Hiii! Where do you read the manga online? Some of the translations you post look different than the ones I find online.
Example- I forget which chapter exactly but when Kagome was trying to dress Inuyasha’s wounds after their fight with Yura- Kagome’s like “Take your clothes off!” And Inuyasha was like “Beg me to!”
The manga I’m reading has Inuyasha calling Kagome a bitch every other sentence. There has to be a better way to enjoy this story 🥲
Hi! I've talked about this before but there is 2 different translations of the Inuyasha manga that you can find online. I have a lot of things to say about the different translations so I will use your ask to ramble a bit ^^
So basically when the Inuyasha manga was first released in Japan, fans would get the raw scans in Japanese, translate them and upload them online. This is the "fan translation". I know the first half of the manga was translated by one person (but I don't remember their name), and the second half by @inu-fanon / @fast-moon aka Patches.
The manga was also officially translated and published in North America by Viz Media. If you find physical volumes of Inuyasha in English this is the translation you'll find. Viz also recently released digital versions of their "VIZBIG" (3-in-1) volumes of Inuyasha, so that's why we now have high-quality scans of the Inuyasha manga.
The scans you're reading where Inuyasha calls Kagome a "bitch" is the fan translation, and the scans I've been reblogging recently (mainly posted by @mustardyellowsunshine), is the Viz translation. You can easily tell which translation you're reading based on the font of the text: The fan translation usually uses either Comic Sans or Manga Temple while the Viz translation uses Whizbang (just google the name of the font and you'll see). Also the onomatopoeia (sound effects) are translated to English in the Viz version, but usually they're not in the fan version.
The thing with Inuyasha calling Kagome a "bitch" is that the word he uses in Japanese is pretty hard to translate. When he's angry at her, he uses the word てめぇ [temee] which is a rude way of saying "You".
He uses that word in the Japanese dub of the anime too by the way, so it's not something that the anime "toned down". It's just that the translation varies a lot. The fan translations usually opt for "You bitch" or "You bastard" while Viz and the English subs and dub usually go for "Why you", "Damn you" or they change the sentence completely to make it clear that Inuyasha is angry at Kagome.
Here's a few examples so you can see what I'm talking about. From chapter 6 / episode 3:
Chapter 411 / TFA episode 1:
Chapter 520 / TFA episode 18:
If it really bothers you then I would suggest reading the Viz translation! The only problem with the Viz translation is that they don't always translate the text "literally". Quite a few times I read something in the Viz volumes and went "uh??" so I asked my friend who has the Japanese volumes of the manga what the original text says, and every time the fan translation was correct but not the Viz one.
I can give you a few examples on top of my head where the Viz translation was either really amusing or frustrating and it turned out to be the Viz translator doing whatever they want....
This one had me going "Have to tell her WHAT???" until I learned he was really just saying "Kagome..." :')
"Too long" is funny because it makes them sound like an old married couple, but it's also kind of mean? He only says "Quite a while" in the original text.
Sango says "Sesshomaru should be sneezing" because there's a superstition in Japan that says sneezing means someone is talking behind your back. Viz changed it because non-Japanese audiences probably wouldn't get the joke.
I was laughing so hard at the Viz translation here because Kagome getting called out for "behaving as if Inuyasha annoys her while dreaming of having him all to herself" was just so funny to me but it turns out the actual dialogue is completely different and not amusing at all lmao.
Oh and Sesshomaru speaks French at one point in the Viz translation, but I can't remember which chapter it's from:
There's only one instance where I've been told the Viz translation is more accurate than the fan one, and it's in chapter 465:
Apparently it's hard to tell who the subject is in Japanese sentences so there was some confusion here. But the Viz translation makes more sense and the English dub of the anime also has Inuyasha saying that line.
Anyway there's a lot more examples but I'm sure you get the idea.
So the unfortunate answer is that there is no perfect way to read the Inuyasha manga! The Viz scans are a lot nicer in terms of quality but the text can be quite different from the original, while the fan translation has a lot of swearing and the scans are low-quality but you get a more accurate translation of what the characters are saying in the original text. Someday someone should take the Viz scans and fix all the mistranslations and reupload them somewhere but that would be a looot of work.
Here's where you can read each version online:
Fan translation: Manganelo
Viz translation: Mangapill
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