Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi - Ni no Shou Episode 17 Discussion

WatchTillTandava said:
Isn't Sesshomaru's mother still bitter at Inu no Taisho (Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's father, the dog daiyoukai and Great General of the West) for cheating on her with Izayoi (Inuyasha's mother)? Or maybe she was never bitter about the philandering specifically and viewed it as his lordly privilege or something or other in line with traditional customs similar to various human nobility and royals, but was mad over it being with a lowly human.

I ask basically because I wonder if she's still a hardcore youkai/demon supremacist and will not warmly welcome and receive her granddaughters, but discriminate against them as filthy "mudbloods" for having a human mother.

But then, she coldly received even Sesshomaru in the episode where he had to travel to the underworld to save Rin in the original series, so maybe that's just how she is and where he gets it from.

The best scenes this episode were easily with the trio of the reunited family of Inuyasha, Kagome, and Moroha. Moroha is just like Inuyasha (moreso than like Kagome, at least in the visible, obvious ways), which is interesting to see in a female form. Love Moroha.

And I don't really understand, when you think about it, why Sango is living the way she is. What I mean is, if Miroku had to do 1,000 days of training at that monastery retreat in isolation, then she is just living by herself since her children are grown older now (old enough within the context of the 1500s) to be mostly out doing their own thing working as demon slayers. And that's almost three years from the training alone Miroku would not be home and apart from her.

What I'm surprised by in a way is why she/they chose to go back to Sango's old home in that village in the first place. The village was totally exterminated as an entity and annihilated to the last man, woman, and child - barren and lifeless, thanks to Naraku ordering an attack on it to wipe out Sango's family and all opposition to his consolidation of power. It was essentially like Oradour-sur-Glane, France in WWII and completely depopulated. There were only mass graves. Whenever they went back to visit in the original series for some specific purpose, it was so still and eerie there, like a tomb.

Now it doesn't appear anyone else is living in the village besides Sango and if her children or Miroku come back/stay for however long. So I just question why she chose that route. I know she was always very family-oriented and maybe doesn't want to abandon her ancestral home and thinks it's respectful of her father/parents and all the innocents killed to stay there. But I thought almost for sure she would have moved to Kaede's village near the well after the events of Inuyasha (the series).

Edit: As an aside, the only thing that was dumb was Kirinmaru slapping the backlash wave aside like swatting a fly. They've faced many a powerful opponent who were eviscerated by it and literally reduced to smithereens. There's no real reason to believe Kirinmaru is that much stronger than most or all of them. He's that much stronger, to an extreme comical level of disparity, than, for instance, Ryūkotsusei, the dragon daiyoukai who even Inu no Taisho couldn't kill? Please. That's just a classic example of series-specific nonsense.