Is Inuyasha x Kagome just as bad as Sesshomaru x Rin?

[@crunchycrispychip3266]

It's the equivalent of someone marrying the kid he used to babysit. It's so weird and no, it's not canon like people claim it is.

[@almi8151]

He raised her for like 2 years chill, and even then he was hands off and made it clear she was to fend for herself... Idk I get being put off by it but I really don't think it's cancel worthy lol

[@itskurapikasfacenotsailorm]

​@@almi8151how does that make it better😭2 years is alot of time dawg.

[@unlimon6382]

​@@almi8151 dude wtf is wrong with you 💀

[@jakautunut1027]

​@@almi8151bro u are one disturbed indevidual

[@pennyinheaven]

Idk it was more like Jaken that really took care of her. Sesshoumaru was just there if her life was at risk.

[@kyuutakitsune7163]

It's the grooming for me. If he just met her once when she was eight and then got together when she is like 20 I'd have no problem with it, since sesshomaru would still be around 20 mentally, but dude raised her. Although I could be fine with it if it's from an angle of an atemporal immortal just indulging their humans wishes instead of a romantic relationship

[@genera1013]

He didn't raise her though. What did he do that counts as raising her? When did he even talk to her outside of saying "get your own food"?

[@SupHapCak]

You're more okay with two people using each other for sex than a genuine loving connection You're delusional. You literally described grooming, then said a relationship with real feelings involved is the problem.

[@darkcrystals4574]

​@@genera1013umm..... He took her out of that village gave her clothes protected her from any kind of danger if he didn't knew how to cook there's nothing he can do and if I remember correctly he had a slave to work for him and lastly his emotions are different than humans so maybe just he didn't knew how to take care of child probably but he loved her (as a child no stupid romance)

[@genera1013]

@@darkcrystals4574 Did we watch the same show? He didn't take her. She and the village were killed. He simply brought her back and she chose to follow him. Jakken isn't a slave. He also chooses to be there. He never said anything about cooking. He legit just said "fend for yourself". He's never even around and barely shows up in time to save her because of it. Did he ever say he loved her as a child? Or in any capacity for that matter? All he ever does is save her from danger. That is definitely how he shows his love, but it doesn't show what kind of love. Again, he doesn't even talk to her unless absolutely necessary. He and Jakken have more of a relationship. You are pushing your own feelings onto a character.

[@NaNa-ou1sg]

​@@darkcrystals4574 He also regularly visited her as she grew up. He's more uncle than father, but he was still an adult figure in her life growing up

[@ellebarron7112]

If you can't see the blatant difference between kagome and inuyasha and sesshomaru and rin you have problems. Inuyasha isnt in some maturity power dynamic at all?? He acts and looks the same age as kagome. Rin is a child who sesshomaru acts as a father or brother.

[@freashty]

Actually in terms of power dynamic, Kagome would be the one behaving inappropriately if anything She's absolutely the domme

[@Daisychains-it2tu]

Sorry to be random but Horimya episode 6 2:20seconds season 1

[@Kibatsume1]

Easy sesshomaru acted like a lord and treated Rin like a ward.he protected her , Jaken raised her for two years. Then lady kaede took over 😂 Different time in history 😢

[@Junoku]

*coughs and points at Padme and Anakin*

[@goldengamer8189]

*Points at God and Mary* 😂

[@matheusaraujo4570]

@@goldengamer8189oh boy I hope this doesn’t become a war

[@LitereallyNobody7]

I think it was she was 14 and he was 9 when they met. Didn't help that the romance felt kinda rushed with it feeling one sided at times

[@TheDeathmail]

Anakin had a one sided crush as a child... and only meets her again when he's a handsome young man...

[@americasteam2112]

Padme and Anakin isn’t the same. She was like 14 and had no feelings for Anakin. Anakin had a little crush on her. He was an adult when he met her again. She didn’t have feelings for him until they were spending time together in Naboo. She didn’t raise him or groom Anakin.

[@Pyr0ist]

my consensus is when the characters both meet and how they treat eachother. kagome and inuyasha both met and eventually both treated eachother like equals. sesshomaru and rin, it was like a parent child relationship, so that relationship in particular is bad in that. NOTE: this does not transition to all relationships, this is disregarding specifically age in terms of demon to human relationship i would assume. i do not support sesshomaru and rin being together. suck one of my balls if you do.

[@genera1013]

It wasn't a parent child relationship though. At least not one that wouldn't end up with a dead child. He did nothing for her except save her when she was in danger. For the record, I don't support the couple, but he was not a father to her.

[@darkcrystals4574]

​@@genera1013he technically was but didn't knew how to take care of a child and in the end he gave her away to someone but still gave her gifts and full support who he thought can take better care of her so if not a parent then a protective brother

[@genera1013]

@@darkcrystals4574 Brother I can at least see. A relatively shitty brother, but not nearly as bad as if he were viewed as her father. Parents have certain roles that go beyond swinging a sword in your defense. A brother can get away with less responsibility while still caring enough to at least keep you safe.

[@Cat_on_watermelon26]

Aight bet(Im a miner)

[@kulobumbo]

Also when they met is totally different. Inuyasha met Kagome as a teenager/almost adult. While Sesshomaru met Rin as a literal child. Inuyasha didnt raise Kagome but Sesshomaru pretty much did raise Rin. Thats the difference.

[@miavika1074]

Kagome also had a family of her own, unlike rin, she had a support system to fall back on, inuyasha never tried to change that, or her belief on whether they cared more about her than him, which is, like, step one in groomer relationships, isolation. Inuyasha never tried to separate kagome from her family for his own gain, AND she was constantly surrounded by their friends even when she was away from them. The guy would’ve never had an opportunity to “groom” her to his advantage

[@angelhedge1084]

Sesshomaru didn't raise Rin, Rin followed Sesshomaru after he revived her

[@miavika1074]

@@angelhedge1084 only argument seshomaru really has honestly. Only hope I have for that ship is he left her the f*** alone with kaede till she grew up and made her decision to come back. Otherwise, no matter how you look at it, it’s really weird that you watch a child grow up and then develop feelings for her. That’s not to say he planned to raise her and marry her all at once, frankly he doesn’t seem like the type to do either, especially when he’s after naraku 90% of the time. Person that feels closer to a parent to rin is Jaken, he’s always there to lecture and protect her, much like a father.

[@devonm042690]

@@miavika1074 When Rin was living with Kaede, she only saw Sesshomaru once a year when he came by to give her a kimono for her birthday. Even then, she only saw him from a distance and they didn't make eye contact or even see each other's faces because he would always fly high above the village and drop Rin's present. He never even said anything back when Rin would yell out a greeting.

[@miavika1074]

@@devonm042690 well that’s kind of better

[@amaryllisstarfell7221]

I don't care if it's canon, i really don't. It isn't canon to me, i saw them as adopted daughter and adopted father...it's all weird. I wouldn't wanna sleep with a kid i knew when they were 8. Saying you "can't apply human logic to it" sounds like the people thirsting over nahida from genshin.

[@shinybearevidra]

But Nahida isn't exactly Rukkhadevata, she's basically a kid, both physically and mentally, even if she's an Archon. People who thirst over her aren't justified either way.

[@Seami-bz6bt]

Ksbdkwvsi I'M SORRY PEOPLE THIRST OVER NAHIDA? I'm gonna be sick wtf She isn't Rukkadevata

[@amaryllisstarfell7221]

@@shinybearevidra yeah, rukkha was beautiful, back then sure be attracted to her past life but little nahihi? Nah man lol

[@amaryllisstarfell7221]

@@Seami-bz6bt yep, and ship her with wanda, alhaitham, cyno, so on and so forth. One of the things that caused cn genshin fans to hate wanderer was because they thought he was 'taking their waifu away from them' 🤢

[@Seami-bz6bt]

@@amaryllisstarfell7221 Oh gosh 🤢 I think I heard of the thing with Scara tho. They actually went around and started killing cats that looked like scarameow because of that too right? That's disgusting

[@TheCardq]

Youve also forgotten to mentiom the power dynamics of their respective relationships prior to Yashahime. There was basically no point in time where Kagome couldn’t just unilaterally decide to stop interacting with Inuyasha On the otherhand, Sesshoumaru was largely in control of Rin's life pretty much from the moment they met.

[@Catherine.Dorian.]

Plus kagome literally had the power with that necklace, he couldn’t dominate her or anything like that. And I think it’s highly different since kagome is a teenager versus a small child

[@jessiesargent7212]

Inuyasha would have harassed her into interacting with him if she really did try to cut ties. He needed a jewel detector and Kikyo wasn't always helpful or "alive". I do think Sesshomaru and Rin is weird, but I don't consider it grooming. I think there has to be intent and plotting for that.

[@devonm042690]

Sesshomaru didn't take Rin with him. He just didn't stop her from following him. Pretty sure that even before Sesshomaru started warming up to humanity, if Rin ever told him she wanted to try living with humans he'd beeline it to Inuyasha and tell him to take her to live with a human he trusts.

[@Aratta13]

​@@devonm042690didn't he do that already? By the end of the series he left her in the village and she'd been living with Kaede for a couple years.

[@chynag788]

@@Aratta13yes he even let her choose hed ask rin plenty of times

[@marshmallowbunnykins]

I’m so glad other people also thought this was weird!?!!! It totally broke my will to watch the show! Like every time I was forced to remember that age gap and how they interacted in the original show I got the ick so hard I had to stop watching. I was super disappointed and the fact that it wasn’t monk and sangos kid, or like even shippo’s kids?? There were so many options but they somehow went for the worst one.

[@aboxthatdrools]

Weak.

[@emilynam6084]

Real. I don’t count Yashahime as canon and I really tried to like it. If anyone asks, Inuyasha ended in the early 2010s and that’s the end of that.

[@VK_EL]

Uhh, there's a lot of discussion in the comments here on whether the author meant Sesshomaru and Rin to get together, and I had initially posted this as a reply to another comment. But I feel like this needs to be reiterated out here. I dont have a source but articles on her interviews usually summed up to - 1. Rumiko considers Inuyasha done after the final act and doesn't really see yashahime as legit in her mind (it was said diplomatically and in terms that wouldn't invalidate yashahime fans' love for the new show) - meaning all pairings at the end of the show are the only ones to actually get together. 2. On the matter of Sesshoumaru and Rin, she did not acknowledge them as a pairing and saw more of a guardian/ward relationship. They were meant to help each other get over their own issues and grow. For Sesshoumaru, it was getting over his dislike for humans, for Rin, it was getting a better life and leaving behind her abusive upbringing 3. She also made it clear that despite her own comments and thoughts, fans are free to interpret things as they like and enjoy her creation Lastly, my own interpretation of Sesshoumaru's mother's comment (about how he had Rin in his heart) was more along the sentiment of getting along with humans and genuinely caring for them like his father. You do not need to romanitcally think of friends and family to 'have them in your heart'. It was a thing to note as his mother probably did not see humans as equals, she doesn't seem to necessarily hate them but also doesn't think much of them. That's basically why she made the comment on how he was more like his father now. The reason why there is so much discussion on this topic is because of how close this series was to all our hearts and overall, I feel like making it explicit on who Sesshomaru's partner was a mistake. They could have very well gone on without making it clear that it was Rin. Leaving it open-ended would have satisfied both the shippers and anti-shippers. And personally, I would have actually tried to watch the show then. Just knowing that they paired these two together ruined the whole thing for me.

[@foxlunacy]

YES. I am glad someone else brought up Rumiko's comments. And I agree, I just cannot bring myself to watch the show knowing that they paired them together. Being found family who, as you said, helped heal one another was what made their relationship so meaningful. And /thank you/ for mentioning Sesshomaru's mother's comment because that is exactly how it came off to me as well. I don't understand why people can't believe that you can care deeply about someone and "have them in your heart" without it being romantic. He is her guardian and paternal figure, of course she is in his heart.

[@crunchycrispychip3266]

@VK_EL Thanks for bringing up Rumiko Takahashi's stance on their relationship. I've seen so many people say that Rumiko made them a couple when she never intended it to be that way. If she did, she would have used a different term when describing Sesshomaru other than "hogosha." Also, anyone who saw the original series and thought they were intended to be a couple has problems.

[@pinkishhaven5158]

true. Only reason I watched the show was cuz of Moroha (and any of the other side characters that reminded us of the old series, especially the Higurashi and Sango's clan)

[@emilynam6084]

This is exactly how I felt too. What would have been a great idea for a series is if Sesshoumaru himself got the spin off instead. I always loved his little found family dynamic with his two human kids and Jaken.

[@ilmondodigiulia1833]

I agree with you it made me cringe so bad and destroyed the beautiful image of their bond in my mind when I knew about them being paired…like what the hell he was like a father more than a potential lover🤦🏻‍♀️ yet the writer wanted to satisfy the fantasy of some creepy weirdos that were screaming that the two were a “ship”

[@mygenderisyes3519]

Apparently the og author had no input in this weird sequel

[@foxlunacy]

Yeah, Rumiko (the mangaka) has always referred to their relationship as platonic, with Sesshomaru being her paternal figure. I also remember an interview where she said that she considered Inuyasha to be a completed work, and Yashahime can be considered a "What If" scenario. I'm going with what the author says and ignoring it.

[@datpotat3945]

​@@foxlunacyperfect. I will accept this as true and not look this up anymore. This makes me feel better about the whole thing and I can pretend Yashahime does not exist at all. Good night

[@emilynam6084]

@foxlunacy Don’t let the rin x Sesshoumaru ship fans see this. They’ll just feed you a bunch of ridiculous reasons why the pairing works. I cannot see their relationship as anything but platonic.

[@ravenwhiteduck6460]

I wonder how old inuyasha's dad is when he ran into his mom, like how'd they meet again? How old was he? How old was she?

[@Abella_ruidera]

No worries they were adults when they met, the only thing bothersome here is he already had a wife and decided to shebang another woman

[@Aceofwolves]

Toga was 30 to 40 in human years (true age 3,000-4,000 years old), izaoi was in her 20s

[@Aceofwolves]

@@Abella_ruidera it was very common in that era for a man to have multiple wives so long as he could afford it. Since both toga and izaoi were royals... It makes sense

[@Austin-v7d]

Considering it was feudal Japan better not ask

[@chillitheconqueror3567]

Watching this show I was so sure that their relationship was sort of a father daughter relationship, with Sesshoumaru having to deal with the responsibility of taking care of a small child. Hearing they got together is fucking sickening to me

[@SpookyDeerArt]

i didn't even know people were trying to argue that inu/kag is the same as sess/rin.... that's crazy for REAL like it sounds like they didn't actually understand the show??? inuyasha is so clearly a teenager on par with kagome while SESSHOMARU IS AN ADULT??? AND RIN IS A CHILD??? girl thats so crazy i feel like i lost media literacy from learning about this argument. if you're going to ship something even if it's questionable or objectionable, just ship it. don't try to rewrite reality to make excuses and don't try to compare apples to oranges.

[@jaycemt2184]

honestly, i’ve never liked the sesshomaru and rin pairing, it was always sesshomaru and kagura for me. i always viewed her as a little sister type looking up to kagome (as well as being paired with kohaku)

[@AnonyMous-xv4ig]

They did look good together. But I think Kagura has already passed away in Inuyasha

[@APink176]

Yeah, I’m sad that Sesshomaru and Kagura couldn’t end up together. They had good chemistry. Rin and Kohaku would have been cute together (and age appropriate).

[@angelhedge1084]

That's like putting Sesshomaru with Naraku since Kagura's a female version of Naraku

[@Dragoncurse4]

I honestly prefer Sesshomaru with no one. He just seemed kinda above romantic encounters.

[@AuroraPaintBrush4444]

Classic joke about different fantasy races. Bartender bringing out a GIANT book about legal drinking ages for all the different races. Elves, Dwarves and humans would have different legal drinking ages

[@calvinmcneil9824]

That's because they would be declared as adults at different ages within their races

[@IkutoH]

​@@calvinmcneil9824 That's...the joke.

[@MiquellaisSaintTrina]

I was expecting the sequel to be dark. This is Sesshomaru and though he now has Bakusaiga, he still was set on his ambition to rule the west like his dad. Him being with Rin? I'm a bit 50/50 about that since he's pretty detached and just leaves her to her own devices or with Jaken except when he saves his charges and actually left her in the village after the final battle. Their relationship is like a Lord and his people. And I've watched several grooming animes disguised as romances which is honestly gross but Sesshomaru and Rin just confuses me. It's not grooming but power dynamics is definitely off the scale especially since Rin kind of worships him. Did I see the relationship coming? No. Sesshomaru is still ambitious and craved power though now he has a bit of empathy. If they were to pull something like that I expected Rin to be a lot older.

[@Its_Halley]

I completely agree, it's like..man...YOU LITERALLY RAISED HER

[@lnsflare1]

While their marriage is still not something I like, it their relationship in the series was more "they both imprinted on one another despite the fact that he barely interacted with her for less than a year before giving her to Kaede to be raised among humans while occasionally swinging by for short visits to drop off gifts and/or resources." If anything, their relationship in IY was more like stoic owner and chipper pet then even father/daughter or brother/sister.

[@KanieKallon]

What they should have done was use Kaname from the game, her storyline was very interesting more than Kagome's. Not only that she had some type of spiritual power similar to Sesshomaru kids. If they wanted a human it could have been her, I just thought it was lazy work personally. Also, kagome did not meet Inuyasha as an eight-year-old, or travel with him for two years. They are mentally and physically 15. Sesshrin was a fan of work for people shipping it. She just didn't want to do a new character.

[@catdragon7633]

I agree with this whole heartedly. When I explain this to people they try to make the same argument that inuyahsa is way older than kagome. That may be true in retrospect but at the same time she’s from the future and they both have a mindset of 15 in the series and that is seen in inuyasha and kagome personality. What I hated about peopel shipping rin and Sesshomaru together was not only the age gap but the relationship that the two had. I know Sesshomaru wasn’t always president in runs life but he never told her to leave and saved her from death. She was never romantically attracted to him. She just wanted a family because hers had died/killed off. Jaken if anything is more of a father to rin. On top of this shipping charters like this is pediphilia. This is the same thing as taking deku from Mha and saying that he gets with eri which is putrid in every way. This is why I hated the consent of yashihime because because it added onto the this ship. It wasn’t even made by rumiko. She handed it off to someone else to write useing her charters. The only good thing that came out of that show was moroha.

[@lisabarnes924]

Kagura shouldn't have died, so this could've been avoided.

[@PiTtamNunmul]

Sesshomaru wouldn't have given a fuck about Kagura except for pity even if she survived.

[@Segen_Bell]

​@@PiTtamNunmulNo, but atleast the fans could've pushed for that ship instead of whatever the heck this was.

[@peternagy763]

If The Sesshomaru/Rin romance storyline a must-do. I would take out Sesshomaru until Rin caught up to him mentally. Sesshomaru could be gaining power while traveling across the lands for 5-6 years. Then He returns, His military conquest is meaningless, because he has nothing really valuable to protect. After that He can realize that Inuyasha's family(Kagome and moroha) is something worth aspiring for. That way Both Rin and Sesshomaru could have developed to the point where their marrige feels organic. To me That sounds a little bit healthier relationship than what we got.

[@eeveelutiongirl9933]

I mean I think this literally what happened in the manga. He left her to be raised by humans until she was eighteen.

[@peternagy763]

@@eeveelutiongirl9933 Yeah, Maybe It doesn't work for me, because my only sources are the animes, and their departure feels more like being a shared custody type of situation. Especially when Sesshomaru dropping gifts for her sometimes. That is why the end result feels like grooming to me and others. Or It's just the fact that Rin never felt like someone with true autonomy, besides the fact that She was self sufficient at 11 years old.

[@peternagy763]

Then It a problem with the adaptation, not with the over all writing. Most Fans only know the animes and see Sesshomaru giving gifts to an underage girl and then getting her pregnant at the good old age of 17-18. It wasn't well developed enough to be a viable love story.

[@lulusuzu]

Thank you , omg I can't believe they did that. I thought it would be a father daughter relationship

[@CirocObama.94]

I always thought this was creepy

[@mikeharvey7966]

Sesshomaru revived Rin in the original series, and then like a dad with a cat he claimed he wanted *nothing* to do with, he learned to care for Rin & thereby humans. It’s messed up to have him in a sequel series make a child with his reluctantly-adopted pet girl. That shit is weird.

[@cillianhickey4472]

I don’t fully know why but when I see little kids I get an overwhelming sense to protect them

[@Kjll3rUnjc0rn5]

I felt what made their dynamic so beautiful was it wasn’t creepy. So much for that.

[@mariaocean2165]

??? I'm confused, because in interviews, it's stated by Rumiko Takahashi that she choose adult Rin to be Sesshoumaru's wife - saying something like "she was always his heart" and they fell Romantically in love as adults - after many years of low contact, because Rin was being raised by granny Kaeda to learn how to live amougst humans again - so she could choose as an adult to stay in the human world or return to Sesshoumaru's side and live in the youkai world (Reference Inuyasha final Act episode 26), the studio wanted another woman to be Sesshoumaru's wife, but Rumiko choose adult Rin. After reading the base script, Rumiko herself drew character designs of Towa and Setsuna - even though they studio had hired some else to design them. Rumiko was busy with "Rin-ne" so after designing Towa and Setsuna she stepped back and just supervised an bit. Rumiko has even stated in interviews that Kagura had an "unrequited love" for Sesshoumaru. Me, personally never saw the appeal, nor potential of Sesshoumaru/Kagura (even after final act - she just seemed to bit$hy to me) , but Sesshoumaru/Rin to me personally had an more big bro/little sis vibe - given their ages (8/9? Rin's real age in Inuyasha was never stated by Rumiko) and 19 year old with anger issues and daddy issues of his own. That's opinion having siblings myself.

[@petrichor1956]

What’s your source for the interview

[@Oswaldsluckinabag]

No she didn't? I could have sworn she said Sesshomaru and Rin were supposed to be a father and daughter relationship

[@mariaocean2165]

​@@petrichor1956"Rumiko Takahashi talks about Sess/Rin, and Inu/Kag at "Sunday cultural festival online 2021" ". And more interviews with her and the maker of Yashahime in the Yashahime manga.

[@mariaocean2165]

​@@Oswaldsluckinabag Nope, that was an mistranslation - she stated that Jaken was child Rin's " reluctant father figure" and Sesshoumaru saw himself as her " protector/bodyguard" - this was word was translated as "guardian", which many English fandom "felt" that meant "parental guardian ". Reference: " Rumiko Takahashi Discusses Inu/Kag and Sess/Rin "Sunday cultural festival online 2021" ' interview statements in the "Yashahime manga", and statements from the Yashahime museum.

[@VK_EL]

I dont have a source but articles on her interviews usually summed up to - 1. Rumiko considers Inuyasha done after the final act and doesn't really see yashahime as legit in her mind (it was said diplomatically and in terms that wouldn't invalidate yashahime fans' love for the new show) - meaning all pairings at the end of the show are the only ones to actually get together. 2. On the matter of Sesshoumaru and Rin, she did not acknowledge them as a pairing, and saw more of a guardian/ward relationship. They were ment to help each other get over their own issues and grow. For Sesshoumaru it was getting over his dislike for humans, for Rin, it was getting a better life and leaving behind her abusive upbringing 3. She also made it clear that despite her own comments and thoughts, fans are free to interpret things as they like and enjoy her creation Lastly, my own interpretation of Sesshoumaru's mother's comment was more along the sentiment of getting along with humans and genuinely caring for them like his father. You do not need to romanitcally think of close friends and family to 'have them in your heart'. It was a thing to note as his mother probably did not see humans as equals, she doesn't seem to necessarily hate them but also doesn't think much of them. Thats basically why she made the comment on how he was more like his father now.

[@deadpark121]

I think the bigger issue is the general relationship beforehand. Inuyasha and Kagome were always equals, so it's acceptable for them to end up together. Sesshomaru and Rin on the other hand were guardian and child, so it's very strange for that to turn romantic at some point.

[@Ash_Yu]

I agree. I really don't understand the point of making Sesshomaru and Rin bang. It's not built up in Inuyasha at a and the age gap is weird as fuck. Feels like it was only done so the new characters had a mom we recognize

[@Mush207]

How are you gonna be 500 uears old and have the mental capabilties of a 15 year old😂

[@saratronus]

To be fair, there's adults Human adults that are in their 40s that act like teens. 😂

[@Tranqwhirl]

Even if we accept that logic, a human dating something like that would mean the human will age a lifetime while the other matures maybe 3 or 4 years in that time

[@paulbaron453]

I could only understand and explain it like dungeon meshi explanation, where 13yo halfling is already an adult, bc they are short living race, while some elves or dwarves at that age are only little kids, bc they are long living races. So if character is of long living race and clearly on the same development level as character of short living race it's prob ok? But understandable, if one that of long living takes too long to mature, we have reverse problem...

[@dvstcod]

​@@saratronus got an uncle like that💀

[@hellfooliver1497]

I mean he was a child for his mother's whole life, so yeah, he grows up slowly.

[@SockMuppet]

I hated this idea too! It just didn’t sit right, especially since Rin looked to him as a protector as a child who’d lost everything. If they had met when they were both mature it would’ve been different. I got so much hate from people trying to defend this ship

[@justamoogle5268]

"does not call for it in the show" Sesshomaru's Mother literally saying *he's becoming like his father* , the show is quite explicit on their relationship, I've never understand why people think it was even close to a parental thing.

[@terridouglas7010]

Exactly!! Anime and especially manga proves it countless of times

[@CompSomAnichi]

Wait im confused what do u mean “he’a becoming like his father” in connection with Rin and Seshomaru? Did the father also raise their mother?

[@Oswaldsluckinabag]

It was a parental thing the original Creator literally said the relationship was supposed to be father and daughter. Stop trying to defend pedo ships you weirdo 💀

[@justamoogle5268]

@@CompSomAnichi basically Sesshomaru's attachment to Rin is the same as Toga's attachment to Izayoi. Both would do anything to protect their lover.

[@justamoogle5268]

@@CompSomAnichi Toga pretty much died protecting Izayoi meanwhile Sesshomaru would willingly go to the Underworld to save Rin

[@kurina4216]

I know I might be alone with this (maybe) but for me this is kind of the equvalent of falling in love with your childhood best friend after 10-15 years when you are adults. The body, mind and personality develops over the years so it's possible that you see people different after like 10-15 years, because after those years you did NOT fall in love with the kid just because it's the same person. Thank you for comming to my ted talk~

[@majaskaugenkuvaas23]

As said in the video, InuYasha and Kagome are the same age, they were both 15 in the beginning of the manga and anime so it's not the same. It's stated in the InuYasha Profiles book too

[@aiko9393]

My middle school friend married one of our school's admin. The admin was straight out of uni if I'm not mistaken, so he was 20ish while our cohort was 13-15 years old. They met again through mutual friends around 10 years after we finished middle school.

[@shineyluna1268]

There is a difference between a young woman falling for an older man, and a young woman being raised from childhood by the man she marries wtf

[@pyr666]

i agree it's bad for the fiction, but it wasn't particularly out of line for the time period. as fantastical as inuyasha is, it's very hard on things like politics and culture. a noble, as seshomaru sees himself, being older than his bride isn't unusual in feudal society.

[@GhostGamer799]

That what I'm saying back then marrying a young girl was nornal people thinking in there modern brain but nevrr think about the past era mentality

[@Abigail_Thoma]

Finally!!! I've had to explain this so many times to people, it's like D&D races. Elves live a long time but animal folk tend to have shorter life spans so it makes sense adulthood comes at different times for different races. I don't understand how hard it is to wrap your head around

[@houseofmatrix6174]

Rin & Sessohamaru are weird AF

[@QZTransports]

She 15 years old when she met Inuyasha but I was thinking about that when I was going to in show but the age Gap is really weird😢

[@1normallyimpulsive]

2 problems with this 1) if we’re considering diferentes races, it may not be an issue for them. 2) if we’re saying “mental age” is important, a 14-15yrs Inuyasha was originally groomed, and later gaslighted, by a 17-18yrs Kykio (being 1year younger than Sesshomaru) And the show paints them as tragic lovers, only condemning Kykio for wrongfully blaming Inuyasha for her death. I don’t think an “age gap” & “grooming” is the root problem, because they’re are many people still ship Inuyasha with Kykio. I think the root reason is because Rin felt like her age; 8yrs old. Grooming/ped0 is wrong, I just noticed that people are okay with teenagers entering deep romantic relationships as long as there’s chemistry & the teen has frequent moments of maturity. (Which is why many don’t care about Kykio despite her being in a position of authority & being older than Inuyasha). Rin is explicitly, unquestionably, and unforgettably a child. Far from 18yrs old, let alone 15yrs. Inuyasha & Kykio are closer to 18yrs, at most a 3yr age gap, so people turn a blind eye. So what is really being said “we cannot justify the relationship because it is painfully obvious that Rin was younger & more innocent than the rest of the cast, therefore being unjustifiable” Sidenote: Sess & Rin could just have an unhealthy codependency. Because of which, affection has became blurred. White night syndrome.

[@MinaStone-wv5uy]

Also, they were fairly explicit that that’s his daughter. They had a familial relationship where he treated her like his daughter, come on guys 😭

[@ohemdoublegee]

Its not grooming. He left her in Kaede's village as a child so she could grow up around humans and live a normal life. She meets him again at 18 and they talk, spend personal quality time, and it forms an adult relationship when they are both adults. My only advice to anyone is READ THE MANGA. He may have met her when she was a child but they fell in love as consenting adults 10 years later. Its like someone knowing their brothers friend as a child and then they dont see each other for years and then as adults get together. It is not that weird. But again... READ THE MANGA..

[@rosedelacruz8232]

i have read the yashahime manga, and there in the first part they explain rin and his relationship is when she is sitting by him as a child eating food and a box shows him saying "and he found human love" the wording and placement is wayyy out of there, and in the case she had the twins at 18 (which its said she did) we see yes development, but not all at the ages of 18. non the less her being 8 when they met is messed up, and the factor of this is the feudal era yes, but morality wise yashahime was made in 2021, recent modern ages, not even Rumiko in the 2000's made things like that

[@mariaocean2165]

​@@rosedelacruz8232 ??? I'm confused, because in interviews, it's stated by Rumiko Takahashi that she choose adult Rin to be Sesshoumaru's wife - saying something like "she was always his heart" and they fell Romantically in love as adults - after many years of low contact, because Rin was being raised by granny Kaeda to learn how to live amougst humans again - so she could choose as an adult to stay in the human world or return to Sesshoumaru's side and live in the youkai world (Reference Inuyasha final Act episode 26), the studio wanted another woman to be Sesshoumaru's wife, but Rumiko choose adult Rin. After reading the base script, Rumiko herself drew character designs of Towa and Setsuna - even though they studio had hired some else to design them. Rumiko was busy with "Rin-ne" so after designing Towa and Setsuna she stepped back and just supervised an bit. Rumiko has even stated in interviews that Kagura had an "unrequited love" for Sesshoumaru. Me, personally never saw the appeal, nor potential of Sesshoumaru/Kagura (even after final act - she just seemed to bit$hy to me) , but Sesshoumaru/Rin to me personally had an more big bro/little sis vibe - given their ages (8/9? Rin's real age in Inuyasha was never stated by Rumiko) and 19 year old with anger issues and daddy issues of his own. That's opinion having siblings myself.

[@shipperran8679]

giving gifts every certain times, isn't that kinda grooming...if the intention is *to be his future wife*

[@rosedelacruz8232]

@@shipperran8679 this sounds wrong on 99% different levels since he was giving gifts to her when she was 12 and dropped in kaedes village

[@shipperran8679]

@@rosedelacruz8232 ok, thank you for correcting me 🙌

[@psychoinferno4480]

I once searched this tv trope and it's called "Wife husbandry"

[@zaharatheangel7526]

Tbh I never saw their relationship as more of big brother and little sister not lovers

[@rmt3589]

Makes sense for the species. A human's life is pretty insignificant to that of a demon(hengeyokai). 8-80 is a pretty insignificant difference. Not saying it's okay, but we are also judging it from a human standpoint. But from a human standpoint, it's 100% sexual grooming, albeit with no intention. Might explain why demons don't mix with humans much. Might be basically grooming & pedophilia no matter how old the human is, as kiade going from a kid to the oldest person in the village wasn't even equivalent to a year for a half demon. Inuyasha is basically still a kid in Yashahime, while Kagome has fully matured as the adult in the relationship. These long-lived species can gain such an intellectual advantage without the maturity, even the maturist of humans are like little child. I think from Seshomaru's perspective, they're all the same. Exception is the only human he ever felt affection for, which knowing his story and his family's story, assuming its romantic love is the only realistic conclusion for him to make. It doesn't make the show bad, it makes it realistic. Ultimately, Seshomaru accidently groomed a child, and made children with her as an adult. This is not okay, but as a character perspective. Seshomaru is also too ignorant and uncaring about human culture to ever care. Would love to see his daughter's reaction and shock to discovering how she was conceived, especially being from a much more modern version of Japan. Seshomaru at 0 emotional intelligence, and her at high trying to explain the problem, while he both trying to console her and not caring about the actual concept, would make one interesting scene. Regardless, yashahime is amazing, and feels like a perfect continuation. Either don't think about this too much, or realize it's an accurate reflection of who Seshomaru is as a person.

[@emmalacher9370]

I agree it is weird that they put rin in shesshimaru together like that is like the worst relationship in the whole series like he was older than her so basically they just made his relationship to her like a grooming case and then she started to fall in love with him because he groomed her for so long and nobody in the show said it's not right The Gomez was okay with it everybody was okay with it and I'm just like no this is not f****** okay this is needs do you like he's a older dude and she's a child like what the f***

[@EerieNone]

All I ask is that the relationship is healthy and no one looks/acts like a child

[@amandahallows5444]

THANK YOU! This sequel doesn't exist to me purely based on this fact alone.

[@yeye3282]

Idk i really like the dynamic of an inmortal being with the human they protected and in adulthood this human realizing that they love the inmortal one, and the inmortal one finally having someone to love back even when they know that their time is short. Its pure fiction and knowing to differentiate reality and fiction is important.

[@NightcoreTMC]

OH NO!!! I just realized it!!! Now things look a little bad.... REALLY bad.

[@pcsurgeontheoriginal8015]

If I met them at 8 and didn't have anything resembling a relationship with them for the better part of at least 12 years years then maybe if we connected as adults. But not if I basically f***raised them as I remember seshomeru doing. Kinda gross thinking about that. I have not seen the continuation of the show past orig series.

[@KieraYoung-zv4vv]

They should've made a prequel. Inyasha father's story was sooo interesting

[@Soso-ho9wv]

Jacken is the father figure to Rin and sesshomaru more like a protector. Through the manga as well as the anime sesshomaru considered Rin as someone valuable so yeah their relationship turned to be like inuyasha and Kagome since Rin offered help to sesshomaru when he was injured so in return his morals obligated him to keep her safe .Plus she only accompanied both of Jacken and sesshomaru for less than a year which is the exact time of inuyasha and Kagome journey , after that Rin started to live in a human village. P.S. the yashahime manga makes sense following Rin growing up from a childhood phase to maturity ❤

[@freesia_8]

Rumiko rocking the def jam shirt 🗣🔥🔥

[@Sailrjup12nh]

One of the best manga is Hana to Akuma. A manga about a demon who finds a baby and raises it, though he is not around much. But when she gets older she falls in love with him. It’s a beautiful story.

[@doctorfloppa2021]

Here’s the weird thing, in 30 years rin would be 38 and sessomaeu would still be around 20 mentally, how does it work then

[@kou7191]

"parental figure becomes love interest" might as well be its own genre in anime.

[@9elypses]

My sister admitted to me that she slept with the oldest brother of my first childhood friend. They met when she was 5 and he was 20. She slept with him when she was 25 making him 40. I've never been so angry but it's been 3 yrs and luckily she married her childhood best friend.

[@nelfairy723]

There’s a lot of anime like this that came out in the 90s: Sailor Moon, Inuyasha, Fuushigi Yuugi, Bastard, etc… that show tons of grooming and very young children eventually ending up lovers with a much older person which is not great. As a kid I thought nothing of it but after rewatching as an adult I found it disturbing so I agree with you on Rin and Sesshomaru.

[@sidneyrosey]

Tbh I think 14-year-old me would’ve been so excited but 28-year-old me is so distraught. It’s like how we used to think twilight was the coolest thing in the world until we got older and realized how toxic and problematic that relationship was. And I know this is feudal times and marriage had a different connotation back then . . . but what do they even talk about?

[@alniwoodsman4565]

**cough** **cough** ᴰʳᵃᵏᵉ

[@stonks3507]

The amount of people defending this is fucked 💀💀💀 Noah needs to get the boat /J

[@eventhorizon2264]

No, i would never consider dating them when they got older that is just weird, Seshomaru and Rin shouldn't be together in that way. I literally saw it and was like nah i aint watching this shit

[@pinkishhaven5158]

Agreed. I always saw Rin and Sesshomaru as like faughter-adopted daughter so Yashahime was awkward. Like, no matter how much they "aged up" Rin in the sequel I couldn't still not see her as that little girl (especially since I just finished rewatching Inuyasha when Yashahime was announced).

[@angelhedge1084]

In feudal Japan, age did not matter when it came to marriage. If a girl is between the ages of 16 to 25, she can be married to a man of any legal age. Sesshomaru was of legal age to court and marry her if he wished

[@venuxcu7454]

There was this one lady that I was talking to about it and my main point was exactly this, the fact that he takes her in and shows basically NO inclination other than her protector in the original show. The chances of Rin realistically seeing Sesshomaru in a romantic light just because she grew older are LOW. Let alone Sesshomaru seeing her as anything other than a child. Her response was “Well she doesn’t see him as a father figure!!! Never did!!!!! Have a nice day!!!!!!” As if she could say on behalf of this FICTIONAL character who, even if that was true, isn’t the point. That logic only makes it worse 🙄

[@yubinator7455]

I think it is also because Inuyasha and Kagome look like teenagers while the other two....

[@Seasmallie]

Honestly my first time watching the anime. I always thought Sesshomaru and Rin would end up together though. Even when I got older and re-watched the show again. There were two episodes specifically that I figured this from. Together forever with Lord Sesshomaru was a prime example. They traveled less than a year together and he left her with Kaede to make her own choices and visit to make sure she was adjusting well there.

[@Napstabloookie]

I was spot on with Inuyasha! 😂🎉 I rewatched it a few years ago and decided he was just a year old puppy. That's around 15 years in human. 😂

[@CheesyChels4]

THIS OMG. When i found out they had twins...I was like WHAT?! I vividly remember her being a little kid dying & being brought back to life & raised by Sesshomaru...then they become romantically involved when she''s 18?? the fuck

[@chuuu4610]

I was 6 or 7 when I first watched Inuyasha as a kid with my older brother. Sesshomaru was my favourite bc he was so pretty. As a 20 something year old woman I laughed when Yashahime came out.

[@kenmasbrother1239]

We have that in our country in real life, A girl and her husband met when she was a child and her husband was the host of the show she was competing on. Fun fact, they are seen as an "It couple"

[@DDs878]

That was a real Bunny Drop moment😅

[@pantamews]

Kagosha is more understable honestly 😭😭 THEIR BOTH TEENAGERS THE OTHER ONE IS JUST IMMORTAL THERES NO GROOMING INVOLVED!!

[@LeBeau_42]

They're demons: Aging is obviously different for them. It's fine as long as both parties consent and are of age, which is why Sesshōmaru literally waits until she's older. That's not grooming. He makes no attempt to make her love him, barely talks to her, and only protects her. Grooming is literally manipulating the child into thinking the romantic relationship is ok and engaging in it while they are still a child. He even drops her off in a village to grow up with other humans after the series ends and just comes to visit to give her gifts and check on her. He makes no point of being her brother, father figure or anything more than her protector.

[@Ironcorgi2]

So here’s the thing that’s also super creepy is that rins children were born when she was 14….

[@bellanoire639]

Inuyasha and Kagome's age gap is fine because when Inuyasha turns human he is around if not the same age as Kagome. Her character is still annoying to me though😑. Sesshomaru and Rin were very clearly depicted as having a paternal relationship in the anime and nothing more. They should have kept Kagura alive or brought her back because they had more chemistry and would have made a great couple. Or just got someone else that was closer in age. It seems like the whole "Rin & Sesshomaru" thing was a move to try and stay "Cool and Relevant" with the times. You can see that in the way they did Sesshomaru's daughter Towa. However, all it succeeded in doing was making me refuse to watch it and stick to the original and fanfictions. They had a chance to do something great and they ruined it. Why do people always ruin it when it comes to sequels?

[@Eclips_Marshin]

Way ain't no body talking about roxy and reduce she was 40 he was 4 in season 1 he is now 17 she is 53 like com on 😭🤮

[@BSReese93]

But always remember it's Kikyo over Kagome, all day every day for Inuyasha

[@fanime1]

Do people seriously forget that Inuyasha was literally asleep for most of those years? He was practically frozen in time.

[@user-rz8pz9vo6z]

If you met them like once or twice and maybe know their name it's one case, but if you lived near them I can't imagine how can you date them

[@SilverFoxSpirit97]

Even without considering the age gap, THIS MAN RAISED HER!!! He was basically her father! Inuyasha and Kagome met when she was not an *actual child* and they were friends, not parent and child! Big ew!

[@TotallySoulEater]

The difference between them is the fact that Kagome & Inuyasha were both “equals”. They were both able to fend for themselves. Kagome had the choice to be like “yeah no.” And keep it like that. Rin met this my boi when she was practically a fetus and couldn’t fend for herself. She was RAISED by fancy-full-blooded-demon Mc Gee

[@katty5901]

I usually make exceptions, though, if the child character grows up to be the one doing the pursuing. I find that this dynamic usually absolves the power gap. For some examples, in MXTX's Scum Villain and Heaven Official's blessing, the romance doesn't start until after a significant time skip and when the once child characters grow to become powerful overlords, both having one sided crushes for the longest time and the older characters being completely oblivious/uninterested before hand.

[@felinesmite5170]

To me this actually is a huge part of why demon and humans shouldn't be in long term romantic relationships in the Inuyasha world. Inuyasha needed 150 years to reach a mental age of 15 - and he's clearly mentally and physically aging considerably faster than Sesshomaru if we consider the 'Swords of an honorable ruler' movie canon (since it shows Sesshomaru to be AT LEAST a teenager in demon years when Inuyasha was born - which means that Sesshomaru went from teenager to slightly older teenager in the time Inuyasha went from new born to high schooler). Basically, Inuyasha won't even grow past demon young adulthood during Kagome's whole lifespan. They're relationship was fine when they were both mentally 15, but at one point Kagome will be a lady in her early 60s still married to someone who's mentally and physically in their late teens - which sounds both gross and incredibly annoying. It would be even worse for Sesshomaru and Rin, since he ages even slower than that - I could maaaaybe see their feelings for each other getting ambiguous during the brief time of her life in which they're the same age, but then he'll be mentally 20 literally for the rest of her life, and I can't see any romantic relationship between the two of them evolving in a good direction. I'd be actually interested in seeing Rin going from Sesshomaru's daughter to his sister to a sort of motherly figure in his life (kami knows Sesshomaru would benefit from an adult parental figure who could actually teach him to handle emotions) as she gradually becomes mentally and physically older then him.

[@MargoZeroSpark]

The only thing I think I have to add to this is that a lot of ppl get the ick (rightly so) cuz they think sesshomaru raised rin, they were only together for a few months before he left her in the human village to be raised. Now all the other red flags I got nothing, but hate the pair for valid reasons cuz there are a lot to choose from

[@ChasehaWing]

Yeah I am not a fan of giving Sesshomaru a literal child bride!!! Girl was 17-18 when she had her twins. It's REALLY gross. It was grooming. And I am not a fan. 🤢

[@angrycat3761]

Bro literally said "Pre order"

[@BigbenBigben-iz5xr]

This is one of the flaw in a Long Live species in fiction. What about the other way around. they get married. Sesshomaru he's mentally 20. Let's say Rin married him at age 20. mentally they are the same. When she turn 80. Sesshomaru mentally still in his twenties. She would have live her whole life. She wouldn't have been mentally the same. You can see it two ways 1. Rin can see Sesshomaru as her Rock not changing her entire life 2. She is in her 80 thinking she married to a child. They're probably are more but I can only think of those two off the top of my head.

[@stevenrobnett7390]

Like lord if it wasnt for the age thing people would be championing this couple. Let me put it into this context Guy bad boy silent reserved doesnt know love or how to love does like people even hates his brother Girl abused mistreated (killed by bandits "men") caring loving girl but timid and afraid Girl finds guy hurt and shows him compassion breaks guy out of shell and shows him how to love and protect even his brother Guy saves girl and brings her back to life protects and genuinely loves her above all else he treats her right and lets her flourish into a strong and resilient woman thats no longer afraid gives her everything she needs and could want Like seriously outside of the age thing just saying sesshomaru x rin all day ill say it even if you wont

[@sistersroomco2790]

This era would see that as immoral because we have law and age standard which what impact of our own point of view that it is immoral... But we shouldn't avoid the fact that days of time, it is normal. Children maturing a lot faster... If Sesshomaru didn't see her in romantic way since beginning, Rin would growing to have one.

[@lestell2158]

The one defense for this that just really irks me is when people are like Oh It's based in a different time... I don't care what time period It's based in I care about the time period It was made in

[@axc1x]

ITS ACTUALLY CRAZY THOUGH-

[@gearsie_]

soon enough Leonardo is gonna be saying "yeah"

[@hills625]

also the first time kagome and inuyasha met kagome was 15-16 soo like the double of a literal TWEEN Rin. while kagome was a teenager

[@Whysoshort]

This has the uncomfortable implications that Innuyasha was still 25 mentally as Kagome got older

[@gl4d10]

bruh, as inuyasha being my first anime that i was like dead obsessed with, cancel me, i feel like rin and sesshomaru make more sense in my heart and brain then kagome and inuyasha ever did

[@Segen_Bell]

Ahahahaha, the second story didn't happen for me. Seishoumaro is a father to rin and he is raising her. This is not an usagi drop moment.😂😂😂😂😂 THIS IS NOT AN USAGI DROP MOMENT 🚫🚫🚫❗❗❗❗