User blog comment:Nana Aoi666/Episode Summary and extra/@comment-5424006-20130119172122

Saiyuki Reload is filler.

Episodes 1, 3, 13, & 16 have plots that are similar to that of the manga (the manga filler chapters, just to add)

The Kami sama arc is pretty close to the real thing. But Kami sama was never part of Reload. He was in the Gensoumaden manga, taking place after the scorpion youkai in the desert and the Seiten Taisei thing.

The original Saiyuki Reload, as the manga had it was supposed to be about the arc with Hazel… But that got moved to Gunlock and then the anime writers broke it!!

Question, do you like either Hazel or Gato or both? There’s a reason I ask, so I would like to know…

Oh! I also know this great sight that would have really good, and long summaries for all the episodes...