Finally watched the last ep! XD Overall, 7/10 stars! It definitely had its strong moments, and the reunion between InuKag and Moroha will forever be iconic for me. I wish the Sessrin fam’s reunion could have been done with a bit more creative license, but I do understand why Sunrise chose to make the decisions they did.

For one thing, expecting explicit affection from Sesshoumaru was never going to pan out; Takahashi-sensei has never portrayed him as the physical affection type. Sunrise was definitely constrained by the boundaries Takahashi-sensei had in place for Sesshoumaru from both the manga and OG anime, so they had to get all kinds of creative for it. Lol I’ll take the small wins I guess!

Finally, it kinda goes along with one of the overall themes of the anime: demons are capable of love, just as much as humans. Their show of love may not be familiar or relatable to most humans (as they tackled in the last episode), but it’s still love.

It’s one of the rare instances that definitely highlight how although Moroha is a quarter demon compared to Towa and Setsuna’s half demon status, she understands much better how demons think and behave. Having been raised in the wolf demon tribe, Moroha understands she needed to go through taxing (some may say even traumatizing) hardships in order to make her stronger.

I think it’s why InuKag’s reunion with Moroha is made all the more utterly satisfying, because we all know in our heart of hearts that had InuKag been given a chance to raise Moroha from when she was a baby, Kagome would have doted and potentially spoiled her. Whether or not this would have changed Moroha’s character in the long run is up for speculation, but her understanding of demons is invaluable to the twins, methinks (and proven correct as shown in the final episode).

They mention it a few times in the anime how Sesshoumaru has enemies all over the place and without a doubt, it’s probably the same for Inuyasha as well. Moroha began the series as being a strong character but very lonely, and at the end of it has found the family she has always yearned for.

The Warring States era was in and of itself a dangerous time period to live in historically; it was a precursor of about 150 years just before the Tokugawa Shogunate came fully into power, so Japan was in a constant state of civil war. Looking at it from this lens, it’s not surprising that—both within the context of the anime and in real life—some people back then probably thought it was a blessing to have survived difficult challenges when faced with them. It would have gone given them an opportunity to become stronger when their lives could have been upended so easily from one day to the next.

But having said all this, I’m glad the final episode addressed the twins’ insecurities with their father. It wasn’t the capstone to the series we wanted, but I personally think it’s something we needed in order to appreciate the show’s themes!

On that note, I think what amused me a lot was the antis and their obvious relief in the show having finally been over, lol Imagine wasting time for something you hate for that long over fictional characters. Can’t relate, bestie~