In the third section of the second chapter of Kindred by Octavia Butler, i have made a very unusual connection to a show that i liked to watch as a kid called Inuyasha. The observation was made because, well, after Butler expanded the ideas of teleporting, in which she included time travel, it reminds me of Kagome, from The anime series Inuyasha, and how she goes down a well and it takes her to ancient Japan. In Kindred, Dana is summoned by a child when he is in danger to the past where slavery still exists, and which is also said to be far from where she stays. Some more slightly similar characteristics between these two, Kindred and Inuyasha is that when they are in the past, the present time goes by slow, so when they return, they pick up from where they left off. Dana can teleport to Baltimore 1815 for hours, and still be seen as missing for a few minutes. Kagome can be gone for months, but still only miss a few days of school.
Ancestral elements are found in both as well. Kagome found a lady who looked just like her, almost identical, and it was rumored that she could possibly be a descendant. In kindred, Dana discovered that the child that she kept being summoned to rescue was her grandfather far down the line, she discovered that he was white as well. She couldn't tell him, but she understood that she had to preserve his life in order to ensure that her family would survive. (This E book does not have page numbers so i didn't quote, but i can if anyone is interested).
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