I try not to be too much of a manga purist, since I fell in love with Saiyuki and first started writing fanfic when I'd only seen the anime, before finding the manga. But I still get a bit twitchy when I see Gojyo reincarnated as a redheaded human, especially when everyone else has exactly the same hair and eye colours as their main-series incarnations so it's obviously not meant as a random change.
On the other hand, I don't think they always have to have the same hair and eyecolour, either. After all, I wrote a reincarnation of Goujun as a black kid raised by his Chinese grandfather in North America to explore the karmic resonance (wow, that sounds pretentious, I just pulled it out of my ass) of physically not fitting in. And I'm a big fan of nekonexus's brokenworld01 reinc-verse where Gojyo has been reincarnated as a black-haired youkai while Sanzo has become a red-haired, red-eyed halfbreed. ~_^
Please excuse the babble, I really should be in bed....
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I try not to be too much of a manga purist, since I fell in love with Saiyuki and first started writing fanfic when I'd only seen the anime, before finding the manga. But I still get a bit twitchy when I see Gojyo reincarnated as a redheaded human, especially when everyone else has exactly the same hair and eye colours as their main-series incarnations so it's obviously not meant as a random change.
On the other hand, I don't think they always have to have the same hair and eyecolour, either. After all, I wrote a reincarnation of Goujun as a black kid raised by his Chinese grandfather in North America to explore the karmic resonance (wow, that sounds pretentious, I just pulled it out of my ass) of physically not fitting in. And I'm a big fan of
Please excuse the babble, I really should be in bed....