History Headscratchers / Inuyasha

** That could just be anime filler, as Bankotsu never did such a thing in the manga, where the jewel is depicted as being exceptionally hard to damage. The only things that managed are are Kagome's arrows and dissolving/reconstituting within a youkai's body, and the latter is basically a standard effect of the jewel. By the end of the series, full out strikes from Inu Yasha and Sesshoumaru's most powerful attacks did jack and crap to it, while Kagome's arrow spit it with ease.

** That could just be anime filler, as Bankotsu never did such a thing in the manga, where the jewel is depicted as being exceptionally hard to damage. The only things that managed are are Kagome's arrows and dissolving/reconstituting within a youkai's body, and the latter is basically a standard effect of the jewel. By the end of the series, full out strikes from Inu Yasha and Sesshoumaru's most powerful attacks did jack and crap to it, while Kagome's arrow spitted it with ease.

**** It can't be, because the past affects the present. The bald spot on Goshinboku. ''[[chechovsgun the jewel shard found to be in the sacred tree in the first movie]]'' . The ''[[wildmassguessing explanation]]'' I would give would be that demon power comes from belief. As people lost culture, and fear, which would start seeming fairly irrational and stupid eventually, the demons eventually just went into hiding, getting only enough power to be immortal. But not ''[[nighinvulnerable]]''. Then world war 2 came, and they, with the bombing of Hiroshima, saw that there was no point anymore. So they just used what little magic they had left and joined humanity, though needing to create new people each time because of living thousands if not millions of years.

** Well in the end, Naraku just wanted to go to hell and end up with Kikyou's soul there for eternity. Which really makes no damn sense because, if he wanted to go to hell with Kikyou's soul that badly, why not just let Inuyasha kill him all the way at the beginning of the series? Honestly, this troper saw it as an {{AssPull}} for Naraku to get some sympathy. As for the delayed Meidou Zangetsuha, [[RuleOfDrama it was probably just to give the reader fake relief that it failed, before it did work]]; or blame it on {{WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief}}.

** Their eyes' are meant to be more like cats. {{WordOfGod}} states that they're even supposed to slightly glow in the dark.

** What about her choice to wear a skirt? She travels across Japan by stradling the back of a male hanyou (who has the age appearance of a 15 year old) who clearly is running fast enough for a lot of wind to be blowing around them, enough for her small skirt it easily be lifted. Also, with one of their friends being the {{ChivalrousPervert}} there is really nothing stopping him from getting a "nice view" especially if Inuyasha has decided to run in front of Kirara. What logic does she see in wearing that?

* After seeing the first episode again, this Troper just found something that was worthy of a {{WallBanger}} moment. In the very first scene of the series, we have Kikyou standing by the stairs and torii of the village, shooting an arrow at InuYasha who was running by the Goshinboku (the God Tree). Now this would imply that the Goshinboku is besides the village, you'd think so? However, later in that same episode, when Kagome comes to the past for the first time, when she goes to the Goshinboku we see that it's completely surrounded by forest, with no part of the village in sight. So what the hell happened to the geographic location of the Goshinboku and the village? Did the village just decide to remove apart of itself away from the Goshinboku, or does the Goshinboku have some sort of magical teleportation skills that caused it to appear next to the village just for InuYasha to be pinned to it then disappear and find a nice place in the middle of the forest to hide, or what? And it wasn't just the anime that had this problem - the manga did this to! So clearly Rumiko stuffed up somewhere here, on the very first CHAPTER.

** He does ultimately make a choice. In his battle within and against the Shikon no Tama, he rails against the declaration that Kagome was born to be doomed to fight within the Jewel for eternity. He counters that she was born to meet him, make him a better man (the "Kagome taught me how to smile..." speech), '''and he was born for her'''. It's never clear when he came to this realization, perhaps it was only at that moment or perhaps he had understood for much longer yet still felt obligated to protect Kikyo out of guilt over her original death. Inuyasha is rarely one to discuss his feelings or share his thoughts, so we can only speculate based on his changing behavior as the series went on. Consider this, when Kikyo did try to pull him into the afterlife with her, he heard Kagome's voice and choose to stay. Regardless of his insistence that he needed to live to seek revenge, it was Kagome's voice and not thoughts of killing Naraku that pulled him back. He'd been choosing a life with Kagome for a long time, even if it wasn't an explicit declaration of love for her.

** He does ultimately make a choice. In his battle within and against the Shikon no Tama, he rails against the declaration that Kagome was born to be doomed to fight within the Jewel for eternity. He counters that she was born to meet him, make him a better man (the "Kagome taught me how to smile..." speech), and he was born for her. It's never clear when he came to this realization, perhaps it was only at that moment or perhaps he had understood for much longer yet still felt obligated to protect Kikyo out of guilt over her original death. Inuyasha is rarely one to discuss his feelings or share his thoughts, so we can only speculate based on his changing behavior as the series went on. Consider this, when Kikyo did try to pull him into the afterlife with her, he heard Kagome's voice and choose to stay. Regardless of his insistence that he needed to live to seek revenge, it was Kagome's voice and not thoughts of killing Naraku that pulled him back. He'd been choosing a life with Kagome for a long time, even if it wasn't an explicit declaration of love for her.

**** Also, Myoga tells the group that the seal was broken because of Inuyasha's strong will to live. It can be argued that, prior to the events of the series, Inuyasha had fewer ties to this life and thus not as desperate to hold on to it. With his new-found friendships and drive to protect Kagome at all costs, he has more to lose and therefore finally crossed the threshold of the seal. Given all of his father's other foresight, perhaps putting an extra protection on the sword was deliberate. After all, the sword could only be wielded by a someone with a desire to protect a human. Once Inuyasha had such a person in his life, the likelihood that he would find himself in a situation that could result in a transformation out of desperation increased. And the sword served as double protection, sealing his youkai blood at the same time it made him stronger, making the blood rage unnecessary.

** He does ultimately make a choice. In his battle within and against the Shikon no Tama, he rails against the declaration that Kagome was born to be doomed to fight within the Jewel for eternity. He counters that she was born to meet him, make him a better man (the "Kagome taught me how to smile..." speech), and he was born for her. It's never clear when he came to this realization, perhaps it was only at that moment or perhaps he had understood for much longer yet still felt obligated to protect Kikyo out of guilt over her original death. Inuyasha is rarely one to discuss his feelings or share his thoughts, so we can only speculate based on his changing behavior as the series went on. Consider this, when Kikyo did try to pull him into the afterlife with her, he heard Kagome's voice and choose to stay. He'd been choosing a life with Kagome for a long time, even if it wasn't an explicit declaration of love for her.

** He does ultimately make a choice. In his battle within and against the Shikon no Tama, he rails against the declaration that Kagome was born to be doomed to fight within the Jewel for eternity. He counters that she was born to meet him, make him a better man (the "Kagome taught me how to smile..." speech), and he was born for her. It's never clear when he came to this realization, perhaps it was only at that moment or perhaps he had understood for much longer yet still felt obligated to protect Kikyo out of guilt over her original death. Inuyasha is rarely one to discuss his feelings or share his thoughts, so we can only speculate based on his changing behavior as the series went on. Consider this, when Kikyo did try to pull him into the afterlife with her, he heard Kagome's voice and choose to stay. He'd been choosing Kagome for a long time, even if it wasn't an explicit declaration of love for her.

** He does ultimately make a choice. In his battle within and against the Shikon no Tama, he rails against the declaration that Kagome was born to be doomed to fight within the Jewel for eternity. He counters that she was born to meet him, make him a better man (the "Kagome taught me how to smile..." speech), and he was born for her. It's never clear when he came to this realization, perhaps it was only at that moment or perhaps he had understood for much longer yet still felt obligated to protect Kikyo out of guilt over her original death. Inuyasha is rarely one to discuss his feelings or share his thoughts, so we can only speculate based on his changing behavior as the series went on.