Bogside Artists vs. JK Rowling and Anime/Manga “Plagiarism” Feud Part 1: InuYasha, Rurouni Kenshin, Dragon Ball defend Rowling and Harry Potter
October 20, 2013 4 Comments
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In case you have not read any of my blogs, I have been using examples and evidence to defend JK Rowling against accusations of plagiarism from the Bogside Artists and the trustees of Willy the Wizard. However the Bogside Artists believes that I “deluded” watching any “precedents” that I laid out through out my blogs because they act that these “precedents” don’t exist.
They also expect that everyone that people never heard of these “precedents” that I’ve mentioned or/and accused them of lying or deluding of witnessing these “precedents”, such as various Anime/Manga series like Pokemon, Dragon Ball Z, Naruto, and etc, this also includes Power Rangers and Star Wars. The Bogside Artists say that Rowling and her public relations put the “precedent” arguments into our heads… like we haven’t watch any Anime, Power Rangers, Star Wars, or any TV show or move or read a manga or other fictional and fantasy books to figure out for ourselves. Figuring out may not be rocket science thinking, but people are smart enough to figure it out and have the ability to watch Anime, Power Rangers, Star Wars, and etc. Maybe it is impossible for the Bogside Artists because they are not capable enough because of their own stupidity and ignorance, but mankind prove over and over again it is beyond possible.
I defend much of the “stolen” and “similar” idea and elements as I can from the Bogside Artists and the Jacobs Estate by using some of my favorite Anime/Manga; Inuyasha, Rurouni Kenshin, and Dragon Ball series.
INUYASHA
Bogside Artists’ Claims
ESTABLISHED AS LOST, ABANDONED, A MIRACULOUS SURVIVOR LINKED TO ANOTHER WORLD. HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE.
Kagome being a reincarnation of Kikiyo would be that she is the chosen one that recreated the Shikon Jewel and her spiritual powers that she was born with cause her to be linked to another world since Kagome is able to go between worlds or time.
InuYasha is considered “lost, abandoned, and a miraculous survivor” since he started as a half-demon dog and half-human that get stucked to a tree for 50 years until Kagome was able to wake up InuYasha from his 50 years of sleep and able to free him from a tree after being stuck from an sacred arrow.
InuYasha is the chosen one by his father to take the Tessaiga sword for him to accomplish his goals, such as fighting of evil demons and the villain of the story, Naraku… I will get to him later.
Tessaiga
IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT HE IS BADLY BULLIED AT SCHOOL.
There is no bullying in at school because InuYasha never went to school for obvious reasons and it is established in the third movie “InuYasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler” that InuYasha was bullied as a child because of his half-demon side. There is no bullies hinted at Kagome’s school, just her three friends Ayumi, Eri, and Yuka are just gossiping nitwits and the wannabe boyfriend, Hojo is nice but very naive.
CAST OF THE SERIES INTRODUCED. OK, let’s through the main characters and major supporting characters step by step…
InuYasha
Inuyasha is the main character and lead to the series. He started out as a “villain” since in the beginning he was willing to cause chaos and murder people just to get the Sacred Jewel or the Shikon Jewel. Then after he is forced to join forces with Kagome after Lady Kaede put magic beads around his neck and it will cause him to go hard on the ground when ever Kagome says “sit”. Let’s watch the fun…
Inuyasha views of being a “bad guy” changes over time after meeting his friends and willing to protect Kagome after falling in love with her, even though Inuyasha still has a bad, rude, and angry attitude. He is willing to sacrifice his own life to save his friends and willing to go out of his way to do other people’s biddings.
He wanted to be a full demon and willing to get the Shikon Jewel shard to get it, but in the end he turns away from that goal and willing to defeat Naraku to save the world.
Kagome
Kagome started as an average Japanese school girl that just turn 15 years old. Then one day she gets pulled into her family’s well by a demon then into Japan’s Feudal era and then her adventure begins from there. She fired an arrow at a demon bird, but she accidently hits the Shikon Jewel and then cause it to shatter to a couple of dozen of pieces and scatter across Feudal Era of Japan. She was first reluctant into recovering the jewel shards and once returned to her time in Episode 4 and refusing to go back, but when she sees that a enemy demon is endangering her family, she had to go back and help InuYasha to defeat the demon. Since then, she is willing to help to collect the shattered jewel shards of the Shikon Jewel.
She is a strong female character but is the typical damsel in distress since she recklessly get herself captured a lot and becomes another situation for the main characters. She can be selfish at times since she always “sit” whenever InuYasha refuses to do things her way and at times she abuses her sit commands.
Yes she is the typical romance character for the main lead, Inuyasha. It does develop quickly, but admitting it does take more time.
Miroku
Miroku is a Japanese monk and is the closest as the best friend to InuYasha, but he is not a strong best friend and he is no Ron Weasley since Miroku is more braver and has a “naughty” behavior. Miroku has a curse with a wind tunnel that can suck anything it its path, even Miroku himself if the tunnel gets bigger. Miroku has magical beads can hold the wind tunnel until the wind tunnel become big enough to surpass the Miroku’s magical beads. Naraku places the wind tunnel to his grandfather and it will be past down to their children and their children unless Naraku is dead.
Miroku is a calm and very considerate man, but he is a pervert and has a bad habit on hitting beautiful women and getting money whenever he can.
He has a romantic relationship with Sango and often strokes her butt or breast or hitting on other women which results in getting slap or hit by Sango. He does marry her and have three children at the end of the series.
He has the ability of super speed since at times I see him running at the same pace as a flying Kiara, even though Kiara might be going average speed.
Sango
Sango started as a average mercenary demon slayer until Naraku makes Sango’s little brother, Kohaku to kill thier father and their demon slayer clan. Since then, she swore revenge on Naraku. Also Kohaku is under the influence of Naraku’s spell and she swore to free from it, even though there will be consequences of what actions she will take to do so.
I really like Sango, even better than Kagome. Sango is very strong and tough, she is willing to sacrifice herself to save the people she cares about like Miroku and Kohaku, and willing to accept any consequence of her actions since she is put into that position a lot. She is one of the best role model for female to stand strong and willing to accept any consequences of any acts you take. Unlike Sango, she is not a typical damsel in distress, even though she does need saving time to time from either InuYasha or Miroku.
She has a cat demon companion she always bring a long, Kirara.
Kirara
…isn’t she cute? There is a stuff animal of her on a display in Disney World’s Epcot of the Japanese Pavilion so I can have Disney to back me up on this.
Shippo
Shippo is a child fox demon that wants to be the world strongest fox demon and…. that’s it.
I really can’t figure out what his motivation to travel with InuYasha and the group or going up against Naraku other than it is the right thing to do. She serves no purpose to the overall storyline and he is only there to be the comedic mascot, even then that could be Kirara. He had the least character development and hell… I think Kagome’s younger brother Sota has a bigger character development than Shippo. He became very annoying, he often pouts and takes advantage of InuYasha at times. His biggest and probably only highlight in the entire series is to help a character development for Sesshomaru.
Sesshomaru
Sesshomaru is Inuyasha’s older half brother. He started off as a bad buy that hates all humans, which is why he really resents Inuyasha for being a half human. He wanted to get the Tessaiga from his father’s grave, but the sword will give him an electric shock if he (or any full demon) touches it. Then Inuyasha is able to hold and master to the sword, much to Sesshomaru’s dismay. In result, Sesshomaru loses his left arm throughout the series. When she brings along a little girl named Rin, she grows very fond of her and is able to learn and show compassion because of her. He has a frog demon, Jaken as a loyal sidekick. He is able to take Kohaku into his companionship.
Sesshomaru is a bad ass, he is always calm and does not let anything anger him. He can get cold, selfish, and can have too much pride, but that pride is one of the reasons to finish off Naraku. I did not like Sesshomaru at first, but he grew on me real fast.
Kohaku
Kohaku is Sango’s younger brother. In the beginning of his tenure, he was off to start his first mission as a demon slayer as being inexperience and cowardly. Then Naraku is able to control him and force him to kill his father and his fellow demon slayers, except Sango. Then he is killed by the arrows of palace guards. Naraku is able to bring him back to life and has no memory of his past and still be under mind controlled by Naraku to do more murder. Little by little, he starting to regain his memory until he does gain it all back is able to control his own actions, even though he has to do more murdering to get close enough to defeat Naraku once and for all. Kikiyo is able to revive him, even without the help of the jewel shard.
Kohaku is my favorite character of the series. He is the most developed character of the series with Sesshomaru being closet second. Again, Kohaku started off as inexperience and cowardly, then as time goes on he becomes a very skilled demon slayer and gets more braver and cunning. Like Sango, he is willing to accept any consequence to accomplish a bigger and more meaningful goal. Kohaku is a bad ass, he has no actual powers and still he can fight of a bunch of demons. OK, maybe the jewel shard might count but other than it keeping him alive, I believe the jewel shard is only the catalyst of his skills since it shows that he is still human to the very core.
In my personal opinion, if there would be a spinoff from InuYasha, then Kohaku would be a good candidate to have his on spinoff series. If I could have the legal rights to the series to start a spinoff, I would have Kohaku and Kirara end up in the Modern Era and they must face evil there and the harsh world of the Modern World. That would be a interesting story of what happened if the InuYasha group end up in the Modern Era and somehow must adapt while trying to figure out how to get back.
Rin
Rin’s family was killed off by a raid of bandits off screen so she lives at a village that mistreats her very badly. Since then, she is mute and never talks until she meets a badly injured Sesshomaru. She nurses him back to health and gets beaten by the villagers for her troubles. Then she is killed by Koga’s demon wolves, but Sesshomaru is able to bring her back to life with the Tenseiga. Since then, she became a typical little energetic girl that can never stop talking. She is befriends Kohaku and hinted that Rin has a crush on Kohaku.
Rin is one of the reasons of Sesshomaru’s development to have compassion and care for humans.
Rin has her own theme music…
and a fan can draw her…
Koga
Koga is the leader of the wolf-demon tribe until most of his members of the wolf-demon tribe was killed by Naraku after Kagura tricks them into Naraku’s castle, since then Koga swore revenge on Naraku. Koga has two jewel shards between each of his legs and it helps him to develop super speed and superpowers to his legs. Koga falls in love with Kagome after capturing her and that develops a rivalry with Inuyasha.
Koga started off like every other demon on the show due to having no feelings or compassion towards humans until he falls in love with Kagome, since then he refuses to kill humans or have Ginta or Hakkaku to kill other humans. He does marry a long time flame, Ayame though.
COMPARING TO HARRY POTTER…
He is more compared to Draco Malfoy but Koga is more braver, stronger, and can prove to be an ally than enemy.
Kikyo
Kikiyo is Inuyasha’s first lover but their love was torn apart by Naraku, causing each other fight each other and resulted in Inuyasha putting to sleep to a tree for 50 years and Kikyo’s death. She is resurrected by a demon named Urasue but the demon is killed by Kikyo. First Kikyo remembers Inuyasha “betraying” her and feels a deep blind hatred for Inuyasha at first, but that mellows out a little and becomes a distant and withdrawn ally as her love for Inuyasha returns. She intends to destroy Naraku for his actions, but Kikyo dies again and this time having her soul to rest in peace, giving one last kiss to Inuyasha.
Kikyo is one of the most hated character in the series, but I don’t get it. He is not that different from Koga or Hojo when comes to rival romance and being the romantic rival for Kagome seems the only reason why people hate her, but not Koga or Hojo. I am just saying that being a romantic rival should not be the only reason why people should hate her.
She does help a lot like helping to restore Kohaku back to life and pure people when they are in the brink if darkness, like Kagome.
FINDS HIMSELF IN A SURREAL WORLD.
Kagome from the Modern Era (our world) and then she does to the Feudal Era which can be considered the “surreal world”. Also a turnaround with that the Modern Era could be a “surreal” world for Inuyasha when he travels there.
It is unclear if the Feudal and Modern Era are just from different times but they are in the same worlds or they are a different time and different worlds all together. The reason I ask if the Modern Era is exactly in the same world as Feudal Era but in different times, then what happened to all the demons? Where there demons in other parts of the world or just in Japan. This little element creates a lot of plot holes but to further the story it is all good.
I would like to see more danger and threats to the Modern Era with the exception of the 9th episode where the human flesh demon attacks (and possibly killed) numerous civilians, policemen, and firemen while trying to find the jewel shard. In episode 10 and the 3rd movie it is established that both the Feudal and Modern Era are from the same world, but around 500 years apart.
COMMUNES WITH A WILD ANIMAL.
A lot of demons could be considered animals because many of the demons are basically breeds from other animals, such as cats (Kiara), fox (Shippo), wolves (Koga), and dogs (Inuyasha and Sesshomarou).
MUST PROVE HIS COURAGE.
Kagome relates this most of all since she was first scared of being int he Feudal Era and had to help collect all the jewel shards of the Shikon Jewel that she shattered and knowing there will be deadly demons on the way. In the end she is able to become more braver and willing to collect the jewel shards, maybe inf the fact due to that she was responsible for the shattered Shikon Jewel and fights the Yura the hair demon to protect her family.
When InuYasha loses his powers due to the night of the new moon, he has to prove his courage to up against demons despite not having superpowers, unable to harness the powers of his sword, and being vulnerable like a normal human being.
Kohaku (even though not a main character or protagonist) has to prove his courage when he first started his demon slaying life and becoming more braver and stronger when time goes on. Kohaku is the closet to the Harry Potter character into comes of personality and development wise, despite not having using any magical powers.
PERFORMS UNCONSCIOUS MAGICAL FEAT.
Inuyasha does this a lot, mainly because of his demon powers and the powers from the Tessaiga.
Here is all of Inuyasha’s attacks…
Miroku has his wind tunnel and sacred sutras as performing magical feat.
Shippo has his fox fire, ability to change his appearances, and use toys as weapons.
MENTOR AND GUARDIAN.
Although the “mentor” is here, but not prominent. Lady Kaede, Myoga, and Totosai are considered the mentor figures. Lady Kaeda is more of the life lesson and consequences mentoring, Myoga teaches about Inutasha’s past, expertise of demons, and family background that has value in the story, and Totosai with his expertise on swords and weaponry, especially the swords that Inuyasha and Sesshomaru’s father left for them.
THE ENCHANTED FOREST.
This idea is prominent throughout 90% of the entire series. They travel through an enchanted forest all the time with demons and spiritual voodoo going on the forest all the time. It is not that hard to miss, but in the Bogside Artists expectations they believe you will miss it.
SATANIC VILLAIN.
The main “satanic villain” of the story is Naraku and his evil minions. Naraku was once a human, but then was powered by thousand of demons. Wanting the Shikon Jewel and the jealousy of the romance between Inuyasha and Kikiyo, he tore them apart and manipulated them to go against each other. Then he cursed MIroku’s family, caused Sango’s little brother Kohaku to murder numerous people and tormented them, and slaughtered most of Koga’s wolf demon tribe as well who knows how many innocent people.
Naraku is cool enough to hate because how much damage he puts on people. He is intimidating and smart, but when it comes to being a threat himself, that falls a little short. I think Naraku should demonstrate his powers against the heroes a little more, but he is still a good villain.
Kagura is the secondary villain and Naraku’s main henchwoman. She is first loyal to Naraku, but that loyalty deteriorates quickly and develops a deep hatred for Naraku and wants to be free of him but in the end, her attempts cost her life. She becomes an full fledge enemy to the main heroes, but little by little she becomes an ally that gives the heroes the information that they need to destory Naraku. She grew fond of Kohaku and becomes very protective of him, possibly a surrogate secondary sister.
Kagura
The next villains that is worth mentioning is the Band of Seven. The Band of Seven saga is one of the best highlights of the series and they became one of the biggest obstacle for the heroes to face. They even have a few victories over the heroes and could have killed them at times if it was not just blind luck. They do pick them one at a time but it is not easily done. Kyokotsu is the first to fall in the hands of Koga. The next one to go is Mokotsu, a evil doctor that can poison the skin like he did with Kagome, Miroku, and Sango but Mokotsu dies in the hand of Sesshomaru. Ginkotsu is a tank like demon and in the manga he is killed by his own blast while in the Anime, he sacrifices himself. Suikotsu is my favorite of the bunch, he is more of a Dr. Jekyll/Mr. Hyde kind of character, he is part evil or part good depends what side has taken over and can switch back at any moment. He dies at the hands of Kikyo. Jakotsu scares me. He is a gay enemy and possibly a woman in the English version. He/She develops a crush on Inuyasha and always want to be the one get “involve” with him. Renkotsu is like the second in command of the Band of Seven and went through the most change during his small tenure. He is willing to follow his leader to any situation, but his greed for the jewel shards changed him and turn on his Band of Seven, but that cost him his life.
Lastly, Benkotsu the leader of the Band of Seven and the most strongest. His weapon itself is a demon sword, claiming a 1,000 demons and 1,000 humans. However the sword became too powerful and his overwhelming hatred caused his downfall. His biggest character flaw that he can be too trusting and naive at times, especially Renkotsu making obvious betrayals against him and other Band of Seven like Jakotsu.
The Band of Seven (from left to right: Kyokotsu, Mukotsu, Jakotsu, Bakotsu, Renkotsu, Suikotsu, Ginkotsu)
PHILOSOPHER STONE
The Shikon Jewel could be considered as the “philosopher stone” of the story since it is a magical jewel that can grant great power and wish.
Shikon Jewel
WILLY THE WIZARD’S CLAIM
- The main characters completed the main task using information gained from helpers
- See “Cast of Series Introduced” since many main characters receive help in any situation. In Inuyasha’s case, from the most unlikely helpers like Kagura and Sesshomaru who had or still has a grudge against InuYaha but helps to fight the villains.
- The main task for the main characters involved the rescue of human hostages imprisoned by a community of half-human, half-animal creatures.
- Many of the situations the demons are like half animal and half-human like creatures since many of the enemies are based on an animal and they have human like form. The great example is during the Panther Demon Saga and they capture Kagome. Kagome is a human that becomes imprison by the Panther demons for the somewhat time. Plus Inuyasha have to same his friends a lot so it is not just Kagome that needs saving from Inuyasha.
- These too can be dealt with quite shortly. Both tasks involve overcoming a physical barrier and rescuing the prisoners from an isolated location, an island in WTW and the lake bottom in Goblet. Further, the prisoners are held by communities of half-human, half-animal people, the Kanganatives in WTW and the merpeople in Goblet.
- This “similar idea” happened during the Band of Seven arc when there is a barrier keeping any demons from entering Mount Hakurei where Naraku is hiding. Only humans can enter the barrier without any problem but the enemies there are another problem. Inuyasha as a half demon ends up losing his powers despite it is not the night of the new moon.
- Both Willy and Harry are transported by various magical means including touching magical devices such as a dagger, a tall retort pipe and a velvet ladder in the case of WTW (to Napoleon’s Castle), and an old boot in the case of Goblet (to the Quidditch World Cup). Both books also involve magical trains but they have very different purposes. In WTW, the trains do not appear to have any destination but provide somewhere for the wizards to play chess. In Goblet, the Hogwarts Express takes the young wizards to school.
- InuYasha got the wishing well as “magical transportation”.
Rurouni Kenshin
The Bogside Artists Claims
ESTABLISHED AS LOST, ABANDONED, A MIRACULOUS SURVIVOR LINKED TO ANOTHER WORLD. HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE. Kenshin Himura is an “abandoned” and “miraculous survivor” due to his samurai past and it shows other than the villains, Kenshin Himura is a survivor from the samurai wars but nobody here is linked to no other worlds.
Another “stolen” idea or element is the IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT HE IS BADLY BULLIED AT SCHOOL. In Star Wars: The Phantom Menace, Anakin gets badly bullied at home as Subulba and Watto bosses or antagonize him around. The original Power Rangers get bullied around by Bulk and Skull even though their bullying tactics are poor and have the tendency to backfire.
CAST OF THE SERIES INTRODUCED. Let’s go through the characters little by little…
Kenshin Himura
Kenshin Himura is a former man slayer and assassin, but after the death of his wife he vows to “protect the innocent, but never kill again”. He is a Batman like character, he is a superhero with no superpowers. Kenshin battles through numerous villains to protect innocent civilians and the people he cares about, mostly Kaoru. Kenshin’s personality is calm, soft-spoken, and humble. He may not be a threat appearance wise, but he is skilled and has good wits to overcome his enemies.
Kaoru Kamiya
Kaoru is the head teacher and master at the Kamiya dojo in 1870s Tokyo, Japan after her father past away in the Seinan Wars in 1877. He takes in Yahiko Myojin as a student and Kenshin because she loves him and has no other place to stay. She is very compassionate but is headstrong and has a short and violent temper, often it gets triggered when she is irritated or insulted, often by Yahiko and Sano.
Sanosuke Sagara
Sanosuke Sagara or “Sano” for short, began as a cocky fighting merchant that once belong to the disgraced Sekiho Army and then has a hatred for the flawed Meiji Government. After meeting Kenshin, he put his hatred aside to help the innocent against the shows villains.
Sano was a mercenary that was hired by Gohei to kill Kenshin, but in their first battle a group of young kids interfered and Sano does not like any confrontation involving kids or women, despite Kaoru and Yahiko watching the battle. After their second fight, Sano loses and then becomes Kenshin’s number one ally, just like Ron Weasley but Sano is more tougher and prone getting into fights.
Sano didn’t have much arc until the Kyoto Arc where he loses to Saito and getting injured in the process, so Sano goes back into training in the woods where he is trained by Yūkyūzan Anji who later turns out to be one of Shishio’s lieutenants and they fight later on in the arc.
To give more credit of Sano’s popularity that the Bogside Artists solely denies, a t-shirt of Sanosuke can be seen on a skit of NBC’s Saturday Night Live where Bobby Moynihan does his Mark Payne skits:
Bobby Moynihan as Mark Payne on Saturday Night Live where he is wearing a Sanosuke Sagara t-shirt.
Yahiko Myojin
Yahiko Myojin started as a pick pocket thief for a small crime organization, but he is saved by Kenshin and Kaoru invites him to study swordsmanship training and he does get stronger and stronger over time so he has the most character development in the series. He is an arrogant, hot blooded, and very lively kid. Even as a kid, he is able to overcome the most impossible enemies and I always on my toes of how he will defeat an deadly enemy.
Honestly, I absolutely love this character. He is not only my favorite character of the series, but he is my favorite character in the Anime/Manga world. I have been using him in a lot of my fan fics and I made him leader of a Power Ranger/Justice League like group called the Storm Fighters. Sadly the Bogside Artists calls me a liar on this since they believe in having a favorite Anime character is impossible since they act that no one has the ability to have a favorite Anime character.
He does get a girlfriend named Tsubame…
Tsubame Sanjo
Megumi Takani
Megumi starts of part of the Oniwaban group making opium for the group that cause a lot of death, but she is saved by Kenshin and is able to become a doctor like she always dream to be. That’s it…. she does not have a lot of character development but having a stern habit for others. Although there is a romance between Sanosuke, but it does not go anywhere.
Saito Hajime
Saito Hajime is a spy for the Meiji Government and was the former captain of the the Shinsengumi during the Boshin Wars. His character is more of a anti-hero foil and has an uneasy alliance with Kenshin and his friends, especially being very unfriendly with them. He does have a wife though, don’t know what to say there.
He is based off of the real life Saito Hajime.
Misao Makimachi
Like Yahiko, Misao started off as a thief but Misao is more of a bandit than a pickpocket thief. She becomes an ally against the Juppongata group during the Kyoto arc. Along with Kaoru, she fights Kamatari and defeats him… or her… whatever… and then returns in the Revenge arc.
She is annoying… she has no character development and she kind of whines and yells over the smallest things, most of the time selfish things.
Aoshi Shinomori
Lord Aoshi is a bad ass through and through. He started off as a villain and the leader of the Oniwabanshu group, but his members were killed by Kanryu. After being defeated by Kenshin, he swore to get stronger and have a rematch against him but is defeated again. After is second defeat to Kenshin, he becomes an ally to Kenshin against Shishio Makoto, after that they became friends.
FINDS HIMSELF IN A SURREAL WORLD.
COMMUNES WITH A WILD ANIMAL.
MUST PROVE HIS COURAGE.
Kenshin always prove his courage against enemies with overwhelming odds. Especially during the Kyoto arc where the stakes are high and he is going up against the deadliest enemy he ever faced.
Kaoru, Sano, and Yahiko all must prove their courage when going up against deadly enemies and being at a complete disadvantage. Especially Yahiko who is the least experience and is a kid, so going up more experienced, skilled, and bigger enemies would be intimidating, but Yahiko overcomes his fears and uses his courage to up against his enemies like Henya and Hyogo Kujiranami.
PERFORMS UNCONSCIOUS MAGICAL FEAT.
Although here is no magic performed on the series with the exception of Udo Jin since he is able to use his eyes to freeze or joke people to death. Many of the characters are still human to the very core and they are able to perform impossible moves like Kenshin’s Hiten Mitsurugi-ryu move.
Even Yahiko has his own Hiten Mitsurugi style
Can any normal human being could do that, especially a kid? BTW, Yahiko is awesome.
MENTOR AND GUARDIAN.
Hiko Seijuro is Kenshin’s sword teacher and he is the one that taught him the Hiten Mitsurugi style.
Kaoru is being the mentor and guardian to Yahiko Myojin since Yahiko is an orphan and he has nowhere else to go after Kenshin freed him from his previous guardians. Yahiko learns a lot of skills from Kaoru and Kenshin is more of the life lesson and tactic mentor to Yahiko.
THE ENCHANTED FOREST.
SATANIC VILLAIN.
Oh boy… where do I begin? I guess the best place to start is at the beginning…
Gohei Himura
Gohei is the first villain that Kenshin face throughout the series and he has to encounter him more than once. First he imposes as Hitokiri Battosai and try to smear Kaoru and her father’s dojo and fighting style by murdering random random policemen and civilians, but he is defeated by the real Hitokiri Battosai and is able to break his hands, thus unable to hold a sword again. The second attempt he hired Sanosuke Sagara to kill him, but because of Sanosuke’s ethic code Sanosuke loses to Kenshin and Gohei gets defeated again when he threats Kaoru and Yahiko. The last attempt he hired two body guards and fools Yahiko into taking Kenshin’s swords, but Yahiko is able to get away and Kenshin is able to use his sword against his two bodyguards.
Jin-e Udo
Jin-e is one of the most intimidating of Kenshin. He enjoys killing people and forcing other people to kill others. He has extreme skills in speed, strength, endurance, and agility to the point of having superpowers. He has the ability to paralyze people with stares and can paralyze people lungs, making his victims unable to breath and suffocate to death. In the end he loses to Kenshin and then kills himself.
Kanryu Takede
He is not a physical threat, but he is smart, cold, manipulative, and calculating to be a threat of his own. He betrays the Obiwanbashu and kills them except Aoshi. He is defeated and arrested.
Shishio Makoto
Shishio Mokoto is my favorite villain in the Rurouni Kenshin series, he is smart, has a certain charm, and intimidating. His story is very well written and even though he is evil, he still had a code of honor.
The only problem that he was not even came close to accomplishing his goal, he just over take a small village that he lost within a few days.
Enishi Yukishiro
He is Kenshin Himura former brother in law after Kenshin killed his first wife, Tomoe and swore revenge on Kenshin ever since. He is a very skilled warrior and does have a certain charm that you will believe he can bring down the main hero.
He does not appear in the Anime unfortunately because the Anime got too far ahead with the manga and the third season saw its rating go down. If the Anime gone with this storyline, it would have been awesome and it would end with a high note. One of the problems that I had with Rurouni Kenshin Anime that did not had a satisfying ending. If they had one more season to explore, the Jinchu Arc would have been it.
WILLY THE WIZARD CLAIM
- The main characters complete the main task using information gained from helpers.
- See “Cast of Series Introduced” since the main characters gain help from the most unlikely allies or helpers, such as Aoshi and Saito.
- The punishment contemplated in each work is to send the offending wizard to wizard prison.
- Although there are no wizards, a lot of Kenshin’s enemies end up in prison.
Dragon Ball Z
BOGSIDE ARTISTS’ CLAIM
The series I am just going to glance over will be Dragon Ball Z since it holds most of the same characters and canon from the first series and I have no bearing to glance over GT, oh god please don’t make go over GT…
ESTABLISHED AS LOST, ABANDONED, A MIRACULOUS SURVIVOR LINKED TO ANOTHER WORLD. HE IS THE CHOSEN ONE.
The main character, Goku is established a lost survivor linked to another world, the planet Vegeta and during an arc that Goku is the chosen one by his birth father.
IT IS ESTABLISHED THAT HE IS BADLY BULLIED AT SCHOOL.
It is established in the live action move ( and yes, I am resorting to the live action movie) that Goku is often bullied because… the story need a bully.
CAST OF THE SERIES INTRODUCED.
Goku
Goku as a absent minded and carefree 12 year old boy who lost his parental grandfather Gohan due to turning him into a giant monkey and accidently killed him. He first met Bulma who in a attempt to steal his 4-star dragon ball, but they join forces to search the other six. Goku meets other friends and enemies a long the way. Goku becomes stronger in result in power levels and in his chi. In Dragon Ball Z, he finally learns that he is an alien from the Planet Vegeta and suppose to kill all living being on Earth, but amnesia caused him to forget that past and become a unstoppable loving boy. He dies in DBZ several times but does get stronger to become Super Sayians and is able to defeat stronger enemies in the series.
Son Gohan
Gohan is the oldest son of Goku and Chichi. Unlike his father Goku, Gohan started as any typical child, scared and intimidated. Then he gets braver and stronger in result as he is able to surpass his father so many times in power levels and in skill. He becomes the most developed of the entire series next to Vegeta with in skills, maturity, and characteristics. When going in to the Cell Saga, he was working to become the lead character since he is the one who defeat cell and the story basically surround Gohan. He was still the lead character for the Buu Saga until the Goku fans complained about Goku not being the main hero and lead again, so they rush it of Goku defeating Buu. In GT, he is downgraded to a background character.
Gohan is my favorite character. He is a young bad ass and has a lot of improvement through out the Dragon Ball Z series. He achieve things faster than his father or fellow Sayians like becoming a Super Saiyan 2 at the age 11 and defeat Freza under a few second in the third battle against him.
Vegeta
Vegeta started as a cold-hearted straight up evil villain. He betrayed his friend, Nappa after he couldn’t defeat Goku and ready to kill Goku, Gohan, Krillin, and everyone on Earth. After getting defeated by Goku and Gohan, he retreats back to a medical facility of Frieza after Goku advise his friends to let him go. He continues to be an enemy through the Namek Saga until the arrival of the Ginuy force that got him allying with Goku, Gohan, and Krillin. Vegeta first dies in the hands of Frieza but is brought back to life by the dragon balls. After the Namek Saga, he gets a bitter rivalry with Goku and want to become stronger to defeat him and surpass him. When Frieza came to Earth, then he becomes a bitter ally for Goku and his friends. He marries Bulma and gets a son named Trunks while being visited by an older version of his son during the Android Saga and the Cell Saga. Then she started to care for more of his new allies, especially towards his son. After the older Trunks dies, Vegeta goes ballistic in a sad rage on Cell and make sure Cell is defeated once and for all. He turns evil once again during the Buu Saga, but realizes the error of his ways and sacrifices himself to defaat Buu, but in vain. He returns to life again to go up against Buu and helps Goku defeat Kid Buu
Like Gohan, Vegeta’s character gets downgraded to a background character. That is one of the problems with GT, the way they did with the characters was really poor and they had poor balance and writing with the characters to the point it is painful and inexcusable.
Piccolo
Like Vegeta, Piccolo started as a villain trying to take over Earth but he is defeated by Goku and develops a bitter rivalry against Goku. When Goku’s brother Radtiz came to Earth, Goku and Piccolo join forces against his brother and Piccolo learns the value of honor and commends Goku of his sacrifice. After learning two more forces are coming, he takes Goku’ s son Gohan to train under him. Then Piccolo and Gohan develop a close bond and Piccolo sacrifices himself to save Gohan. Piccolo returns to life and gets to visit his home world, Namek where he fights Freiza. Since then he became a loyal and stern ally to Goku and his friends and willing to defend Earth and its people at all cost, even his life. In GT, he sacrifices his life and being in “heaven” for Goku to fight the forces of evil, meaning he is unable to be brought back to life. In GT, Piccolo has the most development but only that can go so far.
Krillin
Krillin came as a monk from the Orin Temple. Krillin started as a little greedy, jealous, and selfish person, he did not respect the rules and training of Master Roshi. Later he overcomes his jealous and selfish nature and becomes a good student to Master Roshi and becomes good friends with Goku. After the 22nd World Martial Arts Tournament, Krillin is killed by Tambourine. His death angered Goku and he vows revenge for his fallen friend. Krillin is brought back to life. In DBZ, he fights Nappa and Vegeta where he barely survives while Yamcha, Tien, Chiaotzu, and Piccolo were all killed in the battle. He along with Gohan and Bulma went to the planet Namek to find the dragon balls there, but he is killed by Frieza. He is brought back to life by the dragon balls. His next development comes during the Android and Cell saga when he falls in love with Android 18, do whatever he can to prevent here from death (even from his friends), and is able to bring her to the good side (also possibly Android 17). He marries Android 18, able to grow hair, and is often killed a few more times.
Bulma
Bulma becomes Goku’s first friend and ally. She tried to steak his dragon ball and seemly oblivious that the 4 star ball is in a house and possibly already belong to someone. She is the gadget person that can help the Z fighters to further their goals. She first falls in love with Yamcha, but their love fell apart and then Bulma ends up with Vegeta and they have a son named Trunks and a daughter named Bulla. She may not have any powers or physically strong as the Z fighters, but she still a good character and a strong woman than most of the female characters in the series. So that is why I believe she is worth mentioning.
Trunks (both versions)
Trunks
Future Trunks
FUTURE TRUNKS
Future Trunks came from the future to warn Goku about the attack of the Androids since they killed Vegeta, Piccolo, Yamcha, Krillin, Chioatzu, Tien, and then later his master Gohan are all killed while Goku dies from a heart disease before the attack, but Future Trunks find himself to face Frieza and his father King Cold and then he defeats them easy. Future Trunks reveals his secrets to Goku, but Piccolo overhears their “secret” conversation and only tells them about the Android attacks so they can train.
Future Trunks returns to realize how much information that he missed and sticks along through out the Cell saga while trying to win his father’s love. Future Trunks is killed by Cell which Vegeta is sadden and angry by the event. After the Cell Saga, he returns to the future where another version of Cell is lurking and he takes him out.
TRUNKS (DBZ)
Trunks started as a baby and then a become a cocky and stingy kid, just like how his father is. He is closet to Goten, unlike how Goku and Vegeta as big rivals. He defeats Goten in the Junior Martial Arts Tournament and then he and Goten put on a disguise to join the adult’s competition but they get busted by Android 18 and she exposes them and they get disqualified. They get their first taste of saving the world during the Buu Saga when they were the next hope for Earth when Vegeta is killed, Gohan is near death and presume dead, and Goku does not have long on Earth before his time expires to return to the next dimension. After a few battle, Gohan returns to fight but Gohan, Goten, and Trunks are killed when they Earth blows up. They get brought back to life when they restore Earth and revived by the Dragon Balls.
In GT, he is head of the Capsule Corporation and adapts a personality similar to his future counterpart. He does on a journey with Goku and Pan into space and then crash on the planet Imecka and need to get parts to repair their ship. They go up against Don Kee (who I feel to be the worst villain in the Dragon Ball series) and is forced to do a of things, like dress as a woman. He gets possessed by Baby and fights Goku. In the Android 17 saga, he is severely beaten by a brainwashed Android 17 and is beaten by him. During the Black Shadow Saga, he restores Goku’s energy after getting beaten by Shy Shenron. After that, his tenure has ended.
Goten
Goten is the younger son of Gohan and the younger son of Goku and Chichi. Unlike his older brother, Goten is more carefree and naive, just like his father started. He is friendly and is close to Gohan, Goku, and his best friend Trunks.
Goten is born after the Cell Saga and is seven years old just before the World Tournament Saga. He learns to fly from Gohan and quickly becomes a Super Sayian at age seven. He and Trunks participate in the World Tournament junior division where Goten and Trunks make it to the finals but Goten lost due to a ring out. Goten and Trunks steal a costume as a disguise so they can fight in the adult’s tournament but got busted by Android 18 and got themselves disqualified from the tournament. Then he and Trunks get involved with Majin Buu and then they become the only hope for Earth when Vegeta is killed, Gohan being put out of commission, and Goku time on Earth is expiring very quickly. He and Trunks learn the fusion dance to become Gotenks. However they are still killed when the Earth is destroyed bu is brought back to life.
In GT, Goten was about to go on a mission to find the Black Star Dragon Balls but an eager Pan gets into the spaceship and leaves without him. The next arc for him is when Baby arrives, Goten is the first one to fight him and gets turned by Baby and then effect everybody. He fights Goku and Pan in trying to kill them but Goten is able to be relieved from Baby’s influence. During the Super Android 17 saga, Goten fights against Android 17 but to no avail, but is able to surrender is energy to Goku after Goku’s fight with Syn Shenron. In the Shadow Dragon Saga, he help to defeat the enemies.
FINDS HIMSELF IN A SURREAL WORLD.
Visiting to other planets like Namek or going to the other dimension the character(s) dies, they are going to a “surreal world”.
COMMUNES WITH A WILD ANIMAL.
Some of the characters are animals that they talk to such as Oolong and Puar (I can’t tell if Puar is a boy or a girl) should be considered communing with wild animals.
Oolong
Puar
MUST PROVE HIS COURAGE.
Many of the Dragon Ball characters “must prove their courage” all the time, Goku and Gohan example this greatly. Goku is going to a world he barely knows and must face deadly enemies, even going to DBZ.
Gohan is more cowardly and less carefree than his father and during the battle against Nappa, he breaks under pressure due to fear and got Tien killed. Since then be becoming more braver and less hesitant and scared going into battles. Gohan’s “must prove his courage” idea is highly demonstrated in the Cell Saga, where he has to take his father’s mantle when Goku is killed and must defeat Cell once and for all with no holding back.
PERFORMS UNCONSCIOUS MAGICAL FEAT.
Hint one… KAMEHAMEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!
MENTOR AND GUARDIAN.
Master Roshi, Kami, and King Kai are no doubt are the mentor figures of the story. For Goku, it was Grandpa Gohan since he trained Goku first and took care of him and raised him until his death. Then Master Roshi and Kami are not became mentors of Goku to learn how to fight and perform magical feat, but they took him as a guardian.
Piccolo does similar to Gohan when he took Gohan under his training.
THE ENCHANTED FOREST.
The only time is when Goku started his journey, he goes through an forest all the time where there is evil in the forest, but then this idea fades away.
PHILOSOPHER STONE
The dragon balls (the title of the show and manga series) are the closest to the “philosopher stone” idea. Many times the heroes must collect all seven orange glass balls before the bad buys get them.
Each Dragon Ball have it’s own star(s). The Four Star ball is Goku’s favorite.
SATANIC VILLAIN.
Oh boy… where to begin…. I think DBZ is the best place to cover… I will look at the people who just stayed as villains and never turned to the good side.
Nappa and Raditz both are terrifying and effective villains, they were able to kill many of Earth’s mightiest heroes.
Nappa
Raditz
Frieza is one of the most memorable villains. He does not start of as threatening, but later he proves to be a dangerous and formidable foe.
Frieza
Cell is the show’s best villain by far… he is heartless, has killed countless of people, and has enough shades that you can believe he could triumph at the end…
Cell
The Majin Buu Saga was a good saga, but the rush ideas kind of destroyed it. I do say this, he did destroyed Earth had have the most Earthling kills on the show…
Kid Buu
WILLY THE WIZARD CLAIM
- The main characters of WTW and HPGF are wizards who are to compete in a wizard contest which they ultimately win
- In both Dragon Ball and Dragon Ball Z, the characters compete in numerous martial arts tournament where they perform magical powers to win… especially in the video games.
- The main characters complete the main task using information gained from helpers
- See “Cast of Series Introduced”…
- During the World Tournament in DBZ, the Supreme Kai and Kibito give information on Yamu and Spopovich’s activities.
- Likewise, in both works, the wizard who wins the competition will receive a prize of 1,000 units-1,000 stars in Willy the Wizard and 1,000 Galleons in Goblet.
- In many of the world tournaments, it is implied that the winning fighter gets money called “zeni”, similar to Japan’s real currency, Yen. They also gain fame and a championship belt, just like in boxing, various MMA organizations, and various professional wrestling companies like the WWE.
The Bogside Artists act as if it is not possible to watch Anime or read Manga, let alone to be an Anime or/and Manga fan despite all the obvious evidence and sources that support it with no other evidence, sources, or a simple logic that would prove otherwise. Anime and Manga has one of the largest and well known fan base with the high number of fans and wide range of media. The Bogside Artists tends to ignore or not notice any of the evidence that I presented in my blogs such as pictures, videos, and sources to back up my side of the arguments.
There are plenty possible reasons why they are scared to avoid any acknowledgement of various Anime/Manga series, there are Anime/Manga fans, ignoring or failing to notice any evidence that I presented, and expending you to either ignore or fail to notice any evidence that I presented. They are scared because they know that I am right and they will discredit any possibility there are Anime/Manga series or/and fans that could threat their accusations against JK Rowling.
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Watsuki, Nobuhiro. Rurouni Kenshin. Fuji TV. Tokyo, Japan, 10 Jan. 1996. Television.
Watsuki, Nobuhiro. Rurouni Kenshin. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1994. N. pag. Print.
Toriyama, Akira. Dragon Ball. Fuji TV and Animax. Tokyo, Japan, 26 Feb. 1986. Television.
Toriyama, Akira. Dragon Ball. Tokyo: Shueisha, 1984. Print.
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