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Thing is… how can anyone praise Kikyo when she was a covert racist spewing shit like “human=pure, yokai=impure/evil”, asking a BIRACIAL outcast to get rid of half of his identity. Not only she tried to manipulate a vulnerable biracial orphan to make an AWFUL wish, she kept insisting HE DID IT because she knew to some extent that the jewel was shady and unreliable and it could backfire. If she was OH SO GOOD and “wuved” him so much as some claimed, she would have wished for discrimination to end. But no, she wanted his “tainted” blood gone.
First of all I want to make it clear that I have yet to read the manga and some passage from the anime regarding inukik relationship has points I don't get entirely, I should rewatch the show at least twice more, so take my opinion for what it is.
That being said, alright, let's do this.
You'll never see me try to excuse Kikyo for her shits or make her appear as a saint, of course she's not. Though, unlike Kagome whose mind is free from certain prejudices, Kikyo, as a miko living in a world so cruel and full of uncertainties for most people, has a huge responsability over her village as only reference point and is taught to fear and distrust demons and half-demons alike. In addition she's by nature wary, reserved, rigid and proud. It takes her a lot of effort to disclose her heart to Inuyasha and it's not that they'd had that much time truly, so even letting him go upon their very first encounter is something unexpected of her. Perhaps had she had more time to understand Inuyasha's nature things could have been different. People tend to say that Inuyasha and Kikyo were two broken souls in search of shelter from their solitude and I think so it is to a certain degree, so that perhaps they would not stay together forever anyway, but it doesn't matter, love is love no matter if it does manage to live forever or not and after all they did do some good to each other, although that doesn't erase the harm she's done. (Well, yeah, at the very end they are finally able to heal all of their wounds but still).
Don't misjudge what I'm trying to say, I'm very very very VERY happy that Kagome came into Inuyasha's life, he really deserved nothing less and they are such a good match, I can't imagine Kagome with anyone but Inuyasha and same goes the other way around.
Yeah, however in the manga it is clear that they wouldn't even get that far as to share a kiss and that, in Kikyo's words, Inuyasha had never been with her this new gentler person he is with Kagome, still it had been their plan to spend their life together and it's inevitable that Inuyasha feels guilty for not having trusted her, and of course Kikyo is egoistic in her wish for Inuyasha to die with her but my goodness that woman is literally stuck in her painful past as she moves in a present in which her past lover can go on with his own life without her. And as much as I can't justify that, she has my empathy though. Moreover, people always speak as if the Kikyo forced to come back to life was the same as her past living self and this absolutely is unfair since that's not even true.
I need to say that people who are mad at inuyasha for being Like That about kikyo dont realize that they were engaged. Kikyou was inuyashas fiance.