manga lowdown!

hey now, time for the hana'li manga run down!!
so far i have become involved in two series, Saiyuki, and .hack
Saiyuki is a dark and wonderful series about revenge and supernatural resurrections...it has enough science to make me happy, and four wonderful and interesting heros...there is Genjyo Sanzo, the jaded buddhist priest, who carries a gun, smokes and whacks ppl with a paper fan, Sha Gojyo, the half youkai , half human, who is good in a fight, smokes and womanizes, Son Goku, the monkey king who is only 18 but has been imprisioned for 500 years and so is CONSTANTLY hungry, and the last, Cho Hakkai, who has an awesome dragon named Jeep who can transform into...a jeep! Hakkai has the perfect cuffs in his left ear, and they are the inspiration for the cuffs i will be getting as soon as i am able...the drawings in Saiyuki are quite the most convincing i have seen yet, every frame is filled! i am quite taken with all 4 "heros" and i also love the bad guy (who is bad only by circumstance), the youkai prince....silver and i still have four more mangas to get before we complete the series!!! yay! more loving is still in store...
and now for .hack...where Saiyuki is adult and serious, (but still awesome!) .hack is funny and cool! there are many characters, so i won't bother to list them all, but my favorites so far are Ouka of the Devine Fist, a werewolf babe ;) and Balmung, a systems adminstrator, who is a seriously cool mysterious and hot swordsman...silver and i both say thanks to the cool cat who gave silver the first two books for x-mas! it was awesome! heehee....
well, so now i am manga obsessed :) at least my narc of choice is fairly harmless..heh....i plan to soon see if my artistic talents are up to drawing some of my favorite heros...well..copying..but still!