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Today (the first post) will be made about InuYasha, anime only.

Title: InuYasha, A Feudal Fairy Tale (Sengoku Otogizoshi InuYasha)
Author: Rumiko Takahashi
Genre: Adventure, Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance
Original Run: October 16, 2000 - September 13, 2004
Number of Episodes: 167

Synopsis: On her fifteenth birthday, middle-schooler Kagome Higurashi was pulled into the Bone-Eaters Well on the Higurashi Shrine by a centipede-demon back in time to feudal Japan, where she meets a half-demon by the name of InuYasha. Almost a hundred years previously, InuYasha had tried to steal the Shikon Jewel from the village priestess, Kikyo, and was shot by a sacred arrow and sealed to a tree, where Kagome now finds him. Kaede, the current village priestess and younger sister of Kikyo, tells Kagome the story between Kikyo and InuYasha. It is revealed that Kagome is the reincarnation of Kikyo, and the Shikon Jewel now resides in her body. The centipede-demon later comes to find her, and the Jewel is ripped from her body, and Kagome is forced to release InuYasha from the seal. InuYasha kills the demon and was about to run off with the Jewel when Kaede puts a necklace made of rosary beads around his neck which allows Kagome to control him.

A few days later, a large crow demon steals the Jewel from Kagome. Thus InuYasha and Kagome both set off to retrieve the Jewel before the demon can make full use of it. Kagome decides to try her luck with a bow and arrows, and eventually uses the crow’s own foot to target it. The Jewel shatters, and the shards were spread out all over the land. Now InuYasha and Kagome set out to retrieve the shards of the Shikon Jewel. What will their adventures bring them?

Comments: The storyline of the anime is quite nice at first, but after a while it just gets incredibly repetitive, for it’s always “oh Naraku got away with another shard, we have to go chase him now.” The artwork isn’t all that great either, but Rumiko Takahashi definitely isn’t known for drawing well. Nevertheless, InuYasha is quite an enjoyable anime for those who like fantasy and action genres. The anime left off around manga volume 31 or 32, which means that the 167 episodes does not reach a conclusion. I personally did not watch them all - I contented myself with reading the manga after reaching around episode 110. I did however, watch the last two episodes (166 and 167) so I can say for certain that the anime does not have a conclusion. But from what I watched, it is a very enjoyable series. The voice acting is fairly good, and it is one of the few series where I think the dubbed voice acting is up to scratch with the original Japanese cast.

reichiru’s Rating: 7.5/10

NEXT TIME… InuYasha (Part Two): The Manga Review

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