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An Open Letter to Rumiko Takahashi Re: Inuyasha
By aimee | June 29, 2008
12 long years you’ve spent writing, plotting, and drawing Inuyasha and now you’ve finally decided to conclude its veeeeerrrryy long story. Having read the ending, there are a lot of things that I want to pour out of my system. First off, I AM SO TERRIBLY ABSOLUTELY DEFINITELY PISSED OFF AND DISAPPOINTED AT HOW THE ENDING TURNED OUT!!!!!!!!
You’ve spent twelve years on a story which ending has already been predicted from the very beginning. Don’t get me wrong, it’s just that all stories will eventually turn out to have a happy ending even though the characters have to go through hell and back a thousand times - like what you had Inuyasha and the group do. I’ve been so patient as I loyally continue to read your manga, not airing out my disappointment on why you have to spend like 500 chapters before Inuyasha can finally defeat Naraku, who turn out to be emotionally good all along because all he wanted was to have Kikyou’s heart. But being an Inuyasha fan, I forgave you for that. But what I cannot forgive is that you have 558 chapters all to Inuyasha, and Kagome and him didn’t even land a single kiss on each other!!!!!! You are so cruel to InuKag fans!!!! I have not felt this much disappointment in all the mangas and animes that I have read and watched so I thank you (NOT) for making me feel this way. I was dreading to reach the final chapter fearing that in excitement of reading it, I’d forget to slowly experience the joy of seeing Inuyasha and Kagome kiss and see them say I love You to each other. So, thank you very much for bursting my bubble! I cannot believe this!
Don’t get me wrong, I love the plot, really I did, for if I didn’t, I would just have abandoned reading it the moment I felt that it was something uninteresting. I believed in its plot and it only led me to this much disappointment. I loved the twists of the story and how it came back to the beginning, how it all ended up to the final battle with the real enemy which was the Shikon no Tama itself and how it became obvious that the story of the Shikon no Tama and the endless battle inside it was the ultimate purpose of Kagome’s life (for the Shikon no Tama, that is. Inuyasha would like to think otherwise as made obvious in the manga). But spending 500+ chapters or 12 years and it only came to this ending?? That is just so mean. And half the manga they were just battling it out with useless youkais in order to help out village people (although some of them served a good purpose).
You may have purposely left us hanging on a cliff because you want to leave something for the readers to imagine themselves ( like a different ending with Inuyasha and Kagome having that ultimate sweet moment - which I’d only be just imagining now!) but goodness! The least you could have done is give your VERY LOYAL READERS (like myself) the joy of seeing InuKag do something ultimately sweet in the manga. Now, you ask why we turn to fanfiction? Your answer is right there, dearie.
I hate it! You see, even though I can do limitless imagination as to what InuKag should have done in the ending, I’d be endlessly stalked by the fact that that is not what happened in the real thing and the ending you’ve created won’t ever change! And that is what ultimately pisses me off! You’ve done this in Ranma 1/2 and I can’t believe (but I should already) that you’ve done it again. You really don’t know how to tie loose ends, do you?
I have loved and continue to love your two couples - Ranma & Akane and Inuyasha and Kagome - and they both have only given me sadness in the end. Inuyasha and Kagome is even my 2nd favorite couple of all (next to Sakura and Syaoran) and this is all I get for patiently waiting for their very vague relationship to advance even a little. Even a small peck on the cheek didn’t happen! And the most painful part for me is that Inuyasha was given the chance to kiss Kikyo and tell her that she is the first woman he ever loved, but Kagome is the one who stayed by his side all this time and all she gets is a kind and warm welcome from Inuyasha when she finally got back? That is unfair, woman! I seriously got hurt (my eyes teared up a little) for Kagome when Inuyasha admitted to Kikyou of his feelings and when he kissed her during her final moments. That is how attached I am to this couple. And you crushed me. But I should thank you. At least you had enough sense to make Sango and Miroku end up together as expected.
I should have just hunted for spoilers of the Inuyasha ending for me to have been forewarned of how disappointing its conclusion is. Yes, I’ve read in some places that the ending is not what’s expected (in some factors) but I believed otherwise. I should have listened to them. But no, I had to find out for myself as what might be disappointing for them might be not for me. And it turns out, they were right all along. Truly, I am disappointed. I don’t know how to emphasize my disappointment more for you to be able to grasp and feel the sadness I felt as I reached the end of your very famous manga.
The conclusion had been tainted with the darkness of my sadness and disappointment (and I know I’m not alone in saying this). For me, it has become nothing more but the corrupted Shikon no Tama… 
Topics: Anime Addiction, Anime Authors, Inuyasha |
July 15th, 2008 at 2:12 pm
you know, i can relate.
i love anime.. but somehow i realized today while watching the ending of “this ugly yet beautiful world” that, i don’t think i’ve ever watched an anime and not been very disappointed and depressed with the ending. i always end up crying half way through the end scenes where ultimately my favorite couple gets broken up, my favorite member of a triangle is not chosen, or my favorite character is killed.
yet i always watch. i imagine for me, anime has become a sort of masochistic thing. -_-
July 28th, 2008 at 6:30 pm
Hi from a random visitor.
Thank you for this entry. I actually stopped watching the IY anime and reading scanlations some two years ago because it was just sooooo long — and I mostly got interested in the fandom because of Miroku and Sango. But I really, really feel for you InuKag fans — that WAS cruel, not having a resolution for their relationship. Ugh. Yes, it is quite reminiscent of the Ranma/Akane ending (that manga I read ALL volumes of), but somehow the Ranma/Akane ending was quite appropriate; they couldn’t get married anyway, they’re just teenagers still. But the ending for InuKag? Some fanfics are better, I must say. *shakes head*
I gotta hand it to the twist after all — Naraku is in love with Kikyou. Wow.
Now I can read IY from beginning to end.
[I really just hate all the waiting week after week!] Thanks so much for your post! God bless!
July 30th, 2008 at 3:48 pm
Hi Ai! I also hate the waiting week after week. There was a time I stopped reading it because the same thing seems to be happening every chapter - fighting demons and getting a shard or just helping out and not getting a shard, and then losing a shard. Sweet moments of InuKag are rare, maybe that’s why we (InuKag fans) tend to keep on reading, with the hope that we’ll get to those moments sooner or later.
Yeah, I agree with you on the twist! Upon reading that, my anger for Naraku seems to have disappeared. I could only say “Awwwww.” And I could only feel sympathetic towards him.
Good luck on reading! But be warned as I’ve already been disappointed. Hehe!
August 27th, 2008 at 7:46 pm
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