Some Of My Favorite Moments

Some of my favorite moments

Sesshomaru's face here is EVERYTHING, far better than his anime counterpart's. That face's got written all over "I could almost laugh". I'm crazy for his dry humour and in The Final Act I DO miss it.

The mere fact that as Inukimi says THOSE words we are shown Rin's life in very precarious conditions 💔💔💔

Lord I-go-merely-to-slay-the-hound Sesshomaru

And instead we got this 😭🤬🤦🏻

That beautiful "She lives" trashed simply as that. Folly!

Also: in Sesshomaru's gesture to barely touch Rin's hair there's a gentleness, a delicateness... In the anime you can't even figure where he is placing his hand exactly, it almost seems he is enveloping all her face 😔

But to piss me off is that the small screen of the Meido Stone through which we see this scene prevents us from sharing Sesshomaru's point of view. And this basically is my problem with this whole episode's anime adaptation. Everything just feels so "screened", so "distant".

The manga though does manage to balance all things so that Inukimi's and Jaken's intermissions are not so much intrusive.

Okay. Uhm. You know. This is the cover of chapter 469 and it's located right after Sesshomaru's mother says "The darkness from which there is no return lies just ahead of you" (precisely when Kohaku says that Rin is not breathing anymore) and before the panel just below. Well... I like to think that that image of Rin is what comes instinctively to Sesshomaru's mind as soon as the darkness swallows him.

It's VERY meaningful that Sesshomaru doesn't ASK out loud if Rin is dead (with that aloof tone of the anime, what's more) but is trying to PROCESS the fact that Rin could be dead. The manga is really saying that he still is in shock.

Moreover I want you to notice that Kohaku's expression is far more affected by what is happening than it's shown in the anime where he almost acts like a robot (why?!).

And SESSHOMARU'S expression while he keeps repeating "Dead?!" in his mind oh Jesus 🤯💥💣 I bet he never, NEVER hated Tenseiga more and that's saying something.

And he'll say "I won't leave you here!", "I won't let you die!", thus continuing to use words like "dead", "death", "die". It makes it all much more overwhelming, oppressive. He is fighting against the death and you can feel that.

And (oh such a detail) as he catches Rin on the fly after defeating the Guardian of the Underworld he IMMEDIATELY checks on her, WITHOUT waiting for his feet to touch the ground.

THE ANIME COULD NEVER

God him just dropping the blade when previously he had reminded Kohaku that "This arm is only meant to hold a sword".

(And Rin's hand as if almost touching his.)

THE ANIME COULD NEVER PART 2

(Heck this took me much more than expected, maybe I'll do a second part tomorrow, now I need to go to bed.)

I don't remember where I read this or who said it but my biggest thanks to you person who made me realize that Sesshomaru here is practically referring to himself as "Rin's home".

Whenever I think of it I feel just like this:

After Sesshoumaru let Kagome ride on MokoMoko inside Naraku's body do you think she went back to riding on Inuyasha's back and was a little disappointed. Wheres the soft fluffy.

The fact that in the anime Sesshomaru going berserk because of Moryomaru's words of contempt for Kagura and the centrality of that moment for his growth are so shamefully undermined by the placement of this scene in the wrong point of the storyline simply is infuriating 😤🤬

Fuuuuuck now I'm reading about the Inuyasha chapter where Kagura dies and TWENTY YEARS LATER I am in tears again.

And literally no one was arrested for this.

Credit to @ulinagia on Twitter.

In my head Byakuya is a skilled sword fighter.

....in more than one way.