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EP. REVIEW: Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

I’ll respect the rules not to bring up age of consent, but can I ask that people who don’t have a problem with the ship respect the opinions of people who may be bothered by it?

I just realized that if they could hide Moroha with he wolf tribe then why didn't all of them went with them?

Also, if Kirinmaru is so cool that Sesshomaru needed to form an, obviously fake, alliance with him to do whatever he is planning... why are the 3 girls alive?

Why hasn't him personally gone to the village and kill them?

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Also, if Kirinmaru is so cool that Sesshomaru needed to form an, obviously fake, alliance with him to do whatever he is planning... why are the 3 girls alive? Why hasn't him personally gone to the village and kill them?

Circumstances have changed over time? He wasn't aware of them, perhaps?

Something that no one's addressed is that Jaken says he'll raise the kids in Rin's stead, but from Towa's flashback in episode 2 and all the scenes we've seen of Setsuna growing up, Jaken is nowhere to be seen, and he obviously had no hand in raising Setsuna since she didn't even know Sesshomaru was her father. Seriously what even is the writing in this show.

I think it's safe to they that they've just forgotten about him, both because they were infants at the time, and for plot convenience. It'll probably get played up for laughs latter when they actually meet Jaken and neither twin can remember him, much to his dismay and indignation.

To those not watching the show, I'll mention some lore dumps from the episode not mentioned (or glazed over) in the review.

1. The Shikon Jewel is posthumously involved. It was supposedly responsible for Kirinmaru's prophecy of being killed by a half demon (or more accurately, by something neither human nor demon that transcends time, which could mean a half demon, but also even describe the jewel itself). Personal theory: Maybe it had an inkling of who or what would ultimately defeat it, and left the prophecy for Kirinmaru as a way to exact revenge on those who would defeat it.

2. We now have a partial origin of the Rainbow Pearls. Sesshomaru mentions that they are Zero's tears (Zero is Kirinmaru's sister, and seems to hate half demons moreso than her brother). It is mentioned that InuYasha's Black Pearl was partially created with the sadness of his mother, so the Rainbow Pearls must have been created with Zero's sadness (though for what purpose remains unknown). She does mention that Inu No Taisho humiliated her & she'd be glad to see his family suffer. Personal Theory 2: She had the hots for Inu No Taisho & was furious he got with a human (Izayoi), and thus hates half demons. She proceeds to have the Rainbow Pearls created in an effort to emulate the Shikon Jewel (one is purple) to set up Kirinmaru's prophecy, so he'd kill half demons (specifically those related to Inu No Taisho). Maybe Riku is Kirinmaru's own half demon son (born pre-prophecy), and not having the resolve to kill his own son just expelled him. Riku is trying to get revenge on Zero, and maybe also hates the Inu clan for partly being responsible for her actions.

3. The Grim Comet comes once every 500 years. Only a chunk of it falls to Earth each time it passes (the other "chunk" mentioned in the review is probably just the comet proper, an ominous reminder that it will be back, eventually). While it wasn't much of a threat here, it's mentioned that the cataclysm created by the last impact started the age of demons. Plus, with the modern era roughly 500 years in the future, it should be obvious where they're going with that.

]It's easy to justify in Setsuna's case; if the Dream Butterfly denied her memories of Towa, then denying memories of Jaken as well would naturally follow. Harder to justify in Towa's case, since she does remember that time and hasn't brought him up; maybe something happened to Jaken? There's all kinds of potential explanations here beyond shoddy writing, though.

I think James did a great job summing up this mess of an episode. Besides Sesshomaru being inscrutable and a Bad husband, father *and* brother

Agent355 wrote:

I think James did a great job summing up this mess of an episode. Besides Sesshomaru being inscrutable and a Bad husband, father *and* brother

I not getting this line of thinking, is the fact that newborn Towa and Setsuna were immediately marked for death by the all-powerful, paranoid, racist demon king of East Japan and his vindictive bitch sister(?) completely lost on you or something?

As for Inuyasha, you do get that Kirinmaru wanted Sesshomaru to kill him and Kagome don't you? And he and Jaken successfully BS'd a reason for them not to?

All-in-all it's plain to me that Kirinmaru and Zero are threats that exceed even Sess and Inu together, and that Sesshomaru was playing a delicate game of double-agent with Kirinmaru and making him think all threats to him are neutralized (by hiding his kids, wife, and siblings) so that Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha have a chance to become powerful enough to kill him some day.

Yet despite all that you and James are acting like Sesshomaru did it all for no particular reason, for shits and giggles essentially. Is it intentional hyperbole? I mean fair game if you just don't like the series enough to give it due consideration, but come on now.

Two reasons, starting with what I bonded from your comment: When did we see him hide his wife? We didn’t, he didn’t take Rin.

My main problem with this episode, as I’ve stated before, is that Sesshomaru lied to Rin. He not only didn’t tell her why he had to take the babies, he made up a BS excuse about a “test of courage.”

I want to make it clear that I’m not upset at the show for making a scenario in which Sesshomaru had to hide the twins from Kirinmaru and Zero. I’m upset that Sesshomaru and/or the show’s writers underestimated the main female characters of Inuyasha by not including them in the plan to keep the babies safe.

In fact, by not telling Kagome in particular, Sesshomaru was leaving her in danger of being attacked. By not taking Rin, he left Rin in danger. And he *lied* to all of them. If the show had made up some reason he couldn’t tell them that bad guys were after them, I’d cut Sesshomaru slack. But from what was in the episode, lying and only protecting the twins was Sesshomaru’s choice.

Look at it this way: as you said, the threat was greater than Sesshomaru could handle alone. So he should have *told* his wife and allies what the danger was instead of lying and trying to handle it all himself. But he didn’t

Yet despite all that you and James are acting like Sesshomaru did it all for no particular reason, for shits and giggles essentially. Is it intentional hyperbole? I mean fair game if you just don't like the series enough to give it due consideration, but come on now.