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TCU INVESTIGATION OF INU YASHA

Not so long ago, reference was made on this board to a cultural phenomenon of the name "Inu Yasha". This is a Japanese "comic-book" which has for some reason been translated into English and published in English-speaking countries. According to our non-Christian informant, it is now "very popular" among young people in the USA and elsewhere. Realising that this clearly marked it as a sign of our times, I made haste to investigate the thing and report back for the benefit of other True Christians.

Although most people think of comic-books as being thin, the ones that I purchased were rather thick, almost like real books in size. There were over ten volumes, each one costing as much as a real book. But (as we well know) expense is no object to a young person who has caught whiff of something truly evil. They have been concocted by a sinister-looking Japanese lady with droopy hair, giant spectacles, and floppy clothes who sits on low couches and closes her eyes when people try to take photographs. I suspect that she does this so that people will not notice the redness of her eyes, which is a notorious sign of possession, or abandonment to darkness. In this case she has resorted to black-and-white film to mask the telltale rufous retinas.



With a great deal of caution, I opened the first volume and commenced to read. I hurried past the endpapers, with their hypnotic patterns, and turned to the first image in the book. This was of a cartoon character, a man with blonde hair, who has been shot through with an arrow so that he is "crucified" against a tree. This is an obvious reference to St Sebastian, a "gay" icon of some standing. Triangular ears poke out of a mass of foamy hair, thus marking what turns out to be his half-and-half nature, for Inu Yasha is half-demon: half dog-demon, no less.



The name "Inu" means "Dog", which of course is "God" backwards, clearly marking not only the demonic contrarian nature of the character, but also the anti-Christian aspect: Inu Yasha is quite definitely a figure opposing and parodying Christ by infiltrating our Universe from a kind of astral plane full of horrible devils and monsters and Japanese peasants... in other words, a corner of Hell itself. In order to activate his powers, he calls an innocent schoolgirl by sending a giant centipede demon to drag her into his realm, and deceives her into pulling out the enchanting arrow. Her name is "Kagome" which is an anagram of "Ok game". But this is no reasonable child's play. In the course of the first and ensuing books, she actually befriends this evil being and helps him to defeat all his rivals as he searches for the a magical jewel which will, he says, make him into a full demon.

Inu Yasha is quite definitely a kind of reverse Jesus Christ. Instead of a life of teaching, healing and miracles, followed by death and resurrection, Inu Yasha ("Dog Saviour") is first resurrected and then embarks on a course of deception, fighting and sorcerous destruction. He has no interest in saving souls, merely in rending bodies and acquiring power for himself. Clearly, he is no role model for children, and in fact as the books progress we are led to believe that a relationship is developing between the demon and the girl! A situation that is clearly modeled on the Book of Judith, the Catholic fiction which papal authorities tried to insert into the Bible in order to subvert its holy message. Early on, Inu Yasha's mother is described as a normal human being, comparable to Mary, and the reader is explicitly encouraged to worship her as an equal to God the Father.

Although Kagome is clearly a very young person, she is depicted as having a boyfriend and to be going on dates (which she misses because of her hellish distractions and debauches with the talking dog-person). People are still wondering why there is so much teen pregnancy. They would stop wondering if they saw this book.



And the violence! Hardly a page can be turned without an act of utter brutality confronting the juvenile reader. Eyes are gouged out, people torn in half, limbs sliced off by the dozen. One creature incorporates the bodies of her victims into her own self, and wanders around like a disabled obese person, far from God, attempting to eat other humans in her devilish wheelchair-bound gluttony. Another stuffs himself with peaches, which turn into miniature people who are then dismembered by bewhiskered recruits from Beatrix Potter books.

Lycanthropy and witchcraft, sorcery and malevolence, worldliness, selfishness, greed, lust and larceny fill the black-and-white pages of these revolting books. The pages may be black and white, but it was the "grey areas" created by liberalism that allowed this work into Christendom in the first place. I call on all True Christians to be on the lookout for this filth and destroy the tart’s-tongued pages on sight. Talking dog-people and hair-combing Kewpie dolls and peach-eating wheelchair-bound boyfriend-stand-upping school-sluts may be good enough for Japs but they're not good enough for us. The Roaccutane-popping crazed delinquent denizens of Tokyo high schools may be abandoned to their entertainments but we and our children stand aloof.

A True Christian has spoken.

J. M. Penfold




A typical violent cover image





The baleful influence of Japanese literature can be seen even in 19th Century art





Yet another misled Westerner flings himself into pagan ritual: a bodhisattva bodysuit endorsed and used by the Dalai Lama himself





Ultimate result





YES! We worship Satan