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Inuyasha "Since Then" Epilogue Manga Review
February 12th, 2013 AstroNerdBoy
犬夜叉 あれから (Since Then) Manga Review
Inuyasha Arekara
Inuyasha Since Then
Some six months after Kagome decided to live in the past with Inuyasha, she pays a visit to Sango, who's doing laundry by the river with her young children. They chat about a mission Inuyasha and Miroku are on regarding some youkai who's tomb was unsealed by a landslide.
Miroku and Inuyasha are investigating one of the headless skeletons left by this mysterious youkai when part of it emerges from the ground, some of its root-tendrils holding rotting heads. Inuyasha attacks, forcing it to retreat underground. It then targets a group of bandits on horseback, removing the heads of the humans and consuming the flesh of the rest. Kohaku arrives at the scene on Kirara and is joined by Sesshoumaru, who identifies the offending youkai as Ne-no-Kubi, which is beneath even common youkai, but Sesshoumaru finds that it is being quite persistent.
Inuyasha and Miroku bring an arrow to Kaede, who identifies it as having belonged to Kikyou. Kikyou had apparently sealed the Ne-no-Kubi with that arrow prior to having met Inuyasha, and like Inuyasha, the Ke-no-Kubi was looking for the Shikon-no-Tama jewel.
At Miroku's and Sango's home, Shippou is there as is Rin, who was instructed to wait there by Sesshoumaru. Kagome senses danger as the Ne-no-Kubi attacks, taking down the door of the house. The youkai calls Kagome "Kikyou" and demands the Shikon-no-Tama. Sango forces it back with her Hiraikotsu as Inuyasha and Miroku race to the scene and force it to flee. Because this youkai spreads its roots underground and consumes humans, Kagome worries about the people of the village.
Inuyasha takes off with Kagome on his back, worried that she might be angry because Kikyou has come up again. Miroku joins them and the three battle the youkai. Meanwhile, Kohaku arrives at his sister's home to see if she's OK. Sango steps outside to discover Sesshoumaru hovering above the roof of her home with Shippou and Jaken at his side. Sango quietly wonders if Sesshoumaru is protecting them. He leaves her children with Kohaku, then dons her youkai hunting gear, mounts Kirara, and goes to join her husband in the fight.
Kagome wants to be put down to determine where the body of the youkai is underground. Kaede fires the arrow that Kikyou had used to seal the Ne-no-Kubi. When it lands in the ground, the youkai reacts to it. Its massive "head" with mouth and plenty of eyeballs and human heads emerges, telling "Kikyou" that it will devour the Shikon-no-Tama. An angry Kagome, on Inuyasha's back, tells the youkai her name is "Kagome" and fires a purifying arrow at the youkai, exorcising it.
The battle over, Inuyasha scolds Kagome as she was nearly eaten, but she wasn't worried because she knew Inuyasha would save her. She asks if the reason Inuyasha was trying to hide things about this youkai was the Kikyou connection. Inuyasha asks if she's angry. She says she's not, but she issues an "osuwari" command on him, forcing him to do a face plant in the ground. She then tells him that he needs to trust her more.
Miroku and Sango are amused by this before returning home to their kids while Kagome and Inuyasha sit together on a hillside.
During the course of reading Inuyasha, the manga eventually became quite tiresome and tedious, mainly because Takahashi-sensei refused to allow characters to grow beyond a certain point, and she refused to allow the story to naturally end, thus giving us a boring "lather, rinse, repeat" feel to it. One of the nice things about the final chapter of the manga is that the characters were FINALLY allowed to progress and grow.
That brings me to this surprise special epilogue chapter of Inuyasha, done as part of Shogakukan's charity efforts to help the rebuilding of the Tohoku region of Japan, which was devastated by the earthquake and tsunami a couple of years ago. I think there have been a couple of other specials done for Shounen Sunday, but this was the first one I was made aware of.
Anyway, because this manga is set six months after chapter 558, there's a certain freshness feel to the manga even though Takahashi-sensei made sure to touch certain things she knew fans would want to see. I loved seeing Sango as the housewife and mother doing the laundry by the river. (At the same time, it made me think of how glad I am that we don't have to do laundry this way any more.) She's no longer the Taijiya (youkai hunter) — Miroku and Inuyasha do that for a living from what it appears.
I loved the fact that Kagome just drops by for a visit. Yes, Sango is her good friend and former battle comrade, but even more, Sango and Miroku are the friend couple for Inuyasha and Kagome. There's just something about that which makes me smile, even though such a friendship is no surprise or mystery.
The other great part about Sango is that once she knew her children would be safe from an attack by Ne-no-Kubi, she went out to fight at her husband's side. I loved that moment as well.
The other moment I really loved was Sesshoumaru's part in this chapter. On one hand, he was true to form in that he refused to join the fight against Ne-no-Kubi. On the other hand, he had gone to see Rin, instructed her to stay with Sango and Kagome, but after Kagome left with Inuyasha and Miroku, Sesshoumaru was quietly acting as a guarding of Sango's and Miroku's home, making sure that Rin was unharmed. That was awesome, complete with Jaken's usual banter on why Sesshoumaru does what Sesshoumaru does (or doesn't do).
The one thing in this chapter that didn't quite work for me was Inuyasha not talking to Kagome about the Kikyou connection despite the fact that she mentioned that the youkai had addressed her as Kikyou. I know that based on their past, Inuyasha would always attempt to keep Kagome from knowing about things were Kikyou was involved, but now that Kikyou is dead again, it didn't make much sense for him to keep information from Kagome. That said, I'm guessing that Takahashi-sensei figured fans would want to see Kagome do her trademark "osuwari" on Inuyasha, thus she crafted the story to get that outcome.
Oddly enough, Takahashi-sensei didn't have Inuyasha use his trademark Kaze-no-Kizu attack, or at the very least, he didn't shout it out like normal.
In the end, this chapter was a nice bit of nostalgia, causing me to actually miss reading Inuyasha. It worked simply because the characters were shown in their new lives (Sango and Miroku married with children; Inuyasha and Kagome together; Inuyasha and Miroku earning a living as youkai hunters) while not forgetting its roots.
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OverMaster says:
Akamatsu was also part of that earthquake relief event, right? Any chance he did anything related to Negima or Love Hina for it?
Well, this was for Shogakukan, not Kodansha (the publisher of Love Hina and Negima!). I don't know if Kodansha had a similar program for earthquake relief or not.
I wonder if they will animate this?
Anything is possible, especially for charity.
It was a good manga one shot. But just a quick question are you sure that it was Sesshomaru that told Rin to wait with Sango and Kagome and not the old hag (Kaede)?
Actually, that was an assumption on my part. You are probably correct in that it would have been Kaede sending Rin to Sango's place rather than Sesshoumaru.
Do you think they'll make another chapter? >.<
I don't want to get my hopes up….
I wouldn't count on it. This was a special thing for the earthquake, but one never knows. After all, CLAMP brought back one of their old series.
i want more episodes!
I wish they'd continue something like make a final movie or a final season.
They did. ^_^; "Inuyasha: The Final Act" was a 26-episode TV series that came out a few years ago. It wrapped up the series as told by the manga.
Haru says:
is there any more?
Not that I'm aware of. Sorry. As far as I know, Takahashi-sensei is just working on RIN-NE.
they should make a spin-off show
Unfortunately, in Japan, anime is mostly used as an advertisement for a manga series or a light novel series. Since the Inuyasha manga is over, the odds are against there being anything more created, even a spinoff show.
Joco says:
I wish there will be a manga about sesshoumaru and rin and what the future holds for them
It would be nice if Takahashi-sensei wrote that. However, I wouldn't hold my breath for that. She's probably leaving things open so that fans can come up with their own story in their mind of what happened with Sesshoumaru and Rin.
Lisa Philpot says:
Its Kikiyo NOT Kikiyou
It isn't Kikiyo either. 😉 At best, you could say "Kikyō" since there's a long-o sound at the end of her name. I would need to see the furigana for her name, but I believe the hiragana spelling is ききょう, which in romaji would be properly spelled as Kikyou (き=Ki; きょう=Kyou). However, since most Western folks would try to read "ou" as "ow", the official compromise is Kikyō.
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I did find this Reddit thread. I think that may help you on your quest. ?
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Facebook was seemed blaming a "server configuration change" for such issues, in a Twitter statement. The statement was, "Yesterday, as a result of a server configuration change, many people had trouble accessing our apps and services. We've now resolved the issues and our systems are recovering. We're very sorry for the inconvenience and appreciate everyone's patience." The facebook users mentioned their report about the issue on the Twitter by using the #facebookdown hashtag which was very shameful for the company. But for now, somehow the issue is seemed to be settled down.
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John and I picked Alex up last night at 6:30 PM. She was supposed to have finished helping with football practice - but she wasn't done yet. We spotted the boys at the very end of the field in a huddle format. After waiting for five minutes John realized he should walk to the group and try to figure out when they were going to be done. As he neared the practice, he heard the coach asking Alex to get the Gatorade. Alex gladly jogged off to help. This is not her normal MO - anything involving jogging (despite her Special Olympics accomplishments) is usually done at a very slow pace - most of us would call it walking. We knew right away she was having a good day!
After about 20 more minutes Alex jogged (at her normal pace) to the car - she was beaming! I must admit that it was a beautiful afternoon - low 70's, sunny and the first practice - really no way I would anticipate a complaint. When I asked Alex how it went, her answer said it all "great". She said the Coach introduced her to the team as an assistant for the season and everyone said "Hi Alex" - I can just imagine the flutters in her heart as twenty teenage boys paid attention to my sweet daughter.
You see - one of her major challenges is reconciling that all the girls in her school, as well as all the girls on the Disney channel have boy friends, boy problems and boy crushes and she does not. Alex does not have a boy friend, and for a 16 year old that is devastating. Although the kids at her school are very nice - she is one of only a handful of kids with Special Needs in our small rural high school - and thus will probably not have a boy friend in the near future.
I have done a lot of research about kids with special needs and their relationships. It seems to be more successful for all parties involved that bonds are made with kids that are similar to you - this does not mean that I am not a supportive of inclusion and mainstreaming - because I am. If done correctly (and it is often not) I believe it is beneficial for everyone involved, special kids, "normal" kids and even the adults in the same environment. What this does mean is that I want Alex to also find friends that have the same challenges and joys as she does. I want her to be in a relationship where she is comfortable and does not feel "different". I want to be comfortable as her mom that she is in a safe place.
Guess I have my work cut out for me. Fortunately, through her local Special Olympics team we have met some of these kids - more later about the two incredible coaches that started our local chapter and support our kids in ways I could never imagine.
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Minimizing the demand of using POW consensus mechanism and recommending using Secure Proof-of-Stake consensus mechanism.
Reinforcing communication in shard and making state blockchain more essential.
There are 3 main shading types: network shading, transaction sharding and state sharding. Network sharding ensures that nodes are grouped to form shards. Merchanism of linking nodes into shards is to resist attack from an attacker and then withstand a specific shard. Transaction sharding plays a part in linking and processing transactions. In system based on accounts, transaction will be attached to shards on a basis of sender's address. State sharding enables each shard to maintain a sole state location. Each transaction containing accounts at different shards will exchange information and update situation at different shards.
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The Practice of a Body:?When we step into the historical body of a practice, we step into it as an individual. We begin to practice the teachings and techniques that constitute the body of the practice. Along the way something happens, a sort of interiorisation of the practice, or a subjectification of one or more of the transmitted elements of the practice. I like to refer to this point, always noticed after-the-fact, as the ?taking up of the practice? by the individual. In some ways, this is the real beginning the practice of a body, one body, a particular body? yours. By referring to this as a practice of a body, I am referencing the particular, but also the very obvious fact that this practice uses the body as an entry point into practice. In this particular tradition, we begin by practicing by learning and repeatedly moving through a set series of postures or asana (this may be the primary series as taught by Sri K. Pattabhi jois, or it may be a particularized or therapeutic loop designed for you for the instructor). There are no doubt any number of reasons for the use of a set series of asana as opposed to a constantly changing one. However, there are several reasons that have made themselves obvious to me time and again, both in my own practice and in those I have seen develop over the years I have been teaching. The first, and most necessary of these reasons for using a set series of poses is that it almost immediately begins to lead to the development and sustaining of a certain steadiness. Pantanjali, in his Yoga Sutras, emphasizes the need to develop steadiness. As a form, a set series is, well, steady. It provides us a point of reference to which we can hold steady, a point to which we return in order to refine. (Steadiness is not to be confused with rigidity, with forcing, nor yet with mindless or compulsive repetition). This steadiness and continued practice, together carve out a space wherein the moments of interiorisation of the practice I referenced above might occur. Another reason I see for utilizing a set series of postures is that it more quickly facilitates a reorientation to the image and thus to the ego, but that is a bit beyond the scope of this introduction.
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Come April 14, fans of HBO's Game of Thrones are going to he get one big helping of bittersweetness in the form of the final season of what many consider to be the best television show of all time. After nearly a two year wait, fans will finally learn who will rule Westeros and sit on the Iron Throne.
HBO President Casey Bloys recently spoke with Deadline and did his best to reassure fans that that the finale showrunners David Benioff and D.B. Weiss have made is going set well with fans. You can check out what he had to say below.
Weiss also commented on the show's final battle.
For now, speculation is all we have, and seeing that Game of Thrones has left me absolutely shocked on more than one occasion, I really have no idea which direction the show will go, though I cannot wait to find out.
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The Helor 101 is by far one of the smartest hand grinders to hit the market in recent years. It's engineered from the ground up to satisfy the wants and needs of picky coffee enthusiasts, as well as replicate the grind quality of far more expensive commercial grinders as closely as possible. The look and feel make all this obvious, and the unibody aluminum grinder chassis feels extremely solid and precise in the hand, with two steel bearings making for a smooth and stable grind.
The big wooden pommel on the handle is both stylish and comfortable to hold, and the step-less grind adjustment allows you to easily dial in for espresso or dial up to a drip grind with just a few turns of the dial. Both the upper and lower chambers hold between 30-40 grams of coffee - whole beans and ground, respectively.
The Helor is available in two types of burr sets, allowing you to tailor your grinder to whatever your brewing needs may be.
The Contemporary Burr Set is tailored to espresso grinding and similar fine grinds.
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What Is Organizational Culture? And Why Should We Care?
by Michael D. Watkins
If you want to provoke a vigorous debate, start a conversation on organizational culture. While there is universal agreement that (1) it exists, and (2) that it plays a crucial role in shaping behavior in organizations, there is little consensus on what organizational culture actually is, never mind how it influences behavior and whether it is something leaders can change.
This is a problem, because without a reasonable definition (or definitions) of culture, we cannot hope to understand its connections to other key elements of the organization, such as structure and incentive systems. Nor can we develop good approaches to analyzing, preserving and transforming cultures.
If we can define what organizational culture is, it gives us a handle on how to diagnose problems and even to design and develop better cultures.
Beginning May 1, 2013, I facilitated a discussion around this question on LinkedIn. The more than 300 responses included rich and varied perspectives and opinions on organizational culture, its meaning and importance. I include several distinctive views below, illustrated by direct quotes from the LinkedIn discussion thread — and then I offer my own synthesis of these views. (There often were multiple postings with similar themes, so these are simply early selections; unfortunately it was not possible to acknowledge everyone who made helpful contributions.)
"Culture is how organizations 'do things'." — Robbie Katanga
Culture is consistent, observable patterns of behavior in organizations. Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do." This view elevates repeated behavior or habits as the core of culture and deemphasizes what people feel, think or believe. It also focuses our attention on the forces that shape behavior in organizations, and so highlights an important question: are all those forces (including structure, processes, and incentives) "culture" or is culture simply the behavioral outputs?
"In large part, culture is a product of compensation." — Alec Haverstick
Culture is powerfully shaped by incentives. The best predictor of what people will do is what they are incentivized to do. By incentives, we mean here the full set of incentives — monetary rewards, non-monetary rewards such as status, recognition and advancement, and sanctions — to which members of the organization are subject. But where do incentives come from? As with the previous definition, there are potential chicken-and-egg issues. Are patterns of behavior the product of incentives, or have incentives been shaped in fundamental ways by beliefs and values that underpin the culture?
"Organizational culture defines a jointly shared description of an organization from within." — Bruce Perron
Culture is a process of "sense-making" in organizations. Sense-making has been defined as "a collaborative process of creating shared awareness and understanding out of different individuals' perspectives and varied interests." Note that this moves the definition of culture beyond patterns of behavior into the realm of jointly-held beliefs and interpretations about "what is." It says that a crucial purpose of culture is to help orient its members to "reality" in ways that provide a basis for alignment of purpose and shared action.
"Organizational culture is the sum of values and rituals which serve as 'glue' to integrate the members of the organization." — Richard Perrin
Culture is a carrier of meaning. Cultures provide not only a shared view of "what is" but also of "why is." In this view, culture is about "the story" in which people in the organization are embedded, and the values and rituals that reinforce that narrative. It also focuses attention on the importance of symbols and the need to understand them — including the idiosyncratic languages used in organizations — in order to understand culture.
"Organizational culture is civilization in the workplace." — Alan Adler
Culture is a social control system. Here the focus is the role of culture in promoting and reinforcing "right" thinking and behaving, and sanctioning "wrong" thinking and behaving. Key in this definition of culture is the idea of behavioral "norms" that must be upheld, and associated social sanctions that are imposed on those who don't "stay within the lines." This view also focuses attention on how the evolution of the organization shaped the culture. That is, how have the existing norms promoted the survival of the organization in the past? Note: implicit in this evolutionary view is the idea that established cultures can become impediments to survival when there are substantial environmental changes.
"Culture is the organization's immune system." — Michael Watkins
Culture is a form of protection that has evolved from situational pressures. It prevents "wrong thinking" and "wrong people" from entering the organization in the first place. It says that organizational culture functions much like the human immune system in preventing viruses and bacteria from taking hold and damaging the body. The problem, of course, is that organizational immune systems also can attack agents of needed change, and this has important implications for on-boarding and integrating people into organizations. In the discussion, there were also some important observations pushing against the view of culture as something that it is unitary and static, and toward a view that cultures are multiple, overlapping, and dynamic.
"Organizational culture [is shaped by] the main culture of the society we live in, albeit with greater emphasis on particular parts of it." — Elizabeth Skringar
Organizational culture is shaped by and overlaps with other cultures — especially the broader culture of the societies in which it operates. This observation highlights the challenges that global organizations face in establishing and maintaining a unified culture when operating in the context of multiple national, regional and local cultures. How should leaders strike the right balance between promoting "one culture" in the organization, while still allowing for influences of local cultures?
"It over simplifies the situation in large organizations to assume there is only one culture… and it's risky for new leaders to ignore the sub-cultures." — Rolf Winkler
The cultures of organizations are never monolithic. There are many factors that drive internal variations in the culture of business functions (e.g. finance vs. marketing) and units (e.g. a fast-moving consumer products division vs. a pharmaceuticals division of a diversified firm). A company's history of acquisition also figures importantly in defining its culture and sub-cultures. Depending on how acquisition and integration are managed, the legacy cultures of acquired units can persist for surprisingly long periods of time.
"An organization [is] a living culture… that can adapt to the reality as fast as possible." — Abdi Osman Jama
Finally, cultures are dynamic. They shift, incrementally and constantly, in response to external and internal changes. So, trying to assess organizational culture is complicated by the reality that you are trying to hit a moving target. But it also opens the possibility that culture change can be managed as a continuous process rather than through big shifts (often in response to crises). Likewise, it highlights the idea that a stable "destination" may never — indeed should never — be reached. The culture of the organization should always be learning and developing. These perspectives provide the kind of holistic, nuanced view of organizational culture that is needed by leaders in order to truly understand their organizations — and to have any hope of changing them for the better.
Click here to see this article in the original posting on hbr.org.


Every year about this time I like to take stock of the direction of this blog. I started this blog back in 2005, mostly as a way to express myself on political matters and also to be involved with local government. I didn't do too much with it last year. To be blunt, I was just kind of worn out, and soured completely on the integrity of some local government entities. Couple that with having a crook for president, and I didn't muster up much desire to post. Was also a little exhausted to see how many people accepted the level of corruption from the Trump administration without question. Part of that changed in December of 2018 for reasons I will no doubt talk about in depth at a later time. In any event, I've had my blog site up now for going on 14 years.
I've had, as most people know who are familiar with me, a strong interest in local politics for quite some years, including video recording or audio recording meetings and putting them up for others to see or hear. I strongly believe that elected government officials should be accountable to those that pay their salaries or where taxpayer money is being spent and the more sunshine that can be shone, the better. And our Texas constitution is even better on freedom of speech than the US constitution.Our Texas government encourages people to use the public information act to be informed, and there is a set of laws and rules regarding how open meetings should be conducted.
At some point early last year I quit Facebook ... again... I didn't like the practices of Facebook, seemed (and continue to seem) shady and dishonest, and I didn't want to be part of that. Have felt all the better for it.
I've toyed with the idea of doing streaming video and may do that during this year, who knows?
One factor in continuing with this blog is that I have been somewhat alarmed over what has happened to local journalism over the past 5 years. Companies such as Gatehouse Media have bought up local newspapers, and gotten rid of some personnel staffing the offices. For example, here in Glen Rose, there is not a full time reporter assigned only to Glen Rose, but instead he shares time with the Stephenville office. And there is no longer a physical office location in Glen Rose where you can walk in and, say, hand someone an advertisement. I remember one time going into the office that was on Hwy 67 and being able to look at newspapers that were in a sort of flippable arrangement where you could look for an article by spending some time turning pages. No more. Not only is there not one here, it's in Stephenville, but the papers are not available without asking in advance, and even then, not all have been saved. If a reporter no longer has the time to attend, in person, various government meetings, due to no fault of his or her own, then you cannot read about what happened in the paper, or at least not from the firsthand impression of a reporter that actually was there, and not hearing what happened through the filter of asking, say, the judge.
One answer to this is when government creates, not only agendas, but also audio or video or their meetings. From a practical standpoint, many times I don't know about something when it occurs, but I want to go back and hear what happened, why it was voted on a certain way, in other words, the thinking behind a vote. And we can do that with the govenrment entities that record all their meetings and post them to the internet. (The city, sadly, does not record all their meetings). Consider continuity as well. Sometimes you want to know what has happened about a certain item for longer than just that meeting; maybe there is a history that would shed light on why and how some decisions are made. I heard, on one of the audio recordings, where one of the commissioners said they had discussed certain information about salaries at a budget meeting in the past. Well, suppose that commissioner was no longer in office, who would know? I'm saying that sometimes you want to be able to go back and hear what was originally said to understand the current conversations. And if there are any government officials that want to try to prevent you from knowing what they're doing, you should ask why.
To that end, I'm going to try this year to take the audio recordings of various meetings (maybe not all, depends on my level of interest and work) and put agenda items with them. One problem I have with myself is that I sometimes am trying to find something I know I heard, but it's sort of buried in a big hunk of audio. Being able to see where on audio a given agenda item was discussed at least helps narrow it down. I've done about half the Somervell County Commissioners Court meetings that way into video and posted on Youtube and will sometime in the next week or so finish the second half of the year.
I do think at least some people care also about what happens at the local level. Certainly a whole bunch of people came out at the city to complain a couple of years ago when the trash fees were going up with less pickup. But, really, when it comes down to it, I just believe this is what should happen and I"m going to do it as long as I am interested, regardless of anyone else's interest. That will include calling out local government if I believe they are not being transparent, which should be the supreme rule for any government.