Inuyasha and Tenseiga

[B-chan]

Well the anime is over, and now it's difficult to talk about new things in this section so let's talk about things from the past.

Recently in the production diary Patches talked about how lame it would be for Inuyasha to use Tenseiga. But there was a time when I thought Inuysaha could at least have tried.

During the Shichinitai arc there was a part when Inuyasha thought his friends had died from Mukotsu's poison. During his agony he met with Sesshoumaru and even though about Tenseiga saving his friends and said it out loud. Now my question is, why didn't Inuyasha persue this? I know taking Tensaiga from Sesshoumaru would be nearly impossilble and that Inuyasha' could have died trying, but it would have been totally in character for Inuyasha to risk his life for a chance to recover his friends and especially Kagome. Yet after a simple attack that Sesshoumaru easily avoided before leaving, Inuyasha just dismissed the idea. True they weren't dead yet but Inuyasha didn't know that at the time.

Does anybody else see it the same way I do?

[Chafa-kun]

It... wouldn't be that terrible. I never said it would be lame, its just that...
come on, they CAN'T have Inuyasha use Tenseiga! The swords have PURPOSES for their owners, I mean, they contrast directly with their (basic) personality >__<

[B-chan]

I'm not really for Inuyasha using Tensaiga, but since that was the only thing that, in his mind, could have saved his friends. Why didn't he bother with it?

[Chafa-kun]

Oh, in that case yes. It would be completely in character.

[Shamu]

So, Sesshy has used Tessusaiga before, so why couldn't InuYasha use Tenseiga? It only seems fair that they share (yeah right ). I at least don't think it would be horrible if InuYasha used it maybe once...if it was for a good reason? But I like to think that Sesshy is coming around (although VERY slowly) on things like saving people. Wait....wasn't that Inu-Papa's intent in the first place? I feel a Dear Papa letter coming on...

[Fluffysama]

Well, if he used tenseiga, then they would totally miss out on some of the more heartbreaking moments!!

[Inufan]

I want Tenseiga to have a barrier that burns anyone that isn't a full demon. It's only fair since Tessaiga has it's own safeguard placed on. So when Inuyasha lays his hand on it....




OW! ;D

[Keroude]

Tessaiga's barrier doesn't reject all full demons unlike popular belief. It just rejects demons whos hearts reject humanity and love itself Inu-Papa used the sword, (Even if it was only the third movie Inu-Papa had both of the swords on him in Takahashi's original concept sketches) Totosai touched and even had it transformed, Myoga has been on the hilt plenty of times, Shippo touched the sword once, and it half works for even Sesshomaru now because hes shown compassion for humans in the case of Rin. Though he still has a bit to learn before it would ever fully accept him. Also you don't need human blood to use the Tessaiga. Thats a pure myth the dub put out on the dialogue that was pointless and confusing. The barrier of Tessaiga won't harm humans yes, but you still need youkai blood to transform and fully use it. Naraku had ahold of Tessaiga once and used the untransformed state to battle Sango for a bit, but obviously it would never work for him and hes a hanyou...the barrier didnt repel Naraku because he had human blood/escense.

But as for Tenseiga, if another demon picked it up I can only see it not working for them. It can't harm the living so if a youkai or even hanyou got ahold of that was evil like Naraku they would probably just toss it aside because it would be worthless to them. If the sword doesn't respect you I would think Tenseiga wouldn't protect you with its barrier either. Thus far the only people to touch Tenseiga have been Inu-Papa, Sessh, and Rin. She doesn't count because shes a human and obviously cant use a youkai blade. So theres not really much to go off of.

[inuyasha1223]

who wants to be a anime creator just like rumiko takahashi say i.....I!