oh this shipping woes. it never ends. this is tangential to my last post actually, but i think it was long enough as is.
SOOOOO.i said it'd be fine to ship shadria if you aged her up, or if she had lived and could canonically age. however there is one series i wish this didn't apply to.
sighs.let's talk about
hanyou no yashahime, the anime only sequel to
inuyasha, and how this one series not only managed to ruin a character i spent half a decade in love with, but divided the fandom in ways i didn't think were possible. i watched other sesshoumaru fans in real time, fans that had TATTOOS of him, suffer in agony with me over what this series did to him. it was as like brian griffin died and the people got tattoos to mourn him and then he came back to life 2 episodes later nullifying any sympathy you were supposed to have for his death. except people already
had the tattoos and now felt like their skin had been vandalised.
THIS IS GONNA BE A LONG ONE. STRAP IN.( From a secret well to the Sengoku Jidai )so.you can probably tell from this why people are diehard for this ship. hell, they were even BEFORE these chapters dropped but this
cemented this ship as something never fucking going away.
spoilers, but who gives a shit, this whole thing is spoilers, in the final chapter of the manga rin is living in a human village now with kaede (kikyou's sister) so she can rehabilitate into living with humans again. remember when i mentioned the kimonos earlier? sesshoumaru drops by to give her new kimonos as presents frequently. this didn't help... but i still don't see it as romance. rumiko takahashi probably didn't either.
alright so what happened?
well. it's 2020 now. it had been 12 years since the manga ended and about 10 years since
kanketsu-hen ended. where do we go from here? well. a new anime of course! it was announced as being focused on sesshoumaru and inuyasha's daughters. moroha, inuyasha and kagome's daughter. and touwa and setsuna, sesshoumaru's daughters. we were excited. but there was an
issue. a
mystery...( Without even noticing the color of the deep, deep blue sky... )a lot of us immediately dropped the series at episode 14. i wasn't watching this shit. fuck off. and then i had fucking
sotsugou over here bastardising the
higurashi story it was like i was getting pelted with rocks by my favourite series having shitty ass fucking sequels.
the fandom is doing kinda better now. there's scars. some of us hesitate to talk about sesshoumaru now. we try to ignore what they did to him. sadly for a lot of fans, the damage was done. it always kinda breaks my heart a bit when i see people regard sesshoumaru with ire now.
sighs.i'll always love this series. it's not ruined for me at all. i re-read it and re-watch it constantly, but... i can't deny a bit of the
bitter taste in my mouth when i think about sesshoumaru. i wanna draw him. i wanna use icons of him. he's
sooooooo similar to shadow it's fucking nuts. but i'm scared, y'know? they utterly destroyed his reputation. thank god there are people that are still unaware this sequel series even exists to begin with LMAO.
when i was a teen i also used to ship sesshoumaru with miroku. like some schoolgirl version of him that was mega-horny. i can't explain that. i just got so attached to that ship fsr. lmao. ftr my sesshoumaru ships are sesskagu, sesskag, and of course... mirosess, LMAOOO. and i thought seeing so much incest between him and inuyasha would be the worst thing ever for the character... (called
inucest... ofc).
sighs.anyways. idk. i wish this sequel series never fucking happened. i wish sunrise wasn't such a bored, greedy fucking company and stuck to love live and gundam. leave inuyasha alone. fuck off forever.
some day i wish for an inuyasha remake the way
urusei yatsura and
ranma have gotten remakes closer to the manga. BOTH done by different studios. i want sunrise away from inuyasha forever. it makes me sad though. some animators that worked on the original are no longer alive. like shouko ikeda who did the BEST episodes and easily had the prettiest arte style (she came from kyoani, the haruhi and lucky star people).

a remake without her would be sad. she was still alive when
kanketsu-hen was airing, but she wasn't involved in it. she was a tragic victim to the kyoani arson that happened in 2019. fuck the stupid moid that did that.
sighs.i want a remake though. one close to the manga. one that doesn't fucking remove the tender scenes between kagome and inuyasha and change kikyou completely to make her more of a "girlboss". i want an unbiased production. i do love the anime, but i can't lie and say it's not a little bitter to watch knowing just how fucked they made everything. mmm. i guess i'll use this to talk about the kikyou thing while i'm at it.
during the original 1980s production of
ranma 1/2, noriko hidaka played akane, and kappei yamaguchi played ranma. these are our main ship of the series. for inuyasha, hidaka played kikyou, and yamaguchi returned to be inuyasha. can you see where the nepotism bias is forming? lmao. even during interviews where all three are present (satsuki yukino as kagome), it feels like hidaka and yamaguchi have this chemistry being veterans together afterall. it feels like yukino is left behind a lot in the interviews. sometimes yamaguchi is even curt with her in a way that he isn't with hidaka. it makes me sad. but yukino takes it in stride so they're an otherwise cool trio together. funny as hell too. so the anime staff clearly favoured inukik over inukag and this is also so present in the ps2 game,
secret of the cursed mask.
i fucking DESPISE how inuyasha is written in that game. idk if it's the ENG translation or if he's an asshole in JPN too (fuck it he probably is), he's so fucking... rude? to kagome? constantly? it's a fun game but holy shit he's such an annoying asshole? i don't even think it was written by the same staff as the anime despite having the same animators on it. christ.
manga inuyasha would kick anime inuyasha's ass and manga sesshoumaru would kill anime sesshoumaru.
fuck!