Satisfy my curiosity...

[timepiececlock]

You know, I never bothered to find out... how does the Inu Yasha manga end?

Can anyone give me a brief summary?

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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! ;)

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

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.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

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

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

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

[manonlechat.livejournal.com]

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.

[rashaka.livejournal.com]

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