I don't really know anything about Saiyuki, although a couple of my friends have been known to watch it. It's on my "possibly check it out if I see it going cheap on Trade Me" watch-list, along with things like Bleach and Basara.

I tend to work on the theory that everyone I meet on the internet is between five and 25 years younger than myself until found to be otherwise; less chance of dropping an industrial-grade clanger that way.