Inuyasha and other half demons. something about Half breeds that the Japs dont seem to like I presime.
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Half Breeds in Anime
Half breeds is quite the interesting concept in anime. It raises a lot of questions about racial purity and what it means to be truly human. In anime a half breed is someone who has normal blood mixed with a blood type that is considered impure. This impurity can come from many sources (depending on the wimps of the mangaka artist). In most cases the source of impurity comes from the father. Usually, it is the women who succumb to the charms of otherworldly beings (or foreigners like in the case of Code Geass). They in turn produce half breed monsters. Only in very rare instances does the male succumb to such follies. In any case half breeds come to being from an unnatural union from two different beings that were supposed to never come together. That being said I shall now start discussing the half breeds.
The best way to begin analyzing half breeds is to observe half breeds in pairs. The first runner ups are Dante and Virgil. Like all of you may know, these twins were born of the union of Esparda (the demon knight) and a human woman named Trish. As both twins began to grow, Dante began cling to his mother Trish. Virgil, however, became fascinated by the legends of the demonic powers of his unknown father. In time Dante became more human while Virgil began to embrace his demonic heritage. These two twins represent the two paths available for half breeds to take. In the concept of half breed in anime a middle ground is nonexistent. The internal conflict of half breeds is externalized in the conflict between Dante and Virgil. In the end the half breed must choose between his human or demonic self.
Japanese are well aware of that duality inside half breeds. So traditionally they have always felt some animosity toward half breeds. This animosity is exemplified in Inuyasha. Rumiku Takahashi keenly makes a contrast between the modern perspective of Kagome and the contemporary views of Inuysha. By showing Kagome’s bewilderment toward prejudices toward Inuyasha, Takahashi seems to imply that the whole half breed nonsense is a thing of the past. Thus, such prejudices against half breeds only occur in Japan of 200 years ago. While in the present Inuyasha, at worst, is treated like a pleasant freak of nature.
Code Geass on the other hand is an interesting take on half breeds. Lelouch di Britannian is half Japanese and Half Britanian (a cultural half breed) . The day his Japanese mother died he swore a vendetta against his Britanian father for failing to protect his mother. Morally speaking, his actions are rather questionable. After all, in the second episode he slew his half brother Clovis. He follows the similar half breed pattern that deems negatively one aspect of his blood. Thus, Lelouch did not identify with his half brothers because they were not Japanese. Despite his rebuke of the cruelty of the Britanian Empire and his father, Lelouch cannot escape his destiny written in blood. In time he becomes even crueler, treacherous and desperate than his father. The epitome of his malice comes in full bloom in the episode where he abandons in the “other world” his father and his mother. Thus, despite the fact that Lelouch is Japanese he cannot escape the Britanian blood.
So as you can see, the half breed concept is not limited only to humans and demons.It can be both cultural and hereditary. Over all, it is a matter of personal choice whether to swing one way or the other. Yet at times, society makes the choice for the half breeds. As seen in Inuyasha, despite how often he saved thehumans their prejudices did not disappear.
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