History Headscratchers / InuYasha

** This may not answer your question completely, but I think it was mainly due to Kagome finding a reason to see "good" in Kouga when he stopped his wolves from eating Shippou when he was found to have been also taken along with Kagome, also when Kouga was keeping her safe during the attack from the birds of paradise. Because of that, she decided to forgive him...and let's face it, she not only bothered to get along with [=InuYasha=] right after he tried to kill her, but even fell in love with him, so suggesting that she'd be friendly with someone who didn't directly kill an entire of village of people she didn't know isn't that farfetched. Kagome can (and I know any serious Kagome fans will be flaming me for this) be pretty shallow in terms of which youkai she trusts...with the only exception being Jinengi (who never even did anything wrong to be hated), any youkai she has been willing to forgive or trust all look human (and were even bishounen worthy). Also, an outstanding majority of the time, Miroku, Sango and Shippou will take Kagome's side in most disputes, regardless that there may not be a proper reason as to why they should just be agreeing with her side when the issue was never even explained. As far as Kagome trusted Kouga, they were willing to do so too, even though it makes little sense for at least a Buddhist monk taught to exorcise evil spirits and a Youkai Exterminator trained in disposing of youkai that threaten humans to have forgiven the wolf demon without a good reason. Then again, this probably was because Rumiko didn't want to spend too much time in having Kouga to prove himself as a "good" guy anymore than what the fans have seen at that point just for the fact that the other characters were not there to see it; so letting everyone else take it as "if Kagome decided to give him a chance, than we should too" was just a quick and easy fix to just move on. Also, on a special note for [=InuYasha=], although they are "rivals" [=InuYasha=] isn't a saint himself and doesn't have anything against killing when necessary (actually... that's usually just how he resolves most of his disputes in the first instance) so of course he was not going to find any problem with that. He'd only find a problem in Kouga declaring love for Kagome, which was the only basis for their constant dislike of the other.
*** What? Inu Yasha has no problem killing in self defense or the defense of others. He really hates youkai that slaughter humans without provocation, once he stops hating humans for betraying him. And even back then, the most you could say is that Inu Yasha wouldn't go out of his way to save humans, not that he approved of their murders.
*** That wasn't the point. The OP wanted to know why the heroes act friendly to Kouga after ordering his wolves to eat the remaining villagers in their first meeting. Also I did say [=InuYasha=] has nothing against killing when ''necessary''. I wasn't implying that he'd go on a rampage and kill a bunch of humans just cause.
*** We should bear in mind a couple of things. In canon (ie, ignoring anime filler), Kouga and Rin never met after the day she was killed and Kouga and Sesshoumaru never met at all. Also, Inuyasha's group never learned about Rin's history with the wolves or Kouga's involvement in that. Further more, the manga's ending excluded Kouga completely - he was written out of the manga as soon as Naraku obtained his shards and, at the very end of the manga, when there was talk of everyone's futures moving on together and on the paths the readers were now familiar with, while that covered Inuyasha's group and Sesshoumaru's ground, that noticably did not include Kouga. I think there's a good reason for that. Sesshoumaru's change of heart took most of the manga to develop and came at heavy price. There was no such change in path indicated for Kouga Kouga's entire focus resided around his people - his enmity with Naraku, his association with Inuyasha's group, even his initial interest in Kagome and certainly any use Kagome could be to his tribe. Even his departure was based on this focus, as Takahashi didn't take the shards from him until she had given him a tribal-specific power upgrade to replace them as well as an anvilicious encounter with two young children of his tribe that made him realize he was neglecting the living people because of his focus on avenging the dead. In the end, his association with Inuyasha's group was temporary and not permanent. I can't help thinking even that temporary relationship wouldn't have survived if the truth about Rin had come out (ie, putting a face on the crimes they knew he had committed in the past). Ultimately, the manga seemed to be suggesting that Kouga and Inuyasha's group weren't very compatible at all. They associated for a time but not permanently.

*** Considering how ridiculously faster than Kagome Inu Yasha is (having just become a living buzzsaw against Mistress Centipede), its unlikely that Inu Yasha was actually trying to kill her. Heck, he had plenty of opportunity to kill her and take the jewel later that same day/night as he was just hanging around outside Kaede's hut and making sure that no youkai stole the jewel from her while she slept.

*** That was pretty much how I've tried to answer that question. The humans are typically population-checked by the demons up until they have a lot of internal political strife, and they essentially forget to keep their numbers down. The humans grow, gain technological advancements (as in, guns), and with Kagome's and [=InuYasha=]'s unwitting help (prior to this), take over and turn genocidal. Kagome, being a very powerful priestess (by the end of the series) presumably spends the end of hte manga onward keeping humans safe...by killing off the demons that pose a threat, typically the powerful ones. Inuyasha doesn't realize that this is what has happened to all the demons in the modern era, and goes about helping her, aiding in a kind of {{Butterfly Effect}} - they start small, going after ones deemed "threats" (both big political players in the demon world and small pests), and the consequence is that entire civilizations and races - including his father's own, are killed off. Kagome doesn't see the effects of what she's doing until it's too late to reverse the damage, and at first, she sees nothing wrong with killing powerful demons (because it's protecting the humans, right?). The demons, once they figure out that they're being hunted and their numbers are falling far faster than they ever imagined, are too disorganized and still caught up in the politics that led to the lapse in watch to put up a front. {{Curbstomp Battle}} occurs. Demon abilities, it turns out, don't beat small metal balls that can smash bone from great distances and bring bacterial infection to an open wound, despite their {{Healing Factor}}s. In addition, I assumed there was a {{Stable Time Loop}} making it so that events that have already occurred in the future (extinction of demons) will happen regardless of what is done in the past, having already happened. If Kagome were to die before finishing her role in said events, someone else would eventually continue on and take her place. But that's just how I worked it out. Feel free to correct me here.

*** As Yura showed, even non-Inu Yasha characters can travel through the well if they had shards. The last thing they want to do is give Naraku a reason to go through the well, as I don't remember if he was ever shown knowing when Kagome is from, or how she gets there (he did effect the well in the final battle, but the well's time-powers were already somewhat known in that area beforehand.

*** Weeeellll, as we saw somewhere in the middle of the series, a strong enough youkai can cause other youkai to go into hiding just by being active even if they don't actively pursue them, like Naraku with youkai in the castle basement. Maybe everyone found out that Sesshoumaru likes humans now and are scared spitless of crossing a guy who can smell them from across the country and kill them with a scratch, or something.
*** I don't think I'd go so far as to say that Sesshoumaru likes humans now. At the end of the series, it still seems to be only Rin that he can tolerate.

** Well in the end, Naraku just wanted to go to hell and end up with Kikyou's soul there for eternity. Which really makes no damn sense because, if he wanted to go to hell with Kikyou's soul that badly, why not just let Inuyasha kill him all the way at the beginning of the series? Honestly, this troper saw it as an AssPull for Naraku to get some sympathy. As for the delayed Meidou Zangetsuha, [[RuleOfDrama it was probably just to give the reader fake relief that it failed, before it did work]]; or blame it on WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief.

** Naraku says this directly: even if both his and Kikyou's souls are going to end up in Hell, they still wouldn't be together (because that will reduce Naraku's punishment, of course). Literally the only way for him to ever reunite with Kikyou was to make her reincarnation and himself replace Shikon no Tama's old inhabitants in their eternal battle.

*** It doesn't make sense because it's her school uniform, and thus something she needs to wear to school. She can just buy a normal outfit that's easy to clean so that she wouldn't have to go in civilian clothes to school when Inu Yasha bleeds all over it, again.

*** She hangs around Inu Yasha, Shippou, Kirara and Sango. True, the fact that only her appearance gets noted was used as a punchline once (the punchline being that they thought that SHE was the youkai of the group), but who in their right mind is going to mess with her when she's hanging around armed hanyou, monks and humans, especially once she starts carrying around a bow and arrow herself, which she masters to levels that are beyond peak human in the real world, even without magical abilities. Besides, if anyone so much as nicks her within a mile of him, Kagome can rest assured that Inu Yasha will kill them to death soon after.

*** Regarding the weaponry, its unlikely that a fifteen year old could easily get their hands on high powered firearms even in modern Japan, and she probably doesn't have the preternatural affinity to them that she does to short/longbows and arrows, and most of those weapons probably don't have the holy connotations that bows and arrows have in Shintoism, where even twanging a bowstring is a powerful charm. Not to mention that she can do a lot more damage (and eventually a lot more accurately) than any modern hand-held weapon, albeit with a much slower rate of fire (though Kikyou could fire around five arrows almost simultaneously) and with a much smaller ammo stock.

** I'd kind of accept her wearing the uniform for the sake of recognition. However, in the rare instances she visits Inu Yasha in different clothes, she still wears a skirt! Fine, she had no time to change when they confronted Yura, but there is no excuse for her choice of dress the next time she went to the past, in a short white skirt.

* During the Band of Seven arc, why did everyone keep calling the feminine one (whose name escapes me) "He"? After all, he-or-she sounded feminine and had a crush on [=InuYasha=].

** They call him he for exactly the same reason they call Sesshoumaru he - because they are both male. They also both look extremely feminine (Sess eventually starts to actually look masculine but ye gods his first appearances in the manga), but that doesn't necessarily mean anything in this series.

*** Technically, he hid it in another dimension, which can only be accessed by getting a jewel created by an apparent friend/vassal who is an incredibly powerful -- and incredibly moral -- daiyoukai (or by ripping out Inu Yasha's eye, which is a lot harder than it sounds and at which point going youkai is probably among the least of his problems), going through a portal that turns anyone without an otherworldy weapon (of which we only ever see one, which belongs to one of the most dangerous people in the series; said weapon is also the only thing that can hurt the portal's violent guardians) into stone, by turning the blood of a hellborn youkai into a river, or just plain dying. Oh, and even someone with Sesshoumaru's youki levels couldn't touch it without being repelled (normal humans are even less likely to get there). And the only clue to any of this was hidden in Inu Yasha's subconscious, so far down that even he has no idea that it was there. Titanium boxes at the bottom of the ocean would be a walk in the park, comparatively.

*** The sword predated Inu Yasha, so its likely that Inu no Taisho just put the seal and human-protecting barrier on it after Inu Yasha's conception. Besides, giving his weaker son a weapon that let him use daiyoukai levels of power would probably help him survive the kind of fights that sealing Inu Yasha's daiyoukai power would have gotten him killed in.

*** Actually, it ''is'' stated in the series, by Totosai. He says that the seal broke when the sword broke and could not be recreated completely when the sword was reforged. Even if he hadn't stated it, we ''do'' see instances of Inuyasha struggling in combat prior to the breaking of Tessaiga, most notably in the fight in which Sesshoumaru took Tessaiga away from him. If that fight had happened after Tessaiga had been broken and reforged, Inuyasha certainly would have transformed. We also see flashbacks to a very young Inuyasha having to run and hide from larger youkai, so it's not possible to say that the fight with Goshinki was the first time it ever came up.

* After seeing the first episode again, this Troper just found something ridiculous. In the very first scene of the series, we have Kikyou standing by the stairs and torii of the village, shooting an arrow at [=InuYasha=] who was running by the Goshinboku (the God Tree). Now this would imply that the Goshinboku is besides the village, you'd think so? However, later in that same episode, when Kagome comes to the past for the first time, when she goes to the Goshinboku we see that it's completely surrounded by forest, with no part of the village in sight. So what the hell happened to the geographic location of the Goshinboku and the village? Did the village just decide to remove apart of itself away from the Goshinboku, or does the Goshinboku have some sort of magical teleportation skills that caused it to appear next to the village just for [=InuYasha=] to be pinned to it then disappear and find a nice place in the middle of the forest to hide, or what? And it wasn't just the anime that had this problem - the manga did this to! So clearly Rumiko stuffed up somewhere here, on the very first CHAPTER.

*** You mean [=InuYasha=] was perceived to be the "bad guy" when he got shot. Remember, Naraku did deceive both [=InuYasha=] and Kikyou into thinking the other betrayed them.

** I would guess that Naraku, in the guise of Inu Yasha, tore up the village en route to returning the Jewel to the shrine before attacking Inu Yasha in the guise of Kikyou. The real Inu Yasha then went to get the Jewel in his grief and rage, and either assumed that another youkai had attacked while Kikyou was distracted by trying to murder him, or just didn't care why the town was on fire, and stole the Jewel before becoming the world's worst birdfeeder for the next fifty years.

** Maybe he's just naturally talented at it. Inu Yasha stated that he found it to be very tricky... which prompted Kagome to ask him if he's been trying to ride it when she's not looking, much to his embarrassment. Still, Miroku and Inu Yasha are superhumanly strong, fast and agile -- ''I'm'' more curious as to how Kagome, a normal 15 year old girl, is able to ride a street-class Bicycle all over Feudal Japan. A mountain-bike would be feasible, but her bike looks like it would grind to a halt if you gave it a dirty look, much less tried to ride it up a grassy hill.

* So... did Sesshoumaru's arm that Inuyasha cut off in his first episode just sort of... grow back, or did literally everyone just forget he lost it?
** It pretty explicitly grew back just before/during the beginning of the very last arc. At a couple of points he used a human arm (to let him activate Tessaiga) or a couple of youkai arms (to replace it, temporarily, but they could never really handle the paces he put them through), but Inu Yasha tore off any that Sesshoumaru used against him. In the Shishinki fight, Shishinki blasts off his sleeve and is mildly surprised to find out that there was no arm under it and Sesshoumaru reminisces about how IY tore it off and that he doesn't mind since it just forced him to become even stronger. It spontaneously grew back when Sesshoumaru got over his daddy issues, bringing with it an insanely powerful youkai sword.

*** Yeah, its a bit odd that the fanbase hasn't really picked up on that fetish, but I guess that if Sesshoumaru wears such loose clothing and is so competent at fighting that even someone of Shishinki's (and thus Inu no Taisho's) calibur didn't even notice that he was minus an arm, its not too unusual that it slips the minds of the fans as well.

*** Physical health? The Sit command only ever did more than startle and mildly annoy him exactly once in the entire series, and it was when she used it multiple times in rapid succession and caused him to drop a boulder (which he was planning to use to trap her in the past) on himself. And besides, even ignoring that the movies aren't canon to either the manga or the anime, there's also the fact that the beads have shown the ability to knock him out of his youkai state, and each time he transforms without Tessaiga in hand, his bloodlust has been getting worse and worse throughout the series (though his resistance has also been increasing, but if Sesshoumaru is right, eventually it could turn him into an uncontrollable beast), so IY might actually prefer if his soulmate had a way to at least momentarily stop him long enough for her to do some sort of (preferably) nonlethal uber-miko thing to keep him from attacking her and anyone else if he gets into a situation where he transforms again.

** The logical reason would be that Rumiko's been drawing [=InuYasha=] with those beads for ten years or there abouts, so she was probably just too used to drawing those beads on that she never thought whether those beads should be there or not in the end. Also, I tend to notice that the fandom puts way more significance to those beads more than how it's treated in the actual manga. It's probably not as much as a big issue to her - it was mostly for comic relief (YMMV on how comical it was).

*** There's also the implication since the first chapter that ''something'' is messing with her mind her entire life as she can never remember the story of the Shikon Jewel no matter how many times she hears it; we later find out that Magatsuhi is that force, and may have been influencing her in that way to make her less effective, though it may also have something to do with Kikyou's desire to be a normal girl being expressed through her reincarnation.

** Destroying it may simply not have been possible. Burning it with Kikyou's body didn't destroy it, it just sent it with her into her reincarnation. Smashing it resulted in approximately a billion shards all over Japan. What else are they supposed to do?

*** Very few people are aware of the Jewel's existence, even less are aware of its origins, and practically no one knows that it [[spoiler:has any sort of will of its own. Kikyou, Kagome and even Miroku were trying to purify it and Kikyou thought that using it to wish Inu Yasha into a human would cause it to disappear, but that wasn't the right wish and Inu Yasha wouldn't really agree to it during the short period they had the jewel prior to its breaking. Kagome couldn't even remember the wish aspect until Magatsuchi was killed, clearing the veil on her memories that was implied since the first chapter (where she says that she can never remember the story of the Shikon no Tama no matter how many times her grandpa told her, for some reason).]]

* In the episode where they thought Kirara ran away, why did everyone agree to beat '''Shippo''' up? I mean, it was Miyoga's fault everything happened, and Shippo had a reasonable defense. More importantly, why the hell did Kagome encourage it? She's usually the one who delivers the sit command whenever [=InuYasha=] beats up Shippo.

** Because despite sitting [=InuYasha=] for giving Shippo a lump on the head all the time, Kagome knows that [=InuYasha=] would never actually seriously hurt Shippo. Giving him a few smacks on the head is just [=InuYasha=]'s way of disciplining Shippo, and in this case he needed it.

* And speaking of [=InuYasha=] beating Shippo, why doesn't he use his shapeshifting to turn into a rock or a statue? I'm not sure if it would still hurt Shippo, but at least he'll hurt [=InuYasha=] in return.
** Generally speaking, when [=InuYasha=] punches rocks and statues, he's completely unharmed and the rocks and statues are gravel. Besides, [=InuYasha=] is too quick for Shippou to react to when he's not prepared for it, [=InuYasha=] usually only whacks him when Shippou already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippou's point of view.

* About [=InuYasha=]'s demon transformation, why doesn't he try to train and master said transformation? He goes crazy whenever he transforms because his human side isn't strong enough to handle it, so why not try and make his human side stronger? It's not like some humans haven't shown levels of strength comparable to demons before. It seems like the writers missed perfectly good [[TrainingFromHell training from hell]] and [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Charles Atlas superpower]] opportunities.
** Everything we learn about the transformation indicates that it's not something that can possibly be "mastered" - the whole point of Demon Inuyasha in a storytelling sense is to provide a means for Inuyasha to learn that becoming a full demon, which was his motivation for quite a bit of the early parts of the series, would not solve the problems he thinks it would solve. It paves the way for Inuyasha to accept his half-human nature and learn to use what he has instead of trying to become something else.

* Why do [=InuYasha=] and Sesshoumaru have razor-sharp claws that serve as highly effective {{Natural Weapon}}s? They're supposed to be ''dog demons'', not ''cat demons''. Dogs' claws aren't sharp at all, and are used solely to provide traction while running.

** Dog claws aren't as sharp as cat claws because they're not retractable and thus wear down as the dog walks (and, as mentioned, can still cut you). Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru aren't walking on their claws, so they're not as blunted.

* When Sesshoumaru first learns Meido Zangetsuha it's said it transports an enemy straight to Hell, which is supported when he goes through one to save Rin and Kohaku from the Hellhound. When Byakuya and [=InuYasha=] use it, however, it transports Kagome and [=InuYasha=] himself into the Shikon Jewel's [[MentalWorld Inner World]] where Midoriko and Magatsuhi are duking it out. What's going on there? Also, is there a connection between Hell and the Youkai Graveyard, since the same skeleton birds show up in both places?
** It seems to allow you to cut into and out of other dimensions, with Hell being the base destination and the mastered version letting you slice into and out of pocket dimensions (as seen in the battle where Sesshoumaru gives Inu Yasha the Meidou Zangetsuha) and when Inu Yasha's even stronger Cutting Meidou lets him cut through time and space enough to break into the Shikon Jewel itself (despite it being the source of Naraku's immunity to the mastered pre-Cutting Meidou's dimension dumping ability, as well as having jumped 500 years into the future), then escape the jewel into a pocket dimension overlapping Kagome's own time period (her family and friends could hear him, but not see him).

* Since Kikyo could open up portals to Hell I'm confused as to why she just didn't send Naraku there all those times she stopped by and revealed important pieces of information to him that would have been better off kept secret. Furthermore, Midoriko's soul was absorbed by Kikyo and Magatsuhi's soul left the Jewel, was stated to be unable to return due to Naraku's evil displacing his, and was destroyed by Sesshoumaru... so how were both seen in the final arc inside the jewel?

** What Kikyou absorbed was probably only a remnant of Midoriko's soul that remained in the mummy. And there's a misunderstanding about Magatsuhi. Magatsuhi isn't the youkai Midoriko fought 500 years ago, it is just the evil spirit of the Jewel. According to the series the four souls become one spirit that resides inside the heart, if the person is good the spirit is balaced and is called Naohi, if the person is bad the spirit is corrupted and is then called Magatsuhi. The same happens with the Jewel, and while it seems Midoriko provides the Naohi and the youkai the Magatsuhi, their souls are not really the spirits per se; Magatsuhi is just the evil will of the youkai and therefore the Jewel itself. It seemed that by the end, the Jewel was so corrupted by Naraku, the evil spirit could take a form outside of it but the youkai's soul remained inside.
** Kikyou was 'slowly' dragging a mentally compromised Inu Yasha to Hell with her. In addition to Naraku having some substantial mind powers of his own and not letting his guard down around Kikyou, her original plan was to let Naraku gather all the Shikon shards and then purify him and it at the same time, though once she got more mentally stable was to try and kill him directly, though he got really tricky about neutralizing his weaknesses to her by that point.

** Sesshoumaru is ''that good,'' essentially. He's both naturally talented and incredibly skilled at swordsmanship, and between that and the immense power of his youki, he's able to more or less forcibly override the sword's built-in requirement. However, because he doesn't have that desire, Tessaiga is more easily reverted to its untransformed state by Kagome's arrow, which is what prompts Sesshoumaru to comment that the sword doesn't seem to like him very much.

** Double Standard is ALL Inuyasha. Kagome wasn't even interested in him. HE was the one who started the relationship. In fact SHE gave him THREE opportunities to be honest with her and back out if he did not want a relationship. He refused to let her go each time. First time he ASKED her to stay. Second she asked him to explain the deal with Kikyou and he told her it was all guilt. And again third time she asked him if he still loved Kikyou and he implied that he cared more about Kagome and even asked her to have more faith in him. Kagome has EVERY right to know what Inuyasha does since they were an official couple long before the manga ended. (The very fact that Inuyasha never stops getting jealous about Kouga proves this) Also the fact that Kagome tried to keep her distance from him after her return after the Kikyou's crisis chapter. It was INUYASHA (once again) who made the first move by putting his arm around her. If he can do wahtever he wants to Kagome, Kagome should be free to react to it in whatever way she pleases.

** Um because Kagome is not sneaking behind his back to go to Kouga? And lol you're really bringing up Houjo? Kagome has never pursued anything with him after she realized her feelings for Inuyasha. And yes Inuyasha goes to Kikyou out of guilt, but Kagome DOESN'T know that for sure. Ever seen how secretive he acts about going to Kikyou? Who could blame her for having her suspicions. Plus she never does anything to him when he goes. She's stays quiet and wants to be left alone so that she can deal with her feelings. Its pretty fucking immature of Inuyasha to go to her when he KNOWS she's upset and prod her (in one instance he does this despite Miroku warning him) Kagome does not trust Inuyasha when it comes to Kikyou. And why should she? After being honest about her feelings and expectations (even giving him chances to back out) , and putting her faith in him she comes back to find him embracing Kikyou. What is she supposed to think. Sure she can try to forgive him but can she forget something like that so easily? No. Inuyasha is not willing to try to understand Kagome's position. He acts like a child pretending that her holding a grudge about that is amazing and unbelievable when actually any normal human would act like that. And Kagome can't read Inuyasha's mind to guess that "its only just words or honor talking" As for their being an official couple. I think Inuyasha claiming he's "won" in front of a known love rival and admitting to being her boyfriend in front of her friends, when she was in the room, makes it obvious that both of them are pretty much on solid ground when it comes to a relationship. Also he complains to Kagome about how she is "ambiguous" about Kouga giving the impression that he is her boyfriend. Kagome of course reminds him of his own actions towards Kikyou and that shuts him up pretty fast.
** I'd say the very simple answer is that Inuyasha doesn't ''know'' that Kagome is in love with him. It can be hard to forget this fact, considering how we as the viewers get smashed over the head with Kagome's Epipheny of Love every fifteen episodes, but Kagome herself has never admitted her feelings to Inuyasha until the end of the series. And considering Inuyasha is extremely bad at telling what other people are feeling or thinking unless they tell him, he's not very likely to figure it out on his own. Now you could argue he ''may'' have an idea of it, but we can't know that for certain since the audience is never privy to Inuyasha's thoughts on the matter. However, due to his BrutalHonesty tendencies (not to mention he can be a smug bastard at times, especially around Kouga), we'd know for certain if Inuyasha actually did know that Kagome loved him as a fact because he'd have told Kouga this already the first chance he'd get. So if Inuyasha isn't certain about how Kagome feels about him, he'd really have no reason to confront Kagome's behaviour on the Kouga matter. (Although why Inuyasha never confronts Kagome about how she treats him whenever Kikyou is around is another issue, but I'd chalk that up to this series always leaning on the StatusQuoIsGod because I can't see an in universe reason why he wouldn't bring it up eventually)

** The fact that they said it repeatedly; Kikyo herself was surprised that Inu Yasha was still alive, suggesting that the sealing wasn't done on purpose, but rather an indication that she was either too weakened to kill him, or subconsciously wanted to keep him alive. As for still loving him despite his apparent betrayal, well, that's love. It doesn't always make sense and you can't just flip it off like a switch. If she had completely stopped being in love with him, she probably wouldn't have been so intensely psychotic when she saw him again. Love and hate aren't necessarily exclusive to one another.
* Why does everyone treat Inuyasha/Kikyo/Kagome like it was a love triangle? Even discounting the fact that two of the people involved are pre and post-reincarnations of the same soul, Inuyasha was never shown to be torn between Kagome and Kikyou in a romantic sense, as much as he's torn between the fact that happiness that Kagome gives him in life, and the suicidal guilt he feels towards his role in Kikyou's death leading him to believe he doesn't deserve happiness. While he certainly loves Kikyou, he never planned to run off with her to live Happily Ever After; his original plan was to do his best to ensure that the guy that destroyed her would never lay another finger on her and then die with her.
** And on Kikyou's part, after she got more stable after her resurrection, her main concern romantically seemed to be making sure that Kagome was a worthy person to take care of the man that she loved, in spite of her own jealousy and resentment over the fact that she wasn't the person who would be at Inuyasha's side.

** Well, it was only present in two generations before Miroku's, and they might not want to have risked the chance that it would cause the Wind Tunnel to instantly implode, as the blast radius of its self-destruct is well above the length of their arm.

** Sending Naraku to Hell might have [[LikeABadassOutOfHell backfired spectacularly,]] at least without defeating him first.

** This may not answer your question completely, but I think it was mainly due to Kagome finding a reason to see "good" in Kouga when he stopped his wolves from eating Shippou when he was found to have been also taken along with Kagome, also when Kouga was keeping her safe during the attack from the birds of paradise. Because of that, she decided to forgive him...and let's face it, she not only bothered to get along with InuYasha right after he tried to kill her, but even fell in love with him, so suggesting that she'd be friendly with someone who didn't directly kill an entire of village of people she didn't know isn't that farfetched. Kagome can (and I know any serious Kagome fans will be flaming me for this) be pretty shallow in terms of which youkai she trusts...with the only exception being Jinengi (who never even did anything wrong to be hated), any youkai she has been willing to forgive or trust all look human (and were even bishounen worthy). Also, an outstanding majority of the time, Miroku, Sango and Shippou will take Kagome's side in most disputes, regardless that there may not be a proper reason as to why they should just be agreeing with her side when the issue was never even explained. As far as Kagome trusted Kouga, they were willing to do so too, even though it makes little sense for at least a Buddhist monk taught to exorcise evil spirits and a Youkai Exterminator trained in disposing of youkai that threaten humans to have forgiven the wolf demon without a good reason. Then again, this probably was because Rumiko didn't want to spend too much time in having Kouga to prove himself as a "good" guy anymore than what the fans have seen at that point just for the fact that the other characters were not there to see it; so letting everyone else take it as "if Kagome decided to give him a chance, than we should too" was just a quick and easy fix to just move on. Also, on a special note for InuYasha, although they are "rivals" InuYasha isn't a saint himself and doesn't have anything against killing when necessary (actually... that's usually just how he resolves most of his disputes in the first instance) so of course he was not going to find any problem with that. He'd only find a problem in Kouga declaring love for Kagome, which was the only basis for their constant dislike of the other.

**** That wasn't the point. The OP wanted to know why the heroes act friendly to Kouga after ordering his wolves to eat the remaining villagers in their first meeting. Also I did say InuYasha has nothing against killing when ''necessary''. I wasn't implying that he'd go on a rampage and kill a bunch of humans just cause.

**** That was pretty much how I've tried to answer that question. The humans are typically population-checked by the demons up until they have a lot of internal political strife, and they essentially forget to keep their numbers down. The humans grow, gain technological advancements (as in, guns), and with Kagome's and InuYasha's unwitting help (prior to this), take over and turn genocidal. Kagome, being a very powerful priestess (by the end of the series) presumably spends the end of hte manga onward keeping humans safe...by killing off the demons that pose a threat, typically the powerful ones. Inuyasha doesn't realize that this is what has happened to all the demons in the modern era, and goes about helping her, aiding in a kind of {{Butterfly Effect}} - they start small, going after ones deemed "threats" (both big political players in the demon world and small pests), and the consequence is that entire civilizations and races - including his father's own, are killed off. Kagome doesn't see the effects of what she's doing until it's too late to reverse the damage, and at first, she sees nothing wrong with killing powerful demons (because it's protecting the humans, right?). The demons, once they figure out that they're being hunted and their numbers are falling far faster than they ever imagined, are too disorganized and still caught up in the politics that led to the lapse in watch to put up a front. {{Curbstomp Battle}} occurs. Demon abilities, it turns out, don't beat small metal balls that can smash bone from great distances and bring bacterial infection to an open wound, despite their {{Healing Factor}}s. In addition, I assumed there was a {{Stable Time Loop}} making it so that events that have already occurred in the future (extinction of demons) will happen regardless of what is done in the past, having already happened. If Kagome were to die before finishing her role in said events, someone else would eventually continue on and take her place. But that's just how I worked it out. Feel free to correct me here.

* During the Band of Seven arc, why did everyone keep calling the feminine one (whose name escapes me) "He"? After all, he-or-she sounded feminine and had a crush on InuYasha.

* After seeing the first episode again, this Troper just found something ridiculous. In the very first scene of the series, we have Kikyou standing by the stairs and torii of the village, shooting an arrow at InuYasha who was running by the Goshinboku (the God Tree). Now this would imply that the Goshinboku is besides the village, you'd think so? However, later in that same episode, when Kagome comes to the past for the first time, when she goes to the Goshinboku we see that it's completely surrounded by forest, with no part of the village in sight. So what the hell happened to the geographic location of the Goshinboku and the village? Did the village just decide to remove apart of itself away from the Goshinboku, or does the Goshinboku have some sort of magical teleportation skills that caused it to appear next to the village just for InuYasha to be pinned to it then disappear and find a nice place in the middle of the forest to hide, or what? And it wasn't just the anime that had this problem - the manga did this to! So clearly Rumiko stuffed up somewhere here, on the very first CHAPTER.

*** You mean InuYasha was perceived to be the "bad guy" when he got shot. Remember, Naraku did deceive both InuYasha and Kikyou into thinking the other betrayed them.

** The logical reason would be that Rumiko's been drawing InuYasha with those beads for ten years or there abouts, so she was probably just too used to drawing those beads on that she never thought whether those beads should be there or not in the end. Also, I tend to notice that the fandom puts way more significance to those beads more than how it's treated in the actual manga. It's probably not as much as a big issue to her - it was mostly for comic relief (YMMV on how comical it was).

* In the episode where they thought Kirara ran away, why did everyone agree to beat '''Shippo''' up? I mean, it was Miyoga's fault everything happened, and Shippo had a reasonable defense. More importantly, why the hell did Kagome encourage it? She's usually the one who delivers the sit command whenever InuYasha beats up Shippo.

** Because despite sitting InuYasha for giving Shippo a lump on the head all the time, Kagome knows that InuYasha would never actually seriously hurt Shippo. Giving him a few smacks on the head is just InuYasha's way of disciplining Shippo, and in this case he needed it.

* And speaking of InuYasha beating Shippo, why doesn't he use his shapeshifting to turn into a rock or a statue? I'm not sure if it would still hurt Shippo, but at least he'll hurt InuYasha in return.
** Generally speaking, when InuYasha punches rocks and statues, he's completely unharmed and the rocks and statues are gravel. Besides, InuYasha is too quick for Shippou to react to when he's not prepared for it, InuYasha usually only whacks him when Shippou already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippou's point of view.

* About InuYasha's demon transformation, why doesn't he try to train and master said transformation? He goes crazy whenever he transforms because his human side isn't strong enough to handle it, so why not try and make his human side stronger? It's not like some humans haven't shown levels of strength comparable to demons before. It seems like the writers missed perfectly good [[TrainingFromHell training from hell]] and [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower Charles Atlas superpower]] opportunities.

* Why do InuYasha and Sesshoumaru have razor-sharp claws that serve as highly effective {{Natural Weapon}}s? They're supposed to be ''dog demons'', not ''cat demons''. Dogs' claws aren't sharp at all, and are used solely to provide traction while running.

**** After all, that's exactly what happens in {{Karas}}. Demons still exist on earth- most humans just don't see them because their minds are closed to the belief in the supernatural.

** Same can be asked for her friends, who never seem to question, grow suspicious or get the slightest bit annoyed at how she constantly gets sick for weeks at a time, carrying some new, usually serious illness every time, which eventually would just sound like the lamest excuses to get off from school. Instead, they eagerly interrogate her about her "boyfriend", [[FridgeLogic apparently never wondering how she hangs so much out with this boy when she's supposed to be hospitalized.]]

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* Double Standard is ALL Inuyasha. Kagome wasn't even interested in him. HE was the one who started the relationship. In fact SHE gave him THREE opportunities to be honest with her and back out if he did not want a relationship. He refused to let her go each time. First time he ASKED her to stay. Second she asked him to explain the deal with Kikyou and he told her it was all guilt. And again third time she asked him if he still loved Kikyou and he implied that he cared more about Kagome and even asked her to have more faith in him. Kagome has EVERY right to know what Inuyasha does since they were an official couple long before the manga ended. (The very fact that Inuyasha never stops getting jealous about Kouga proves this) Also the fact that Kagome tried to keep her distance from him after her return after the Kikyou's crisis chapter. It was INUYASHA (once again) who made the first move by putting his arm around her. If he can do wahtever he wants to Kagome, Kagome should be free to react to it in whatever way she pleases.

** Um because Kagome is not sneaking behind his back to go to Kouga? And lol you're really bringing up Houjo? Kagome has never pursued anything with him after she realized her feelings for Inuyasha. And yes Inuyasha goes to Kikyou out of guilt, but Kagome DOESN'T know that for sure. Ever seen how secretive he acts about going to Kikyou? Who could blame her for having her suspicions. Plus she never does anything to him when he goes. She's stays quiet and wants to be left alone so that she can deal with her feelings. Its pretty fucking immature of Inuyasha to go to her when he KNOWS she's upset and prod her (in one instance he does this despite Miroku warning him) Kagome does not trust Inuyasha when it comes to Kikyou. And why should she? After being honest about her feelings and expectations (even giving him chances to back out) , and putting her faith in him she comes back to find him embracing Kikyou. What is she supposed to think. Sure she can try to forgive him but can she forget something like that so easily? No. Inuyasha is not willing to try to understand Kagome's position. He acts like a child pretending that her holding a grudge about that is amazing and unbelievable when actually any normal human would act like that. And Kagome can't read Inuyasha's mind to guess that "its only just words or honor talking" As for their being an official couple. I think Inuyasha claiming he's "won" in front of a known love rival and admitting to being her boyfriend in front of her friends, when she was in the room, makes it obvious that both of them are pretty much on solid ground when it comes to a relationship. Also he complains to Kagome about how she is "ambiguous" about Kouga giving the impression that he is her boyfriend. Kagome of course reminds him of his own actions towards Kikyou and that shuts him up pretty fast.

** Um because Kagome is not sneaking behind his back to go to Kouga? And lol you're really bringing up Houjo? Kagome has never pursued anything with him after she realized her feelings for Inuyasha. And yes Inuyasha goes to Kikyou out of guilt, but Kagome DOESN'T know that for sure. Ever seen how secretive he acts about going to Kikyou? Who could blame her for having her suspicions. Plus she never does anything to him when he goes. She's stays quiet and wants to be left alone so that she can deal with her feelings. Its pretty fucking immature of Inuyasha to go to her when he KNOWS she's upset and prod her (in one instance he does this despite Miroku warning him) Kagome does not trust Inuyasha when it comes to Kikyou. And why should she? After being honest about her feelings and expectations (even giving him chances to back out) , and putting her faith in him she comes back to find him embracing Kikyou. What is she supposed to think. Sure she can try to forgive him but can she forget something like that so easily? No. Inuyasha is not willing to try to understand Kagome's position. He acts like a child pretending that her holding a grudge about that is amazing and unbelievable when actually any normal human would act like that.
And Kagome can't read Inuyasha's mind to guess that "its only just words or honor talking"

** ''Kagome has EVERY right to know what Inuyasha does since they were an official couple long before the manga ended. (The very fact that Inuyasha never stops getting jealous about Kouga proves this)'' Uh...what? Seriously, if we're to assume that two characters are officially together just because one of them gets jealous over the other, we might as well say that Miroku and Sango were officially together long before they actually had a RelationshipUpgrade because of Sango getting jealous whenever Miroku flirts with other women. And even if Inuyasha and Kagome were an OfficialCouple before the end of the series, not one of Inuyasha's interactions with Kikyo should make Kagome act like a [[WomanScorned jilted]] [[ClingyJealousGirl girlfriend]]. Yeah, Inuyasha occasionally tells Kikyo that he'll protect her, but not only does Kagome fail to realize that that's Inuyasha's guilt and sense of honor talking, they generally are all just words. If Inuyasha ''really'' loved Kikyo more than Kagome, then he would've stayed with the former instead of returning to the latter. And if it's "cheating" when Inuyasha talks to Kikyo about how to kill Naraku, how the heck is it not "cheating" when Kagome does absolutely nothing to make guys like Koga and Hojo stop pursuing her? If Inuyasha's "cheating" whenever he saves Kikyo's life, how is Kagome not "cheating" whenever she does the same for Koga?

* Double Standard is ALL Inuyasha. Kagome wasn't even interested in him. HE was the one who started the relationship. In fact SHE gave him THREE opportunities to be honest with her and back out if he did not want a relationship. He refused to let her go each time. First time he ASKED her to stay. Second she asked him to explain the deal with Kikyou and he told her it was all guilt. And again third time she asked him if he still loved Kikyou and he implied that he cared more about Kagome and even asked her to have more faith in him. Kagome has EVERY right to know what Inuyasha does since they were an official couple long before the manga ended. (The very fact that Inuyasha never stops getting jealous about Kouga proves this) Also the fact that Kagome tried to keep her distance from him after her return after the Kikyou's crisis chapter. It was INUYASHA (once again) who made the first move by putting his arm around her. If he can do wahtever he wants to Kagome, Kagome should be free to react to it in whatever way she pleases.

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* What exactly transpired between Kaguya and Naraku in the second movie? It is implied that they had met in the past and were not on friendly terms, since Naraku faked his own death to lure Kaguya out of hiding and absorb her. Plus, they both had run-ins with Miroku's grandfather.

** The series have shown how entire clans of Demons have died during the course of the series. They also die by the droves compared to the humans, where "hundreds" of demons show up to face the protagonists and antagonists alike, while when a human village gets destroyed, only a few dozen corpses at most are shown. This could mean that Demons as a race was on the decline, while humans (normally prey) are on the rise. In addition, it's entirely possible that the advent of guns help destroy demons, as Ginkotsu was more or less a primitive tank and Renkotsu was using blackpowder dynamite sticks and they managed to freak out Kouga, who is implied to be a very strong Demon. Demons still exist in the modern world (as shown by the piper and the Noh Mask) but the population is so small now that they're no longer a fact of life. Finally, most of the Demons appear to be simple animals, laying eggs and whatnot. Humans have hunted several dangerous animals to extinction to protect our asses, so it's not that much of a stretch.

* What exactly transpired between Kaguya and Naraku in the second movie? It is implied that they had met in the past and were not on friendly terms. Plus, they both had run-ins with Miroku's grandfather.