So my week actually turned out to be busier than I thought, I wanted to get something out, but didn't manage to, but finally have the time with the weekend coming, so tomorrow I'll get things back on track for sure, for now, I don't really have a question, but more of a request, which I'm gladly in the mood to fill "Rant on something, rant on anything, I'm wondering what you'd rant about, and how you rant."

Now, I'm not a good ranter, in fact I come off more sarcastic than I do ranting, either way, I have a perfect subject: The Beads of Subjugation.

I hate Sunrise for turning something that was actually about development into a novelty. I hate how the opinions about it being 'abusive' are due to filler and altering scenes and characters, I hate that Kagome is viewed as being an 'abusive bitch' who deserves to be smack, punched, or whatever else, oh the irony of that one. I hate this idea that the item was just all for laughs. I hate that Sunrise used it when it wasn't needed, used it pointlessly and used it over scenes that had way more business being in the series. I hate how the popular opinion about Kagome, Inuyasha and their relationship as a while is defined like it is. I hate how it turned Kagome into a "Tsundere" (I'll get to that in a moment). I hate how this is a subject that's even up for debate, I hate that I have to read constant questions and messages about it ("Well Kagome did abuse it." "Well, Sunrise just did it for laughs." "I hated Kagome because of that."), because it brings up all my problems with the anime and this particular subject.

But since this is a rant, let me ramp things up a little bit. Why is it the command is so talked about? Because someone at Sunrise decided that putting in over 100 of these commands into the series was somehow a good idea. The thing about this, it was their "go-to" funny, "Oh girl abusing the guy again, there goes those ratings." *Thumbs up* Because throwing out the same joke will constantly have people laughing, nevermind those little moments of development, key bits of information or even good moments that deserved to be in the anime, we have to get a "SIT!" in, especially with fillers, because I mean, every filler isn't funny until there is a "SIT!" in it, right? Here's a secret *Whispers* Most of the filler episodes that had them, sucked anyway." *Whispers* Why did they suck? Let's run through those reasons:

1. Most of the time the characters were out-of-character.

2. Inuyasha had to be overly stupid in order to get Kagome mad.

3. Kagome had to have a stupid reason to get mad, or in the case of canon episodes that were altered, just change her emotion to mad and alter a scene to make it work.

4. Shippo, whose character had to change as a whole to make this work.

So in all the cases, you had to have characters around to make it work, but that isn't a big problem for you at all, is it? Not like there were any scenes that you changed around to get a desired effect and then royally screwed up some of the dynamic in others. Good writing? Nah, needs a "SIT!" command. And just so I'm not being unfair, I said most filler, see there are good filler in the series there is even some funny stuff in those fillers, but guess what none of those fillers have?

And no disrespect to fanfiction writers, in fact, I'll give a whole lot of props to them, while I know there are some out there that just want to do the characters in their own vision, there are tons of fantastic writers that can do the things you do, most of the anime is a work of fanfiction honestly, and it has it's hits and it has it's misses. But about at least 70% of the series is Sunrise fanfiction, and honestly, it wasn't that good.

Speaking about out-of-character though, let's cover Kagome, since I mean, she is basically the biggest target of this. Tsundere, so let's ignore the anime, let's pretend in never existed (and in a perfect world was remade), can anyone think of a moment where she outright abused it, without a reason in the manga? And if I hear "What about the one after Hakurei?" "What about the one at the cleansing pool?" or the "Rat demons?" I'm going to rant about that next . Now let's add another factor in, did she ever use it when Inuyasha tried to do something? Some anime have had girls bashing guys over the head with something for even touching them. Let's go over the reasons it's used in the manga:

1. Inuyasha is about to destroy someones property, attack someone, or threatened someone in some manner.

2. It's used when he goes full demon, and it's reversed the transformation.

3. Inuyasha lies, picks a fight, assumes and says something borders way past insensitivity.

That brings up the question, what would a normal girl do if you said something insulting or insensitive to them? You'd get slapped, hmm, has Kagome ever slapped Inuyasha? Yup, once within the series, so going off that, the "SIT!" is basically a slap under those conditions.

But no we can't focus on those, we have to focus on the filler ones, that were altered, added in, and required the characters to go out-of-character, when Kagome starts swinging like Akane, let me know. Oh wait, Sunrise beat you to it, Totosai's hammer, great job on keeping her in character to get that to work, ah who am I kidding, let's just make her mad, and get her to "SIT!" Inuyasha again, cause I mean, that's so much more interesting than the massive amounts of development she makes throughout the series (which you cut a whole lot of that in the original series, and decided to try, but not nearly hard enough in The Final Act).

Isn't it fun that the whole reason people really hate this has to do with filler? But when you consider that a good amount of these "SIT!" commands were filler, and they somehow managed to fit over a 100 them into this series, is it really a surprise?

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Now I'd like a moment to, to speak more calmly and straightforwardly. InuYasha as a series, I do like, but there are elements of it that I greatly dislike, this is one of those elements, and it's unfortunate that these two and their relationship have to be defined by something that was meant to more symbolic, and ironic, than just "HAHAHA! FUNNY!". I started the "A "SIT!" a Day!" to counter this poor perception of the command, and I'm not going to kid myself, it's only going to do much, and reach so many, and some may never change their opinions, which is fine, but at least it'll give them something to think about and take into account.

And to those people that messaged me about this subject, I thank you, because while this subject frustrates me, and every message about it, frustrates me, you remind me of what not only the whole point of this blog was, while pushing me harder when it comes to "A "SIT!" a Day".

A lot of this rant came from messages I received on the subject, and since I was given a bit of free reign to work with here, and not be my usual self, it felt good to get a lot of this out.

For those wondering about my more than calm and rational approach to this, feel free to read: The “SIT” Command - Irony, Reason, Purpose and Misconceptions". For those that just liked the rant, I'm glad you enjoyed it, but it isn't going to be a common thing for me, as you can probably tell, I'm not great at it.

Additional Reading:

Answerbox #03: “SIT!” and “A “SIT!” a Day”