Iolanthesong: I'm going to go with the archetype hero journey. There's 12 steps to the journey if I remember my grade 10 english class correctly.

Kagome is most definitely the hero but I can't quite pin Inuyasha…maybe the tragic hero? In which case he'll meet an untimely end not at Naraku's hands but because of his own character flaw/bad choice?

Either way RT seems to be at about step 11 of the hero journey: The Resurrection (where the hero faces off against the greatest evil in a life or death battle, using all the skills they have learned during their journey).

After that there's just the "Return with the Elixer" step, the last one, where they hero returns with whatever gains/lessons they've claimed as a result of defeating the evil in battle.

Should be an interesting ride if we are indeed near the end

Here's a little sidebar more on the subject at hand.  A battle of souls seems like the next logical step and would make for a spectacular ending.  I wonder what Rumiko's going to do and what universal story this ends up being?

Naraku: I wont let you shoot not yet..

Naraku begins to move to Kaede's village while spewing powerful shouki and of course he is in the middle of collapse. And not allow Kagome to shoot, after she was cut by the meidou blade. Just imagine what should happen if she fires with the holy arrow. An instant apocalipse or something Meidou open a path to hell, holy arrow purifying, and the fate of the comrades witch is connected to the shinkon no tama which is do not want to disappear from this word.

Iolanthesong: I think you're referring to the theory of the collective unconscious. It's pretty fascinating stuff.

For those of you who don't know, it's essentially the idea that all humans, regardless of race or social circumstances, share similar ideas about certain central concepts. The term "mother" for instance is generally depicted around the world in similar terms, often encompassing sentiments such as one who is nurturing, caring, warm, loving etc.

Obviously there are individual variations to this concept, but the theory itself is pretty interesting nonetheless. This is apparently how we ended up with similar myth stories thousands of years old from nations that never interacted with one another until closer to the modern era.  

Iolanthesong: 

But remember, Blueseed had a main character who was a hanyou; and he even acted tough like Inuyasha. And they had the seeds, which were kinda like jewel shards…

But you know what? To be fair, some of the differences between both shows are very drastic. And the universal themes that occur in both stories are very common throughout the world. So, I'm not surprised how both authors came up with the hanyou and shard-like narrations. And, of course, all of us here know Takahashi-sensei turned Inuyasha into a fantastic manga and anime. I really didn't mean to sound horrible by using "cop-out". I sincerely love and respect Takahashi-sensei's wonderful series which I dearly love. I guess it's just the time frame which concerns me… Anyways, I hope I'm not contradicting myself too much!! Ahahaha…I probably am…   

I have absolutely no problems with this so long as the fangirls are eternally pissed off.