How do you find interviews that Rumiko has done about Inuyasha? Google doesn’t give me much info. The most I could find was the character profile thingies and some stuff on twitter. I feel like there’s a lot of fandom hc that just kinda get accepted into C without any real sources?? I’m so confused about where people are getting their information. I was hoping to find some forums or translated message boards but nope :(
It seems like Rumiko doesn’t talk much about her work?
The #1 source for translations of Rumiko Takahashi interviews is @rumic-world (rumicworld1 on twitter), you can find all the interviews on their website furinkan.com (here). Dylan & Harley Acres have been die-hard fans of Rumiko Takahashi for like, 20+ years, and they collect everything they can find about her. Their translations tend to be reliable and unbiased from what I heard.
For recent interviews, especially regarding everything related to Yashahime, @ayuuria has translated almost all of them on their blog.
And finally @inu-fanon was a fan translator of the IY manga and they debunked a lot of misinformation & mistranslations in the fandom on their blog. I also found a few verifiable info about Rumiko from them that I didn't find anywhere else.
If someone tells you "Rumiko said that" but they can't link back to these people, or they can't provide a screenshot or link to the source in Japanese, I would not believe what they're saying, lol.
Some classic "Rumiko said" that are false:
- "Kagome doesn't age in the feudal era because she's from the future so she can live for a long time with Inuyasha" this was on Kagome's page on a fan wiki called "Heroes Wiki" with no source but it looks like they removed it.
- "Inuyasha was meant to end up with Kikyo and Kagome was meant to go back to the future but Rumiko was pressured by fans to make inukag endgame" or "Rumiko only made Inukag endgame because Kagome's VA told her to" (the source for this is a Spanish blogpost which mistranslated this interview (Q4) where Rumiko said that she hesitated about "which world" Kagome was going to choose but in the end she felt like Kagome would be living "with half a soul" without Inuyasha so she went with what was best for Kagome).
- "Inuyasha was confirmed to be 200 years old & aging slowly. " The profile book only says Inuyasha is "15 (in human years)" which could be a reference to him being sealed for 50 years. In 2001 Rumiko said she doesn't know how hanyo ages, only that she wrote Inuyasha to be 15 so he's the same age as Kagome. In 2020 she said that Inuyasha, Kagome and Moroha "age at about the same pace as the timeframe of the story. Signs of their aging may show up decades later." which to me means they age like humans. The Inuyasha is 200 years old thing is from the third movie and everything anime-only is non-canon to me.
There's probably others but you get the idea! I know all this because Inuyasha is my special interest and I need to know EVERYTHING there is to know about the series lmaoo ✌ Also because I hate 90% of the popular fanon for the series, especially for inukag.
Welcome to hellsite #2 friend!! It's worth it for the inukag fanarts alone lol
