I don't know, I don't acknowledge her is such a high esteem. Sure, she was Inuyasha's former love, and sure, she was bullied by the pressures of purifying the jewel, being a powerful priestess next to Midoriko herself, and sure she had a tragic death, twice, but I still really don't like her. She wouldn't listen to reason when both Kagome and Inuyasha attempted to discuss with her Naraku and his plot against herself and Inuyasha, it took her a long while to finally get over the animosity between herself and Kagome despite the fact that Kagome had been nothing but nice to her, and she clung to her tragic death for so long it irritated me. I do sympathize with her in some aspects, but I think her final death was prolonged simply so that more reactions and drama between Kagome and inuyasha could occur. From the very beginning it was obvious that there would be no way that Kikyo could stay as she was and Inuyasha would be with Kagome. The added on drama was nice for a while because it added effect, but her death was actually something I really wanted to happen for a while. Her death would mean herself moving on, since she would not allow herself to die unless she was ready, Inuyasha could move on since he would have no choice but to, and Kagome could move on too. It was a major speed bump in the series that was just begging to be resolved.   See 3 other replies

Kikyo's soul as she died were only the negative feelings of Inuyasha she still contained. All other portions of her soul already did return to Kagome the day that Kikyo was resurrected. Kikyo and Kagome share the same soul, as referred back to the episode when Urusai (sp?) the witch took out Kagome's soul and placed it inside the clay shell of Kikyo, and Kagome cannot be alive unless Kikyo's soul is inside her. This applies to Kikyo as well, but because those negative feelings stayed inside Kikyo, she is allowed to live while Kagome has her soul still. But also because of this Kikyo needs to sustain her life on the souls of other women, so her soul eaters come into play. Also, because Kikyo only has the negative part of her soul, that portion of her soul wouldn't want to go back into Kagome because Kagome's soul is pure, thus rejecting the negative parts.   See 12 other replies

Although the first reply to this topic was indeed a good explanation, I have to agree more with the second reply. It most likely is just to add dramatic effect. Although a new idea comes to mind, if Kagome and the gang, and even Kikyo herself, travel so much, how do they come across so many arrows? I understand sort of how Kikyo can, since she hardly ever misses and can afford to wait a while until she receives new arrows, but Kagome can't do the same. Very interesting indeed.   See 3 other replies

Nice explanation and it does work but Im stil pretty sure its jsut a matter of makeing the show more dramatic after all if it was a simple matter of the arrows being in short supply I would imagine she would run completely out rather than alwayse has just that one last shot there every time she needs it. While arrows arent cheep Im pretty sure if she wanted to Kagome wouldnt have any trouble picking up a good suply in the present and its pretty sure that the worst of what you can buy today are still going to be nearly as good as the best you could craft by hand.   See 3 other replies