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*** I don't think I'd go so far as to say that Sesshomaru likes humans now. At the end of the series, it still seems to be only Rin and to an extent Kogome that he can tolerate.
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* A theory for this was mentioned previously in Kagome’s family, but nonetheless- In the Final Act, [[spoiler: Kagome chooses to go back and stay with Inuyasha after a tearful goodbye with her family. But... Does this cause any timeloops? Will she forever repeat the cycle of living her life in the feudal era, and then being reborn in modern Tokyo only to go back? Or does this cause a change in history for there to be a new timeline?]]
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** At first, she feels responsible for having (Albeit unintentionally) breaking the jewel, so it’s likely she initially came back for that reason, as they rely on her ability to see said jewel shards. Afterwards, it’s noted that it becomes personal as she learns and hears the main casts stories and encounters with Naraku.
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** It may not be that they need the promotion to grow more tails, so much as that Kitsune have a more structured heirarchy due to their natures (One, they're more tricksters and illusionists over physical combatants, and so prize intelligence and clever thinking over raw physicality. Two, Kitsune are more likely to interact and integrate with human society, and so may have stepped back from the "barbarity" of measuring worth solely in violence, opting for a social structure more like human governance)
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** Another thought could be that, after the time skip, he's using a low-power illusion to make himself look younger. Both for the sake of making sure Kagome recognizes him, and possibly as a little bit of a manipulation.
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*** It seems less like he dislikes humanity, so much as that he holds an almost aristocratic disdain for them. He is, after all, both the firstborn son of a lord and Daiyoukai, and a Daiyoukai in his own right, and as such just considers himself above the common rabble of humanity. He might make exceptions (Rin), but generally he sees no reason to care about the short-lived and weak masses of humankind.
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*** Also, he may keep wearing them as a reminder of who he was before (the angry, self-interested loner who wanted to become a demon for the sake of power), and in so doing, keep himself from ever falling back into that person (think a human wearing something from a shameful past so that they remember and never fall back into that person).
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** One possible explanation is ties to that particular temporal rift. Kagome is the reincarnated soul of Kikyou, and so her soul exists both in the modern era and the Sengoku period. Inuyasha has a link through the tree he was sealed to, which happens to be located in the Higurashi shrine grounds. Thus he has a tether to the modern Era through it. The others have no such tie (at least to that portal and that point in time), so the well needs a guidepost to send them to Kagome's era. They might be able to go through other time rifts (if, say, their reincarnations lived in another place and time, or there was a location of great significance to them near one)
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* Why is Inuyasha still wearing the prayer bead necklace on the final page? I mean, three years later, Inuyasha is a Nice Guy, they're ''married to each other'', and Kagome doesn't trust him enough to take the necklace off? Giving them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he just trusts her, or she had it de-enchanted, or he likes it for sentimental reasons, or [[spoiler: they're just that kinky]], but I'd still feel better seeing the necklace gone.
** Well aside from the fact that the '''SIT!''' command is a ready-made source of comic relief, I like to think of it as a symbol of trust and fealty, kind of like a wedding ring. Husbands and wives both consent to wear a wedding ring as an outward symbol of the fact that they belong to another person. Just the same, Inuyasha consents to keep wearing the necklace (or at least stops complaining about having to wear it) as a sign of his trust in Kagome not to abuse it. If Inuyasha suddenly asked Kagome to take the necklace off it would probably mean their romance is in shambles.
*** That can be reversed against Kagome as well, as at the end of one of the movies he clearly doesn't have the beads until Kagome tells him to close his eyes, then puts them back on. He acted just fine without them, but this implies Kagome doesn't trust him at all as he even asks her why and she doesn't answer him, she only says SIT while smiling. It seems almost sadistic, and that it's more like a safety mechanism for Kagome against a possible danger that doesn't exist. This means there is no romance already, the only way to fix it would to trust the man she is with and take the things off. 1) She's worried he'll turn any minute, or 2) Kagome enjoys her power over Inuyasha, whether she uses it for some form of self power or simply to constantly use it to teach him to not be rude, although there are plenty of examples where she simply uses it to take out her frustration when Inuyasha clearly hasn't done anything. 3) Kagome is worried he only likes her because he has the prayer beads on and is therefore tied to her. It'd be perefectly understandable for him to want them off considering Kagome seems to go off like any adolescent, but this has serious ramifications against Inuyasha's physical health.
*** To be fair, the bead scene at the end of the movie was because well, the movie is essentially filler, thus can't change the status quo of the series (an awkward contrivance of StatusQuoIsGod really), it should be noted however that the beads only ever really served there ORIGINAL purpose a handful of times, most were at the beginning of the series, when Inuyasha really would have killed Kagome because of his resentment towards Kikyo, the other times being when Inuyasha's demon blood took over. The rest of the times the beads are used are mostly a form of bitch slap.
*** 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 Sesshomaru 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 beads were originally enchanted by Kaede. One would presume that Kaede could also take cancel the spell, and may have done so, after which Inuyasha might just have chosen to continue to wear it for sentimental reasons.
** 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).
** Well aside from the fact that the '''SIT!''' command is a ready-made source of comic relief, I like to think of it as a symbol of trust and fealty, kind of like a wedding ring. Husbands and wives both consent to wear a wedding ring as an outward symbol of the fact that they belong to another person. Just the same, Inuyasha consents to keep wearing the necklace (or at least stops complaining about having to wear it) as a sign of his trust in Kagome not to abuse it. If Inuyasha suddenly asked Kagome to take the necklace off it would probably mean their romance is in shambles.
*** That can be reversed against Kagome as well, as at the end of one of the movies he clearly doesn't have the beads until Kagome tells him to close his eyes, then puts them back on. He acted just fine without them, but this implies Kagome doesn't trust him at all as he even asks her why and she doesn't answer him, she only says SIT while smiling. It seems almost sadistic, and that it's more like a safety mechanism for Kagome against a possible danger that doesn't exist. This means there is no romance already, the only way to fix it would to trust the man she is with and take the things off. 1) She's worried he'll turn any minute, or 2) Kagome enjoys her power over Inuyasha, whether she uses it for some form of self power or simply to constantly use it to teach him to not be rude, although there are plenty of examples where she simply uses it to take out her frustration when Inuyasha clearly hasn't done anything. 3) Kagome is worried he only likes her because he has the prayer beads on and is therefore tied to her. It'd be perefectly understandable for him to want them off considering Kagome seems to go off like any adolescent, but this has serious ramifications against Inuyasha's physical health.
*** To be fair, the bead scene at the end of the movie was because well, the movie is essentially filler, thus can't change the status quo of the series (an awkward contrivance of StatusQuoIsGod really), it should be noted however that the beads only ever really served there ORIGINAL purpose a handful of times, most were at the beginning of the series, when Inuyasha really would have killed Kagome because of his resentment towards Kikyo, the other times being when Inuyasha's demon blood took over. The rest of the times the beads are used are mostly a form of bitch slap.
*** 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 Sesshomaru 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 beads were originally enchanted by Kaede. One would presume that Kaede could also take cancel the spell, and may have done so, after which Inuyasha might just have chosen to continue to wear it for sentimental reasons.
** 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).
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** Ignoring the causality loop it ends up creating, isn't it hinted that Kagome's family (including herself but we're ignoring the loop) are ultimately her and Inuyasha's descendents? It would certainly explain how her grandfather ended up with the cursed Noh mask, with the intention of breaking the curse on it no less; so we can at least infere that his position as priest isn't just for show and he has some power and knows how to use it despite being a cloudcukoo lander, and that his family going back are probably the same. And speaking of families, family histories and stories are a pretty important part of Japanese culture, it's unlikely that Inuyasha and Kagome didn't tell their children and grandchildren at least an abridged version of their story, including Kagome's orgins and the battle against Naraku. Given all of that if Kagome's family really are her own descendents through her granfather it's possible that he either knows or at least has an inkling of what is going on in a sort of fortold destiny sort of way, and if that is the case he also knows that by his own existence, Kagome survives unharmed. He/they may be ignoring it - or seeming to ignore it - because they don't want to mess with destiny and their own existence, and because they by way of that know she's going to be okay.
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** Ignoring the causality loop it ends up creating, isn't it hinted that Kagome's family (including herself but we're ignoring the loop) are ultimately her and Inuyasha's descendents? It would certainly explain how her grandfather ended up with the cursed Noh mask, with the intention of breaking the curse on it no less; so we can at least infere that his position as priest isn't just for show and he has some power and knows how to use it despite being a cloudcukoo lander, and that his family going back are probably the same. And speaking of families, family histories and stories are a pretty important part of Japanese culture, it's unlikely that Inuyasha and Kagome didn't tell their children and grandchildren at least an abridged version of their story, including Kagome's orgins and the battle against Naraku. Given all of that if Kagome's family really are her own descendents through her granfather it's possible that he either knows or at least has an inkling of what is going on in a sort of fortold destiny sort of way, and if that is the case he also knows that by his own existence, Kagome survives unharmed. He/they may be ignoring it - or seeming to ignore it - because they don't want to mess with destiny and their own existence, and because they by way of that know she's going to be okay.
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*** Building on this, the biggest obstacle to mastering a bike is balance. And depending on what kind of monk Miroku is (which seems to be some variant of traveling exorcist), he's probably had some degree of martial training, so he'd have a good sense of balance.
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* As a theorem, perhaps the waning belief in magic and spirituality has simply weakened the presence of youkai and the like, so they have simply faded into a shadow of their former glory.
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** Arguably, it could simply be an understanding that Kouga did what he did because of nature, not malice. He's a Wolf Demon, and his actions were that of a starving animal. Similar to forgiving a wounded animal for attacking others while blinded by pain
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*** Presumably, the well's time rift rejects foreign spiritual presences (IE, anyone who isn't tethered to the eras)
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* How did Inuyasha (in episode 57) in human form survive getting smashed to the ground by that fat sage in stone form?
** I believe he was wearing the cloak of the fire rat, which is, according to the show, like some kind of armor, plus, when he is in his human form, he'd still be slightly more invincible than the standard human.
* Why didn't Kagome use the "Sit" command every time Inuyasha transformed into a full-demon? She did it twice, but refused to do so beyond that when it was more crucial.
** I think that command would only work if he was either in the beginning and ending stages of the full youkai mode and or when he's not strong enough to resist it. The instances as to why she did it was because he was weakened enough to not resist it (I recall that he was injured pretty bad in one of those instances)
** I believe he was wearing the cloak of the fire rat, which is, according to the show, like some kind of armor, plus, when he is in his human form, he'd still be slightly more invincible than the standard human.
* Why didn't Kagome use the "Sit" command every time Inuyasha transformed into a full-demon? She did it twice, but refused to do so beyond that when it was more crucial.
** I think that command would only work if he was either in the beginning and ending stages of the full youkai mode and or when he's not strong enough to resist it. The instances as to why she did it was because he was weakened enough to not resist it (I recall that he was injured pretty bad in one of those instances)
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** I believe he was wearing the cloak of the fire rat, which is, according to the show, like some kind of armor, plus, when he is in his human form, he'd still be slightly more invincible than the standard human.
* Why didn't Kagome use the "Sit" command every time Inuyasha transformed into a full-demon? She did it twice, but refused to do so beyond that when it was more crucial.
** I think that command would only work if he was either in the beginning and ending stages of the full youkai mode and or when he's not strong enough to resist it. The instances as to why she did it was because he was weakened enough to not resist it (I recall that he was injured pretty bad in one of those instances)
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* What were the laws of heredity, vis-a-vis demonic powers? Every half-demon shown with known parentage had a demon father and a human mother. If the mother was demon and the father human, would the child still be half-demonic?
** Yes. Although youkai heredity is quirky to say the least, one human parent plus one youkai parent equals a hanyou regardless of which was which, and if memory serves the anime does provide one example of a hanyou with a human father and a youkai mother in the person of Izumo, the hanyou who was manufacturing faux Shikon Jewels.
** There's also the "Thunder Brothers" from an early episode; this troper distinctly remembers a scene where one of the brothers discussed his parentage and noted that his mother was a youkai.
*** Both of the Thunder Brothers' parents were youkai, so they don't really count. They were just different types of youkai, and Hiten and Souten seemed to have taken after their father while Manten took after their mother.
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** Yes. Although youkai heredity is quirky to say the least, one human parent plus one youkai parent equals a hanyou regardless of which was which, and if memory serves the anime does provide one example of a hanyou with a human father and a youkai mother in the person of Izumo, the hanyou who was manufacturing faux Shikon Jewels.
** There's also the "Thunder Brothers" from an early episode; this troper distinctly remembers a scene where one of the brothers discussed his parentage and noted that his mother was a youkai.
*** Both of the Thunder Brothers' parents were youkai, so they don't really count. They were just different types of youkai, and Hiten and Souten seemed to have taken after their father while Manten took after their mother.
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* What were the laws of heredity, vis-a-vis demonic powers? Every half-demon shown with known parentage had a demon father and a human mother. If the mother was demon and the father human, would the child still be half-demonic?
** Yes. Although youkai heredity is quirky to say the least, one human parent plus one youkai parent equals a hanyou regardless of which was which, and if memory serves the anime does provide one example of a hanyou with a human father and a youkai mother in the person of Izumo, the hanyou who was manufacturing faux Shikon Jewels.
** There's also the "Thunder Brothers" from an early episode; this troper distinctly remembers a scene where one of the brothers discussed his parentage and noted that his mother was a youkai.
*** Both of the Thunder Brothers' parents were youkai, so they don't really count. They were just different types of youkai, and Hiten and Souten seemed to have taken after their father while Manten took after their mother.
* When everyone was shown three years later in the last chapter, where the hell was Koga?
** With his pack.
** The question you really should be asking is where the hell was Kouga after he got conveniently written out of the series? Considering the guy spent near 400 chapters chasing after Naraku just like anyone else for revenge, why did he suddenly drop all of that after losing the shards? Sure, he probably realised that Kagome only had feelings for Inuyasha, but really, after gaining a weapon that finally made him useful, why did he just drop all that "avenge my comrads" motive and leave?!
*** You have to remember, Naraku was pretty powerful at that point, having absorbed Moryomaru and Hakudoshi, along with having most/all of the jewel. Koga was barely able to keep up a fight, and that was with his jewel shards. Powerful weapon or not, if he didn't have speed to get in and out of close range (as that was the type of weapon he had), he would be killed. Not wanting to be a burden, (or perhaps cause unnecessary grief to Kagome) he could've decided that leaving with as much dignity as possible was the best solution. At least, it appears that way. In the second anime, they handwave it by [[spoiler: Kagome mentioning a rumor that he got married to Ayame.]]
*** All of that makes sense, but the last thing with [[spoiler: Kagome saying that Kouga married Ayame]] was never in the manga. So as far as the manga is concerned, Kouga just disappears.
* What was up with the ending (unmarked spoilers)? I get that the jewel wanted Naraku and Kagome to replace Midoriko and the sealed demon within itself. So why was Naraku's wish for Kagome to be [[Film/DragMeToHell dragged into hell?]] Why didn't he wish for love like he was contemplating? Besides, Byakuya slashed Kagome with the stolen Meidou Zangetsuha katana a few hours beforehand. Why didn't she get sent to hell at that time?
** Well in the end, Naraku just wanted to go to hell and end up with Kikyo's soul there for eternity. Which really makes no damn sense because, if he wanted to go to hell with Kikyo'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.
*** I assumed that it wasn't literal hell, and that his death shoved his soul entirely into the Shikon no Tama, which is the perfect moment to cause Kagome to corrupt herself with a selfish wish and be trapped there with him. Just wishing her to love him wouldn't suffice as she was basically able to purify the effects of the jewel pretty well even before the majority of her power got unsealed, and Onigumo's greatest wish was always to corrupt Kikyo's pure heart. Besides, I don't think the Shikon no Tama was ever shown to grant wishes as non-physical as that.
** As Kagome pointed out, the Jewel tricks people. It takes a rather simple wish and twists it to it's own purposes. Kikyo had wished to see Inuyasha again, look how that turned out. It's possible that Naraku's dying wish was to cause Inuyasha and/or Kagome pain. He had set up Kagome to be taken away from Inuyasha before the fight even moved outside, he didn't really need to wish for her to be pulled into "hell." The Jewel used this has a chance to snare them both. Perhaps his wish was for immortality, something the Jewel would give him by dooming the two of them to fight within it for eternity. Maybe he wished to be the ultimate power, which he would be... as part of the Jewel.
** Naraku says this directly: even if both his and Kikyo'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 Kikyo was to make her reincarnation and himself replace Shikon no Tama's old inhabitants in their eternal battle.
* Inuyasha's heightened senses make him easily overcome by strong tastes and smells, like curry or India ink. What do you think his alcohol resistance would be?
** Smell has nothing to do with metabolism.
** No, but it DOES have to do with getting into your system at all. If he got it past his nose to drink it, he'd probably have had a conniption at the taste, especially if it were very strong.
*** We have seen an instance of Inuyasha versus alcohol when the group ran afoul of the sake mist in "The Last Banquet of Miroku's Master." He got kind of wobbly, but held up better than the girls and Shippo did, and didn't seem especially bothered by the smell.
*** But there was that time in ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' when the whole gang visited the Demon Potions Master and Inuyasha fell in a barrel of sake, after which he began seeing 3 Kagomes instead of 1.
** Inuyasha also has a better immunity to poison (whether gas or liquid) compared to everyone else in his group. Where others are seen struggling to breathe in Naraku's or any other demon's Miasma, Inuyasha either ignores it completely or just has to loosely cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve for a moment before moving on like nothing happened. And as we all know alcohol is poisonous, so it could be the reason why he's resistant to it is because of its poisonous nature.
*** Yes, alcohol is poisonous but that's in large amounts (supposing one tries to consume it in the usual way and is without metabolic issues). Of course, we could shrug it off as him being hanyou, which combines both a dog (youkai dog, notwithstanding) and human's tolerance, so, in the case of ''The Final Act'', he probably just gets drunk easily, as dogs can't hold their liquor, however, we didn't see exactly how much he drank.
** Yes. Although youkai heredity is quirky to say the least, one human parent plus one youkai parent equals a hanyou regardless of which was which, and if memory serves the anime does provide one example of a hanyou with a human father and a youkai mother in the person of Izumo, the hanyou who was manufacturing faux Shikon Jewels.
** There's also the "Thunder Brothers" from an early episode; this troper distinctly remembers a scene where one of the brothers discussed his parentage and noted that his mother was a youkai.
*** Both of the Thunder Brothers' parents were youkai, so they don't really count. They were just different types of youkai, and Hiten and Souten seemed to have taken after their father while Manten took after their mother.
* When everyone was shown three years later in the last chapter, where the hell was Koga?
** With his pack.
** The question you really should be asking is where the hell was Kouga after he got conveniently written out of the series? Considering the guy spent near 400 chapters chasing after Naraku just like anyone else for revenge, why did he suddenly drop all of that after losing the shards? Sure, he probably realised that Kagome only had feelings for Inuyasha, but really, after gaining a weapon that finally made him useful, why did he just drop all that "avenge my comrads" motive and leave?!
*** You have to remember, Naraku was pretty powerful at that point, having absorbed Moryomaru and Hakudoshi, along with having most/all of the jewel. Koga was barely able to keep up a fight, and that was with his jewel shards. Powerful weapon or not, if he didn't have speed to get in and out of close range (as that was the type of weapon he had), he would be killed. Not wanting to be a burden, (or perhaps cause unnecessary grief to Kagome) he could've decided that leaving with as much dignity as possible was the best solution. At least, it appears that way. In the second anime, they handwave it by [[spoiler: Kagome mentioning a rumor that he got married to Ayame.]]
*** All of that makes sense, but the last thing with [[spoiler: Kagome saying that Kouga married Ayame]] was never in the manga. So as far as the manga is concerned, Kouga just disappears.
* What was up with the ending (unmarked spoilers)? I get that the jewel wanted Naraku and Kagome to replace Midoriko and the sealed demon within itself. So why was Naraku's wish for Kagome to be [[Film/DragMeToHell dragged into hell?]] Why didn't he wish for love like he was contemplating? Besides, Byakuya slashed Kagome with the stolen Meidou Zangetsuha katana a few hours beforehand. Why didn't she get sent to hell at that time?
** Well in the end, Naraku just wanted to go to hell and end up with Kikyo's soul there for eternity. Which really makes no damn sense because, if he wanted to go to hell with Kikyo'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.
*** I assumed that it wasn't literal hell, and that his death shoved his soul entirely into the Shikon no Tama, which is the perfect moment to cause Kagome to corrupt herself with a selfish wish and be trapped there with him. Just wishing her to love him wouldn't suffice as she was basically able to purify the effects of the jewel pretty well even before the majority of her power got unsealed, and Onigumo's greatest wish was always to corrupt Kikyo's pure heart. Besides, I don't think the Shikon no Tama was ever shown to grant wishes as non-physical as that.
** As Kagome pointed out, the Jewel tricks people. It takes a rather simple wish and twists it to it's own purposes. Kikyo had wished to see Inuyasha again, look how that turned out. It's possible that Naraku's dying wish was to cause Inuyasha and/or Kagome pain. He had set up Kagome to be taken away from Inuyasha before the fight even moved outside, he didn't really need to wish for her to be pulled into "hell." The Jewel used this has a chance to snare them both. Perhaps his wish was for immortality, something the Jewel would give him by dooming the two of them to fight within it for eternity. Maybe he wished to be the ultimate power, which he would be... as part of the Jewel.
** Naraku says this directly: even if both his and Kikyo'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 Kikyo was to make her reincarnation and himself replace Shikon no Tama's old inhabitants in their eternal battle.
* Inuyasha's heightened senses make him easily overcome by strong tastes and smells, like curry or India ink. What do you think his alcohol resistance would be?
** Smell has nothing to do with metabolism.
** No, but it DOES have to do with getting into your system at all. If he got it past his nose to drink it, he'd probably have had a conniption at the taste, especially if it were very strong.
*** We have seen an instance of Inuyasha versus alcohol when the group ran afoul of the sake mist in "The Last Banquet of Miroku's Master." He got kind of wobbly, but held up better than the girls and Shippo did, and didn't seem especially bothered by the smell.
*** But there was that time in ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' when the whole gang visited the Demon Potions Master and Inuyasha fell in a barrel of sake, after which he began seeing 3 Kagomes instead of 1.
** Inuyasha also has a better immunity to poison (whether gas or liquid) compared to everyone else in his group. Where others are seen struggling to breathe in Naraku's or any other demon's Miasma, Inuyasha either ignores it completely or just has to loosely cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve for a moment before moving on like nothing happened. And as we all know alcohol is poisonous, so it could be the reason why he's resistant to it is because of its poisonous nature.
*** Yes, alcohol is poisonous but that's in large amounts (supposing one tries to consume it in the usual way and is without metabolic issues). Of course, we could shrug it off as him being hanyou, which combines both a dog (youkai dog, notwithstanding) and human's tolerance, so, in the case of ''The Final Act'', he probably just gets drunk easily, as dogs can't hold their liquor, however, we didn't see exactly how much he drank.
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* 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.
** Because he was a dude, that's why.
** That's Jakotsu, and yes, he's male. It's fairly obvious in the scenes after his kimono gets trashed and he's going about wearing his armor over his bare chest.
*** Also, his overwhelming misogyny.
** They call him he for exactly the same reason they call Sesshomaru 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.
** He's played by a female voice actor in both the Japanese version and the dub, which just adds to the confusion.
*** Not a historian, but I assume they weren't too trans-positive in Feudal Japan.
*** It doesn't really matter since Jokutsu probably would just kill anyone who objected.
** He was originally a girl, but the author didn't feel like having Inuyasha hit a girl. However the author likely still wanted to keep the flirty-killer type within the band of seven, so made him a murderous crossdresser. His real gender likely added more to the disturbing stuff he said (despite all of the unfortunate implication that entails).
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** I always thought she wanted to leave some options open; what would she do if after all her adventures were over? She didn't figure that she'd stay in the feudal era forever.
** There's probably some ValuesDissonance at work, since success in school and getting into a good high school are bigger deals for Japanese teenagers than for American ones. In any case, for most of the series, Kagome is operating under the assumption that when Naraku is defeated, she's going to need to pick up her life in the present where she left off, and while her family will be there regardless, if she simply drops out of school to focus on fighting in the feudal era, it could mess her up for the rest of her life.\\
There's also some indication that it's Kagome's way of keeping some control over her life. She's a stubborn, strong-willed person; things in the feudal era are crazy and Naraku jerks everyone around six ways to Sunday, but dammit, she is not going to let that keep
** Because he was a dude, that's why.
** That's Jakotsu, and yes, he's male. It's fairly obvious
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*** 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 Kikyo's desire to be a normal girl being expressed through her reincarnation.
* How does Kagome not get kicked out of school? I mean, her relatives use the illness excuse, which is fine, but when it comes to such extended periods of illness, shouldn't she need to bring a doctor's confirmation? I don't know how such things are handled in Japan, and I know that it would be perhaps potentially insulting to ask for a confirmation because it would be taken akin to accusing her family of lying, but it still strikes me as odd.
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** He's played by a female voice actor in both
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*** It doesn't really matter
** He was originally a girl, but the author didn't feel like having
* Is it ever explained why does Kagome ''want'' to travel back to the past? When she comes back to her world the first time, she breaks down crying and says she's done with the feudal era, with her grandpa even trying to seal the well for good. Then, Inuyasha comes and drags her back to the feudal era, and her motivations are turned around 180º. Did I miss something? She whines time and again the feudal era is messing with her grades and she won't be able to graduate, so why does she insist on going back to what she considers a dangerous place, filled with strange people (mostly Inuyasha) that don't respect her?
** It's possible that, after having been going between worlds for quite some time, she probably just fits in better with one than the other.
* So, are there other reincarnations between Kikyo and Kagome? If not, what's their soul doing in real-time between their times?
** It might be implying an afterlife where one spends some time there, then gets reincarnated eventually.
** Also, there's no guarantee that time passes the same for souls that are being transmigrated to their next life.
!"[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the wolf]]?"
* When everyone was shown three years later in the last chapter, where the hell was Koga?
** With his pack.
** The question you really should be asking is where the hell was Kouga after he got conveniently written out of the series? Considering the guy spent near 400 chapters chasing after Naraku just like anyone else for revenge, why did he suddenly drop all of that after losing the shards? Sure, he probably realised that Kagome only had feelings for Inuyasha, but really, after gaining a weapon that finally made him useful, why did he just drop all that "avenge my comrads" motive and leave?!
*** You have to remember, Naraku was pretty powerful at that point, having absorbed Moryomaru and Hakudoshi, along with having most/all of the jewel. Koga was barely able to keep up a fight, and that was with his jewel shards. Powerful weapon or not, if he didn't have speed to get in and out of close range (as that was the type of weapon he had), he would be killed. Not wanting to be a burden, (or perhaps cause unnecessary grief to Kagome) he could've decided that leaving with as much dignity as possible was the best solution. At least, it appears that way. In the second anime, they handwave it by [[spoiler: Kagome mentioning a rumor that he got married to Ayame.]]
*** All of that makes sense, but the last thing with [[spoiler: Kagome saying that Kouga married Ayame]] was never in the manga. So as far as the manga is concerned, Kouga just disappears.
!Shikon No Tama
* What was up with the ending (unmarked spoilers)? I get that the jewel wanted Naraku and Kagome to replace Midoriko and the sealed demon within itself. So why was Naraku's wish for Kagome to be [[Film/DragMeToHell dragged into hell?]] Why didn't he wish for love like he was contemplating? Besides, Byakuya slashed Kagome with the stolen Meidou Zangetsuha katana a few hours beforehand. Why didn't she get sent to hell at that time?
** Well in the end, Naraku just wanted to go to hell and end up with Kikyo's soul there for eternity. Which really makes no damn sense because, if he wanted to go to hell with Kikyo'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.
*** I assumed that it wasn't literal hell, and that his death shoved his soul entirely into the Shikon no Tama, which is the perfect moment to cause Kagome to corrupt herself with a selfish wish and be trapped there with him. Just wishing her to love him wouldn't suffice as she was basically able to purify the effects of the jewel pretty well even before the majority of her power got unsealed, and Onigumo's greatest wish was always to corrupt Kikyo's pure heart. Besides, I don't think the Shikon no Tama was ever shown to grant wishes as non-physical as that.
** As Kagome pointed out, the Jewel tricks people. It takes a rather simple wish and twists it to it's own purposes. Kikyo had wished to see Inuyasha again, look how that turned out. It's possible that Naraku's dying wish was to cause Inuyasha and/or Kagome pain. He had set up Kagome to be taken away from Inuyasha before the fight even moved outside, he didn't really need to wish for her to be pulled into "hell." The Jewel used this has a chance to snare them both. Perhaps his wish was for immortality, something the Jewel would give him by dooming the two of them to fight within it for eternity. Maybe he wished to be the ultimate power, which he would be... as part of the Jewel.
** Naraku says this directly: even if both his and Kikyo'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 Kikyo was to make her reincarnation and himself replace Shikon no Tama's old inhabitants in their eternal battle.
* Something that always bothered me personally is the fact that a single shard of the jewel is as strong as the whole jewel. At least when it comes to boosting a demon's powers. It at least seems that way.
** I disagree. It only seems the same sometimes because "demon powers" are difficult to quantify. But it is strongly implied throughout the series that more jewel shards = more power enhancement. For example, take the Thunder Brothers. For most of the episode they feature in both Brothers have a couple shards each (one has two and the other has three IIRC), but when one of the Brothers dies the other one takes his jewel shards and becomes instantly more powerful.
* Why didn't Kaede just tell Kagome to destroy the Shikon Jewel once it came back into the picture? They've seen first hand what it could do when a bad guy got a hold of it, not to mention the Jewel bringing nothing but misery to those around it. Instead, Kaede just tells Kagome "You are entrusted to guard this thing that could plunge the land into darkness if some jerk got his or her hands on it.", setting in motion the bloody events of the story and making Kaede look like a total dumbass.
** Destroying it may simply not have been possible. Burning it with Kikyo'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?
*** However, [[spoiler: in the end, Kagome successfully wishes the jewel out of existence. The only way this could make any sense is that Kagome was doing this out of desperation and neither she, nor anyone else with knowledge on the Jewel, had any idea this could work.]]
*** Kagome didn't know at the beginning that [[spoiler: the Shikon Jewel would be destroyed by wishing it out of existence]]. In fact no one knows. It is only later that she gets a hint of this from her grandfather, who [[spoiler: mentions a legend that the Shikon Jewel will disappear if someone makes the right kind of wish]]. She figures it all out in the final episode, only after [[spoiler: being trapped by the Shikon Jewel]].
*** 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. Kikyo, Kagome and even Miroku were trying to purify it and Kikyo thought that using it to wish Inuyasha into a human would cause it to disappear, but that wasn't the right wish and Inuyasha 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).]]
*** What kicked off the plot was the Shikon no Tama shattering and it's pieces being spread.
* What the hell happened to Miroku's Jewel shards in his arm? Did he just give them to Kagome even though Kagome made a point not to take them?
** It's kind of implied that after seeing Kagome purify the shards so easily without even trying he just let her have them.
* I'm surprised no one asked this already, but why is a jewel shard required to go through the Bone Eater's well for Kagome and everyone else, EXCEPT Inuyasha, who can go through at will?
** The Shikon shards are not required to travel through the well, since both Kagome and Inuyasha do it all the time without one and people with shards can't.
*** Wrong, Kagome and anyone else needs them to be able to travel through the well, while Inuyasha can apparently go through the well whenever he wants. It's even a plot point in one episode where Inuyasha tries to trap Kagome in the future for her own safety, and for that reason steals her shards so she can't get back. Kagome isn't able to go back the entire episode until Shippo brings the shards to the well and apparently "opens" whatever time warp from that side.
*** No, they're not required. The second time Kagome traveled in time she didn't have a shard and then spends the last third of the story coming and going through the well without any shards. In the story you are mentioning, ''she'' thinks it's because of her lack of shards but in reality it's because there was a tree in the well blocking it (although the Jewel does help her get through that eventually). And as you mention, Shippo had a shard in the well but still couldn't travel.
*** Shards are not required to go through the well in the manga. The anime ''attempted'' to introduce that requirement for whatever reason, but could not enforce it consistently because plot developments in the manga resulted in numerous cases of Kagome going back and forth through the well without any shards.
!Inuyasha
* Inuyasha's heightened senses make him easily overcome by strong tastes and smells, like curry or India ink. What do you think his alcohol resistance would be?
** Smell has nothing to do with metabolism.
** No, but it DOES have to do with getting into your system at all. If he got it past his nose to drink it, he'd probably have had a conniption at the taste, especially if it were very strong.
*** We have seen an instance of Inuyasha versus alcohol when the group ran afoul of the sake mist in "The Last Banquet of Miroku's Master." He got kind of wobbly, but held up better than the girls and Shippo did, and didn't seem especially bothered by the smell.
*** But there was that time in ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' when the whole gang visited the Demon Potions Master and Inuyasha fell in a barrel of sake, after which he began seeing 3 Kagomes instead of 1.
** Inuyasha also has a better immunity to poison (whether gas or liquid) compared to everyone else in his group. Where others are seen struggling to breathe in Naraku's or any other demon's Miasma, Inuyasha either ignores it completely or just has to loosely cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve for a moment before moving on like nothing happened. And as we all know alcohol is poisonous, so it could be the reason why he's resistant to it is because of its poisonous nature.
*** Yes, alcohol is poisonous but that's in large amounts (supposing one tries to consume it in the usual way and is without metabolic issues). Of course, we could shrug it off as him being hanyou, which combines both a dog (youkai dog, notwithstanding) and human's tolerance, so, in the case of ''The Final Act'', he probably just gets drunk easily, as dogs can't hold their liquor, however, we didn't see exactly how much he drank.
** It's possible that, after having been going between worlds for quite some time, she probably just fits in better with one than the other.
* So, are there other reincarnations between Kikyo and Kagome? If not, what's their soul doing in real-time between their times?
** It might be implying an afterlife where one spends some time there, then gets reincarnated eventually.
** Also, there's no guarantee that time passes the same for souls that are being transmigrated to their next life.
!"[[WhatHappenedToTheMouse What Happened to the wolf]]?"
* When everyone was shown three years later in the last chapter, where the hell was Koga?
** With his pack.
** The question you really should be asking is where the hell was Kouga after he got conveniently written out of the series? Considering the guy spent near 400 chapters chasing after Naraku just like anyone else for revenge, why did he suddenly drop all of that after losing the shards? Sure, he probably realised that Kagome only had feelings for Inuyasha, but really, after gaining a weapon that finally made him useful, why did he just drop all that "avenge my comrads" motive and leave?!
*** You have to remember, Naraku was pretty powerful at that point, having absorbed Moryomaru and Hakudoshi, along with having most/all of the jewel. Koga was barely able to keep up a fight, and that was with his jewel shards. Powerful weapon or not, if he didn't have speed to get in and out of close range (as that was the type of weapon he had), he would be killed. Not wanting to be a burden, (or perhaps cause unnecessary grief to Kagome) he could've decided that leaving with as much dignity as possible was the best solution. At least, it appears that way. In the second anime, they handwave it by [[spoiler: Kagome mentioning a rumor that he got married to Ayame.]]
*** All of that makes sense, but the last thing with [[spoiler: Kagome saying that Kouga married Ayame]] was never in the manga. So as far as the manga is concerned, Kouga just disappears.
!Shikon No Tama
* What was up with the ending (unmarked spoilers)? I get that the jewel wanted Naraku and Kagome to replace Midoriko and the sealed demon within itself. So why was Naraku's wish for Kagome to be [[Film/DragMeToHell dragged into hell?]] Why didn't he wish for love like he was contemplating? Besides, Byakuya slashed Kagome with the stolen Meidou Zangetsuha katana a few hours beforehand. Why didn't she get sent to hell at that time?
** Well in the end, Naraku just wanted to go to hell and end up with Kikyo's soul there for eternity. Which really makes no damn sense because, if he wanted to go to hell with Kikyo'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.
*** I assumed that it wasn't literal hell, and that his death shoved his soul entirely into the Shikon no Tama, which is the perfect moment to cause Kagome to corrupt herself with a selfish wish and be trapped there with him. Just wishing her to love him wouldn't suffice as she was basically able to purify the effects of the jewel pretty well even before the majority of her power got unsealed, and Onigumo's greatest wish was always to corrupt Kikyo's pure heart. Besides, I don't think the Shikon no Tama was ever shown to grant wishes as non-physical as that.
** As Kagome pointed out, the Jewel tricks people. It takes a rather simple wish and twists it to it's own purposes. Kikyo had wished to see Inuyasha again, look how that turned out. It's possible that Naraku's dying wish was to cause Inuyasha and/or Kagome pain. He had set up Kagome to be taken away from Inuyasha before the fight even moved outside, he didn't really need to wish for her to be pulled into "hell." The Jewel used this has a chance to snare them both. Perhaps his wish was for immortality, something the Jewel would give him by dooming the two of them to fight within it for eternity. Maybe he wished to be the ultimate power, which he would be... as part of the Jewel.
** Naraku says this directly: even if both his and Kikyo'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 Kikyo was to make her reincarnation and himself replace Shikon no Tama's old inhabitants in their eternal battle.
* Something that always bothered me personally is the fact that a single shard of the jewel is as strong as the whole jewel. At least when it comes to boosting a demon's powers. It at least seems that way.
** I disagree. It only seems the same sometimes because "demon powers" are difficult to quantify. But it is strongly implied throughout the series that more jewel shards = more power enhancement. For example, take the Thunder Brothers. For most of the episode they feature in both Brothers have a couple shards each (one has two and the other has three IIRC), but when one of the Brothers dies the other one takes his jewel shards and becomes instantly more powerful.
* Why didn't Kaede just tell Kagome to destroy the Shikon Jewel once it came back into the picture? They've seen first hand what it could do when a bad guy got a hold of it, not to mention the Jewel bringing nothing but misery to those around it. Instead, Kaede just tells Kagome "You are entrusted to guard this thing that could plunge the land into darkness if some jerk got his or her hands on it.", setting in motion the bloody events of the story and making Kaede look like a total dumbass.
** Destroying it may simply not have been possible. Burning it with Kikyo'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?
*** However, [[spoiler: in the end, Kagome successfully wishes the jewel out of existence. The only way this could make any sense is that Kagome was doing this out of desperation and neither she, nor anyone else with knowledge on the Jewel, had any idea this could work.]]
*** Kagome didn't know at the beginning that [[spoiler: the Shikon Jewel would be destroyed by wishing it out of existence]]. In fact no one knows. It is only later that she gets a hint of this from her grandfather, who [[spoiler: mentions a legend that the Shikon Jewel will disappear if someone makes the right kind of wish]]. She figures it all out in the final episode, only after [[spoiler: being trapped by the Shikon Jewel]].
*** 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. Kikyo, Kagome and even Miroku were trying to purify it and Kikyo thought that using it to wish Inuyasha into a human would cause it to disappear, but that wasn't the right wish and Inuyasha 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).]]
*** What kicked off the plot was the Shikon no Tama shattering and it's pieces being spread.
* What the hell happened to Miroku's Jewel shards in his arm? Did he just give them to Kagome even though Kagome made a point not to take them?
** It's kind of implied that after seeing Kagome purify the shards so easily without even trying he just let her have them.
* I'm surprised no one asked this already, but why is a jewel shard required to go through the Bone Eater's well for Kagome and everyone else, EXCEPT Inuyasha, who can go through at will?
** The Shikon shards are not required to travel through the well, since both Kagome and Inuyasha do it all the time without one and people with shards can't.
*** Wrong, Kagome and anyone else needs them to be able to travel through the well, while Inuyasha can apparently go through the well whenever he wants. It's even a plot point in one episode where Inuyasha tries to trap Kagome in the future for her own safety, and for that reason steals her shards so she can't get back. Kagome isn't able to go back the entire episode until Shippo brings the shards to the well and apparently "opens" whatever time warp from that side.
*** No, they're not required. The second time Kagome traveled in time she didn't have a shard and then spends the last third of the story coming and going through the well without any shards. In the story you are mentioning, ''she'' thinks it's because of her lack of shards but in reality it's because there was a tree in the well blocking it (although the Jewel does help her get through that eventually). And as you mention, Shippo had a shard in the well but still couldn't travel.
*** Shards are not required to go through the well in the manga. The anime ''attempted'' to introduce that requirement for whatever reason, but could not enforce it consistently because plot developments in the manga resulted in numerous cases of Kagome going back and forth through the well without any shards.
!Inuyasha
* Inuyasha's heightened senses make him easily overcome by strong tastes and smells, like curry or India ink. What do you think his alcohol resistance would be?
** Smell has nothing to do with metabolism.
** No, but it DOES have to do with getting into your system at all. If he got it past his nose to drink it, he'd probably have had a conniption at the taste, especially if it were very strong.
*** We have seen an instance of Inuyasha versus alcohol when the group ran afoul of the sake mist in "The Last Banquet of Miroku's Master." He got kind of wobbly, but held up better than the girls and Shippo did, and didn't seem especially bothered by the smell.
*** But there was that time in ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' when the whole gang visited the Demon Potions Master and Inuyasha fell in a barrel of sake, after which he began seeing 3 Kagomes instead of 1.
** Inuyasha also has a better immunity to poison (whether gas or liquid) compared to everyone else in his group. Where others are seen struggling to breathe in Naraku's or any other demon's Miasma, Inuyasha either ignores it completely or just has to loosely cover his mouth and nose with his sleeve for a moment before moving on like nothing happened. And as we all know alcohol is poisonous, so it could be the reason why he's resistant to it is because of its poisonous nature.
*** Yes, alcohol is poisonous but that's in large amounts (supposing one tries to consume it in the usual way and is without metabolic issues). Of course, we could shrug it off as him being hanyou, which combines both a dog (youkai dog, notwithstanding) and human's tolerance, so, in the case of ''The Final Act'', he probably just gets drunk easily, as dogs can't hold their liquor, however, we didn't see exactly how much he drank.
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* What I really don't get is WHY after getting some progress in finding Naraku's whereabouts do the entire Inuyasha-tachi just decided to go return to Kaede's village, effectually losing all the ground they covered? Sure, Kagome has her life in the modern day era, but does that girl have no common sense to realize if Naraku or any other big evil for that matter caused a lot of damage in the Sengoku era of Japan which isn't meant to historically happen, then it's going to change the world she's currently living in, therefore making any effort to keep up in her current life pointless if it all changed? It doesn't even seem like Naraku's new whereabouts are any closer to where the Bone Eater's Well is. In fact, in this troper's opinion it seems more like Naraku is just moving further away. However, the gang never have any problem in getting back to their previous "check point" once they return from that village by the next episode, or sometimes even in the same episode. Despite it taking an entire season or so to reach Naraku once they get a clue as to where he is (and that takes a long time in itself) time becomes irrelevant when it comes to going and leaving the village with the well. Unless Inuyasha and Kirara can travel faster than the Shinkansen (which can take you between 2-3 hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka depending which Shinkansen you take), there is no reason as to why it takes them so little time to get to and from this one village, yet taking almost an entire season to travel around the rest of Japan.
** They probably weren't traveling in a straight line. The group would go one direction, see Naraku wasn't there, double back, and go off in a different direction. Kaede's village was a good central point to map out their progress. Plus, the three humans of the group can't heal as fast as Inuyasha. Whenever they returned to the village Kagome could get medical supplies (and other supplies) from her own time.
* How does Sango change into her Demon Slayer outfit so quickly, and get her hair in a ponytail in time for it as well? She's like a superheroine.
** Combination of {{Hammerspace}} and some unexplained super power she has?
** She's wearing it underneath and just has to strap on a few extras. Years of practice have mastered it to an art like Fire Fighters suiting up.
* After seeing the first episode again, this Troper just found something ridiculous. In the very first scene of the series, we have Kikyo 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.
** Fifty years passed between the time fakenuyasha trashed the village and the real one got shot and the time when Kagome came through the well. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine the villagers rebuilt the village several meters away from the tree where their attacker was sealed, but close enough to keep an eye on him.
*** They might have built the shrine housing the Shikon no Tama a bit away from the village (and right next to the Bone Eater's Well) in order to keep the potential civilian casualties to a minimum and allow easy disposal of youkai corpses.
*** Real!Inuyasha trashed the village after Naraku!Kikyo attacked him at the tree. Naraku put the Jewel back in the shrine to lure both of them together and Inuyasha rampaged and stoke the Jewel in revenge. In all likelihood, the villages did choose to rebuild further away. In the first episode, they are clearly still fearful of Inuyasha and have named the area after him. Also in that episode, Kaede expresses shock that Kagome can see the demonic aura of the forest around the Goshinboku. It's reasonable to think they would relocate.
** Inuyasha wasn't much of a good guy back when he got shot, so it wouldn't be hard to believe the villagers moved away from him and the tree. Then again, maybe it just looks different/farther away because of the angle we see the forest, causing visual-distance confusion.
*** You mean Inuyasha was perceived to be the "bad guy" when he got shot. Remember, Naraku did deceive both Inuyasha and Kikyo into thinking the other betrayed them.
*** He's still a bit of an ass, though. And he rampaged their village as well.
* In the first episode of the anime, we see Inuyasha breaking out of the temple and escaping with the real Jewel. He is quickly pinned to the Goshinboku. I'm very much aware that Naraku tricked both Kikyo and Inuyasha into believing the other betrayed them, using impersonations of Inuyasha and Kikyo on each person, respectively. But, if the ''fake'' Inuyasha (impersonated by Naraku that attacked Kikyo) supposedly was the one who destroyed part of the village, then how the hell did the ''real'' Inuyasha, who obviously stole the Jewel from the shrine after the Kikyo impesronator replaced it, manage to destroy the shrine (and other parts of the village, that looked undamaged before)? Basically, who the hell ''actually'' trashed the village: the impersonator, the real Inuyasha, or both?
** I would guess that Naraku, in the guise of Inuyasha, tore up the village en route to returning the Jewel to the shrine before attacking Inuyasha in the guise of Kikyo. The real Inuyasha then went to get the Jewel in his grief and rage, and either assumed that another youkai had attacked while Kikyo 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.
** No, that was Real!Inuyasha. In his anger over being betrayed, he revels in destroying Kikyo's "hometown." Notice he doesn't actually kill anyone. Naraku!Inuyasha would not have restrained himself. He merely replaced the Jewel in it's shrine in order to let Real!Inuyasha steal it and be found in possession of it when Kikyo makes it back.
* Miroku is a monk in the medieval Japan, yet he appears to be extraordinarily skilled in riding Kagome's bike. He doesn't even seem to wonder which kind of transportation he uses, seriously, what the hell?
** Maybe he's just naturally talented at it. Inuyasha 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 Inuyasha 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.
** Miroku is also generally really smart, so a case could be made that he [[AwesomeByAnalysis figured out the basics of how it worked from seeing Kagome on it]], and natural physical ability did the rest.
** Some people just happen to be good at riding bikes the first time they try. It took this troper weeks to learn to ride without training wheels, but her brother mastered a two-wheeler in half an afternoon.
** I wouldn't object to him riding the bike that much if he didn't also carry Kagome while doing so. I mean... how?! I've been riding the bike for years, and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't just carry someone on my lap. Also, he was riding it on a rather rough path. Hell, with that bike, riding over grass is probably tough enough. How could you even dream of riding it where he did?
** I always assumed that Miroku being the world's biggest pervert, just happening to figure out how to ride it while admiring her short skirt. frankly i'm more concerned with how he managed to ride it in those shoes.
** At one point even Inuyasha wonders how he mastered it so fast, which lets Kagome know that he was trying to learn it himself. It's likely that he's just gifted.
*** Or he just learned it quicker than Inuyasha did, especially since Inuyasha, at different points, has been shown going on all fours when he wants to go faster (thus he would have a harder time at using it).
* So... did Sesshomaru'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 Inuyasha tore off any that Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru got over his daddy issues, bringing with it an insanely powerful youkai sword.
*** It just sort of threw me off because I haven't found a single fanart made that showed him having any missing or different limbs, and fanfictions don't seem to even reference it that often.
*** Yeah, its a bit odd that the fanbase hasn't really picked up on that fetish, but I guess that if Sesshomaru 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.
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* Something that always bothered me personally is the fact that a single shard of the jewel is as strong as the whole jewel. At least when it comes to boosting a demon's powers. It at least seems that way.
** I disagree. It only seems the same sometimes because "demon powers" are difficult to quantify. But it is strongly implied throughout the series that more jewel shards = more power enhancement. For example, take the Thunder Brothers. For most of the episode they feature in both Brothers have a couple shards each (one has two and the other has three IIRC), but when one of the Brothers dies the other one takes his jewel shards and becomes instantly more powerful.
* From an above entry, I just have to wonder, why did Kagome always return to her time for school? I mean I get that she'd want to see her family every once and a while, or that she could pick up medical supplies, but what I don't get is why her NUMBER ONE reason is for SCHOOL. Okay, so she wants to pass, but hell girl, you're going up against one of the most evil demons of all time. Try to set your priorities straight. She's aware that she could die - it's shown in a number of episodes that she does know how dangerous it is but she'll still go through with it - so how can school be ''that'' important to stop their journey? If she's going to die, then it won't even matter that she passed the year. Why waste the time with school when there are villages in feudal era Japan being killed by a villain they're going after during that time they're not doing anything to find him? (And please, don't give me the "they also do other things" during that time. Resting, getting medical supplies, seeing her family all come second to her exams, so I want to know why should it be so important)
** I always thought she wanted to leave some options open; what would she do if after all her adventures were over? She didn't figure that she'd stay in the feudal era forever.
** There's probably some ValuesDissonance at work, since success in school and getting into a good high school are bigger deals for Japanese teenagers than for American ones. In any case, for most of the series, Kagome is operating under the assumption that when Naraku is defeated, she's going to need to pick up her life in the present where she left off, and while her family will be there regardless, if she simply drops out of school to focus on fighting in the feudal era, it could mess her up for the rest of her life.\\
There's also some indication that it's Kagome's way of keeping some control over her life. She's a stubborn, strong-willed person; things in the feudal era are crazy and Naraku jerks everyone around six ways to Sunday, but dammit, she is not going to let that keep her from getting into high school successfully. Note that she also goes through the full three years of high school even though by the time she's finished she's already made up her mind to go back to live with Inuyasha in the feudal era - it's something that she wants to see all the way through even if, ultimately, the situation in the feudal era ends up making it irrelevant after all.
*** As an Asian person I can tell you that East Asian cultures are very very extreme about education to the point that some high schoolers don't get off of school until midnight and walk around with nosebleeds. Education is such a giant deal in Asia that they forced their children to study for nearly ten hours a day in middle school. So it's very much a cultural thing.
*** 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 Kikyo's desire to be a normal girl being expressed through her reincarnation.
* Why didn't Kaede just tell Kagome to destroy the Shikon Jewel once it came back into the picture? They've seen first hand what it could do when a bad guy got a hold of it, not to mention the Jewel bringing nothing but misery to those around it. Instead, Kaede just tells Kagome "You are entrusted to guard this thing that could plunge the land into darkness if some jerk got his or her hands on it.", setting in motion the bloody events of the story and making Kaede look like a total dumbass.
** Destroying it may simply not have been possible. Burning it with Kikyo'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?
*** However, [[spoiler: in the end, Kagome successfully wishes the jewel out of existence. The only way this could make any sense is that Kagome was doing this out of desperation and neither she, nor anyone else with knowledge on the Jewel, had any idea this could work.]]
*** Kagome didn't know at the beginning that [[spoiler: the Shikon Jewel would be destroyed by wishing it out of existence]]. In fact no one knows. It is only later that she gets a hint of this from her grandfather, who [[spoiler: mentions a legend that the Shikon Jewel will disappear if someone makes the right kind of wish]]. She figures it all out in the final episode, only after [[spoiler: being trapped by the Shikon Jewel]].
*** 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. Kikyo, Kagome and even Miroku were trying to purify it and Kikyo thought that using it to wish Inuyasha into a human would cause it to disappear, but that wasn't the right wish and Inuyasha 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).]]
*** What kicked off the plot was the Shikon no Tama shattering and it's pieces being spread.
* What is the point of the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Fox Demon Exam?]] Do kitsune need to get promoted in order to grow more tails?
** Not sure the exact point other than to add a side story, but not quite a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it IS mentioned again later on in the final act episodes.
** Probably to give Shippo some token development before the series ended, and to give him something to do post-series.
* 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.
** It may have been Miyoga who borrowed Kirara, but everyone stewed and fretted over Kirara because shippo had conveniently forgotten that Miyoga had borrowed Kirara, and everyone had just found this out AFTER shippo had just got done with an accusatory laundry list of how everyone had been mean to Kirara and had driven him to run off.
** 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 Shippo to react to when he's not prepared for it, Inuyasha usually only whacks him when Shippo already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippo's point of view.
** That and Shippo's pretty young, so he might not be able to do that, yet.
* How does Kagome not get kicked out of school? I mean, her relatives use the illness excuse, which is fine, but when it comes to such extended periods of illness, shouldn't she need to bring a doctor's confirmation? I don't know how such things are handled in Japan, and I know that it would be perhaps potentially insulting to ask for a confirmation because it would be taken akin to accusing her family of lying, but it still strikes me as odd.
** My guess, seeing as only a year passed in Kagome's time (which, by the way would be impossible seeing as even if every chapter of the manga was only one day it still added up to two or three years in the feudal era) is that time passes differently on either side of the well. In all likelyhood she was gone for much shorter periods of time than it appeared on the modern side of the well.
*** Several chapters can cover a single day, so it's not too hard to believe a little less than a year passed. (The last few ''volumes'' covered a single day. Especially since Inuyasha turned human (a once a month thing) only a handful of times.
* 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.
** Also, the only time he would have to train that form is one night every month. And by the time he found out about the transformation in the first place, he's in the middle of a quest that ends up with him wandering into a life and death battle on that day more often than not, so he doesn't have time to train it. Maybe after the epilogue he can try and learn to use senki or something in his human or even hanyou form to help purify its powers into a controllable state like Tessaiga uses to make the Dragon Scale form safe to use at full power, but senki and the like usually take years of hard training unless you're a reincarnation of a master of it, ala Kagome.
** I disagree. It only seems the same sometimes because "demon powers" are difficult to quantify. But it is strongly implied throughout the series that more jewel shards = more power enhancement. For example, take the Thunder Brothers. For most of the episode they feature in both Brothers have a couple shards each (one has two and the other has three IIRC), but when one of the Brothers dies the other one takes his jewel shards and becomes instantly more powerful.
* From an above entry, I just have to wonder, why did Kagome always return to her time for school? I mean I get that she'd want to see her family every once and a while, or that she could pick up medical supplies, but what I don't get is why her NUMBER ONE reason is for SCHOOL. Okay, so she wants to pass, but hell girl, you're going up against one of the most evil demons of all time. Try to set your priorities straight. She's aware that she could die - it's shown in a number of episodes that she does know how dangerous it is but she'll still go through with it - so how can school be ''that'' important to stop their journey? If she's going to die, then it won't even matter that she passed the year. Why waste the time with school when there are villages in feudal era Japan being killed by a villain they're going after during that time they're not doing anything to find him? (And please, don't give me the "they also do other things" during that time. Resting, getting medical supplies, seeing her family all come second to her exams, so I want to know why should it be so important)
** I always thought she wanted to leave some options open; what would she do if after all her adventures were over? She didn't figure that she'd stay in the feudal era forever.
** There's probably some ValuesDissonance at work, since success in school and getting into a good high school are bigger deals for Japanese teenagers than for American ones. In any case, for most of the series, Kagome is operating under the assumption that when Naraku is defeated, she's going to need to pick up her life in the present where she left off, and while her family will be there regardless, if she simply drops out of school to focus on fighting in the feudal era, it could mess her up for the rest of her life.\\
There's also some indication that it's Kagome's way of keeping some control over her life. She's a stubborn, strong-willed person; things in the feudal era are crazy and Naraku jerks everyone around six ways to Sunday, but dammit, she is not going to let that keep her from getting into high school successfully. Note that she also goes through the full three years of high school even though by the time she's finished she's already made up her mind to go back to live with Inuyasha in the feudal era - it's something that she wants to see all the way through even if, ultimately, the situation in the feudal era ends up making it irrelevant after all.
*** As an Asian person I can tell you that East Asian cultures are very very extreme about education to the point that some high schoolers don't get off of school until midnight and walk around with nosebleeds. Education is such a giant deal in Asia that they forced their children to study for nearly ten hours a day in middle school. So it's very much a cultural thing.
*** 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 Kikyo's desire to be a normal girl being expressed through her reincarnation.
* Why didn't Kaede just tell Kagome to destroy the Shikon Jewel once it came back into the picture? They've seen first hand what it could do when a bad guy got a hold of it, not to mention the Jewel bringing nothing but misery to those around it. Instead, Kaede just tells Kagome "You are entrusted to guard this thing that could plunge the land into darkness if some jerk got his or her hands on it.", setting in motion the bloody events of the story and making Kaede look like a total dumbass.
** Destroying it may simply not have been possible. Burning it with Kikyo'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?
*** However, [[spoiler: in the end, Kagome successfully wishes the jewel out of existence. The only way this could make any sense is that Kagome was doing this out of desperation and neither she, nor anyone else with knowledge on the Jewel, had any idea this could work.]]
*** Kagome didn't know at the beginning that [[spoiler: the Shikon Jewel would be destroyed by wishing it out of existence]]. In fact no one knows. It is only later that she gets a hint of this from her grandfather, who [[spoiler: mentions a legend that the Shikon Jewel will disappear if someone makes the right kind of wish]]. She figures it all out in the final episode, only after [[spoiler: being trapped by the Shikon Jewel]].
*** 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. Kikyo, Kagome and even Miroku were trying to purify it and Kikyo thought that using it to wish Inuyasha into a human would cause it to disappear, but that wasn't the right wish and Inuyasha 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).]]
*** What kicked off the plot was the Shikon no Tama shattering and it's pieces being spread.
* What is the point of the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Fox Demon Exam?]] Do kitsune need to get promoted in order to grow more tails?
** Not sure the exact point other than to add a side story, but not quite a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it IS mentioned again later on in the final act episodes.
** Probably to give Shippo some token development before the series ended, and to give him something to do post-series.
* 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.
** It may have been Miyoga who borrowed Kirara, but everyone stewed and fretted over Kirara because shippo had conveniently forgotten that Miyoga had borrowed Kirara, and everyone had just found this out AFTER shippo had just got done with an accusatory laundry list of how everyone had been mean to Kirara and had driven him to run off.
** 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 Shippo to react to when he's not prepared for it, Inuyasha usually only whacks him when Shippo already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippo's point of view.
** That and Shippo's pretty young, so he might not be able to do that, yet.
* How does Kagome not get kicked out of school? I mean, her relatives use the illness excuse, which is fine, but when it comes to such extended periods of illness, shouldn't she need to bring a doctor's confirmation? I don't know how such things are handled in Japan, and I know that it would be perhaps potentially insulting to ask for a confirmation because it would be taken akin to accusing her family of lying, but it still strikes me as odd.
** My guess, seeing as only a year passed in Kagome's time (which, by the way would be impossible seeing as even if every chapter of the manga was only one day it still added up to two or three years in the feudal era) is that time passes differently on either side of the well. In all likelyhood she was gone for much shorter periods of time than it appeared on the modern side of the well.
*** Several chapters can cover a single day, so it's not too hard to believe a little less than a year passed. (The last few ''volumes'' covered a single day. Especially since Inuyasha turned human (a once a month thing) only a handful of times.
* 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.
** Also, the only time he would have to train that form is one night every month. And by the time he found out about the transformation in the first place, he's in the middle of a quest that ends up with him wandering into a life and death battle on that day more often than not, so he doesn't have time to train it. Maybe after the epilogue he can try and learn to use senki or something in his human or even hanyou form to help purify its powers into a controllable state like Tessaiga uses to make the Dragon Scale form safe to use at full power, but senki and the like usually take years of hard training unless you're a reincarnation of a master of it, ala Kagome.
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* Something Why is Inuyasha still wearing the prayer bead necklace on the final page? I mean, three years later, Inuyasha is a Nice Guy, they're ''married to each other'', and Kagome doesn't trust him enough to take the necklace off? Giving them the benefit of the doubt, perhaps he just trusts her, or she had it de-enchanted, or he likes it for sentimental reasons, or [[spoiler: they're just that always bothered me personally is kinky]], but I'd still feel better seeing the necklace gone.
** Well aside from the fact that the '''SIT!''' command is asingle shard ready-made source of comic relief, I like to think of it as a symbol of trust and fealty, kind of like a wedding ring. Husbands and wives both consent to wear a wedding ring as an outward symbol of the jewel is as strong as fact that they belong to another person. Just the whole jewel. At least when it comes same, Inuyasha consents to boosting a demon's powers. It keep wearing the necklace (or at least stops complaining about having to wear it) as a sign of his trust in Kagome not to abuse it. If Inuyasha suddenly asked Kagome to take the necklace off it would probably mean their romance is in shambles.
*** That can be reversed against Kagome as well, as at the end of one of the movies he clearly doesn't have the beads until Kagome tells him to close his eyes, then puts them back on. He acted just fine without them, but this implies Kagome doesn't trust him at all as he even asks her why and she doesn't answer him, she only says SIT while smiling. It seems almost sadistic, and thatway.
** I disagree. Itit's more like a safety mechanism for Kagome against a possible danger that doesn't exist. This means there is no romance already, the only seems way to fix it would to trust the same sometimes man she is with and take the things off. 1) She's worried he'll turn any minute, or 2) Kagome enjoys her power over Inuyasha, whether she uses it for some form of self power or simply to constantly use it to teach him to not be rude, although there are plenty of examples where she simply uses it to take out her frustration when Inuyasha clearly hasn't done anything. 3) Kagome is worried he only likes her because "demon powers" he has the prayer beads on and is therefore tied to her. It'd be perefectly understandable for him to want them off considering Kagome seems to go off like any adolescent, but this has serious ramifications against Inuyasha's physical health.
*** To be fair, the bead scene at the end of the movie was because well, the movie is essentially filler, thus can't change the status quo of the series (an awkward contrivance of StatusQuoIsGod really), it should be noted however that the beads only ever really served there ORIGINAL purpose a handful of times, most were at the beginning of the series, when Inuyasha really would have killed Kagome because of his resentment towards Kikyo, the other times being when Inuyasha's demon blood took over. The rest of the times the beads aredifficult used are mostly a form of bitch slap.
*** 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 toquantify. But it is strongly implied 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 that more jewel shards = more power enhancement. For example, take the Thunder Brothers. For most of the episode they feature in both Brothers have a couple shards each (one (though his resistance has two and the other has three IIRC), but when one of the Brothers dies the other one takes his jewel shards and becomes instantly more powerful.
* From an above entry, I just have to wonder, why did Kagome always return to her time for school? I mean I get that she'd want to see her family every once and a while, or that she could pick up medical supplies, but what I don't get is why her NUMBER ONE reason is for SCHOOL. Okay, so she wants to pass, but hell girl, you're going up against one of the most evil demons of all time. Try to set your priorities straight. She's aware that she could die - it's shown in a number of episodes that she does know how dangerous it is but she'll still go through with it - so how can school be ''that'' important to stop their journey? If she's going to die, then it won't even matter that she passed the year. Why waste the time with school when there are villages in feudal era Japan being killed by a villain they're going after during that time they're not doing anything to find him? (And please, don't give me the "theyalso do other things" during that time. Resting, getting medical supplies, seeing her family all come second to her exams, so I want to know why should it be so important)
** I always thought she wanted to leave some options open; what would she dobeen increasing, but if after all her adventures were over? She didn't figure that she'd stay in the feudal era forever.
** There's probably some ValuesDissonance at work, since success in school and getting into a good high school are bigger deals for Japanese teenagers than for American ones. In any case, for most of the series, KagomeSesshomaru is operating under the assumption that when Naraku is defeated, she's going to need to pick up her life in the present where she left off, and while her family will be there regardless, if she simply drops out of school to focus on fighting in the feudal era, right, eventually it could mess her up for the rest of her life.\\
There's also some indication that it's Kagome's way of keeping some control over her life. She's a stubborn, strong-willed person; things in the feudal era are crazy and Naraku jerks everyone around six ways to Sunday, but dammit, she is not going to let that keep her from gettingturn him into high school successfully. Note that she also goes through the full three years of high school even though by the time she's finished she's already made up her mind to go back to live with Inuyasha in the feudal era - it's something that she wants to see all the way through even if, ultimately, the situation in the feudal era ends up making it irrelevant after all.
*** Asan Asian person I can tell you that East Asian cultures are very very extreme about education to the point that some high schoolers don't get off of school until midnight and walk around with nosebleeds. Education is such uncontrollable beast), so IY might actually prefer if his soulmate had a giant deal in Asia that they forced their children to study for nearly ten hours a day in middle school. So it's very much a cultural thing.
*** 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 thatway to make at least momentarily stop him long enough for her less effective, though it may also have something to do with Kikyo's desire to be a normal girl being expressed through her reincarnation.
* Why didn't Kaede just tell Kagome to destroy the Shikon Jewel once it came back into the picture? They've seen first hand what it could do when a bad guy got a holdsome sort of it, not to mention the Jewel bringing nothing but misery to those around it. Instead, Kaede just tells Kagome "You are entrusted to guard this (preferably) nonlethal uber-miko thing that could plunge the land into darkness if some jerk got his or to keep him from attacking her hands on it.", setting in motion the bloody events of the story and making Kaede look like a total dumbass.
** Destroying it may simply not have been possible. Burning it with Kikyo'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?
*** However, [[spoiler: in the end, Kagome successfully wishes the jewel out of existence. The only way this could make any sense is that Kagome was doing this out of desperation and neither she, noranyone else with knowledge on the Jewel, had any idea this could work.]]
*** Kagome didn't know at the beginning that [[spoiler: the Shikon Jewel would be destroyed by wishing it out of existence]]. In fact no one knows. It is only later that sheif he gets a hint of this from her grandfather, who [[spoiler: mentions a legend that the Shikon Jewel will disappear if someone makes the right kind of wish]]. She figures it all out in the final episode, only after [[spoiler: being trapped by the Shikon Jewel]].
*** 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. Kikyo, Kagome and even Miroku were trying to purify it and Kikyo thought that using it to wish Inuyashainto a human would cause it to disappear, but that wasn't the right wish and Inuyasha 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).]]
*** What kicked off the plot was the Shikon no Tama shattering and it's pieces being spread.
* What is the point of the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Fox Demon Exam?]] Do kitsune need to get promoted in order to grow more tails?
** Not sure the exact point other than to add a side story, but not quite a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it IS mentioned again later on in the final act episodes.
** Probably to give Shippo some token development before the series ended, and to give him something to do post-series.
* In the episodesituation 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.
** It may have been Miyoga who borrowed Kirara, but everyone stewed and fretted over Kirara because shippo had conveniently forgotten that Miyoga had borrowed Kirara, and everyone had just found this out AFTER shippo had just got done with an accusatory laundry list of how everyone had been mean to Kirara and had driven him to run off.
** 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 Shippo to react to when he's not prepared for it, Inuyasha usually only whacks him when Shippo already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippo's point of view.
** That and Shippo's pretty young, so he might not be able to do that, yet.
* How does Kagome not get kicked out of school? I mean, her relatives use the illness excuse, which is fine, but when it comes to such extended periods of illness, shouldn't she need to bring a doctor's confirmation? I don't know how such things are handled in Japan, and I know that it would be perhaps potentially insulting to ask for a confirmation because it would be taken akin to accusing her family of lying, but it still strikes me as odd.
** My guess, seeing as only a year passed in Kagome's time (which, by the way would be impossible seeing as even if every chapter of the manga was only one day it still added up to two or three years in the feudal era) is that time passes differently on either side of the well. In all likelyhood she was gone for much shorter periods of time than it appeared on the modern side of the well.
*** Several chapters can cover a single day, so it's not too hard to believe a little less than a year passed. (The last few ''volumes'' covered a single day. Especially since Inuyasha turned human (a once a month thing) only a handful of times.
* About Inuyasha's demon transformation, why doesn't he try to train and master said transformation? He goes crazy wheneverhe transforms because his human side isn't strong enough again.
*** The beads were originally enchanted by Kaede. One would presume that Kaede could also take cancel the spell, and may have done so, after which Inuyasha might just have chosen tohandle it, continue to wear it for sentimental reasons.
** The logical reason would be that Rumiko's been drawing Inuyasha with those beads for ten years or there abouts, sowhy she was probably just too used to drawing those beads on that she never thought whether those beads should be there or not try and make his human side stronger? 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 like some humans haven't shown levels of strength comparable as much as a big issue 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"her - the whole point of Demon Inuyasha in a storytelling sense is to provide a means it was mostly 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 comic relief (YMMV on how comical 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.
** Also, the only time he would have to train that form is one night every month. And by the time he found out about the transformation in the first place, he's in the middle of a quest that ends up with him wandering into a life and death battle on that day more often than not, so he doesn't have time to train it. Maybe after the epilogue he can try and learn to use senki or something in his human or even hanyou form to help purify its powers into a controllable state like Tessaiga uses to make the Dragon Scale form safe to use at full power, but senki and the like usually take years of hard training unless you're a reincarnation of a master of it, ala Kagome.
was).
** Well aside from the fact that the '''SIT!''' command is a
*** That can be reversed against Kagome as well, as at the end of one of the movies he clearly doesn't have the beads until Kagome tells him to close his eyes, then puts them back on. He acted just fine without them, but this implies Kagome doesn't trust him at all as he even asks her why and she doesn't answer him, she only says SIT while smiling. It seems almost sadistic, and that
** I disagree. It
*** To be fair, the bead scene at the end of the movie was because well, the movie is essentially filler, thus can't change the status quo of the series (an awkward contrivance of StatusQuoIsGod really), it should be noted however that the beads only ever really served there ORIGINAL purpose a handful of times, most were at the beginning of the series, when Inuyasha really would have killed Kagome because of his resentment towards Kikyo, the other times being when Inuyasha's demon blood took over. The rest of the times the beads are
*** 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
* From an above entry, I just have to wonder, why did Kagome always return to her time for school? I mean I get that she'd want to see her family every once and a while, or that she could pick up medical supplies, but what I don't get is why her NUMBER ONE reason is for SCHOOL. Okay, so she wants to pass, but hell girl, you're going up against one of the most evil demons of all time. Try to set your priorities straight. She's aware that she could die - it's shown in a number of episodes that she does know how dangerous it is but she'll still go through with it - so how can school be ''that'' important to stop their journey? If she's going to die, then it won't even matter that she passed the year. Why waste the time with school when there are villages in feudal era Japan being killed by a villain they're going after during that time they're not doing anything to find him? (And please, don't give me the "they
** I always thought she wanted to leave some options open; what would she do
** There's probably some ValuesDissonance at work, since success in school and getting into a good high school are bigger deals for Japanese teenagers than for American ones. In any case, for most of the series, Kagome
There's also some indication that it's Kagome's way of keeping some control over her life. She's a stubborn, strong-willed person; things in the feudal era are crazy and Naraku jerks everyone around six ways to Sunday, but dammit, she is not going to let that keep her from getting
*** As
*** 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
* Why didn't Kaede just tell Kagome to destroy the Shikon Jewel once it came back into the picture? They've seen first hand what it could do when a bad guy got a hold
** Destroying it may simply not have been possible. Burning it with Kikyo'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?
*** However, [[spoiler: in the end, Kagome successfully wishes the jewel out of existence. The only way this could make any sense is that Kagome was doing this out of desperation and neither she, nor
*** Kagome didn't know at the beginning that [[spoiler: the Shikon Jewel would be destroyed by wishing it out of existence]]. In fact no one knows. It is only later that she
*** 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. Kikyo, Kagome and even Miroku were trying to purify it and Kikyo thought that using it to wish Inuyasha
*** What kicked off the plot was the Shikon no Tama shattering and it's pieces being spread.
* What is the point of the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Fox Demon Exam?]] Do kitsune need to get promoted in order to grow more tails?
** Not sure the exact point other than to add a side story, but not quite a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it IS mentioned again later on in the final act episodes.
** Probably to give Shippo some token development before the series ended, and to give him something to do post-series.
* In the episode
** It may have been Miyoga who borrowed Kirara, but everyone stewed and fretted over Kirara because shippo had conveniently forgotten that Miyoga had borrowed Kirara, and everyone had just found this out AFTER shippo had just got done with an accusatory laundry list of how everyone had been mean to Kirara and had driven him to run off.
** 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 Shippo to react to when he's not prepared for it, Inuyasha usually only whacks him when Shippo already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippo's point of view.
** That and Shippo's pretty young, so he might not be able to do that, yet.
* How does Kagome not get kicked out of school? I mean, her relatives use the illness excuse, which is fine, but when it comes to such extended periods of illness, shouldn't she need to bring a doctor's confirmation? I don't know how such things are handled in Japan, and I know that it would be perhaps potentially insulting to ask for a confirmation because it would be taken akin to accusing her family of lying, but it still strikes me as odd.
** My guess, seeing as only a year passed in Kagome's time (which, by the way would be impossible seeing as even if every chapter of the manga was only one day it still added up to two or three years in the feudal era) is that time passes differently on either side of the well. In all likelyhood she was gone for much shorter periods of time than it appeared on the modern side of the well.
*** Several chapters can cover a single day, so it's not too hard to believe a little less than a year passed. (The last few ''volumes'' covered a single day. Especially since Inuyasha turned human (a once a month thing) only a handful of times.
* About Inuyasha's demon transformation, why doesn't he try to train and master said transformation? He goes crazy whenever
*** The beads were originally enchanted by Kaede. One would presume that Kaede could also take cancel the spell, and may have done so, after which Inuyasha might just have chosen to
** The logical reason would be that Rumiko's been drawing Inuyasha with those beads for ten years or there abouts, so
** Everything we learn about the transformation indicates that it's not something that can possibly be "mastered"
** Also, the only time he would have to train that form is one night every month. And by the time he found out about the transformation in the first place, he's in the middle of a quest that ends up with him wandering into a life and death battle on that day more often than not, so he doesn't have time to train it. Maybe after the epilogue he can try and learn to use senki or something in his human or even hanyou form to help purify its powers into a controllable state like Tessaiga uses to make the Dragon Scale form safe to use at full power, but senki and the like usually take years of hard training unless you're a reincarnation of a master of it, ala Kagome.
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* Wouldn't the first thing you tried to do after getting a healing sword be to fix the arm you just had chopped off? Also, I can see why Sesshomaru things the sword is useless, but why does everyone else think it is too? Not one person thinks having a resurrection sword is awesome just because it can't cut?
** For the first, the Tenseiga is only capable of reviving the dead and casting a protective barrier, it can't actually heal wounds, much less amputations. Second, everybody thinks the Tenseiga is useless because the Tenseiga is a sword, and it can't even hurt somebody. Swords, like all weapons are supposed to be able to wound or kill, that's why they exist, despite what various media tries to romanticize the sword into a thing of protection will tell you. There are various shapes the Tenseiga could have taken that weren't weapons that would have allowed it to accomplish the same purpose it already does, it's useless for it's intended shape and the function that goes with it. I don't actually recall anybody else but Sesshomaru putting the Tenseiga down though.
* I just really wanted to know, how did all the demons find out about the jewel breaking so fast, more importantly, how and when did Naraku find out. I mean when they first meet Miroku it looks like they have half the jewel around that necklace, and lastly, how did that one jewel end up in his father's grave.
** I'd assume that the demons could "feel" it. A disturbance in the Force, if you will. Naraku probably found out at that time too, but chose to observe before acting.
** That jewel ended up in his father's grave because Housenki, the powerful daiyoukai who created the Right Black Pearl which was used to access the grave in the first time around, had an affinity for jewels (as evidenced by him being the source of the Diamond Tessaiga) and took it there to keep it safe from Naraku.
** For the first, the Tenseiga is only capable of reviving the dead and casting a protective barrier, it can't actually heal wounds, much less amputations. Second, everybody thinks the Tenseiga is useless because the Tenseiga is a sword, and it can't even hurt somebody. Swords, like all weapons are supposed to be able to wound or kill, that's why they exist, despite what various media tries to romanticize the sword into a thing of protection will tell you. There are various shapes the Tenseiga could have taken that weren't weapons that would have allowed it to accomplish the same purpose it already does, it's useless for it's intended shape and the function that goes with it. I don't actually recall anybody else but Sesshomaru putting the Tenseiga down though.
* I just really wanted to know, how did all the demons find out about the jewel breaking so fast, more importantly, how and when did Naraku find out. I mean when they first meet Miroku it looks like they have half the jewel around that necklace, and lastly, how did that one jewel end up in his father's grave.
** I'd assume that the demons could "feel" it. A disturbance in the Force, if you will. Naraku probably found out at that time too, but chose to observe before acting.
** That jewel ended up in his father's grave because Housenki, the powerful daiyoukai who created the Right Black Pearl which was used to access the grave in the first time around, had an affinity for jewels (as evidenced by him being the source of the Diamond Tessaiga) and took it there to keep it safe from Naraku.
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** For the first, the Tenseiga is only capable of reviving the dead
** Everything we learn about the
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* Why did Miroku not try to cut off his right hand? Same goes for his relatives before him. The Wind Tunnel is established as not a fun thing to have, especially close to the end when it gets poisoned. Amputation of a limb to save a person's life happens all over the place; there was a chance it may not have worked, with the hand growing back, or the Wind Tunnel coming out the stump, but the possibility is never mentioned.
** Because when it's not killing Miroku, it's (in theory, which story-wise is the more important thing) really useful for sucking up bad shit. In ''practice'', of course, it's completely useless thanks to Naraku's convenient demonic wasps or whatever, but the point is it ''can'' be important to them.
** Amputations in the 1500s were highly life threatening due to blood loss and most importantly infection. Instead of saving his life he would be risking it more.
** That's under the assumption it would even work. The hole might just show up in the stump anyway, and I find it hard to believe that none of Miroku's ancestors didn't think to chop their hand off as a last resort when the hole got big enough to suck them in.
** 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 arms.
* How did the noh mask have its jewel shard? Wouldnt they have eventually found it in the past?
** If we take the time travel as a StableTimeLoop, then it means that in the past there's a complete Shikon Jewel plus one extra shard in a tree somewhere so that Kagome and Inuyasha can retrieve it in the future to complete said Jewel in the past. [[TimeyWimeyBall Yeah…]]
** Perhaps since the future shard went back to the past, no one can find the tree shard because their senses are overwritten by that one.
* So, are there other reincarnations between Kikyo and Kagome? If not, what's their soul doing in real-time between their times?
** It might be implying an afterlife where one spends some time there, then gets reincarnated eventually.
** Also, there's no guarantee that time passes the same for souls that are being transmigrated to their next life.
* Early in the show, we are shown Sango's weapon get snapped in half easily, yet it is fixed by next episode with no mention. But every time it breaks after that, it has to become a plot point to fix it with much effort required. What gives?
** That's because Totosai fixed it without much effort, which the anime left out for some reason.
* What the hell happened to Miroku's Jewel shards in his arm? Did he just give them to Kagome even though Kagome made a point not to take them?
** It's kind of implied that after seeing Kagome purify the shards so easily without even trying he just let her have them.
* I'm surprised no one asked this already, but why is a jewel shard required to go through the Bone Eater's well for Kagome and everyone else, EXCEPT Inuyasha, who can go through at will?
** The Shikon shards are not required to travel through the well, since both Kagome and Inuyasha do it all the time without one and people with shards can't.
*** Wrong, Kagome and anyone else needs them to be able to travel through the well, while Inuyasha can apparently go through the well whenever he wants. It's even a plot point in one episode where Inuyasha tries to trap Kagome in the future for her own safety, and for that reason steals her shards so she can't get back. Kagome isn't able to go back the entire episode until Shippo brings the shards to the well and apparently "opens" whatever time warp from that side.
*** No, they're not required. The second time Kagome traveled in time she didn't have a shard and then spends the last third of the story coming and going through the well without any shards. In the story you are mentioning, ''she'' thinks it's because of her lack of shards but in reality it's because there was a tree in the well blocking it (although the Jewel does help her get through that eventually). And as you mention, Shippo had a shard in the well but still couldn't travel.
*** Shards are not required to go through the well in the manga. The anime ''attempted'' to introduce that requirement for whatever reason, but could not enforce it consistently because plot developments in the manga resulted in numerous cases of Kagome going back and forth through the well without any shards.
* When Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru gives Inuyasha the Meidou Zangetsuha) and when Inuyasha'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).
** Also, the Youkai Graveyard was in the border between Life and Death, and we know that one of the ways to reach it involved making a river out of the blood of a bird youkai that came from Hell, so that could be an indication that the bone birds are able to traverse both areas.
* 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 Sesshomaru... so how were both seen in the final arc inside the jewel?
** Sending Naraku to Hell might have backfired spectacularly, at least without defeating him first.
** What Kikyo 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.
** Kikyo was 'slowly' dragging a mentally compromised Inuyasha to Hell with her. In addition to Naraku having some substantial mind powers of his own and not letting his guard down around Kikyo, 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.
* When Sesshomaru gained a human arm from Naraku with a Shikon shard that would allow him to hold the Tetsusaiga, why was he able to activate it? Last I recall, you could only activate the sword's true form if you had a desire to protect humans and Sesshomaru at that point had no desire to do so.
** Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru to comment that the sword doesn't seem to like him very much.
*** It may also have been his desire to protect the human arm, or possibly an effect of the Shikon shard embedded in it. As for Kagome's arrow undoing its transformation, that's just something powerful strikes of houriki does to Tessaiga, as Kikyo and the River God's halberd both did the same thing to it.
* Why is it that, in all of their jealousy disputes, Inuyasha never points out Kagome's hypocrisy? Not once does he say anything to the effect of, "Oh, so it's not okay for ''me'' to get mad when Koga shows up to flirt with you and you do nothing to stop him, but it's perfectly fine for ''you'' to get mad when I so much as breathe the same air as Kikyo?" Aside from the fact that the two aren't really an OfficialCouple [[LastMinuteHookup until the very last manga chapter/anime episode]] (which means that, for the vast majority of the series, Kagome has no say over what Inuyasha can or can't do with whoever he wants whenever he wants), Inuyasha is known for his BrutalHonesty and has never held back whenever he and Kagome get into a fight. So why in the world does he never blow up at her about the clear DoubleStandard at work?
** 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 Kikyo and he told her it was all guilt. And again third time she asked him if he still loved Kikyo 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 Kikyo'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.
** ''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?
** 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 Kikyo out of guilt, but Kagome DOESN'T know that for sure. Ever seen how secretive he acts about going to Kikyo? 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 Kikyo. 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 Kikyo. 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 Kikyo 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 Kikyo 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)
** Adding my two cents, even as I ship Inuyasha/Kagome, pretty sure he occasionally went after Kikyo because he still loved her and couldn't forget her (in the past they had practically agreed to marry each other, after all). As for why he didn't just "run off with her", that's because it wasn't ''really'' Kikyo in present time, but her soul in an animated clay body. About Kagome and Inuyasha dating before the ending, I have an interpretation that while they weren't officially dating, eventually they became aware of each other's feelings and let themselves act on it. I mean, they eventually have a lot of moments where they will casually take each other's hand, hug, sit close to one another, say intimate things etc. that you would never say with a friend, which gave me the vibe of them being like "Yeah we like each other, but we're keeping it cool as it's still a little awkward".
* So maybe this is just a translation convention, but in the episode with the Soul Piper, Myoga mentions poltergeists. Was that because there wasn't an exact translation for the Japanese equivalent?
** I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't think the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids, so one could say they had to wing it for translation convention.
* There's something that's been really bugging me about the two-parter where a woman falls in love with Sesshomaru. Her backstory seems to be quite consistent up until one point: Seeing Inuyasha when she was about to die. How is it that Sara instantly recognized Inuyasha despite never seeing him? The only thing she ever knew about him was his name when Jaken found him. And you can't say "the demons told her" since she saw him minutes before they showed up.
** Probably because Inuyasha has a strong resemblance to his brother. Chiefly the long, white hair.
* Where did the notion that Kikyo died to follow Inuyasha in death come from? For one thing, Kikyo didn't kill Inuyasha; she just put him in an enchanted slumber. For another, one of the first things established in the series is that Kikyo died in an attempt to ensure that the Shikon Jewel wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. On a related note, why the heck would Kikyo have ever wanted to see Inuyasha again, even on a subconscious level (since that's apparently the reason Kikyo was reincarnated as Kagome)? She died hating him because she believed he betrayed and murdered her; that doesn't exactly leave room to think, "Oh, but I still want to see the lying, traitorous bastard who killed me!"
** The fact that they said it repeatedly; Kikyo herself was surprised that Inuyasha 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 Kikyo 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 Kikyo's death leading him to believe he doesn't deserve happiness. While he certainly loves Kikyo, 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 Kikyo'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.
** A lot of this comes from Kagome's feelings, which is a focal point for her dynamic with both Kikyo and Inuyasha. She feels like Inuyasha will always carry a torch for Kikyo and pick Kikyo over her. This comes up a few times near the tail-end of the first anime, with Inuyasha constantly chasing after Kikyo and Kagome feeling jealous and miserable. So while it's not strictly a romantic triangle, it's ''effectively'' a love triangle in terms of story and dynamic.
** Because when it's not killing Miroku, it's (in theory, which story-wise is the more important thing) really useful for sucking up bad shit. In ''practice'', of course, it's completely useless thanks to Naraku's convenient demonic wasps or whatever, but the point is it ''can'' be important to them.
** Amputations in the 1500s were highly life threatening due to blood loss and most importantly infection. Instead of saving his life he would be risking it more.
** That's under the assumption it would even work. The hole might just show up in the stump anyway, and I find it hard to believe that none of Miroku's ancestors didn't think to chop their hand off as a last resort when the hole got big enough to suck them in.
** 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 arms.
* How did the noh mask have its jewel shard? Wouldnt they have eventually found it in the past?
** If we take the time travel as a StableTimeLoop, then it means that in the past there's a complete Shikon Jewel plus one extra shard in a tree somewhere so that Kagome and Inuyasha can retrieve it in the future to complete said Jewel in the past. [[TimeyWimeyBall Yeah…]]
** Perhaps since the future shard went back to the past, no one can find the tree shard because their senses are overwritten by that one.
* So, are there other reincarnations between Kikyo and Kagome? If not, what's their soul doing in real-time between their times?
** It might be implying an afterlife where one spends some time there, then gets reincarnated eventually.
** Also, there's no guarantee that time passes the same for souls that are being transmigrated to their next life.
* Early in the show, we are shown Sango's weapon get snapped in half easily, yet it is fixed by next episode with no mention. But every time it breaks after that, it has to become a plot point to fix it with much effort required. What gives?
** That's because Totosai fixed it without much effort, which the anime left out for some reason.
* What the hell happened to Miroku's Jewel shards in his arm? Did he just give them to Kagome even though Kagome made a point not to take them?
** It's kind of implied that after seeing Kagome purify the shards so easily without even trying he just let her have them.
* I'm surprised no one asked this already, but why is a jewel shard required to go through the Bone Eater's well for Kagome and everyone else, EXCEPT Inuyasha, who can go through at will?
** The Shikon shards are not required to travel through the well, since both Kagome and Inuyasha do it all the time without one and people with shards can't.
*** Wrong, Kagome and anyone else needs them to be able to travel through the well, while Inuyasha can apparently go through the well whenever he wants. It's even a plot point in one episode where Inuyasha tries to trap Kagome in the future for her own safety, and for that reason steals her shards so she can't get back. Kagome isn't able to go back the entire episode until Shippo brings the shards to the well and apparently "opens" whatever time warp from that side.
*** No, they're not required. The second time Kagome traveled in time she didn't have a shard and then spends the last third of the story coming and going through the well without any shards. In the story you are mentioning, ''she'' thinks it's because of her lack of shards but in reality it's because there was a tree in the well blocking it (although the Jewel does help her get through that eventually). And as you mention, Shippo had a shard in the well but still couldn't travel.
*** Shards are not required to go through the well in the manga. The anime ''attempted'' to introduce that requirement for whatever reason, but could not enforce it consistently because plot developments in the manga resulted in numerous cases of Kagome going back and forth through the well without any shards.
* When Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru gives Inuyasha the Meidou Zangetsuha) and when Inuyasha'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).
** Also, the Youkai Graveyard was in the border between Life and Death, and we know that one of the ways to reach it involved making a river out of the blood of a bird youkai that came from Hell, so that could be an indication that the bone birds are able to traverse both areas.
* 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 Sesshomaru... so how were both seen in the final arc inside the jewel?
** Sending Naraku to Hell might have backfired spectacularly, at least without defeating him first.
** What Kikyo 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.
** Kikyo was 'slowly' dragging a mentally compromised Inuyasha to Hell with her. In addition to Naraku having some substantial mind powers of his own and not letting his guard down around Kikyo, 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.
* When Sesshomaru gained a human arm from Naraku with a Shikon shard that would allow him to hold the Tetsusaiga, why was he able to activate it? Last I recall, you could only activate the sword's true form if you had a desire to protect humans and Sesshomaru at that point had no desire to do so.
** Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru to comment that the sword doesn't seem to like him very much.
*** It may also have been his desire to protect the human arm, or possibly an effect of the Shikon shard embedded in it. As for Kagome's arrow undoing its transformation, that's just something powerful strikes of houriki does to Tessaiga, as Kikyo and the River God's halberd both did the same thing to it.
* Why is it that, in all of their jealousy disputes, Inuyasha never points out Kagome's hypocrisy? Not once does he say anything to the effect of, "Oh, so it's not okay for ''me'' to get mad when Koga shows up to flirt with you and you do nothing to stop him, but it's perfectly fine for ''you'' to get mad when I so much as breathe the same air as Kikyo?" Aside from the fact that the two aren't really an OfficialCouple [[LastMinuteHookup until the very last manga chapter/anime episode]] (which means that, for the vast majority of the series, Kagome has no say over what Inuyasha can or can't do with whoever he wants whenever he wants), Inuyasha is known for his BrutalHonesty and has never held back whenever he and Kagome get into a fight. So why in the world does he never blow up at her about the clear DoubleStandard at work?
** 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 Kikyo and he told her it was all guilt. And again third time she asked him if he still loved Kikyo 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 Kikyo'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.
** ''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?
** 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 Kikyo out of guilt, but Kagome DOESN'T know that for sure. Ever seen how secretive he acts about going to Kikyo? 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 Kikyo. 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 Kikyo. 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 Kikyo 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 Kikyo 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)
** Adding my two cents, even as I ship Inuyasha/Kagome, pretty sure he occasionally went after Kikyo because he still loved her and couldn't forget her (in the past they had practically agreed to marry each other, after all). As for why he didn't just "run off with her", that's because it wasn't ''really'' Kikyo in present time, but her soul in an animated clay body. About Kagome and Inuyasha dating before the ending, I have an interpretation that while they weren't officially dating, eventually they became aware of each other's feelings and let themselves act on it. I mean, they eventually have a lot of moments where they will casually take each other's hand, hug, sit close to one another, say intimate things etc. that you would never say with a friend, which gave me the vibe of them being like "Yeah we like each other, but we're keeping it cool as it's still a little awkward".
* So maybe this is just a translation convention, but in the episode with the Soul Piper, Myoga mentions poltergeists. Was that because there wasn't an exact translation for the Japanese equivalent?
** I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't think the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids, so one could say they had to wing it for translation convention.
* There's something that's been really bugging me about the two-parter where a woman falls in love with Sesshomaru. Her backstory seems to be quite consistent up until one point: Seeing Inuyasha when she was about to die. How is it that Sara instantly recognized Inuyasha despite never seeing him? The only thing she ever knew about him was his name when Jaken found him. And you can't say "the demons told her" since she saw him minutes before they showed up.
** Probably because Inuyasha has a strong resemblance to his brother. Chiefly the long, white hair.
* Where did the notion that Kikyo died to follow Inuyasha in death come from? For one thing, Kikyo didn't kill Inuyasha; she just put him in an enchanted slumber. For another, one of the first things established in the series is that Kikyo died in an attempt to ensure that the Shikon Jewel wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. On a related note, why the heck would Kikyo have ever wanted to see Inuyasha again, even on a subconscious level (since that's apparently the reason Kikyo was reincarnated as Kagome)? She died hating him because she believed he betrayed and murdered her; that doesn't exactly leave room to think, "Oh, but I still want to see the lying, traitorous bastard who killed me!"
** The fact that they said it repeatedly; Kikyo herself was surprised that Inuyasha 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 Kikyo 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 Kikyo's death leading him to believe he doesn't deserve happiness. While he certainly loves Kikyo, 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 Kikyo'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.
** A lot of this comes from Kagome's feelings, which is a focal point for her dynamic with both Kikyo and Inuyasha. She feels like Inuyasha will always carry a torch for Kikyo and pick Kikyo over her. This comes up a few times near the tail-end of the first anime, with Inuyasha constantly chasing after Kikyo and Kagome feeling jealous and miserable. So while it's not strictly a romantic triangle, it's ''effectively'' a love triangle in terms of story and dynamic.
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* How was it Miroku knew it was Naraku who killed Kikyo, while Kaede did not know?
** Kaede didn't know Naraku killed Kikyo until about 50 years after the fact, while Miroku made the connection to a previous event after the Kikyo story was told to him.
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* Is it ever explained why does Kagome ''want'' to travel back to the past? When she comes back to her world the first time, she breaks down crying and says she's done with the feudal era, with her grandpa even trying to seal the well for good. Then, Inuyasha comes and drags her back to the feudal era, and her motivations are turned around 180º. Did I miss something? She whines time and again the feudal era is messing with her grades and she won't be able to graduate, so why does she insist on going back to what she considers a dangerous place, filled with strange people (mostly Inuyasha) that don't respect her?
** It's possible that, after having been going between worlds for quite some time, she probably just fits in better with one than the other.
** It's possible that, after having been going between worlds for quite some time, she probably just fits in better with one than the other.
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* Is How did Inuyasha (in episode 57) in human form survive getting smashed to the ground by that fat sage in stone form?
** I believe he was wearing the cloak of the fire rat, which is, according to the show, like some kind of armor, plus, when he is in his human form, he'd still be slightly more invincible than the standard human.
* Why didn't Kagome use the "Sit" command every time Inuyasha transformed into a full-demon? She did it twice, but refused to do so beyond that when it was more crucial.
** I think that command would only work if he was either in the beginning and ending stages of the full youkai mode and or when he's not strong enough to resist it. The instances as to why she did it was because he was weakened enough to not resist it (I recall that he was injured pretty bad in one of those instances)
!Band of Seven
* 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.
** Because he was a dude, that's why.
** That's Jakotsu, and yes, he's male. It's fairly obvious in the scenes after his kimono gets trashed and he's going about wearing his armor over his bare chest.
*** Also, his overwhelming misogyny.
** They call him he for exactly the same reason they call Sesshomaru 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.
** He's played by a female voice actor in both the Japanese version and the dub, which just adds to the confusion.
*** Not a historian, but I assume they weren't too trans-positive in Feudal Japan.
*** It doesn't really matter since Jokutsu probably would just kill anyone who objected.
** He was originally a girl, but the author didn't feel like having Inuyasha hit a girl. However the author likely still wanted to keep the flirty-killer type within the band of seven, so made him a murderous crossdresser. His real gender likely added more to the disturbing stuff he said (despite all of the unfortunate implication that entails).
!Going back to the village
* What I really don't get is WHY after getting some progress in finding Naraku's whereabouts do the entire Inuyasha-tachi just decided to go return to Kaede's village, effectually losing all the ground they covered? Sure, Kagome has her life in the modern day era, but does that girl have no common sense to realize if Naraku or any other big evil for that matter caused a lot of damage in the Sengoku era of Japan which isn't meant to historically happen, then it's going to change the world she's currently living in, therefore making any effort to keep up in her current life pointless if it all changed? It doesn't even seem like Naraku's new whereabouts are any closer to where the Bone Eater's Well is. In fact, in this troper's opinion it seems more like Naraku is just moving further away. However, the gang never have any problem in getting back to their previous "check point" once they return from that village by the next episode, or sometimes even in the same episode. Despite it taking an entire season or so to reach Naraku once they get a clue as to where he is (and that takes a long time in itself) time becomes irrelevant when it comes to going and leaving the village with the well. Unless Inuyasha and Kirara can travel faster than the Shinkansen (which can take you between 2-3 hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka depending which Shinkansen you take), there is no reason as to why it takes them so little time to get to and from this one village, yet taking almost an entire season to travel around the rest of Japan.
** They probably weren't traveling in a straight line. The group would go one direction, see Naraku wasn't there, double back, and go off in a different direction. Kaede's village was a good central point to map out their progress. Plus, the three humans of the group can't heal as fast as Inuyasha. Whenever they returned to the village Kagome could get medical supplies (and other supplies) from her own time.
***Adding to this, Naraku didn't always stay in one location.
!Sango's Clothing Change
* How does Sango change into her Demon Slayer outfit so quickly, and get her hair in a ponytail in time for it as well? She's like a superheroine.
** Combination of {{Hammerspace}} and some unexplained super power she has?
** She's wearing it underneath and just has to strap on a few extras. Years of practice have mastered it to an art like Fire Fighters suiting up.
!Inuyasha, Kikyo, the village, and the Tree
* After seeing the first episode again, this Troper just found something ridiculous. In the very first scene of the series, we have Kikyo 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.
** Fifty years passed between the time fakenuyasha trashed the village and the real one got shot and the time when Kagome came through the well. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine the villagers rebuilt the village several meters away from the tree where their attacker was sealed, but close enough to keep an eye on him.
*** They might have built the shrine housing the Shikon no Tama a bit away from the village (and right next to the Bone Eater's Well) in order to keep the potential civilian casualties to a minimum and allow easy disposal of youkai corpses.
*** Real!Inuyasha trashed the village after Naraku!Kikyo attacked him at the tree. Naraku put the Jewel back in the shrine to lure both of them together and Inuyasha rampaged and stoke the Jewel in revenge. In all likelihood, the villages did choose to rebuild further away. In the first episode, they are clearly still fearful of Inuyasha and have named the area after him. Also in that episode, Kaede expresses shock that Kagome can see the demonic aura of the forest around the Goshinboku. It's reasonable to think they would relocate.
** Inuyasha wasn't much of a good guy back when he got shot, so it wouldn't be hard to believe the villagers moved away from him and the tree. Then again, maybe it just looks different/farther away because of the angle we see the forest, causing visual-distance confusion.
*** You mean Inuyasha was perceived to be the "bad guy" when he got shot. Remember, Naraku did deceive both Inuyasha and Kikyo into thinking the other betrayed them.
*** He's still a bit of an ass, though. And he rampaged their village as well.
* In the first episode of the anime, we see Inuyasha breaking out of the temple and escaping with the real Jewel. He is quickly pinned to the Goshinboku. I'm very much aware that Naraku tricked both Kikyo and Inuyasha into believing the other betrayed them, using impersonations of Inuyasha and Kikyo on each person, respectively. But, if the ''fake'' Inuyasha (impersonated by Naraku that attacked Kikyo) supposedly was the one who destroyed part of the village, then how the hell did the ''real'' Inuyasha, who obviously stole the Jewel from the shrine after the Kikyo impesronator replaced it, manage to destroy the shrine (and other parts of the village, that looked undamaged before)? Basically, who the hell ''actually'' trashed the village: the impersonator, the real Inuyasha, or both?
** I would guess that Naraku, in the guise of Inuyasha, tore up the village en route to returning the Jewel to the shrine before attacking Inuyasha in the guise of Kikyo. The real Inuyasha then went to get the Jewel in his grief and rage, and either assumed that another youkai had attacked while Kikyo 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.
** No, that was Real!Inuyasha. In his anger over being betrayed, he revels in destroying Kikyo's "hometown." Notice he doesn't actually kill anyone. Naraku!Inuyasha would not have restrained himself. He merely replaced the Jewel in it's shrine in order to let Real!Inuyasha steal it and be found in possession of it when Kikyo makes it back.
!Miroku and the bike
* Miroku is a monk in the medieval Japan, yet he appears to be extraordinarily skilled in riding Kagome's bike. He doesn't even seem to wonder which kind of transportation he uses, seriously, what the hell?
** Maybe he's just naturally talented at it. Inuyasha 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 Inuyasha 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.
** Miroku is also generally really smart, so a case could be made that he [[AwesomeByAnalysis figured out the basics of how it worked from seeing Kagome on it]], and natural physical ability did the rest.
** Some people just happen to be good at riding bikes the first time they try. It took this troper weeks to learn to ride without training wheels, but her brother mastered a two-wheeler in half an afternoon.
** I wouldn't object to him riding the bike that much if he didn't also carry Kagome while doing so. I mean... how?! I've been riding the bike for years, and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't just carry someone on my lap. Also, he was riding it on a rather rough path. Hell, with that bike, riding over grass is probably tough enough. How could you even dream of riding it where he did?
** I always assumed that Miroku being the world's biggest pervert, just happening to figure out how to ride it while admiring her short skirt. frankly i'm more concerned with how he managed to ride it in those shoes.
** At one point even Inuyasha wonders how he mastered it so fast, which lets Kagome know that he was trying to learn it himself. It's likely that he's just gifted.
*** Or he just learned it quicker than Inuyasha did, especially since Inuyasha, at different points, has been shown going on all fours when he wants to go faster (thus he would have a harder time at using it).
!Sesshomaru's Arm
* So... did Sesshomaru'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 Inuyasha tore off any that Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru got over his daddy issues, bringing with it an insanely powerful youkai sword.
*** It just sort of threw me off because I haven't found a single fanart made that showed him having any missing or different limbs, and fanfictions don't seem to even reference it that often.
*** Yeah, its a bit odd that the fanbase hasn't really picked up on that fetish, but I guess that if Sesshomaru 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.
* I just really wanted to know, how did all the demons find out about the jewel breaking so fast, more importantly, how and when did Naraku find out. I mean when they first meet Miroku it looks like they have half the jewel around that necklace, and lastly, how did that one jewel end up in his father's grave.
** I'd assume that the demons could "feel" it. A disturbance in the Force, if you will. Naraku probably found out at that time too, but chose to observe before acting.
** That jewel ended up in his father's grave because Housenki, the powerful daiyoukai who created the Right Black Pearl which was used to access the grave in the first time around, had an affinity for jewels (as evidenced by him being the source of the Diamond Tessaiga) and took it there to keep it safe from Naraku.
* Wouldn't the first thing you tried to do after getting a healing sword be to fix the arm you just had chopped off? Also, I can see why Sesshomaru things the sword is useless, but why does everyone else think it is too? Not one person thinks having a resurrection sword is awesome just because it can't cut?
** For the first, the Tenseiga is only capable of reviving the dead and casting a protective barrier, it can't actually heal wounds, much less amputations. Second, everybody thinks the Tenseiga is useless because the Tenseiga is a sword, and it can't even hurt somebody. Swords, like all weapons are supposed to be able to wound or kill, that's why they exist, despite what various media tries to romanticize the sword into a thing of protection will tell you. There are various shapes the Tenseiga could have taken that weren't weapons that would have allowed it to accomplish the same purpose it already does, it's useless for it's intended shape and the function that goes with it. I don't actually recall anybody else but Sesshomaru putting the Tenseiga down though.
!Kitsune Exam
* What is the point of the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Fox Demon Exam?]] Do kitsune need to get promoted in order to grow more tails?
** Not sure the exact point other than to add a side story, but not quite a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it IS mentioned again later on in the final act episodes.
** Probably to give Shippo some token development before the series ended, and to give him something to do post-series.
!When Kirara Ran Away
* 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.
** It may have been Miyoga who borrowed Kirara, but everyone stewed and fretted over Kirara because shippo had conveniently forgotten that Miyoga had borrowed Kirara, and everyone had just found this out AFTER shippo had just got done with an accusatory laundry list of how everyone had been mean to Kirara and had driven him to run off.
** 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.
!Shippo's shapshifting
* 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 Shippo to react to when he's not prepared for it, Inuyasha usually only whacks him when Shippo already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippo's point of view.
** That and Shippo's pretty young, so he might not be able to do that, yet.
!Getting Rid of the Wind Tunnel
* Why did Miroku not try to cut off his right hand? Same goes for his relatives before him. The Wind Tunnel is established as not a fun thing to have, especially close to the end when it gets poisoned. Amputation of a limb to save a person's life happens all over the place; there was a chance it may not have worked, with the hand growing back, or the Wind Tunnel coming out the stump, but the possibility is never mentioned.
** Because when it's not killing Miroku, it's (in theory, which story-wise is the more important thing) really useful for sucking up bad shit. In ''practice'', of course, it's completely useless thanks to Naraku's convenient demonic wasps or whatever, but the point is it ''can'' be important to them.
** Amputations in the 1500s were highly life threatening due to blood loss and most importantly infection. Instead of saving his life he would be risking it more.
** That's under the assumption it would even work. The hole might just show up in the stump anyway, and I find it hard to believe that none of Miroku's ancestors didn't think to chop their hand off as a last resort when the hole got big enough to suck them in.
** 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 arms.
!The Noh Mask
* How did the noh mask have its jewel shard? Wouldnt they have eventually found it in the past?
** If we take the time travel as a StableTimeLoop, then it means that in the past there's a complete Shikon Jewel plus one extra shard in a tree somewhere so that Kagome and Inuyasha can retrieve it in the future to complete said Jewel in the past. [[TimeyWimeyBall Yeah…]]
** Perhaps since the future shard went back to the past, no one can find the tree shard because their senses are overwritten by that one.
!Weapons and such
* Early in the show, we are shown Sango's weapon get snapped in half easily, yet it is fixed by next episode with no mention. But every time it breaks after that, it has to become a plot point to fix it with much effort required. What gives?
** That's because Totosai fixed it without much effort, which the anime left out for some reason.
* When Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru gives Inuyasha the Meidou Zangetsuha) and when Inuyasha'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).
** Also, the Youkai Graveyard was in the border between Life and Death, and we know that one of the ways to reach it involved making a river out of the blood of a bird youkai that came from Hell, so that could be an indication that the bone birds are able to traverse both areas.
* 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 Sesshomaru... so how were both seen in the final arc inside the jewel?
** Sending Naraku to Hell might have backfired spectacularly, at least without defeating him first.
** What Kikyo 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.
** Kikyo was 'slowly' dragging a mentally compromised Inuyasha to Hell with her. In addition to Naraku having some substantial mind powers of his own and not letting his guard down around Kikyo, 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.
* When Sesshomaru gained a human arm from Naraku with a Shikon shard that would allow him to hold the Tetsusaiga, why was he able to activate it? Last I recall, you could only activate the sword's true form if you had a desire to protect humans and Sesshomaru at that point had no desire to do so.
** Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru to comment that the sword doesn't seem to like him very much.
*** It may also have been his desire to protect the human arm, or possibly an effect of the Shikon shard embedded in it. As for Kagome's arrow undoing its transformation, that's just something powerful strikes of houriki does to Tessaiga, as Kikyo and the River God's halberd both did the same thing to it.
!Translating Conventions
* So maybe this is just a translation convention, but in the episode with the Soul Piper, Myoga mentions poltergeists. Was that because there wasn't an exact translation for the Japanese equivalent?
** I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't think the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids, so one could say they had to wing it for translation convention.
!Sesshomaru's Love interest
* There's something that's been really bugging me about the two-parter where a woman falls in love with Sesshomaru. Her backstory seems to be quite consistent up until one point: Seeing Inuyasha when she was about to die. How is it that Sara instantly recognized Inuyasha despite never seeing him? The only thing she everexplained knew about him was his name when Jaken found him. And you can't say "the demons told her" since she saw him minutes before they showed up.
** Probably because Inuyasha has a strong resemblance to his brother. Chiefly the long, white hair.
!The Triangle
* 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 Kikyo 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 Kikyo's death leading him to believe he doesn't deserve happiness. While he certainly loves Kikyo, 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 Kikyo'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.
** A lot of this comes from Kagome's feelings, which is a focal point for her dynamic with both Kikyo and Inuyasha. She feels like Inuyasha will always carry a torch for Kikyo and pick Kikyo over her. This comes up a few times near the tail-end of the first anime, with Inuyasha constantly chasing after Kikyo and Kagome feeling jealous and miserable. So while it's not strictly a romantic triangle, it's ''effectively'' a love triangle in terms of story and dynamic.
* Where did the notion that Kikyo died to follow Inuyasha in death come from? For one thing, Kikyo didn't kill Inuyasha; she just put him in an enchanted slumber. For another, one of the first things established in the series is that Kikyo died in an attempt to ensure that the Shikon Jewel wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. On a related note, why the heck would Kikyo have ever wanted to see Inuyasha again, even on a subconscious level (since that's apparently the reason Kikyo was reincarnated as Kagome)? She died hating him because she believed he betrayed and murdered her; that doesn't exactly leave room to think, "Oh, but I still want to see the lying, traitorous bastard who killed me!"
** The fact that they said it repeatedly; Kikyo herself was surprised that Inuyasha 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 is it that, in all of their jealousy disputes, Inuyasha never points out Kagome's hypocrisy? Not once does he say anything to the effect of, "Oh, so it's not okay for ''me'' to get mad when Koga shows up to flirt with you and you do nothing to stop him, but it's perfectly fine for ''you'' to get mad when I so much as breathe the same air as Kikyo?" Aside from the fact that the two aren't really an OfficialCouple [[LastMinuteHookup until the very last manga chapter/anime episode]] (which means that, for the vast majority of the series, Kagome has no say over what Inuyasha can or can't do with whoever he wants whenever he wants), Inuyasha is known for his BrutalHonesty and has never held back whenever he and Kagome get into a fight. So why in the world does he never blow up at her about the clear DoubleStandard at work?
** 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 Kikyo and he told her it was all guilt. And again third time she asked him if he still loved Kikyo 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 Kikyo'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.
** ''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''want'' fail to travel 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?
** Um because Kagome is not sneaking behind his back tothe past? When 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 Kikyo out of guilt, but Kagome DOESN'T know that for sure. Ever seen how secretive he acts about going to Kikyo? 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 Kikyo. 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 Kikyo. 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 world 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 Kikyo 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 firsttime, she breaks down crying and says she's done with the feudal era, with her grandpa even trying to seal the well for good. Then, chance he'd get. So if Inuyasha comes and drags her back isn't certain about how Kagome feels about him, he'd really have no reason to confront Kagome's behaviour on the feudal era, and her motivations are turned Kouga matter. (Although why Inuyasha never confronts Kagome about how she treats him whenever Kikyo is around 180º. Did I miss something? She whines time and again the feudal era is messing with her grades and she won't be able to graduate, so why does she insist on going back to what she considers a dangerous place, filled with strange people (mostly Inuyasha) another issue, but I'd chalk that don't respect her?
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)
**It's possible that, Adding my two cents, even as I ship Inuyasha/Kagome, pretty sure he occasionally went after having been going between worlds Kikyo because he still loved her and couldn't forget her (in the past they had practically agreed to marry each other, after all). As for quite some why he didn't just "run off with her", that's because it wasn't ''really'' Kikyo in present time, she probably just fits but her soul in better an animated clay body. About Kagome and Inuyasha dating before the ending, I have an interpretation that while they weren't officially dating, eventually they became aware of each other's feelings and let themselves act on it. I mean, they eventually have a lot of moments where they will casually take each other's hand, hug, sit close to one another, say intimate things etc. that you would never say with one than a friend, which gave me the other. vibe of them being like "Yeah we like each other, but we're keeping it cool as it's still a little awkward".
!How did he know
* How was it Miroku knew it was Naraku who killed Kikyo, while Kaede did not know?
** Kaede didn't know Naraku killed Kikyo until about 50 years after the fact, while Miroku made the connection to a previous event after the Kikyo story was told to him.
** I believe he was wearing the cloak of the fire rat, which is, according to the show, like some kind of armor, plus, when he is in his human form, he'd still be slightly more invincible than the standard human.
* Why didn't Kagome use the "Sit" command every time Inuyasha transformed into a full-demon? She did it twice, but refused to do so beyond that when it was more crucial.
** I think that command would only work if he was either in the beginning and ending stages of the full youkai mode and or when he's not strong enough to resist it. The instances as to why she did it was because he was weakened enough to not resist it (I recall that he was injured pretty bad in one of those instances)
!Band of Seven
* 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.
** Because he was a dude, that's why.
** That's Jakotsu, and yes, he's male. It's fairly obvious in the scenes after his kimono gets trashed and he's going about wearing his armor over his bare chest.
*** Also, his overwhelming misogyny.
** They call him he for exactly the same reason they call Sesshomaru 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.
** He's played by a female voice actor in both the Japanese version and the dub, which just adds to the confusion.
*** Not a historian, but I assume they weren't too trans-positive in Feudal Japan.
*** It doesn't really matter since Jokutsu probably would just kill anyone who objected.
** He was originally a girl, but the author didn't feel like having Inuyasha hit a girl. However the author likely still wanted to keep the flirty-killer type within the band of seven, so made him a murderous crossdresser. His real gender likely added more to the disturbing stuff he said (despite all of the unfortunate implication that entails).
!Going back to the village
* What I really don't get is WHY after getting some progress in finding Naraku's whereabouts do the entire Inuyasha-tachi just decided to go return to Kaede's village, effectually losing all the ground they covered? Sure, Kagome has her life in the modern day era, but does that girl have no common sense to realize if Naraku or any other big evil for that matter caused a lot of damage in the Sengoku era of Japan which isn't meant to historically happen, then it's going to change the world she's currently living in, therefore making any effort to keep up in her current life pointless if it all changed? It doesn't even seem like Naraku's new whereabouts are any closer to where the Bone Eater's Well is. In fact, in this troper's opinion it seems more like Naraku is just moving further away. However, the gang never have any problem in getting back to their previous "check point" once they return from that village by the next episode, or sometimes even in the same episode. Despite it taking an entire season or so to reach Naraku once they get a clue as to where he is (and that takes a long time in itself) time becomes irrelevant when it comes to going and leaving the village with the well. Unless Inuyasha and Kirara can travel faster than the Shinkansen (which can take you between 2-3 hours to travel from Tokyo to Osaka depending which Shinkansen you take), there is no reason as to why it takes them so little time to get to and from this one village, yet taking almost an entire season to travel around the rest of Japan.
** They probably weren't traveling in a straight line. The group would go one direction, see Naraku wasn't there, double back, and go off in a different direction. Kaede's village was a good central point to map out their progress. Plus, the three humans of the group can't heal as fast as Inuyasha. Whenever they returned to the village Kagome could get medical supplies (and other supplies) from her own time.
***Adding to this, Naraku didn't always stay in one location.
!Sango's Clothing Change
* How does Sango change into her Demon Slayer outfit so quickly, and get her hair in a ponytail in time for it as well? She's like a superheroine.
** Combination of {{Hammerspace}} and some unexplained super power she has?
** She's wearing it underneath and just has to strap on a few extras. Years of practice have mastered it to an art like Fire Fighters suiting up.
!Inuyasha, Kikyo, the village, and the Tree
* After seeing the first episode again, this Troper just found something ridiculous. In the very first scene of the series, we have Kikyo 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.
** Fifty years passed between the time fakenuyasha trashed the village and the real one got shot and the time when Kagome came through the well. It's not too much of a stretch to imagine the villagers rebuilt the village several meters away from the tree where their attacker was sealed, but close enough to keep an eye on him.
*** They might have built the shrine housing the Shikon no Tama a bit away from the village (and right next to the Bone Eater's Well) in order to keep the potential civilian casualties to a minimum and allow easy disposal of youkai corpses.
*** Real!Inuyasha trashed the village after Naraku!Kikyo attacked him at the tree. Naraku put the Jewel back in the shrine to lure both of them together and Inuyasha rampaged and stoke the Jewel in revenge. In all likelihood, the villages did choose to rebuild further away. In the first episode, they are clearly still fearful of Inuyasha and have named the area after him. Also in that episode, Kaede expresses shock that Kagome can see the demonic aura of the forest around the Goshinboku. It's reasonable to think they would relocate.
** Inuyasha wasn't much of a good guy back when he got shot, so it wouldn't be hard to believe the villagers moved away from him and the tree. Then again, maybe it just looks different/farther away because of the angle we see the forest, causing visual-distance confusion.
*** You mean Inuyasha was perceived to be the "bad guy" when he got shot. Remember, Naraku did deceive both Inuyasha and Kikyo into thinking the other betrayed them.
*** He's still a bit of an ass, though. And he rampaged their village as well.
* In the first episode of the anime, we see Inuyasha breaking out of the temple and escaping with the real Jewel. He is quickly pinned to the Goshinboku. I'm very much aware that Naraku tricked both Kikyo and Inuyasha into believing the other betrayed them, using impersonations of Inuyasha and Kikyo on each person, respectively. But, if the ''fake'' Inuyasha (impersonated by Naraku that attacked Kikyo) supposedly was the one who destroyed part of the village, then how the hell did the ''real'' Inuyasha, who obviously stole the Jewel from the shrine after the Kikyo impesronator replaced it, manage to destroy the shrine (and other parts of the village, that looked undamaged before)? Basically, who the hell ''actually'' trashed the village: the impersonator, the real Inuyasha, or both?
** I would guess that Naraku, in the guise of Inuyasha, tore up the village en route to returning the Jewel to the shrine before attacking Inuyasha in the guise of Kikyo. The real Inuyasha then went to get the Jewel in his grief and rage, and either assumed that another youkai had attacked while Kikyo 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.
** No, that was Real!Inuyasha. In his anger over being betrayed, he revels in destroying Kikyo's "hometown." Notice he doesn't actually kill anyone. Naraku!Inuyasha would not have restrained himself. He merely replaced the Jewel in it's shrine in order to let Real!Inuyasha steal it and be found in possession of it when Kikyo makes it back.
!Miroku and the bike
* Miroku is a monk in the medieval Japan, yet he appears to be extraordinarily skilled in riding Kagome's bike. He doesn't even seem to wonder which kind of transportation he uses, seriously, what the hell?
** Maybe he's just naturally talented at it. Inuyasha 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 Inuyasha 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.
** Miroku is also generally really smart, so a case could be made that he [[AwesomeByAnalysis figured out the basics of how it worked from seeing Kagome on it]], and natural physical ability did the rest.
** Some people just happen to be good at riding bikes the first time they try. It took this troper weeks to learn to ride without training wheels, but her brother mastered a two-wheeler in half an afternoon.
** I wouldn't object to him riding the bike that much if he didn't also carry Kagome while doing so. I mean... how?! I've been riding the bike for years, and I'm pretty sure that I couldn't just carry someone on my lap. Also, he was riding it on a rather rough path. Hell, with that bike, riding over grass is probably tough enough. How could you even dream of riding it where he did?
** I always assumed that Miroku being the world's biggest pervert, just happening to figure out how to ride it while admiring her short skirt. frankly i'm more concerned with how he managed to ride it in those shoes.
** At one point even Inuyasha wonders how he mastered it so fast, which lets Kagome know that he was trying to learn it himself. It's likely that he's just gifted.
*** Or he just learned it quicker than Inuyasha did, especially since Inuyasha, at different points, has been shown going on all fours when he wants to go faster (thus he would have a harder time at using it).
!Sesshomaru's Arm
* So... did Sesshomaru'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 Inuyasha tore off any that Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru got over his daddy issues, bringing with it an insanely powerful youkai sword.
*** It just sort of threw me off because I haven't found a single fanart made that showed him having any missing or different limbs, and fanfictions don't seem to even reference it that often.
*** Yeah, its a bit odd that the fanbase hasn't really picked up on that fetish, but I guess that if Sesshomaru 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.
* I just really wanted to know, how did all the demons find out about the jewel breaking so fast, more importantly, how and when did Naraku find out. I mean when they first meet Miroku it looks like they have half the jewel around that necklace, and lastly, how did that one jewel end up in his father's grave.
** I'd assume that the demons could "feel" it. A disturbance in the Force, if you will. Naraku probably found out at that time too, but chose to observe before acting.
** That jewel ended up in his father's grave because Housenki, the powerful daiyoukai who created the Right Black Pearl which was used to access the grave in the first time around, had an affinity for jewels (as evidenced by him being the source of the Diamond Tessaiga) and took it there to keep it safe from Naraku.
* Wouldn't the first thing you tried to do after getting a healing sword be to fix the arm you just had chopped off? Also, I can see why Sesshomaru things the sword is useless, but why does everyone else think it is too? Not one person thinks having a resurrection sword is awesome just because it can't cut?
** For the first, the Tenseiga is only capable of reviving the dead and casting a protective barrier, it can't actually heal wounds, much less amputations. Second, everybody thinks the Tenseiga is useless because the Tenseiga is a sword, and it can't even hurt somebody. Swords, like all weapons are supposed to be able to wound or kill, that's why they exist, despite what various media tries to romanticize the sword into a thing of protection will tell you. There are various shapes the Tenseiga could have taken that weren't weapons that would have allowed it to accomplish the same purpose it already does, it's useless for it's intended shape and the function that goes with it. I don't actually recall anybody else but Sesshomaru putting the Tenseiga down though.
!Kitsune Exam
* What is the point of the [[BigLippedAlligatorMoment Fox Demon Exam?]] Do kitsune need to get promoted in order to grow more tails?
** Not sure the exact point other than to add a side story, but not quite a BigLippedAlligatorMoment, it IS mentioned again later on in the final act episodes.
** Probably to give Shippo some token development before the series ended, and to give him something to do post-series.
!When Kirara Ran Away
* 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.
** It may have been Miyoga who borrowed Kirara, but everyone stewed and fretted over Kirara because shippo had conveniently forgotten that Miyoga had borrowed Kirara, and everyone had just found this out AFTER shippo had just got done with an accusatory laundry list of how everyone had been mean to Kirara and had driven him to run off.
** 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.
!Shippo's shapshifting
* 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 Shippo to react to when he's not prepared for it, Inuyasha usually only whacks him when Shippo already pissed him off once, so pissing him off the strongest guy in the party again is probably not a great idea from Shippo's point of view.
** That and Shippo's pretty young, so he might not be able to do that, yet.
!Getting Rid of the Wind Tunnel
* Why did Miroku not try to cut off his right hand? Same goes for his relatives before him. The Wind Tunnel is established as not a fun thing to have, especially close to the end when it gets poisoned. Amputation of a limb to save a person's life happens all over the place; there was a chance it may not have worked, with the hand growing back, or the Wind Tunnel coming out the stump, but the possibility is never mentioned.
** Because when it's not killing Miroku, it's (in theory, which story-wise is the more important thing) really useful for sucking up bad shit. In ''practice'', of course, it's completely useless thanks to Naraku's convenient demonic wasps or whatever, but the point is it ''can'' be important to them.
** Amputations in the 1500s were highly life threatening due to blood loss and most importantly infection. Instead of saving his life he would be risking it more.
** That's under the assumption it would even work. The hole might just show up in the stump anyway, and I find it hard to believe that none of Miroku's ancestors didn't think to chop their hand off as a last resort when the hole got big enough to suck them in.
** 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 arms.
!The Noh Mask
* How did the noh mask have its jewel shard? Wouldnt they have eventually found it in the past?
** If we take the time travel as a StableTimeLoop, then it means that in the past there's a complete Shikon Jewel plus one extra shard in a tree somewhere so that Kagome and Inuyasha can retrieve it in the future to complete said Jewel in the past. [[TimeyWimeyBall Yeah…]]
** Perhaps since the future shard went back to the past, no one can find the tree shard because their senses are overwritten by that one.
!Weapons and such
* Early in the show, we are shown Sango's weapon get snapped in half easily, yet it is fixed by next episode with no mention. But every time it breaks after that, it has to become a plot point to fix it with much effort required. What gives?
** That's because Totosai fixed it without much effort, which the anime left out for some reason.
* When Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru gives Inuyasha the Meidou Zangetsuha) and when Inuyasha'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).
** Also, the Youkai Graveyard was in the border between Life and Death, and we know that one of the ways to reach it involved making a river out of the blood of a bird youkai that came from Hell, so that could be an indication that the bone birds are able to traverse both areas.
* 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 Sesshomaru... so how were both seen in the final arc inside the jewel?
** Sending Naraku to Hell might have backfired spectacularly, at least without defeating him first.
** What Kikyo 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.
** Kikyo was 'slowly' dragging a mentally compromised Inuyasha to Hell with her. In addition to Naraku having some substantial mind powers of his own and not letting his guard down around Kikyo, 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.
* When Sesshomaru gained a human arm from Naraku with a Shikon shard that would allow him to hold the Tetsusaiga, why was he able to activate it? Last I recall, you could only activate the sword's true form if you had a desire to protect humans and Sesshomaru at that point had no desire to do so.
** Sesshomaru 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 Sesshomaru to comment that the sword doesn't seem to like him very much.
*** It may also have been his desire to protect the human arm, or possibly an effect of the Shikon shard embedded in it. As for Kagome's arrow undoing its transformation, that's just something powerful strikes of houriki does to Tessaiga, as Kikyo and the River God's halberd both did the same thing to it.
!Translating Conventions
* So maybe this is just a translation convention, but in the episode with the Soul Piper, Myoga mentions poltergeists. Was that because there wasn't an exact translation for the Japanese equivalent?
** I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't think the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids, so one could say they had to wing it for translation convention.
!Sesshomaru's Love interest
* There's something that's been really bugging me about the two-parter where a woman falls in love with Sesshomaru. Her backstory seems to be quite consistent up until one point: Seeing Inuyasha when she was about to die. How is it that Sara instantly recognized Inuyasha despite never seeing him? The only thing she ever
** Probably because Inuyasha has a strong resemblance to his brother. Chiefly the long, white hair.
!The Triangle
* 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 Kikyo 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 Kikyo's death leading him to believe he doesn't deserve happiness. While he certainly loves Kikyo, 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 Kikyo'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.
** A lot of this comes from Kagome's feelings, which is a focal point for her dynamic with both Kikyo and Inuyasha. She feels like Inuyasha will always carry a torch for Kikyo and pick Kikyo over her. This comes up a few times near the tail-end of the first anime, with Inuyasha constantly chasing after Kikyo and Kagome feeling jealous and miserable. So while it's not strictly a romantic triangle, it's ''effectively'' a love triangle in terms of story and dynamic.
* Where did the notion that Kikyo died to follow Inuyasha in death come from? For one thing, Kikyo didn't kill Inuyasha; she just put him in an enchanted slumber. For another, one of the first things established in the series is that Kikyo died in an attempt to ensure that the Shikon Jewel wouldn't fall into the wrong hands. On a related note, why the heck would Kikyo have ever wanted to see Inuyasha again, even on a subconscious level (since that's apparently the reason Kikyo was reincarnated as Kagome)? She died hating him because she believed he betrayed and murdered her; that doesn't exactly leave room to think, "Oh, but I still want to see the lying, traitorous bastard who killed me!"
** The fact that they said it repeatedly; Kikyo herself was surprised that Inuyasha 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 is it that, in all of their jealousy disputes, Inuyasha never points out Kagome's hypocrisy? Not once does he say anything to the effect of, "Oh, so it's not okay for ''me'' to get mad when Koga shows up to flirt with you and you do nothing to stop him, but it's perfectly fine for ''you'' to get mad when I so much as breathe the same air as Kikyo?" Aside from the fact that the two aren't really an OfficialCouple [[LastMinuteHookup until the very last manga chapter/anime episode]] (which means that, for the vast majority of the series, Kagome has no say over what Inuyasha can or can't do with whoever he wants whenever he wants), Inuyasha is known for his BrutalHonesty and has never held back whenever he and Kagome get into a fight. So why in the world does he never blow up at her about the clear DoubleStandard at work?
** 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 Kikyo and he told her it was all guilt. And again third time she asked him if he still loved Kikyo 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 Kikyo'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.
** ''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
** Um because Kagome is not sneaking behind his back to
** 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
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* How was it Miroku knew it was Naraku who killed Kikyo, while Kaede did not know?
** Kaede didn't know Naraku killed Kikyo until about 50 years after the fact, while Miroku made the connection to a previous event after the Kikyo story was told to him.
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*** From what Kagome tells them, they think she's dating an abusive, two-timing delinquent, and are really worried about her just brushing off some of his questionable actions. They also generally brush off her conditions almost immediately and treat her normally. Most likely, they think she's faking it. But they're probably trying to be considerate of Kagome because they think she's in an unhealthy relationship and needs all the support she can get. It would also explain why they push [[NiceGuy Hojo]] on her.
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** Probably to give Shippo some token development before the series ended, and to give him something to do post-series.
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** Probably because Inuyasha has a strong resemblance to his brother. Chiefly the long, white hair.
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** A lot of this comes from Kagome's feelings, which is a focal point for her dynamic with both Kikyo and Inuyasha. She feels like Inuyasha will always carry a torch for Kikyo and pick Kikyo over her. This comes up a few times near the tail-end of the first anime, with Inuyasha constantly chasing after Kikyo and Kagome feeling jealous and miserable. So while it's not strictly a romantic triangle, it's ''effectively'' a love triangle in terms of story and dynamic.
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** Kaeda didn't know Naraku killed Kikyo until about 50 years after the fact, while Miroku made the connection to a previous event after the Kikyo story was told to him.
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** Kaeda Kaede didn't know Naraku killed Kikyo until about 50 years after the fact, while Miroku made the connection to a previous event after the Kikyo story was told to him.
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*** That and they're youkai dogs, so it's not like they function like regular dogs
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*** That and they're youkai dogs, so it's not like they function exactly like regular dogs
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** I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't the the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids.
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** I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't the think the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids.
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** Well, he's a hanyou. He's not to accepted by humans for his half-youkai heritage and vice versa.
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** Well, he's a hanyou. He's not to accepted by humans for his half-youkai heritage and vice versa.
versa. From what I've been getting out of the show, hanyou are practically considered to be abominations to both sides (for some reasons that I can't recall).
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** As noted with ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' (and by some level, the ''[[{{VideoGame/Touhou}} Touhou Project]]'', if Gensokyo is an indication), it could be one of those "separate world" things or, perhaps, more powerful youkai have died out while miscellaneous ones still do. I mean, a lot of folklore tend to have this separation of worlds (and subsequently explains why the two worlds shouldn't be bridged). Likewise, in the vein on what time periods had to do with this, the Meiji restoration (and some of the preceding events) and WWII (before and after) started to have a decline of traditions, so, when traditional customs started to fade, as did the folklore. In terms of the Well, I more or less took it that the "past" that Kagome went to isn't really the "past" per say, rather, it's separated realm of the Heian period that she goes to, with the Sacred Tree and the Well bridging the two worlds.
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** As noted with ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' (and by some level, the ''[[{{VideoGame/Touhou}} Touhou Project]]'', if Gensokyo is an indication), it could be one of those "separate world" things or, perhaps, more powerful youkai have died out while miscellaneous ones still do.survive. I mean, a lot of folklore tend to have this separation of worlds (and subsequently explains why the two worlds shouldn't be bridged). Likewise, in the vein on what time periods had to do with this, the Meiji restoration (and some of the preceding events) and WWII (before and after) started to have a decline of traditions, so, when traditional customs started to fade, as did the folklore. In terms of the Well, I more or less took it that the "past" that Kagome went to isn't really the "past" per say, rather, it's separated realm of the Heian period that she goes to, with the Sacred Tree and the Well bridging the two worlds.
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*** Yes, alcohol is poisonous but that's in large amounts (supposing one tries to consume it in the usual way and is with metabolic issues). Of course, we could shrug it off as him being hanyou, which combines both a dog (youkai dog, notwithstanding) and human's tolerance, so, in the case of ''The Final Act'', he probably just gets drunk easily, as dogs can't hold their liquor, however, we didn't see exactly how much he drank.
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*** Yes, alcohol is poisonous but that's in large amounts (supposing one tries to consume it in the usual way and is with without metabolic issues). Of course, we could shrug it off as him being hanyou, which combines both a dog (youkai dog, notwithstanding) and human's tolerance, so, in the case of ''The Final Act'', he probably just gets drunk easily, as dogs can't hold their liquor, however, we didn't see exactly how much he drank.
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***Or he just learned it quicker than Inuyasha did, especially since Inuyasha, at different points, has been shown going on all fours when he wants to go faster (thus he would have a harder time at using it).
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***That and they're youkai dogs, so it's not like they function like regular dogs
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**I believe he was wearing the cloak of the fire rat, which is, according to the show, like some kind of armor, plus, when he is in his human form, he'd still be slightly more invincible than the standard human.
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* Why didn't Kagome use the "Sit command" every time Inuyasha transformed into a full-demon? She did it twice, but refused to do so beyond that when it was more crucial.
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* Why didn't Kagome use the "Sit command" "Sit" command every time Inuyasha transformed into a full-demon? She did it twice, but refused to do so beyond that when it was more crucial.crucial.
**I think that command would only work if he was either in the beginning and ending stages of the full youkai mode and or when he's not strong enough to resist it. The instances as to why she did it was because he was weakened enough to not resist it (I recall that he was injured pretty bad in one of those instances)
**I think that command would only work if he was either in the beginning and ending stages of the full youkai mode and or when he's not strong enough to resist it. The instances as to why she did it was because he was weakened enough to not resist it (I recall that he was injured pretty bad in one of those instances)
**Well, his other companions are humans (Sango, Miroku, and Kagome) and child youkai (Shippo), so, in a good number of those instances they wouldn't be strong enough to fight alongside him (that and wind tunnel takes a lot out of Miroku), along with that Inuyasha does, for the most part, initiates these battles alone.
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***What might answer this better is Japanese mythology, which, more often than not, states that youkai are quite LongLived, so, yes, they would age slower but that tends to depend on the youkai. In which case, Shippo could be anywhere from 50-100 years old, at least for his Kitsune species (there are different types kistune).
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*** It can't be, because the past affects the present. The bald spot on Goshinboku.The jewel shard found to be in the sacred tree in the first movie . The explanation I would give would be that demon power comes from belief. As people lost culture, and fear, which would start seeming fairly irrational and stupid eventually, the demons eventually just went into hiding, getting only enough power to be immortal. But not nigh invulnerable. Then world war 2 came, and they, with the bombing of Hiroshima, saw that there was no point anymore. So they just used what little magic they had left and joined humanity, though needing to create new people each time because of living thousands if not millions of years. I would have made some links, but it doesn't work for some reason.
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*** It can't be, because the past affects the present. The bald spot on Goshinboku. The jewel shard found to be in the sacred tree in the first movie . The explanation I would give would be that demon power comes from belief. As people lost culture, and fear, which would start seeming fairly irrational and stupid eventually, the demons eventually just went into hiding, getting only enough power to be immortal. But not nigh invulnerable. Then world war 2 came, and they, with the bombing of Hiroshima, saw that there was no point anymore. So they just used what little magic they had left and joined humanity, though needing to create new people each time because of living thousands if not millions of years. I would have made some links, but it doesn't work for some reason.
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** It's interesting to note that while some demons are born from parents and whatnot, others can actually be "created" from disease, war, famine, and everything under the sun. There's no clear line of demarcation, as demons have multiple attributes that are a cross between spiritual and physical. In the 17th century, the country was united under the Tokugawa Shogunate and experienced political stability for the first time in a while. Demons of the second category probably went on a serious decline after that, with war mostly gone. The theory of belief also seems to be a rather convincing one since that was a major theme that was played with during Meiji Japan. There's a famous legend in which a steam train kills a tanuki, with the train symbolozing modernity and the tanuki representing nature and the unknown. With the death of the tanuki comes the "lifting" of enchantment from Japan. Folklore didn't hold as much power after that. So maybe when people in Japan stopped their literal belief in beings such as demons, the ones in the second category disappeared completely while more powerful ones went incognito. That, and the brothers'/Naraku's wanton killing of demons everywhere during the jewel episode affected things a bit.
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** It's interesting to note that while some demons are born from parents and whatnot, others can actually be "created" from disease, war, famine, and everything under the sun. There's no clear line of demarcation, as demons have multiple attributes that are a cross between spiritual and physical. In the 17th century, the country was united under the Tokugawa Shogunate and experienced political stability for the first time in a while. Demons of the second category probably went on a serious decline after that, with war mostly gone. The theory of belief also seems to be a rather convincing one since that was a major theme that was played with during Meiji Japan. There's a famous legend in which a steam train kills a tanuki, with the train symbolozing symbolizing modernity and the tanuki representing nature and the unknown. With the death of the tanuki comes the "lifting" of enchantment from Japan. Folklore didn't hold as much power after that. So maybe when people in Japan stopped their literal belief in beings such as demons, the ones in the second category disappeared completely while more powerful ones went incognito. That, and the brothers'/Naraku's wanton killing of demons everywhere during the jewel episode affected things a bit.
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*** In addition, youkai thrive during times of war and chaos, the reestablishment of an effective central government ended that for centuries, the civil war of the Menji Meiji Restoration was brief, and the end of WWII was brief also. There is a lot of Japan that is wildness preserve, plenty of space for youkai to hide from humans, even if they don't have access to other realms as folklore ascribes to kitsune. Not to mention the possibility of TheMasquerade.
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**As noted with ''Manga/YuYuHakusho'' (and by some level, the ''[[{{VideoGame/Touhou}} Touhou Project]]'', if Gensokyo is an indication), it could be one of those "separate world" things or, perhaps, more powerful youkai have died out while miscellaneous ones still do. I mean, a lot of folklore tend to have this separation of worlds (and subsequently explains why the two worlds shouldn't be bridged). Likewise, in the vein on what time periods had to do with this, the Meiji restoration (and some of the preceding events) and WWII (before and after) started to have a decline of traditions, so, when traditional customs started to fade, as did the folklore. In terms of the Well, I more or less took it that the "past" that Kagome went to isn't really the "past" per say, rather, it's separated realm of the Heian period that she goes to, with the Sacred Tree and the Well bridging the two worlds.
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***If I remember the first three episodes correctly, the villagers weren't really sure what to do with her and probably would have killed her if they hadn't consulted Kaeda beforehand.
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* So maybe this is just a translation convention, but in the episode with the Soul Piper Miyoga Piper, Myoga mentions poltergeists. Was that because there wasn't an exact translation for the Japanese equivalent?
**I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't the the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids.
**I think the closest Japanese equivalent to poltergeist would be the zashiki-warashi, which, are to my knowledge, mischievous child spirits that inhabit in houses, so it's possible that what I've said wouldn't really translate that well, considering that they called Jinenji's mother the "baba yaga" , instead of "yamanba" (or yama-uba). However, be this as noted, I don't the the ghosts the Soul Piper plays with are "zashiki-warashi", given what I've said, but Japanese mythology is fuzzy on the note of dead kids.
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* Is it ever explained why does Kagome ''want'' to travel back to the past? When she comes back to her world the first time, she breaks down crying and says she's done with the feudal era, with her grandpa even trying to seal the well for good. Then, Inuyasha comes and drags her back to the feudal era, and her motivations are turned around 180º. Did I miss something? She whines time and again the feudal era is messing with her grades and she won't be able to graduate, so why does she insist on going back to what she considers a dangerous place, filled with strange people (mostly Inuyasha) that don't respect her?
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*** When he asks Inuyasha what two adults might do in a bath together, Inuyasha says something along the lines of him needing to be 50 years older to know. Given that a lot of demons are shown to age much, much slower than humans, this was probably not an exaggeration.
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* Why can Kagome transport inanimate objects through the Bone Eaters well, but not people? If the well was like time travel in ''Film/TheTerminator'' and it only transported living material, then it would make sense, but that's not the case.
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** A little note about her schoolwork: it's mentioned in the first few episodes that she was a very good student and had great grades until the well happened. That doesn't mean she had a very practical mind, and not only because she was very young.
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*** So, supposedly women in Japan started wearing western clothes partly because it was much easier to move around in than traditional Japanese clothing. There were even cases of some being targeted for robberies and assaults because they wouldn't be able to get away as easily in traditional clothing. So, a school uniform, while not the most practical clothing choice, would probably have been better than a kimono for mobility. Really, I think it was just a design choice to make her more easily recognizable to readers.
