( Btw, for those of you who think the answer is OH SO obvious, I've had this discussion quite a few times, and heard very good reasons from both sides. )
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Last edited by Cherrywild on Sep 17th, 2007 at 01:08 AM
I agree with you completely. To me, Inu-Yasha is one of the most overrated anime of all time. It was so boring, and after trying to get into it for over 80 episodes, I finally just gave up. Its also really repetitive, with a plot that goes absolutely nowhere.
Yu Yu Hakusho, on the other hand, is one of my favorite anime of all time, and is quite underrated by so many people these days.
As for the match-up, I really cannot say, since I never finished the anime series for Inu-Yasha, and since the manga is still continuing. I don't really know how strong Seshomaru is, but I would be surprised if he is on the level of and S class demon from Yu Yu Hakusho.
I'm not really familiar with YYH, but I always understood it to take place at a higher power level than IY. Doesn't Yusuke blow up a mountain or something?
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Yes, and he does it with ease. Also, it was only at the end of the Chapter Black arc. He's at least twice as strong by the end of the series (and it was mentioned by Genkai that he has the "potential" to be able to destroy a planet).
Yeah but Sesshomaru also has his Energy Whip. It can slice through almost anything, and if it does fail it has the effect of poison akin burning him extremely bad.
His instantaneous power grants him the ability to move faster than the eye can see; both on land and through the air. When he does this in the anime, he leaves behind afterimages. He can also instantaneously close long distances without being detected by others. In the Manga he's even faster. Besides he can Teleport no way Kurama could beat that.
All the stuff that you have mentioned, are things that can EASILY be done by common demons (most of which are D class). Plenty of anime characters can move faster than the eye can see, for that matter.
Afterimages is no real indication of speed. I mean, Rinku isn't that fast compared to other YYH characters, but he was able to create after images. Hell, Rurouni Kenshin characters, who are only HUMAN, can create afterimages easily (characters such as Kenshin, Saito, and Aoshi). Afterimages mean absolutely nothing.
Kurama doesn't need rediculous speed. He can grow/sprout a whole F*ing forest instantaneosly, and use the trees for cover. Not only that, but he can use the evironment as a weapon (and Seshomaru won't be able to travel to quickly with all of these sprouting trees in his way). Also, if Kurama transforms into Yoko Kurama, than he will be faster than Seshomaru. Kurama also possesses a plant, that takes the form of wings, and allows him to fly as well, which won't give Seshomaru and advantage, if he can indeed speed through the air.
Also, let me just say that Seshomaru, who is not even on the level of an S class demon from what you have mentioned, has some powerful attacks, however none of them that I have seen, are on the level of an S class demon's attack. Shigure, on the other hand, who was an S class demon/swordsman, could not cut through some of Kurama's thick trees. If he couldn't do it, than there's no way that Seshomaru could even hope ot do so.
And here is the killer. Kurama is known for strategy. Seshomaru, on the other hand, will most likely understimate him. Well I can tell you that all Kurama has to do, is use this to his advantage, as he has done before. All he has to do attack a death seed to Seshomaru, and he is as good as dead. It is a small seed, that would be nearly impossible to detct, if Kurama flicked it at him, or attached it to his rose whip, and lashed, cut, or pierced it, into Sehsomaru's skin. It would basically feed off of Seshomaru's demonic energy, and sprout within seconds, piercing all of his major organs simultaneously, and holding itself in that position (so there is no chance of Seshomaru healing or regenerating any of his organs, if he can even do that).
Like I said, I'm not sure because I haven't seen all of IY. However, Seshomaru will have to do a lot better than what you mentioned, to stand a chance against Kurama (unless we're talking about Kurama from some earlier point in the series).
At the current moment, Sesshomaru could probably take kurama up to chapter black, but not at his 3 kings levels. Over the course of the course of the series Sesshomaru has had some very powerful weapons, a sword that creates a black sphere that instantly transports any opponent to the realm of death for a win via BFR, and he now currently possesses an energy sword that not only negates any healing factor, but in fact as a virus destroying an opponent from the inside out. Add in the fact that he has tenseiga which produces a force field that has blocked attacks that could level mountains and he's got a pretty decent shot at this. Also keep in mind that even at the very beginning of the series Sesshomaru was fast enough to block around 12 bullets from completely different sides and send them all richicheting back into the people who fired them, and he wasn't even trying, plus he's gotten faster since.
Like I said, I stopped watching IY after awhile, and its been awhile since I have actually seen it. But all I was saying that from what I have seen, and from what had been listed about Seshomaru before, he would need to be a lot stronger than that to take on Kurama. I never said who would win for sure.
However, I must ask, would it be possible for Kurama to sneak something as small and light (which makes it pretty undetectable during a battle) as a death seed of his, on to Seshomaru. Because if he can, then Kurama still has a good shot at winning. Also, if he doesn't underestimate Sehsomaru (which he wouldn't do if he was in his human form, but which he might do as Yoko Kurama), and uses his most powerful plants from the beginning, than Seshomaru may have a pretty tough match ahead of him.
Just to mention his, Sesshomaru is basically Kurama's counterpart in this series. He's the resident genius fighter in Inuyasha, so I doubt he'll let something like that happen.
He may be smarter, but I haven't really seen him use a whole lot of strategy in any of his fights. Either way, Kurama is a brilliant strategist, and he has more than just 1 way of taking Seshomaru down. Once again, I'm not saying who would win or not, but it is a fact that Kurama is one of the more underestimated characters of Yu Yu Hakusho (in fact, the only person who gets underestimated more than him, is Kuwabara).
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