Line #60 Fridge/Inuyasha


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5	* For a long while, I was trying to figure out why Music/NamieAmuro's "Four Seasons" was played at the ending of Anime/{{InuYasha\|TheMovieSwordsOfAnHonorableRuler}}'s third movie. It was a sweet song and all, but it didn't seem like it fit with the movie. The song, if anything, was like a love song... And maybe it was supposed to be. The main villain Takemaru was in love with Inuyasha's mother Izayoi, but she had chosen Inuyasha's father instead. There was first part of the song translated that said "The sweet darkness I find/fumbling around deep in my memories/I can taste the sweetness of the past/Although you're not anywhere/I'll be all right." This could be talking about the love he had for her and the love he continued to have, even up until his death. Another way to look at it is the love between Inuyasha's mother and father. The second part of the song seemed to be more dedicated towards them. "If feelings again happened that way/We'll be all right/If I just believe/No matter how far away you are/Stay with me." Note at how the first part had "I'll be all right" compared to "We'll be all right" in the second one.
6	** I always interpreted the song as Izayoi singing to Inuyasha's dead father. That way, it seems as if she's reminiscing on the time they had together and assuring herself that they'll be together again someday. Thus, I heard "I'll be alright" as referring to herself alone, and "We'll be alright" as referring to her and Inuyasha.
7	** Agreed. The song really touches on one of the main underlying themes of the movie, which is the love between Inuyasha's father and mother. But it's really open to interpretation, depending on what pair you're applying it to. To a lesser extent, this can be an interpretation of Inuyasha and Kikyo's relationship, both literally and figuratively. In the anime, it's implied that they met in the summer. Inuyasha travels with Kikyo to another village to slay a demon during a snow storm in what was probably winter, and Tsubaki confronts Kikyo about her weakening powers under sakura blossoms in the spring. So it seems they knew each other for about a year before things went south. Also, the boat scene is reminiscent of the one in the official "Four Seasons" music video, sans the kiss between Inuyasha and Kikyo. From a more abstract perspective, this song can be seen as a reflection of each person's desire to see the other. Even though Kikyo has been resurrected, she doesn't travel with Inuyasha (and for good measure at the beginning). Once her UnstoppableRage towards him cools, it becomes obvious that they do enjoy being in each other's company.
8	** In the movie, Kagome wonders if she and Inuyasha are connected anymore with the beads of subjugation broken. They are, but she puts them back on him at the end anyway. The song can be a metaphor for their temporary separation in the film. More recently,"Four Seasons" can even represent the three-year-hiatus Kagome and Inuyasha have from each other when the well stops working after the FinalBattle. It's a hell of a relevant song for the series.
9	* For a while I was confused as to how Jakotsu got away with killing Suikotsu and Bankotsu didn't say anything, but later Bankotsu flipped the FUCK out when Renkotsu killed Jakotsu -- enough to kill him. Then a detail hit me like a sack of bricks: the motivations and reasons behind said kills. Not only did Suikotsu actively want to die (he had asked Kikyo for a MercyKill but she couldn't do it), whereas Jakotsu ''could'' have possibly been saved if not for the shard removal, but after Jakotsu took Suikotsu's shard, he gave it to Bankotsu without regrets, whereas Renkotsu kept Jakotsu's shard for himself. Jakotsu, for all of his huge flaws, ''did'' care for his leader (and [[SubordinateExcuse might have loved him]] [[HoYay according to some]]) [[GreaterNeedThanMine and put Bankotsu's well-being over his own]]; Renkotsu, on the other hand, was totally power-hungry and wanted to be the leader, something that Bankotsu already suspected... and that never ever crossed Jakotsu's mind. And if there's something that Bankotsu valued, it was UndyingLoyalty to his companions and himself -- [[TrueCompanions Jakotsu was his friend through thick and thin]], and it made Bankotsu happy to the point of ManlyTears; [[TheStarscream Renkotsu]] killed a friend for his own benefit, so Bankotsu was pissed.
10	** Keep in mind also that Suikotsu basically betrayed the band by surrendering, and the doctor was never really a member. So technically speaking, Jakotsu ''would'' be justified in killing him.
11	* Inuyasha and Kagome's attraction at first seems rather arbitrary (ignoring her supposed resemblance to Kikyo) and for the sake of the plot. However, it becomes a little more plausible when one considers that they are both misfits to the show's world, at least the Feudal Era. Inuyasha is a half-demon, a perpetual outcast, a mistake of nature, what have you. Kagome comes from an entirely different ''time-period'' and buy all accounts should not be there even by the in-universe rules. Going further on her end, the time-travel and unique experiences brought on by her adventures also singles her out in her own world. Like Inuyasha, she has no place to truly belong anymore. Taking into consideration that they both are inferred to feel this unspoken isolation from everyone around them, it seems quite natural that they should seek some sort of comfort in each other and be drawn to one another.
12	* Although the majority of Naraku and Kagome's interactions are not long or particularly important to the plot (aside from when Kagome confronts him about his true wish on the Shikon no Tama), Naraku understands that Kagome is from the future, at least as Kikyo's reincarnation. However, it never dawns on any of the characters that Naraku is not a figure feared - or even known - in Kagome's future, meaning that Naraku is ultimately doomed to fail and fade into oblivion.
13	** Considering that Naraku ''is'' a consummate shape shifter who uses false identities and cat's paws at every occasion, can render his castles impossible to track, and is barely known in his own timeline despite being active for fifty years, so it may just be that Future Naraku was behind the scenes/hibernating/using one or more different names/moved to another country/etc... over the course of a few centuries.
14	** Except not at all. In the original version of history, the shikon jewel is lost in the feudal era and appears again with Kagome, meaning Naraku would never be anything as big as he became once the jewel returned.
15	Who's to say history wouldn't have changed? When he got most or all of the jewel, doesn't mean history would change immediatly.
16	* Inuyasha's difficulty with getting over Kikyo may also be something that stems from his dog-demon side, considering how dogs are known for their loyalty.
17	* Perhaps unintentional, but both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru turning out to be, at various paces and to different degrees, inherently good, and caring greatly for humans/a human, may similarily stem from the fact that they're ''dog'' youkai. Dogs are ''man's best friend'', aren't they?
18	* There are a few small details at the ending, although this stretches into GeniusBonus territory of knowing symbology of flowers. The flower in "My Will" is a [[https://kaxtukei.com/en/red-spider-lily-image red spider lily]], also called the "hell flower" which is planted near grave sites to wards away animals. Not only is this vaguely symbolic of Naraku, but it is said to [[https://theculturetrip.com/asia/japan/articles/hanakotoba-the-secret-meanings-behind-9-flowers-in-japan/ guide the dead through samsara]] (Kagome's reincarnation), and finally the red spider lilies or higan-bana symbolize "flower of one's greatest wish" (the Shikon shards themselves).
19	* Why is Kagome able to travel through the well with the jewel shard, and why is Inuyasha able to travel even without the shard, and why is nobody else able to enter or exit? Well, let's examine who able to attack Kagome on her side of the well. Centipede Lady was buried in the well, so her body ostensibly rotted and ended up as bones on Kagome's side, until the aura of the Shikon revived her. The same is true of the Noh mask, it survived to the modern era, and was attracted by the presence of the Shikon. But then we have Yura of the Hair, who follows Kagome despite there being ''no'' Shikon shard with them. Now, it's widely assumed that the Shikon shard is the secret of the time travel, but at this time Yura has the shard, and Inuyasha has none, and enters despite the entrance being nailed shut and bound by (weak) talismans. In other words, while Yura being able to travel through could be explained away by Shikon shards (though actually, I think it's that her hair is on both sides of the well), Inuyasha cannot. How then, can Inuyasha travel through? Simple. He was pinned to the tree with a sealing arrow. The person sealing him was reincarnated in the current time (creating a link similar to how Yura made it through), and was pulled in by Centipede Lady through the well (making the well the link point). Inuyasha can time travel with the Shikon jewel because his link is not to the Shikon but to the ''arrow'', to Kikyou's spell of sealing. The arrow was never actually pulled out of his body, Kagome just used her spiritual power to dissolve it. This means that parts of the spiritual power of the arrow are still ''inside'' Inuyasha, making a link between timelines. This is never explained in the series, but it is the common point in all time travel, and the reason neither Kouga, nor Shippo, nor Sota, nor Naraku seem able to get through the well while the ones mentioned can.
20	* This one hit me when I was considering why Inuyasha considered seeing Kikyou and Kagome at the same time and generally keeps seeing Kikyou even knowing how much it affects Kagome. He’d always seem fairly devoted, and never been a lech like Miroku. After Sesshomaru’s mom was introduced, I remembered that feudal lords at the time would often take multiple wives and concubines. Depending on how much Inuyasha knew about his father, he may not have seen a moral issue with desiring a relationship with two women at the same time when his father did the same and, issues with Sesshomaru aside, seems like it worked out without too many issues (until his father died at least...)
21	* When we first see Moroha, Kagome and Inuyasha's daughter, she appears to have her father's dog ears, but then closer inspection shows it's merely a hair ribbon and she has ordinary human ears. Given how her ribbon look like dog ears, however, it's likely intentional by Moroha, wanting to resemble her daddy (assuming she remembers him, that is). Aww.
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24	* Kikyo and Inuyasha's romance is so important that it is the PRIME driving force behind the story. The TV anime not only focuses on expanding this more than any other story elements, even adding a recap one hour episode on their love story. That adaptation frequently shows Inuyasha and Kikyo along the rest of the cast to a lesser extent lamenting on how if Naraku didn't interfere, Inuyasha would have lived happily ever after with Kikyo after using the Shikon no Tama is purified though a wish for Inuyasha to become a pure human. Turns out the Shikon granting wishes is a complete lie in the first place; the wisher instead gets trapped inside the jewel to fight Yokais for all eternity and the jewel will survive for the next era. So despite how much the two lovers regret that Naraku had to get into their romance and considering how fragile their relationship is revealed as when they quickly turned on each other by Naraku's manipulation, if things had gone as they planned, one can only imagine how strained their relationship would be after they discover the truth......... That's not even counting what would have happened to Miroku, Sango, and the rest of the cast.
25	* What does Sesshomaru eat? When he met [[MoralityPet Rin,]] Sesshomaru said he doesn't eat human food. We never see him eat in-series and his mother even wonders about it.
26	** Specifically, what his mother wonders is not ''what'' he eats but whether or not he's keeping Rin and Kohaku around as snacks. However, judging by the painting of Inu no Taisho that's shown the first few times he's mentioned in the series, it's more likely that Sesshomaru eats large animals such as cattle. Whole.
27	* Miroku presumably has at least a few illegitimate children. Will all the males develop the wind tunnel? Does he warn them?
28	** For all Miroku's big talk, we never, ''ever'' see him follow through until Sango, who he scrupulously refrains from consummating with until after Naraku and the wind tunnel are a non-issue. The series is vague on exactly how the curse is passed down, but given that at the very least his firstborn would inherit it upon his death and Miroku is, faults aside, a decent person well aware of how dangerous his curse is, it's hard to believe that he wouldn't keep track of any child he'd sired and ensure that they were properly prepared for that eventuality. Odds are good that his flirty talk is in fact all just talk.
29	** Well the series, while very subtlety, does imply that he’s not just talk, and then Takahashi confirmed it saying he used to have a 90% success rate. Since having a child is a very real concern for him and not just an excuse to be a pervert he wouldn’t shy away from trying to have one (unless the mother is Sango apparently), but also for that same reason he probably wouldn’t just ignore if a child was actually conceived. And about the Wind Tunnel, unless translations got it wrong, it’s never said that only males can get it, and Miroku didn’t have the curse when his father died implying that only one person can have it at a time.
30	* In one episode there's a being known as the Soul Piper which takes angry ghost children to Hell... Considering how it did this during Myoga's time and how it's doing this during Kagome's time period one can immagine how many Ghost Kids got sent to hell...
31	** That's not the worst part... The Soul Piper is stated to be made from the souls of ghost children itself so likelyhood that majority of the Ghost Children sent to Hell have become apart of it is exceedingly high!
32	* Viewing the show as a teenager, Koga wasn't too bad. Viewing the show years later as an adult, the guy's actually pretty scary. Here's a guy that's in love with a girl (who, to his knowledge, already has a boyfriend), or at least says he is as there doesn’t appear to be much of a bond. The girl has told him over and over “I don't like you that way, I like this other guy, you and me are just friends”, which he then proceeds to flat-out ''ignore''. Koga is ether unaware or unwilling to admit that Kagome is just not interested in him that way, completely disregards her lack of consent, still hits on her and pretty much stalks her and he's said a handful of times that he'll murder Inuyasha after which he expects her consent? If this took place in modern times, the man would be slammed with criminal charges at the very least!
33	** Or he'd be [[Literature/{{Twilight}} Jacob]]... Maybe it's a wolf thing? Regardless, his affections are just a [[PlayedForLaughs gag routine]] to annoy Inuyasha after the first few encounters; he likes Kagome, and despite being attracted to her, completely lacks genuine love for her.
34	*** Besides, his slaughter of a couple of villages by way of a pack of wolves and attempt to feed a small child to said wolf would probably be more likely to get him in trouble with the authorities long before Kagome could file a sexual harassment claim against him.
35	** Also keep in mind that Koga ISN'T a modern character--he's from feudal Japan. He probably hits on and pursues dozens of pretty girls [[ImAManICantHelpIt just because he feels like it,]] not because he cares about them or respects them as people.
36	* Rin's first death. She's chased and then eventually mauled by Koga's pack of hungry wolves, which is bad enough. However, when Sesshomaru and Jaken find her, the wolves are gone and her body mainly still intact with no signs of being consumed which leads to a horrifying conclusion that the wolves hunted Rin down not for food but for fun
37	* Another one about Koga: if he ordered his tribe to stop feeding on humans just to impress Kagome, that means he'll probably continue his slaughter of villages once he and Ayame are married for good, or when Kagome dies of old age and he goes on living due to his longer life-span. Remember, without humans to feed on, his wolves were starving.
38	** This one thinks it was less that they needed to eat humans, so much as that whatever they would normally feed on had gone (whether through human means or not)
39	** this all takes on an even harsher light when one remembers that [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_wolf real life wolves in japan are extinct]]. if we are going with the lack of other food theory, and the fact that there is very little sign of demons of any kind in Kogome's time...well it does make one wonder what happens between the two era's to the yokai population as a whole much less the wolf demons
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41	* Koga repeatedly mocks Inuyasha due to his half-demon status, but did he ever consider what he and Kagome's kids are gonna be if he ever DID mate with her?
42	** As far as I'm aware there has never been a quarter-demon (or quarter-human) in the series. I kind of assumed half-demons were born sterile like ligers or mules, though that's more WildMassGuessing.
43	*** One of the movies did have children from a village of half-demons. Their parents were also half-demon, and the level of "demon-ness" varied among them. Most likely, there would be an even split in the chance of their kids being either half-demon or human.
44	*** I think this troper was asking about if ''Koga'' and Kagome mate and, yes, their kids would be half-demons but seeing how much Koga dislikes Inuyasha I think he was just taking every opportunity to insult him.
45	* One of the major conflicts in the series is that Inuyasha can't let go of his love for either Kikyo or Kagome, which is justified by the fact that they are essentially the same person in different circumstances. However, every time Koga ever runs into Kikyo, he shows absolutely no interest in her whatsoever. Yeah, she attacked him when they first met, but even Koga admitted that it was in an attempt to save him from being sacrificed to Naraku by Midoriko's will. How strong is his love for Kagome again?
46	** But Kikyo doesn't act like Kagome, smell like Kagome, and (despite a passing resemblence) doesn't look like Kagome. Plus she's...ya know...''dead''. Why would Koga show any interest in Kikyo?
47	*** She does smell like Kagome (plus bones and graveyard soil and minus modern shampoo/soap/etc., admittedly; Inuyasha had to take a more focused whiff to realize that they weren't one and the same, per se.), and, despite Takahashi's art style, looks almost identical to Kagome, going by Kaede's, Inuyasha's, Muso's and that one monk who saw his master get (accidentally) killed by Kikyo's reaction to seeing Kagome for the first time. Though admittedly, he never really got to know Kikyo before she died and got a metric ton of angst shoved into her.
48	*** There's no way that she smells like Kagome at all. She smells like bones and graveyard soil. Just about every character with super-smell says so. The last time Inuyasha smelled Kikyo at the time was when she was alive, which is why he said they smelled alike. She may look like Kagome though, at least face-wise. This troper admits to thinking that they were sisters when he was younger. And of course she doesn't act like Kagome. Kagome's personality is one of the things Koga likes about her.
49	*** Actually, no. When Inuyasha encounters her for the first time after her revival, he remarks that alltough she has no warmth, the scent is almost the same (if with a layer of earth on it, perhaps, but the original scent seems to have remained at least partially.) Koga just never got to know her/ his supposed love for Kagome was pretty shallow/possesive anyway, he talks about her like he wants her as a pet. [[DoubleStandard I don't see anyone dissing Kagome because Naraku sticks to Kikyo.]]
50	*** It's the miniskirt.
51	*** Partly, it's because Kikyo and Inuyasha had the same problem of being born into a role the world expected them to play, her to be a priestess, and him to be a monster. Koga only cares to know Kagome, because of her powers and because she's attractive.
52	** I always took Koga's feelings for Kagome to just be meant as a crush/attraction, and mainly being PlayedForLaughs, considering all his woe attempts always seem to happen ''just'' so we can see Inuyasha get jealous and have some comical verbal fighting between them, rather than supposedly being a deep, true love to challenge Inuyasha's and which should cause him to react to Kikyo as well. (It might be why this troper is apparently one of the few Inuyasha/Kagome fans who have Koga as one of her favorite characters. Kagome never shows an ounce of interest in Koga either, so I never saw any love triangle to be taken seriously.) And heck, if Koga's feelings for Kagome really were deep, would he really be okay with leaving her with another guy (that he ''can't stand'' no less) to hang out with 24/7 while he goes weeks without checking up on her??
53	** There's no real reason to expect Koga to have an interest in Kikyo just because he's interested in Kagome, because Kikyo and Kagome are ''not the same person''. There are physical similarities and they have the same power due to Kagome being Kikyo's reincarnation, but in terms of personality they are very different people. Inuyasha is torn between the two of them not because Kagome is Kikyo reincarnated but because the time he spent with each of them, Kikyo before her death and Kagome later on, led him to fall in love with each of them on their own merits. While I also don't think that Koga's feelings for Kagome were ever very serious, his attitude towards Kikyo doesn't signify much either way.
54	* Even discarding the normal complaints about why Kagome doesn't leave any information for herself in the future, one wonders how come no one thought to just have Housenki's son make the jewel they needed and leave it somewhere for Kagome to pick up 400 years after the century it would have taken him to make it.
55	** But how would they know somebody wouldn't find it and take it? Then you'd have a much bigger problem on your hands (and a potential fanfic ^_^).
56	* During the final battle, Youkai Inuyasha gets possessed by Magatsushi and throws away Tessaiga. Sesshomaru is forced to fight him with just claws and Tenseiga because even a scratch from Bakusaiga would destroy Inuyasha, which is just what Naraku wants. However, no one seems to notice that its quite possible that Sesshomaru might have qualified to use Tessaiga at that point since he was there to save Rin, he'd been protecting Kagome throughout the fight, and seemed to honestly want to save Inuyasha. Of course, its possible that Sesshomaru noticed it but didn't want to rely on his father's momento anymore... or admit that he was concerned about Inuyasha's life, even tacitly.
57	** Full-blooded youkai can't touch Tessaiga, no matter their intentions.
58	*** What about Inuyasha's father?
59	*** The barrier was probably put on Tessaiga after Inuyasha's father died, since he was leaving it to his hanyou son and knew his youkai son would try to steal it (and in the process protected it from other youkai, too). The only youkai shown ''in the manga'' to be able to hold Tessaiga is Totosai, and he's its maker and likely the one who put the barrier in the first place.
60	** Plus, if he was trying to save Inuyasha, why would he use a sword that can cut a hundred demons with one swing?
61	*** IIRC, Shippo has handled it without any problem (as has Toutousai and Inu no Taishou, but as its creator and original bearer/source, its feasible that they are immune), although he couldn't use it, and its link to Inuyasha, shown ability to hold back its full power depending on how hard you swung the blade, and its ability to absorb youki, would all have made it a better alternative to just punching.
62	*** ''The barrier is explained at some point as being ineffective to those who care for humans.'' Half-demons therefore can touch it, since they are human, along with humans themselves (which annoyed both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru when Kagome effortlessly drew the blade). This is why Totosai can touch it, because he bears no grudge against humans (particularly those offering him contracts for weapons). Likewise, Shippo isn't even much of a demon, in the Japanese translation, he's actually described as a "genie" so apparently, he's considered some harmless breed of youkai (or something). He wouldn't have either the demonic energy enough to activate the barrier, or the intention to harm humans.
63	*** The barrier was never explained. How it works can only be inferred by who could touch it. Hanyous could touch it (Inuyasha and Naraku). Humans could touch it (Kagome, Sango, Sesshomaru with a human arm, a bandit who had just attacked a village, etc.). Youkai can't (Sesshomaru and Gatenmaru) with the exception being Totosai. And Naraku, Sesshomaru (at the time) and the bandit definitely didn't care about humans.
64	*** How would it have made a better alternative to just punching? At least with just his claws, he can actively/knowingly hold back enough to do the job. If he used Tessaiga it would severly or at least significantly weaken him and slow him down.
65	*** Dragonscale Tessaiga has explicitly shown the ability to cure youkai possession by absorbing the possessing soul without harming the possessed one (yeah, the one time IY used it that way was on a human, but Dragonscale Tessaiga has also explicitly been shown to be capable of absorbing human ki as well -- a brand of human ki which normally harms youkai, for that matter), and Tessaiga possesses a very powerful barrier. Not to mention that Sesshomaru only withheld Bakusaiga because it was impossible to use without killing Inuyasha -- he never indicated that he had any problems with the idea of injuring/weakening him since he was pretty sure that he could kill Naraku by himself as soon as Rin was safe.
66	*** One problem might be that Sesshomaru doesn't know how to effectively tap anything past Tessaiga's initial ability. So he could use the sword aspect, but might not be able to effectively access any of the other abilities like Dragonscale's absorbtion or defensive abilities.
67	** Sesshomaru has demonstrated his ability to use Tessaiga in a pinch, even in spite of its barrier (at least in two instances which are admittedly not canon to the manga: "The Woman Who Loved Sesshomaru" and ''Swords of an Honorable Ruler''). However, he's an enormously proud and stubborn bastard and by that point in the plot he's long since decided he doesn't want Tessaiga. Which means he simply won't lower himself to try to use it, even if that means having to fight possessed!Inuyasha with his bare hands.
68	* And of course, the ending, where Inuyasha and Kagome were separated for three years because she subconsciously was afraid to go to the past and somehow canceled the time-powers of the Bone Eater's well, and apparently was only able to use it one last time to stay with Inuyasha in the past. The same Inuyasha who had gained the power to cut holes all the way into her time period at will during the final battle.
69	** No, Inuyasha inexplicably gained the power to cut holes ''into'' the Shikon Jewel ''not'' through time. Once the Jewel was destroyed the Well was restored and they both were immediately returned to their respective time periods.
70	* During the third movie, Sesshomaru and a Sou'unga-possessed Takemaru are in very close quarters. Sou'unga knows that Sesshomaru wanted to wield Sou'unga at one point, but also knows that the sword he wields is half of what's needed to stop him. Why, during that battle in enclosed quarters (and before Inuyasha showed up), didn't Sou'unga use the Dragon Twister to take Sesshomaru out? Granted, Sesshomaru's Tenseiga would have protected him just like when Inuyasha gained the Wind Scar, but it would have removed him from the match entirely and allowed Sou'unga to defeat Inuyasha without worry. Then, when Sesshomaru had recovered, Sou'unga could have presented Tessaiga to Sesshomaru to win him over. Granted, the villain was supposed to lose, but that's one major IdiotBall.
71	** It may simply have been that there wasn't room. It was still Takemaru and Sou'unga rather than Sou'unga acting on its own, and something as massively destructive as the Gokuryuuha would have engulfed ''everything'' and brought the castle right down on their heads, seriously damaging Takemaru and potentially burying Sou'unga. Even if Sou'unga was willing to take the chance, Takemaru is at least marginally a better strategist than to do that to himself.
72	* When Kikyo first appeared, she wanted to drag Inuyasha's soul into hell with hers, so they they could be together forever. Considering Kikyo's soul is reincarnated in Kagome then if she dies her soul should go back into Kagome. That would mean Inuyasha would basically be giving up his life to be alone in hell. [[SarcasmMode What a brilliant idea.]]
73	** Well, ''that'' Kikyo didn't really have a soul. She was a reanimated corpse. And it didn't really seem like she was dragging Inuyasha's soul to hell, just him entirely. Did she even like Inuyasha at that point in time, though? I thought she was dragging him to hell to leave him there to get her revenge and only said that they were going to be together forever in order to convince him.
74	*** Actually even the reanimated kikyo DID have a partial soul, it's just that the soul transfer was interrupted before enough of kagome's soul (kikyo's soul reincarnated in kagome) was taken out to kill her.
75	*** It really looked as though she was in full out Yandere mode at that point, especially considering the conversation she had with Kagome prior to it, the kiss she gave Inuyasha, and sad look she gave him when he went to save Kagome. Still, there's really no indication that Kagome would have gotten her soul fragment (she did manage to keep Kagome from pulling all her soul back into her during their first encounter) back unless Kikyo wanted her to, especially considering how ridiculously skilled Kikyo was at spiritual magics; Even after she did die for good, her soul wasn't shown to go back to Kagome, and at least some portion of her will and power was residing in Kohaku's shard to act as an anti-Naraku booby trap until it sacrificed itself to save him instead.
76	* When it first comes to the attention of the entire cast and Kikyo as well that Naraku was behind Kikyo's assassination, nobody seems to try to argue this properly to the dead priestess, nor does Kikyo seem to remotely care, she still fixes her sight on the falsely accused man of hers. Nobody seems to address this with any more than a brief moment of thought either, simply dismissing that Inuyasha is being tracked by a killer dead girlfriend regardless if he's innocent or not, and it only becomes obvious that nobody seems to pay attention to this fact when they are visited by Kikyo several times throughout the series and care is still not placed. Considering everyone seems to have a consensus that Inuyasha is vital to their quest due to his raw power, you'd think his friends would do something about it.
77	** At the time, Kikyo wasn't willing to listen even when Miroku flat out told her what had happened and they think that she's dead at the end of that. After that point, Kikyo gets the full story from Kaede and starts her various machinations, at which point no one knows where she is. As for not doing anything about her Yandere actions, the problem is that Inuyasha won't think of acting against her after their history together, and none of them are even remotely capable of finding her unless she wants to be found. Especially when considering that she can casually generate a barrier that none of them can notice and only Kagome can bypass, and Kikyo can generally shut her down at will unless Kagome gets really pissed off.
78	** It’s a little more complicated than that. Once Kikyo finds out about Naraku she understands that Inuyasha didn’t betrayed her and she’s no longer angry with him. The thing is, she repeatedly states that his life belongs to her, implying that she still wants him to die with her, but not because she feels bretayed by him but because she loves him and wants to be with him even in death.
79	* Naraku takes the blame for turning Inuyasha and Kikyo against each other, but no one ever notices or points out that the two were doomed anyway. By the end of the series it's made clear that the Shikon no Tama twists any wish other than "disappear" to its own end. Wishing to be human wouldn't purify the jewel. Kikyo and Inuyasha would only be trapped in a different terrible fate.
80	* Kagome does make an attempt to justify why she wears her outfit, however it goes against typical logical sense. Kagome states that it is easier to clean blood out of her clothes. Blood is red, Kagome's outfit is mostly white. Not only that, practicality wise when someone stops to think about it, the entire rest of the cast wears full clothing down to their legs, however Kagome's legs are fully exposed to the elements at all times. It isn't that she doesn't own pants either, she's clearly wearing some in the first episode.
81	** Well, as for the first part, school uniforms are probably made of more laundry friendly materials than most normal clothes. But mostly, its because IY is the only Takahashi series where she doesn't give the cast much in the way of a variable wardrobe, even though it'd probably be sensible. Maybe she was trying to give Kagome a more unique image, rather than have her be dressed like Sango.
82	** An another note, which could be FridgeBrilliance, Kagome looks so much like Kikyo that even Inuyasha at first had a hard time telling she wasn't Kikyo, so putting her in a standard miko outfit of the time, which is certainly what Kagome would have been wearing, it would be difficult to tell her from Kikyo. Not to mention Kagome was probably trying to hang onto whatever shred of her identity as a normal junior high student she had left.
83	* Given that they weren't invented in the Feudal Era, how is it that Miroku instantly knew how to ride Kagome's bike when he was saving/kidnapping her back when they first met?
84	** iirc Miroku has been shown to be one of the more clever characters, and is the one who shows the most interest in Kagome's world. It may just be implied he's clever enough to figure it out on his own, plus he saw Kagome riding it.
85	*** This isn't far-fetched. Children take a while to learn, but adults learning for the first time can easily learn in a few hours. Miroku figuring out instantly is still very unrealistic... but definitely not the most unrealistic thing in the show.
86	* Won't Inuyasha as a hanyou live much longer than Kagome? Apparently he'll still look the same in 50 years and more, while she will age as a regular human. This certainly gives the ending a more bittersweet touch than the fairly happy one it appears as at first.
87	* Why dosen't Naraku use the Wind Tunnel himself!?! He created it!
88	** Because it is a curse that would eventually kill him. I am guessing even he would have problem removing his own curse.
89	* Is it just me, or does the Sacred Tree look a lot younger in modern day (smaller, neater root system) then it does in feudal Japan (much larger, upturned roots)? Is it like Merlin? Does it age backwards?
90	** Maybe the fact that its likely pruned regularly (to keep branches from falling off and such) as well as being kept in the middle of a bright and heavily maintained shrine grounds instead of just surrounded by wild undergrowth in a dark forest, just makes it look fresher and neater.

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