Just what Inu Yasha Needs: Another Profound Test of Character
Naraku is too damn brave. He needs to wuss out of more fights and try manipulating third parties from afar, thereby subjecting Inu Yasha’s gang to a profound test of character: will they kill the innocent or be killed themselves?
Too many power-ups are the well-deserved fruits of arduous training. Once in a while, it might be nice if power-ups were the magical result of a profound test of character, such that strengthening of weaponry and strengthening of the heart were one and the same.
I’m still not convinced that Inu Yasha and Kagome trust each other. I think they need to endure about twenty more profound tests of character, preferably the kind in which they get trapped in illusions that can only be broken if they resist temptation, overcome their doubts, and demonstrate their unflinching belief in one another.
Sesshoumaru gets too much screen time. We should only have to see him about once every ten episodes, and only when a profound test of character teaches him that the power of heartless rancor is nothing compared to the power of having something to protect.
Shippo isn’t useless. He is what he is.
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February 5th, 2010 at 8:46 pm
I always wanted to see Shippo get his own spin-off series. It’d involve him going around with some other little kid demons and getting into ancient Japan-times adventures and antics, and each episode’d end with Shippo getting beaten up by some bully monster or getting dumped by some human girl or some other humiliating situation. It’d be Charlie Brown or something, except with Oni.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:31 pm
I always wanted to see Shippo time travel to the past to battle his former self to the death. But I suppose your idea would be a little more in character. Shippo did have that one episode where he battles some lizard thing and gets dumped.
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February 5th, 2010 at 8:56 pm
No comment on how Kikyo keeps coming in and giving Inu Yasha a profound test of character as he is forced to decide between the past and the present? Or is that included in the whole Inu Yasha/Kagome dynamic?
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 5th, 2010 at 10:27 pm
I would’ve included that if I’d written this post before Kikyo got spoiler’d.
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February 5th, 2010 at 10:33 pm
If Shippo got his own show it could be used as a form of torture.
If you wanted to break someone down mind, body and soul, you’d just tie them to a chair, tape open their eyelids and make them watch it.
Shippo isn’t useless, that is true, he’s far worse, he’s annoying as all hell! A better ending to the Thunder Bros arc, would have been for a bolt of lightning to hit him and then have Hiten and Manten eat roasted, kitsune, kebab for dinner.
Was that too harsh?
InuYasha and Kagome would have a much better relationship if they just got it over with and shagged.
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February 5th, 2010 at 10:53 pm
Progress in a romantic relationship? Over Rumiko Takahashi’s dead body!
A Shippo show might sound like torture if you haven’t seen K-ON. After K-ON, I could even take 13 repetitions of the Konoha Annual Sports Festival. I am 100% desensitized to crappy anime.
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Sakura Reply:
February 6th, 2010 at 8:20 am
Hahaha oh I know. Looks like Sakura and Rokudo from Rinne have already begun the long road of endless denial about their feelings.
*Is totally glad she has never watched K-ON* Can the negative effects of such a show be negated by watching something that is pure GAR I wonder?
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February 6th, 2010 at 12:27 am
Happy April Foo- wait a minute. What?
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 2:17 am
Just keeping you on your toes. It’d be a sad state of affairs if you believed every word I said.
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February 6th, 2010 at 12:38 am
People still watch Inu Yasha?
I thought you were joking about that in the podcast.
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February 7th, 2010 at 2:19 am
It’s not Inu Yasha. It’s Inu Yasha: THE FINAL ACT!
Besides, it’s not like there’s anything better to watch.
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Kyoin Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 12:01 pm
True. True.
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:04 am
Actually in my mind, your the very last guy in the world I thought would do an Inu Yasha post. This is the final arc, right? I still don’t see it ending…
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 2:21 am
If I can write about K-ON twice in a year, I can write about Inu Yasha twice in three years.
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February 6th, 2010 at 8:45 am
d’ohohohoho
well played, dinoSIR
well played
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February 7th, 2010 at 2:24 am
My only regret is writing this post with only 7 episodes remaining. If I’d written this earlier, I’d get a lot more track-backing and up-sucking.
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February 6th, 2010 at 10:32 am
couldn’t agree more about Inuyasha and Kagome
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 2:25 am
So you’re saying the rest of my post sucked? Fuck you.
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February 6th, 2010 at 2:45 pm
THIS is still going? Even Onepiece is moving on; the human bitch and the demon bitch apparently haven’t developed at all throughout the story I imagine?
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February 7th, 2010 at 2:38 am
You imagine correctly. The only couple I find more frustrating is Nakajima x Miyuki from You’re Under Arrest. I haven’t seen the whole series, yet still, they’re the most hopeless couple I’ve ever seen.
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February 6th, 2010 at 3:27 pm
I think that Kikyou doesn’t die come back to life enough. I also feel like her relationship with Kagome is too close (they should resent each other at least a little bit). Just a few more observations.
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February 7th, 2010 at 2:49 am
Miroku is a little too prude with Sango. He should loosen up once in a while. Jaken doesn’t suck up to Sesshoumaru enough. Myouga doesn’t sound enough like Happosai.
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February 6th, 2010 at 10:50 pm
Another thing Inu Yasha needs: more lesbians.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 2:50 am
That’s debatable. If the lesbians were anything like the straight couples, they’d go absolutely nowhere. I don’t think I could bear the sight of it.
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Eroshiyda Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 9:53 am
If lesbians were anything like straight couples, we wouldn’t love to watch them so much.
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February 7th, 2010 at 1:49 am
Hey guys, i think Baka-Raptor is blogging about InuYasha because of the new installment of the series: Kanketsu-hen,
otherwise it is cool for baka-raptor to blog about series long forgotten by the public and that are not getting to much attention such as : YuYu Hakusho, Dragon Ball, Berserk, Legend of Galactic Heroes…among others
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 2:56 am
That Candy Boy vs. Golden Boy post I promised to write should be coming up soon. If there’s one series the public should never forget, it’s Golden Boy.
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February 7th, 2010 at 2:32 am
Not having seen Inuyasha, I can only guess that you’re being sarcastic by your tone. Btw. I had thought Inuyasha ended… I guess not.
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Baka-Raptor Reply:
February 7th, 2010 at 3:02 am
I see your sarcasm detector is in tip-top working order.
The Inu Yasha anime is about to end. The manga ended about two years ago.
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February 8th, 2010 at 8:03 pm
I could be wrong, but I was always under the impression the Inu Yasha is a chick flick.
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February 9th, 2010 at 7:26 am
I applaud to you for managing to watch this far. I liked the series but . . . I can’t watch anymore =_= I only see “developments” =_=
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February 10th, 2010 at 9:48 pm
Alone among all story-heavy (hah!) manga I’ve read, I dropped Inu-Yasha before finishing it. No resolution, no development, nothing ever changing. All just more of the same.
I expect that in Ranma 1/2. Ranma 1/2 is an episodiac comedy comic, one that happens to include crazy martial arts. It is, effectively, the most awesome sitcom ever made. If things changed too much from mini-arc to mini-arc, that would be an advanced warning of Cerebus Syndrome, and, in turn, not necessarily a good thing.
Inu-Yasha is a plot based comic(nominally). WHY WON’T PLOT HAPPEN?! I dropped it during the whole ” person who was actually two people, one a sickle-weasel, one a beastman” arc and never looked back. Instead, I read a basic summary of the whole thing on Wikipedia every once in a while til it ended. It was a breath of fresh air, as it was just like reading the comic, only condensed. Like soup, if condensed soup didn’t need to be uncondensed to taste good. Which means it isn’t like soup at all, come to think.
Compare that with Dance in the Vampire Bund. There’s a good manga. A bit heavy on the loli-fanservice for your tastes, I think, Monsieur Dinosaurio, but an excellent story and plenty of good moments, both grittily violent and sweet and touching. The story moves. Don’t know a thing about the show, and I heard it has literally nothing in common with the manga by the author’s request, but I think the manga is now one of my favorite manga of all time.
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February 15th, 2010 at 6:48 pm
All I have to say is this: Inyu-Yasha is the most annoying show ever…I don’t watch it.
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