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Alex: There *aren't* Minekura FFX doujinshi, not AFAIK. I'm just subscribing to Persona 2's time-honoured theory that if you spread a rumour with enough determination, it becomes true. ^_^;;; ...Well, she must have played FFX, as she's a gamer and 99.5% of Japanese gamers have played FFX, and don't you just see the Braska-Auron-Jecht dorky pilgrimage vector making her poing? Is the thing. The wishfulness factor on my end has to do with the trouble the vast majority of Japanese FFX fanartists runs into trying to reconcile their need for bishounen with the FFX character designs. Most of the time it's just wrong. UberGirlyUke!Auron and all that. I mean, I personally have a great fondness for aniparo - and I've been known to state in print that I'll believe it's Duo Maxwell as long as you have a recognizable braid on your stick figure - but you can't show me a picture of Angelina Jolie and tell me that it's Billy Bob Thornton, 'cos that shit won't fly, yo. ^^; One thing about Minekura, she can turn out characters who are terribly pretty and yummy bikei and yet somehow scruffy and recognizably masculine at the same time. I can *see* her FFX chara designs in my mind's eye; I'd draw them myself, if I had any hope of reproducing her style. I don't, and so I crave her doujinshi.

Even though she doesn't draw doujinshi.

(Maa, ne. All I want for my birthday and so forth. What are the odds?)

(Billy Bob Thornton played a gig at the Spectrum the other night, because every time he comes to a city to shoot he gives an interview to a local paper, and the Gazoo's reporter suggested he give a concert in Montreal, and so he did. Bill Clinton was there, of all people - Arkansan, don't you know, and in town for a speech. Supposedly Billy Bob sang great. I'm really starting to like this man.)

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Minekura's a yaoi *mangaka*. Who one day decided she was going to do a fightin' shounen adventure series instead, because that's where the slash is at, yo. ...I love that woman. ^_^

Braska go-ikkou, say the Japanese fandom, who played the game, sighed and copy-pasted over their Saiyuuki terminology wholesale. Hakkai-Sanzou-Gojyou indeed. I mean, Braska is essentially what a Sanzou is *supposed* to be, as opposed to what we got. XD

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Minekura does do doujinshi, or did before her current schedule drove her into the ground. They resell at Mandarake for 10,000 yen and up. It's where she tries out new ideas in something less pleasing than her usual style, according to those who've seen them. It's probably where she started doing Saiyuuki in the first place. I wouldn't know. I didn't have 13,000 yen to buy the dj with the Saiyuuki cover.

And FWIW ikkou isn't exclusive to the Sanzou tachi. You can use it about any group, because calling a party of people -tachi is informal/rude.