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Just finished Yashahime and i know it's late but really want to give props to one of the select few things they did right which is : The respect they show Seshomaru. Fucking hell, the entire's show premise and backstory is basically : Sesshomaru does shit to make sure his family is safe. And they did it in two great ways. One of them is having him act in a manner similar to his father via planning shit long term . Dunno if it was intentional but if it was, very cool touch. Second being, providing the perfect example of his entire character development throughout the series which comes at the end of episode 23 where Jaken asks him why he showed mercy to Kirinmaru and Rion when he could have killed them both and he answered : "Because if i did that, my daughters's hearts wouldn't have been saved. " . Perfect, fucking perfect. Even it's a below average show, i'm glad that they did get this right at least.

True enough although there's only so much the Jewel could do to to empower literal trash tier demons. Yeah but they still had their own motivations independent from Naraku which in the end caused them to come to blows. Hakudoshi, the baby through Moryomaru , Kagura..etc. You could say that without issue. Like none of them were particularly good as temporary villains or anything like that. The only good one was Kagura and by the end you can't even say she was a really a villain anymore. Girl just wanted to be left the fuck alone . That particular chunk of story between post Hakurei and ... idk..let's say Kikyo's death when things start building up to the final part of the series is by far the weakest part of the series. There individual good singular episodic stories here and there but overall, the focus isn't there and the villains just aren't interesting and we're talking about like 200+ chapters. You could have cut all of that and it wouldn't have impacted the story all...

That's true . A lot of the elements from the manga were censored in the anime which is understandable i guess since we're talking about a shounen story . It can also be attributed to the fact that Rumiko didn't have a clear image and just went with whatever . Don't think that's the case. If you meant under utilized , i'd agree but even then that was by design as Naraku flat out stated that he didn't want to do shit with it. Somewhat fair but with two caveats. Naraku after Hakurei was absent for a large portion of the story so the vilians for that period of time were either his incarnations or episodic ones . Second, Naraku was never the main antagonist of the series. The Shikon Jewel was and i kinda liked the recontextualization or the reveal at the end when you realized that the great baddy manipulator was just a puppet. Great irony , though you could certainly make the case that it could have been executed better and also it's clear as day that they pulled the " Main...

Has to be stated that the soundtrack also did a lot of the carrying of the show . God damn, that shit was good.

You won't find many regulars here who treat it as anything else than a laughing stock, i'm afraid. That being said, it was the series that got me into animu and manga and even though i'm fully aware of its many crappy parts, i still have an attachment to it.