why this topic is painful to read is beyond me but it simply is. yes, it's dire irony that someone hates the main character of the show; but it is understandable. personally, i love inu in spite of all the pragmatic errors of his ways. he is hojo's foil, and it's perfectly written to be so. (english lesson; a foil is a counterpart, someone who is an opposite of another). If you hate InuYasha, you will love Houjo. if you love inuyasha, you're more bound to dislike Houjo. but don't lash out at someone for their dislike, it's their granted opinion.
Houjo is to mellow, to me. He tries to take a stand against things, but has no backbone to agrue against it. point one; second movie(i think) when he buys tickets to take Kagome to the aumsement park and asks her not to stand him up. he doesn't persue her in the matter, and he keeps coming back for more. he doesn't really listen to her (case two, episode where she needs notes) and just kind of lives in his own world of denile when it comes to her. Knowing she is 'seeing' someone else, he continues relentlessly, but not in the sweeping her off her feet fashion, but the idiotic way. many times over i have had female friends simply gush over how idiotic Houjo really is.
Kagome is to strong for him. She needs someone who is just as boisterous as she is. she's demanding, assertive and actually rather aggressive. she would CRUSH Houjo, no questions asked.
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and to hate InuYahsa because he hasn't defeated Naraku...well...let's not go there. no one has defeated Naraku, and i'm next to possitive that if you put Houjo up to the task, he'd p*ss himself and run away.
