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Uploaded these for a friend the other day, sharing the links with anyone who'd like:

Saiyuki Gaiden Volume One
Saiyuki Gaiden Volume Two
Latest Chapters

Also, can anyone point me to the translations to chapters 20 and 21? Those would be the latest two chapters; 20 is the one with the pinky-promise, and 21 is the one with the exploding KFC guy and saluting Goujun. I know translations exist, because I've read them, I just can't remember where.

Comments

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I ♥ you. [aka. I took 'em]

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hahaha, a new convert! Do you have the scans for the regular Saiyuki? 'Cause, uh, I could be convinced to help you out with that if you need them.

[kessie.livejournal.com]

Haha, I bought the normal Saiyuki manga as they came out and reread them every so often. I'm currently watching the anime whenever I get a fit to - I usually buy the DVDs when they've been discounted.

I got Volume 1 of the Gaiden scans months ago, remembered it during Christmas and actually unzipped them, and then forgot to check for more. I keep mixing up all the Gaiden names, though. I haven't downloaded the Reload scans, though. Saiyuki is one of those very few series that I don't actively seek online or fandom stuff about, and I'm too intimidated to write for it. Go figure. *shrugs*

Saiyuki kind of snuck up on me. It was a gradual process, but it was bound to happen. :D

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Cool. Did you know the Reload manga have started to come out in the States, too? The first two are out (and supposedly the street date for the third was in the last few days, but I haven't been able to find a copy at any of my local stores yet). I don't like the anime nearly as much, but I have seen most of it.

I really adore Gaiden, but I appreciate your pain with names. It always takes me the longest time to remember who's who. I think I had to read Wild Adapter three times before I could keep straight which one was Kubota and which one was Tokitoh (and sometimes I still have to go, 'Okay, Kubo-chan is the one who's *not* a cat, so that means...').

[kessie.livejournal.com]

I did, but, er, I'm kind of broke right now. -_-; I'm so behind in ALL of my manga. I don't particularly like the anime, either, but if the DVDs are discounted, why not buy them? (This was before my broke days, BTW.)

I want to create characters like that. I love them, even if I don't actively squee about them. I squee about them to myself at home. I need to actively seek out fic and stuff. (Also, I want a Jeep of my own. wah.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Ha! No worries, I feel your pain. Yeah, if I could find the anime discounted, I'd probably get them anyway. I do have the first DVD and the movie.

*grins* Well, I squee about them all the time, but I know what you mean; I have fandoms that I really like, but that I just don't feel the need to talk about or to find fic for, like Gravitation or Carnival.

Saiyuki's been filling my mind lately though; I'm writing a paper on it for a class, and I just had to give the presentation this morning, and then I had this great idea for a meta essay that I really want to find time to write. And dude. Everyone needs their own Jeep.

[tadity.livejournal.com]

Third one is out. [loves and hates translation] You've asked at the counter? Because the lady had to go back in the back to find the copy I bought, and they only had 2. :P

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

loves and hates translation

*gasp* Don't tell me they messed up the Burial Arc! I don't know whether I should ask what you didn't like or if I should wait and see for myself.

I hadn't tried asking yet, just because the stores near me tend to put everything out as soon as they get it (which occasionally is nice, as I'll pick up things before the street date), but I'll have to try that the next time I go.

[tadity.livejournal.com]

Ask and I'll tell (and I so downloaded your manga, btw. When is Tokyopop going to license Gaiden? Why hasn't anyone done so already?! Business sense people!)

Definately try it. I don't know about your area, but in mine, Saiyuki tends to go quick, especially when it first comes out, and since this volume has the end of a major cliff hanger (against the stream), and the start of one of the (if not the absolute) most heralded arcs in the fandom, I'd imagine it won't last long on any store's shelves.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hahaha! I have a copy now! *loves it pieces* I picked up the last one at the bookstore on the way home (well. It was the last one on the shelf. They might have had others somewhere else).

So what bugged you about the translation? I spotted a few places where I was kind of "eh" on the word choice, but overall I was very happy.

[conch-fritter.livejournal.com]

Snitched!!

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Cool, hope you like them!

I'm so surprised that these many people on my flist needed the scans; I totally would have posted them sooner if I'd realized.

[conch-fritter.livejournal.com]

I'd read through the first volume. Unfortunately all the second volume has done is manage to confuse me. :P

Maybe it would help had I finished the series?

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hmmm, that's strange. You shouldn't need to read Saiyuki to understand Gaiden; they can stand separately. What's being confusing? Maybe I can explain.

[veleda-k.livejournal.com]

...Uh, you don't know me, but I downloaded Gaiden, so I thought the least I could do was thank you.

Thank you. *runs off*

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Hee, no worries. I'm just glad that the inks are proving helpful to people!

[veleda-k.livejournal.com]

Extremely helpful. I'd pretty much resigned myself to never reading Gaiden.

Goku/Nataku friendship is the cutest thing ever, Tenpou is hot, and Kenren and Tenpou together are the funniest thing ever.

"A grudge against me is the same as grudge against you!"

"We had that kind of matrimonial relationship between us? That's unexpected."


Geez, I'm sorry. A random person comes along and starts spamming your journal with babble. Sorry.

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

No, don't apologize! I love babble. Especially when it's about something I like to babble over, too.

Goku and Nataku really are so very, very cute, though Nataku just makes me want to cry and cry and cry. Kenren and Tenpou are great, but Konzen just breaks my heart, the poor boy is so clueless. And Kanzeon! Craziest! Aunt-Uncle-Whatever! Ever!

Ohhhhhhhh, Gaiden. I love it so much.

[veleda-k.livejournal.com]

Yeah, Nataku's story is so sad. He just about breaks my heart.

Konzen is probably the best reminder that, really, these aren't Gensoumaden boys we're dealing with. It makes me feel all the more sorry for Konzen, somehow, knowing that Sanzo wouldn't put up with this garbage for a minute.

And Kanzeon rules. Kanzeon always rules. Though, in Gaiden se actually scares me a bit. In Gensoumaden se talks about making the Sanzo-ikkou fight their battles and handle things without help from hir, but that's ok, because we know they're going to win somehow. But, when se says much the same thing in Gaiden, when we know that things are not going to turn out nearly so well, then it gets a little scary. Still love hir, though.

(You can tell me to shut up at any time, really.)

[wordsofastory.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I really think Konzen and Sanzo are the two incarnations who are most different from each other. They all change, but it's most obvious in him.

Kanzeon is totally Scary. With a captial S, even. But I sort of love that; se seems to operate on a different level than a mere human or even a god, which makes perfect sense of bodhisattva. I really like that we get this glimpse of how much larger se is than any of the main characters.

Gaiden is so great. I love how you know from the very beginning how everything has to end up, that they all have to die and Goku has to get locked in the cave, and so you know where everything is leading. It lends this great sense of fate and inevitably to the plot, like everything is spiraling down and you already know that everything they try to do to escape it won't be enough.

And I love the way it interplays with Saiyuki, because we already know these guys, and yet we don't. It's like an AU that comes in canon! But I love the way they are different from gods to humanity, and the ways they sort of... grow up after Gaiden, to become who they are in Saiyuki.

Ah, Minekura makes so happy.