on the back of the wagon full of explosives - the one where you can see right up their nostrils (p. 110, if I'm counting correctly - maybe about 2/5 of the way through that chapter). And she has these tendrils of hair curving up and back from her forehead, and I kept wondering who that reminded me of - she has 4 or 5, and Gojyo only has 2 (his "antennae").

And then it hit me! Nataku, and his tendrils! And she looks like him other ways, too - she has his hairline, and their eyes are similar except for her slit pupils, and the eyebrows are very close.

But ... then the other shoe dropped. Nataku's not dead.

Shoot.

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[chomiji]

I could be confused on that too ... I briefly ran through some fairly terrible scanlations of Gaiden at one point, but I'm really confused about what happened between the current chapter on saiyuki_manga and the recent ones where Kenren was fighting the monsters (with results as we all know, to our sorrow). I know Tenpou, Konzen, and Kenren were talking politics during the time in the library (?), and I probably missed something.