I don't think the pinky gesture is a yakuza thing -- all of the references I've seen say it's just a way of indicating a girlfriend, wife, or female lover (for a male love interest it would be the thumb instead). So when Gojyo's making that sign while saying "onna" he's wordlessly indicating that she was a lover, not just any woman.

And the guys are really well-cast for the most part -- Doku's too skinny, of course, but the ikkou in particular are wonderful, their body language is dead-on...and Hakkai is just disturbingly pretty.

The push-ups thing was a bit weird ... I was like, "what part of 'Be There' is this supposed to be?"

XD

Got room for company in that handbasket? XD

They're all ridiculously cute, but Hakkai's bone structure is just...dayumn. It's such an amazingly androgynous beauty, just the sort of thing I'd imagine for the character: with looks like that, no wonder Gojyo calls him "bijin"...

That's not arbitrary -- 10 minutes is the maximum length allowed on YT, so the vids had to be split.

I am saddened by how polite and quiet the theater is!

I would've liked at least a giggle or two!

I had a whole comment written out on all the characters and what I lliked about them, and LJ just ate it :( *cries* Thanks a lot for posting this though, I didn't even know it was online and now you really made me want to watch the whole thing.

Ok let's give this another try (and this time I'll save my comment before hitting "post"!). Actually I ended up watching the whole thing after you posted this, and I have to say I really fell in love with Goku. He can't have been much younger than the other actors, right? But despite that he still brought across all of Goku's childishness and excitement, I thought that was great. I really loved Hakkai too, that guy was just perfect for the part. Even without understanding anything, the way he talked seemed just very Hakkai-like to me.

But you're right, a Gojyo grin or really any kind of lighter moment would have been nice. I mean I loved all the angst and drama, but what's Saiyuki without the fun? Maybe that just got lost in the non-existant translation. But overall, I really liked it.

where'd you get this from cos ive been trying to find it

I'm glad you located it! Enjoy!

You might want to join/watch the saiyuki_news community - it's pretty good at picking up this sort of stuff from all the Saiyuki LJ comms and posting it every day - everything from icons dumps and doujinshi for sale through new fanfic and new chapters in scans/translations. That's where I first saw these videos.

Edited at 2009-06-19 06:04 pm (UTC)