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When Inuyasha Betrayed KikyĹ
Today, Iâm going to write about the most divisive character in the fandom: KikyĹ. To make matters worse for myself, Iâm going to point out when Inuyasha, a far less controversial character, hurt her.
To be honest, I almost didnât write this article, because I feared a flood of hatemail in the askbox. Iâve read posts calling KikyĹ everything from âRumikoâs precious Mary Sueâ (what?) to âKinkyhoâ (the most imaginative but least mature of insults).Â
To be fair, most Western fans of Inuyasha were introduced to KikyĹ through the anime, where KikyĹ fell victim to Sunriseâs character assassination. As an example, hereâs what ends KikyĹ and Inuyashaâs hug in chapter 173:
Hereâs what ends their hug in the equivalent episode, Onigumoâs Heart Still Beats Within Naraku:
Quite a difference between Inuyasha professing his desire to protect KikyĹ and KikyĹÂ holding a knife to Inuyashaâs throat.
Now, KikyĹ does do terrible things. She attempts to kill Kagome, she empowers Naraku, she takes advantage of Kohakuâs guilt. KikyĹâs indirectly responsible for every death caused by Kanna, Kagura, Goshinki,Hakudoshi, Byakuya, and the restâall because she wanted to defeat Naraku. Even if his defeat came at the expense of everything and everyone else.
But one time, KikyĹ did what she had to do, at Inuyashaâs expense, and was thoroughly justified.Â
Iâm talking about when she pinned Inuyasha to the Goshinboku with a sacred arrow.
Letâs take a look at the original manga pages, in the original watercolors:
KikyĹâs gotten a lot of criticism for âSo thatâŚit shall never again fall into evil hands.â Inuyasha stole the Shikon no Tama because Naraku tricked him. Thereâs no way Inuyasha could be described as evil, right?
Look at what Inuyashaâs doing. That isnât Naraku or one of Narakuâs puppets. That is the real Inuyasha rampaging through KikyĹâs village after stealing the Shikon no Tama. Sunrise would have you believe KikyĹâs responsible for Kaedeâs missing eye, but as you can see, thereâs fresh blood leaking through Kaedeâs bandage. Kaede lost her eye because of Inuyashaâs attack.
Inuyashaâs not even fighting KikyĹ here. Instead, heâs taking his anger out on the helpless and innocent villagers she protected.Â
When KikyĹ dragged herself back to the village, she found Inuyasha attacking her people while running away with the Shikon no Tama. It didnât matter if she trusted or loved him. The real Inuyasha was really hurting her people and her little sister.Â
In life, KikyĹ never betrayed Inuyasha. Inuyasha, however, betrayed KikyĹ. Every time KikyĹ sees Inuyasha after her resurrection, she sees the man who stole the Shikon no Tama and attacked her village. Every time Inuyasha asks KikyĹ to trust him to kill Naraku, KikyĹ must think of what happened the last time she trusted him.
I dislike writing about Inuyasha this way, as heâs honestly my favorite out of the entire cast. I think he had the best character arc. Ignoring his worst actions, though, cheapens his growth as a character.
Ignoring KikyĹâs better qualities and her reasons for her actions also cheapens Inuyashaâs character. Instead of a man determined to atone for betraying someone he wanted to protect, he becomes a love-sick puppy who fails to see KikyĹ doesnât want him around.Â
KikyĹâs bad and good qualities are what make her so divisive. A fan portraying her as just a raging ex-girlfriend leaves her lifeless on the page. A lifeless KikyĹ hurts the characterization of every character who interacts with her.Â
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And how Kikyo can feel any emotion besides anger and hatred after most of her soul goes back to Kagome (only the angry part of their soul escaping being sucked back) is kinda impressive.
We also should remember that the original Kikyo (pre-death) was hinted at to be a likeable, caring girl who is basically forced to be stoic and way more mature than her age in order to better protect the Shikon no Tama.Â
Thereâs something about remembering that that makes a warped part of her soul wandering the country because of events completely outside her control more tragic.
1000 times yes to both of these. She is absolutely intended to be a tragic character, and I cannot fathom how people can be so out of touch with the actual content of the series that they completely ignore her circumstances when discussing her characterâto the degree of completely bypassing the aforementioned just, uh, minor issue of her resurrected self being literally a vessel containing only the spiteful part of her soul.Â
Yes, the resurrected Kikyo does things that harm others, because spite is in fact the driving force of her existence. She âlivesâ to destroy Narakuâand itâs not that she chose to be that way. No one recognizes how deplorable her resurrected self is or hates it more than Kikyo herself. She brings it up again and again throughout the series. She has a level of self-awareness, as a young woman who died before reaching the age of 20, as a shell of her former self, that most intact people fail to reach even in adulthood. She knows the tragedy of her own situation, but she can hardly even pity herself; all she can do is resent her fate, which spurs her even harder toward vengeance against Naraku.
Kikyo regrets what she believes was her failing in her duty at least as much as Inuyasha regrets his failing her. The difference is that Inuyasha actually has a chance to redeem himself and move on: not only by atoning for what he did and destroying Naraku, but also by developing into a much better person than the Inuyasha who was so easily deceived and stole the Shikon no Tama.Â
Kikyoâs efforts against Naraku are absolutely redeeming; as much as they lean toward inscrutable and even cruel at times, there is no denying that her actions are all to remove Naraku and the Shikon no Tama from existence, to rectify a situation she believes was born of her own negligence. She even ends up helping the Inu-tachi toward the end of the series, once she realizes that her own strength is not enough (something she struggles with throughout the series) and finally trusts them not to make a mess of things. But thereâs no real reward for Kikyo at the end. She was self-sacrificing in life, and after she is resurrected she continues to be that way. She canât âgainâ anything, because she canât âhaveâ anything. No matter what she does, she canât grow up anymore, because sheâs already dead. And yet, she fights tooth-and-nail to destroy Naraku and the jewel anyway.Â
This is why Kikyoâs final deathâher only real rewardâis such a bittersweet catharsis for her, Inuyasha, and Kagome (who is a lot more perceptive when it comes to this whole issue than people tend to give her credit for). She doesnât have to suffer and fight and agonize anymore, but that that is the best she could hope for is tragic indeed. Anyone who doesnât really struggle with the reality of Inuyasha and Kikyoâs relationship from the beginning to the end of the series out of a petty desire to characterize her as âevilâ is absolutely depriving themself via pure intellectual laziness.
(And why Sunrise murdered Kikyoâs character the way they did will always remain one of the greatest mysteries in anime.)
Vorpalgirl here, as Tekka is currently at work. This post has been really blowing up the past couple weeks, thanks I think to fyeahcontroversialcharacters reblogging it (which, hey, thanks guys!). And weâre both very happy (and a bit relieved) to see that in general, most people got exactly what she was saying: that people forget that the manga series in particular has characters that (no matter what Sunrise tried to do with them) are complex, and a lot of people sell it short.Â
I also really like this commentary here, because it brings up the very good point of how miraculous it is at all that âresurrectedâ KikyĹ is anything other than a flat-out vengeful spirit. After all, both Japanese folklore and the series are full of souls corrupted and watered down to the point of being nothing more than uncaring spirits that pose a threat to others. And when I say Japanese folklore is full of this, I mean it is FULL of this. For instance, the folklore that The Grudge/Ju-On was based on: itâs believed that if a vile enough murder occurs in a home, that it is possible for the vengeful spirit of the victim to lay claim to the life to any who set so much as a foot inside of it, with the only resolution being to burn the place to the ground. Thereâs another gruesome bit of folklore that Tekka and I have been working with for one fic, called the inugami, literally âdog kamiâ or dog spirit, which sounds so innocent until you realize that the way that they are made is by starving and torturing a dog for a week until you kill it, bury its head under a busy road and basically just cause its spirit torment until it becomes a powerful, scary kamiâŚand then, whomever possesses the head hypothetically has control over it and can get it to do its bidding (unless they screw up and it turns on them, of course). Seriously, Japanâs foklore is full of such yĹkai and mononoke: a whole heckuva lot of them result for tortured, unhappy or disrupted spirits, which is probably another reason why Japanese culture places such an emphasis on respecting the kami around you. And thereâs precedent for that in the series, too: remember Miyu, the little girl who died in the fire, and was trying to hurt people in Kagomeâs time? Inuyasha kept telling Kagome not to mess with the ghost, because angry ghosts are srs bsns and nothing to sneeze at, and sheâs just an untrained girl, right? But the girl was just about to be dragged into Hell, and Kagome wouldnât leave her. She showed her love and forgiveness, and just barely manages to rescue her from the end fate of a truly malevolent ghost-child. Inuyasha is incredibly impressed at this, remember, and itâs for damn good reason: normally you just donât mess with that kind of spirit, but she managed to pull it off. Such spiritual tampering as was done to KikyĹ is even worse, though: as pointed out above, this wasnât even just a spirit who had good reason to feel angry and abandoned and spiteful. This was a spirit who was outright ripped apart, with her most positive aspects apparently torn away from her core and shoved into a clay body. That she is single-mindedly fixated on first taking vengeance against Inuyasha and then doing in Naraku no matter the cost in othersâ lives or safety, for quite some time, is unsurprising; that she is later able to act kindly towards others, and even sacrifices her life to save Kohakuâs is actually far more startling. Itâs my headcanon that the ârealâ KikyĹ, the KikyĹ that lived and breathed and served in her village before she ever got entangled with that stupid Jewel, was a very kind and compassionate person; for even her vengeful, partial spirit to be capable, eventually, of such kindness, she had to have been.Â
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This one is my contribution to DUO, my next gallery show, where I got to work with the amazingly talented Sibylline Meynet to create a color palette for the theme ânocturnal.â  We also both chose to paint wolves!  The show opens at Gallery Nucleus on Saturday, February 11th.  Click here for more info and to sign up to see all the pieces early!
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UPDATE: WE GOT IT!!!!
Twitter user Rasuran1 posted these images: https://twitter.com/Rasuran1/status/1566794844927827969
They didnât say what the cartoon is actually called, though, but a few other people in the replies say itâs either âThe Christmas Gift of Lightâ or âThe Soulmates: Gift of Light.â I havenât found any further information about it other than a mention of it in an Edmonton newspaper from 2001 talking about holiday specials.
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WHAT WE KNOW:
-photo was taken in 1992, possibly around Christmas. movie/show could be from before 1992. -likely Western animation but could be UK, Russian, or European. -unknown source, whether itâs a movie, tv show, or commercial. -most likely a Canadian broadcast. ELIMINATED SO FAR, IT IS NOT: -Teen Wolf cartoon -The Littles -Blackstar -The Magicianâs Hat -Dreamstone -Smurfs -Rock and Rule -Ferngully -the Jetsons movie -Keebler elves -Black Cauldron -Flight of Dragons -the Princess and the Goblin -Care Bears Nutcracker Suite -Magic Voyage -Freddie the Frog -Hans and the Silver Skates -Nilus the Sandman -Rainbow Brite and the Star Stealer -Herself the Elf -Elm-chanted Forest -Magic Riddle -Gremlins -Lady Lovely Locks -An American Tail -Felix the Cat -Princess Starla -Star Fairies -Thumbelina -the Town Santa Forgot -the Wish That Changed Christmas -Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
POSSIBLY BUT UNLIKELY DUE TO STYLE DIFFERENCES: -Don Bluth -DiC animation
UPDATES 2022: This is making the rounds again over on Twitter and Youtube! Blameitonjorge did a video:Â https://youtu.be/LaMzU0vVNF8
Someone suggested an episode of Widget the World Watcher, specifically episode 52 from season 2 called âMother Slankâs Intergalactic Vacation Paradiseâ but I havenât been able to find that episode online, only a handful of other ones. UPDATE: I watched this episode and itâs not it, and personally I donât think the Widget art style is a match to the elf guy but we canât rule out itâs not from some other Widget episode.
Another new suggestion is a Canadian chocolate bar commercial that was running around that time, but no actual evidence has surfaced, and itâs possible people are confusing it with Little Hans (below). Interesting theory though.
PLEASE HELP THE SOLVE THE MYSTERY!!!!!!
Iâm going to keep updating this post with new info.
ITâS OVER (KIND OF).
Twitter user Rasuran1 posted these images: https://twitter.com/Rasuran1/status/1566794844927827969
They didnât say what the cartoon is actually called, though, but a few other people in the replies say itâs either âThe Christmas Gift of Lightâ or âThe Soulmates: Gift of Light.â I havenât found any further information about it other than a mention of it in an Edmonton newspaper from 2001 talking about holiday specials.
It would still be nice to get 100% confirmation that this is what the title is, and Iâd love to see the actual cartoon, but seems like this is good enough to call an end to the search.