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Kagome gets sent back to the present for several years, but the well suddenly reopens and she goes back to live in the past with Inu Yasha. Sango and Miroku have 3 kids. Shippo goes to little demons school. Rin becomes Kaede's ward and apprentice, but Sesshomaru and Jaken regularly show up with gifts. Kohaku is training to be a demon hunter.

I hadn't read it since around vol 25, and all I wondered was what happened to Koga.

*wandered over from redbrunja's lj*

That's... nice.

I honestly was expecting a touch of tragedy somewhere in there. But it's good that they got their nice ending. Huh.

well, I think Kikyo died, and there was the separation angst, but...yeah. I'm glad things worked out with Sango and Miroku, and that they were able to save her brother. That was all I really cared about by the time I stopped. (I have a low tolerance level for love triangles most of the time, and the Kikyo/Inu Yasha/Kagome one had exceeded that level.)

(Gorgeus Ombria icon, btw!)

Re: Kikyo. Well, one of the things that drove me away from the series (apart from boredom) was the way that Kikyo was just... allowed to run around perpetuating her life by destroying the souls of dead people. Horrible. Esp. within a reincarnation context: those people are not only dead, they're erased from existence, never to finish the cycle of life and reach enlightenment, never to meet their loved ones again, etc.

In other words: the serial soul-killer deserved to die! ;)

You and me are on the same page, exactly. I've ranted about this heavily before. She eats souls! How can this not be horrible EVERY SINGLE MOMENT OF EVERY DAY that she continues to exist? So I never felt sympathy for her character (at least, after the second or third time they met her) and I lost interest in the love triangle as a whole.

I also thought it became less interesting the way the storyline really separated Kikyo and Kagome's soul... I understand that Kagome as a personality is not Kikyo, and that Inu Yasha should love her for who she is now, but ever since the beginning I thought this premise of reincarnation was awesome, and when Kagome's soul was split to make Kikyo, I thought it was cool. I always assumed that if Kikyo died, what there was of her would rush back into Kagome in a ball of light, or something. Because, if Kikyo and Kagome are separate, it's just a generic love triangle, but if they're really THE SAME SOUL, in the sense that they are inseparable on some level and one and part of each other, then that makes it more sad and more intense. Because Inu Yasha would genuinely love both of them, because there is no difference. Except that while Kikyo exists, Kagome is incomplete. And if Kikyo's soul remainder ever gets put back in Kagome, how would Kagome be affected by all the souls that kept Kikyo alive? Would Kagome get any of Kikyo's memories, even just her memories of her revival?

I began to get a feeling that none of the cool questions would be answered or even addressed. I gave up on the Kikyo thing.

side note - I always thought this song would make the perfect Kikyo theme song, with a dash of Kikyo/Inuyasha:

Please die Ana
For as long as you're here we're not
You make the sound of laughter
and sharpened nails seem softer
And I need you now somehow

Yeah, I always had problems with that, too. Esp. when they were all, "oh, that means Kikyo's around!"

I wrote fic around that once.

I think Kikyou is a tragic figure and one of my favorite characters in the series but I also think her apologists often overlooked just how tainted and morally ambiguous she was.

I often thought the manga was apologizing for her. or, really, not apologizing at all and just ignoring the problems.

Kouga finally had his shards taken from him by Naraku in the manga two years ago. Inuyasha and Kagome manage to save his life, but having lost his Shikon-enhanced power he tells them that he would only be a burden to them in the quest to destroy Naraku. He gives Kagome a touching hug (http://adinuyasha.thebrokenconsole.com/466/466pg09.html), dispenses tough love and rough affection to Inuyasha, and leaves the storyline for good. I kinda hoped he'd get a cameo in the final chapter last week, but alas.

His departure got overshadowed a bit because it occurred in the same chapter that introduced Sesshoumaru's long-lost and long-assumed-by-the-fandom-to-be dead mother (much squee ensued) which kicked off the big "Sesshoumaru going to Hell and Back to Rescue Rin and Emoting Muchly in the Process" arc that generated even higher pitches of squee (on both sides of the Pacific).

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Possibly, I need chapter numbers for this arc. Know anywhere that kindly breaks these things down for us?

Sure! You can read the last two and half years or so of the manga here: http://adinuyasha.thebrokenconsole.com/.

The Kouga Farewell/Sesshoumaru in Hell arc starts with chapter 466: Parting Thoughts (listed here: http://adinuyasha.thebrokenconsole.com/archive.html). It runs through chapter 471: Compassionate Heart.

having lost his Shikon-enhanced power he tells them that he would only be a burden to them in the quest to destroy Naraku.

Yet not having super-powers never seemed to bother Sango, and she doesn't even have generic demon strength.

Though she had a lot more of a reason to chase Naraku than Kouga did, I suppose.

My impression is that Takahashi didn't know what to do with Kouga anymore so she disposed of him. :/

hey, did you get my email?

Yes, I did. Answering now!

Sango and Miroku! I hope she's properly training her children.

The thing with Shippo going to demon school sounds like a fanfic idea.

Rin's fate makes sense, as does Kohaku's.

The thing with Shippo going to demon school sounds like a fanfic idea.

It's actually really funny. she started a 2 chapter filler story waaaay before the ending that had me laughing my ass off. Here, read it. (http://www.onemanga.com/Inuyasha/506/)

That was cute.

I don't know, but it's still being scanslated if you want to catch up. I know it seems like no one's reading it anymore, but please spoiler-cut any posts you make about it after someone spoils you here; I plan to catch up someday and don't want to have to run screaming!

I'll be mindful! Don't look up, though, there's serious spoilers here now.

I didn't realize it was still being scanned. I had assumed it was all out by now.

*not looking* IIRC the last chapter came out just this week! Ohhhh, Inu, my very first manga, I still love you.

Good question! I had been wondering about this, too.

There's a final, long-anticipated battle against Naraku in which all the aggrieved parties (Inuyasha, Kagome-channeling-Kikyou, Sango, Miroku, and Sesshoumaru) get in various hits, save one another, etc. Naraku merges his body with the Shikon Jewel (now reassembled and whole). Kagome uses Kikyou's sacred arrow to pierce the Jewel in his heart. As he is dying (vy. cool art by the point--he's just a floating head and a spinal cord) Naraku reveals that he has made a wish on the Shikon Jewel and that his wish was that the Sacred Jewel would have its wish. (There's a great moment where Naraku realizes that he, too, was tricked by the jewel and never got the one thing he wanted: Kikyou's heart. But the knowledge doesn't lessen his resolve to screw over Inuyasha and Kagome. Committed villainy is refreshing!)

The Shikon's wish (the wish of its evil component) causes Kagome to get sucked into the void of the Jewel itself. Inuyasha uses a power of his sword that he picked up from Sesshoumaru to go after her; it's revealed to him that the Jewel plans on tricking Kagome to wish to be with Inuyasha. By making this "selfish" wish, her soul will then be trapped along with Naraku's inside the Shikon, locked in eternal battle like that of the priestess Midoriko and the demons' whose souls fused to make the Jewel. Kagome is tempted to make the wish, but decides to trust that Inuyasha will come for her. He does (surprise) and Kagome finally makes her choice: wishing that the Shikon Jewel disappear forever.

It does; and Kagome is thrown back into the future era and Inuyasha to his time. The Bone Eaters' Well that connected the two worlds no longer works. Three years pass, during which Kagome grows up and finishes school. Older, she realizes that the well closed because she had missed her old life and family and wanted to be with them, but she also loves and misses Inuyasha. The well reopens, and they are reunited and get married. (Miroku and Sango also marry and have adorable kids; Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha's relationship has thawed, though neither one will openly acknowledge it; Kohaku lives and becomes a demon-slayer).

I...wow. Y'know, I've only ever been mildly interested in "InuYasha", but...that just sounds REALLY cool.

Thanks for the detailed summary.

I guess I hadn't gotten far enough to realize the jewel was inherently malevolent.

Older, she realizes that the well closed because she had missed her old life and family and wanted to be with them, but she also loves and misses Inuyasha. The well reopens, and they are reunited and get married.

Man, that makes me nostalgic for this fic I was writing years ago. I had Kagome at 17 decide to stay with Inu Yasha, and she has a baby, but someone (Kikyo? I can't remember... this was before Naraku was the Big Bad) uses the jewel to seal Kagome on the future-side of the well, while InuYasha and her baby stay behind. So Inu Yasha has to raise the kid himself (and he's very, very bitter), with the help of Sango and Miroku and Shippou but mostly by himself. And the little girl grows up with some mildly demonic power, and when she's like six ro seven she informs the teen-aged Shippou that she plans to marry him, and then she grows up and does so. And she eventually dies (having 3/4 human blood) after living around 200 years, and her and Shippou's son-- Kagome's grandson who is part dog, part human, and half kitsune, grows up and has the long-life of a hanyou, and he eventually lives through the future, carefully waiting, until Kagome is like 18 or 19, and he finds her and says, "Hi. I'm your grandson. Your daughter lived a long, healthy life, and she was loved, and I have pictures. BTW, no one's seen InuYasha in about two centuries, but I have a theory. You must have had a rough couple of years, but how would you like to go and find him? Today? My mother told me all about you, and I can't give you your daugther back, but I can help you find your husband."

Of course, I never finished it.

If you want a more detailed explination, this has the chapter summaries of the last volume. No pictures though.

I can't comment on your The Emperor's New Groove review so I'll leave this comment here: OMG FAVORIEST MOVIE EVAH! Sadly, all the jokes I remember are in Spanish, and my favorite is not even on the actual movie! (you know how the dubbers add all the dialogue they want...) "Did you see the sky this morning? It was the same one!" It cracks me up every time...

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Committed villainy is something I'd like to see a little more of in Naruto these days.

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