Yashahime Blu-Ray and DVD Vol. 1 Limited Event
Rumiko Takahashi answers fan-submitted questions for the "Yashahime Blu-Ray and DVD volume 1 limited event" which took place at 8:00pm on April 26, 2021.
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Q1: When you first heard “Inuyasha and Sesshomaru’s daughters” what did you think?
Rumiko Takahashi: I recall that at the scripting stage the thought was for
Sesshomaru to have twin daughters and Inuyasha to have a son. It took quite awhile but eventually the idea became for all three to be girls. Furthermore the characters personalities were discussed for quite some time. So when you say “first heard” it didn’t flow like that.
Q2: What was the design process for the three princesses?
Rumiko Takahashi: I answered
a similar question in talking about the sequence of events but at the time of the design stage their personalities had already been established. On the other hand if a character’s personality has not been decided their appearance cannot be done afterwards.
Q3: Regarding Towa, Setsuna and Moroha, what points do you think they have in common with their parents?
Rumiko Takahashi: Setsuna reflects the cool feeling of Sesshomaru while
Moroha reflects the heated nature of
Inuyasha.
Towa was raised in modern times so her personality is a little complicated. Each parent contributed something towards their appearance.
Q4: Can you talk about the number one thing in terms of the visuals and personality of each of the characters?
Rumiko Takahashi: Moroha’s design came without any hesitation. With Setsuna the charming aspect was the fur. I like Towa because she was the most difficult personality-wise, so I was glad to give her a boyish appearance to differentiate her from the other girls. Since I was working in a design capacity, I am attached to all three of their looks.
Q5: Are there any characters that you think are particularly like you or that you have an affinity for?
Rumiko Takahashi: There are almost no characters that look like me, but I have an attachment to each one of them. Inuyasha is a character that I never got tired of drawing every week, and Sesshomaru is the first non-blurred character in the series, so I was happy to draw him.
Yashahime has a screenplay and voice actors that are developing the characters and I look forward to seeing. Please look forward to “Chapter 2”.
Footnotes
- [1] I am writing these notes just shy of two years after first transcribing these questions and my memory of this particular Q&A is slightly fuzzy because a lot of news was coming out at the time. I recall a live stream (that Takahashi did not appear on screen for, I believe it was just the questions and her answers were shown). This predates her Twitter account by roughly a month, so the questions were not solicited through that, though they may have been through Peing.net which was later used to gather questions she would answer in Shonen Sunday S. In the few weeks prior to her launching her Twitter her editor, Kento Moriwaki (森脇健人), was fielding some Twitter questions for her and then hosted her in a YouTube video where she discussed Inuyasha and the still rather new MAO. As a result, news of Yashahime, MAO and her debut on Twitter made for a hectic few months. This was during that time.
