Bro. If Kagome fans *really* cared about Kagome’s welfare, they would *not* be shipping her with someone as rude, fickle, and indecisive as Inuyasha.
It kinda blows my mind that Kagome fans (not necessarily just InuKag fans) genuinely feel that Inuyasha is the one and only partner best fit for her.
Yes, thematically, it makes sense for them to end up together as she is Kikyo’s reincarnation and the physical representation of Kikyo’s endless love for Inuyasha. (Kikyo’s name, which means Chinese Bell Flower, is meant to symbolize endless love, and Rumiko herself expressed that that was exactly why how she named Kikyo)
However, the way their relationship is developed, especially through my eyes as a fully grown adult with critical thinking skills, it was clear as day how awful and toxic their relationship was throughout the series, at both ends. It wasn’t until the very end, after Kikyo’s passing, that their relationship was seemingly going for a healthier tone…however, the fact that Kagome continues to physically abuse Inuyasha to control his behavior remains to the very end.
Kagome was either better off alone or, at best, meeting a reincarnation of Inuyasha who’d respect and treasure her as much as the real Inuyasha respects and treasures Kikyo.
Idk how people genuinely expect anyone to be happy in such a turbulent relationship that constantly causes Kagome to cry or go through periods of depression.
It’s pretty obvious these guys don’t really care for Kagome as an individual character and blindly place InuKag on a pedestal because they lack the ability to analyze and critique the content that is being presented to them. They just eat it up without any thought because their romantic scenes are just cute enough to make them ignore how terrible their normal daily interactions are.
You can still enjoy a piece of media and be able to critique the author’s writing decisions. It doesn’t mean you hate it, but no art is perfect, and with how popular and lengthy Inuyasha was, it’s heavily worthy of criticism instead of the constant praise it gets for….idk simply being popular and nostalgic due to it being on television for all of us in the early 2000’s despite its lackluster character writing and frustratingly repetitive narrative.
Yes, Kagome was a complete a*ss at times, but like Inuyasha, she deserved better than him.
They both deserved better than each other and I’ll forever die on that unpopular hill.
Bro. If Kagome fans *really* cared about Kagome’s welfare, they would *not* be shipping her with someone as rude, fickle, and indecisive as Inuyasha.
It kinda blows my mind that Kagome fans (not necessarily just InuKag fans) genuinely feel that Inuyasha is the one and only partner best fit for her.
Yes, thematically, it makes sense for them to end up together as she is Kikyo’s reincarnation and the physical representation of Kikyo’s endless love for Inuyasha. (Kikyo’s name, which means Chinese Bell Flower, is meant to symbolize endless love, and Rumiko herself expressed that that was exactly why how she named Kikyo)
However, the way their relationship is developed, especially through my eyes as a fully grown adult with critical thinking skills, it was clear as day how awful and toxic their relationship was throughout the series, at both ends. It wasn’t until the very end, after Kikyo’s passing, that their relationship was seemingly going for a healthier tone…however, the fact that Kagome continues to physically abuse Inuyasha to control his behavior remains to the very end.
Kagome was either better off alone or, at best, meeting a reincarnation of Inuyasha who’d respect and treasure her as much as the real Inuyasha respects and treasures Kikyo.
Idk how people genuinely expect anyone to be happy in such a turbulent relationship that constantly causes Kagome to cry or go through periods of depression.
It’s pretty obvious these guys don’t really care for Kagome as an individual character and blindly place InuKag on a pedestal because they lack the ability to analyze and critique the content that is being presented to them. They just eat it up without any thought because their romantic scenes are just cute enough to make them ignore how terrible their normal daily interactions are.
You can still enjoy a piece of media and be able to critique the author’s writing decisions. It doesn’t mean you hate it, but no art is perfect, and with how popular and lengthy Inuyasha was, it’s heavily worthy of criticism instead of the constant praise it gets for….idk simply being popular and nostalgic due to it being on television for all of us in the early 2000’s despite its lackluster character writing and frustratingly repetitive narrative.
Yes, Kagome was a complete a*ss at times, but like Inuyasha, she deserved better than him.
They both deserved better than each other and I’ll forever die on that unpopular hill.
Sammi Sweetheartts Bonnet
