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One of the biggest mysteries in the InuYasha series I don't think any fan will understand is WHY did Kagome always wear her school uniform during the events of InuYasha? I mean I can understand her wearing it the first time when she was pulled into the Bone Eater's Well by the centipede demoness. But after that it literally made no sense at all for her to even wear it unless she was planning to go to school in Feudal Japan but of course junior high schools didn't exist back then.As much as I do respect Rumiko Takahashi's work and most of her manga's I came across some articles I found on line that mostly explains her reason(s) behind this is and seriously it's the most ridiculous.
Apparently her reasons for wearing was because it was entirely for the sake of recognition as while she wears casual clothes when she is in the present outside of school, she wears the uniform exclusively when in the past despite the impracticality of hiking for miles in a skirt and school shoes. Kagome prefers to wear her school uniform when she travels to the past because it's durable and it's easy to wash the blood out of it.
I am sure that some will agree with me that really doesn't make any sense because her top is white and I am sure from all the times she had to probably wash it in Feudal Japan, Bleach (not the anime/manga) wasn't invented yet. I am pretty sure that there are a lot of other clothes that are more durable to wash and also easier to get blood stains out of. Even other anime characters like Dawn from Pokemon, in her main outfit it made a lot more sense: vignette4.wikia.nocookie.net/t… because it was made for travel and even Nami from One Piece sure she was seen in several battles wearing a skirt with either high-heel shoes on or knee high boots. Plus during her arrival at Zou in the later manga chapters made more sense too: vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/o… because it still showed that Nami was at least dressed for proper exploring of the island (although I don't know about high heels) but at least it wasn't school uniform.
It was rather pointless nonetheless as you would think that walking in the wilderness of Feudal Japan in a short skirt and her legs are exposed to bugs, rough branches, and other wildlife, even poison ivy you think that wearing jeans or even shorts with a pair of appropriate hiking boots would be more suitable then a Junior High School uniform.
Just as I stated I have much respect for Rumiko Takahashi and love InuYasha but there are just some curious scenarios that do occur that make you seriously scratch your head and Kagome Higurashi wearing a school girl's uniform in Feudal Japan is one of them.
I acknowledge that I don't own Inuyasha or the screenshots. They belong to Rumiko Takahashi.
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I agreed with your points, she could have an adequated outfit to the feudal era, and she only must wear her school uniform when she returns to the present time.
Only think about it, the school uniform of kagome would be innapropiated to this time by several reasons, starting by the fact that the people of the feudal era could see kagome like a strange person or even think that kagome is a witch or a kind of demon. Then this could cause some troubles to the heroes each time that they visit a village or travel by habitated areas.
Also other reason to be illogical that kagome still wears a school uniform in the feudal era is the fact that this kind of outfit would be very impratical to many scenarios like run, climb, walk through forests or even to move during a battle.
I think that she should start to use a local outfit (kikyo outfit) to be adequated to the feudal era inmediately after start her adventure to retrieve the shards, and perhaps she could wear boots than shoes, as the formers could be more practical to move herself.
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Thank you Albwesker. I mean even Rumiko Takahashi's explanation for it which is that Kagome wore her high school uniform because she enjoyed the latest style. Apart from that, high school uniform were easy to wash. As much as I respect Rumiko Takahashi that is by far the lamest excuse I have heard and not to mention how EASILY skirts can get ripped and reveal "panty shots". Even yoga pants are easy to wash and more comfortable to move around in as well as biker shorts, like May's outfit from Pokémon Advance.
Well Kagome is not all that bright to begin with (sorry I am not a fan of her at all) and really doesn't think most scenarios through and is usually very slow at realizing when she is in the wrong about something and even then she won't admit she is wrong either. It amazes me that most people didn't point out more about her "skimpy outfits" in the series.
I think that is one reason why she never wore a miko outfit because she was trying to set herself apart from Kikyo (although Kikyo was better) but I agree maybe a short sleeveless kimono with shorts underneath and proper footwear would have been ALOT better then a stupid school girl's uniform.
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I agreed, because even if kagome wasn't fond with wear an outfit from the feudal era, she still should consider this, to had in mind that her school girl uniform could bring unnecessary attention and possible misunderstandings.
And to prove my point, only watch the first episode of the inuyasha, when kagome come for first time to feudal era and she comes to the kaede's village, kaede and the villagers to see her weird outfit, they quickly caught her and tied up her to think that she are a witch or a kind of demon. Of course, fortunately to kagome the situation don't escalate to dangerous levels and eventually kaede set her free to show her that she wasn't a demon.
But still, after this incident, kagome should consider that her school girl uniform is innapropiated in the feudal era and she could considered to change her wearing to think that if she continue wear her school girl uniform, this could bring her troubles with the villagers to make them think that she is a kind of demon by her school uniform.
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They should have her wear two outfits. One for the present, the other for the past.
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I agreed, she should have an adequated outfit to the feudal era, and she only must wear her school uniform when she returns to the present time.
Only think about it, the school uniform of kagome would be innapropiated to this time by several reasons, starting by the fact that the people of the feudal era could see kagome like a strange person or even think that kagome is a witch or a kind of demon. Then this could cause some troubles to the heroes each time that they visit a village or travel by habitated areas.
Also other reason to be illogical that kagome still wears a school uniform in the feudal era is the fact that this kind of outfit would be very impratical to many scenarios like run, climb, walk through forests or even to move during a battle.
I think that she should start to use a local outfit (kikyo outfit) to be adequated to the feudal era inmediately after start her adventure to retrieve the shards, and perhaps she could wear boots than shoes, as the formers could be more practical to move herself.
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Precisely. If I were to give Kagome a outfit for her to wear in the past, here are the three outfits I would suggest.
1. A Miko outfit (like Kikyo)
2. A short kimono (pink)
3. A outfit quite similar to Inuyasha's (but colored blue)
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Honestly, I feel you 100% all the way here. Of all the minor details that bugged me about this series, this was the minor detail that bugged me the most by far. The Word of God BS to "justify" Kagome wearing her school uniform on these constantly dangerous adventures in the feudal era is just the biggest load of bollocks I've ever seen. Easier to wash out blood, my ass. NOTHING white can do that! Besides that, Kagome has more than once gotten actual physical tears on her uniform and ain't no washing technique in the world that can patch that up seamlessly. Beyond that and all the other reasons mentioned up here already, it's actually annoying that Kagome's uniform is conveniently spotless every time she goes back to school, because the wear and tearing sustained by her school uniform is proof positive that all of grandpa's excuses for Kagome missing school are total BS that anyone would be able to deduce in 0 seconds. No ailment will cause her school uniform physical damage, and even if something could affect her clothes, the last thing it should affect is her school uniform since that's the last thing Kagome would logically be wearing while she's allegedly "at home sick". Seriously, for all of Kagome's efforts in trying to maintain a double-life as an average schoolgirl and time-travelling adventurer, she seriously sucks at covering her tracks. She's quite fortunate to have contrivance and poor writing to protect her from the consequences of her sloppy efforts in keeping her two lives separate.
What's extra irritating about the whole thing can be summed up here:
In the early episodes after her first visit to the feudal era, around the time Yura debuted, Kagome came back and she wore casual clothing. My memory's foggy but I think she did this with a couple of other outfits before it was back to her uniform 100% of the time. I'm also not sure if this was a thing in the manga or if this is an anime-only detail, but seriously. I mean, the short skirt is still grating for the same reasons as her uniform, but that shirt! Someone tell me how washing stains out of that dark blue shirt is more difficult/less convenient than washing it out of her predominantly white school uniform? It's just stupid, honestly. If the meta justification for this was for making Kagome more recognizable... well, uh, sorry, but anime teenage females with sailor school uniforms are literally a dime a dozen. Her uniform's design is like the most generic and common in existence as well. The only thing that makes it not a complete standard uniform is having green accents instead of blue, but that's a far cry from other examples of creative uniforms. Also doesn't help that design-wise, with that uniform, Kagome looks like she could seriously be a cousin of Rei Hino/Sailor Mars. Honesty, with the family background that makes it doubly plausible and it's no wonder why millions of crossover fanfics make them relatives. My point being, the school uniform does jack all to make her appearance distinct, imo. She'd have been better off with the casual clothes.
And yeah, like others who commented here it's extra irritating that Kagome fully well knows she's always drawing attention to herself by choosing to wear her uniform every time she comes to the feudal era. Especially when Kaede went out of her way to give Kagome an outfit that would make her blend in perfectly with the locals of that time period. Kagome's so infuriatingly genre-blind when it comes to the concept of time travel - talking about future events, bringing loads of belongings from the future with her including food and medicine, and...well...
Here's something that also bugged me that ultimately shouldn't matter because it's a fictional story, but Kagome spends a lot of her time (and later permanently resides) in the feudal era. A time where millions of diseases ran rampant because certain breakthroughs in medicine wouldn't happen for hundreds of years - not to mention the lack of indoor plumbing. It's hard enough for me to imagine a girl who grew up in the late 20th century acclimate to a time period that lacked like 85% of the things she grew up with with very few complaints or difficulties. Power of love be damned - how the holy hell did Kagome perfectly adjust to a world where toilets didn't exist? Not just in a sense of convenience, but the matter of how much disease ran rampant BECAUSE of how life was before the advent of indoor plumbing. I can at least see her realistically adjust to a world without electricity over time, but the matter of several significant diseases running rampant in the feudal era compared to the 20th century... and hell, the fact that Kagome at birth was given immunizations over that stuff that literally no one else got, plus my personal quandry of how that affected the non-immunized main cast when they ate modern food that contained stuff that their bodies never before processed and realistically should have caused lots of biological conflicts... yeah, I really cannot get over the ending.
A lot of this is small stuff, but it's distracting enough to take me out of the show and ruin my immersion. Hence after a while I was completely unable to take it seriously and lost investment probably before the midway point (my other beef with InuYasha: the entire story easily could have been told within a year or two - there's so much stuff in the middle that could be taken out and wouldn't affect the endgame at all).
And it all started with me noticing how inexcusably stupid it was that Kagome kept wearing her school uniform in the most inappropriate times and inappropriate places.
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If I were her, I would've eventually ditched that uniform for my travels back in time.
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She should only use her school uniform to returns to the present time, but during the feudal era, she should use a local outfit to not bring unnecessary attention from the villagers and people.
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What uniform do you imagine would be more practical?
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Well, i was thinking in two options to kagome:
1. she could wear a miko outfit like kikyo to blend better with the past time.
2. Or if she isn't confortable in use the wearings of the feudal era, she at least could use a more practical outfit of her time, like wear jeans pants than a school skirts, as the skirt leave her legs exposed to insects and bugs from the forests that could transmit her diseases. And also she could change her school shoes in favor of a boots more adequated to long travels and to avoid trip when she had to run from a situation or to move better during a battle
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I would have her dress in the attire of a traditional japanese archer.
www.pinterest.ca/pin/132856257…
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More likely that is the reason to don't change her outfit
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Sorry I am not a fan of her so I don't find anything sexy about her at all.
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I have a better question ... Why did she use a bike in Sengoku?
School uniform I can understand because it was her daily outfit, but bike? And all these things from modern times? It comes out that she, she could not find in those days without modern things and it was wonderful in her? For me it's pathetic
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Well another problem with her wearing that type of outfit it the culture of the time period
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Exactly. I can understand that maybe a regular kimono wouldn't have been appropriate for her to wear but usually in other animes that center around the Feudal Era of Japan some characters are shown to be wearing a Kosode (a mini kimono from what I have seen) and leggings underneath. The leggings might have been before their time but it makes more sense then a school uniform.
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I totally agree with you. And to make it worse, the skirt is damned sooo short. I guess Inuyasha was very lucky to carry her on his back and how ever was behind them. 🤣🤣🤣🤣
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I also once thought about it. I think this uniform is supposed to identify her with her times. And it's to make the audience aware that she doesn't love in these times and doesn't identify with them. But in general it doesn't make sense and I think that more comfortable with their own in other clothes.
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Don't go to school in Japan but I read once that some schools actually charge you for uniforms. Even if it was easy to wash the blood out, a few demons actually tore the shirt. And as I understand there is a standard for present ability that a patch job would RUIN. Not to mention that all that hiking, in shoes not meant for it is gonna tear them shoes up.
Catch me in the feudal era in some pants I don't care about, preferably of the stretchy, breathable variety. I really did not see why Kagome couldn't rock around in some black yoga pants. And a white T-shirt if it meant so much to her. Black doesn't show up and white can be bleached. No matter how Takahashi explains it away (major respect, I love their work) there is NO reason for Kagome to be traipsing around in a school uniform save "comic relief"
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You know what? Thank you I seriously mean that THANK YOU SO MUCH!!! That is exactly what I am talking about and just as you said at the end I have serious and major respect for Takashi-sama too but just as you said no matter how she explains it away there is NO reason what so ever for Kagome to be wearing a school girl's uniform in an era where clothes like that made a person look suspicious.
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If they chose a more realistic reaction, given how some of the female demons dressed (by no means am I slut shaming here) ,their assumption would have been that she was a demon. Weren't feudal women encouraged to be modest? Even if the didn't assume Kagome to be a demon, they would have shamed her for wearing such revealing clothes. I really think its pandering to the pervy demographic that enjoys seeing a girl in a school girl outfit.
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You know I never thought of that before. But your right it's incredibly impractical.
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Thank you Iris. I am really not a huge fan of the "limited wardrobe" for most Manga/Anime characters and she looked to have plenty of other clothes in her closet to wear that would have been more suitable travelling around the wilderness of Feudal Japan.
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That isn't appropriate to wear in a place like Feudal Japan,she could at least wear something else.
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I agree with you there. Even biker shorts would have been more suitable and just as easy to wear.
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I agreed, she at least could wear a more adequated wearing to her adventure to the feudal era, but a school uniform is very impractical by several points, starting the fact that she could brings unnecessary attention from the villagers by have a strange outfit in the feudal era, also her skirt and shoes aren't appropiated to several situations like walk through forests as her exposed legs would make her target from the bugs that potentially could carry diseases, also she could trip easily by her shoes as this weren't designed to run from a danger or move in a battle.
I understood that she could carry her school uniform in the first chapter and maybe by Little time in others, but she should considered get a different and more appropiated outfit to her adventure
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Exactly, in fact the first time that kagome travels to the feudal era, and she comes to the kaede's village, kaede and the villagers thought that kagome are a witch or a kind of demon.
She should think in change her outfit when she planned her adventure in the feudal era to avoid possibles conflicts by wear a school uniform in the past.
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From my view point, the reason she always wears her school uniform is because before she decides to go visit Inuyasha and his friends, she has to go to school. Perhaps Kagome doesn't feel like changing her clothes as soon as she gets out - it's straight to Feudal Japan lol. She carries a backpack with her most of the time to carry bug spray or other medicine just in case she hurts herself. If she forgot to bring her bag, somehow Feudal Japan would have some kind of remedy to heal any injuries that she may get.
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It's also easier to draw the same outfit everytime and it's a simple outfit.
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Yeah, but still i think that they could give kagome two main outfit: her school uniform that she only would wear during her time in the present and an outfit more adequated to the feudal era like the miko outfit of kikyo.
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Even biker shorts are easy to draw is just a simple t-shirt. Not much thought has to be put in to just the simplest of a hiker outfit.
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I think that wouldn't fit Kagome. Her charakter is quiet femenine.
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Sometimes I think the uniform was to remind others, the viewers/readers and perhaps even herself that she is not from the era of Feudal Japan and so she can somewhat stand out as the unique or odd girl in that era. If that were the case, then any modern day clothing would've been better than a school girl uniform.
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I agreed, because even if kagome prefer wear an outfit of the present time, she at least could change her school uniform in favor of a more practical outfit, like a jean pants or at least a more confortable skirt than a school skirt. She also could wear boots than shoes, as the former are more adequated to travel by great distance and she will not trip easily like that by wear shoes
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But instead she chose her school uniform because she was introduced that way. Heck, she even wore a Miko outfit at some point which could've been her main attire, however it would also make others think she is Kikyo.
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It's not as bad as sarada's in the bolt manga.
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I don't understand why they got rid of her original outfit that she wore in the one shot manga they did of her. At least Sarada wasn't wearing a school girl's uniform.
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Ya but her current outfit is just bad and something someone her age should not be wearing. I agreed while I hated gaiden I did like sarada and sakura's design.
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Because fetish? I dunno, really. She looks good, tough.
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For the same reason the characters in Naruto run with their arms in a V position. It's easier.
Yes the reason she gave was weak but it was possibly just easier for Rumiko to draw Kagome in her uniform instead of different outfits.
And by extension it made it easier on the animators when InuYasha got adapted into an Anime.
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She didn't have to draw her in different outfits just one single outfit that was durable for the Feudal Era of Japan.
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