This screenshot demotivational poster is highly, highly Anti-InuKag and Anti-Kagome. For those of you who like this pairing, please take what I say with a grain of salt. As for all of my beloved fellow InuKag and Kagome haters, by all means, revel in the evisceration I have in store for my biggest NOTP in the series.
Whilst I am satisfied that Inuyasha ended with Naraku’s annihilation on a somewhat satisfactory note and I am also anticipating the release of Yashahime, I always come back to one of my biggest NOTPs of all time, the dreaded InuKag, with sentiments of disinterest, jadedness, and major indifference.
I did not care that Inuyasha and Kagome ended up reuniting in the slightest iota, as Kagome had to make Inuyasha wait for three years until she graduated from High School and went back to the Feudal Era to be reunited with him. From what The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass proved, even with Naraku defeated, everyone went their separate ways, and I firmly convict that I would have been fine if the series ended with Miroku and Sango finally having their children, and Inuyasha and Kagome ending being single. But, no. All I saw was this “melodrama” about Kagome still thinking of Inuyasha and I just thought to myself, girl, are you even for real? If you even wanted to stay with Inuyasha, you could have just ditched your high school thing once and for all and lived with him. If you wanted to graduate high school, in spite of the numerous absences you accrued, do it. But, for Pete’s sake, Kagome, get your freaking priorities straight!
I cannot even forget the numerous occasions where Inuyasha and Kagome would argue and argue to their hearts’ content then develop feelings for each other then go back to their old ways. However, all I have to say about their fart of a relationship and fart of a romance shall be saved for another story. Suffice it to say, I was and will never be impressed by how stressful, annoying, and viscerally unhealthy Inuyasha’s and Kagome’s relationship has been.
One cannot deny that these two have worked together in gathering the Shikon Jewel shards and defeating Naraku amongst many other enemies, but this was Kagome’s fault for starting the Shikon Jewel shard hunt, and she barely took any responsibility for it, even though she can sense them. Moreover, Inuyasha has been through so much trauma, pain, and anguish due to the loss of Kikyou and the emotional burden he had to go through as a hanyou, as all of these horrible experiences still feel like yesterday, especially when it came to the realization that Naraku dared to manipulate both Inuyasha and Kikyou into betraying and hating each other. Kagome only had to go through the loss of her father while being raised by her single mother and her grandfather and looking after her younger brother Souta, who is a whole lot more competent than Kagome will ever be. Moreover, do not even get me started on her stupid jealousy of Kikyou, which was made Miroku, Sango, and Shippou all act like her little posse trying to butter her up. She never comprehended the depth of Inuyasha’s failure to protect Kikyou from Naraku because he still had to live with the trauma. The mere fact that Miroku, Sango, and Shippou constantly sided with Kagome made her nothing more than a manipulative, low-down, good-for-nothing, spoiled brat who was so used to getting her own way. Moreover, Kagome is Kikyou’s reincarnation meaning that Kagome was jealous of a part of herself, which was a truly puerile, asinine, and poor reason for her to display any sort of jealousy towards another person, other than for petty and stupid reasons.
As I cut down to the bone of this failure of a relationship, especially from this shot in Inuyasha: The Final Act’s last episode, I can see that Inuyasha and Kagome barely had anything to make each other click and were only drawn together because of some contrived thing called destiny. The only thing they had in common was their mission to collect the Sacred Jewel shards, which Kagome started this whole bleeping mess, and destroying Naraku, which was instilled in them by that wretched, overstuffed hag Kaede. Perhaps, Kagome was brought into Inuyasha’s life for one solitary reason, and that is what to not look for when it comes to being in a relationship.
So, how will solve this problem? Inuyasha could have just dumped her butt from the very start, joined forces with Sesshoumaru, have Ayame be the romantic soulmate both of these dog yokai brothers deserve, thus being in a nice polyamorous relationship, and have Shuran, Hakkaku, Ginta, and Shunran as the best friends Inuyasha needs. As for Kagome, she can just run away with Kouga and Bankotsu for all I care because this threesome does seem like it was what Kagome needed in the first place, especially considering that Kouga and Kagome cannot fight for crap and need something or someone to constantly help them!
In conclusion, looking back at that shot in Inuyasha: The Final Act’s last episode made me feel really bitter inside. After all the negativity present in Inuyasha’s and Kagome’s fart of a relationship and all the waiting Inuyasha had to go through for three years, which felt like such an ordeal for him, I am still gobsmacked that these two have ended up together, when in reality, they could have broken up on civil terms once and for all. Considering Kagome’s actions in Yashahime, I am even going to go out of my way to say that she is a disgrace of a mother and I am more than glad to have chosen Ayame be the mother of not only Moroha, but also Towa and Setsuna. The three main young ladies of Yashahime truly deserved a more caring mother than that pathetic excuse of a fighter and a more stable family than what was presented in canon.
I hope you all enjoyed my evisceration of InuKag and I will see you in the next submission. Take care and stay safe, everybody.
Inuyasha and Kagome from Inuyasha belong to Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise.
