User blog:Damaijin/Final Act Plot Stumpers

Here are some questions that the Final Act brought up for me. Maybe the answers were in the Manga or something, I dunno. I don't expect people to answer them, but if they do, thanks.

!!SPOILER ALERT!!


 * 1) How did Naraku kill Kikyo? The whole plot of the Hakurei-zan arc was for Naraku to purge himself of Onigumo's heart so that he could kill Kikyo. Yet in the Final Act, he re-absorbs Onigumo's heart for the express purpose of killing her, and then does so. Huh?
 * 2) Why did Kouga give up the hunt for Naraku after losing his shards? It just seemed so out of character for him to just walk away. When Kagura managed to steal his shards from him before, he didn't just abandon his vendetta, and he had no other means to fight. This time he still had Goraishii. Plus, there was the whole thing where the spirits of the Goraishii couldn't fully protect him so long as he was subject to the other otherworldly will from the shards. He still stood as much chance as he did before, didn't he? (Just so we're clear, I never really cared for Kouga as a character, and overall I was glad to see him put on a bus, but even so, it felt like his ending didn't do his character justice.)
 * 3) Why didn't the Jewel just shatter again when Kagome shot it? The first time she shot it, she didn't know how to use her reiryoku and landed a lucky crit. The second time she shot it, she used the equivalent of nuclear reiryoku and hit a full-on bullseye to boot. And yet there wasn't so much as a crack.
 * 4) If Magatsuhi was the Evil Will of the Shikon Jewel, then why was it still carrying out evil plots after he was destroyed? The jewel's scheme to manipulate and imprison Kagome inside itself forever was pretty twisted and inarguably... evil?
 * 5) What happened to Azusaya no Yumi? Kagome had it when she made the wish to the jewel, but when she and Inuyasha appeared out of the well in her time: pfft! It's an ancient mystical artifact of tremendous power--losing something like that is just a dick move!
 * 6) Speaking of Kagome's time, when is it? The series supposedly started in 1997 when Kagome was in her final year of middle school, yet by the Final Act, she's still in middle school and we see her texting on her cell phone and Sota is playing what is either a Nintendo DS or a Nintendo 3DS. Anachronism Stew, anyone?