Saiyuki and Death Note

I watched more Gensomaden Saiyuki last night. I have to say, despite getting intermittently upset with things like Hakkai's got the wrong chin today! and why the hell has Kenren got that massive overbite in profile? I am managing to love it. Watching it actually helps me think about the canon in a lot more detail - I think it gives me a better overview, which I don't get from jumping between printed books and onscreen scanlations and translations. The different reading formats, scanlations particularly so, make the experience of reading the story less cohesive and quite physically tiring, which perhaps distract me from taking in the finer details. Whereas with the anime the activity of watching it is very linear and there's a nice, brightly coloured flow of information for me to absorb.

( Death Note thought )