Antoni Matteo Garcia

This screenshot demotivational poster is highly, utterly, indubitably, and absolutely Anti-Miroku. Sit back, relax, and indulge yourselves with my impassioned evisceration of this appalling excuse of a hypocrite, liar, scumbag, and loser.

I am certain you have had characters you tried to like when you were younger and more impressionable viewers and anime consumers but ended up loathing as grown-ups with more nuanced ways of thinking and observing the world around you. For me, Miroku fits the bill for a character I tried way too hard to like but ended up despising him after realising how much of a hypocritical scumbag he is. I am aware that his whole shtick is that he is a womaniser who gropes various women and gets slapped for it all because he wants any of them to bear his children as well as his escapades with Sango. Re-examining him made me see nothing charming or enjoyable about this sick scumbag of a person. Even scummier is how he treats Inuyasha thinking he deserves those sit commands by Kagome and hitting him on the head with his staff for not being tactful when he himself is pathetic and even far worse than Inuyasha is. Furthermore, as Inuyasha is allowed to be brutalised by Kagome, he just receives slaps in the face. To me, this hypocrite deserves worse punishments for his deeds.

Miroku is far from being a charming playboy because everything about him screams unattractive scumbag who could never get it into his own head that he severely lacks self-reflection and is a liar. Even when he was traveling with Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippou, he had the nerve to ask her to bear his children, but he just ended up as nothing more than one of her pathetic humanoid yes-men. At least something came out of his “relationship” with Kagome as one of her army of skanks. The fact that he repeatedly gropes women without their consent and even had the gall to ask the then 11-year-old Koharu to bear his children one day, which was a promise she managed to keep at 14 for that hog, makes him a truly disgusting cretin and poor excuse of a man who has neither my sympathy nor my compassion. Yes, his reason for asking women to be impregnated by him was tied to his family curse of bearing the Wind Tunnel by Naraku, and he wanted to desperately look for a woman to bear children to carry on with his “legacy”. However, his whole manner of womanising never earned me my charm or empathy.

As if Miroku’s womanising and pervert ways have been getting older as the series rolled on, the other attribute that irritates me most about him is his hypocrisy. He has the gall to lecture Inuyasha to be more tender towards Kagome when Miroku himself has not been tender to all the women he has been groping and demanding to have their kids let alone attempting to have his way with Sango. He is just as sanctimonious as Kagome is to the point where I do not even care who is worse in that department. Nevertheless, I still argue that Miroku’s fake offering of friendship let alone brotherhood to Inuyasha makes me see him as an opportunistic moocher who uses Inuyasha to compensate for the fact that his Wind Tunnel, staff, and sutras are the only “weapons” he has at his disposal and is not a particularly strong fighter. To say that Miroku is dishonest is a mere understatement. Miroku is nothing more than a scummy deceiver who dares think he is above Inuyasha just because he has more experience in “wooing his floozies” when he objectifies women as his baby making machines and nothing more.

There is nothing to like, admire, adore, and/or love about Miroku because he is a lying opportunistic scumbag who thinks he can sweet-talk his way to various women by invading their personal spots just to bear their children. His despicableness in everything he does as a poor excuse of a Buddhist monk as well as a friend to Inuyasha makes me sick to my foundation, and it is no surprise that I find nothing to root about him. Every lie he has told may as well come back to haunt him for the rest of his life, and every deceitful action he has taken will not be looked back with neither kindness nor compassion. All Miroku has ended up acquiring is my frenzied rage. Rage at how he believes he can stand on his little soapbox preaching to Inuyasha about tenderness towards other women, when Miroku was never tender towards the opposite sex at all. He even has the gall to put Kagome on a pedestal when he never even bothers to defend Inuyasha’s actions and is so quick to jump to Kagome’s side like the snake-like sleaze-ball that he is. Therefore, Miroku shall end up with a vicious castration and hanging.

I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and never be hypocritical like Miroku is, everybody.

The Hypocritical, Deceitful, and Credit-Hogging Shyster from Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise.

This screenshot demotivational poster is highly, utterly, indubitably, and absolutely Anti-Miroku. Sit back, relax, and open your minds to understand where I am coming from with my claim of Miroku being a terrible male companion to Inuyasha and the alternatives I have in store instead of this pathetic excuse of a monk.

From the first time I watched Inuyasha as an 11-year-old boy to watching it in earnest during my middle school years as a 13 to 14-year-old boy to my high school years ranging from 15 to 18 years old, I tried everything I could to find something salvageable about Miroku let alone his “brotherhood/friendship” with Inuyasha. However, every time I tried over and over again, I kept failing to find something redeemable about this pathetic excuse of a brotherhood between Inuyasha the totally awesome super strong dog Hanyo warrior king, dog Yokai king in my AU headcanon, who I will always adore and Miroku the absolute lame-o hypocrite who gets on my nerves with his lies and deceitful ways towards women. Watching Inuyasha in his perspective, I can totally understand why he is so irritated with Miroku. The way Miroku treats Inuyasha like a second to third-class citizen because of how much stronger he is compared to him, despite the many occasions Inuyasha had to save Miroku’s loser behind, his tendency to have a go at attacking Inuyasha when Miroku himself is not really that strong, his flippant favouritism of Kagome, thus making him, Sango, and Shippou her humanoid androids without a brain, and all of the lies, manipulation, deceit, and disingenuousness this horrible excuse of a Buddhist monk have are all attributes of why I believe Miroku was completely atrocious for Inuyasha as a friend let alone as a surrogate brother.

It was clear from the beginning that Miroku never cared when Inuyasha was hurt by Kagome’s sit commands and believed that he deserved it for being rambunctious and rowdy. This hypocrite is no saint either with his womanising ways, tremendous tendency to be no-good cheat, and being full of fibs and lies that I am surprised that they did not manifest themselves into a more frightening monster. Even when that little lie grows into something bigger and stronger than Miroku is, it is not likely that his Wind Tunnel will solve the problem for him. In fact, it will make his problems even bigger. This is especially true with how he treated Inuyasha. After all the times Inuyasha has saved Miroku’s sorry ass from peril, after risking his life to save his male companion, and after everything he put himself through to ensure his safety, Miroku still treated him in an inferior and condescending manner. There was zero brotherly love, and there was only cold-blooded manipulation on Miroku’s part just because he as well as his fellow skanks Sango, Kagome, and Shippou could wheedle him and take full of advantage of Inuyasha’s undying loyalty to suit their selfish needs. He even says he cares for Inuyasha’s safety, but he injures him far more whether it is stomping on him or hitting him on the head with objects or his staff, thus making him even more of a bully than Kagome is. However, Kagome is still the worst bully ever. Miroku is just one of her pathetic little minions doing her dirty work.

With Miroku’s lies, deceit, manipulation, and scumbag nature coming to light, who would be better male companions to Inuyasha? Sesshoumaru would be more reflective of his actions and words, thus making him reconnect with Inuyasha as his brother, and would cast away his haughtiness like the true noble he ought to be in order to build bridges with Inuyasha. Shuran would be the big, lovable, gentle giant who would have both a loving brotherhood towards him as well as a competitive one, thus seeing each other grow stronger both mentally and physically. Hakkaku and Ginta have always seen Inuyasha as a truly strong warrior and one who has always been a lot stronger than Kouga ever was, thus making them ditch Kouga and swear brotherhood and allegiance to Inuyasha. There is no doubt that Shuran, Hakkaku, Ginta, and most especially Sesshoumaru would be the better and bigger men to provide Inuyasha the genuine brotherhood he needs, but there are eleven red-clad warriors, soldiers, combatants, and martial artists who would indubitably stand by Inuyasha’s side and would never be a bunch of phony manipulators.

Once you hear the roll calls it’s morphin’ time, shift into turbo, let’s rocket, go galactic, Lightspeed Rescue, time for Time Force, Quantum Power, and wild access, viewers and readers know fully well of Power Rangers Wild Force’s glorious tenth anniversary episode “Forever Red”. Jason Lee Scott from Mighty Morphin Power Rangers, Aurico from Mighty Morphin Alien Rangers, Tommy Oliver from Power Rangers Zeo, Theodore Jay “TJ” Jarvis Johnson from Power Rangers Turbo, Andros from Power Rangers in Space, Leo Corbett from Power Rangers Lost Galaxy, Carter Grayson from Power Rangers Lightspeed Rescue, Wes Collins from Power Rangers Time Force, Eric Myers also from Power Rangers Time Force, Cole Evans from Power Rangers Wild Force, and even Alex Drake the original Time Force Red Power Ranger would come to Inuyasha’s aid and protection to be the staunch, unconditionally loving, genuine, and nurturing brothers they are. Jason, Aurico, Tommy, TJ, Andros, Leo, Carter, Wes, Alex, Eric, and Cole would even confront Miroku and address how much his lies, manipulation, cowardice, and hypocrisy sicken them to no end. Aurico would address that Miroku has done more harm than good to Inuyasha. TJ would call out Miroku on not being an honourable warrior let alone a genuine friend to Inuyasha. Andros and Leo would call Miroku a pathetic opportunist who gets away with his lies. Carter would give Miroku a firm dressing down on the many occasions he has hurt Inuyasha both physically and mentally and would rather see him in chains and in a jail cell for all his crimes. Wes and Cole would even state that Miroku has no guts, no glory, and no charm whatsoever. Even more cutting is when Tommy, Jason, Eric, and Alex tell Miroku that he is a pathetic excuse of a Buddhist monk who has nothing that Inuyasha wants and should just go flog himself in his lonely monastery to rid himself of his identity of being a hypocrite and a liar. All of what Miroku is confronted with by the Red Power Rangers would make him leave indignantly like the little loser bitch that he is.

After Miroku is confronted by the Red Power Rangers and squirms away from their sight like the parasitic worm that he is, Jason, Aurico, Tommy, TJ, Andros, Leo, Carter, Wes, Alex, Eric, Cole, and Inuyasha would embrace each other so tightly that they could all feel the brotherly love flowing from each other. However, they are not the only true friends who would end up giving Miroku the verbal beatdown he deserves, for he will also experience a more painful punishment. For entertainment, the eleven Red Power Rangers would invite Inuyasha to see Miroku being hunted down by powerful fighters they have been acquainted with in Street Fighter and Tekken. Once they enter the arena, they would see that Miroku has messed with the wrong people. Who better to give Miroku the brutal physical beatdown he deserves than Kazuya Mishima, Paul Phoenix, Dudley, Guile, Ryu Hoshi, Ken Masters, Alex, Feng Wei, Jin Kazama, Hwoarang, and Steve Fox. There is no doubt that every punch, kick, grapple, and strike Kazuya, Paul, Dudley, Guile, Ryu, Ken, Alex, Feng, Jin, Hwoarang, and Steven make would reduce Miroku into a bloody and brutal mess. If that is not enough salt to worsen Miroku’s wounds, all eleven fighters would call Miroku a weakling scumbag who could never be a real man and fight. Furthermore, Kazuya, Paul, Ryu, Ken, and Alex would further brutalise Miroku by reminding him of his failures as a friend and surrogate brother to Inuyasha before delivering one final blow that would further damage all of his insides and outsides. Jason, Aurico, Tommy, TJ, Andros, Leo, Carter, Wes, Alex, Eric, Cole, and Inuyasha cheer loudly for Kazuya, Paul, Dudley, Guile, Ryu, Ken, Alex, Feng, Jin, Hwoarang, and Steven and congratulate them on a job brutally and wonderfully done.

Brotherhood and friendship with the eleven Red Power Rangers and eleven powerful martial arts masters aside, they would even encourage Inuyasha to be with a life partner more suitable to him, thus making him choose Ayame the Northern Yoro Warrior Princess for her strength, independence, beauty, and courage. Tommy and Jason would applaud Inuyasha for his excellent choice and would encourage Inuyasha and Ayame to consummate their feelings for each other. This would lead to the eleven Red Power Rangers and eleven martial arts masters to bless Inuyasha’s and Ayame’s beautiful unity which the couple would passionately kiss and make steamy love to each other much to their delight as well as the delight of Hakkaku and Ginta who are also in a beautiful relationship with Shunran much to Shuran’s joy. Sesshoumaru, feeling especially jealous of Aurico, Tommy, Jason, TJ, Andros, Leo, Carter, Eric, Alex, Wes, and Cole, would at first hesitate to join in the warmth and joy. However, after seeing how truly happy Inuyasha and Ayame are together, he would take the first steps forward and request for him and Inuyasha to start afresh as brothers. Kazuya, Paul, Ryu, Ken, Tommy, Jason, and Eric would play around with Sesshoumaru saying that he should speak louder with Inuyasha participating in the game with a delightful smirk on his face. Finally, Sesshoumaru loudly and proudly says that he wants to reconnect with his brother and love him unconditionally, thus showing humility and grace as well as having both Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha embrace each other as brothers much to the delight of Inuyasha’s wife Ayame and his true friends/brothers from other mothers Tommy, Jason, Aurico, TJ, Andros, Leo, Carter, Wes, Alex, Eric, and Cole. Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha would end up promising each other that they will never fight over petty things and also embrace all Red Power Rangers as well as the eleven martial arts masters. Even Sesshoumaru would be helpful in giving Inuyasha and Ayame the best love life they can ever imagine as well as standing by Tommy’s, Jason’s, Aurico’s, TJ’s, Andros’s, Leo’s, Carter’s, Wes’s, Alex’s, Eric’s, and Cole’s sides as their best friends for life.

It says something when eleven steadfast Red Power Rangers and eleven powerful martial artists could make better and greater friends for Inuyasha than some pathetic loser pervert of a Buddhist monk who is, in truth, a hypocrite, a liar, a cheat, and a thief. It also says something that eleven Red Power Rangers and eleven martial artists can be the catalyst of gluing Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha together as brothers while also being extremely supportive of Inuyasha’s much better love life with Ayame. Therefore, Miroku may as well be permanently demolished and never come back, while Kazuya, Paul, Dudley, Guile, Ryu, Ken, Alex, Feng, Jin, Hwoarang, Steve, Aurico, Tommy, Jason, TJ, Andros, Leo, Carter, Eric, Alex, Wes, and Cole are forever here to stay by Inuyasha’s side as well as Sesshoumaru’s side for a very long time united in brotherhood, unconditional love, genuineness, honesty, respect, allegiance, and solidarity.

I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and never be a phony friend like Miroku the pathetic hypocrite, everybody.

The Hypocritical, Deceitful, and Credit-Hogging Shyster from Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise.

This screenshot demotivational poster is highly, utterly, indubitably, and absolutely Anti-Miroku. Sit back, relax, and enjoy my evisceration of Miroku the poor excuse of a Buddhist monk I have ended up despising with all of my heart, mind, body, and soul.

Miroku is back on my chopping board, and he deserves to be so. Why is that you ask? He is nothing more than a hypocritical liar and a perverted Frankendouchebag who thinks he is being charming by groping various women wanting to bear his children should his existence be gone due to his accursed yet cool Wind Tunnel or Kazaana nearly devouring him. In terms of combat, he might have had some skills with his staff and sutras, but he is otherwise ineffective when it comes to more threatening monsters. As Inuyasha’s “male friend/surrogate brother”, he is truly the worst because of how often he sides with Kagome regarding Inuyasha’s torrid past with Kikyou while not also understanding his painful past either. Miroku even has the gall to hit Inuyasha on the head for acting out of line when he himself is no saint by any stretch of the imagination, thus making him just as much of a sanctimonious narcissist as Kagome if not worse. In fact, he is just as much of a bully as Kagome is, but Kagome is a million times worse than Miroku will ever be. Therefore, he is just one of Kagome’s humanoids who crawls on his knees because she is some special snowflake from the future.

For someone like Miroku who calls out Inuyasha on his whole “two-timing Kagome with Kikyou” debacle, his track record is extremely dirty beyond belief. Going around wanting to bang floozies for the sake of carrying his children does not mean he is going to get away with being called a two-timer himself because he is not going to get away with it that easily. So, let me get this straight. When Inuyasha goes off to see Kikyou, does that make him a two-timer? No, his gesture meant that he had unresolved guilt and trauma still festering at him after over fifty years which is still fresh in his mind. He needed to hash out whatever was lingering inside him so that Kikyou could be at peace again because she was resurrected out of her own will. How that loser Miroku interprets it is that Inuyasha is unfaithful to Kagome with Kikyou, which makes this pathetic loser monk a million times worse than he already is. Yet, Miroku is still allowed to womanise and get away with slaps thrown at him, while Inuyasha receives the “Sit, boy!” treatment by that fugly floozy Kagome? I would hope to the Shinto gods and Buddha that Miroku does get neutered and emasculated because he is also a sex offender. From his past with the innocent Koharu, he was even so brazen to ask her to bear his children when she was only 11 years old and kept his promise alive when she was 14. Even when he gallivants with other women, he is still just as much of a sex offender because he invades their privacy and has no ounce of respect for them.

His overall brotherhood with Inuyasha is a joke. He is completely antagonistic towards Inuyasha, treats him with a complete lack of dignity, has no compassion towards his plight, and has zero consideration of his dog Yokai heritage in terms of treating him like a pet at best and his whipping boy at worst. Every time Inuyasha acts out of line, Miroku would never hesitate to strike him on the head with his staff, throw objects at him or batter him to the ground. All of these actions make Miroku more of a bully than a compassionate friend or brother from another mother. Despite the many occasions where they stuck together as well as Inuyasha risking his life for this hellion’s sake, Miroku still treated Inuyasha like a second to third-class citizen as well as his trump card just because of Inuyasha’s prodigious strength and the power he has with Tessaiga. I do not blame Inuyasha for harbouring negative sentiments towards Miroku because he does see him for the lying, thieving, faithless, deceitful scumbag that he is, and Sango is just too much of a sheep to accept that. At least Inuyasha bears the truth, and the truth hurts, but it is necessary to call out the bull crap that Miroku envelops people with. To make things worse, he never considers Inuyasha’s feelings and plays favourites with Kagome as one of her army of skanks. Talk about unfair and uncalled for from Inuyasha’s supposed surrogate brother who was never a brother to begin with. Miroku was nothing more than a pathetic scumbag taking advantage of Inuyasha’s strength, steadfastness, loyalty, and staunchness.

As a fighter, Miroku may have had his moments, but he is ultimately useless without his Wind Tunnel or Kazaana. Just because he has some skill with a staff and sutras does not always make him the most effective fighter in the world. I am also still reeling with anger at Miroku for bonking Inuyasha on the head with his staff, despite him being critically injured, all because he needed to see Kikyou, thus affirming of how much of a bully Miroku really is. Yes, Miroku’s Wind Tunnel is cool for instant kills. However, without it, he is an ineffective fighter with a staff he uses on certain occasions as well as sutras that tend to mostly work on lesser demons. Therefore, he is not really the spiritual warrior that he is and is a plain joke as a fighter, as the only serious battles this cheating coward would rather fight in or on the bed with his breeding mare Sango.

All of my gripes on Miroku boil down to him being a know-nothing know-it-all who treats women like objects and people like Inuyasha as nothing more than second to third-class citizens because Inuyasha has far more appeal than this loser ever has. He thinks he understands Inuyasha’s painful past with Kikyou, but he does not even bother to empathise with him and is only one Kagome’s humanoid androids to her every whim just like Sango and Shippou. He treats Inuyasha with disrespect just because of his part human and, may I remind you, part dog Yokai heritage that he takes for granted without batting a single eye. Passers-by are impressed by Miroku’s supposed strength when Inuyasha is actually the strongest of the main group, thus making this pathetic excuse of a monk hog nearly all the credit. There is nothing charming, charismatic, and strong about Miroku at all because he is a hypocritical know-it-all who uses his “knowledge” to make himself look better when he is not at all that great to begin with.

If hypocrisy were to be engendered by a specific character, it would have to be Miroku. His frequent lies, penchant for deceit, bullying towards Inuyasha, and credit-hogging attitude all make him a veritably pathetic loser and hypocrite. He deserves to be guillotined, mutilated, castrated, and brutalised to no end because his crimes against sexual decency and humanity are atrocious beyond compare. His treatment towards Inuyasha also deserves my ire, as his complete lack of consideration makes him an appalling individual. I will say this once, and I will say this again. Nothing about Miroku makes me root for him. I would rather love to see him impotent and suffer a most horrible plague wrought about him such as HIV or any other fatal sexually transmitted disease. That is all this hypocrite and liar deserves.

I hope you all enjoyed this, and I will see you in the next submission. Take care, stay safe, and never be a hypocritical liar like Miroku, everybody.

The Hypocritical, Deceitful, and Credit-Hogging Shyster from Inuyasha belongs to Rumiko Takahashi and Sunrise.