Saiyuki reload 6

[louiselux]

I was just sitting here watching the crows shouting at each other and then flying off together. Mating, I thought. Sounds like a fun way to spend an afternoon. But I really had no idea what they were doing. They could have been fighting. I don't know. I never will. It was one of those moments of realisation that seem to expand until they fill your head. Anyway...

I read Saiyuki Reload 6 this morning on the train. So good. It made me laugh at loud several times, specially the Zakuro bit. I always forget how funny Saiyuki is.

Oh Hakkai! Getting to a stage where he can even think of just being a normal guy, even if his wife does have to be indestructible. I thought that was a lovely bit of translation. That whole scene with him and Gojyo on the bridge just breaks my heart- what they both say, coupled with Hakkai's body language at the end.

Also, I loved just about everything in this volume: Sanzo collapsing on Goku, the wheel of sutras, Hakkai running off after Gojyo and Goku in order to 'make sure they're safe', or, as we find out later, drink vast quantities of alcohol. Anything Hazel says or does.

Something I missed during the fan translation: Ukoku bought Hazel's power out - Hazel's power over life. Which I thought before must be a sutra and isn't that what Sanzo realises early on, after the sutra conversation he has with the rest of the ikkou? So Hazel's sutra is the one that's unnaccounted for and which Ni needs to complete the resurrection of Gyumaoh. Random conjecture!

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[louiselux.livejournal.com]

I don't know!! He might! But it might also be some other random power and I am completely wrong. Or it might just be a matter of different translations, like you say. I tihnk what Hazel says in the Tpop translation is that Ukoku 'brought out his power' when he stayed with Hazel when he was young.