#kagusess

Been rewatching Inuyasha and felt compelled to draw one of my Favourite characters.

Let's turn that around and look at Rin merch where she isn't alone:

1 with $€$$, she tries giving him food like in her debut, he doesn't even look at her. It was released in November 2020 to build hype, yet nothing teasing the ship really. And $€$$ doesn't eat the food she gives him, so it's more of having him part of a set that doesn't make much sense for him to be in so his fans will buy from it.

1 also from 2020, the one she admires is... Jaken? As usual, $€$$ is also on his own.

From December 2022, after it flopped. Rin in the closest to a shipping badge in the set along with Kohaku, although Sango and Miroku are a pair telling a story. But compared to her "canon" $€$$ earlier, the two blush slightly and have eye contact.

From the same time, Rin with Jaken again, hiding behind him and while you could put $€$$ in front so he's protecting them, she looks away unless she's protecting jaken pushing him out of the way. But no blush.

But while ½ have color scheme based on the manga, and 2 based on the anime (you can see it at first glance with $€$$'s sleeves being purple instead of red, Sango's armour being floral instead of solid coral pink, and Kohaku's armor having a wavy pattern rather than solid amber color. The copyrights are also to Takahashi herself and Shueisha/ShoPro, while anime merch also is copyright to sunrise although it'll probably move over to Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. So if you want to keep boycotting them, that's how. Yes, these are mostly all based on the manga these days, but not drawn by Takahashi herself. What about merch she has actually drawn the art on herself? Well, recently Meqri started selling Inuyasha merch with panels from the manga itself, and on the long sleeve tees all the main ships are represented. Let's see shall we?

2 of the main ship. I wish the illustration was bigger and the second one another color as I hardly wear yellow (anymore). But the dark grey one is still really cool.

The second is of a ship I don't really like as I hate the guy in it, but for those who like them together I guess it's cute. Kinda reminds me of TheJewker's lewd emote. And drumroll please...

Wait, that isn't Rin, what's going on?! Joking aside, kagusess is canon baby!

For those wanting to see the rest of the badges to make your own comparisons:

Remember Kagura. Let it be her.