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This is the first movie in which Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, and Kikyo all have major roles in it, but they never cross paths throughout the entire movie, why?

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I think it's because each of them have their own personal reasons for going to the island thus their own personal dramas to deal with. Kikyo and Inuyasha did cross paths though.

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Okay, I'm putting this here because I'm massively confused and I think this is the best place to put it.

In answer to your question, angussu, here's what I think: I think Kikyo's and Sesshomaru's involvement in the movie was tacked on to placate the Sesshomaru and Kikyo fans. I don't know if Kikyo has a following, but Sesshomaru clearly does, and I got the feeling that they wrote the whole movie and at the end some editor smacked the writers and said, "you forgot to include two characters, dummies!" so they had to stick them in there.

Which brings up the two plot holes that are bothering me most:

a) Sesshomaru has the marks on his back. Why? Does this mean he's a half-demon too? The plot as it is established early on seems to suggest it.

b) Sesshomaru says, "it is time." Rin answers, "time for what?" Sesshomaru doesn't answer. Heck, I'm with RIN. I saw the whole stinking movie and never got the answer to that.

At any rate, it seems like a lot must have gotten left on the editing floor. What say ye, other reviewers?

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a) Sesshomaru has the marks on his back. Why? Does this mean he's a half-demon too? The plot as it is established early on seems to suggest it.


Sesshoumaru isn't a half-demon. You don't have to be a half-demon to get the marks on your back; you just have to be scarred by the war gods. Which Sesshoumaru was. There was a whole flashback scene of him fighting one of them (the fire one) in the past, in which he got scarred.

I don't remember the "it is time" line (maybe he said it differently in the Japanese version, which I watched), so I don't know, but he was being drawn to the island because of the scar.

I do agree that Sesshoumaru and Kikyo felt a little bit tacked on in this movie (though less so than in the first movie, where they did practically nothing and basically just hung around), but I didn't mind so much.

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