WTF Wardrobe: Sha Goyjo – Gensoumaden Saiyuki

Let’s face it, sometimes clothing and hairstyle design in anime is bad to the point of being ridiculous.  You sit, and stare at the screen and wonder who exactly would wander out of their house looking like that.

My example today is Sha Gojyo from Gensoumaden Saiyuki and his ridiculous pants.

They’re like hammer pants, capri style.  What exactly is the point of them being all poofy only to be extremely fitted at the calves?  It certainly doesn’t make them look any better.

Not to mention the actual front of the pants.  What the heck is that sticking up above the waistline?  Do I even want to know?

This ridiculous piece of clothing made it nearly impossible for me to take Gojyo seriously.  Any reaction I would have to a real person wearing something so silly looking got attached to the character, so even when he did something badass, I would still think, ‘yeah but those PANTS….’  They negated any hint of machismo he possibly had or could have, and simply relegated him to being bad.

If you’re wondering, yeah I’ve been posting about Saiyuki pretty heavily.  It’s one of my favorites, so you can look forward to more posts about it, good and bad.