Talk:Redeye Reprisal/@comment-44457662-20191120004203

Inuyama is a very interesting character. I have wondereed about him for years, why he was so good (someone being Jin's equal is very rare in the world), and I've wondered about his cryptic statement: "you might beat me in a dojo...but we're not in a dojo." First, I thought the purple mist rising from the ground around them was some sort of poison, so he trapped Jin is some weakening gas, but thats wrong.

I think I figured it out; Inuyama is referring to the desire to kill. In a dojo, you are trying to win but you have no intention of killing the opponent. after Inuyama slices Jin's clothes, the camera zooms on his face. Pause and look at it, it is a face of an absolute murderous monster, quite the contrast from the dottering old fool he appeared to be. The murderous face is who Inuyama really is, and that absolute intention to kill, that killer energy devoid of humanity, is to what he referred when he said "this isn't a dojo." Very interesting. very cool insight into the nature of combat. Jin will kill, but neither he nor Mugen is a monster like this man.