The end of Inuyasha
Jun. 18th, 2008 10:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
starzkiI will admit it:
I watched the dub on Cartoon Network. I watched all the episodes they created and aired, all dubbed.
This may be the reason I hated Kagome. Everyone in the fandom just loves her and ships her with everyone and everything. I couldn't stand her. I don't think I hated her because of the English dub, but it is one explanation. I never really liked her because she was written as so pure and clean and without any hard edges that I had nothing to hold onto when I thought of her. Characters need imperfections or else they're boring as hell.
I think I've written about this before, but I only started watching Inuyasha because it was on right before Cowboy Bebop and I didn't want to be on some other channel and miss the beginning theme song of Cowboy Bebop. So I'd turn it to Cartoon Network, then read a book, organize my apartment, or do something else while Inuyasha was on in the background. I couldn't identify with Kagome, Inuyasha didn't do anything for me, Shippou was annoying, and I misunderstood Miroku (and thoroughly disapproved of him).
Then Sango joined the story and I put my book down and started paying attention. Here was a girl with some edges. She was a survivor and a fighter and I loved her story. And when she started crushing on Miroku, I thought he couldn't be all that bad, so I started paying attention to his character and found it wonderfully complex. I found a wonderful 'ship to sail and didn't look back.
All that being said, here are my thoughts on how the series ended:
I watched the dub on Cartoon Network. I watched all the episodes they created and aired, all dubbed.
This may be the reason I hated Kagome. Everyone in the fandom just loves her and ships her with everyone and everything. I couldn't stand her. I don't think I hated her because of the English dub, but it is one explanation. I never really liked her because she was written as so pure and clean and without any hard edges that I had nothing to hold onto when I thought of her. Characters need imperfections or else they're boring as hell.
I think I've written about this before, but I only started watching Inuyasha because it was on right before Cowboy Bebop and I didn't want to be on some other channel and miss the beginning theme song of Cowboy Bebop. So I'd turn it to Cartoon Network, then read a book, organize my apartment, or do something else while Inuyasha was on in the background. I couldn't identify with Kagome, Inuyasha didn't do anything for me, Shippou was annoying, and I misunderstood Miroku (and thoroughly disapproved of him).
Then Sango joined the story and I put my book down and started paying attention. Here was a girl with some edges. She was a survivor and a fighter and I loved her story. And when she started crushing on Miroku, I thought he couldn't be all that bad, so I started paying attention to his character and found it wonderfully complex. I found a wonderful 'ship to sail and didn't look back.
All that being said, here are my thoughts on how the series ended:
YAY! Lots and lots of babies for Miroku and Sango. And for the record, who totally called that Sango and Miroku would be having multiples? (Answer: ME!) The end of the series is very much like my What You Wish For, down to Miroku holding two two-year-old twin girls and Sango with a baby boy. Which doesn't count their 12 older children, but the imagery of my story and the last chapter is startlingly similar.
Oh,shiinabambi (if you ever stumble across this post), the twin's names, according to the above story written three years ago, are Kagura and Kanna.
As for Kagome, her story gets a big fat "meh" from me. I can see making her wait until after high school to go back because most people would roll their eyes at a 15-year-old making such a decision. Yeah, that'd work out. But, really, I think the same thing of 18-year-olds deciding that they know now and forever who they want to spend their lives with.
The fact that Kagome picked the fantasy world is interesting. There was an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where something happened with a demon bite and Buffy discovered that she was actually insane, living in her own carefully constructed fantasy world inside of her head. She, too, was given the opportunity to chose between the real world without vampires and demons and dire prophesies and the one portrayed in the series. She, too, picked the fantasy world. Buffy did it better, in my opinion.
If I was Takahashi, just to fuck with everyone, I would add another chapter with Kagome in a mental institute where it is explained that she was missing so much school because of her delusions and her family was just playing along with her. Her grandfather even went so far as to tell Kagome that he was telling her school all of these made-up ailments to hide the fact that Kagome was really insane. And in the end, Kagome choses her insanity over college. The end! Smell you later!
But I'm really glad for the happy Miroku/Sango ending. It made me all warm and squishy inside.
Oh,
shiinabambi (if you ever stumble across this post), the twin's names, according to the above story written three years ago, are Kagura and Kanna.As for Kagome, her story gets a big fat "meh" from me. I can see making her wait until after high school to go back because most people would roll their eyes at a 15-year-old making such a decision. Yeah, that'd work out. But, really, I think the same thing of 18-year-olds deciding that they know now and forever who they want to spend their lives with.
The fact that Kagome picked the fantasy world is interesting. There was an episode of Buffy the Vampire Slayer where something happened with a demon bite and Buffy discovered that she was actually insane, living in her own carefully constructed fantasy world inside of her head. She, too, was given the opportunity to chose between the real world without vampires and demons and dire prophesies and the one portrayed in the series. She, too, picked the fantasy world. Buffy did it better, in my opinion.
If I was Takahashi, just to fuck with everyone, I would add another chapter with Kagome in a mental institute where it is explained that she was missing so much school because of her delusions and her family was just playing along with her. Her grandfather even went so far as to tell Kagome that he was telling her school all of these made-up ailments to hide the fact that Kagome was really insane. And in the end, Kagome choses her insanity over college. The end! Smell you later!
But I'm really glad for the happy Miroku/Sango ending. It made me all warm and squishy inside.
