Sango and Shippou: The Loser Mom and Son Duo

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.