Reviewer: tor85 Signed Date: 04/20/08 - 08:38AM Title: Circling Overhead

One of THE best saiyuki fanfictions ever! Love your Gojyo to bits. Love all your characterizations.

Reviewer: Ashley Anonymous Date: 06/18/06 - 07:18PM Title: Yuanfen

Wow. This arc was really awesome! I loved the way the characters handled the situations they were in. I love your work! Keep up the great job in writing! And I love the ' "Could I get you to put out that cigarette?"'

Reviewer: Ashley Anonymous Date: 06/18/06 - 07:17PM Title: Yuanfen

Wow. This arc was really awesome! I loved the way the characters handled the situations they were in. I love your work! Keep up the great job in writing! (And I love the ' "Could I get you to put out that cigarette?"')

Reviewer: zan Signed Date: 10/22/05 - 10:44AM Title: Yuanfen

A joy to read, and see it through to the end...I read 7 and 8 together, they seemed to go together. Firstly thank you for writing this and sharing it for I really loved it all the way. From the first story arc. And I liked the pace of the final act. A nice closure.
And what can I say...your Sanzo is too priceless. There is evrything to love about him! And using him as a yardstick ^_^ by which they gauge all emotion and situations was well written.
I also love your more mature Goku, all the character interaction, well there really is everything to love about this fic.
I could say more but I don't think I could find the words to accurately pin down the brilliance of this story, so I won't even begin to try.
Once again thank you for sharing - much love as always - zan

Author's Response: Maybe the respond system will stop sucking and let me post my reply. ._. Anyhow, yes. Thank you for following this story through to the end; your reviews have been fantastic encouragement to keep it going.

Reviewer: Dayast Joy Anonymous Date: 07/26/05 - 01:46AM Title: Blood and Earth

Your plot is epic and the writing was amazing. Sorry I didn't review every chapter, I was too wrapped up in the story to stop reading. Positively riveting story, better than many published books I've read and certainly better than 99% of the fanfiction out there (and I've read loads!). AWESOME. Your characterisations are extremely powerful, and you write Hakkai extremely well. He has more layers than an onion, as you so eloquently put it, and you tap into and describe his darkness so well. Can't wait for chapter 8...are Gojyo's balls gonna fall off? Is it gonna be a long wait for all of us? Hope not ^_^ I'm going to go back and tell you how much I loved the comic bits, your Sanzo is unbelievably great to read. I'll always be a fan :D

Author's Response: YAY I LOVE YOU! *glomp* I was actually wondering if you were no longer interested in my work, as you were no longer reviewing. ^^; I'm relieved to know that I write Hakkai well. It's very hard to do correctly, and it's almost as much work writing him right as it is to write Sanzo. No, Gojyo's balls are not going to fall off. The reward of all his toils is in sight, I swear. ^^;

Reviewer: zan Signed Date: 06/29/05 - 08:20AM Title: Blood and Earth

the hoops you have this man run through for hakkai...you are an expert toturer, and i bow to your greatness.^_^

the first para is a brilliant intro by way of gojyo's perception of 'pulverised' 'night', and his 'focus' to a pinpoint 'laser'.
the second is as brilliant a description of lactic acid formation in muscles as ever i have read. i'm weird i know. but i loved it. so yes the first two paras really grabbed me.
oh yes Red really does have it bad and how...
and again you cleverly insert the snippet of memory of Jien. Almost a trademark with you, I know I look out for it now when i read your gojyo fics. 'cos i love them. there is so much there that is such a wonderful mine for fic writers but is still under utilised.

One can almost feel sad for Amaya- except that she used her daughter to exact revenge. Her thinking too does make you wonder...why aren't his repulsed/horrified/disgusted by what Hakkai did all those years ago....

the other thing i love about this one is that Hakuryu is the undiputed hero ofthe day! Yay!

I think a really good chapter and i don't think it is too long, i love a good meaty chapter i can sink my teeth into. and your Goku/Sanzo relationship is brilliant and your Sanzo is still superb.

I am looking forward to the conclusion of this, of course the down side is there won't be anymore. *sigh* well we can't have everything i suppose. ^_~ - much love.

Author's Response: YAY I DON'T SUCK. >_.;; Sadly, the second paragraph's descriptors were all taken from real-life experience. Occasionally, horrible agony has its uses. Since you are a chemist and know more about these things than I, I'm grateful that I manage to do it in such a way that it didn't break your suspension of disbelief. Hakkai is going to be jumping through some hoops for Gojyo soon. Oh yes. *rubs hands together* And I do think that Gojyo would be a dedicated lover, if only because he'd tenaciously cling to someone. Even if they were being abusive--not that Hakkai is, but his mother was, and he seems more apt to have his abuse re-enacted upon himself than to actually abuse. Need to write more Dokugakuji. Yes. I feel badly for Amaya, but my sympathy ends with where yours did. Killing a child, especially your own, makes you scum in my book. Also, I think I'll address that point she made, since it is one that Hakkai was ruminating on, not just her. He might whine about it later. ^^; After the eight chapter, there will be a lemon. That will be my present, to me, for being able to finish the damn story. Oh yes.

Reviewer: zan Signed Date: 06/27/05 - 10:05AM Title: Circling Overhead

i read it and i read it and i read it again...i loved it all and there were so many things i wanted to say but i think i'll just leave it at that and read it a couple more times.

much love as always.

Author's Response: ^^;; I feel really insecure about this chapter, so if you want to ramble about it then feel free. It will encourage me to keep writing. I was freaking out over the lack of reviews here and thinking that everyone hated it, actually. ^^; I am really glad you liked it, though.

Reviewer: Sanada Anonymous Date: 06/11/05 - 11:11AM Title: Sinners and Saviors

So this is where it all starts to make a more sense and the bigger picture gets painted. I hadn’t forgotten the original Beyond All Limits, but I hadn’t even thought of a connection other than just the Sanzo-ikkou’s continuing saga. Very clever. I had to apologize to Hakkai for calling him a jerk a few reviews ago. You gave an explanation for him doing what he did “This was the side of himself that he never let anyone see--“ and that made the whole being a jerk, not so jerk-ish, but so logically Hakkai. The first few paragraphs describing the rebirth of what Hakkai “mentally referred to as Gonou” were very good. Using the title Cho HakkaiGonou painted a beautiful picture of a very deadly adversary. The irony came when you told the story of Ayama. Her tale mirrored Gonou’s own. She had lost her one true love and had let the hatred fester until all she could do was revenge the death no matter the cost. Unlike the months it had taken Gonou and the thousands of lives he had claimed, she had taken years, but had only one target. Sadly in her sickened mind she had exploited and sacrificed the child that her husband had fought to save. Like usual, your portrayal of Sanzo was perfect. His anger at Gojyo and frustration in his own human frailties was right on the mark. While I loved the dark turmoil this chapter possessed, my favorite part was Goku - "You just let me know whenever you're done, so I can say 'uh-huh' and pretend like I'm listening," Picturing Goku with Sanzo slung over his shoulder was priceless. If Sanzo doesn’t have a stroke before this story is over, I will be amazed. I have a question and it is bugging the crap out of me. What promise had Gojyo failed to keep? (“..it had threatened to explode when Gojyo had failed to keep that last promise.”) My mind is drawing a blank here and it is driving me crazy.

Author's Response: A few people did forget the original BaL, or assumed that I only had this as a sequel because it's in the same canonical storyline as the other fic. I didn't mean for Kaiya being Amaya's daughter to be such a twist, but it happened that way. ^^; Hakkai was being a jerk, but he was a jerk with very strong motivations, so I think you were justified in being pissed at him. I also didn't mean for Amaya's story to be such a direct reflection of Hakkai's, and in a weird way, I think the fact that it does makes her a more sympathetic villain--after all, Gonou was doing some ghastly things, but was sympathetic in his motivations. What takes away that sympathy is how horribly she treated Kaiya, who somersaults ahead from being a wordless, motivationless villain to being a tragic character. Gojyo "keeping that last promise" is a reference to far later in Gunlock, a story that I've made reference to a few times over the course of BaL/RHaC. Basically, Hakkai gets a cold, and gets his own hotel room to rest in while the others crash in another. He makes Gojyo promise at least twice to keep their hotel room clean. He doesn't, of course, and the place is thoroughly smashed (so badly that Sanzo's sutra gets lost in the rubble). Hakkai, after getting better, sees this and utterly snaps, pulling a bunch of nasty tricks on them and leaving them all behind. (Including ginking the holy credit card, ruining their cigarettes and tea, and so on.) Basically, his patience with all of their shit--Gojyo's especiallly--over the last three and a half seasons finally ran out.

Reviewer: Xeriah Anonymous Date: 06/10/05 - 09:01PM Title: Sinners and Saviors

gah You're a brilliant writer. Vivid use of language and yeah, oh yeah, I'm totally loving it. Wicked good stuff.

Author's Response: ^_^ Sankya!

Reviewer: Sorchafyre Anonymous Date: 05/26/05 - 06:06PM Title: The Wrong Side of the Bed

I'm not commenting on the story as a whole, since I"m doing as you asked and waiting until I see what's up before making a judgement. However, I had to comment on how absolutely SOLID the characterization in this chapter is, or more specifically the scene between Goku, Gojyo and Sanzo. Each word, thought and action was so spot-on cannon feeling that I couldn't let it pass. We could *feel* Sanzo's rage and the barrel of his gun, even passed through the filter of Gojyo's perception, and the 'clarity moment' of lust was perfectly balanced between offhandedness and shock that you made us believe both the premise and the reaction. But the absolute crown was Goku stepping in, in such an unexpected yet non-ignorable way. You NAILED that, both in action, character and aftermath. It was beautifully done, and is strong enough to stand with any story out there anywhere.

Author's Response: *turns bright red* Thank you so much! I have to admit, the conversation here was one of my favorite scenes to compose in this entire serial-fic. It was hard for me to write the extremely tense narration from Gojyo's perspective, because I was picturing Goku creaming them with the fan and cracking up half the time. ^^; I struggle a lot with keeping the ikkou as canonical as I possibly can, and it is always marvelous to hear that one's efforst have paid off somehow. Thank you, also, for withholding any possible "What the fuck is wrong with you" until the story's end. I hope that it will meet your expectations.