Chapter 9: The Animated Series

Cue the dramatic music!

Presenting: Filler!

"What?! You're saying Miroku promised to return to this village and make good on his promise?" Kagome exclaimed. "But why, though?"

"You lecherous monk!" Sango got mad and stormed off. Note: surprised faces /sarcasm

"Poor Sango. How could you do that do her?!" Kagome turned angrily towards Miroku.

"Um... what? I met this woman three years ago! I only met Sango like 5 months ago! It's not like I did this on purpose!"

"I hate to say it, but he's got a point, you know," Shippo said.

"Shippo? You're not taking the girls' sides for once?"

"Mostly just because Inuyasha's still not back, and we need a voice of reason somewhere. Hopefully I won't pop out of existence in this chapter."

"Well, it is a filler episode, those usually have you in them."

The group had teleported to another village, where... actually, it should be pretty obvious what happened. There's been like 3 episodes like this before.

Cue Kagome delusional fantasy sequence!

"Oh, with Inuyasha gone, how are you gonna 'sit' him 50 times for no reason, Kagome?" the slightly irritated audience asked.

"?"

"Uh... maybe we should go look for Sango," Shippo suggested.

"Yeah, but what was that, though?" Moneca Sto- er, Kagome asked.

As Shippo and Kagome went along their merry way, Miroku silently cursed all females of his species, then went off to do some more characteristic-yet-surprising-to-his-companions actions: i.e., he went to flirt with some village women. Again. Note: surprised faces /sarcasm

Meanwhile, several episodes later, Shippo was involved in some... thing... involving a "cute" girl he has no chance with, being possessed by something, or involving himself with some other small-yet-friendly demons.

Audience: Didn't we see this episode before? Like, several times?

Kagome: It's a demon!

Shippo: It's huge!

Audience: Wow, really? I couldn't tell. Thanks for pointing that out. /sarcasm

More forgiving audience: Well, at least they're being useful for once?

As Kagome wasted yet another minute of our lives by summarizing the entire series before the episode title, Inuyasha stood in line in the gift shop. He decided to leave the studio audience, as whatsherface Kaching12 was berating Naraku with incredibly stupid questions about his favorite flavor of ice cream and why he's such a jerk, and he just couldn't take it anymore. Inuyasha was just glad he hadn't paid for his ticket. AU Business Owner Inuyasha was not so lucky. Anyway, as Inuyasha waited in line to purchase his euphemisms and dinosaur model kit, he pondered his role in the series.

"It's called 'Inuyasha', right? So you'd think I was the star, right? But that stupid wench Kagome spends about twice as long as any of the rest of us talking! Summarizing the series... like any of you hadn't seen it before! And it only shows her thoughts and feelings! What about me? I'm the freaking title character! Am... am I... not the main character?"

The hapless teenage boy standing in line who Inuyasha had been talking to replied, "At least you only have one annoying chick hogging the spotlight. I'm the title character in all my series, too, and I have 5 and sometimes 6 girls taking over. I didn't even get one vote in the popularity poll!"

Inuyasha had not heard any of that, apparently. "What kind of a stupid name is Kagome, anyway? At least "Kikyo" actually means something! All our names mean something! Except hers! Where does she get off?"

Readers: I thought this was a parody of the anime?

Author: It sort of still is, I guess. You can make up your own jokes.

Yeah, but why, though? /sarcasm

OoO

Okay, I wrote through the "?" about two weeks before I wrote the rest of it, so I forgot where I was going. But why, though?

Whu... In the Viz dub, Kagome add "though" to the end of a lot of things. And the filler episodes seem to be the same plot as canon episodes. Anyone else catch that Season 4 was almost entirely non-canon filler?

I don't have much to say, other than "Because I didn't upload last week and because this chapter is so short, you get a second, crappier chapter!" Yay!

/sarcasm If anyone was wondering what that sarcasm thing was, it's a reference to html coding and stuff. Like, you do ?text/? with the ? replaced by the appropriate coding. Like, b for bold, I for italics. So, the joke is doing that for sarcasm makes the text sarcastic.

Jokes are less funny when you explain them.

And if anyone was wondering, that kid in line next to Inuyasha was Tenchi from Tenchi Muyo/Universe/In Tokyo/whatever else. Just what he gets for being in a harem series.