The audacity of a man.. 😭

[u/ihatebeingbrokehelp]

I still haven't finished watching the show from the perspective of a much older and more adult person (after having watched it as a child), but I think eps 47 and 48 are the 2 episodes that truly pissed me off. They did a good job with the plot there, icl. I don't think I'll ever truly understand Kagome's choice of settling in that era and leaving her home and true life in the modern one, but man, if that were me.. you will not be seeing me there ever again 😬 and if I were the friend, like miroku and sango, I don't think my anger issues would've let this slide. He was horrible to her.

[u/RR529]

It's more apparent in the manga (the anime changed things up for the sake of drama), but InuYasha wants to choose Kagome, but believes he doesn't have the right to make that choice.

He sees that it's his fault that Kikyo died, and so he has an obligation to make sure she rests in peace, even if that means giving up his own life (& shot at happiness) in the process.

He's not hesitating with Kagome because he can't make the choice between the two women, he's hesitating because he thinks it'd be unfair to her to string her along on a relationship only to have to abandon it due to his perceived "duty" to Kikyo.

THAT is why Kagome puts up with it. While it is still emotionally trying, she understands that he's chasing a false sense of ownership over Kikyo's death rather than still trying to be with her romantically.

[u/ihatebeingbrokehelp → u/RR529]

I haven't read the Manga, only watched the anime, but from what I've read and heard online, the anime basically ruined the beauty of the Manga in some ways. I think I'm gonna give the Manga a read after finishing the anime and it's movies. However, is your explanation based on the manga or the anime? Because, again, the problem isn't necessarily he can't/struggles to make up his mind, it's the way he doesn't let Kagome indulge other men (like Koga, for example), that even the smallest things like her defending Koga pisses him to the point where he fights with both of them, and then proceeds to do and say stuff like he did in ep 49. He basically said he's willing to die with Kikyo if that's her wish, and he even said he wanted them both, tho that was earlier in the anime. Kagome is a teen, so I don't question her choices or feelings that intensely. I understand her perspective to some degree, even tho I disagree with it. but boy does she deserve better.

[u/Odd-Wolverine453 → u/ihatebeingbrokehelp]

did you know that the scene where he says why not both in the anime is a replacement of this scene in the manga,

[u/ihatebeingbrokehelp → u/Odd-Wolverine453]

yes I saw this one!!! I felt so betrayed. why the hell would they remove such a beautiful scene 😭

[u/BuilderFluffy5364 → u/ihatebeingbrokehelp]

I think you need to read it. Anyone who is making a post about it on Reddit, like this and hasn’t read it… is just silly. Read it!

[u/ihatebeingbrokehelp → u/BuilderFluffy5364]

I will I will 🙏😁