Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi Episode 2 Discussion

electricgaze said:

The five thugs are a clear reference and tribute to Takahashi's Uruseiyatsura: Ataru Moroboshi, Megane, Perma, Kakugari and Chibi.

Gorochu said:
Does anyone know if Rumiko Takahashi is involved in the story telling?

TasseKaffee said:
I'm feeling super conflicted about this, tbh. The episode in and of itself was fine, not great but well done.

But as a sequel to inuyasha my alarm bells are ringing hard. There are the obvious questions - why are all three girls growing up without their parents, why don't they recognise each other and why don't Kohaku and Hisui know Moroha?
But there are other things, too, the timeline for example. Setsuna looks older than Hisui (or at least very similar in age) which means she and Towa would have been alive in the first flashback episode already which is just ??? And even if they weren't, that would pretty much definitely rule out Rin as the mother and make her some random human woman and I really don't know how I would feel about that regarding sesshomaru's character and his relationship with humans.

Also the reused story beats, the need to throw in as many old characters as possible when they don't really need to be there, without giving them significant development (except for the main cast of course because we need some mystery for the old fans to make them keep watching). And yes, you could argue Sota is an adult now with a kid but does that count? Of course he would be older, that's only natural. But he doesn't do much, we don't see him interact with his daughter, we don't see his wife, we don't know anything about his life other than "he is older and has a kid now".
And somehow Kaede and the grandfather are still around without having changed at all, what's that about?

Idk, I really want to like this but I think if I want to enjoy it I have to stop viewing it as an inuyasha sequel because to me it holds up way better on its own than as a sequel.

kageromero said:
Everyone is here wondering where the original cast went, while I'm here wondering how Kaede is still alive, and how Souta somehow managed to get himself a wife and have a daughter. Cant imagine having a daughter whose origin and strength you can't explain makes getting a girlfriend easy...Guess the iron reaver soul stealer isn't the only thing he learned from Inuyasha

justtvalerie said:
I have so many questions.
How come Setsuna and Moroha don't know each other if they're cousins? Why did they grow up separately? How come Kohaku doesn't know InuKag's daughter? Where the hell are all the parents? Trapped in a separate dimension maybe? What are those jewels and how/when were they created? Did the parents put them in their eyes like Inuyasha's dad did with his or were they born with them like Kagome was with the Shikon?
God, I hope Kagome is alive, it will kill me if she's dead.

On a different note, it made me very emotional to see Sota as a grown-up :') And gotta love the fact that the cat, the grandfather and Kaede are all still alive, even though it's been like twenty years since Kagome left to live in the past.

z00nex said:
I didn’t get how Moroha is a half demon, isn’t she a child of half demon and a human?

Stranger_Hanyo said:
This is what happens when you don't have a manga for the source material. They have already started borrowing old elements(the centipede demon) from Inuyasha. I don't have high hopes for this show. Sigh.

Maesstrom said:
I think i've seen that gang somewhere before

MahiaErebeaNegi said:

Same here, compared this to the previous episode which was adapted from the manga (Well, not entirely but almost same as the manga), you can clearly tell the difference in story writing's quality between both episodes were lol.

Yeah, I don't have a high expectation for this anime as well especially after I watched this episode. I already have a mixed feeling the moment when I read the new MC's profiles saying that they don't remember anything about their parents. If not because the first episode is adapted from the manga I don't think I would even bother myself to follows the series lol.

BenRyan said:
I'm excited that Kagome's family will get to meet her daughter!

st3pn said:
Do i have to watch Inuyasha or can I watch this as a stand-alone?

DedPanda said:


Starting to wonder the same thing

RR529 said:
I know I'm late to the discussion, but I just created an account to try to clear up what appears to be a lot of confusion here in my view.

1. Towa & Setsuna were likely never living (alone) in a forest, and Towa's memory is altered. The fact that Towa was sent through time confirms that they were near the Sacred Tree/Tree of Ages, which is right outside Kaede's Village. It's likely Towa's memory of her parents was erased, and by being sent into the future she was spared her memory of her sister before that was erased too. Meanwhile Setsuna lost all her memories as she was stuck in the past (she'll likely have the exact same memories of living in the forest, just by herself, or with some sort of pet replacing Towa).

2. Memory loss probably only affected those in the past, and likely only those in/near Kaede's Village. We know from the end of the Final Act that Kohaku doesn't live with Miroku & Sango (or likely not in the village at all) as he told Tottosai that their house was too crowded. He was probably busy rebuilding the Slayer's Village, checked in on Kaede's Village once he learned it'd been attacked, and took in Hisui & Setsuna (who would have lost their memories, but Kohaku probably raised Hisui with the knowledge that he was his uncle).

3. Expanding on point 2, if Kohaku never found Moroha (for whatever reason), it stands to reason that Setsuna & Hisui wouldn't know her (and vice versa), as their memories from their time in Kaede's Village are gone. Likewise, even if he knew of her, it's been 10 years since Kohaku would have seen Moroha and of course wouldn't recognize her on the spot (he'll likely figure it out now that he's seen her use sacred arrows).

4. Again expanding on point 2, Sota's memories (and likely those of the entire Higurashi clan) were likely spared as they are in the future. He probably picked up on that Towa was from the past because of her hair color (and clothes). InuYasha has always been pretty grounded when it comes to human designs, and the fact she has silver/white hair (with a red streak) would be a dead giveaway that she's supernatural, as there's not exactly a lot of demons walking around in modern Japan.

5. As mentioned in the post above mine, there is no "random tree demon". It is the Sacred Tree/Tree of Ages possessed by Root Head from episode 1 (he was awakened by proximity to the Rainbow Pearls, which have been confirmed to increase demonic power).

6. The core OG cast is probably running around Japan without their memories (since they were in the village at the time of "the incident") or trapped inside of the Rainbow Pearls. It's highly unlikely that they're dead or purposefully bad parents.

Really, my only problems with the episode are the delinquents holding the Higurashi family hostage (it's such a stark contrast to how safe & normal the modern era was presented in the OG series as a contrast to the cruel world of the feudal era, and seemed a bit over the top for a series that's usually pretty grounded when it comes to real elements), though I'll give it a pass for them apparently being references to past works, and the fact that Mohora split one arrow into a dozen, which seemed a bit sillier that what we usually seen in the OG series when it comes to serious attacks (it would have been a thematically better fit for the one arrow to simply splinter into a rain of smaller fragments, which would have had the same effect, IMO).

TasseKaffee said:
I'm feeling super conflicted about this, tbh. The episode in and of itself was fine, not great but well done.

But as a sequel to inuyasha my alarm bells are ringing hard. There are the obvious questions - why are all three girls growing up without their parents, why don't they recognise each other and why don't Kohaku and Hisui know Moroha?
But there are other things, too, the timeline for example. Setsuna looks older than Hisui (or at least very similar in age) which means she and Towa would have been alive in the first flashback episode already which is just ??? And even if they weren't, that would pretty much definitely rule out Rin as the mother and make her some random human woman and I really don't know how I would feel about that regarding sesshomaru's character and his relationship with humans.

Also the reused story beats, the need to throw in as many old characters as possible when they don't really need to be there, without giving them significant development (except for the main cast of course because we need some mystery for the old fans to make them keep watching). And yes, you could argue Sota is an adult now with a kid but does that count? Of course he would be older, that's only natural. But he doesn't do much, we don't see him interact with his daughter, we don't see his wife, we don't know anything about his life other than "he is older and has a kid now".
And somehow Kaede and the grandfather are still around without having changed at all, what's that about?

Idk, I really want to like this but I think if I want to enjoy it I have to stop viewing it as an inuyasha sequel because to me it holds up way better on its own than as a sequel.