Talk:Kagome Higurashi

message: Does anyone else find it odd that despite a budding and growing romantic relationship, Kagome still keeps Inuyasha under the proverbial leash of those 'rosary' beads? It seems downright bizarre to leave them there, yet he never complains. I guess since he posed a danger to her at first... 
There's just this continual feeling of an abusive relationship going on. Anyone else feeling that? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.245.29.229 (talk • contribs) .
:Yeah, I thought that as well, but watching Tenka Hadou no Ken, I understood it more. It's the link between Inuyasha and Kagome that allows him to pass through the well (I believe) and if you watch, in some places (both the second and third movies come to mind) Kagome uses their power to save Inuyasha, i.e. free him from Sou'unga's control or evade Kagura's Dance of (I think it was Blades...haven't watched the second in a while). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 66.212.40.254 (talk • contribs) .
Even after reading "Release" a beatiful fanfic by Nimbusthedragon, I don't think so, wen he goes after Kikiyo she can sit him, if she get's lost she can follow the screams and thuds, but most imporantly, in the 3rd movie she  uses them to save his life by allowing him to duck! And ofcourse, in the fourth movie he wouldn't let her see his scar, so she can make him "sleep" if he dosen't behave durring treatment, it's a security blanket to her, I have something simaler with my Boyfreind, if he misbehaves I tell him he can't read (or hear about) the next volume of Skip Beat, easy, -CaptinAsagi  —Preceding unsigned comment added by CaptinAsagi (talk • contribs) 18:56, 21 February 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: A thought

message: Hmm...I have seen this spelling for Kikyo, and it is said to be more phoneticly correct than Kikyo, the name that was used in the translations into english.  Either way, a re-direct and mention of this in Kikyo's artical would be greatly appreciated.  --Broken 01:54, 26 October 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: It depends on which system you use to translate the kanjies. Since her name in japanese is 桔梗, the termination asks for a long o. This can be translated in several ways: Kikyō, Kikyoo, Kikyoh, etc. I have noticed while fixing disambiguations that most InuYasha articles are written in their "wrong" version. That is, in example, Kikyo, ommiting the long vocal. -- ReyBrujo 05:19, 5 December 2005 (UTC)
thread_title:  [[Kikyou]]? 

message: I just updated and clarified a bit of points, mainly expanding the section on Sango and editing the section with Inuyasha a touch. 159.37.7.48 15:47, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationship Section 

message: This article is in need of NPOVization.
"She is lively, petite, and cute (as some anime viewers would say)." - This is known as a weasel statement. Evidence?
"Her temper gets in the way sometimes in the argument between Inuyasha but other than that, she is kind and gentle," - Ahem. Osuwari is neither kind nor gentle
"and forgives mistakes and fights rather than holding a huge grudge against everyone." -This is a pointless statement. What bad things have ever happened to her that would cause her to have a grudge
"She's very thoughtful and although some viewers consider her "weak", she turns out to be the brave heroine in the story" - She is neither brave nor a heroine. The most amazing thing she's ever done is shatter the jewel into infinity pieces.
There is nothing bad about her in this entire article, which leads me to believe it was written by a 'shipper.
Please fix, I am too lazy
:If you are too lazy to fix it yourself then stop barking all over the place with your pointless and biased criticism.. ;p  (216.99.60.22 00:37, 31 August 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Yeah...I mean, I like the series, but Kagome's main trait seems to be selfishness and grudge-holding, not what the article paints her as - for example, whenever they meet up with Kikyo, she always assumes that Inuyasha and Kikya are off smooching - even though they are usually just discussing tactics about Naraku. Or the fact that, well, she nearly always believes the worst about Inuyasha and Miroku, even when there's no reason to. She's not racist against half-demons, I'll give you that - but she's not "flowers and sunshine" like the article claims.KrytenKoro 05:39, 16 August 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Where is the NPOV? 

message: is Kagome in junior high or high school? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.84.0.4 (talk • contribs) .
:Junior High. In the second movie, one of her friends says something about having to write a huge report even though they're in junior high. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Banjotooie142 (talk • contribs) .
In teh episode Go Home Kigome, or whatever it is, she is in the middle of taking High School Entrance exams. That means she is in no higher than 9th since High school starts in 10th there. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secondary_education_in_Japan Irishgt 17:12, 16 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  school 

message: This user keeps vandalizing the Relationships section in both Inuyasha and Kagome page. Must be a child.
(216.99.49.214 21:15, 1 September 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  {{user|207.191.205.225}} 

message: The current image is awfully fuzzy. Surely there's a higher quality one that we could use. Redxiv 02:48, 4 January 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: It does the job, which is to identify the subject of the article. It doesn't need to be high quality, and probably shouldn't. --Farix (Talk) 23:42, 22 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Picture 

message: My apologies for the supposed "vandalism"; it was a mistake coming from a browser screw-up. Sorry about any inconveniences. Lunamaria 22:22, 23 January 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Whoopsie. 

message: I notice that "Kikyo" is listed as an alternate name for Kagome. Is it really correct to say this? In the story, Kikyo and Kagome are presented as two completely separate characters. The article makes it seem as if "Kikyo" is another name Kagome is known by or that Kikyo and Kagome are the same person, which just isn't true. Should this be changed or perhaps omitted? 24.144.151.182 19:18, 25 February 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I would not have put it in, but I can see how it makes some sense. InuYasha refers to Kagome as "Kikyo" at first. Also, Kikyo and Kagome have the same soul. Kikyo was re-incarnated as Kagome. Later, Kagome's soul is transfered to a reconstruction of Kikyo's body by the orgress/witch Urasue. Then most of the soul returns to Kagome, but some remains in Kikyo. So she becomes like a person with multiple personality disorder — two personalities with mutual amnesia which inhabit one body, except in this case it is a normal body and a clay reproduction. Also, Kaede and the villagers sometimes call her "Lady Kikyo". JRSpriggs 05:49, 26 February 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Alternate Name?

message: The entire section regarding Kagome's personality traits seems to have been removed. Why? I'm guessing that the section needed to be edited, but I don't see the need to remove it entirely. The removal of this section has lowered the overall quality, and as far as I know, a section usually remains the same during the editing process until it is complete. Instead, the section has been removed. In my opinion, it would make more sense to put the section back into the article. The articles of the other InuYasha characters include personality traits, after all. Mathew Williams 21:00, 21 March 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Too much vandalism. There is at least one vandal who persistently corrupted that section, putting in inappropriate and insulting material. So it was eliminated. She is still around, but keeps changing her user-id, so the potential problem still exists. JRSpriggs 06:22, 22 March 2007 (UTC)

text: Vandalism is not so easily dealt with, if the vandal is clever and determined. The underlying problem is that we cannot identify people reliably over a computer network. So if a vandal keeps changing his/her user-id and IP address, then we cannot control him. We can only block what we know about and it takes time to identify someone as a vandal. JRSpriggs 05:08, 24 March 2007 (UTC)

text: You can try adding the section and then requesting page protection from an administrator or at Wikipedia:Requests for page protection. Then we will see what happens. Getting protection is not easy. As to your other point, I will start a new section on that below. JRSpriggs 09:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Personality 

message: My opinion is that Kagome is above InuYasha in importance. The reader or viewer is intended to identify with her, not with InuYasha. She is a normal person from modern times, like most of the audience. InuYasha is a half-(dog-demon) from five hundred years ago, and frankly an insensitive jerk. His subordination to Kagome in importance is symbolized by the fact that he is subordinated to Kagome in the story by the beads of subjugation. Significant parts of the story take place in modern times which would make no sense, if Kagome were not the central character. JRSpriggs 09:05, 4 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Agreed. Equal importance to the story and both can be considered protagonists.--88wolfmaster 06:04, 6 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Mathew Williams said "...he is the very first character to appear...". That is true, but it does not prove that he is the protagonist. In Bleach (manga), Rukia is the first character to appear (at least in the manga), but Ichigo is clearly the main character. It is not unusual to give a little of the "back story" to set up for the real story, this is why InuYasha appeared first. The central quest of the story is to find the shards of the Shikon jewel which came from Kagome's body and which only she (and Kikyo her previous incarnation) can see, another indication that she is the main character. JRSpriggs 10:04, 14 June 2007 (UTC)

text: On pages 15 and 16 of volume 1 of the manga, Kagome as narrator speaks directly to reader, saying: "My house is also a very old shrine.", "I live with Grandpa, Mom, and my little brother.", "There is a sacred Go-shinboku tree that is 500 years old.", "And a covered well that probably has its own legend.", "In fact, everything at my house has a legend, but ...", "... no matter how many times Gramps tells them to me ...", "... I always forget.", "I never even thought about trying to remember them.", and "Until the day I turned 15. Today.". This shows that this story is being told by Kagome (in the fictional universe) which proves that she is the main character. JRSpriggs 09:52, 22 June 2007 (UTC)

text: InuYasha is very important. He is the second character and far above the third whomever that might be (Miroku, Sango, Shippo, Naraku, Sesshomaru?). He is Kagome's love interest and this results in much of the story being focused on him. I doubt that Rumiko would say that one or the other was the main character because she would want to attract both male and female readers. JRSpriggs 07:00, 25 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Is Kagome above/equal/below InuYasha in importance as a character?

message: If I am correct, she receives a sacred bow, if someone can confirm this I believe it must be added. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 216.168.82.53 (talk • contribs) 
:She just uses any bow and arrow. It is her soul which makes the arrow into a sacred arrow with magical powers. JRSpriggs 09:54, 14 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: I have only read up to the last chapter translated to English and published by VIZ media which is chapter 288 "The Colony of Ogre Women". I have also seen the anime on television. So, obviously, I am not aware of the contents of chapter 458. I will not put anything into the article based on hearsay rather than my own reading or viewing, so I will not do what you are asking. However, you are free to add a paragraph on something which happened in that chapter. I just ask that you carefully check what you write against a reliable source, e.g. the Japanese manga. JRSpriggs 07:06, 15 June 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Well... on [LINK REMOVED] site, someone has translated the manga up to 500 something chapters. Read that if you want but I won't tell anyone to do anything... BrianGo28 (talk) 05:08, 5 March 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  ITEMS 

message: The powers section of this article needs a serious rewrite. Much of it is nonsensical to anyone who doesn't have a detailed knowlege of Kagome's powers. Showers 07:10, 14 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: If you don't want to rewrite it, I'll add it to my list of things I want to do; however, I whatever is done will of course need checking/editing.--88wolfmaster 03:28, 15 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  I'm working on it a little bit in my sandbox right now. There's a link to it on my user page if you want to take a look. Showers 04:07, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: How about this: I adjusted the picture so that it wouldn't interfer with the infobox on the side. --88wolfmaster 07:18, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
replies: text: Looks good. Showers 19:20, 19 July 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Powers

message: I think it was better before WhiteArcticWolf reorganized it. If you're going to reorganize it, and delete large sections of it, completely delete those sections, instead of leaving them blank. Plus you left an extra "=" mark after Merchandise. For now I'm going to revert your edit, and if you think it should stay the way you had it, you can discuss it here. Moocowsrule (talk) 21:33, 9 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Current Revision of this page. 

message: In the end of the manga Kagome goes back to the Sengoku Era and marries Inuyasha, so he, as her husband, should be (and was, but someone deleted it) in her list of relatives. 75.157.122.154 (talk) 06:47, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
replies: text: There is no need to post in multiple places. Also, does it specifically state they married, or just that she stayed with him (and the Sesshomaru/brother thing does not count). -- AnmaFinotera (talk · contribs) 06:58, 19 January 2009 (UTC)
thread_title: Married