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officialinuyasha · 4 years

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Analysis on Sesshoumaru and Rin's relationship

Sesshoumaru and Rin's relationship to almost all in the Japanese fandom as romantic when Rin comes of age for that time period. Not only do those fans see them as what Americans call it a "Canon" couple but they are well aware of poly-amorous relationships widely accepted back in that time and era. Like how Inu no Taishou (Touga-Ou) had two wives. Where Sesshoumaru's mother was well aware of the human wife and was unphased nor appeared to be jealous. Only hinting Sesshoumaru's taste in humans (about Rin) like his father with Izayoi.

Western Culture VS Eastern Culture

Atleast 20% of the American fandom in my group while it was closed (that means members only) voted SessKagura when I ran the poll in 2019. It was 64 votes and Sesshoumaru romantic with adult Rin had 126 votes.

In a Fanpop poll SessRin had 61% and SessKagura had 39%

While I ran the poll again in 2020 as public and shared it across multiple Western fan groups which is less genuine data I had to check each profile to ensure the votes were genuine (haters tend to happen in any given anime coupling) They are able to vote even though they weren't members. This time I specifically labeled it "Romantic" or "Parental". The results within just a few hours were what I had expected. The romantic portion still surpasses the parental choice.

American Fandom VS Japanese Fandom

The American fandom majority is mostly accepting of Rin being with Sesshoumaru of age. However, the fraction that is more towards him being parental is far more than what the Eastern fandom thinks.

Two administrators of a 13,000 plus members group called Sinosphere (Eastern culture) have both spoken to me about the differences in views.

One stated (Esther Xiao) "I have never heard of this issue ever until I joined the American fandom. I've known about the gift that Rin recieves at the end of the series as an act of courting."

The second admin Hiroyuki said the Japanese viewed Sesshoumaru and Rin easily as a couple of when of age. Courting being much differently than Western and the fact of it's time period.

"Contemporary courtship in Japan is more subtle than dating in the United States. The blossoming of a relationship from friendship to marriage can take years. The relationship begins as friendship, with dates taking place only in public places, typically with groups of friends present. Public displays of affection are frowned upon. The next stage is dating only as a couple, which is done discreetly. Women typically withhold displays of extreme affection and proclamations of love until she deems her suitor is sincere. When the relationship enters the stage of magkasintahan, which means the status of boyfriend and girlfriend, the couple typically makes an announcement to friends and family members, with the suitor asking for parental permission to pursue the relationship.

The man typically brings gifts when visiting the family.”

Source: https://datingtips.match.com/courtship-japan-13196896.html

Sesshoumaru stops by to visit Rin and Kaede, often giving her gifts. The kimonos are gifts representing courtship. Kaede’s is Rin’s family

An extra unaired episode was released on an audio CD only in Japan when you pre-ordered the Final Act. Where Sesshoumaru proposes to Rin. It takes place right after the Final Act’s last episode and it’s called “The Day After Tomorrow”

Rin, are you finding life in the village okay?

No one is bullying you, right?

Are you wearing the kimono that I gave you last time?

If you ever find yourself in danger, sad or depressed, no matter when, as long as you call this Sesshomaru, I will instantly run to your side.

Even if we are far from one another, as long as you call my name, I will immediately fly to you. If not shouting, you can whistle loudly or silently.

There is no distance between us, our hearts are tied together. The power of trust will win over any fear. And that affection between us is also what makes our hearts more abundant and enriched.

Therefore, you can just be yourself right now. There is enough time for me to look forward in you finding your feelings for me. Prior to this, take care of yourself……

About the CD - No, it does not have a Satire label on it from what we looked at. It just says Asatte which means Day After Tomorrow. If you want to consider it bloopers that’s up to you. But yes, the producers and animators ship them. It is an officially licensed disc.

"Canon"

To Westerners, Canon was a term invented by the Bible.

"a collection or list of sacred books accepted as genuine" To Westerners nothing else is canon except Manga.

In Japan, including the Dragon Ball Z timeline and continuity - Westerners argue that anything in their perspective that is canon is law and real/what happens. The creator of the series himself, Akira Toriyama never used these terms when it came to GT, in fact anything Westerners argued "Canon". Akira Toriyama would state that it would be apart of a side story.

"If you are able, along with me, to enjoy watching the original Dragon Ball's grand side-story Dragon Ball GT, you will be pleased."

Source: https://www.kanzenshuu.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=5411

Still very much considered genuine by the Japanese just in a different continuity.

In Japan, Canon is not a term used. If something happens in an anime series it still happens regardless separate reality or not based on storyline. Unless a creator decides to make something in the future that erases the event from a timeline.

Even when Akira Toriyama was re-desigining Broly to fit into the Super series, here’s what he had to say -

“I went ahead and watched the movies from back then, and I felt this could be quite interesting once I rearrange some things. I got right to work trying my hand at a story that incorporates him into the Dragon Ball Super series.”

Source: https://comicbook.com/anime/2018/07/09/dragon-ball-super-movie-broly-canon-akira-toriyama-anime/

Star Wars Canon arguments...

Here's where American perspective on Canon fails. If a creator sells of the rights for anyone to use their character in an agreement they are allowed to twist the perspective on story reality. Disney bought the rights to Star Wars and the creator has absolutely no say whatsoever. Disney decides what is "Canon" and what isn't. That is why Americanized "Canon" is solely based on perspective.

Let's be real here, if something is officially licensed and approved it is still apart of continuity in one way or another no matter how you slice it.

Westerners and Easterners see the world differently

Source (Thanks Mod Esther for supplying)

https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn7882-westerners-and-easterners-see-the-world-differently/

“There is plenty of anecdotal evidence suggesting that Western and East Asian people have contrasting world-views,” explains Richard Nisbett, who carried out the study. “Americans break things down analytically, focusing on putting objects into categories and working out what rules they should obey,” he says.

By contrast, East Asians have a more holistic philosophy, looking at objects in relation to the whole. “Figuratively, Americans see things in black and white, while East Asians see more shades of grey,” says Nisbett. “We wanted to devise an experiment to see if that translated to a literal difference in what they actually see.”

The researchers tracked the eye-movements of two groups of students while they looked at photographs. One group contained American-born graduates of European descent and the other was comprised of Chinese-born graduate students who came to the US after their undergraduate degrees

Each picture showed a striking central image placed in a realistic background, such as a tiger in a jungle. They found that the American students spent longer looking at the central object, while the Chinese students’ eyes tended to dart around, taking in the context"

By rules that some Westerners are raised to follow when it comes to Sesshoumaru and Rin: If you save someone at a young age they are automatically considered your child regardless by blood. Rin was only with Sesshoumaru for one year and with Kaede for three years.

They are also not thinking of the Japanese culture or time period.

Nisbett hopes that his work will change the way the cultures view each other. “Understanding that there is a real difference in the way people think should form the basis of respect.”

Respecting the time period and Japan's culture. Kagome teaches us that in the series.

In the series Miroku proposes to many young girls even Koharu when she was age 11 in Chapter 147 and Episode 41. But she comes back as a 14 year old.

At first Sango and Kagome were mad thinking Miroku was perverted with her when she was 11. But he tells them that nothing happened between them. They believed him. Sango was also furiously jealous of Koharu!

Kagome states "Things were way different back then.” Stating her respect for the time period and culture.

Ayame was the same age as Rin when Kouga proposed to her when she was 8 years old. She grew up, and they got married.

InuYasha is 200 and Kagome was 15. She became 18 then they married.

Rumiko Takahashi’s Fire Tripper - There’s time traveling back in forth from Feudal Japan to Modern Era. The boy Shu was brought in with her family and the girl was sent back in time with him where he thinks that’s his little sister. Then as she’s older she’s back in time once more, he wants to make her his wife then realizes she must be his little sister. But she says they aren’t because they are not related by blood. They get married. Pretty much an the same type of pairing.

Age of consent in Japan.

As you know Rin is 8 years old when she is first introduced into the series. 3 years go by and she is 11. Had been living with Kaede for 3 years since Naraku had been defeated. InuYasha states that it's up to her to decide on "what she wants" in the final chapter.

In the proposal Sesshoumaru states that there is enough time for her to decide.

Age of consent in Japan is 13

https://www.ageofconsent.net/world/japan

Back then once you hit puberty that was your adulthood. The world was a much more dangerous place and you had to mature, fast.

The audio episode is officially licensed and produced by the same staff that made the anime but that isn't the only supporting evidence we have that it's accepted by not only the creator and producers.

We actually have the official Adult Rin design.

The character designer and animator for the InuYasha series posted these official artworks of Adult Rin and Sesshoumaru

Rumiko Takahashi wrote strict rules to the animators to follow for each character on what you can/cannot do with them. One of them being, Kagome's skirt must always be covering her underwear.

When you work for a company and produce things you must represent the characters properly so you are not sued. There are rules Rumiko Takahashi gave the animators to properly represent her characters.

To the Japanese, and many Easterners. Sesshoumaru and Rin, InuYasha and Kagome, Ayame and Kouga maturing together - Falling in love with eachother is not an issue.

To a fraction of Westerners it’s led to hate and dis-respect to the time period and Japanese culture. However, even if you don’t like it - Shouldn’t mean you should disrespect one another over it.

Just to answer any questions. Yes I like Kagura and Sesshoumaru, or Adult Rin and Sesshoumaru, Kohaku and Rin. But I can care less who he or she ends up with. I don't even care if they really did end up being father and daughter figure. But from how I see it right now from what we have Kaede adopted Rin. If that's different I'm absolutely accepting of it. I also did tons of research, polls, and asked real Eastern Sinosphere members about how they feel and think about it!

All we know right now for fact that the production team like them as a couple and the kids are half demon.

What do I not condone is the name calling and the people who go out of their way to attack others. I think it's absolutely wrong to hate on eachother over a series we should all be family about. I don't go out of my way to search people's blogs to attack them. There are ships I don't like but I never go and attack them for it. Why would I take away from THEIR happiness?

I hope that clears anything up. Thank you for reading!

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phobio2000 · 7 years

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What is Chi

My brother went visiting China once. He saw that famous emperor's chariot, as featured in one of "The Mummies" movies that has Jet Li in it. He said that the technology of how they weld the two types of metals together is a mystery, that it's difficult to do, even with modern technology. I forgot exactly what he said but it was something like that. I've always been interested in ancient mysteries in a factual inquisitive way. Like, I won't be all caught up with ideas that aliens visited us way back when and built the pyramids, that kind of thinking. What I am interested in, are things like, "If the Library of Alexandria was not burned down, will our perception and understanding of past civilizations and history be drastically different than what we have today?" It's not just the library that got burned down, Qing Shi Huang Di, the first emperor of China, also burned a bunch of book after he United China. The first emperor of the Ming Dynasty also burned a bunch of books and forbids the learning of the special techniques used by his chief strategist because it was too powerful and he's afraid. The technique was the Five Elements System and the Eight Hexagram System. It can be used to arrange army formations and make it change In a jiffy during battle, it's good for weather forecasting, use the natural geographies for your advantage, and then there's a magical aspect of things, too, which is weird, but this is pretty well documented, that the founder of the Ming Dynasty relied on him as the chief strategies, that he used relied on these techniques, and that the empower forbid the studies of it later. He is even on Wikipedia, search Liu Bowen. The greatest military strategist of China, Zhuge Liang, is said to have written down his tactics, but it was not passed on. The most famous doctor in Chinese history, Hua Tuo, is said to have given his written documentation of techniques to the prison guard who took good care of his, but the guard's wife burned it without permission, thinking that it will bring trouble, yet my doctor said that one of his formulas did get passed on and it does work, it was a anesthetic for external applications. In the Bible we have Noah and the flood. In Chinese mythology we have Nu-Wa, who, when the sky was falling down, helped mend it, using stars as nail (so stars are nail marks that hold up the sky lol :D). Furthermore, the Chinese character for ship is the combination of three characters: boat, eight, persons; and so it happens that there were eight people on Noah's ark. The Chinese character for righteousness is a combination of the character "sheep" on top of "me." All very mysterious, but we'll never know, since the books got burned down. Communist China also burned a lot of books, but they did keep one library. There was this guy who has a hobby of collecting books. In his will, he said that the library must not ever split up. An emperor once made a request to make copies of his library. When communist took over, they just flat out took everything lol :D. Very modest lol :D. The Chinese society has also been so modernized, that these ancient Chinese things are not really taught in school in great details, unless you major in Chinese history or something. In addition, the ancient Chinese language is very hard to read; I can pick up a modern book and read it just fine, but I cannot read those ancient writings. The Five Elements and the Eight Hexagrams System is also used in Chinese medicine, which, although there's a logic and scientific aspect to it, it's also of cultic origin, yet it works really well. And even though it's popular, it's actually a dying art, as less and less people know how to use these systems to practice Chinese medicine. Well, I wrote a lengthy introduction because what I want to write about today is kind of tricky. I want to convey the point that the ancient world and the ancient Chinese culture is really mysterious, and although there's definitely cult and all the demonic influences and stuff, yet the smartest people in our history worked under this system and it sustained the civilization for thousands of years. I just don't want people to read and think I'm some cult leader with a secret agenda of misleading a bunch of people into hell lol :D. What I want to write about today is chi, blood, and spirit. The Gospel of John starts with "In the beginning was the word, and the word is God and with God. All things were made through him and without him there's nothing made." The original word for "the word" is Greek, "Lagos", and I think that pastor from Maranatha said that in Ancient Greek, they think that the world is made through "Lagos" or something like that. The Chiense translates "Lagos" as "Dao." Now, in ancient times, "Dao" carries a very different meaning. Today we have, say, bushido, which means "the way of the warrior", that's the most famous use of the word. Other uses include the way of brewing tea, the way of the sword, and etc. But in ancient times, Dao refers to the origin of all things. Taking things one step further, Iching ("yee-Jing") is an ancient book that's really strange. Daoists love it, through it came the Five Elements, Eight Hexagrams, theory of Chinese medicine, amongst other things. Once I ask a guy who has decent understanding of that book, "What does it say about how the world will end?" He said, "All things returned to the source," which is what the Bible says, too, that God will return and everything will be restored back to him. There's this famous Chinese evangelist, Yuan Zhiming. He was a leader of the Tiananmen student movement back in 1989. He studied philosophy. He escaped to France and eventually became a Christian. He wrote a commentary on Lao Tsu's "Dao De Jing" with a Christian perspective. I guess, if anything, it sort of affirms that the ancient stuff is murky and mysterious. Chi literally translates to "air." When God created Adam and Eve, he breathed air into them. When Jesus said "received the Holy Spirit", he breathed onto them. In Chinese medicine, chi is a force that sustains life, and there's various types of chi's, like ying and yang chi, and there are chi's that should be expelled from your body, like moisture chi and cold chi. Chi and spirit are related, and this is where the natural and the supernatural meet, as well. I have reservations about practicing Qi-Gong (chi-gong), thinking that it's too close for comfort, being so close to touching the spiritual realm. I think practicing tai chi and learn some healthy breathing techniques should be ok, though, maybe, not sure. Chi and blood is related. Chinese medicine often use the term "blood-chi". In the Book of Acts it says to not eat blood because it's the source of life or something. So I think blood is where the physical and the chi sort of shares a common ground, like a bridge, and then, chi and spirit also shares a common ground, like a bridge. What happens is that, God made us to be spiritual being, and after Adam and Eve sinned, they became spiritually dead, which means spiritually disconnected with God's spirit. And when we meddle with the chi without being connected with God, then we meddle with demonic spirit, which could lead to devastating consequences, though perhaps some tangible power, as well. In Forerunner Christian Church's Healing Room, they highly recommend that people not practice things like chi-gong, because when they pray over them and do what they do, they tend to encounter problems with people who practice those. I think this is something that they have a lot of experience with. So like, although I've been quite intrigued with this mystery, and I've the opportunity learn it, I only allow myself to kind of poke around and see what it is and see what I can glean using just logic, reasoning, and scientific mindset. Although, in the back of my mind, I've been VERY curious, what if I've been made spiritually alive again and reconnected with the Holy Spirit? But I don't think I want to find out lol :D. Jesus said that from our bellies will flow rivers of living water. The belly is also where chi is stored, it's a place called Dan-tian. Dr. Oz on his show recommended people doing belly breathing, which will give you more energy, and I think that's something derived from yoga. So here is where everything connects. When we pray, worship, read Bible, and etc., we accumulate God's anointing, one droplet at a time, and where does it go? Where does it get stored? TA-DA! Being able to tap into that and use it so that whether you lead worship or preach or do whatever for Jesus, and get that extra umph, is something I've been thinking about, and I think it gives tangible results. It's a convoluted mess, but at the same time, this seems to be where so many different ideas meet. To sum it all up. I believe that this system of who we are the way God made us, has been well researched by the ancient Chinese, that we are made to be spiritual beings disconnected with God. God's spirit is not able to connect, yet we're still made the same way. There's that chi of life that God breathed into us, and that spiritual connection has been replaced by demonic spirits, for those who meddle with chi beyond the physical, natural level. When we become Christians, we become spiritually alive again. The Holy Spirit dwells in us, and we are made whole, functioning the way we were designed. And, here's my thinking, that perhaps we can tap into the spiritual aspect of chi in the form of prayer and worship and things like that, and work in greater conjunction with the Holy Spirit, the way we were originally designed. And here's what I got going so far. Of course all that teachings about following Jesus and pray and study the word of God and stuff, that's a given. Staying true to God, live with clean hands and pure hearts, that's another given. Work hard, love God, love people and stuff, that's another given. Holy Spirit's anointing will slowly accumulate over time, given you stay the course. Stay loose, focus inward, imagine a soup ladle digging down there, scoop it up, and make a splash. I guess chi has more applications than just Kung fu lol :D. Everything kind of builds around this central idea. This is what I do at my work when I need to come up with creative solutions to solve difficult problems, just stay calm and tap in. Interesting ideas emerge, more times than not. OK, I am officially too embarrassed to keep writing. I feel like a fiction writer or a lunatic lol :D.

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