has some tasty InuKag crumbs I didn’t notice in previous readings.
To recap: the Inugang has resumed jewel shard hunting post the Koga intro arc, following InuKag’s spat about Kagome letting the wolf demon go despite him kidnapping her/ her life potentially being at-risk.
Inuyasha’s feathers were maaaad ruffled and Kagome retreated to the modern era for a brief time, hence Miroku’s remarks and Inuyasha’s dismissive “Feh.”
Observe the Inugang’s physical positions. I’d say it’s out of the ordinary for Inuyasha to be at a distance from Kagome like this. Inuyasha and Kagome typically are: right beside each other, almost touching, or, when the world is at its rightest, they are straight-up touching *heart warms*.
I think while he’s overjoyed Kagome returned, if he had a tail, it would’ve been wagging once she leapt out of the well, it’s safe to say Inuyasha is still a bite sore about the whole ordeal; his jealousy is still simmering just below the surface. Thus he places this physical distance between himself and Kagome.
He even brings up Koga in the very next panel, so he’s definitely still got the wolf demon at the forefront of his mind. He didn’t get to pound on the ookami as he wanted, so he’s got some residual aggression running through him and is seeking a fight:
And Shippo be cruisin’ for a bruisin’ with this call out:
RT has stated she wanted to depart from the comedy genre with Inuyasha, but this next panel is just SO PEAK her comedy: Kagome’s long-suffering expression - U.U - and Inuyasha’s blustery, one-fang-poking-out petulant scowl. Not to mention I love that Inuyasha katonked Shippo off-panel (see his new head lump). These comedy slip-ins are 👌🏼
And here is the delicious Inukag morsel I mentioned earlier👇🏼
Some bandits approach the Inugang, specifically threatening to take “the girls.” Oh you dumb bastards, Sango would make mincemeat of you sooner than you could blink, then she’d use your bones to make her weapons because girly got skills and she does not waste.
When I say this random bandit’s line, “run of the mill?” SENT. ME. He’s so deeply offended and just shook to the core by Miroku’s throw-away comment. Like, he’s fully the main character in his own story and this is the actual first time he’s confronted with his absolute averageness. This is his What Was I Made For? moment. And the answer is: to be Bandit #23.
And VWIP. Notice the incredibly quick change in Inuyasha’s position: boy jumped in front of KagSan, adopting a defensive stance between the bandits and the group. He’s even obscuring Kagome from the bandits’ view. She has to peek around his arm (*snarling* height difference!) to see what’s going on. His body language is possessive, it’s screaming, “NOT HER. MINE.” Like, OOF.
Despite his lingering jealousy and hurt feelings, The Golden-Hearted Grump™ immediately switches into protect mode when Kagome is threatened bc her safety is of paramount importance to him.
Hey weird question but what happens if you put two reasonably likeable anthropologists of wildly different cultures together in the same room? Do they study each other? CAN they? Is it like an infinite conversational feedback loop? I'm imagining two dogs eternally sniffing each others butts at the park
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