Saiyuki Burial OVA 1

[louiselux]

I got to watch part one of the Saiyuki Burial OVA the other day, and I have many tiny pink hearts for Koumyou Sanzo. Note the lovely icon by moshesque.

Also, the animation is pretty! Far more pretty than any other Saiyuki animation I've seen. Well, apart from that bit with Gojyo in the shower in Requiem. Where was I? Oh yeah ...

One of the things I love most about Ukoku's Burial arc is the feeling of destiny when Koumyou and Kenyuu meet, and that Koumyou twigs almost straight away why Goudai asked him to visit.

Koumyou is a special sanzo, even among sanzos. He seems very of the moment, reacting to things as they happen, moving from amusement to confusion to calculation as the world around him changes, while he seems to stay still. Except when he has to step in and display his awesome arse-kicking strength. I do love that contrast very much.

He doesn't step in to stop Kenyuu attacking Goudai until it's obvious that Goudai can't do it himself and he treats Kenyuu like the novice he is, challenging his basic assumptions about himself. Kenyuu genuinely doesn't see why a devious, lonely, angry and secretive person like himself shouldn't inherit one of the most powerful scriptures in the world. ♥

Koumyou doesn't have enough time to change Kenyuu's mind, even though he tries. He doesn't try to stop Kenyuu attacking Goudai for the final time though, and I've always found that interesting. Maybe he sees it as necessary, or it's pointless to stop Kenyuu trying.

Also, the fact that Genjyo Sanzo's beloved master was such a fruitcake just makes me happy.

Comments

[yukie1013.livejournal.com]

Koumyou is - he's like a wlaking talking ^___^ing zen koan. Some of those are absurd, and it's their daftness that enables us to get out of spiritual snobbery or trying too hard.

Ukoku's afraid of the light, because I think if he comes out into it, he might have to look closely at what he is and what he does, and why, and blaaahhh. He's okay with KOUMYOU seeing that; Koumyou won't judge him. But what about the people who do? And what about him judging himself?

Nii is the antithesis of Muichimotsu. You can see it in how Kami acts ("MY STUFF >:O"), in his own attaching to Kou so damn insanely that he baleets Kou's compassion, and in his close-talking, and most of all, BUNNY. (Rabbit in the moon myth. I bet Nii likes Mochi.) Koumyou's gone on to be a bodhisattva, and Nii still clings to his plushie and the sutra and speaks as if Koumyou were in the room.

I feel bad for him at the same time as I wanna beat him into cluehaving XD What is the sound of one ass-kicking!? XD

Yeah Xd; Nii gets my babble on!