Talk:Kikyo

message: I think this page should be moved to Kikyo (InuYasha). Not only is "Kikyo" the name of many other fictional characters, but is also a feminene name in Japan. This would removie any confusion. (Animedude 19:57, 3 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: Are there already articles for other character named Kikyou, or for the name 'Kikyo/u'? If so then perhaps the move/name change would be good (althought one minor beef, I dislike seeing Inuyasha with a capital Y in the middle, just my personal preference). But if no other articles exist, then it's not necessary at this point. Roxybudgy 00:38, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
replies: text:  I was jsut following the naming convention of other Inu Yasha related articles, they do indeed include the capital "Y" in the middle of the page title. But I can think of several other anime characters with this name, some jsut in suporting roles. Not to mention it is an actual name in Japan. I will try to hunt down all pages with the name, but I jsut think making this article specific to Inu Yasha is a good thuing to do, as a name like "Inu Yasha" is specifc to this show, where as "Kikyo" is not. (21:13, 4 November 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Proposed move

message: We should have the stuff after her death like the presence in the jewel and possibly the bow seperate. Her death/final momments was just one arc. All this stuff happened after it. What if Kikyou has a ream talk with Kagome or Inu? Would that go under how she died? Well that doesn't make any sense. So why should everything about her after her death be associated in her final momments section?
:Good idea. I'll do that. Sumhtun 07:44, 28 June 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Seperate the death and stuff after please

message: Just nitpicking right now but it seems like for any manga when in explaning things we never see many direct quotes on the page. Can we please have more. Kinda hard to get a really good understanding of the character if it's all in 3rd person and we make one sentence out of 5 chapters. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VRaptorX (talk • contribs) 03:43, 2 April 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: more quotes please

message: To whomever (64.231.68.33) has erased the "Final moments" section:
Please stop. If you continue to vandalize pages, you will be blocked from editing Wikipedia.   Katsuhagi 20:22, 23 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title: Vandalism

message: Guess that answers that... never mind this all... -- EmperorBMA|話す 22:38, 3 Jul 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Comment

message: Is it "Kikyo" or "Kikyou"?
:The title is Kikyo.  For spelling consistency it will be so in the article.  If you feel that is wrong, you should suggest that the name of the article be changed.  The internal spelling will follow. Harvestdancer 17:30, 7 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: Where can I suggest that? Hairouna 04:51, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I recommend creating a new section in the talk page of the InuYasha article. I will say something, though. There are several ways of translating a name, depending on which branch you use. With the long o the name has at the end, you can translate it as Kikyoh (passport Hepburn), Kikyou (wāpuro rōmaji), Kikyō (Hepburn ō, the correct way). However, note that the revised Hepburn is difficult to use while searching for an article, because there is no way you can remember the Unicode value for the last letter. Kikyo is the closer to the best form Kikyō, w/o having to use a Unicode value. -- ReyBrujo 16:00, 8 December 2005 (UTC)
replies: text: I went through and changed all instances of Kikyo's name in the article (except for the romanization and list of alternate spellings) to the spelling "Kikyo", in accordance with the article's name. -Tacubus 21:35, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Kikyou vs Kikyo 

message: I'm just going to explain the reasons for my edits. First of all, I simplified the first paragraph because I felt that the excessive details were unneccesary. The words 'miko', 'Shikon Jewel' etc are linked to their appropriate articles, so if people wanted more information, it's only a click away. Also, I thought it was misleading to say "Sango's village" because it really isn't her villiage, nor is she the leader or that village.
This article needs consistency, so I'm going to replace 'demon' with 'youkai' because 'youkai' makes more sense than 'demon'. As for the rest of this section, I edited it to make more sense. Roxybudgy 07:39, 11 May 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Shrine Maiden Kikyo 

message: Kohaku's shard was only purified after he joined up with Kikyou, therefore it is safe to assume that Kikyou is the one who purified the shard. If anyone has evidence that disproves that, say so. Otherwise I will be re-adding a mention of this. Roxybudgy 00:28, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  After Resurrection 

message: The priest that Kikyou 'killed' only met for a few moment, not much of a relationship, but I'll leave it. However, tending to soldiers was something Kikyou had done in her past life, so it's not really a sign of remorse.
"Ultimately, Inuyasha is all Kikyo cares about. She loathes the fact that she can not be with him in life, and wouldn't mind descending to Hell if it meant he would be with her." Wrong, just wrong. If it were true, Kikyou would have secretly killed Kagome long ago and lived happily ever after with Inuyasha. Kikyou accepts the fact that she and Inuyasha will never be together, so her main focus is now on fulfilling her responsibility to destroy Naraku. And the reason Kikyou made that one attempt (keyword: one) to drag Inuyasha to hell was because she thought Inuyasha posed a threat to society (after all, she thought he had stolen the jewel for evil purposes and massacred her village). I will be removing this sentence. Roxybudgy 00:39, 15 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Relationships 

message: First of all I think some of you people are biased, that goes to both Kikyo haters and lovers. This article needs to be objective. A lot of the stuff is interpretation and you have to leave it at that. 
Kikyo did not purify Kohaku's shard because it was already pure since he's a good person, the jewel remains pure with Kohaku because he's a pure being or are you forgetting the whole changing color depending on the soul thing.
Furthermore, Inuyasha isn't all Kikyo cares about, even if at one time she only gave a damm about him, she has changed a lot due to her interaction with other characters. And yes she has better come to adapt to her undead situation. The different characters she meets have aided her character development. She doesn't adapt right away. The reason she meets and helps different people (all of whom mostly end up dead anyway) is for character development purposes and that's why through them she becomes less enraged.
Furthermore she did kill the preist who WAS trying to save her soul. He was an innocent man
Kikyo is emotional-less and does show emotion of pain or panick when she's being attacked but otherwise remains emotionless because it adds to her mystique. She only shows emotion when its forced on her. When she's being attacked obviously she going to show pain and panick like normal people but otherwise attempts not to show emotion. Think of the time when Kagome interrupted her lets go to Hell spell or the time she was attacked by the Band of 7. She showed emotion only then.
I don't see why the Tsubaki line had to be edited because its the most important quote given by Kikyo in the entire series. Different people can interpret that line differently for Kikyo's character development. It also provides interesting comparison between the dark miko and the light miko.
Why do you think she has given up on trying to be with Inuyasha. Just because she sees focusing her efforts on destroying Naraku, doesn't mean she's given up on him. Remember even before she knew about Naraku, the ressurected Kikyo clinged to life because she wanted Inuyasha.
When she was doing that whole descending to Hell thing, she wanted to take Inuyasha with her there so they could be together forever. If she thought he was a threat to society she could have used her miko powers to kill him when he held her while being unconcious. Remember, she's not omni-benevolent, not right after her ressurection anyway but she does improve through character development as the series goes on.
Please do not re-edit the entire article like you're planning to because that's not fair to the people who contributed to it. I'm willing to help make it as objective as possible but I can't do that if you redo the whole thing. For now I think it looks pretty good as the story is well incorporated and I've added in all the necessary charcters which she meets on her journey. The only thing that needs fixing is adding additional story elements as the manga goes on. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Noman953 (talk • contribs) .
:I really appreciate your feed back, umm 'Anonymous' (you really should sign your comments). For now, I'm not going to do anything, for there isn't anything horribly wrong that I can see, but I'll be keeping a watch on this. Roxybudgy 06:13, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: This may sound harsh, but the article is wrong in every possible aspect. Right now, it is a fan made page that talks about Kikyo as if she were a living person. If you want to make it an encyclopedia-focused article, please follow the style guide. Of course, the article can stay the way it is, and nobody will complain for now. But someday someone will come here, delete the whole content, and replace it with text following the guides, and from what I see only the Name and Voice actors sections are useful. -- ReyBrujo 11:37, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I had a look at the style guide that ReyBrujo linked to. It was informative, but I'm still not quite sure what to do to make this into an encyclopedia article. Is there another fictional character article that I could look at as a good example? Roxybudgy 15:20, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: I was given Jabba the Hutt as an example. You can check the Overhaul section at my User page to see the differences between the old versions of some articles I rewrote (that were much like the current Kikyo article) and the new ones (closer to the guidelines). -- ReyBrujo 20:26, 16 June 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Too Much Unneccessary EDITING 

message: I deleted a sentence saying that the Chinese Bellflower is used in funerals. Feel free to add it back in when a reliable source for that staement is found, but I don't think it's neccesary. Wikipedia's own article on the Chinese Bellflower does not mention anything like that. Also, how do you make the text "Chinese Bellflower" link to the related Wikipedia article? That probably would be better. Roxybudgy 03:48, 5 July 2006 (UTC)
replies: text: You can create links by putting double brackets around what you want to link. I went ahead and added in the link for Chinese bellflower. But regarding whether it's used in funerals, I don't know. -Tacubus 21:39, 2 August 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Name 

message: Baby eater?  Semi protect this, someone.Tourskin 20:43, 31 May 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  Vandalism 

message: OK....we all know about Kikyou's "trap" in the jewel as Naraku called it. Just speculation but you think this could be the part of their soul? Also...if you look at the dialog, Kikyou purposely did not heal herself to put whatever in the jewel. She purposely died. I think that should be added....except knowing Wiki, it won't happen until it's spoken out loud by 5 different characters. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.57.184 (talk) 17:31, 28 September 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK...now who's the jerk who keeps erasing it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.57.184 (talk) 18:00, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title: Kagome's missing soul piece

message: hmm...remember that whole "Kikyou's soul/mind/conscienceness in the jewel stuff I kept saying back a while ago? Well in the latest chapter spoilers, take a wild guess what happens. Kohaku's dead body get's revived by KIKYOU and the light surrounding him talks to the group via Kohaku. Hmm...sounds like a soul to me. Anyways, she states decided to revive Kohaku instead of staying inside the jewel to kill Naraku.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.57.184 (talk) 14:02, 7 November 2007 (UTC)
replies: text:  OK...now who's the jerk who keeps erasing it?  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.94.57.184 (talk) 18:00, 9 November 2007 (UTC)
thread_title:  I told you so 

message: I may disappoint InuYasha fans here, but I think the current redirect to the fictional character is inappropriate. Kikyo is nothing more than the Japanese name of the bellflower, Platycodon grandiflorus. I would like to change the redirect so that people can understand what it is. --Shinkansen Fan (talk) 07:33, 28 March 2012 (UTC)
thread_title:  The current redirect is inappropriate