Kagura ****... Spoilers for InuYasha Manga
Click below for a review of sorts of Kagura ****. May contain spoilers. Also, I merge words/pictures from manga strips together, so what you see might not be what's in the actual manga :]
I am not, and never really have been, a fan of Kagura. In fact, she irritated me. I knew that she was under the control of Naraku, but that didn't mean anything to me. Her death, however, was something that made me change my attitude.
It started off with Naraku offering to give back her heart. Obviously, Kagura was suspicious, but, true to his word, Naraku gives her it back... only to skewer her with his tentacles seconds later. Of course, this is life threataning, and Kagura flies off on her feather, landing on a field, knowing she is going to die.
It's really rather sad. We know that she has been fighting all her unnatural life for this freedom, and this is the first time she has felt it. Why does it also have to be the time she dies? At this moment, I feel for Kagura. She's so broken and alone, as she says, it makes you reach out for her, feel her pain in your own heart - a heart you didn't have to fight for. I believed she was going to die alone, until...
I think, through seeing this, Kagura really does love Sesshoumaru. She seems so shocked to see him, but at the same time, so happy.. Readers seem to think that Kagura is really just trying to use Sesshoumaru to get at Naraku, to get freedom. But now she's free.. Just look at her emotions. She loves him, she always had. And maybe, there was a hope that he loves her:
Look at her face in those two pictures. She looks so full of dispair in the first one, knowing that he wants to save her, to bring her back, maybe to love her, but knowing that it is not possible. And then the second one: a mix of happiness, being able to let go of the pain, let go of the world and gly to true freedom, and yet having to leave her heart, the one she loves, behind. It really lets you see into Kagura's head.
Sesshoumaru, as we can see, is not unaffected by Kagura's death. I think that there might have been a chance that he had feelings for her, and as a Kagome/Sesshoumaru fan that's hard to admit. Perhaps, if she had lived, if he could have saved her, there would have been a life for them.
Sesshoumaru is a character we don't see much of emotion-wise, but in these two stips it seems he is laid bare for us to examine. If you don't look closley, you would not see it, but if you look deep.. You can see the subtle hints of saddness. I believe that Sesshoumaru would have done a lot of things to save Kagura, even go as far as to risk his live, but the phrase "She was smiling" seemed to make it all right for him. To know that she was happy to die just because he was there, not because she wanted him to kill Naraku, or to help her do something, made him happy inside as well. InuYasha's gang must have seen this when they ganged up on him after:
I think then, just by looking at his face, the look in his eyes, they all knew. He was sad, sad to see her die and to have her leave, when all he wanted was to save her and let her be happy - with him, maybe. When he tells them she was smiling, however, I think they all realise that Kagura was smiling because he was there, because he loved her, and because she was happy knowing that she cared.
I know that I repeated a lot of stuff over that, but it's true. Kagura loved Sesshoumaru, and I think he might have loved her. To see her die must have made him feel true dispair, maybe for the first time since his father's death.
And thus ends my review. Feel free to use the scans for icons and stuff. This specially goes out to BK-chan, because there are a lot of nice Sesshoumaru ones in there :] Also, please forgive any spelling mistakes~! Oh, and one day, if I get bored, I might decide to go through this post and colour the manga, to liven the experience, so look out for that :]
Oh, and all of you go and vote at
beautiful_spark, please? :D
I am not, and never really have been, a fan of Kagura. In fact, she irritated me. I knew that she was under the control of Naraku, but that didn't mean anything to me. Her death, however, was something that made me change my attitude.
It started off with Naraku offering to give back her heart. Obviously, Kagura was suspicious, but, true to his word, Naraku gives her it back... only to skewer her with his tentacles seconds later. Of course, this is life threataning, and Kagura flies off on her feather, landing on a field, knowing she is going to die.
It's really rather sad. We know that she has been fighting all her unnatural life for this freedom, and this is the first time she has felt it. Why does it also have to be the time she dies? At this moment, I feel for Kagura. She's so broken and alone, as she says, it makes you reach out for her, feel her pain in your own heart - a heart you didn't have to fight for. I believed she was going to die alone, until...
I think, through seeing this, Kagura really does love Sesshoumaru. She seems so shocked to see him, but at the same time, so happy.. Readers seem to think that Kagura is really just trying to use Sesshoumaru to get at Naraku, to get freedom. But now she's free.. Just look at her emotions. She loves him, she always had. And maybe, there was a hope that he loves her:
Look at her face in those two pictures. She looks so full of dispair in the first one, knowing that he wants to save her, to bring her back, maybe to love her, but knowing that it is not possible. And then the second one: a mix of happiness, being able to let go of the pain, let go of the world and gly to true freedom, and yet having to leave her heart, the one she loves, behind. It really lets you see into Kagura's head.
Sesshoumaru, as we can see, is not unaffected by Kagura's death. I think that there might have been a chance that he had feelings for her, and as a Kagome/Sesshoumaru fan that's hard to admit. Perhaps, if she had lived, if he could have saved her, there would have been a life for them.
Sesshoumaru is a character we don't see much of emotion-wise, but in these two stips it seems he is laid bare for us to examine. If you don't look closley, you would not see it, but if you look deep.. You can see the subtle hints of saddness. I believe that Sesshoumaru would have done a lot of things to save Kagura, even go as far as to risk his live, but the phrase "She was smiling" seemed to make it all right for him. To know that she was happy to die just because he was there, not because she wanted him to kill Naraku, or to help her do something, made him happy inside as well. InuYasha's gang must have seen this when they ganged up on him after:
I think then, just by looking at his face, the look in his eyes, they all knew. He was sad, sad to see her die and to have her leave, when all he wanted was to save her and let her be happy - with him, maybe. When he tells them she was smiling, however, I think they all realise that Kagura was smiling because he was there, because he loved her, and because she was happy knowing that she cared.
I know that I repeated a lot of stuff over that, but it's true. Kagura loved Sesshoumaru, and I think he might have loved her. To see her die must have made him feel true dispair, maybe for the first time since his father's death.
And thus ends my review. Feel free to use the scans for icons and stuff. This specially goes out to BK-chan, because there are a lot of nice Sesshoumaru ones in there :] Also, please forgive any spelling mistakes~! Oh, and one day, if I get bored, I might decide to go through this post and colour the manga, to liven the experience, so look out for that :]
Oh, and all of you go and vote at
beautiful_spark, please? :D