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A Classic Anime With a Timeless Lesson
‘InuYasha’ has a strange love triangle, but a big message
Last week, I revisited my favorite anime InuYasha. It is a classic anime by Rumiko Takahashi that features feudal era Japan, swords, fighting and of course —
Love.
Feel free to skip to the important message if you want, and key takeaways which drives my point home :)
In the show InuYasha, he is stuck to a tree by the sacred arrow of the priestess Kikyo — whom he was in love with. After fifty years, he is finally freed by that priestess’s reincarnation Kagome.
We learn that InuYasha and Kikyo were bamboozled by Naraku, a very wicked man. He pit InuYasha and Kikyo against each other and that is how Kikyo died and InuYasha ended up on the tree(you have to see the show to get what is happening here).
Fast forward, some witch brings Kikyo back to life using bones and dust and now Kikyo, the priestess that InuYasha was once in love with, walks the earth once more.
Kikyo is treasured even as a clay entity
There are several problems with this:
- Kagome and InuYasha may have feelings for each other now.
- Kikyo is a wandering spirit, needing…
