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1''Gensomaden Saiyuki'' is a story about four pretty guys traveling together on an epic journey, spending most of their time in close proximity. There would be too much Ho Yay to list here even if the mangaka wasn't a former [[YaoiFangirl yaoi doujinshi artist]] who deliberately [[MrFanservice adds to it]].
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8* There's a lot of Ho Yay between the other two members of the party, Goku and Sanzo, with Goku's deep affection for Sanzo and the fact that they are constantly saving each other.
9* They seem to have a strange fixation on each others hands as well. It's probably some kind of symbolic metaphor for something, but still.
10** In fact, it is a metaphor. In Sanzo's past life as Konzen, he told Goku that after he grabs hold of something, he'll never let it go; additionally, right before he dies, he tells Goku that since Goku was the first to reach out to him, the next time they meet, he'd be the one to reach out to Goku. When Sanzo finds Goku in the cave, Sanzo is the one to reach out first. And he has not let go since.
11* It should also be noted that when Goku takes on his Seiten Taisei form, the way he engages in combat with Sanzo is different than how he does with other characters. With other characters, Seiten Taisei will initiate attack with a roundhouse kick, followed by using his claws to tear his opponents apart. If the fight goes on for a period of time, Seiten Taisei will switch to closed fists and incapacitate his opponents with punches. With Sanzo however, Seiten Taisei starts the fight with closed fists and ''not'' a roundhouse kick. Giving the implication that Seiten Taisei seeks to incapacitate Sanzo at the onset and not kill him.
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15* Despite Gojyo's [[HandsomeLech womanizing]], his relationship with Hakkai (whom he lived with for several months) tends to be questionable, especially with their relationship 500 years ago as gods of heaven.
16* This is how they met in their current reincarnation: Gojyo came upon a fatally injured Hakkai (then still Gonou) in the rain when he took pity upon Hakkai's DeathSeeker body language. Hakkai then wakes up to Gojyo hovering over him, Gojyo's long hair framing his face.
17* They also spend an entire day together at a spa in the Reload anime, and at one point have a water gun fight while wearing little towels. Then again, the whole episode was just Goku having a weird dream after passing out in a desert, [[ShipperOnDeck this might imply something...]]
18* Not to mention that in one scene Gojyo hears Hakkai's soul cry out in anguish from ''several kilometers'' away - when Hakkai had observed earlier that he feels that his love for Kanan can't have been as powerful as he thought it was, because he didn't know something was wrong on the day she was kidnapped.
19* Gojyo ''freaks'' when Hakkai is almost killed in one chapter, screaming and begging him to be alive. He also yelled at Hazel not to use his powers to revive Hakkai, because he'd rather have him dead than be something else that he would hate.
20* Gojyo likes to sling his arm over Hakkai's shoulders and be close to him a lot.
21* The first thing he says to Hakkai after saving him? "This is the first and last time I ever let a man sleep in my bed."
22* This works as an IronicEcho as well. Tenpou's final thoughts [[ForegoneConclusion as he is dying]] are about what he needs to do and "That Person' will always be by to help clean up. The final panel is him apologizing for keeping Kenren waiting. The first thing Hakkai hears as he comes out of his coma is Gojyo chiding him for [[BookEnds being "late waking up."]]
23* There's also a number of points where they share wordless, meaningful glances. Hakkai uses this ability to make Gojyo stop whatever he's doing and listen on multiple occasions.
24* In Reload Blast, Hakkai doesn't want Gojyo to notice that demon marks are appearing on his back. The excuse he gives Gojyo is that he must keep his jacket on, or it would be too sexy.
25** Hakkai also gives the excuse that if he did go berserk, he wouldn't be able to bring himself to kill Gojyo even if Sanzo could, and he'd very likely fight against Sanzo to try and save him.
26* Gojyo gets called a cockroach by Goku and Sanzo many times, it's mostly PlayedForLaughs. But in the Party Drama CD, when Hakkai called him one (it turns out there was an actual cockroach in the room and Hakkai wasn't really insulting him) his feelings actually got hurt.
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30* People have seen Ho Yay between Sanzo and Hakkai (he became suddenly irate at Goku and Goyjo when they were discussing with each other if Hakkai's old friend who they met was actually Hakkai's childhood sweetheart), Sanzo and Goyjo, Goyjo and Goku (what with Goyjo and Goku's constant bickering)... you could probably write a foursome where everyone is completely in character. [[spoiler: This has been done several times.]]
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34* The anime, especially the English dub, saw fit to make a long RunningGag of adding [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G6pr0gVE_2o sexual tension]] between Gojyo and Goku, including accusations of ass-grabbing, Goku suggesting that Gojyo is closet gay/bi, and a hotel attendant walking in on Gojyo and Goku fighting in a rather erotic position, to which she runs out asking forgiveness for intruding.
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38* There seems to be completely one-sided {{belligerent sexual tension}} from Gojyo directed at Sanzo. Gojyo will often remark on Sanzo's appearance, tease him with by calling him "princess" & "Cherry-chan," Sanzo gets very pissy if Gojyo touches him (same with Konzen and Kenren), and in Saiyuki Premium, Gojyo kept a running gag of referring to Sanzo as Homo. There's a RunningGag throughout the franchise of Sanzo and Gojyo using the [[IndirectKiss indirect cigarette kiss]], the way Kenren used to with Tenpo. Plus another indirect kiss; Kanzeon Bosatsu extracted blood from Gojyo by kissing him and injected it into Sanzo by kissing him.
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42* If you count Hakuryuu as a male, then Hakkai is constantly fondling an extremely phallic part of him while driving.
43* Hazel has a musclebound bodyguard that follows him around, Gat; ''greatly'' admires Sanzo; and Ukoku seems to mess with his head some, too.
44* Homura, the second season antagonist, has an odd obsession with Goku that he went as far as kidnapped him. There are also moments when they share some very interesting innuendo where Goku was chained to a wall and Homura was asking Goku to leave Sanzo and come to him instead, promising to protect and give everything what Goku's wants.
45** By the end of the episode, it's implied by Homura that he had intended to take Sanzo's place as Goku's new sun, threating Sanzo that he would take Goku again from him by force on their next encounter.
46** A few last episode also showed how Homura greatly admire Goku's strenght he's after that he kidnapped Goku ... AGAIN in order to use Seiten Taisei's power to create a new Heaven and World. [[spoiler: It's revealed he just wanted to die by Goku's hand in a new world he just created because he's just a half-God that would soon die so as a God War Prince, killed by someone as strong as Goku was an honour to him rather than dying of old age.]]
47* Kougaiji and Dokugakuji have some interesting moments as well. Doku thinks that he's become quite attached to his prince. Not to mention all of the times he has to rescue him after being beaten by the Sanzo party.
48* All four main characters have a habit of having their male rivals get a little too interested in them. Goku has Homura and Kougaiji, Hakkai has Chin Yi-Sou and as Tenpou, Li Touten hit on him once, Gojyo had Kami, and Sanzo had Rikudo. Also, Ukoku stated that he's interested in Seite Taisei, Sha Gojyo and Cho Hakkai that he wanted to have an experiment on them on his lab.

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