Yeah, I don't have the right icon for them either. Rachel or Kate should come along to display it.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I have no words for them either.
Um, you pointed out parallels to the original story that I didn't know about! That's neat.
Nataku: I had thought of him less as a robot than as ... a golem? A chimera? A hybrid. But you cast new light on his comparisons of himself to a doll or a machine. I was mostly caught up in his similarities to Goku. And I wonder about Li Toten's experiments and Nii's experiments. permetaform thinks Li Toten reincarnated as Nii, which I don't buy at all -- I mean, there are the science parallels but the personalities are so different.
So Kenren without Gojyo's damage is so confident and sexy, and Tenpou without Hakkai's, yes, but with some weird damage I can't quite make out, or is it supposed to be just boredom that makes him risk his life? Because Tenpou and Konzen both seem constrained--trapped--by Heaven. You can see how their deaths are a kind of happy ending, because they hate Heaven, they hate the lack of connection, in some way they are less alive (if less damaged) than they will be on Earth. It's part of what makes it hard for me to tell what Minekura's take on Buddhism is--or maybe it's a native Buddhist paradox?--because Tenkai's "non-attachment" is clearly a trap, the way Sanzo's pretense of not caring for anyone is, and so it's better for Konzen to care fiercely for Goku than to care for nothing.
I love how Konzen is prissy and restrained and bad-tempered, all old-mannish, and then by the end of it he's the same violent Sanzo we know and love.
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Yeah, I don't have the right icon for them either. Rachel or Kate should come along to display it.
OHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH. I have no words for them either.
Um, you pointed out parallels to the original story that I didn't know about! That's neat.
Nataku: I had thought of him less as a robot than as ... a golem? A chimera? A hybrid. But you cast new light on his comparisons of himself to a doll or a machine. I was mostly caught up in his similarities to Goku. And I wonder about Li Toten's experiments and Nii's experiments.
So Kenren without Gojyo's damage is so confident and sexy, and Tenpou without Hakkai's, yes, but with some weird damage I can't quite make out, or is it supposed to be just boredom that makes him risk his life? Because Tenpou and Konzen both seem constrained--trapped--by Heaven. You can see how their deaths are a kind of happy ending, because they hate Heaven, they hate the lack of connection, in some way they are less alive (if less damaged) than they will be on Earth. It's part of what makes it hard for me to tell what Minekura's take on Buddhism is--or maybe it's a native Buddhist paradox?--because Tenkai's "non-attachment" is clearly a trap, the way Sanzo's pretense of not caring for anyone is, and so it's better for Konzen to care fiercely for Goku than to care for nothing.
I love how Konzen is prissy and restrained and bad-tempered, all old-mannish, and then by the end of it he's the same violent Sanzo we know and love.
Also, I love Kanzeon Bosatsu SO MUCH.