![]() Ukoku and Kami, the unfortunate slave boy he takes in as an experiment to see what Koumyou sees in Kouryuu, probably play this trope a lot straighter, if about fifty times more disturbingly. Sanzo and Goku were probably intended to be a lot closer to this trope so the fangirls could squee, while not being quite as squicky as the pre-pubescent Kouryuu and middle-aged Koumyou. One of the things that makes the scene where a newly-crowned Sanzo leaves the temple and is nearly raped by bandits so poignant is his realization of how much his foster father had sheltered him from such things. Specifically Kouryuu and Koumyou's relationship is explicitly NOT like that despite the talkers. Note that all the in-canon references to this are nasty rumors being spread about the main characters, all of which are unfounded.There's also quite a bit of Ho Yay enthusiasm for Sanzo and Goku. Much of Saiyuki is set in Buddhist temples and there are in-story references to master/acolyte relationships (specifically a possible relationship between Sanzo (then Koryuu) and his fond foster-father Koumyou)."coloured child" due to a mark on their skin which shows that they are not mature), who in return act as passive sexual partners until they come of age. Thus, Lover and Beloved becomes the norm: men adopt and mentor youths (called "Iroko" i.e. In Marginal, there are no women in the world and humans are an all-male One-Gender Race, except for a queen bee-like individual who produces babies called "Mother".The much younger Ritsuka's "name" is Loveless he struggles between his affection for Soubi and his own submissive personality that his brother took advantage of. The older partner, Soubi's, "name" is Beloved and he has been trained to submit to whoever is the Sacrifice in his pairings. ![]()
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