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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*

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mswyrr

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.

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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.)

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mswyrr

(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! ;)

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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.

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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

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

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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.

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

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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?

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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.

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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.

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

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hey, did you get my email?

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Yes, I did. Answering now!

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