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monkey (king)/journey to the west & minekura's saiyuki
After over a year of on-and-off reading of Monkey, I finally finished it yesterday.
The thing about 500-year-old humour is that now 500 years later it's just crude. I felt like stopping almost every other chapter in the first part of the story, because Monkey pissed me off so much. All that dicking around isn't cute or amusing, it's rude, go away, die, be sealed under a mountain okay. But Tripitaka makes me crack up all the time, I'm so sorry. Eventually everything got better, though!
One of the things characterises Saiyuki the manga series is the repetitiveness, and I'd thought it was just part of Minekura Kazuya's trademark style, but now I'm wondering if it's at least partly meant to be a nod towards the original story. It really stood out in the story for me. Other than that, it was nice to recognize some of the familiar storylines. In the cast, Goku is really the only one who resembles his original counterpart in any way, while Gojyo has more of Hakkai's original character than his own* and Sanzo is pretty much Tripitaka's negative shadow.
*I know I'm probably drawing inexistent parallels here, but the way Sandy was so utterly forgettable made me think of how, when all is said and done, Gojyo really is the average one in the group, and how he often feels so useless. :(
...The other point of this post is to announce that as of today I'm nineteen. Woo! I can feel an age crisis coming up in a year!
The thing about 500-year-old humour is that now 500 years later it's just crude. I felt like stopping almost every other chapter in the first part of the story, because Monkey pissed me off so much. All that dicking around isn't cute or amusing, it's rude, go away, die, be sealed under a mountain okay. But Tripitaka makes me crack up all the time, I'm so sorry. Eventually everything got better, though!
One of the things characterises Saiyuki the manga series is the repetitiveness, and I'd thought it was just part of Minekura Kazuya's trademark style, but now I'm wondering if it's at least partly meant to be a nod towards the original story. It really stood out in the story for me. Other than that, it was nice to recognize some of the familiar storylines. In the cast, Goku is really the only one who resembles his original counterpart in any way, while Gojyo has more of Hakkai's original character than his own* and Sanzo is pretty much Tripitaka's negative shadow.
*I know I'm probably drawing inexistent parallels here, but the way Sandy was so utterly forgettable made me think of how, when all is said and done, Gojyo really is the average one in the group, and how he often feels so useless. :(
...The other point of this post is to announce that as of today I'm nineteen. Woo! I can feel an age crisis coming up in a year!