{"id":762,"date":"2007-08-01T14:05:12","date_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/?p=762"},"modified":"2007-08-01T14:09:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-01T14:09:18","slug":"saiyuki-reload","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/01\/saiyuki-reload\/","title":{"rendered":"Saiyuki Reload"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/07\/saiyuki.jpg\" alt=\"Saiyuki Reload\" \/>\u00c2\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>By <strong>Kazuya Minekura<\/strong> (Tokyopop)<br \/>\nISBN: 1-59816-025-7<\/p>\n<p>This fetching blend of martial arts and supernatural thriller is actually a sequel to a previous series wherein a small band of heroes, or more properly anti-heroes, journey to discover the origin of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Minus Wave,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a phenomenon that has driven all the magical creatures \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Youkai\u00e2\u20ac\u009d insane. The foul-mouthed, hard-drinking, gun-toting and murderous priest Genjyo Sanzo is accompanied by the child-like Son Goku (the legendary Monkey King), a lecherous and vulgar Kappa (water spirit) named Sha Gojyo and the mysterious martial artist Cho Hakkai as they wander the land searching for answers and generally getting in to trouble.<\/p>\n<p>The mix of gangster chic, mystical fantasy and Martial Arts drama is occasionally a little forced though the art is powerful and engaging, but I must admit, as I haven&#8217;t seen the first series, to a need to extrapolate a lot of the back story, and I&#8217;m not sure that I actually \u00e2\u20ac\u0153got\u00e2\u20ac\u009d everything that was going on.<\/p>\n<p>Worth a look, and the back-up feature, an extensive comparative sound effect chart for manga and English (I know that manga&#8217;s not a language, but you know what I mean) is something worth the price of admission alone. Perhaps I&#8217;ll warm to the travails with later volumes, and, of course there&#8217;s always places to pick up back issues, no?<\/p>\n<p>\u00c2\u00a9 2002 Kazuya Minekura. All Rights Reserved.<br \/>\nEnglish script \u00c2\u00a9 2005 Tokyopop Inc.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00c2\u00a0 By Kazuya Minekura (Tokyopop) ISBN: 1-59816-025-7 This fetching blend of martial arts and supernatural thriller is actually a sequel to a previous series wherein a small band of heroes, or more properly anti-heroes, journey to discover the origin of \u00e2\u20ac\u0153the Minus Wave,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d a phenomenon that has driven all the magical creatures \u00e2\u20ac\u201c the \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Youkai\u00e2\u20ac\u009d &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/2007\/08\/01\/saiyuki-reload\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Saiyuki Reload&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[25],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-japanese-comics"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4AFj-ci","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=762"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.comicsreview.co.uk\/nowreadthis\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}