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Rumiko Takahashi: "For me, Sesshomaru is a father / parental figure (to Rin)" (March, 2021)

And that's canon. Finally, the author of Inuyasha herself has confirmed her interpretation of Sesshomaru and Rin's relationship as one of father figure/daughter. She could have said that she thought of them as a future couple, but she didn't. She could have said they were just "companions" or "friends" like some people want to interpret their relationship, but she didn't, because she doesn't see them that way. The word she used (Hogosha) is used in contexts related to parents and parental relationships. She had that in mind as she portrayed Sesshomaru and Rin's interactions, and that implies that:

Sesshomaru and Rin's interactions were never intended to be romantic.

The kimonos Sesshomaru gave Rin were NOT courtship gifts. They were gifts from a father to his daughter.

Sesshomaru never cared for Rin because he was in love with her, but because he loved her as his own daughter.

Jaken's taking care of Rin doesn't exclude Sesshomaru from being a father figure.

Sesshoumaru helped raise Rin and he never intended to marry her.

OG Sesshomaru is not a pedophile. He is a protector of children.

I can practically hear Shinya-san's voice cracking like a thunder

This two always fills me with joy when they're together. The least intense of the brothers. Levi is too wrapped up in his own self-loathing most of the time and rarely had the confidence, meanwhile Beel also had confidence issue due to the thing with -cough cough-Lilith-cough.

The first time I got this one was with this pair, imagine how happy I was

No, Mammon. Baby Beel is NOT. Go and cuddle your brother to sleep. Take Belphie with you.

But after the original, it makes no sense. Kyle, in RF2, was tasked to seal Fiersome- an existence that some people KNOW sealed in Alvarna. Kyle practically lived in Alvarna without doing anything for almost a decade (assuming he's only getting married in year 2 or 3) before going "Ooooh yeah!" And left his family behind to sacrifice his life for the sake of sealing Fiersome back. Like, literally no one else came looking or checking on him in Alvarna or simply just dropping by to see if the seal is really fixed if they don't care about Kyle that much. Would an earthmate need to rush over and sacrifice his life with deadline in front of his eyes if someone just drop by and ask him about the seal? The council of Earthmate is messed up.

In RF3, it's established that Micah is a guardian of faraway town that left his town in pursuit of the five menace boss monsters that wreck havoc in his town. Midways, he got kidnapped by a manipulative Native Dragon and once again play the game of fate that he didn't intend to do (Much like Raguna, he had his memory wiped). No one ever came up to search for the lost guardian. The ending is also very disturbingly entrapping thanks to Aquaticus. Almost like Aquaticus is UNWILLING to let Micah go and gave him an impossible set of options. "I can give you back your memory and send you home. Or you can stay here." More or less, it's worded like that. Notice something disturbing? Congrats! Aquaticus made it seem like he's giving Micah a choice, when in reality he gave nothing as such.

In RF4, as people already know. Despite having the task to give Rune Sphere to Ventuswill (a task. Reminder of RF2 with Kyle and his "task"). Ventuswill didn't know them nor the sender of that Rune Sphere it seems, or else, she would just send someone to fetch them and help Frey/Lest to get their memory back. No one came to check if the mission's successful. Not even in post arc 2 where everyone knows THAT happened. Almost like the failure or success doesn't really matter to whoever sent Lest/Frey on this mission. I gotta say, if earthmates move in council, the council is either corrupted af or indifferent af.

I’ve noticed 2 paralleling scenes:

Now these scenes take place within weeks/a month apart so its safe to say that this is a good indication of what both of their mindsets on love were at the time

So you see Ino from the get go is kind of taken with Sai and with Sakura and the love letter ninja, she outright says she’s already taken 

knowing full well that Sasuke isn’t even romantically interested in her ESPECIALLY at the moment when he is evil. 

In fact, later on, Sasuke says this:

So what I’m saying is that no matter what, at this point, Sakura thinks she has Sasuke in the bag, like eventually he’ll return her feelings and they’ll be together no matter what Sasuke’s side of it is. She thinks that enough to turn down other guys who are interested

Now compare this to Ino:

she openly flirts with Sai. Even though she loves Sasuke she knows that there is a possibility that he might not feel the same so why not try other guys if she’s attracted to them? She clearly hasn’t bet everything in the world on a life with Sasuke like Sakura has. 

A lot of people call Ino a slut for this but seriously which would you prefer????

someone who can’t take “no” for an answer????? Someone who tries to guilt you into a relationship with them?

or someone who’s not going to pressure you to be with them? Who doesn’t rely on you for their happiness?????

like this scene kinda reminds me of the wedding scene in Beauty and the Beast

you know the one

where Gaston has an entire wedding set up

and hasn’t even proposed to Belle yet? 

Like……….Sakura already considered her and Sasuke to be in a relationship regardless of what he thought. 

and even though it was revealed that Ino still loved Sasuke during the war…..

in her dream she thinks of both Sai and Sasuke as equals which means that she did keep her options open

and it just so happen that one of those options worked out for her. She didn’t reject Sai, she didn’t make him wait until she sorted her feelings for Sasuke, she jumped right on in because she KNEW if Sasuke wanted her, he’d put as much effort into getting her attention and love as Sai did which is how it SHOULD be. 

Sasuke knew how Ino felt about him and he clearly didn’t care so why should she????

and he clearly didn’t care about Sakura either. I mean at the point of this screenshot, its been 2 years since 699 when he poked her forehead and he still hadn’t come back

hell the only damn contact she got from him in TWO YEARS is one note that was addressed to Naruto and Hinata and she blushed from that. She blushed at the thought that Sasuke still thinks about NARUTO. 

and the thing is, Sasuke clearly didn’t come back. If Sakura had to chase him down after 2 ½ years of zero contact then Sasuke clearly didn’t care about starting a relationship with her either. 

I mean look at this, Sakura considers 2 ½ minutes a “date” while Sai literally went out, bought a book, and researched how to take a girl on a date and I’m assuming it was to impress Ino.

and she doesn’t even think Sasuke remembers their *date*

Oh, here’s another:

It would appear that Asian scribes were also plagued by feline predations: