History NightmareFuel / Inuyasha

** To be fair, the story does take place during the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, in which Japan broke down into bloody civil war for about a century. There's a reason so many of Japan's ghost/horror stories originated during this period (and it's thus a popular setting for many Japanese media); not only did a lot of people supposedly become [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], but the overall bad vibes of the time supposedly attracted all manner of evil supernatural beings. WarIsHell all right, and ''Inuyasha'' is set in one of its deeper layers.

** To be fair, the story does take place during the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, in which Japan broke down into bloody civil war for about a century. There's a reason so many of Japan's ghost/horror stories originated during this period (and it's thus a popular setting for many Japanese media); not only did a lot of people supposedly become [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], but the overall bad vibes of the time attracted all manner of evil supernatural beings. Although with all the actual atrocities being carried out by actual people against each other, one could say "[[WithFriendsLikeThese who needs]] [[HumansAreBastards demons]]?" WarIsHell, indeed.

** To be fair, the story does take place during the UsefulNotes/SengokuPeriod, in which Japan broke down into bloody civil war for about a century. There's a reason so many of Japan's ghost/horror stories take place during this period (and it's thus a popular setting for many Japanese media); not only did a lot of people supposedly become [[OurGhostsAreDifferent ghosts]], but the overall bad vibes of the time attracted all manner of evil supernatural beings. Although with all the actual atrocities being carried out by actual people against each other, one could say "[[WithFriendsLikeThese who needs]] [[HumansAreBastards demons]]?" WarIsHell, indeed.

* The Cursed Noh Mask, made from a sacred tree embedded with a Sacred Jewel shard, that feeds on people to gain a body, a blackish one made of absorbed corpses. What makes it worse than most demons after the shards is that it was awoken in the present day by being near its presence. And it goes on a killing spree targeting firemen and policemen as well as driving a FIRE TRUCK into Kagome's house to get the Jewel. Oh and there's no [[NoOntologicalInertia reversing of the damage it's done]] and the people the mask has killed are gone for good.
** The mask is ''even worse'' in the manga where it's seen ''eating'' some youngsters... then coming back with a huge, fat body made from human flesh and full of limbs and faces. And then it can also chase Kagome almost everywhere, and even when partially broken, it can still move on and kill.
** Another cursed mask in the manga bites people's head off. '''Graphically'''. The chapter wasn't adapted into the anime for exactly that reason.

** Even his incarnations are this. The ''least heinous'' ones who are practically [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]] were first seen committing mass genocides and MindRape by the hundreds, and it goes worse from there with Hakudoshi attempting mass omnicide to bait Kikyo out, and the Infant killing thousands upon thousands of Yokai and humans alike and starts his rapsheet by manipulating the mass executions of innocents, driving Kagome to a HeroicBSOD and comes just about that close to controlling and killing her.
* The Cursed Noh Mask, made from a sacred tree embedded with a Sacred Jewel shard, that feeds on people to gain a body, a blackish one made of absorbed corpses. What makes it worse than most demons after the shards is that it was awoken in the present day by being near its presence. And it goes on a killing spree targeting firemen and policemen as well as driving a FIRE TRUCK into Kagome's house to get the Jewel. Oh and there's not any [[NoOntologicalInertia reverse of the damage it's done]] yup the people the mask has eaten are gone for good.
** Even worse in the manga: no, no more blob body: instead, you see the mask ''eating'' some youngsters... then coming back with a huge, fat body made from human flesh and full of limbs and faces. And then it can also chase Kagome almost everywhere, and even when partially broken, it can still move on and kill.

** Even his incarnations are this. The ''least heinous'' ones who are practically [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]] were fiest seen committing mass genocides and MindRape by the hundreds, and it goes worse from there with Hakudoshi attempting mass omnicide to bait Kikyo out, and the Infant killing thousands upon thousands of Yokai and humans alike and starts his rapsheet by manipulating the mass executions of innocents, driving Kagome to a HeroicBSOD and comes just about that close to controlling and killing her.

** Even his incarnations are this. The ''least heinous'' ones who are practically [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]] start by unleashing mass MindRape onto entire villages worth hundreds, and it goes worse from there with Hakudoshi attempting mass omnicide to bait Kikyo out and the Infant killing thousands upon thousands of Yokai and humans alike and starts his rapsheet by manipulating the mass executions of innocents, driving Kagome to a HeroicBSOD and comes just about that close to controlling and killing her.

** Even his incarnations are this. The ''least heinous'' ones who are practically [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]] start by destroying entire villages worth hundreds, and it goes worse from there with Hakudoshi attempting mass omnicide to bait Kikyo out and the Infant killing thousands upon thousands of Yokai and humans alike and starts his rapsheet by manipulating the mass executions of innocents, driving Kagome to a HeroicBSOD and comes just about that close to controlling and killing her.

** Even his incarnations are this. The ''least heinous'' ones (who are practically [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]] start by destroying entire villages worth hundreds, and it goes worse from there with Hakudoshi attempting mass omnicide to bait Kikyo out and the Infant killing thousands upon thousands of Yokai and humans alike and starts his rapsheet by manipulating the mass executions of innocents, driving Kagome to a HeroicBSOD and comes just about that close to controlling and killing her.

** Even his incarnations are this. The ''least heinous'' ones (who are practically [[AntiVillain Anti-Villains]] start by destroying entire villages worth hundreds, and it goes worse from there with Hakudoshi attempting mass omnicide to bait Kikyo out and the Infant killing thousands upon thousands of Yokai and humans alike and starts his rapsheet by manipulating the mass executions of innocents and comes just about that close to controlling and killing Kagome.

** Even his incarnations are this, Goshinki is a red-eyed, purple, people-eating demon that is strong enough to break the Tetsusaiga in one bite and ridiculously fast, but the worst part of him is his mind-reading capabilities, which he can use to drive you to despair by exploiting your inner weaknesses. Others including Kageromaru and Juromaru, a parasite and his mindless brute brother, as well as The Infant capable of MindRape capable of causing Kagome into a HeroicBSOD. Even Muso, TheBlank who can steal your face, capable of absorbing demons and his eventual [[YouWillBeAssimilated fate]] is considered one.

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood, and despite there are rapists lurking around, none of them managed to count as a CompleteMonster because the non-rapists are ''outclassing'' them. Which brings to another issue; the fact that these mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere'' and can kill hundreds out of the blue. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because there's always something, be it Naraku, one of his incarnations or some random yokai around the corner waiting to kill everyone. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood, and despite there are rapists lurking around, none of them managed to count as a CompleteMonster because the non-rapists are ''outclassing'' them. Which brings to another issue; the fact that these mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere'' and can kill hundreds out of the blue. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because there's always something, be it Naraku, one of his incarnations or some random yokai around the corner waiting to kill everyone. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* Naraku himself is easily one of the most horrific villains ever in a Shonen manga. The reason for this isn't because he constantly spawns and deploys detachments that probably start their rapsheet of atrocities with "hundreds dead and/or tortured", manipulates friends or foes alike to turn against each other for his own benefit, or he's a yokai who took over an already evil human bandit. It's because amongst all the death and destruction he causes, he has ''no end goal''. He did everything [[ForTheEvulz because he can]].
* Naraku's true body during his weakened phase, which consists in a loathsome blob of Youkai body parts and flesh. He often has them fighting against each other so that he can absorb the winner and he is not above GrandTheftMe if he's ever [[HoistByHisOwnPetard absorbed by one]] (as the Infant can testify). For this reason, he is full of LovecraftianSuperPower, full of CombatTentacles and other BodyHorror; which gets even worse once he becomes a full demon.
** He himself lets you fight your loved ones for the sheer enjoyment of CorruptTheCutie, and is capable of BreakingSpeech as well as MindRape to force even a saintly priest like Hakushin into giving into his fears and becoming a helper of essentially {{Satan}}.

* Naraku himself is easily one of the most horrific villains ever in a Shonen manga. The reason for this isn't because he constantly spawns and deploys detachments that probably start their rapsheet of atrocities with "hundreds dead and/or tortured", manipulates friends or foes alike to turn against each other for his own benefit, or he's a yokai who took over an already evil human bandit. It's because amongst all the death and destruction he causes, he has ''no end goal''. He only wants to kill and destroy [[ForTheEvilz because he can]].

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood, and despite there are rapists lurking around, none of them managed to count as a CompleteMonster because the non-rapists are ''outclassing'' them. Which brings to another issue; the fact that these mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because there's always something, be it Naraku, one of his incarnations or some random yokai around the corner waiting to kill everyone. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood, and despite there are rapists lurking around, none of them managed to count as a CompleteMonster because the non-rapists are ''outclassing'' them. Which brings to another issue; the fact that these mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because there's always something, be it Naraku, one of his incarnations or some random mass-murdering yokai around the corner waiting to kill everyone. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood, and despite there are rapists lurking around, none of them managed to count as a CompleteMonster because the non-rapists are ''outclassing'' them. Which brings to another issue; people can be killed by these things in ''droves'' out of absolutely nowhere. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood, and despite there are rapists lurking around, none of them managed to count as a CompleteMonster because the non-rapists are ''outclassing'' them. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

--> Inuyasha has one of the most insane heinous standards imaginable, I'm ''serious''. This is like [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Warhammer 40K]] of "lots of people doing horrible things so nobody sticks out." Hey, look at the guy who has his wolves eat an entire village of innocent people! Horrible, right? This is forgotten and he becomes a good guy with nobody even remarking on this.[[note]]referring to Kouga, who was introduced massacring a village before being redeemed and made an ally[[/note]] Yeah, there are about 10-15 villains ''at least'' who would be shoe ins with a saner standard. There's the Peach Hermit who is a vicious cannibal and devours people by the bucketload, Taigokumaru, a bat demon who sends his soldiers to feast on the blood of villages and murdered his own son for falling in love with a human woman, there's the false water god, who usurps a benevolent deity to eat children alive, the salamnder demon who assists serial killers, Princess Abi who creates literal rivers of blood, Renkotsu, who's a smug, mass murdering prick who betrays his own 'family' and murders them for power...It's to the level where uniqueness stops being ''relevant'' since there are so many varying crimes that nobody sticks out except Naraku, who is responsible for every bad thing to everyone, to the point I was just waiting for the reveal he got little Shippo's dad killed, started the Crusades through time travel and faked the moon landing.

--> Inuyasha has one of the most insane heinous standards imaginable, I'm ''serious''. This is like [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Warhammer 40K]] of "lots of people doing horrible things so nobody sticks out." Hey, (referring to Kouga, who was introduced massacring a village before being redeemed and made an ally) look at the guy who has his wolves eat an entire village of innocent people! Horrible, right? This is forgotten and he becomes a good guy with nobody even remarking on this. Yeah, there are about 10-15 villains ''at least'' who would be shoe ins with a saner standard. There's the Peach Hermit who is a vicious cannibal and devours people by the bucketload, Taigokumaru, a bat demon who sends his soldiers to feast on the blood of villages and murdered his own son for falling in love with a human woman, there's the false water god, who usurps a benevolent deity to eat children alive, the salamnder demon who assists serial killers, Princess Abi who creates literal rivers of blood, Renkotsu, who's a smug, mass murdering prick who betrays his own 'family' and murders them for power...It's to the level where uniqueness stops being ''relevant'' since there are so many varying crimes that nobody sticks out except Naraku, who is responsible for every bad thing to everyone, to the point I was just waiting for the reveal he got little Shippo's dad killed, started the Crusades through time travel and faked the moon landing.

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity, and unusually despite there are rapists lurking around, none of them managed to count as a Complete Monster because the non-rapists are ''outclassing'' them. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai and amping up their heinous actions instead of being freaked out), and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai, and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with practically infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

* The world is very scary for a ''romance manga'' of all things. To put it bluntly, it's a death world out there with every other villain being some sort of utterly depraved man-eating demon that would put most villains from ''Anime/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', ''Inuyasha's'' BloodierAndGorier and DarkerAndEdgier counterpart to shame. Random [[MonsterOfTheWeek fuck-off villains]] routinely wipe out entire villages and massacre and torture hundreds and commit every nasty crime imaginable -- for a few examples, there's a demon who usurps a benevolent water deity to eat children, another who uses his granddaughter as a meat shield and kills his son for falling in love with a human, yet another who leads entire groups of humans to RapePillageAndBurn village after village (with his human minions getting amazed by his identity as a yokai, and that's not even getting to the arch-villains like Naraku, the Infant and the Band of Seven, each of them responsible for the deaths of thousands after thousands. You know it's very bad when the first thing we see on a panel upon introducing a villain is usually piles upon piles of dead bodies and/or blood. Being the chief of a village and your son goes out to take a piss? Maybe when he returns he's possessed by a vicious, man-eating demon. Going to a temple or motel for a rest thinking you'll be safe? Who knows if that's actually a man-eating demon craving for human flesh who pulled a KillAndReplace on its original owner. It really gives a feeling that no matter where Inuyasha, Kagome and co. goes, nowhere is safe, and they have to be on the hit-and-run all the time, because mass-murdering yokai are literally ''everywhere''. There's a reason why only ''three villains'' out of a gigantic list of villains in the original manga managed to become {{Complete Monster}}s, all of them being arch-villains with infinite resources and two of these being split halves of the same entity. [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/posts.php?discussion=6vic3f9h1cy5qivsenw8llok&page=9319#comment-232955 This post about Hakudoshi]] by one of the authors of ''Literature/TheNeverkindSaga'' sums it up very nicely:

--> ''Inuyasha has one of the most insane heinous standards imaginable, I'm serious. This is like [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 Warhammer 40K]] of "lots of people doing horrible things so nobody sticks out." Hey, (referring to Kouga, who was introduced massacring a village before being redeemed and made an ally) look at the guy who has his wolves eat an entire village of innocent people! Horrible, right? This is forgotten and he becomes a good guy with nobody even remarking on this. Yeah, there are about 10-15 villains at least who would be shoe ins with a saner standard. There's the Peach Hermit who is a vicious cannibal and devours people by the bucketload, Taigokumaru, a bat demon who sends his soldiers to feast on the blood of villages and murdered his own son for falling in love with a human woman, there's the false water god, who usurps a benevolent deity to eat children alive, the salamnder demon who assists serial killers, Princess Abi who creates literal rivers of blood, Renkotsu, who's a smug, mass murdering prick who betrays his own 'family' and murders them for power...It's to the level where uniqueness stops being relevant since there are so many varying crimes that nobody sticks out except Naraku, who is responsible for every bad thing to everyone, to the point I was just waiting for the reveal he got little Shippo's dad killed, started the Crusades through time travel and faked the moon landing.''

--> ''Inuyasha has one of the most insane heinous standards imaginable, I'm serious. This is like [[TabletopGame/Warhammer40000 40K]] of "lots of people doing horrible things so nobody sticks out." Hey, (referring to Kouga, who was introduced massacring a village before being redeemed and made an ally) look at the guy who has his wolves eat an entire village of innocent people! Horrible, right? This is forgotten and he becomes a good guy with nobody even remarking on this. Yeah, there are about 10-15 villains at least who would be shoe ins with a saner standard. There's the Peach Hermit who is a vicious cannibal and devours people by the bucketload, Taigokumaru, a bat demon who sends his soldiers to feast on the blood of villages and murdered his own son for falling in love with a human woman, there's the false water god, who usurps a benevolent deity to eat children alive, the salamnder demon who assists serial killers, Princess Abi who creates literal rivers of blood, Renkotsu, who's a smug, mass murdering prick who betrays his own 'family' and murders them for power...It's to the level where uniqueness stops being relevant since there are so many varying crimes that nobody sticks out except Naraku, who is responsible for every bad thing to everyone, to the point I was just waiting for the reveal he got little Shippo's dad killed, started the Crusades through time travel and faked the moon landing.''

--> ''Inuyasha has one of the most insane heinous standards imaginable, I'm serious. This is like [[TabletopGame/Warhammer 40K]] of "lots of people doing horrible things so nobody sticks out." Hey, look at the guy who has his wolves eat an entire village of innocent people! Horrible, right? This is forgotten and he becomes a good guy with nobody even remarking on this. Yeah, there are about 10-15 villains at least who would be shoe ins with a saner standard. There's the Peach Hermit who is a vicious cannibal and devours people by the bucketload, Taigokumaru, a bat demon who sends his soldiers to feast on the blood of villages and murdered his own son for falling in love with a human woman, there's the false water god, who usurps a benevolent deity to eat children alive, the salamnder demon who assists serial killers, Princess Abi who creates literal rivers of blood, Renkotsu, who's a smug, mass murdering prick who betrays his own 'family' and murders them for power...It's to the level where uniqueness stops being relevant since there are so many varying crimes that nobody sticks out except Naraku, who is responsible for every bad thing to everyone, to the point I was just waiting for the reveal he got little Shippo's dad killed, started the Crusades through time travel and faked the moon landing.''