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Saiyuki Reload 3 thoughts
Mar. 25th, 2006 12:55 pmJust a few quick thoughts on Reload 3, specifically the last chapters of Against the Stream and the Sanzo ikkou-as-team: ( spoilers )
Mar. 25th, 2006
Played Neverwinter Nights. Cannot work out how to use the spells in my inventory and keep getting killed by goblins.
Wrote 2000+ words of the story based on inspirational Minekura art of Hakkai with a mop and bucket, here. I saw the name 'Marshall Applewhite' today somewhere - is that a good Hakkai reincarnation name or what?
I bought two volumes of Getbackers and also a Samurai Champloo shot glass. I know, but it had Jin on it and it was only £4. Also, Kid Eternity by Grant Morrison and Duncan Fegredo. I loved WE3, apart from the fascination with gore. This looks like it has less gore but not quite as good art.
Two second hand volumes of Chinese Creeds and Customs by VR Burkhardt, where in there is the legend of 'Mister Rabbit', who is actually a hare who sacrificed his own life so that the Buddha might eat, first removing the fleas from his fur and then throwing himself onto a bed of magical coals to be cooked. As a reward, Buddha decreed that forever after the hare's face should adorn the moon. I've read a different Japanese moon/rabbit legend, although I can't remember it in detail now, but these do go some way to explaining possible links between Minekura's moon and bunny doll imagery in Saiyuki. It's interesting that in this story the hare, who becomes associated with the moon, sacrifices his life, as does Koumyou.
Wrote 2000+ words of the story based on inspirational Minekura art of Hakkai with a mop and bucket, here. I saw the name 'Marshall Applewhite' today somewhere - is that a good Hakkai reincarnation name or what?
I bought two volumes of Getbackers and also a Samurai Champloo shot glass. I know, but it had Jin on it and it was only £4. Also, Kid Eternity by Grant Morrison and Duncan Fegredo. I loved WE3, apart from the fascination with gore. This looks like it has less gore but not quite as good art.
Two second hand volumes of Chinese Creeds and Customs by VR Burkhardt, where in there is the legend of 'Mister Rabbit', who is actually a hare who sacrificed his own life so that the Buddha might eat, first removing the fleas from his fur and then throwing himself onto a bed of magical coals to be cooked. As a reward, Buddha decreed that forever after the hare's face should adorn the moon. I've read a different Japanese moon/rabbit legend, although I can't remember it in detail now, but these do go some way to explaining possible links between Minekura's moon and bunny doll imagery in Saiyuki. It's interesting that in this story the hare, who becomes associated with the moon, sacrifices his life, as does Koumyou.
