IY thoughts
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timepiececlockWatched IY again tonight. We're on episode 48 tomorrow, nearing the end of season 2. Or is it the beginning of season 3 already?
As much as I love them all, sometimes the characters on this show are just whacked.
Like, Kagome and Kikyo, for instance. Kagome is usually a practical, sensible, friendly girl with an endless ability to forgive and usually smarter than the other characters. A rare and refreshing female lead character in anime. So why, Kagome, are you so tolerant of Kikyo's presence? I know she has, like, 1/8th of your soul from a past life or whatever, and I know the guy you're in love with is in love with her, and I know she looks just like you and you pity her, but honestly, she EATS PEOPLE'S SOULS. She's not tame like Shippou. I'm amazed that everyone seems so willing to let her get away every time. I understand that Inu Yasha refuses to kill her-- he was in love with her, and he has questionable morals anyway, and doesn't give a fig whose soul is being eaten as long its not someone he likes. But Kagome ought to have more sense.
And Naraku. Haha. Bound by his human host's past love for Kikyo, now he's lusting for her and trying to kill her to make it go away. It's not easy being weeeeally evil, is it? All that stress, and the obligatory nasty tattoo work when you applied for membership.
Inu Yasha needs to take some Ritalin. And he needs to stop deliberately cultivating the image of an idiot. Though I find it wonderfully interesting that he seems to have picked Kikyo in favor of Kagome, somehow I don't think that will last. Rumiko Takahashi is a traditional romantic and she'll bring the two protagonists together eventually. I admit it could take two more seasons at least. He was refreshingly mature in this episode. Still desperately needs the Ritalin though.
Miroku badly needs to get laid, not for passing on his curse/destiny to an heir--- just because he needs it.
Sango... you're cool. I have no opinion about you. Except you are way too cool to ever have sex with Miroku. Don't do, babe, despite what the fanfic writers say. It's beneath you.
Shippou... are you a demon, or a lapdog? Lapdog, it seems. Though a terribly cute one.
I still dig Kagome's family. They crack my shit up.
Kaede. You're cool in the manga, cool in the subtitled version, and massively annoying in the English dubbing. I'm not listening, not listening! Leave. Leave now, and never come back. Leave now, and never come back!
As much as I love them all, sometimes the characters on this show are just whacked.
Like, Kagome and Kikyo, for instance. Kagome is usually a practical, sensible, friendly girl with an endless ability to forgive and usually smarter than the other characters. A rare and refreshing female lead character in anime. So why, Kagome, are you so tolerant of Kikyo's presence? I know she has, like, 1/8th of your soul from a past life or whatever, and I know the guy you're in love with is in love with her, and I know she looks just like you and you pity her, but honestly, she EATS PEOPLE'S SOULS. She's not tame like Shippou. I'm amazed that everyone seems so willing to let her get away every time. I understand that Inu Yasha refuses to kill her-- he was in love with her, and he has questionable morals anyway, and doesn't give a fig whose soul is being eaten as long its not someone he likes. But Kagome ought to have more sense.
And Naraku. Haha. Bound by his human host's past love for Kikyo, now he's lusting for her and trying to kill her to make it go away. It's not easy being weeeeally evil, is it? All that stress, and the obligatory nasty tattoo work when you applied for membership.
Inu Yasha needs to take some Ritalin. And he needs to stop deliberately cultivating the image of an idiot. Though I find it wonderfully interesting that he seems to have picked Kikyo in favor of Kagome, somehow I don't think that will last. Rumiko Takahashi is a traditional romantic and she'll bring the two protagonists together eventually. I admit it could take two more seasons at least. He was refreshingly mature in this episode. Still desperately needs the Ritalin though.
Miroku badly needs to get laid, not for passing on his curse/destiny to an heir--- just because he needs it.
Sango... you're cool. I have no opinion about you. Except you are way too cool to ever have sex with Miroku. Don't do, babe, despite what the fanfic writers say. It's beneath you.
Shippou... are you a demon, or a lapdog? Lapdog, it seems. Though a terribly cute one.
I still dig Kagome's family. They crack my shit up.
Kaede. You're cool in the manga, cool in the subtitled version, and massively annoying in the English dubbing. I'm not listening, not listening! Leave. Leave now, and never come back. Leave now, and never come back!
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Date: 2003-09-11 11:17 pm (UTC)Well hell, when you put it like that I feel almost popular!
::a moment of silence passes::
::nothing happens::
Dammit, I knew it was too good to be true.
we constantly yell the same thing about Kikyo eating people's souls whenever she comes on the screen.
I think Takahashi's trying to make her a sympathetic bad guy. And she is, in the way you feel sorry for a big scary cat being hunted. You feel sorry for it, but fuck them if they think you're going to actually comfort it personally. Actually, I'm finding Seshoumarru's sympathy thing with Rin to be more...well, sympathetic. Maybe the father's ability to love humans really does run in the family.
I spend a lot of time growling at their reactions to Kikyo. I'd throw popcorn at her, but I rarely make any. I like that Kikyo is deplicitous and evil, and the "your life is mine" possessive streak is cool, but I want to yell at the rest of them whenever she appears.
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Date: 2003-09-12 10:26 am (UTC)It's true. I did. BECAUSE WE ALWAYS YELL THE SAME THING. She eats people. In what world is this okay?!
And though I do think her character is interesting and I enjoy the story, I still bitch at Inuyasha for being so whipped and Kikyo for being so, well, Kikyo.
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Date: 2003-09-12 10:47 am (UTC)Well, if she looked like James Marsters, then it might be ok.
And though I do think her character is interesting and I enjoy the story, I still bitch at Inuyasha for being so whipped and Kikyo for being so, well, Kikyo.
Bah. I wish I had someone to watch the show with.
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