Well, it was more the utter lack of psychoticness about Bashou that surprised me. He pretty much acted like "hey, business as usual." Unlike Sebastian ("Science turns me on!") or Buson ("Hey, look, I'm SOOOO manly! I am not insecure in my masculinity AT ALL!")

(Mind you, those are just the impressions I got from them. But by Rocket standards, Bashou's pretty sane.)