User blog:Damaijin/Things I Often Think/Wonder About when Watching InuYasha

I know it's a cartoon, but there are still some things that bug me a bit. Also, this just for shits and giggles. (Oh, yeah: LANGUAGE ADVISORY)


 * 1) How on Earth does Inuyasha keep patching up the Hinezumi no Kimono (Robe of the Fire-Rat)? It's constantly getting torn up and ripped to shreds, so where does he get the material? Plus that shit is rare! Japanese people even have legends about how much there isn't, yet like a day later it's all better, even though half of it got ripped into about 9,000 shreds over a half-mile radius.
 * 2) Kagome's mom is a terrible mother.
 * 3) Why does she keep letting her go back in time? Some people say it's because "she doesn't quite know how dangerous it is". Bullshit! Kagome comes back like every three days to re-stock the First-Aid kit! Tell me that says nothing about how dangerous it is!
 * 4) She lets Inuyasha spend the night in Kagome's room, and doesn't seem to care there are no chaperones on camping trips in the Feudal Era.
 * 5) How did no one know Kagome had the Shikon no Tama in her body? Did they not have X-rays in the 80s and 90s? And how did nobody feel it when they picked her up by her sides as a child? The human body ain't exactly a suitcase. You only got room for your organs, anything else is gonna feel like a tumor or something.
 * 6) Inuyasha tried to decapitate Kagome twice right after she set him free. Why on earth would she try and make friends with him after that?
 * 7) I kinda hate Kagome. She's so damn helpless most of the time. I mean, she's one of the strongest people on the team, but she can't go one episode without being rescued. My favorite example is the episode where they were trapped in Tokajin's flower garden. Their escape plan was to roll a boulder into the wall and get out through the hole it made. Shippo set it rolling down the mountain--and the bitch just stood there and watched it come tumbling right at her! She would've wound up like Wile E. Coyote if Miroku hadn't to jump-tackled her out of the way. I'm sorry, but you don't have to be a ninja to take three steps to left to dodge a boulder that you know is coming at you, and she did know it was coming cause it was her damn plan!
 * 8) Why does Kagome always get so worked up about Inuyasha and Kikyō? The bitch is dead. They have no future.
 * 9) Where does Sango keep her sword? When she's in her casual clothes, I can't tell where she keeps that thing. It's a big pink katana, you can't fit it in your pocket.
 * 10) How does the Hiraikotsu strap work? I just don't understand how that would be an effective way to carry it.
 * 11) How does Kagome fit everything in her backpack? She's got all the food, water, the First-Aid kit, some school books on occasion, and--the most baffling one--her sleeping bag. Also, why does she have to carry it? Inuyasha's got super strength. Give it to him.
 * 12) What's the deal with Kirara? Is she a pet, a friend, or a taxi? I always get confused. Andd what's her seating capacity? It always seems to fluctuate...
 * 13) Why does poison affect the Kazaana? If he sucks up saimyosho, he gets poisoned, but if he sucks up a 1,000 lbs of rocks, he doesn't put on any weight.
 * 14) Monk + Kazaana = NARAKU IS A DUMBASS For being all evil and diabolical and shit, how did he not see that one coming back to bite him the ass? And why not just get rid of it? It'd be one less enemy to worry about, wouldn't it? It's not like Miroku could kill him otherwise.
 * 15) Kōga has an inflated sense of his own importance. Dude can't do anything without the jewel shards, so what makes him think he's even got a shot at killing Naraku? Hell, Inuyasha saved him from Kagura when he was in his human form. Plus Inuyasha could always keep up with him on foot. It's like Superman beating The Flash: how fucking worthless can you be?
 * 16) Also, why the hell does he have a sword if he never uses it? What's he doing, carrying around a big honkin' sword for decoration?
 * 17) Why does Inuyasha even bother using the un-transformed Tessaiga? It's a piece of shit. And what happened to its human-invincibility and demon-warding powers from Season 1?
 * 18) Why does everyone give Myōga shit for running away? He's a flea, what the hell do they expect him to do?
 * 19) If Tessaiga can only be used by someone who means to protect humans, how did Sesshōmaru pick it up using the human hand and then proceed to try and kill the shit out of everybody with it? It was literally the first thing he did with it.
 * 20) Poor Ayame. I like the character, but she always seems so sad. (Maybe it has something to do with how she knows that Kōga's only gonna marry her because he can't have Kagome...)
 * 21) How come Sesshōmaru's only facial expressions are boredom and contempt? There are times when I have no idea what's going on with him because he's always a blank slate.
 * 22) Key example is when Naraku traps him in his flesh and tries to absorb him. No fear, no anger, no contempt, no struggling. I have no idea what was going through his head at that moment. He was staring/glaring.
 * 23) Another one is when Kikyō saves Rin from Suikotsu. He was standing there staring. WTH?
 * 24) What does Sesshōmaru eat? You never see him eat anything, but he does tell Rin he doesn't eat what humans eat. Was he excluding cannibals?
 * 25) If only a miko of Kikyō and Kagome's stature can detect the jewel shards, then how the hell do demons always know when people have them? Seriously. There are tons of times where demons just come charging out nowhere screaming "Gimme! Gimme! Gimme!"
 * 26) If the barrier around Hakurei-zan was so holy, why didn't it keep the Shikon shards pure of evil? Might've been helpful with the Suikotsu thing.
 * 27) Renkotsu's reason for using Ginkotsu's shard was pathetically contrived.
 * 28) Kyōkotsu got his hand cut off and it re-attached itself instantly.
 * 29) Jakotsu got impaled by Sesshōmaru and ran away laughing.
 * 30) Ginkotsu got blown up by the Kaze no Kizu twice and he got all better.
 * 31) Mukotsu got stabbed by Sesshōmaru's poison claw and could still run away.
 * 32) If Tessaiga steals other demons' abilities, where'd the Kaze no Kizu come from? Was it one of Father's native abilities, or was there yet another rival who everyone forgot about until they show up again out of nowhere?
 * 33) Does anyone else ever notice how Sesshōmaru has a peculiar habit of showing up right after a terrible event that he could have prevented? When Naraku "killed" Kikyō, when the War God Kyora killed all those villagers, and when those bandits killed the entire town in "Together with Lord Sesshōmaru". The only time I can think of that he didn't, was when he saved Kagome, Miroku, Sango and Kirara from Mukotsu. I wonder if it's deliberate...?
 * 34) If Shikon shards are all but indestructible, how did they cremate the whole jewel with Kikyō's body? After all those things we see the jewel shards endure over the series, you're gonna tell me "wood fire" is the Shikon Jewel's Kryptonite?
 * 35) Miroku's robes look really uncomfortable. It looks like there are multiple layers, and they look thick, too.
 * 36) Why does Kagome always wear her school uniform in the feudal era? They're always hiking, sometimes through the wilderness, in all kinds of weather and they constantly get into fights. Why not wear something sturdier? In one episode, she even had to go to school in dress clothes 'cause her uniform got totally trashed.
 * 37) Suzaku from the Hoshiyomi arc: what a a delightfully offensive homosexual stereotype!! Not to mention a pathetic attempt at creating a Jakotsu-type character. Heads-up, folks: Jakotsu wasn't hilarious because he went prancing around like a fruit, irritating the shit out of everybody. He was funny because he was completely psychotic. The fact he dug men was only just a part of it, and it wasn't him digging men that made it funny; it was the bat-shit crazy things that came tumbling out of his mouth at the strangest times that sent you into laughing fits. (And for the record: I didn't think Kyora was an offensive character, and he acted totally flaming, too. (Pun intended, btw.))
 * 38) Why does Inuyasha always forget his sheath can summon Tessaiga? There are so many instances where he gets separated from his sword, but still has the sheath and forces himself to wing it. In the Fateful Night in Togenkyo arc, he summoned Tessaiga to help him escape from Tokajin's gourd, so why didn't he try to use it to get out of Gatenmaru's cocoon? (In the manga, the Togenkyo arc happened before Sango joined the group, not some time after Inuyasha beat Ryuukotsusei.)