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I made a lil window sitter for MaCoPiX!

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The situation if you're mad at your boyfriend

[mag-loopy]

He did the thing

He got osuwari’d

[anjistuff]

My Sesshoumaru Figure Collection 2024 🤍💜

I love the manga colours so much! Purple and white looks so much better than the anime colours of red, blue and yellow~

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[nanisespin]

W.I.P ¡Cierren los ojos niños! Jajajajaja apoco esta escena está muy divertida? Todo el estilo de Rumiko sensei reflejada en un instante. #inuyasha #kagome #osuwari #inukag #dibujodigital https://www.instagram.com/p/CjI_8oluirU/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

[inuyashaographer]

Answerbox #130

I’ll preface this post by saying I don’t really like talking about Yashahime. It brings out a lot of negativity in me which comes across in the post. I do acknolwedge that, as well as acknowledge it’s not a subject I can escape really, people are going to ask and I’m going to be happy enough to answer them.

Q: What’s your opinion of the command being used in Yashahime?

A: I hate it.

Those that follow me know I'm a proponent of the commands use in the original series, well in the manga... those that also follow me will know how much I dislike Sunrise's bastardization of the command.

Takahashi used the command in the manga as a means to guide Inuyasha away from the bad habits he'd picked up during life on his own. His impulsive nature that often leads to the destruction of other's property, saying something insensitive, or just being dishonest with Kagome.

The idea always was that Kagome uses the command to prevent Inuyasha from defaulting to what he knows, pushing people away. Destroying people's property, even if meaning well pushes people away from him, causes people to distrust him. The way he talks is off-putting to many who wouldn't want to associate with him, or might not trust him because of it.

Inuyasha acts like a bandit, Kagome wants people to view him as the hero that she knows that he is.

The moments when he lies to Kagome (which admittedly are few and far between, but are generally well meaning), go right back to him pushing people away. Takahashi makes it clear his intentions aren't malicious, he does however default back to what he knows and has learned, that bad habit of not letting people in.

Now the counter argument I've always heard to the command is, why doesn't Kagome simply talk to him about these things? Kagome is so good at communicating with him, why does she need the beads at all?

To which I respond, Kagome is a great communicator, and very often can get through to Inuyasha... Inuyasha however is stubborn, likes to win, and for the better part of the series, doesn't like to admit to any fault. Multiple fights only come to an end because of Kagome, because Kagome isn't out to actually win arguments but to make a point, when Inuyasha seems to get that point, Kagome then makes the move to reconcile. Inuyasha rarely if ever truly relents, unless he realizes how badly he messed up.

The beauty of the command itself, in the manga, is it's not destructive. It's very easy for something like this to completely alter someone’s personality, change them into a totally different person, painted by the brush of the person that has control of the command itself. That isn't the case at all here. Kagome likes Inuyasha the way he is, but he needs to work on his social interaction with others, Kagome wants people to see the person she sees when they’re alone.

The Inuyasha we see at the end of the series is still the cocky and brash person that he ever was, in battle he still flings out insults, he still carries himself with that same confidence that he always does, he's the exact same person.It's just now, he's isn't trying to push people away, he's not as impulsive, he's put thought into others around him, he's secure in his power, he knows what he is capable of, and no longer uses fear and intimidation. 

The command disappears at the end of the series, it's purpose finished and by the end of the series it's completely forgotten about.

*Sigh* And then there is Yashahime.

The main theme of the original anime when it came to the command... was regression.

In order often to get the command used, it required Inuyasha to do things he'd not done since the beginning of the series, or that were completely out-of-character for him.

That theme continues with Yashahime. From Inuyasha stupidly swinging his sword around like an amatuer swordsman, to Kagome misconstrueding Inuyasha's attempt to console Sesshomaru's daughters.

Both require the characters not to have grown a bit over the course of their time together, Inuyasha regressed back to being a reckless idiot, and Kagome went from refusing to use the command when Sango called for it, because she knew Inuyasha so well in that the need for it wasn't justified, to totally misreading Inuyasha's intentions at the time.

At it’s core, the command in the original is timeless and essential to the development of Kagome and Inuyasha.

The command in Yashahime, is nostalgia for nostalgia's sake, lazy, it's there as a detriment rather than development, it's outdated and being sold well past it's expiration date, it comes at the detriment of the characters we know and love.

[sangoaome00]

Moroha OSUWARI!!!!!!!!