Greetings, Splendid Seven devotees, martial arts aficionados, and fighting video game fans. Antoni here with another written entry focusing on Sesshoumaru, Shuran, Inuyasha, Hakkaku, Ginta, Ayame, and Shunran specializing in the martial arts they do. As per tradition, I shall be talking about the number one main martial art each of these seven Yokai warriors specialize in the most based on their skills and personalities as well as what moves opponents need to look out for. This is also based on the surveys I have been conducting to see what my watchers and people who answered them thought were the most appropriate but also the most brutal in terms of inflicting as much damage to their opponents. So, let’s gear up and step into battle with the Splendid Seven’s main signature martial arts. Sesshoumaru: Mixed Martial Arts The Octagon is always welcome to have Sesshoumaru in to give every opponent who dares to challenge him in one bloodily brutal beatdown. Being the honorable martial artist he is, Sesshoumaru neither seeks fame nor fortune from the public, the critics, and/or promoters such as UFC and Pride. He demonstrates disciplined dedication by never having an ego and training his body, mind, and spirit to prevail against stronger opponents. His uppercuts, liver punches, ground-and-pounds, sprawl-and-brawls, double-leg takedowns, armbars, and Kimuras are guaranteed to make his opponents bleed like oceans and writhe in pain. Shuran: Professional Wrestling Anybody who has access to a television or enough money to purchase tickets to a Pro Wrestling match whether it is WWE and/or TNA in the USA or Lucha Libre in Mexico would raise their voice in excited jubilation when Shuran enters the ring in his large-and-in-charge bravado and glory. He emits the showmanship and the fighting spirit necessary to make Pro Wrestling a sight to behold and not a joke. The moves his opponents need to be wary of are his piledrivers, bearhugs, sharpshooters, torture racks, full Nelsons, German suplexes, and suplex power slams, which are known to crush bones and tear ligaments to tiny shreds. Inuyasha: Pankration Zeus, Ares, Heracles, and Theseus have blessed Inuyasha with magnificent muscles, super strength, ferocious fists, and radical wrestling moves when he steps into the arena to give the spectators a great battle against opponents while his oiled, muscular body gleans in the sunlight. Therefore, he gives glory to the Olympian gods for the battles he has with more powerful opponents. Inuyasha loves devastating his opponents with his Superman punches, jabs, double axe handles, hooks, hammer fists, tracheal grip chokes, and rear naked chokes because he can smash joints, tear ligaments, and deliver fatally bloody blows to their bodies. Hakkaku: Muay Boran The kings of Thailand would never stop singing their praises to Hakkaku because he is velocity, high energy, persistence, and strength personified. Hakkaku demonstrates that strength alone does not make a great fighter, but combining strength, speed, and timing can make a truly complete fighter. There is nothing that can bring him down even when the opponents he faces are much stronger and tougher than him. Hakkaku can overcome his opponents with his elbow slashes, elbow strikes, spinning elbow strikes, upward headbutts, overhand punches, flying knee strikes, and knee bombs to make them bloodied and bruised. Ginta: Lethwei Crowds of Burmese royals would be more than elated to cheer Ginta on when he steps up to do battle with more powerful and speedy opponents because he maintains a positive attitude and incorporates perseverance in every move he makes. Ginta may have a charmingly lovable face with adorable dimples, but he is not to be underestimated because he can unleash quick and powerful attacks that can make his opponents bloodied and bruised to numbness and pain. He accomplishes this with his thrusting headbutts, side headbutts, spinning backfists, cross punches, flying elbow strikes, jumping knee strikes, and push kicks. Ayame: Taekwondo Quick as lightning, strong as titanium, fierce as a lioness, and agile as a gazelle are what perfectly describes Ayame as a combatant whose strikes can make opponents bigger and stronger than her fall like trees being cut down by lumberjacks. She is a clear example of a beauty who fights like a beast thanks to her speed, strength, balance, and timing. Laying a hand on Ayame would be a terrible idea because she possesses excruciating strikes to bring her opponents down. Her strikes include reverse punches, knife-hand strikes, ridge-hand strikes, spear-hand strikes, roundhouse kicks, spinning back kicks, and spinning axe kicks. Shunran: Shaolin Kung Fu There has never been an instant where grace and might could not merge together, for Shunran is a combatant who can do just that and more thanks to her cleverness, craftiness, and conscientiousness of the human anatomy in terms of pressure points. She leaves no opponents unturned, as they end up walking into her trap and become prisoners to her vicious strikes. Shunran’s moves can be best described as soaring like a crane, trapping like a praying mantis, and slashing like a tiger. Her specific attacks include her leopard blows, finger strikes, palm strikes, nerve strikes, tornado kicks, double flying kicks, and split kicks. I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and train hard and well, everybody.
Antoni Garcia
Greetings, Splendid Seven devotees, martial arts aficionados, and fighting video game fans. Antoni here with another written entry focusing on Sesshoumaru, Shuran, Inuyasha, Hakkaku, Ginta, Ayame, and Shunran specializing in the martial arts they do. With all the martial arts I can see these seven powerful Yokai warriors specialize in, this lineup consisting of the seven updated martial arts that I have for them would, what I believe, define them the most in terms of their personalities, combat abilities, fighting prowess, and overall skills. So, let us not waste any more time and get cracking. Sesshoumaru: The Bengal Tiger of Ultimate Fighting Championship With a strong background in Karate, Kenpo, Jujitsu, and Judo, it should be no surprise that the martial arts have always been a staple in Sesshoumaru’s life from infancy to adulthood, especially considering that his martial arts roots are firmly rooted in his native Japan. He may be proud of his Japanese roots from Karate to Judo in every UFC cage match, but he also embraces martial arts from Brazil and Hawaii because of how superbly he can use his chokeholds, armbars, liver punches, ground and pounds, leg wheels, uppercuts, and leglocks, thus making his opponents bleed profusely and cower in fear for their lives. Mixed Martial Arts Shootfighting Pancrase Luta Livre Brazilian Jujitsu Kajukenbo Kickboxing Shuran: The Tyrannosaurus Rex of the World Wrestling Federation Shuran is the definition of going global when it comes to wrestling thanks to how he combines the brutality of combat with the bravado of showmanship. Aside from the influences he has acquired from the American and British styles of Professional Wrestling, he has also acquired styles and moves from Mexico, India, Mongolia, Korea, Turkey, and his native Japan. Wrestling promoters from the WWE to TNA may be won over by Shuran’s massive size, but he backs it up with his pulverizing moves such as bearhugs, piledrivers, sharpshooters, torture racks, full Nelsons, German suplexes, and suplex power slams. Professional Wrestling Hardcore Wrestling Lucha Libre Pehlwani Malla-yuddha Mongolian Wrestling Turkish Oil Wrestling Inuyasha: The Nemean Lion of Mount Olympus Super strength, grueling grappling, powerful punches, and magnificent muscles are what define Inuyasha as one of the most formidable Pankratiasts in Japan and in the world. Just like his older brother Sesshoumaru, he also had a background in Karate, Kenpo, Judo, and Jujitsu ever since he was a child. Nevertheless, he also incorporates various martial arts from Greece, Russia, Hawaii, and Brazil to show that he is open to every fighting style. Thanks to his openness, he can overcome his opponents with his blood-inducing double axe handles, tracheal grip chokes, Superman punches, jabs, hooks, rear naked chokes, and hammer fists. Pankration Combat Sambo Vale Tudo Kapu Kuialua Shooto Shoot Boxing Shoot Wrestling Hakkaku: The King Cobra of the Siamese Kingdoms Every king of Thailand would give honor and laudability to Hakkaku for his vicious clinches and sterling endurance when facing the strongest opponents. If there is a reason why the Thai people salute Hakkaku, it is because he never surrenders and always stays true to his word of maintaining high energy in every match that he finds himself in. This high energy is what also propels him to gain power and speed as well as makes him just as adept in Filipino fighting styles. Furthermore, opponents would fear his elbow slashes, elbow strikes, spinning elbow strikes, upward headbutts, overhand punches, flying knee strikes, and knee bombs. Muay Boran Muay Lerdrit Muay Chaiya Muay Thai Panantukan Yaw-Yan Buno Ginta: The Coral Snake of the Burmese Palaces Crowning laurels to Ginta is truly a sign of honor and reverence which he truly deserves because how his charisma and charm are just as infectious as his discipline to his craft as a martial artist. All of the Burmese royalty would have the pleasure of saluting Ginta not only because of his fearlessness in battle but also his unwavering resolve. He is also adept in Cambodian martial arts, thus mastering the ways he can attack hi opponents. Therefore, his opponents will never have enough of his thrusting headbutts, side headbutts, spinning backfists, cross punches, flying elbow strikes, jumping knee strikes, and push kicks. Lethwei Bando Naban Pongyi Thaing Bokator Pradal Serey Baok Cham Bab Ayame: The Red Eagle of the Kukkiwon Speed, power, balance, and timing are the hallmarks of what makes Ayame a formidably fierce fighter who never backs down from any and every battle. Her fighting styles are deeply rooted in both North Korea and South Korea in terms of powerful military precision combined with speedy agility. Politicians and opponents may find her fighting prowess impressive, but she is no loser pawn because she has a mind of her own to match her physical strength. In fact, they are even terrified of her reverse punches, knife-hand strikes, palm heel strikes, roundhouse kicks, spinning back kicks, spinning axe kicks, and ridge-hand strikes. Taekwondo Hapkido Yongmudo Kuk Sool Won Tang Soo Do Hwa Rang Do Taekkyeon Shunran: The Pink Crane of the Shaolin Temple Shunran is velocity, grace, deadliness, and accuracy personified because of how she never relents when pulling her attacks with finesse and exuberance. Coupled with her physical prowess is her mental endurance, as she is a maven in Chinese martial arts. Emperors and empresses would always pleasure themselves with seeing Shunran in action because of how she brings power to her moves. The Shaolin monks would find her to be a clever fighter because of how she uses her mind well. Opponents can never escape from her leopard blows, finger strikes, palm strikes, nerve strikes, tornado kicks, double flying kicks, and split kicks. Shaolin Kung Fu Northern Praying Mantis Kung Fu White Crane Style Kung Fu Monkey Kung Fu Baguazhang Wushu Bajuquan I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and train well, everybody.
I ring in 2023 and Three Kings’ Day back at the opera with two singers known for their ambitious repertoires singing the iconic main couple from one of Puccini’s most popular operas of all time. Enjoy my review.
What an exciting way to celebrate New Year’s Eve and commence 2023. With an exciting firework show.
Happy New Year, everybody. Antoni here. As per tradition, I shall be featuring the single pieces of work that I have done throughout this year according to the respective months they were done in. While I was branching out to more ambitious goals as an artist mainly specializing in my Inuyasha AU headcanon known as The Splendid Seven as well as getting myself into more art contests, I was also dealing with a whole bunch of obligations that I needed to fulfill from my university in terms of my last tenure as a Bachelor’s in English and Musicology student, my up and down tenure with my Bachelor’s Thesis to finally obtain my Bachelor’s Degree and my ongoing tenure as a Master’s in American Studies student. Some months saw more significant growth in my hand-drawn content on DeviantArt, while other months saw me increasing more in the amount of written content, requests done by fellow artists, and surveys for the sake of audience feedback but decreasing in hand-drawn content. Nevertheless, I still considered 2022 to be an exciting year to continue challenging myself as an artist and a content creator, and I will make 2023 an exciting year for taking more action to grow my content further as well as continue to challenge myself more often. I do not regret the journey I have had thus far, and I want to continue reaching more ambitious heights. Let us begin this trip down memory lane. January: Barnyard Line Dancing from the Abyss This marked the second to the last contest entry I made for BeardedLuckDragon’s :iconBeardedLuckDragon: and Aryaveandyou’s :iconAryaveandyou: All-American Spider Ho-Down contest. As fortune would have it, I was the only one daring enough to submit something because other fellow artists felt uncomfortable with submitting something involving spiders and dark elements. The prompt for this art contest was to have a devil playing the fiddle, a werewolf spider playing the drums, a spider playing the harmonica, a spider the piccolo, a spider playing the trumpet, one Central American in a cowboy hat and cowboy boots, one South American in a straw hat and blue jeans, and one North American in a plaid dress dancing with a bale of hay behind them, and taking place in a barn. Thanks to these ideas surging in my head, the human characters known as Alberto Horacio Julio González from Guatemala, Guatemala-born but Argentina-raised Alfonso Herberto Jaime González, and Consuelo Gloria Margarita Rodriguez y González from Monterrey, Mexico were born as well as my design for Mephistopheles, Belial the Werewolf Spider, and the Three Black Widow Spiders (Alecto, Arachne, and Aglaopheme). It was fun conjuring a story for the three hapless heroes falling under Mephistopheles’s and his spiders’ spell because there is some amusement in making a dire situation all the more exciting. I am also just as happy to keep them in my gallery as my OCs that I would love to share with my fellow artists. February: Romancing in Paradise Island Ah, after over four years of being on DeviantArt and spending my tween to early teen years of being a RobRae and Zutara partisan, I was free! It was time to draw two of my most beloved OTPs having a moment together! All joking aside, I have been wanting to draw Robin x Raven and Zuko x Katara fan art for the longest time because these were the couples that I held most dearly to my heart during my formative years. I always appreciated their moments together when they were placed center stage in their respective shows and respective networks because both couples had a lot in common despite both of them not being endgame pairings and even despite their differences. They were also the most nuanced pairings that had a lot going for them instead of what was seen in canon, but those are going to be discourses for another time. Nevertheless, fanfiction, fanart, and fan-works exist for a reason. I figured that a beach setting for RobRae and Zutara may be overdone because it is usually one of the most romantic spots for couples to engage in the usual sun and surf with some intimacy thrown in the mix. It was also my way of stating that, yes, I did grow up with films such as I Know What You Did Last Summer, plays such as William Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream and literary works such as Oscar Wilde’s The Importance of Being Earnest which have two couples coexisting in the main story. Furthermore, this was also one piece of work that I turned in for BeardedLuckDragon’s and Aryaveandyou’s Summer 2022 contest, which was the last contest they hosted. The contest was supposed to last until August 2022. However, BeardedLuckDragon cut it short because he had other real-life priorities to deal with, and I respect his decision. At least the best thing about this piece of RobRae and Zutara fan art was that I drew them having a double date at the beach and that I might potentially do a lot more with RobRae and Zutara going out on double dates. March: Princess Alexandra Sofiya Mikhailova This was done for yumikurata’s OC contest. I do not always like to get overly political or overly sociological on DeviantArt, but, with the continuous contention involving Ukraine’s oppression under Russia and the world suffering because of Vladimir Putin, it was appropriate to create an original character who symbolizes solidarity and fortitude not only for the people of Ukraine but also for the world. Step forward Princess Alexandra Sofiya Mikhailova who is a Renaissance woman always there for her people in dire times and in joyful times. Princess Alexandra is a beacon of hope and strength for her people in terms of using her medical knowledge to heal their wounds, help out soldiers in preparing for oncoming invasions, and never surrendering to anybody who dares to make her beloved Ukraine fall under the enemies’ clutches. Political duties aside, she is also an accomplished opera singer…
This screenshot demotivational poster is highly, utterly, totally, and absolutely Anti-Miroku, Anti-Sango, Anti-Kagome, and Anti-Shippou. Sit back, relax, and revel in my ire against Daddy Dunderhead, Mommy Dunderhead, Auntie Dunderhead, and Baby Dunderhead. The complete Dunderhead family’s inconsideration, self-centeredness, hypocrisy, deceit, lies, slander, and sheer lousiness know no bounds. Despite what fans of these characters proclaim, I do not care what they think. If you know me well, I only speak the truth, and I refuse to sugarcoat anything revolving around these four losers. Yes, Inuyasha may have had his moments with Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippou, but they have been lying to his face, maltreating him, using him as if though he were their lackey, and perceiving him as if though he were nothing more than their wild card. Watching Inuyasha more critically and from his point of view made me appreciate him a lot more as a person and made me hate Miroku’s, Sango’s, Kagome’s, and Shippou’s guts a lot more. Their brand of narcissism is on full display in Episode 100 when they just chose to snicker at Inuyasha after he rescued them from Garamaru’s poisonous cocoons, and it made me realize that they are nothing more than soulless sociopaths with no compassion and no consideration of Inuyasha’s loneliness. Therefore, these four floozies are pathetic losers. Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippou are a true masterclass in narcissism, sociopathy, manipulation, deceit, psychopathy, nastiness, and absolute whorishness. I would never label them as Inuyasha’s companions. They were more like glorified skanks, whores, floozies, and obsessive sluts who milk Inuyasha’s strength, power, loyalty, and inwardly desperate need for companionship to feel better about themselves but not understand the pain that he has been enduring for years due to being ostracized by both demons and humans. All these four losers saw in Inuyasha after over 100 episodes is their bloodhound lackey without any personal agency and who is bound to them by some arbitrary rubbish caused by those accursed Beads of Subjugation that Kagome abused over and over again. Speaking of Kagome, she is simply horrible for abusing Inuyasha and for enabling Miroku, Sango, and Shippou to crawl at her feet. Cue the idiotic, stupid, butthurt Kagome defenders and fantards crying and whining that I am misogynistic without providing any proof or popping something out of their buttholes. How sad and savage. I argue that these four losers massively fail at fending for themselves. Whether it is Miroku relying on his Wind Tunnel, Sango having limited choices in attacks, Kagome only using her sacred bow and arrow only on dire occasions and not training herself with her weapons, and Shippou’s tricks being haphazard at worst and mediocre at best, having these four idiots try to fight deadly monsters and demons without Inuyasha’s help should have challenged them with everything they have. Yes, Sango is the strongest physically, but she is mentally weak and just as much of a loser as Miroku, Kagome, and Shippou are because she is easily manipulated. If they had fended for themselves more instead of manipulating Inuyasha and using him as nothing more than their lapdog, they would be more likable. However, they are nothing more than disingenuous paeans who are ungrateful, string Inuyasha along, and are simply pathetic. Inuyasha had every right to call them out on their disingenuousness, and I as the viewer was just as annoyed as he was when he wanted to hear how they genuinely felt about him rescuing them. The losers. Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippou are nothing more than a quartet of helpless, pathetic, stupid, incompetent dickheads filled to the brim with narcissism and soullessness. I do not care if fans of these losers are crying and wailing and proclaiming that I am disgusting because the truth does hurt when it comes to these four ruthless humanoids. Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippou certainly make Regina George from Mean Girls, Heather Chandler from Heathers, and even Evie Zamora from Thirteen appear saintlier and more intellectual than these four lousy, lying, low-down, four-flushing carcasses. Without Inuyasha, they may as well be maggot food because that is what Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippou truly are on the inside. They are no better than the decomposed carcasses that maggots and bacteria feed upon, for they are hollow and empty shells of individuals. Miroku’s, Sango’s, Kagome’s, and Shippou’s days of manipulating Inuyasha and using him as their chew toy may as well be numbered. At the end of the day, these four poor souls shall be punished by having demons and monsters devour them. I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and do not be a bunch of manipulators like Miroku, Sango, Kagome, and Shippou are, everybody. The Complete Dunderhead Family from Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise.
This screenshot demotivational poster is highly, utterly, and totally Anti-Miroku, Anti-Sango, and Anti-Shippou. Sit back, relax, and revel in my signature disgust against these pitiful creatures. Joseph, Mary, and the Child Jesus would be utterly ashamed of Miroku, Sango, and Shippou for their sheer hypocrisy, lies, slander, and falsehood. Hypocrisy because Miroku is a womanizer who thinks he is above Inuyasha despite being nothing more than a glorified sigma male, Sango is a loser who thinks she is above Inuyasha because of her physical strength despite him saving her behind on several occasions, and Shippou because he thinks he is above Inuyasha despite being absolutely futile in combat. The number of lies that Miroku, Sango, and Shippou have been telling Inuyasha to make them nothing more than glorified deceivers who remain disingenuous to his pain, loneliness, suffering, and lifelong ostracization, thus making them the worst people Inuyasha has ever had in his life. Slander because despite the many occasions Inuyasha has been saving them, these losers choose to show their ingratitude by belittling him for being a “simpleton” when he is expressing his confidence when acquiring a new skill with his Tessaiga. Finally, falsehood because all they spouted from their mouths are lies and half-truths. The main Dunderhead family is a fine example of what deceit, lies, hypocrisy, and falsehood can do to create such a low-down hypocrite of a father, a false sheep of a mother, and a deceitful ingrate of a son to the point where the Three Bears would pleasure themselves in having the Dunderhead family for their main course. The only thing that has ever united Miroku, Sango, and Shippou, aside from Miroku bearing Sango’s three children and not the ten that he so wanted, is their undeniable hero-worship of the spoiled, bratty, annoying, pathetic floozy known as Kagome Higurashi. I have made my points about Kagome extremely clear that she has not grown in maturity let alone in combat prowess despite her fans trying to defend their goddess, so, I am not going to repeat myself in stating that she is nothing special. Apparently, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou are nothing more than reflections of what the fans do to glorify Kagome and her atrocious treatment of Inuyasha by pinning it all on him. For all their talk of solidarity and loyalty, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou are failures at their job as good comrades. The worst aspect about Miroku, Sango, and Shippou aka Daddy, Mommy, and Baby Dunderhead is that they enable Kagome’s abusive behavior towards Inuyasha because “her feelings matter”, thus justifying all of the horrible sit commands she has been giving him just because he has been a jerk to her. Instead of encouraging Kagome to be more reasonable with Inuyasha, they cave in to her bratty attitude without considering how Inuyasha was feeling at his point in life ranging from his perennial ostracization from both demons and humans to his tragic relationship with Kikyou. Kagome already has a sheltered life complete with friends from her school while Inuyasha had nothing, hence he shrouds himself with a hard shell to protect himself. However, when Miroku, Sango, and Shippou choose to put Kagome on a pedestal, they do so by belittling Inuyasha and not allowing him to speak his mind. Even when he speaks the truth and his mind, Miroku, Sango, and Shippou choose to enable Kagome’s abusive behavior, not take full responsibility for themselves like they should have done many episodes ago. Miroku’s, Sango’s, and Shippou’s failure to take proper responsibility for themselves while pinning their problems onto Inuyasha and worshipping Kagome like their goddess have always made them the stupidest, lamest, most pathetic, and most disgusting creatures to ever walk the earth. Their maltreatment of Inuyasha is probably one of the most legendary misdeeds I have ever seen desecrate the small screen. While it would be amusing to punish them painfully and slowly, the best thing to do is to let them suffer in complete silence. Even when presented with the opportunity to show their gratitude to Inuyasha, they permit their mouthpiece Kagome to do the work for them because they are nothing more than disingenuously pathetic cretins. Fans of the main Dunderhead family can call me a hater all they want. However, I only speak the truth and nothing but. The truth remains that I do not like how Miroku, Sango, and Shippou maltreat Inuyasha and put Kagome on a pedestal when he has done all the sacrificing and the fighting as well as improving himself. These three losers deserve to be burned and buried alive. I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and never be like a bunch of losers like Miroku, Sango, and Shippou, everybody. Daddy Dunderhead, Mommy Dunderhead, and Baby Dunderhead from Inuyasha belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise.
This screenshot demotivational poster is highly, utterly, and totally Anti-Sango and Anti-Shippou. Sit back, relax, and revel in my utter disgust at this pathetic “mother-son” duo. The Christmastide may be a season of love, compassion, perpetual hope, and good vibes. However, I only have terrible vibes for this poor excuse of a demon slayer and this poor excuse of a Kitsune. Besides, Virgin Mary and Child Jesus Sango and Shippou are not! I know some people may see it a whole lot differently than I did, but, because I have been watching Inuyasha from his point of view, I argue that Sango and Shippou are two of his most atrocious companions next to Kagome and Miroku combined. Believe me, I will also tackle him alongside Sango and Shippou, as these three nitwits constitute the main Dunderhead family. These two knuckleheads may as well be a mother and son duo because at least Sango seems more fit than her “immature younger sister” Kagome in motherhood duties, and at least Shippou can have a mother figure in Sango who will end up taking care of him. It is such a shame that both Sango and Shippou lack common sense and the compassion that is necessary to understand Inuyasha’s pain and loneliness. Instead, they just treat him like a second to a third-class citizen. For a demon slayer like Sango and for a Kitsune like Shippou, viewers would expect them to bear some degree of mental resourcefulness and physical prowess. However, despite their varying degrees of skill, with Sango showing that she can be physically capable of slaughtering demons with her weapons and Shippou using the occasional trickery, they fail rather miserably when it comes to the much more challenging creatures such as Garamaru and his cocoons for example. Sure, the movies, especially the third Inuyasha movie, did show them becoming stronger in their skills. However, because the movies tend to stray from canon, their skills have not shown any improvement, and just rely on Inuyasha to rescue them nearly all the time. So much for this demon slayer and this Kitsune who just end up being very pathetic. What is even sadder is that they did not need to be this way. Sango could have been a much stronger fighter on her own and be in league with Inuyasha, while Shippou could have known his boundaries. Unfortunately, this is the case of truly failed potential on both parties. The only good thing about Sango being a mother figure to Shippou, at least in my view, is that she is a lot more emotionally mature than the abusively snappy dimwit known as Kagome Higurashi, although she herself does complete this stupidly pathetic family. At least Sango and Shippou get to be stupid, indifferent, and awful together as mother and son, considering how they are nothing more than Kagome’s extremely lame yes-people and enablers. Speaking of being yes-people and enablers, Sango may show motherly love to Shippou and take good care of him, while Shippou may demonstrate how much of a respectful son he can be to his loving mother. Thus, they can beautifully coexist as a mother-and-son duo who will be there for each other. However, the cruelly raw fact remains that both Sango and Shippou are just as bad as each other when it comes to not understanding Inuyasha and choosing to jump on Kagome’s bandwagon that he is a two-timer. They can never think for themselves let alone critically assess the situation Inuyasha is in without having to consult Kagome their goddess. In theory, Sango’s great combat prowess and Shippou’s potential to grow as a Kitsune should be more reasons why I should root for them. However, time and time again, their willingness to remain as Kagome’s knee-crawling posse and their inability to grow as fighters and individuals make them nothing more than pathetic losers. It is a pure shame that Sango and Shippou could barely rise above whatever potential they could have had. In a perfect world, Sango could have been more understanding of Inuyasha’s problems rather than be nothing more than a Kagome cheerleader. Shippou could have known his boundaries a lot better instead of being an ungrateful little bastard who always tried Inuyasha’s patience. Nevertheless, according to how they were portrayed in canon, they were nothing more than a sad mother-and-son duo who could never rise above their own biases let alone stand up to Kagome to not think too highly of herself. I will always argue that Sango and Shippou are only brought together as mother and son because they are both terrible companions to Inuyasha. I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and do not be lame like Sango and Shippou, everybody. Mommy Dunderhead and Baby Dunderhead from Inuyasha belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise.
Sharp, witty, clever, and fun are my best adjectives to describe The Cosby Show’s first Christmas episode.
Hey, hey, hey! It’s time for me to show my appreciation for a Christmas special that has left me with tears in my eyes, a smile on my face, and laughter in my heart thanks to Fat Albert and all his friends.