#anti pedomaru

[kohakuxrin]

Another one based on Inuyasha Downs’ Tweet. Someone had an even funnier idea and I couldn’t resist.

Technically, the anime version of Inuyasha was incomplete, but thankfully the Final Act came out to complete it (although a few arcs were skipped). But then they tried to add more but it resulted being a cheap badly written crap.

[feudalmerengue]

I was too bored last night and decided to torture myself watching yashajime.

and i thought: well i hate yashajime too much but i dont even remember half of the stuff that happened so why not revisit it

oh man ... it is actually that bad

under the cut my review of the first 3 eps

The first ep is good. Its the animated epilogue of Inuyasha, and you can tell that was written by Rumiko.

The character interactions are beautiful. All of them act accordantly to all the grow and maturity they had at the end of the series, its never a step back on the character development and i appreciate it. Miroku never touches someone else's butt, Inuyasha and Kagome dont get into a stupid fight and they actually talk abt their problems, and over all you can tell everyone has grown up to this point.

i haven't read the manga version of the epilogue so idk if this actually happened (bc i wouldnt be surprised if Sunrise decided to include this just for drama) but there's a lot of mentions of Kikyo and she feels like a hunting ghost all throughout the ep and i personally dont like that they still involve her even after all the time that has pasted since her death. yes she was one of the most important characters and we wouldnt have Inuyasha without her but cant she just rest in peace?

so this becomes a small problem between Inuyasha and Kagome. Inuyasha feels uncomfortable w the mention of her and is scared that Kagome will get mad at him for getting Kikyo involved on this, Kagome feels that Inuyasha is hiding stuff from her and just wants him to trust her a little more. and i think its more than normal that the whole Kikyo situation still a little taboo between them but i rlly liked that none of them felt insecure abt their relationship bc of this

And our favorite married couple resolves this TALKING. THEY USE WORDS AND COMMUNICATE AND SOLVE THE PROBLEM. NO YELLING. NO MAKING EACH OTHER FEEL BAD. NO ABUSE OF THE SIT COMMAND (well there is a sit that is just there to check the box but its not even Kagome yelling at him or anything. it feels more like "alright on the script says 'u have to sit Inuyasha at least once in the ep' so lets just get it done")

u can tell that Rumiko cooked in there.

Look at them they were born for each other <3333

And thats it. thats the best yashajime is going to get.

Eps 2 and 3 are just the introduction to the protagonist and introduction to the conflicts??? but its more like a bunch of information they r trying to force down ur throat. the only conflict i actually care abt is wtf happened to their parents

on those two eps they introduce us with 8 different conflicts (yes i counted them) not including all the new characters. IN TWO EPS. I SWEAR TO GOD I DIDNT REMEBER HALF OF THAT AT THE END OF THE EP, I HAD TO GO BACK AND WATCH SOME PARTS AGAIN BC IT WAS TOO MUCH

and i get that this series is going to be way shorter than Inuyasha, therefore they need to introduce everything quicker, but Sunrise that was a little too much.

Honestly i would have preferred that they didnt animate the epilogue if that was going to give them more time to present us the characters.

which leads me to my second point THE FUCKING CHARACTES. there is not a single one of them that i like (not even my baby girl Moroha)

Towa: I have the most problems with her. U are telling me that she is having a hard time in the modern era bc she is a hanyo and she is always getting into fights, fights that she is actively picking on, and she cant use her powers. but those problems (im sorry if this sounds bad) look like nothing to me. She is the one getting in trouble and she decides to get into those fights. its not like Inuyasha where we see him being bullied for doing nothing, just bc he looked and was different. and this is something that also bothers me, i dont see a reason why towa would get bullied theres nothing on her appearance that would indicate she is not human. no ear no nothing different, the white hair will just make her one of the cool kids.

Now her powers, OH MY FUCKING GOD SUNRISE WTF IS WRONG W U

u r telling me that she never had the necessity to actually use her powers and all that she did was jump fences and punch bad guys AND SHE IS ABLE TO CREATE A SWORD OF HER OWN USING HER YOUKAI ENERGY ?!?!?!

yes she is the daughter of the great lord Sesshomaru but NOT EVEN HIM WAS ABLE TO DO THAT UNTIL THE END OF THE SERIES. HE GETS BAKUSAIGA AFTER CENTURIES OF USING HIS POWERS AND TOWA WHO ONLY JUMPED FENCES CAN DO IT. not even Setsuna who has an actual training and does use her powers can do that.

Setsuna: she is just a copy paste of Sesshomaru, she doesnt have her own personality.

Moroha: Sunrise writers asked chat gpt "inuyasha's personality" and they got something like "inmature, impulsive, cocky" and just went w it but up to 100.

Yes Sunrise even though she is covered in red from head to toe i can definitely tell that she is Inuyasha's daughter no need to make her "female Inuyasha". Her entire personality is "more immature and childish Inuyasha", yes Inuyasha was immature and could be childish from time to time BUT NOT LIKE THIS. and not even the argument of " well she is younger and probably Inuyasha was like this when he was her age" can be used bc she is 14 and when Inuyasha was sealed to the tree he was 15. she grew up alone, in the Sengoku period where there was constante wars all the time, and she could even relate to the hanyos AND SHE IS THIS STUPID

Moroha is way better in the fanfics

Mei is insufferable, and u seriously r trying to convince my that Hisui and Kohaku dont know who Moroha and Setsuna r?

the only good things were the music, Kaoru Wada is simply a genius, and the character design which is pretty good.

but thats it. and genuinely tried to not be so harsh on it but its actually as bad as i remember it

also this

what the actual fuck

hate u Sunrise <3

[yashahimewasamistake]

The destruction of Kagome's character has been horrible.

Here, she's commenting about how she finds Pedomaru's relationship with Rin worth of emulation.

Kagome pretty much jumped into a danger zone because Sesshomaru called Inuyasha a mean name, but in the sequel she's Pedomaru's first fan.

Worlds most lukewarm couple

This is just sad. Inuyasha took Kikyo on a romantic boat ride during sunset and proposed to her without any prompting.

Kagome literally has to BEG Inuyasha to show her a shred of romance outside of just 'being by her side' and hugging her on occassion and still won't take off the beads.

This face, It feels like Kagome`s begging for a romantic moment made him remember some romantic moment he shared with Kikyo.

[its-tie-kir-ra]

Me: okay Ty, don't worry about making another Yashahime post, you're a strong independent woman who is very occupied with her Twilight Video and her Structure Video and her Script Challenge Video-

This Person:

This is in response to my video on SessRin from a year ago, that's old, if you want to see it it's here. If people actually care how I feel about SessRin they can look at the two hour video I made on Yashahime right here that goes in depth on how I feel about SessRin and I feel like I express my opinion much better there.

The first video was made about two weeks after it happened, I was still sorting through my feelings on it, barely had a script, and just wanted to vent about what I saw as a terrible injustice to a lovely character who was one of my favourites from the original (Rin, not Sesshomaru, never liked him much). The second video I actually sat down and tried my hardest to make my thoughts more clear about it. I was literally rewriting that part of the video for days on end. It's the reason why the video took so long because I wanted that section in particular to be crystal clear. A few days before it was released I re-recorded a ton of it (if you go back and listen the audio sounds slightly different in parts of the SessRin section). And I think my thoughts came through much better in that video than the first one, not perfect, I'm still not totally in love with it, but enough.

So I'm just gonna post my comment in response to this person because "Shippo is 20 years older than Kagome and this show has always been consistent with historical accuracy in terms of young women being with older men" is the wildest take I've heard thus far in defense of SessRin. Also I'm really tired of people using "it was historically accurate for Sesshomaru to marry Rin, she's an adult in that time period" WHEN THAT IS NOT TRUE.

(I have this rant of why SessRin isn't historically accurate in my S2 script because this rant has been living inside of me for a year and it was a mistake to cut it from my first video because if this history nerd sees one more person using historical accuracy to defend it...just...just.... Screaming.)

This is comment I posted in response:

Kagome is not a romantic partner to Shippo, she is a parent to him (er, dunno why I have to explain this to you, thought it was pretty clear, thanks for the laugh), and even so, he is still mentally and physically presenting as a child, and I don't know of any canon that claims that he is 20 years old. Depending on the canon you ascribe to (in the manga he is literally just 15), Inuyasha is meant to present as 15 years old, and there is not a power imbalance between him and Kagome. A person of the same maturity level meeting an immortal with that maturity level and falling in love is different from a child meeting an immortal and falling in love.

Sesshomaru on the other hand is a presenting 19 year old who is hanging out with an 8 year old and their relationship at least is he has some kind of lordship over her. If 19 year olds don't have power over 8 year olds, the entire industry of babysitting will collapse. My first job was babysitting when I was a kid, are you trying to imply that I didn't have power over the younger kids I was looking after?

Also, she's a kid and he's what's familiar to her? Why would she go anywhere? This is my biggest issue with people claiming that "he tried to leave her behind, she could've left if she wanted to". WHY WOULD SHE LEAVE? He is the only one who has demonstrated a care towards her since her parents died, and she has a ton of trauma from how humans have treated her. It's the equivalent of you dropping me into a foreign country where I don't speak the language, take away my passport and money, and then tell me "You can leave whenever you want". WHERE WOULD SHE GO???? (And it's NOT historically accurate.)

Inuyasha was never a show that seemed to give a shit about historical accuracy, so I'm finding it quite annoying that people are suddenly pretending that it is or defending it using historical accuracy. It's not consistent. Miroku riding a bike after never having seen one before? Sango and her giant boomerang? Kagome being able to understand everyone around her despite how the dialect would've changed massively over 500 years or her not being killed for wearing what she does? These things aren't historically accurate so why the fuck are people defending this using historical accuracy as a shield???? It's never been consistent with historical accuracy EVER. Inuyasha was never like Outlander where it went out of its way to depict a historically accurate world.

And even so; IT IS NOT HISTORICALLY ACCURATE. The girls who were marrying very young were normally noble girls, and even so they wouldn't begin to have children until much later. Their marriages were usually the result of wealth or land or making a treaty or some power grab. NOT PEASANT WOMEN.

It's difficult to know how young peasant women were marrying at, because the nobles had never taken the time to write it down because they were FUCKING NOBLES. But the average age that peasant women were getting married throughout Europe in the 1500s was between 16-22, and I'd wager a bet that throughout the world it was similar. People in history weren't stupid. Like you think they'd be so dumb that they'd see young girls dying in childbirth and not put these pieces together?

I also made it QUITE CLEAR in my video that my issue with SessRin is how it was presented. I don't care about the timeline. It's a goddamned mess. Even if Rin was 100% 18 years old, that's not my problem with it. It's an 88 second scene that is dumped onto us without any warning or explanation, without building up who adult Rin is. We don't know anything about her other than she has a uterus. The vessel of the babies. The kindest interpretation is that it's lazy, however, I fall into the camp that it's another example of a woman being written to be a uterus and nothing more (aka misogyny). If they had built up to the relationship and given time to focus on how their relationship changed, I wouldn't have made this video. Hope that explains it to you.

[chaosandstardust]

Unfortunately I have a genuine question about Towa from HnY.

Why would she be calling Rin "mother"? Setsuna too to be honest.

I've read your posts once before on adopted kids/ppl but I can't remember how you'd feel about this.

Towa had parents, an adoptive mom and dad. Is it "wrong" of her to call the 13 year old she's never known "mother" just because she found out somehow (I don't know how, I don't watch this shit) that Rin birthed her?

And Setsuna... Setsuna was raised in caves? Was a drifter??? Idfk. Every post I see on her character she's acting differently than the last. But it still seems ooc for her to be interested in Rin at all, let alone calling her "mother". She didn't give a shit about Towa for the longest, I assume she similarly didn't care about P*domaru. Why the sudden interest in middle school mommy?

I WROTE OUT THIS ENTIRE POST AND THEN FUCKING TUMBLR JUST DECIDED TO DELETE IT THIS TOOK DAYS AND I’M PRETTY SURE THE ORIGINAL POST WAS MUCH MORE CONCISE I’M SORRY

And I unfortunately have a genuine answer, LOL! 

My overall opinion on this is that I don’t ever feel it’s necessary to police any adopted child’s relationship with their birth parents. There are way too many different situations that would lead to a child being adopted, and way too many varied experiences to narrow them all down. My own experience with adoption is going to be different from others. If Setsuna and Towa want to refer to Rin as mom, I think that’s great for them. 

Before we get into it; I like the Sota-Towa dynamic. I definitely don’t think it’s perfect, but they passed the (very low) bar. They did fine. The only reason I didn’t talk about it in my original video was because I wanted to wait to see what they did with them in season 2. 

I’m about to go on a roll here, because I’ve been thinking about this ever since they brought Inukag back, and it was clear that they were just going to brush over and ignore Moroha’s feelings towards her biological parents and simplify it into “they’re my bio parents, so they’re better”. I could yell about the Inukagmor dynamic too, but for now, let’s stick to Towa, Setsuna and Sessrin (SESSRINTOSET?). 

The issue with how they approach the SessRin-Towa-Setsuna dynamic is that they’re asking me to be emotionally invested in their relationship without ever doing the work to get me there. This is compounded by the fact that Towa and Setsuna had two very different childhoods and if they were well written, would likely have two very different reactions to meeting their birth parents. They come at this from two opposing angles, and it needed to be dealt with in two different ways. Ironically, they address this in the show that they’re very different, but not when it actually matters. 

(WEIRD, DONTCHA THINK? IT’S ALMOST LIKE THIS SHOW LIKES TO PRETEND TO BE DEEP BUT IT’S AS DEEP AS A PUDDLE WHICH HAS ALREADY DRIED UP!)

First off, Towa. 

So, like you said. Towa had someone to take care of her. She had people who stepped into the spot that Sesshomaru and Rin and Setsuna weren’t there to fill. She suffered a terrible loss, but she still had somebody. But, and this is a big but; she is in a space where she is not comfortable. The first episode she’s in talks at length about how uncomfortable she is in the modern world. She doesn’t have any friends, and doesn’t care about school. Her family loves her, but they don’t understand her and on some level want her to hide herself.

While I did criticize how well things go for Towa in the feudal era, my critique wasn’t that she was suddenly comfortable, it was that she never struggled and things just kinda work out for her and she always has to be the most powerful one while also being stupid (GIVING THE PEARL TO RIKU WAS VERY STUPID). Her comfort in the feudal era opens up a very interesting problem; which is that suddenly, she’s choosing between her comfort and a family she loves.

Towa isn’t just picking between two houses or even two cities, she’s picking between two different timelines (if they go with making it easy for them to time travel, they didn’t understand the point of Kagome’s sacrifice in the first place i said what i said). 

In one, she has a family who she loves and who has loved her for a decade, and in the other, she’s finally comfortable and has found people who understand her and she can fully be herself without much issue. She doesn’t have to hide herself at all in the feudal era. She can totally be herself around Moroha and Setsuna, which she can’t really do that around the Higurashis. Moroha and Setsuna get annoyed with her, sure, but it’s never about who she is as a person, it’s more about how she’s occasionally just really naive and they've never had that luxury to be that.  Don’t get me wrong, I have a ton of critiques for Towa’s character and how the three girls operate, but overall, I think that what the show is trying to express is that they finally feel at home with each other (Towa liking being in the feudal era, Moroha expressing never really having friends before, Setsuna not leaving when I don’t think it would be hard for her to do, etc). 

So it makes sense for me that she would latch onto any semblance of a parental figure she could find as a way to replace what she would lose if she stayed in the feudal era, which is Sesshomaru and Rin, and would be excited at the prospect of having parents who finally understand her and let her be herself. But she would also feel guilty, because there’s a sense of betraying her adopted family. The modern era has a family that she loves, but she’s not comfortable. The feudal era has a group of friends that she adores, the potential of a family who understands her, and she finally feels at home in her life. That tips the scales. But this would probably lead onto guilt for her, because it feels like she’s abandoning Sota and his wife, whatever her name is. This is why I loved the Sota goodbye scene, because Towa did feel guilty for wanting to go back, but Sota wanted her to be happy first and foremost and he was willing to let her go without any issue. 

Setsuna, on the other hand, has had the exact opposite experience; she’s never really had to hide herself, she lives freely out in the open (at least as much as she can as a half demon), but she’s lacked the unconditional love and support that Towa got from the Higurashis. She has had relationships with Shiori and Kaede and maybe even Kohaku, but it’s never really implied they’re all that close or that she depends on them all that much. She’s a very independent person. Towa’s unconditional affection and support are completely foreign to her. On top of that, she doesn’t know what she lost because she doesn’t really know what it’s like to have it in the first place. Having Towa and Moroha in her corner is a strange adjustment. 

(god i could’ve loved this little girl gang, i want to love them looking at gifs like this when you can see all their personalities in one image; Moroha goes HIGH FIVE, Towa’s like YEAH, and Setsuna’s going I’M GONNA PRETEND I DON’T LIKE IT)

I have talked about how Setsuna latching onto Rin right away isn’t that bizarre to me. What’s weird is that she doesn’t show any tendency to care that much about her biological family before that happens.  She doesn’t care to know Sesshomaru or be impressed by him all that much. She’s very dismissive of Towa until near the end of season 1. Which shows you really have to prove yourself to be worthy of affection in some form from Setsuna’s end. She warms up to Moroha much faster than she does Towa because Moroha understands the world they live in and she doesn’t have to babysit Moroha the way she does Towa (also, Moroha and Setsuna is a seriously underused dynamic in this show, I’ll say it!). 

This goes to show that for Setsuna, knowing her biological family isn’t much of a priority for her. Which is totally fine, some people don’t care. In the first season, Towa and Sesshomaru are just two people who she happens to share DNA with. What makes Rin so different? 

Convenience. That’s what makes Rin so different. The “Dany kinda forgot about the Iron Fleet” kinda convenience (JUSTICE FOR DANY). It was inconvenient for Setsuna to care about her biological family in the first season, so she didn’t, but now it’s convenient for her, so she’s going to care. It’s that simple. But it’s established in the first season that she needs to have time to warm up to any family figure that she’s suddenly going to have in her life, and her characterization in season one should’ve told us that Rin shouldn’t have been much different. Maybe Rin wouldn’t have had to prove herself as much because of Towa already laying the ground work and like a lot of us she potentially connects having a mother to comfort, but there would likely be a period where Setsuna didn’t want anything to do with her. 

So you’ve got two girls who are probably going to have very different reactions and reasons to want to be around their biological parents. Towa would probably attach on too fast while feeling like she’s betraying her adopted parents but be excited at the fact that her mom and dad finally GET her, Setsuna would take her time because she’s never had that experience of having an adult care before and would chafe at the confines of having parents. All three girls would probably have a much easier time connecting with and bonding with each other than they would their parents, let’s be real. 

This brings us to Sesshomaru and Rin and what role they would have to play individually for their children. Because fixing this family should’ve been at the root of this season if they really wanted to go the “Sessrin with sesshomaru is more of a egotistical jackass than usual on the side” meal plan. 

Now Rin, she’s nothing right now. She’s just kinda... there. I have talked about about how they could’ve fixed so many of the problems with SessRin without changing a single thing from season one if they wanted to, but they didn’t want to fix it so they didn’t. When Rin is let out of the tree, I wish they had shown her and Sesshomaru being actual partners. But I want to push it farther than that. 

Right from the beginning, Rin is not a priority for Towa and Setsuna. The show is primarily about their relationship with each other, and the hierarchy after that goes: Moroha, Sesshomaru. Rin isn’t even on the list. They don’t talk about her at all for the entire first season unless prompted to by someone else, and it’s never with each other (Towa has one conversation with Kaede about Rin, and she doesn’t mention this to Setsuna). When they find out they have a father, they don’t ask “who is our mother?” She is never part of the conversation (not that Sesshomaru is ever really a part of the conversation for them either, but at least they’re aware that he exists). 

But what if she was part of that dynamic from the beginning? What if she was there in the forest with them and they thought they had lost her? What if Towa not only felt guilt for losing Setsuna, but losing Rin as well? What if their problems came from not only their different worldviews but the loss of their mother? 

Imagine if at the end of season one, when Zero dies and Sesshomaru brings her back to life, rather than the fake out of Setsuna dying, they instead have it that Rin comes out of the tree. This means that Sesshomaru would actually have to get Towa’s and Setsuna’s help to deal with Zero ASAP, forcing them to work together. After fixing it near the end of episode 2 of season 2, Rin is reunited with her daughters. After seeing how Sesshomaru has not only hurt her children, but also her brother in law, her sister in law, and their daughter, hasn’t even told Kaede where she is, she doesn’t even want to look at him, much less be his loving, supportive wife (more on that in a second). 

The first half of season 2 is mostly just random filler arcs that really go nowhere. Setsuna, Towa, and Moroha aren’t even together for a good chunk of them; they’re in entirely different filler storylines. That time would’ve been better spent bringing Rin into the picture. An entire arc where they work together to bring Inukag back (who should’ve disappeared at the beginning of the story not 14 years earlier and should’ve been captured by Kirinmaru not trapped by Sesshomaru LIKE COME ON). They could’ve connected and built up a relationship. Like just imagine a bunch of episodes where demon hunter Rin and the girls travel together. That could’ve been so fun! In the show, Setsuna goes through her first human night (and not with Towa, with Hisui, of all people, like, come on) and as I was watching it I couldn’t help but be like “OK, what if Rin and Towa were here, and Rin stayed up with them in solidarity.” That would’ve been a great bonding experience for them, and richen her relationship with her daughters. 

Plus, when Inukag meet Setsuna and Towa, Setsuna apologizes for what her father had done. But if that had been Rin doing that instead, it would’ve given Rin much more depth and given insight into how she feels about all of this. Now it’s just “Sesshomaru knows best, better listen to him”. Like there are so many moments in season 2 where I was like “OK, what if Rin was present for this conversation”. 

Rin has to be two very different things for her individual daughters. For Setsuna, she has to prove herself as someone who can be depended on and let Setsuna work through her abandonment issues. For Towa, she has to give her space to be completely herself and be what Sota/the Higurashis couldn’t be for her. It would also be a chance to let Rin grieve her loss; raising her children. She missed everything. Their first steps, their first words, the chance to show them how to hunt or fight or do anything. She didn’t get to sing them lullabies or tell them stories or help them with their problems. I can’t imagine the pain a mother would go through in that situation. In all honesty, I really do believe that Rin would be such a good mom. She’d be the kind of mom who’d get down with her kids in the dirt and go on adventures with them. Like she’d be such a fun, imaginative mother. 

And the worst part is that while she couldn’t be there for them, she had zero control over it, Sesshomaru also wasn’t there for them. Like not even in a “Sesshomaru is an important lord” way. He literally did not know his daughters. At all. When they heard his name for the first time, they had no idea who he was. While I guess you could argue that sending your kids away to be trained was normal for noble families, EVEN THE MOST CONSERVATIVE NOBLE FAMILIES STILL KNEW EACH OTHER AND WHAT THEY LOOKED LIKE! SESSHOMARU DIDN’T VISIT SETSUNA ONCE IN A DECADE! 

I’ve been pretty forthcoming over the fact that I don’t like Sesshomaru. I used to say I was neutral towards him, but going to watch Yashahime has reminded me of how much I disliked him in the original. And it comes down to this: 

Sesshomaru is not a guy who has really been held accountable for what he has done in the past up until now, not really, and if he ever were to have a partner, it would have to be someone who was willing to tell him when he fucked up. While Sesshomaru is definitely out of character in this series, I don’t actually find all of his actions entirely unbelievable. Like his insistence of doing things by himself and doing what he feels he has to do to protect his loved ones, even at the cost of others. And his egomania. And his terrible communication skills. My god, his terrible communication skills. I could absolutely see Sesshomaru struggling to be in a romantic partnership because of this.

Rin should be angry at him. I am angry for her. I wanted her to throw something at him. And it wasn’t just her who was impacted, it was her daughters. It was Inuyasha and Kagome, who lost their daughter. It was her niece, who had to struggle without her parents to love her unconditionally. It was Kaede and Kohaku, who had no idea of what happened to her. Taking the time to establish that grief and anger away from Sesshomaru, to work on the relationship she had with her daughters outside of Sesshomaru, to struggle through the guilt she feels over all of this happening because she was stupid enough to get cursed, would’ve worked a lot better than just throwing them all together at the end and expecting it to just work because biOloGy. 

There’s a moment in season 2 of Yashahime where Sesshomaru looks like he’s going to die. Rin’s reaction would’ve been a lot more gut wrenching if they had established how angry she was with him. If they had given me even the smallest glimpse into a healthy relationship as a married couple before all of this happened and given me a reason to care about getting those crazy kids back together. If they had shown me what was was lost when Zero put the curse on Rin and what it was that made them fall in love in the first place. Then maybe I would’ve cared. 

Now, Rin has to get her daughters to help her protect him, and that brings them together. Then Sesshomaru is forced to C O M M U N I C A T E with his wife about Kirinmaru. The last part of the season is about Sesshomaru learning about his daughters while taking down Kirinmaru. Them working together. Rather than the random scene we got at the end with him suddenly good with them. The closest thing we get like that in canon is when Sesshomaru distracts Kirinmaru while Moroha, Setsuna, and Towa go inside the pearl. And maybe I’ll make people mad when I say this: 

I really want to see Sesshomaru as a father. And not the way he is now, but as going out of his way to attempt to be a dad. His relationship with Rin could be analysed as a father - daughter relationship (if you want) but in the original text it was so vague that it could be construed in a variety of ways. I’ve always seen it as more older brother - younger sister/unwilling guardian - unwanted charge relationship, less about him being a directly parental figure and more about him just letting her hang out. I don’t believe that he doesn’t have power over her, because regardless, he is still an adult and she is a child, but I don’t see him as her father. Even so, there is a certain distance between him and Rin. 

For Rin, he never had to work at their relationship. She just listened to him without question for the most part. No temper tantrums. No arguing. Nothing of the sort that suggests “parenting”. With Towa and Setsuna, that distance would have to be significantly smaller. To be a father figure to them, he would actually have to work at it. It won’t work like it did with Rin with a child that he decided to be a father to. He would need to reach out to them, because why would they trust him after all of this? You’re asking them to invest in a man who has never done the same for them (which is a common tactic used to dismiss children whose parents have abandoned them when they say they want nothing to do with them; “they’re your father, you should be the bigger person and reach out”). 

Like imagine Sesshomaru actually teaching Setsuna and Towa how to control their powers (at the end of season one they were saying Setsuna had an energy whip and I just wanted ONE SCENE of Sesshomaru telling her she’s using it wrong and she’s like “fuck you, you abandoned me in a forest fire” and Towa going “I’d normally be the peacemaker but she’s right” and Rin just files her nails in the corner). Having him actually have try and establish a relationship with his daughters is what I’m looking for. Being a source of comfort for them and trying to understand them. 

This makes Towa’s decision to stay much harder for her because she suddenly has a place where she can be totally herself and Setsuna starts to learn how to depend on having adults who actually give a crap. 

ANYWAY THE POINT IS: it doesn’t make sense. Don’t even try. It’s pointless. Could’ve been a really interesting look into adoption and knitting back together a broken family, instead it’s an oversimplified “they’re my biological family so they’re better”. All of the emotional baggage is put onto Rion and Kirinmaru, which is an extremely basic “I love you but I can’t support you” storyline, rather than where it belongs, which is on Towa, Setsuna, Rin, and Sesshomaru. My conclusion is this: it’s not “wrong” for Towa and Setsuna to call Sesshomaru and Rin mother and father. It’s just badly developed. 

Like they haven’t even had the “what do I call you” conversation yet, which is probably the closest thing to a universal experience that adopted children have where you have to ask your biological parents or the people who have just decided to let you into their family “hey, what do i call you”. 

I normally wouldn’t make a pages long analysis on “this is what they should’ve done” but this series is so boring and not deep in the least that it’s very hard to not come up with “what if” scenarios because of I was dumb enough to make that first video and HERE I AM. I’M WELL AWARE THAT I’M PUTTING WAY MORE THOUGHT INTO THIS THAN SUNRISE EVER EVEN HAD THE CHANCE TO. 

(I am trapped. Send help.)

[kohakuxrin]

Based on a tweet by Inuyasha Downs, I thought a dog below makes it funnier.

[dogs-over-people]

“Sesshomaru isn’t capable of grooming” yes this why we say yashamine sesshomaru is the one grooming because rumiko never meant for this relationship to happen in inuyasha. I know many sinners don’t have the basic reading comprehension but it’s not that hard to read antis post on why yashamine sesshomaru would be a pedo and a groomer.

Exactly. Canon Sesshomaru would never. Pedomaru is an imposter.

But because Sunrise is marketing Yashahime as a sequel, a continuation of Inuyasha where they continue to use merch of kid Rin from Inuyasha on Yashahime platforms, where the timeline they specially created for Yashahime puts Rin at 14 when she got pregnant and 15 when she gave birth, when Takahashi and the interviews confirm Rin spent a large amount of time traveling with Sesshomaru and that Sesshomaru continued to be a presence in her life despite leaving her at Kaede’s village... That’s the conclusion that is drawn especially if you watch episode 15 of Yashahime, see how young Rin looks and how she still doesn’t question Sesshomaru as he yoinks her newborns from her side.

Pedomaru is a monster.

[kikotsukino]

Someone on twitter says, “It is not okay to fall in love with Sesshoumaru (as a 8 year old) because Sesshoumaru is her saviour...  DUDE! Seriously?! Why can’t Rin fall in love with Sesshoumaru, and be together with him when she grows up?! It’s not like she fell in love with a rapist. 

Those Anti’s who make those claims in those tags is really something. I am just going to sit back and laugh, because it’s just hilariously stupid at this point. They say whatever stupid thing to bring down Sessrin. 

I can’t believe someone say, Rin can’t fall in love with Sesshoumaru because he save her life when she was young, OMG LOLLLLLLL.

Honestly, at this point, it is really embarassing to read their comments LOL

[clarione90]

"Rin isn't a child! She's just malnourished and stunted so her body is small!!"

Imagine having a daiyoukai 'husband' who frequently gifted you with precious clothing but can't afford to give you nutrition your pregnant young body badly needs.

So according to shippers, not only is pedomaru bang her as soon as she had her first period, he's also a neglectful husband (that's canon anyway).

And they have the gals to said that they won.

[yashahimewasamistake]

Don't forget he also isolated her from the world so she could remain beautiful.

Boruto has received some very mixed reviews and the manga is like, actively creepy about young girls

but

in my book it’s still not as bad as Sesshomaru fucking his 18 year old adopted daughter to create the protagonists of YashaHime 

[suirenliu]

I don't think Richard Ian Cox and David Kaye will do HnY if must-not-be-named ship is canon. Or it's just me?

[itsemsie]

Look at What CBR wrote about Seshr*n

For the record, this was on there "Top 10 anime couples that dissapointed fans."

[thequestioning-maiden]

Exactly, and I want to add that this scene is horrible in every possible way. They are literally making it clear how terribly toxic and abusive the sessrin relationship is:

1.- Here Inuyasha and Kagome have to take care of Towa, Setsuna and also... Rin, cause the 3 are still kids. Awful.

2- Rin acts and still speaks in the third person cause she's clearly still a child but the ones who made this and those who supported It, love that: after all they've shipped child Rin with Sesshomaru since forever 🤢

3.- Pedomaru being the shitty father that doesn't think taking care of his daughters and wife is "a good reason" to be with his family. The absent father we all knew he would be in this narrative.

4.- Rin defending him and saying that changing his daughters' diapers is not something he would do. Bru, this is disgusting.

Just when I thought this what if couldn't sink any lower, they outdo themselves.

Inukag being amazing parents as always iktr~✨and something about inuyasha calling out how horrible of a father sesshomaru is just feels GREAT..😂

Meanwhile with rib 🤡 :

Rlly....girly...??

[thequestioning-maiden]

I hate Pedomaru so much...

[drosselmeyerwrites]

Dear Yashahime,

Don't let the door hit you in the ass on the way out.

Sincerely, OG Inuyasha Fans

[its-tie-kir-ra]

This will probably be my last Yashahime post before my video but I need to get this off my chest.

When I saw that Rin was out of the tree (I expected her to be let out much later) I thought to myself "hmm, this is interesting, this is a good opportunity to flesh out her character and her and Sesshomaru's relationship. A good way to respond to the critique this pairing has gotten." Like I wasn't convinced it would go that way, but I was interested to see if they were.

Then he just walked away telling Jaken to watch her and I'm sorry but how did they think that mimicking their dynamic from the sequel wouldn't make people's skin crawl? I'm not even shocked they did this, I'm more taken aback at how they just continually, again and again, throw away opportunities to do something actually interesting.

I was just YELLING at the screen; NO, YOU FOOLS! THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THEM NEEDS TO FEEL DIFFERENT! THE DYNAMIC NEEDS TO FEEL DIFFERENT! STOP REMINDING ME THAT THEY KNEW EACH OTHER WHEN SHE WAS A CHILD! WHAT ARE YOU DOING?

Did they think that writing that scene that way would make us go "oh, how nostalgic"? Look, awe, their dynamic is exactly so the same, so cute, uwu. It doesn't feel different. IT NEEDS TO FEEL DIFFERENT. THEY'RE HUSBAND AND WIFE! The most charitable reading of that scene is that they're too lazy to come up with anything else.

I choose to think that Rin is a woman(?), therefore she's not important enough to actually flesh out as opposed to all the super duper ImpOrTAnt men in this series.

Not only that but you know, YOU KNOW, that they let Rin out of the tree without considering the cool stuff that they could've done with that, how much she's changed, the skills she acquired from living with Kaede, Kagome, Inuyasha, Sango, Miroku, etc; they just did it for ratings (like the Inukag reunion). Hereby proving that Rin is nothing more than the closest uterus they had. They don't care about the wonderful opportunity they had on their hands with her from the very start to write a fleshed out, cool big sister character. Nope, she's just a uterus.

The absolute misogyny that is spilling out of this "girl power" show oh my god.

I'm very frustrated, lol.