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最遊記 9巻 / Saiyuki, vol.9.

Kind of wondering how Gojyo made it through this scene without bursting a blood vessel or at the very least popping a seam.

Hakkai: I'm going to vow to protect you with my life even if you try to kill me because I've already decided on our future together, then cling to this swiped cigarette like I just went four rounds against a creaking headboard.

Gojyo, so turned on he can smell colours: If I ask really nicely will you use my mouth as an ashtray?

journeytothewestresearch

My Top Ten Journey to the West Research Blog Posts

These are the top ten most popular posts according to my WordPress analytics.

Archive #11 – PDFs of the Journey to the West 2012 Revised Edition

A Study of the Four Celestial Primates from Journey to the West

The Story of Sun Wukong, the Monkey King

Origin of the Six-Eared Macaque and the Character’s Influence on Black Myth: Wukong

The Origin of Sun Wukong’s Golden Headband

What Does Sun Wukong Look Like? A Resource for Artists and Cosplayers

The Origin of Sun Wukong’s Cloud Somersault

Sun Wukong’s Names and Titles

The Worship of Sun Wukong the Monkey King: An Overview

The Tightening Spell of Sun Wukong’s Golden Headband

And here are a few more because I’m proud of them.

Story Idea: Sun Wukong vs Heracles / Hercules

Archive #46 – A Catalog of the Monkey King’s Magic Powers and Skills

Laozi’s Diamond Cutter Treasure-Weapon from Journey to the West

The Patriarch Subodhi: Sun Wukong’s First Master

How the Hindu Bird God Garuda Came to Appear in Journey to the West

artsy-hobbitses

One of the first major ideas I had for a full-fledged Saiyuki piece was ‘Touched by Gold’ since gold is already thematically important for Sanzo and Goku, and I thought it would be fun to expand that to the whole team. In Hakkai’s case, it’s Hands of Gold as Kanan loved his hands, and these same hands are the ones caring for and potentially holding his friends’ lives in them as Team Healer. However, that the gold drips is a callback to a time where they were coated with blood instead, because I love the killer-healer juxtaposition he embodies.

Between Gojyo’s empathy/inability to leave a crying woman be (enough tears have been shed in his vicinity) and his big brother instinct for children because I imagine he inwardly desires to be the person he needed as a child and the fact that he took the fall for Banri despite knowing full well Banri was going to run again bc he still wanted to protect that bastard, I honestly think he’s the most compassionate member of the team, thus Heart of Gold.

laboitediabolique

Promotional photo of Masaaki Sakai as Son Goku from the TV drama "Saiyuki", Nippon TV, 1978. The series was dubbed and broadcast in the UK in 1979 by the BBC (and later in Australia on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation) as "Monkey", also erroneously known as "Monkey Magic" due to the English language lyrics of the opening theme song.

violettduchess

Gah...😍

These last few episodes have slayed so hard.

aquagirl1978

No, I'm not considering drawing him. Not at all.

anxietytofu

Tora just marking what's his

violettduchess

The way he LOOKS AT HER

its-champakali

Midnight Poppy Land might just be another mafia-romance...

But like really not.

ry0iki-tenkai

ashawol-deactivated20240605

Can you stop please…

the-big-mood

A few months before he passed away in 2003, a 74 year old children’s television host sat down in the same studio where he had filmed 895 episodes over 33 years and recorded one last message. It wasn’t for children. It was for the adults who had grown up watching him.

Fred Rogers hosted Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood on American public television from 1968 to 2001. For over three decades he walked into the same set, changed into a cardigan and sneakers, looked directly into the camera, and spoke to children as if each one of them was the only person in the room. He never raised his voice, never talked down to his audience, and never rushed a single moment.

In that final recording, he looked into the camera one last time and said “I’m just so proud of all of you who have grown up with us. And I know how tough it is some days to look with hope and confidence on the months and years ahead. But I would like to tell you what I often told you when you were much younger. I like you just the way you are.”

He passed away from stomach cancer on February 27, 2003. He was 74.