Inuyasha/WMG: Difference between revisions

== 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. ==

 

** 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.