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== Tessaiga and Tenseiga are both [[Bleach|Zanpakuto]] ==

 

Shippo is treated as being quite young. However, he is shown as being rude, uppity and down right snobbish when it comes to Inuyasha. Children usually learn such behavior from their parents. Perhaps his parents taught him that, even if it doesn’t seem like it, all half-demons are naturally inferior to full-demons such as himself and deserve to be treated as the second-rate creatures they are. It might be that this bigotry was exclusively for half-demons, as Shippo seems to have no problem with humans or demons, but seems disgusted by half-demon Inuyasha. This explains his apparent hatred for Inuyasha might explain his constant need to amplify Inuyasha'a flaws, constantly get him in trouble with Kagome, and insulting and making fun of him. It can all be summarized this little gem from his opening episode.

* Shippo doesn't ''hate'' Inuyasha, and he never seems ''disgusted'' by him or derisive of hanyou in general (Jinenji and Shiori come to mind; Shippo never indicates a problem with either of them). It's more accurate to say that Shippo acts the way he does toward Inuyasha because they're both immature and thus set one another off, and as a trickster type, Shippo enjoys being able to push Inuyasha's buttons. He doesn't do it as much to the others because they're not jerks to him like Inuyasha is.

 

== Inuyasha is a [[Future Imperfect]] retelling of the events of ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' ==

* Naraku is really Aku, and Samurai Jack was split into two different characters, Inuyasha and Kagome. Tessaiga is clearly Samurai Jack's sword, Sesshoumaru is the Scottsman and Miroku and Sango any one of the others befriended by Jack. Kikyo could be a loved one taken from Jack by Aku. This happened because, as Jack went back into the past and defeated Aku, naturally all records of his adventures in the future were erased since they never actually happened. However, the legend of Jack's future adventures persisted nonetheless, perpetuated by the only remaining living witness to them - Jack himself. Jack was only able to recount these tales in terms he and his fellow feudal-era Japanese were able to understand - the powerful robots of Aku's armies therefore were transformed into demons, and so on. With time, and as these stories spread through oral tradition from one speaker to the next, the story further became distorted - Jack's adventures were transplanted from the future to the past to create a world listener and speaker alike would be better able to relate to and describe, the hero was split into two to not only preserve a hero with an exotic time traveling aspect, but to add a [[Save the Princess|damsel in distress]] for the hero; the hero was further transformed into a half-demon to make his exploits seemingly more credible, etc. The villain more or less stayed the same, a deceitful shape-shifter able to spawn demonic (rather than mechanical) minions, but over time his name was changed from '''Aku''' to Nar'''aku'''. Eventually time caught up to the old "fairy tale" and so the tale was continuously adapted so that the "future" the damsel time traveler came from was always the present.

 

== Inuyasha's time is not Kagome's history, but an alternate dimension in slower time. ==

It was given to him in lieu of Tessaiga, and is one of the two youtou we saw that was not actually forged by a smith but came from a youkai's body (the other being Abi's halberd, which came from Naraku), and unlike Naraku, Sesshoumaru doesn't have the inherent ability to shift his own body to anywhere near that degree on purpose. Combine that with the fact that we know that Tenseiga can repair itself (which Tessaiga can only do when taking back youki that was stolen from it) and that Sesshoumaru's getting Bakusaiga after giving up on his attachment to his father's momentos parallels how Tessaiga usually gains powers after Inu Yasha passes a test of character rather than just defeating another youkai/weapon, and it seems likely that Inu no Taisho gave Sesshoumaru the allegedly weaker sword to teach him kindness, let him perfect the Meidou Zangetsuha for his hanyou brother who can't survive the jyaki of Hell, and incubate a truly destructive weapon to give to his eldest son when said son has proven his worth and learned to stop relying on his father's strength.

 

The reason that there are no sentient youkai in the future is because they're willingly undergoing a masquerade to prevent from being hunted down (the non-sentient ones are either kept in captivity, hunted to extinction, or never coalesced in the first place due to the relative lack of constant warfare and death in Japan in the last century or so -- with notable exceptions). It helps that their werewolves are speedsters in their universe as well (Kouga's new respect for humans + the massive decimation of his tribe by Naraku + extinction of the Japanese Wolf = mass crossbreeding with humans, other youkai and hanyou, forming a new breed). Inner-Moka is a long distant descendant of and genetic throwback to Inu Yasha and Kagome, having the former's hair and the latter's taste in high-school uniforms and pantyshot-proof miniskirt powers. Sesshoumaru and/or a 500 year old, Nine-Tailed Shippou are members of Youkai Academy's board, and in fact were the ones who suggested Moka and Tsukune's rosaries based on Inu Yasha's and Miroku's, respectively.

 

 

** Also from an above WMG theory, it's possible that Kikyou's soul had been reincarnated in that time period, just we never come accross this character because they weren't important to the plot. Considering that the Shikon no Tama was sealing Kagome's powers while it was inside her, the same can be assumed for any other reincarnation of Kikyou's soul, so they wouldn't be especially different from other mortal women.

 

* On the other hand, Takahashi did write ''[[Fire Tripper]]'', which had the medieval Japan time travel element in it long before Inuyasha.

Just to add even more [[Mind Screw]] to the series, and borrowing from some of the above theories: Rin is the reincarnation of Kikyo and that's the reason she couln't be resurrected: "Her reincarnation had been born already" as a common girl. After the end of the series, Rin will have an accident so severe her life will be in danger, and not finding the means to cure her in the past, Inuyasha and everyone else will work on a way to force the portal in the well to open. They are able to send her to the future, but earlier than what they expected, and Kagome's family will take care of her. The Trauma will make Rin to get amnesia, and the little she remembers about demons and whatnot will be threated as fantasies by her new family.

 

[[Only Six Faces]] and Takahashi's fascination with reusing character archetypes aside, the similarity in looks and personality can support such a WMG. This means Ranma (descended from Inuyasha directly) and Akane (descended from Kagome's brother) are distant cousins, but people in Japan tend to be more closely related than elsewhere anyway because of the geographical isolation.

 

Kagome can only travel through the well if she has a Shikon jewel shard, but Inuyasha goes back and forth without needing a jewel. Shippo and Sota both try to go through, but fail, even though they have fragments of the jewel. This leads me to believe that ''the jewel'' isn't important to traveling through the well, but ''strong powers'' are. The jewel, combined with Kagome's own spiritual power, makes her strong enough to pass through, but when Inuyasha takes her jewel shards away, she can't travel through the well. Inuyasha, even though he's a half-demon, is the son of Inu-taisho, and is thus very strong. We see that in his fight scenes, when he's able to defeat powerful full-blooded demons. Shippo may be able to go through the well when he's older and his powers have had more time to develop, but when he tried, he was still too young. Mistress Centipede and (in the movie) Sounga were both able to travel through the well without jewel shards as well. Thus, if they tried, other powerful demons like Sesshomaru, Naraku, and Koga would be able to travel through the well easily, and humans with strong powers like Miroku could, too, if they had jewel shards.

 

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