20 SPOLIERS FOR SAIYUKI - THE NEW ADVENTURES

 

  1. Goku was best buds with Nataku but for some reason, Goku now has no memory of his life before he was imprisoned under the 5 finger mountain and of Nataku who is now in a coma.
  2. Goku was rescued by Sanzo who is seeking the demon that killed his teacher.

  3. In heaven, Sanzo (in his past life) was in charge of taking care of the young Goku but none of the 4 remember.
  4. Sanzo in his past life was the nephew of the goddess of mercy Kanzeon Bosatsu (who incidentally is a hermaphrodite).

  5. Gojyo and Hakkai were best buds in their past life, being a General and a Marshall respectively. They were usually mistaken to be gay much to their exasperation.
  6. Although Hakkai was a very high ranking official in his past life (a Marshall ranks higher than a General), he was quite content to be subordinate to Gojyo, something no one understood.

  7. Hakkai was originally a human being. Raised in an orphanage, his only wish was to find his sister. He then fell in love with Kanan, a girl slightly older than him only to realise that she was his long lost sister.
  8. He did not care and they lived as lovers (*_*) until one day he realised that his village had offered Kanan to the King of the hundred eye demons Chin II Sou (one of the strongest and most vicious demon tribes around - OK they're actually centipedes but I prefer to call them the hundred eye demons, sounds more cool) as a peace offering. Dashing into the demons' village, he had slaughtered the whole tribe before rushing to the dungeon, where he saw Kanan crying.
  9. He assured her he would get her out but she suddenly hugs him and grabs his knife (he was standing very near the bars). Crying that she loves him but that she has been defiled, she steps back and kills herself. In horror, he saw the "flower" of his life wilt as she laments with her dying breath, "it's too late, I bear the monster's child."

  10. Hakkai then hears a voice laugh … "and now we won't know what the b**tard looks like now …* (see 16 below). Turning around, Hakkai sees a handsome demon stare at him … it's the King of the hundred eye demons Chin II Sou (who makes a return appearance in volume 5). Chin II Sou laughs and mentions that he is surprised that his tribe could not survive the onslaught of a mere human being. They fight and Hakkai is fatally slashed.
  11. "Are humans so weak?" mused Chin II Sou. He then says "there is a legend that if a human comes into contact of a thousand demons, he becomes one of them too … shall we find out if I am the 1000th demon?" Slashing his palm, Chin II Sou drips his blood over the dying Hakkai. Hakkai writhes on the ground, screaming in pain (and from now on, we only see their shadows). Chin II Sou remarks, "never have I felt so much terror before … hahahaha …". More screams can be heard (is Hakkai suffering from the whole event in pain or in fear … or … ?)
  12. "How does it feel to be one of us now, I heard you enjoy incest … well she was a good woman, wonder what my child would have looked like …" Howling with rage, Hakkai kills Chin II Sou. From the shadows we can see Hakkai now has claws, fangs and pointed ears, the signs of a demon.

  13. Placing a device that suppresses his powers but allows him to take human form, Hakkai leaves the demon village. Very much weaken by now, he collapses in the rain. Dying, he is discovered by Gojyo who nurses him back to health. In the meanwhile, Sanzo and Goku are sent to arrest the young man that mercilessly butchered a whole tribe of demons … and find Hakkai at Gojyo's house.
  14. Hakkai (so as not to get Gojyo into trouble promises to surrender) but says he must do something first … he is seen remorseful in a cave saying "it's too late … no one is alive, I couldn't do it …" (not sure his last wish was to bury his sister, save his village or to see if any demon is still alive so he can rescue them …) He then bumps into a hundred eye demon that escaped the earlier onslaught. This demon proceeds to taunt Hakkai, saying he has butchered Hakkai's village. The demon then confronts Hakkai with a jar saying, "see that's my brother's eyes … you ripped them from his head! She was only one life, but for her you sacrificed thousands you murderer!" (In the movie, he was confronted by a crow demon who had been in charge of sourcing sacrifices for the hundred eye demon clan as tribute. Hakkai had in cruel revenge, also massacred the crow demon tribe)

  15. Hakkai says "Whatever, but I will return you what I took from you …" and tears out his right eye. He is about to tear out his left when Goku stops him. They kill the demon, perversely leaving Hakkai the last of the hundred eye demon kind.

  16. Gojyo is the son of a demon and a human woman. He is a forbidden hybrid, marked with scarlet hair and eyes (there is also a hint somewhere that he has no power to propagate). *
  17. Gojyo's stepmother tried to take care of him as her own, but the infidelity of her husband as evidenced by Gojyo drove her crazy and she constantly beat the child. Not knowing the reason for her pain, Gojyo tried to please his step-mother but only suffered more abuse.

  18. Finally, torn between her guilt for hitting the child and the hatred she had for her husband's infidelity, Goyjo's stepmother totally "lost it" and tried to kill him with an axe. To save his younger stepbrother, his elder brother Dokugakuji, the one horned demon (who now works for Kougaiji, the stepson of Gyokumen Koujyu) killed his own mother and was banished from the tribe for this act of un-filial-ness. Gojyo now seeks to find his step-brother which he does in volume 4 (we see that the brothers are actually quite close).
  19. However, the attack on him as a child left scars both on Gojyo's mind and face. So ashamed of his past, he had, before meeting the gang, left his hair long for the sole purpose of hiding the scars.

  20. No one can beat Hakkai at cards, gambling or poker … nothing, Sanzo and Gojyo found out the hard way.

Acknowledgements - While we did this write up ourselves, we were not able to confirm the proper romanization of the Japanese names of the characters … the Japanese names for the side characters were obtained from Smoking Circles … thanks a million to Team Bonet, who have such great sites …

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