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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexual tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, and the first man he ever killed tried to rape him.

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* FanNickname: The Sanzo-''ikkou'', an [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] indicating a group, especially a group of religious pilgrims. Kougaiji, Lirin, Yaone, and Dokugakuji are often referred to as the Kougaiji-''tachi'', a group honorific with a connotation of "team".



** FridgeHorror squared: It doesn't work. Genkai has a prophetic ''dream'' of Koumyou bequeathing the Maten Sutra to Koryuu ''without'' ever touching Houmei. He may not have been able to interpret it at the time but [[OhCrap once he realizes who the fey older dude with the braid is...]]

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** FridgeHorror squared: It To make things worse: it doesn't work. Genkai has a prophetic ''dream'' of Koumyou bequeathing the Maten Sutra to Koryuu ''without'' ever touching Houmei. He may not have been able to interpret it at the time but [[OhCrap once he realizes who the fey older dude with the braid is...]]
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexual tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, & the first man he ever killed tried to rape him.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexual tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, & and the first man he ever killed tried to rape him.



* HoYay: And HOW!

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* HoYay: And HOW!So much, there had to be [[{{HoYay/Saiyuki}} a new page]] to stuff it all.
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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexual tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, & the first man he ever kileld tried to rape him.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexual tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, & the first man he ever kileld killed tried to rape him.
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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: The cast for the Reload and Gunlock dub, since the original company did not pick up the following seasons, all the characters sounded unfitting in comparison to the original cast, but what really took the cake was [[Creator/LexLang Lex Lang]] being cast as ''Sanzo.''

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* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: The cast for the Reload and Gunlock dub, since the original company did not pick up the following seasons, all the characters sounded unfitting in comparison to the original cast, but what really took the cake was [[Creator/LexLang Lex Lang]] being cast as ''Sanzo.''''
* TheWoobie: The whole Sanzo-ikkou at one point, though the one who takes the cake is Goku, especially in Gaiden.
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* EvilIsSexy: A lot of the villains qualify, the whole Kougaiji-ikkou, Chin Yisou, Kami-sama, Hazel, Gato, Ukoku, and it goes on and on.
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* LauncherOfAThousandShips: All members of the Sanzo-ikkou, but among the fans, Goku has the largest shipping poll; as he gets shipped with Sanzo, Hakkai, Gojyo, Kougaiji, Homura, Seiten Taisei (either as self-cest or the two have separate bodies), Konzen, Nataku, Zakuro, The Girl, Hassan, Ukoku, and the list goes on.
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** Averted in the anime, where he was portrayed as a serious, if also [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] individual.

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** Averted in the anime, where he was portrayed as a serious, if also [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] individual.individual.
* WhatTheHellCastingAgency: The cast for the Reload and Gunlock dub, since the original company did not pick up the following seasons, all the characters sounded unfitting in comparison to the original cast, but what really took the cake was [[Creator/LexLang Lex Lang]] being cast as ''Sanzo.''
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* EnsembleDarkhorse: The Kougaji's party thanks to they're being likable antagonists with their own personalities.


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* {{Moe}}: Goku and Liren.
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* CouldntFindALighter s always the excuse for an {{IndirectKiss}} between Sanzo & Gojyo.

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* VillainDecay: Poor Zakuro didn't even make it to the end of the chapter before the decay started ...

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** Ni has crossed it quite a few times himself. Early in the second season, he pretended to take pity on a poor demon who hadn't fully succumbed to the minus-waves and gave him some medicine and a journal for reassurance of his sanity. The so called "medicine" was just ordinary water that had no effect at all; eventually the demon succumbed and almost killed his human friend, only to be shot dead by Sanzo. The only thing Ni has to say afterwards: [[DissonantSerenity "The End".]]
* VillainDecay: Poor Zakuro didn't even make it to the end of the chapter before the decay started ...started …
** Averted in the anime, where he was portrayed as a serious, if also [[DirtyCoward cowardly]] individual.

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* CouldntFindALighter s always the excuse for an {{IndirectKiss}} between Sanzo & Gojyo.



* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexal tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, & the first man he ever kileld tried to rape him.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexal sexual tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, & the first man he ever kileld tried to rape him.
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Even guys want him.

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* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Sanzo. Total strangers compliment him on his looks, Goku is infatuated with him, Gojyo seems to have some latent one-sided sexal tension with him, Hazel is extremely interested in him, Go Dougan & Shuuei were obsessed with him, & the first man he ever kileld tried to rape him.
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* HoYay: And HOW!
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* FoeYayShipping: Yaone and Hakkai are a popular pairing. Lets not forget Kougaiji/Sanzo, which is popular, Kami-sama/Sanzo, which is less popular but exists, along with the squicky-er chin-Yisso/Hakkai, and Dokugakuji/Gojyo. Homura/Goku, Homura/Sanzo, Dougan/Sanzo. If you can count Hazel as an enemy, Hazel/Sanzo (he definitely is in the anime, but the manga less so). Li Touten comes on to Tenpou (which is why he flips) Nataku and Goku are friends but are pitted against each other, and Kenren and Goujun's fight has some elements of this as well. It's safe to say this manga is full of it.

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* FoeYayShipping: Yaone and Hakkai are a popular pairing. Lets not forget Kougaiji/Sanzo, which is popular, Kami-sama/Sanzo, which is less popular but exists, along with the squicky-er chin-Yisso/Hakkai, and Dokugakuji/Gojyo. Homura/Goku, Homura/Sanzo, Dougan/Sanzo. If you can count Hazel as an enemy, Hazel/Sanzo (he definitely is in the anime, but the manga less so). Li Touten comes on to Tenpou (which is why he flips) Nataku and Goku are friends but are pitted against each other, and Kenren and Goujun's fight has some elements of this as well.well, the manga also gives a possibility of Zakuro/Goku. It's safe to say this manga is full of it.
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This isn\'t YMMV. Moving.


* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In act. xx "Aim to be the the best in the world" look at the former champion's loincloth in his first panel. And at the victor when he wears it.
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* FoeYay: The anime (especially the first season) implies that Hakkai may harbor romantic feelings towards Yaone.
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* FoeYayShipping: Yaone and Hakkai are a popular pairing.

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* FoeYayShipping: Yaone and Hakkai are a popular pairing. Lets not forget Kougaiji/Sanzo, which is popular, Kami-sama/Sanzo, which is less popular but exists, along with the squicky-er chin-Yisso/Hakkai, and Dokugakuji/Gojyo. Homura/Goku, Homura/Sanzo, Dougan/Sanzo. If you can count Hazel as an enemy, Hazel/Sanzo (he definitely is in the anime, but the manga less so). Li Touten comes on to Tenpou (which is why he flips) Nataku and Goku are friends but are pitted against each other, and Kenren and Goujun's fight has some elements of this as well. It's safe to say this manga is full of it.
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* FridgeBrilliance: Not that Ukoku really needed any more reason to try to RetGone Sanzo in Reload, but there's an even more pressing reason than Ukoku's love of mind-rape, wanting to win his bet with Koumyou, and trying to stop Sanzo interfering with his plans. Ukoku was obsessed with Koumyou, who was the only one who was ever able to get the better of him but refused to fight him straight out. He is extremely bitter that such a man died for some brat when he should have been able to defend himself easily from those bandits. Ukoku's conclusion is that Koumyou committed suicide by those attackers, in order to set Sanzo on his path. Ergo, RetGone -ing Sanzo would BRING KOUMYOU BACK TO LIFE.
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* GettingCrapPastTheRadar: In act. xx "Aim to be the the best in the world" look at the former champion's loincloth in his first panel. And at the victor when he wears it.

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* FridgeHorror: In Saiyuki Ibun, Gokai's best friend, Toudai is the only one not afraid of touching him. Touching Gokai reveals your future to him. Now consider Toudai's ultimate fate as revealed in burial. Gokai had to live with knowing all along the brutal way in which his best friend would die. Seems kinda merciful that [[MentorOccupationalHazard Houmei]] goes out of his way not to touch him now, doesn't it?

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* FridgeHorror: In Saiyuki Ibun, Gokai's ''Saiyuki Ibun'', Genkai's best friend, friend Toudai is the only one not afraid of touching him. Touching Gokai Genkai reveals your future to him. Now consider Toudai's ultimate fate as revealed in burial. Gokai ''Burial''. Genkai had to live with knowing all along the brutal way in which his best friend would die. Seems kinda merciful that [[MentorOccupationalHazard Houmei]] goes out of his way not to touch him now, doesn't it?it?
** FridgeHorror squared: It doesn't work. Genkai has a prophetic ''dream'' of Koumyou bequeathing the Maten Sutra to Koryuu ''without'' ever touching Houmei. He may not have been able to interpret it at the time but [[OhCrap once he realizes who the fey older dude with the braid is...]]

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* FridgeHorror: In Saiyuki Ibun, Gokai's best friend, Toudai is the only one not afraid of touching him. Touching Gokai reveals your future to him. Now consider Toudai's ultimate fate as revealed in burial. Gokai had to live with knowing all along the brutal way in which his best friend would die. Seems kinda merciful that [[MentorOccupationalHazard Houmei]] goes out of his way not to touch him now, doesn't it?



* FridgeHorror: In Saiyuki Ibun, Gokai's best friend, Toudai is the only one not afraid of touching him. Touching Gokai reveals your future to him. Now consider Toudai's ultimate fate as revealed in burial. Gokai had to live with knowing all along the brutal way in which his best friend would die. Seems kinda merciful that [[MentorOccupationalHazard Houmei]] goes out of his way not to touch him now, doesn't it?
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* CrowningMomentOfAwesome: Goku's Mahjongg game in the Kami-sama arc.
** Sanzo's fight with many youkai in an underground tunnel in the Saiyuki Reload manga. Provides some CharacterDevelopment, and an aversion of BottomlessMagazines: [[spoiler: Sanzo runs out of bullets and [[CrowningMomentOfAwesome finishes off the last youkai with a katana that another youkai dropped]]. Then he goes back to the town, where things were just on the point of getting ugly between the inhabitants and the others, ''and nobody dares to do anything to him''.]]
*** He didn't [[spoiler: run out of bullets all the way. He somehow saved the last one until he got to town, then ''used it to get the attention of the mob'' who were just about to turn on the rest of the crew.]]
** In the flashback to 500 years ago, Tenpou punching Nataku's father.
* CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming: Goku snapping Sanzo out of his DespairEventHorizon / FreakOut during his kidnapping by a demon, reminding him who he is. Even Hakkai remarked that only Goku could bring back Sanzo.
** After fighting with Chin Yiso, Hakkai looked longingly at his short life line on his palm. In comes Goku who draws on his hand, making the life line longer.
---> '''Hakkai''': "What should I do? This is permanent marker."
---> '''Gojyo''': (with a smile) "Yep. It's permanent marker. It won't come off. Isn't that all right?"
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* FridgeHorror: In Saiyuki Ibun, Gokai's best friend, Toudai is the only one not afraid of touching him. Touching Gokai reveals your future to him. Now consider Toudai's ultimate fate as revealed in burial. Gokai had to live with knowing all along the brutal way in which his best friend would die. Seems kinda merciful that [[MentorOccupationalHazzard Houmei]] goes out of his way not to touch him now, doesn't it?

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* FridgeHorror: In Saiyuki Ibun, Gokai's best friend, Toudai is the only one not afraid of touching him. Touching Gokai reveals your future to him. Now consider Toudai's ultimate fate as revealed in burial. Gokai had to live with knowing all along the brutal way in which his best friend would die. Seems kinda merciful that [[MentorOccupationalHazzard [[MentorOccupationalHazard Houmei]] goes out of his way not to touch him now, doesn't it?

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* FoeYayShipping: Yaone and Hakkai are a popular pairing.

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* FoeYayShipping: Yaone and Hakkai are a popular pairing.



* VillainDecay: Poor Zakuro didn't even make it to the end of the chapter before the decay started ...

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* VillainDecay: Poor Zakuro didn't even make it to the end of the chapter before the decay started ...started ...
* FridgeHorror: In Saiyuki Ibun, Gokai's best friend, Toudai is the only one not afraid of touching him. Touching Gokai reveals your future to him. Now consider Toudai's ultimate fate as revealed in burial. Gokai had to live with knowing all along the brutal way in which his best friend would die. Seems kinda merciful that [[MentorOccupationalHazzard Houmei]] goes out of his way not to touch him now, doesn't it?
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* MoralEventHorizon: Gyokuman Koushu crosses this repeatedly, having started the release of minus-waves to revive Gyomaoh, and we later find that they were started on PURPOSE to make the youkai more violent so they would be more likely to bring her the scriptures that she needed to revive him. She still has more moments with implying that she plans to sacrifice her own daughter to revive Gyomaoh.
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* MagnificentBastard: Dr. Nii arguably qualifies for this.

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* MagnificentBastard: Dr. Nii arguably qualifies for this.this.
* VillainDecay: Poor Zakuro didn't even make it to the end of the chapter before the decay started ...

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* MagnificentBastard: Dr. Nii arguably qualifies for this.

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* FoeYayShipping: Yaone and Hakkai are a popular pairing.
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Awesome is not Fetish Fuel (which we don\'t have on this wiki any more, by the way).


** In the flashback to 500 years ago, Tenpou punching Nataku's father made me cheer.

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** In the flashback to 500 years ago, Tenpou punching Nataku's father made me cheer.father.



* [[OffscreenMomentOfAwesome Offscreen Moment of]] FetishFuel: In an anime-exclusive episode, [[FauxActionGirl Yaone]] [[DistressedDamsel gets kidnapped]] by a group of anti-Youkai humans, and was tied on a cross within a camp. The problem is, everytime the camera goes to Yaone, the background is majorly darkened.

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