So I've been kind of AWOL from my LJ for the past couple weeks. Sorry to anyone who just friended me recently, I've just not had anything to post. But here's what I've been up to
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I started much later in the series (before Kikyou comes back, but not much) and could not for the life of me see why it was so popular. Kikyou was actually the first person in the series that was even remotely interesting to me. And I don't even ship her with InuYasha, she's just the only thing that made me even want to watch this series.
The first thing you need to do is decide which period of Japanese history best fits your story. The more recent it is, the more resources there are going to be for it.
If it's based loosely on the Scarlet Letter, you probably want to avoid Heian era (there was no taboo on having children outside of marriage) and go more modern. Edo or Meiji period might be your best bets.
BUT HOW CAN YOU NOT LOVE SESSHY'S NEED OF A BOAT?!
How far along are they? This entire series is filler, so I have no idea where we are in relation to anything, other than the flea guy has just been introduced.
... they are pretty far in, yeah. And the series is terrible filler but I enjoyed it mostly because I like stupid jerks like Ranma and InuYasha getting into stupid pointless fights and being dunces about life. Though I did completely ragequit the anime until the Band of Seven appeared and dropped it again after, HA.
SOB. And Adult Swim restarted the series before it ever reached the end the last time it was playing, so god only knows if I'll ever get that far.
I think most people ragequit that series until it ended, then came back and went "Yeah, not surprised" and wandered back off. The most common sentiment I heard when it ended was "Wow, she didn't die before it was finished?"
I tried so hard to like that series, but good lord, I just ): It was epic boring to me. idk man, idk. Everyone talks too much and screams too much and gets into trouble too much.
That last part especially. I do not understand how braindead Kagome can be at times. You're alone in the past (which doesn't seem to phase her at all) and know there are demons out there eating people, so you... take a walk in the woods? Wha-? And the way the townspeople just immediately fall all over themselves for her is AMAZING. Never mind how she brings things like bicycles and bentos and shit to the past like she's going on a field trip. Abwuh?
Yeah, the lack of common sense honestly makes me want to be all "AUTHOR INSERT" but I actually know people who are that stupid. So. But yeah, how willing people are to help this person who shows up in foreign clothes with weird crap they've never seen before and...
REALITY-WARPING MARY SUE I mean. Did I say that out loud.
I don't think it's Mary Sue so much as... Takahashi's typical writing. But yeah, a lot of crap in the series just makes you stop and go "huh?"
On the plus side, the beginning of the series really seemed to be on a horror bent as opposed to the later part of the series, which was more focused on OMG DEMONIC RATS AND BIRDS AND SHIT. The Un-mother was genuinely pretty freaky, as was the comb lady.
Sorry, it's just... it's not the characters themselves, it's Takehashi's writing. InuYasha suffers from a lot of the same problems Rin-ne does, where the main characters are just kinda... dull. The situations they get themselves into are way more interesting than the characters themselves. To me, at least.
(although I do have a perverse love of reading Bleach/InuYasha cross-over fic for some weird reason)
...huh, no, I was just saying hi. XD I'm not into Inuyasha myself so I'm not TOO bothered. (I do hate when people on TVTropes go all ZOMG KAGOME IS A WANGSTY SUUUUE!! but that's just me hating assy character bashing)
Oh! HI THEN! I was sitting there thinking "I didn't think SJ was into InuYasha...?"
Yeah, character bashing is kind of obnoxious. It's blaming the character for the writer's short-comings. I'm kind of mneh about Takahashi in general, and one of the reasons is her dull characters. It's not just Kagome - it's all of the main characters. Even InuYasha himself is pretty dull to a certain extent.
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And yeah, Takehashi definitely doesn't plan this shit out. The entire series is filler, basically.
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Japan
If it's based loosely on the Scarlet Letter, you probably want to avoid Heian era (there was no taboo on having children outside of marriage) and go more modern. Edo or Meiji period might be your best bets.
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How far along are they? This entire series is filler, so I have no idea where we are in relation to anything, other than the flea guy has just been introduced.
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YOU WILL HAVE TO WAIT A LONG LONG WHILE.
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I think most people ragequit that series until it ended, then came back and went "Yeah, not surprised" and wandered back off. The most common sentiment I heard when it ended was "Wow, she didn't die before it was finished?"
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REALITY-WARPING MARY SUE I mean. Did I say that out loud.
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On the plus side, the beginning of the series really seemed to be on a horror bent as opposed to the later part of the series, which was more focused on OMG DEMONIC RATS AND BIRDS AND SHIT. The Un-mother was genuinely pretty freaky, as was the comb lady.
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(although I do have a perverse love of reading Bleach/InuYasha cross-over fic for some weird reason)
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Yeah, character bashing is kind of obnoxious. It's blaming the character for the writer's short-comings. I'm kind of mneh about Takahashi in general, and one of the reasons is her dull characters. It's not just Kagome - it's all of the main characters. Even InuYasha himself is pretty dull to a certain extent.
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