KagenamiQ ([info]jttr) wrote,
@ 2006-10-29 11:21:00
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ZERO-SUMthing Saiyuki
Hey, all-

The new ZERO-SUM came out yesterday with an 18-page "Saiyuki RELOAD" chapter, and major staff and release details on the "Saiyuki RELOAD -burial-" OVA series starting in April (a write-up is in the news section of Journey To The REST), annndo a New Year's card giveaway that includes these two RELOAD designs:

The Sanzo-ikkou ring in the New Year (that's a TV remote in Gojyo's hand; the whole story [and a nice monochrome version of the image] is in Minekura-sensei's Nitro diary).

Can't help but wonder...does youkai Hakkai have some sort of gattai thing going on with Jeep here, making Jeep green? (The kanji is the "cho" of Cho Hakkai and means "wild boar"--just in time for the Year Of The Pig, natch!)

Back to the salt mines... Hope this finds all well!


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[info]takaryo
2006-10-29 01:35 pm UTC (link)
That looks so beautiful.

That Green jeep reminds me of Minekura-sensei's old artwork of an actual green jeep in dragon form.

...thanks for sharing~ *crawls back under bed*

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[info]yukie1013
2006-10-29 02:14 pm UTC (link)
Eeee. Youkkai is such a lovely fellow.

(Inner Yisou goes ♥!)

I love the little snoozing Jeep beside Gojyo, and Sanzo snnrrzzzzing on the table.

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[info]hungry_worm
2006-10-29 02:16 pm UTC (link)
Ohh, pretty! *______* I love how Sanzo's lying on the table (the orange-golden pattern looks great, too).
On the first look Hakkai looks like he's got wings, heh. But man, Youkai!Hakkai with jeep... excellent.
Thanks so much for sharing the eye candy! :D

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[info]snapdragon76
2006-10-29 11:40 pm UTC (link)
I must say, I am totally enamored of your icon...

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[info]hungry_worm
2006-10-30 12:04 am UTC (link)
Thanks. It was too sexy an image to leave it unused. ^.^ It's up for grabs, too.

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[info]snapdragon76
2006-10-30 12:54 am UTC (link)
Really?! I may have to molest snag him...


Whom do I credit?

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[info]hungry_worm
2006-10-30 01:35 am UTC (link)
That would be me, but I won't hunt you down if you don't credit. XD

And he's totally molestable, isn't he? Minekura be blessed *worships*

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[info]snapdragon76
2006-10-30 02:01 am UTC (link)
Ohhh, I think I shall.


Yes, I worship at her feet quite often. I have to resist the urge to lick my copies of the mangas.

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[info]avalonjones
2006-10-29 02:32 pm UTC (link)
I bet Sanzo's drooling on the kotatsu.

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t5ur_t51d
2006-10-31 10:15 am UTC (link)
You're on! ^^

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[info]takumisan
2006-10-29 02:43 pm UTC (link)
that beautiful sanzo sleeping!!!!!! greatttt minekurasama!!!!!!!

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[info]sw_book
2006-10-29 04:05 pm UTC (link)
I looove the first picture (not that I don't appreciate the second one though)... sleeping Sanzo is so lovely. ("Lovely Sanzo"... why does it sound so like a contradiction?)
Thanks for sharing! ^_^

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[info]flemmings
2006-10-29 04:17 pm UTC (link)
Ballpark translation from Minekura-sensei's diary, preceded by a me-grump: Ahh, just what's needed- a conversation full of cultural references and untranslatable puns. Is Gojou really implying Sanzou's a medetai yatsu?

While I was drawing this picture I figured the conversation might go like this:
TV announcer: Happy New Year!
Gojou: ...enh, he said it's the new year.
Hakkai: Oh? Aah- happy new year.
Gokuu: (chomping food) ...'nyear
Sanzou: (sound asleep)
Hakkai: Sanzou's going to sleep through new year's again this year
Gojou: The monk's the happiest of us all, in one sense at least.
Gokuu: Hey, why is new year's 'happy'?
Hakkai: Good point. There's a saying- 'The pine at the gate is another step on the trip to Meido.' (At new year's Japanese houses put a pine branch by the front gate. Meido- the underworld.)
Gokuu: ...maid?
Gojou: Trip *to* Meido? I'll take a trip *with* a maid instead.
Hakkai: It's just turned new year's and already you're saying stupid things. Wake Sanzou up, please. If he sleeps here we'll never get him to bed.
Gojou: It's just turned new year's and already you're calling me stupid.
Gokuu: Saaanzou! Sanzou! (kicking him under the kotatsu)
Sanzou: nnhhh...
Gokuu: He's not waking up.
Gojou: Leave him alone. Pretty soon he'll get thirsty and wake up on his own.
Hakkai: I don't want the bother of him catching a cold. (The Japanese are convinced that sleeping in the kotatsu infallibly leads to head colds.) Here, Sanzou- wake up. Let's go to bed now- off to bed we go.
Gojou: You're treating him like some old grampa.
Sanzou: (half-asleep) Bugger off--
Gokuu: ...ya know, first thing Sanzou said last year was 'bugger off' too.
Hakkai: Then I'm sure we're in for another year just like the last.

(It's nice to draw a picture just for relaxation with all the deadlines I have.)

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[info]ayonoi
2006-10-29 04:27 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the translation! I love the fact that Sanzo is such a difficult guy even when he is sleep XD. And "bugger off" is indeed an indication of what the next year is going to be like, along with a shower of bullets.

*excellent*

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[info]inque
2006-10-29 07:59 pm UTC (link)
I appreciate the translation!

Man, I miss the ikkou being together in the Manga :( It's not the same with them all split up.

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[info]hungry_worm
2006-10-29 11:57 pm UTC (link)
Thanks for the translation! :D
Gojou: You're treating him like some old grampa.
Sanzou: (half-asleep) Bugger off--
Gokuu: ...ya know, first thing Sanzou said last year was 'bugger off' too.

Hee! I love when picture have little stories about them. ^_^

And I just noticed Hakuryuu lying besides Gojyo. How darn cute. *_* Actually, that's too cute, it should be illegal. *sigh*

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[info]ukoku
2006-10-30 08:48 am UTC (link)
Adorable. Thank you.

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[info]takaryo
2006-10-30 01:58 pm UTC (link)
Aaaagh! Thank you! I was working half-dead on the roomaji version last night...well, actually this morning where it was still dark and I got stuck with all the wierd kanji combinations.

Thanks. Now I can get the roomaji done. XD And get some sleep too.

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[info]jttr
2006-10-30 05:13 pm UTC (link)
Hey, wow! Thanks so much for doing!

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[info]flemmings
2006-10-31 12:29 am UTC (link)
No problem. But what do you make of that 'in one sense of the word Sanzou's the most omedetai of us all'? Omedetai isn't the word I'd use about Sanzou, so could it mean happy after all?

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[info]flower_miko
2006-10-31 04:57 pm UTC (link)
XD hah hah, how hillarious. Yep, they're in for another year just like that. Thanks for the translation <3

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[info]ayonoi
2006-10-29 04:30 pm UTC (link)
Thanks so much for the update. I wish i would be leaving in Tokyo for all the goodie but I am really excited about the extra info on the OVA which means I *CAN'T* miss this issue of ZS. God, I really love the Youkai Hakkai card, it is really wonderful.

Chuck and I are going to Comiket this year so we will be in Tokyo to buy the February (I think) issue of Zero Sum when it comes out. Hahaha, that makes me quite happy.

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[info]gshock99
2006-10-29 07:07 pm UTC (link)
love those pics!! can't wait to get that issue of zero sum in a month XD thanks for posting!

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[info]inque
2006-10-29 07:57 pm UTC (link)
Aww, Hakkai looks quite peaceful there. But I'm too busy loving the one with Sanzo passed out on the table XD That is just too cute! Thanks for the scans! Hope the salt mines aren't too rough on you this week :(

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[info]ex_naye320
2006-10-29 08:55 pm UTC (link)
Awwwwwww~! That first one is happy-warm-fuzzy inducing, and the commentary in Nitro just makes it better. ♥ And youkai Hakkai with Jeep is just - mwah. Guh. Hotness. Yes indeed. Wow. Both of them are awesome and filling me with gleeful greed. ^^;; Thanks for sharing the scans!

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[info]snapdragon76
2006-10-29 11:44 pm UTC (link)
Thanks so very much for posting!


*drooool* Hakkai...

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[info]tj_dragonblade
2006-10-30 05:31 am UTC (link)
Ohh, Hakkai... *_*

And it looks very much as though the table in the first is supported entirely by Gojyo's lying beneath it, to my eye...hm. *shrug*

And Jiipu! In both pics! Yay!

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[info]flemmings
2006-10-30 03:01 pm UTC (link)
It's been too long since I've been in Japan because suddenly I couldn't remember if the kotatsu table top comes off. But of course it does. So you have the frame with the heating unit, then the blanket over the frame, then the table top over the blanket. You sit on your cushion and your legs and feet stay warm and the rest of you freezes, is why Sanzou's wearing one of those comfy wadded coats whose name I can never remember but trust me they *are* warm. (Further proof that youkai physiology is tougher than human- Sanzou's the only one who seems to need the extra warmth.)

Also if that's just a kotatsu placed on the floor and not over the kotatsu pit that some houses have, it's got to be pretty crowded under the table the way Gojou's lying. Makes you wonder how Gokuu could reach to kick Sanzou. Maybe Gojou's got his knees bent. Hmmm...

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[info]takaryo
2006-10-30 03:30 pm UTC (link)
Maybe Goku's legs are bent over Gojyo's body...I mean Goku's legs shouldn't be THAT heavy, right?

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[info]flemmings
2006-10-30 03:49 pm UTC (link)
Heavy or not, do you see Gojou letting Gokuu rest his legs on top of his own? It'd be worse than the back of the jeep, I'd think.

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[info]takaryo
2006-10-30 04:06 pm UTC (link)
You do have a point. Ah well...we might not ever know what's going on underneath the kotatsu...lol.

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[info]avalonjones
2006-10-30 11:39 pm UTC (link)
Two words: leg entanglement.

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[info]flemmings
2006-10-31 12:32 am UTC (link)
Giving us that rarest of beasts, a 59.

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[info]takaryo
2006-10-31 01:34 pm UTC (link)
LOL. That sounds really warm.

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[info]baka_gaijin
2006-11-13 03:47 pm UTC (link)
~ faints at the idea ~

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[info]flemmings
2006-11-13 04:14 pm UTC (link)
All combinations are possible in Yaoiland, of which Minekura is a leading citizen. Agreed that for me 59 lies in the outskirts of Yaoiland, a good day's journey from Canon, but still-- doable. Mh- actually I've done it myself, now I think of it.

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[info]baka_gaijin
2006-11-13 08:04 pm UTC (link)
You've written one? Could you point out a link for me? I'll trade you. Here's a link to my one and only 5/9... find it here.

Altho I have no doubt that yours is better, so it's not really a fair trade for you. XD

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[info]flemmings
2006-11-15 05:31 am UTC (link)
My god- will my server let me into lj and my directories at the same time?

Anyway- yeah, kind of sweet, that. And uses the only kind of sex possible with Gokuu. I do much the same but it's a short scene surrounded by random screwing and dependent for a lot of its sense on the four preceding stories in The Four Quarters story cycle. Much work for little gain.

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[info]baka_gaijin
2006-11-26 03:04 pm UTC (link)
Oh Yes! I remember reading this fic, way back when I first 'discovered' Saiyuki. It is fantastic, with the final chapter being my favorite. Thank you for pointing it out. Now that I know more about the characters and their relationships to one another it's even better to read the second time. I need to go back and re-visit all of your Saiyuki fics again. It's been ages since I read them.

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[info]baka_gaijin
2006-11-26 03:04 pm UTC (link)
~ ooops.. and sorry for the long delay in replying. I've been out of town for a week or so with no computer access.

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[info]flower_miko
2006-10-31 04:52 pm UTC (link)
The first postcard of the boys is very nice. XD doesn't Sanzo look the cuutest when he falls asleep? *fears a paperfan smack*

I hope she releases another Salty Dog book in 2007, and then include this image.

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[info]rain_elegy
2006-11-01 05:10 am UTC (link)
Wow... that second one of youkai hakkai is beautiful.

Thanks as always!

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[info]martapenguin
2006-11-06 01:54 pm UTC (link)
These pictures are beautiful, thank you! Also, thanks for the translation. I haven't braved it yet. The picture of Sanzo does kind of make you want to help him up and tuck him into bed!

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[info]kinsugi
2006-11-08 05:37 pm UTC (link)
*drooling* I feel short of breath after discovering your site and all of this shininess. Wish I had two more years of Japanese under my belt and a plane ticket (and a job so I could stay in Japan.) How have I missed your site for so long? I've just friended you in order not to miss another wonderful posting about Minekura sensei. Thank you!

To my delight, jpqueen has Saiyuubito, and it's also available at Japanese bookstores in other countries, such as Sasuga and Kinokuniya. It's just... wow.

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