Talk:InuYasha (character)

message: I don't know who is always typing in the word "demon" in the article that was probably the third time I had to scratch that nonsense. The term "yōkai" is NOT equal to "demon". The term describes a far broader category of supernatural creatures that in fact do not have to have supernatural origin, but just became supernatural during their existence. The word may involve demons but to translate "yōkai" with "demon", is a very rough translation and in many cases far more than just incorrect. And if the word is used in the English translation of the manga or anime so keep in mind, that its incorrect. So please everybody who is working on this site: stop this, it really doesn't help and it's not adequate for wikipedia or any other kind of dictionary.--Inugami-bargho (talk) 14:02, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: InuYasha and other yokai are called "demons" in the official translations of these works. And "yokai" is not an English word, that is, most English speakers would have no idea what it means. Even if "demon" does not quite catch the exact meaning intended, it is still better than a meaningless string of five letters. This is the policy which has been accepted by almost all editors of articles about InuYasha. JRSpriggs (talk) 20:52, 15 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: Then I'd rather add a link to Yōkai rather than fix it to demon... I'm from a country right next to Japan and I know how different they are. BrianGo28 (talk) 04:21, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: I don't really mind if demon is used instead of yokai for most of the text, but it would be very appropriate to mention yokai with a link at least once, say in the intro, because of the cultural distinction between the Japanese yokai and the modern western definition of demon.--Boffob (talk) 04:38, 27 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Use of the word demon 

message: InuYasha is older than Kagome because if he loved Kikyo and Kikyo seem's to be bigger than Kagome than well shouldn't Inuyasha be kikyo's age?!? or older Plus the first article It say's InuYasha is 15 so then didn't it say in the series she was 15!  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Micsam77 (talk • contribs) 21:18, 6 July 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  He is older than her! 

message: I've finally merged the article into this one; I'll admit it's a little messy, but so much information was in-universe. Personally, merging this page might even be considerable. I linked all the redirects to this page, so that should be fine. WhiteArcticWolf (talk) 00:40, 10 August 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: So why does the Hiraikotsu have it's own article and isn't merged with Sango? Same with the other weapons?Moocowsrule (talk) 19:33, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Tetsusaiga merged 

message: I made a few edits to this page, which I think made it a bit better. I changed the Tessaiga part, from "Often Incorrectly written as Tetsusaiga" or something like that to "Written as Tetsusaiga in the English dub" because it isn't necessarily incorrect. And also changed Youki, Youketsu and Youkai to Yōki, Yōketsu and Yōkai.Moocowsrule (talk) 00:06, 19 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits 

message: I have the Kanji for Kenatsu, traditional and simplified,  but I'm not sure which to use... 剣圧 Simplified and 劍壓 Traditional. Moocowsrule (talk) 19:41, 31 August 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kenatsu (Sword Pressure) 

message: Which was arbitrarily referred to by only its english dub name by the way. I added the fact that Iron Reaver is only the english dub name, and the fact that the Japanese name is Sankontessou. Any objections?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by Battoubro (talk • contribs) 05:23, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: I removed it; it's POV (that it's a poor translation). If you want, just put . Most of InuYasha's attacks are not a direct translation of the Japanese, making it easiest to use that method instead of explaining every one. WhiteArcticWolf (talk) 12:56, 4 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title:  Edits on Soul Scattering Iron Claw/Soul Shattering Claw.