It's Sunday. Let's Have a Meme.

[lebateleur]

I am kinda loving the mini-revival non-tumblr, non-twitter fandom's been undergoing recently. In that retro spirit, let's do a meme. Pick a fandom you know I like and I'll answer the questions below:

Fandoms include (but are not limited to): Akitsuki Koh, Baldur's Gate, Blake and Avery, Discworld, His Majesty's Dragon, Injection, MCU, Onmyoji, Saiyuki, Sherlock (BBC, Ritchieverse), Sugiura Shiho, The Goblin Emperor, The Queen's Thief, The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, WWE (Raw, Smackdown, NXT)

1. The first characterI first fell in love with
2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
4. The character I love that everyone else dislikes
5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
6. The character/person I would shag anytime
7. The character/person I'd want to be like
8. The character/person I'd slap
9. A pairing that I love
10. A pairing that I dislike

これで以上です。

Comments

[lebateleur]

And here is the Saiyuki rundown:

1. The first character I first fell in love with
Sanzo, because at that time characters with shitty attitudes and dark pasts were my jam. And then there was the esoteric Buddhist priest angle. And the fact that I learned how to curse in Japanese from reading his dialogue.

2. The character I never expected to love as much as I do now
Gojyo. It took awhile before I was able to appreciate his straightforwardness.

3. The character everyone else loves that I don't
Goku. I don't dislike him by any means, but when it comes to Japanese adolescent maleness, I prefer the optimism-plus-polite snarkiness of Silver Diamond's Sawa Rakan to Goku's brand of genki.

4. The character I love that everyone else dislikes
Zenon, because he reminds me of the blue collar trash I grew up with. Yes, this is a contradiction given how long it took me to warm up to Gojyo, but what are you gonna do?

5. The character I used to love but don't any longer
What I don't love any longer are not the characters, but the way Minekura began drawing them around the Hazel arc. To me, the apogee of her art began around volume 7 of the original 9 and went through the burial arc. The eyes, the noses, the hair...just stunning. I do not care for the sketchy quality of the latter stuff, nor the way everyone suddenly got pert little upturned noses.

6. The character/person I would shag anytime
Hakkai. Or better yet, Hakkai and Gojyo as a two-fer. And if you want to throw Zenon and/or the rest of the Homura-tachi into the mix, who am I to complain?

7. The character/person I'd want to be like
I wish I was as good as post-Gonou Hakkai at not letting my irritation (or worse) get the best of me.

8. The character/person I'd slap
God, I dunno. Dokugakuji, probably. I know we're supposed to think Gojyo's mom is the one who's all effed up, but they couldn't have tangoed without his being down for it too. Otherwise, Ni Jien I. But then I'd have to run like the wind.

9. A pairing that I love
...uh, does anyone really need to ask?

10. A pairing that I dislike
3/9. The platonic loyalty between these two is what does it for me.

[flemmings]

Agreed on the artwork. Those ski jump noses she goes in for now...

What I like about Saiyuki is that all the pairings work better as Platonic bro-ness and devotion- delicate, subtle, understated- than as sexual yaoi-ness.

[i_am_zan]

Ditto me on the artwork, it seems very mainstream. Assistants' work or pandering to the 'what's popular now' thing?

I mean they're still lovely but not what I fell in love with all those years ago!

[i_am_zan]

Ahahaha! I love Gojyo ... I love telling fans that I discovered Saiyuki when I was breastfeeding my girl at the time ... I think Gojyo would get a kick out of that! (Seriously all those 2AM feeds and I found some darned good fanfic first before I found the manga - and yes I know what you mean about the swearing.)

The Homura-tachi were so much gorgeousness!

^_^ thank you for sharing with us!

[lebateleur]

Ahahaha! I love Gojyo ... I love telling fans that I discovered Saiyuki when I was breastfeeding my girl at the time ... I think Gojyo would get a kick out of that!

Everything about this fills me with joy. And yes, I too think Gojyo would approve!