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[meganbmoore]

So, I'm watching Saiyuki Reload: Gunlock.  Ok, first of all, what was the animation budget for this? $5?  And when did Goku start being 12?

Anyway, I have reached the part where Yaone and Dokugaku save Kougaiji with The Power of Their Love, which may or may not be somewhere around my favorite part of the entire manga.  Stop looking at me like that.

Since I watch the anime mostly for the Kougaijitachi filler, should I watch the whole thing, or just recommended eps?  (Particularly appreciated are "These are not my friends!  They are my subordinates! And we are enemies! I do not-YAONE!  Stop talking to Hakkai! LIRIN! Get off his shoulders!" moments, because we like watching our High Strung Emotastic Woobie Prince try to be a cool villain and fabulously fail at it.  Yes, yes we do.  We await the day Hakkai invites them over for tea.)  And when is the three-armed Goku moment?  Or have I missed it?

ETA:  Wait!  Was it a three armed Goku, or everyone looking like monkeys?  I forget.

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[telophase.livejournal.com]

I already watched Gunlock so you don't have to. Go to my Engrish tag (http://telophase.livejournal.com/tag/engrish) and scroll past the Wolf's Rain episodes to get to the Gunlock reports.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I actually remembered those posts right after watching. (OMG WTF HAZEL WHAT????) Sadly, you do not have play-by-plays of Kougaiji filler, and I am in the anime for extremely shallow reasons. (Maybe I should find something else to be shallow about?)

[telophase.livejournal.com]

Sorry! I shall use my icon of Kou grabbing Doku's butt as partial recompense!

[woodburner.livejournal.com]

I only ever watched two or three episodes of Gunlock. To me it looked like they had a slightly bigger budget than the first series, but much less creative direction, and everything just looked like... crap. The first series had a certain quaint charm to its low budget look. The third. Not so much.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

The first series is pretty fun. The second has shinier animation in terms of design and color and such, but...bad actual animation. It's kinda lazy.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Anyway, I have reached the part where Yaone and Dokugaku save Kougaiji with The Power of Their Love, which may or may not be somewhere around my favorite part of the entire manga

Tell me more...

I need to watch Gunlock (never got around to it) ASAP, now.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Kougaiji gets brainwashed by Nii into being a brainlss killing machine, beats Goku into a pulp. Yaone and Dokugaku were trying to find him in hopes of freeing him, but when they found him and saw how far gone he was (after realizing they probably couldn't free him, he'd have to), they chose to stay with him even though he wasn't exactly Kougaiji, and they made Speeches of Eternal Devotion and defended him from the Sanzo Ikkou. This snapped Kou out of it, he blasted the Sanzo Ikkou off a cliff and into the river, and then the 3 went to go lay the smackdown on Nii and rescue Lirin from his experiments.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Take what I say with a grain of salt, but if it's just mindless entertainment you're after, Gunlock is worth watching up until DVD volume 6. Volume 7 from episode 24 onward is just pure baloney that has absolutely nothing to do with the manga. Kou's gang appears but all they get to do is sit back and watch the circus. Volume 6 is fun mostly for watching Sanzo survive getting shot 13 times. ^_~ He gets shot 2 more times in volume 7 but, you know, it becomes less fascinating by then. The last time Kou's gang get to do anything is Vol. 5.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Watching Sanzo get shot isn't always a bad thing.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Exactly. ODD loves to abuse the man she adores, yuss. X-D

Anywho, the eps from vol 5 you'll most likely be interested in are 17 and 18. 19 and 20 are just Hazel-uses-Lirin-to-get-at-Sanzo episodes.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Someday, I'm going to try to compile a Crazy Shit What Happens to Sanzo Master List.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

Please do and let me know when you finish it. :D

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Maybe if the current manga bossfight EVER FUCKING FINISHES.

[droiche.livejournal.com]

*nods* I've been avoiding the scanlations because I want to read Reload 9 without knowing in advance everything that happens. =P

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

I have insufficent self-control for that. But getting it one chapter at a time is like dying by a thousand tiny paper cuts, so!

[droiche.livejournal.com]

I hear thee. I just want this one volume at least a little unspoiled because I'm thinking it will be the last one.

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

IMO, she'd have to wrap things up ludicrously fast. Speed of sound fast. Though I'd have to actually sit down and pay attention to calculate it.

[smillaraaq.livejournal.com]

ETA: Wait! Was it a three armed Goku, or everyone looking like monkeys? I forget.

I don't remember a three-armed Goku bit (tho' I might have repressed the memory in self-defense), but there are definitely scenes where drawing the ikkou like monkeys would be an *improvement*. And there's an infamous bit with a three-armed Gat (holding Doku off the ground with one hand, holding his pistol with another, and reloading with a third).

Also, are you watching the sub? Make sure to watch at least one of the Hazel episodes in the English dub just so you can experience the full horror of his accent.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

Ok, I probably meant 3-armed Gat.

I switched to dub at around ep 3-4 as self-defense so I'd be able to divide my attentin a bit.