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EP. REVIEW: Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

This situation is even more facepalm inducing because it wasn't necessary. They could have focused on the new cast entirely with the old gang showing up occasionally when the girls stop by the village.

Tbh, they could've simply used Setsuna's training as a demon slayer as a way to explain why she still could fight even without demonic powers. No need to make that butterfly "curse" even more of a blessing. We should be rooting for her to get her dreams and childhood memories back, and not thinking "well, it's a good trade-off, all things considered".

Naraku was an idiot, he didn't need to go through all those troubles to try to get rid of his one weakness. He just needed one deus ex machina butterfly.

Based on what I've seen online, some fans really wanted to go all-in on the defense that Yashahime is doing its own thing, that our focus should be on the story of the girls themselves, and that all of the references to the original cast are fun extras for fans to appreciate as fanservice.

Sango is seen praying at a memorial shrine in her brief appearances this week – did Miroku's actions lead to the death of one of Hisui's siblings, or something like that? It's so frustrating when Yashahime demonstrates the capacity to tell actual stories about both its past and present protagonists, but settles on dishing up the absolute bare-minimum of character and plot development instead.

Boy wow, after that last episode I definitely have to apologize to the reviewer for framing him to be childishly impatient.
It really is absolutely [expletive] ridiculous how inorganically opaque the story is being with its backstory.
They have one of the main characters of Inuyasha right in front of them, and he clearly has a mostly intact memory, but we get next to nothing from him.
Sure, you could infer that one of Miroku and Sango’s twin girls tragically died in a demon attack and that’s why Miroku seeks more power and is estranged to his son, but a mere hint isn’t gonna pack the emotional impact of actually showing it.
No, it’s just more bait to get you to watch more episodes, and that’s part of why I still think this will eventually run up at least 100 episodes.
If they’re still gonna string this one part of the mystery along after 13 episodes, how long will it take to unravel the mystery as a whole?

I don't think one of Mirokús children is dead.

He looked OK, Sango looked OK, so did the daughter and the boy was just barely mad at him and forgave him almost instantly, besides, the daughter also said it was just a misunderstanding, not something dramatic like a dead.

Simple put, if one of the siblings indeed died then they got over it extremely well.

-Sigh- This show would be so much better with the same characters and dynamics if only the girls were in the present looking for a McGuffin to go back.

It's even easier to write since you need to worry about nothing besides action and some random plan from a main villain and you wouldn't have to deal with stupid crap to hide what happened to the previous cast in the worst attempt I have seen in a medium to create artificial mystery.