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Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and possesses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon jewel). One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow. Kagome frees Inuyasha from the tree before she learns that all of the demons, including Inuyasha, are after the Shikon jewel in her possession. To prevent the jewel from being stolen, Kagome accidentally shoots it with the enchanted arrow, shattering it into thousands of pieces. The evil Naraku also seeks the jewel for his own reasons. New allies, Kagome and Inuyasha, join forces with Shippo, a small fox-demon, Miroku, a monk, and Sango, the sole surviving demon-hunter, in order to combat Naraku and recover the fragments of the "Jewel of Four Souls". But that's just just the tip of the iceberg. 1st Opening Song: "Change the World" by V6 (Episodes 1 to 34) 2nd Opening Song: "I Am" by hitomi (episodes 35 to 64) 3rd Opening Song: "Owarinai Yume" by Aikawa Nanase (Episodes 65 to 95) 4th Opening Song: "Grip!" by Every Little Thing(Episodes 96 to 127) 5th Opening Song: "One Day, One Dream" by Tackey & Tsubasa(Episodes 128 to 153) 6th Opening Song: "Angelus" by Hitomi Shimatani (Episode 154 to 167) 1st Ending Song: "My Will" by dream(Episodes 1 to 20 and 167) 2nd Ending Song: "Fukai Mori" by Do as Infinity(Episodes 21 to 41) 3rd Ending Song: "Dearest" by Ayumi Hamasaki (Episodes 42 to 60) 4th Ending Song: "Every Heart, Minna no Kimochi" by BoA (Episodes 61 to 85) 5th Ending Song: "Shinjitsu no Uta" by Do as Infinity(Episodes 86 to 108) 6th Ending Song:"Itazurana Kiss" by Day after Tomorrow (Episodes 109 to 127) 7th Ending Song: "Come" by Namie Amuro (Episodes 128 to 147) 8th Ending Song: "Brand-New World" by V6 (Episodes 149 to 166) Character Profiles: - Spoilers!!! Inuyasha - Half-human, half-demon, Inuyasha desires the Shikon jewel for his own questionable purposes. Too bad Kagome can control him with magic! Kagome - Kagome is a modern-day 15-year-old girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. She is also the unknowing possessor of a magical jewel. Shippo - Shippo is a young fox-demon with shape-shifting abilities. He likes Inuyasha and is fiercely loyal to Kagome. Sango - Sango the demon hunter lost her whole village to Naraku's forces. Her preferred weapon is a giant boomerang. Sesshomaru - Sesshomaru is Inuyasha's older, pure-demon brother. He seeks the magic sword that his father gave to Inuyasha. Miroku - A Buddhist monk who, because of a curse from Naraku, has a Wind Tunnel (it's like a black hole) in his right hand. He is also quite the pervert. Naraku - Naraku is the villain of the series. His name translates as the word, "hell". He was born through the thief Onigumo's desire for Kikyo when he called dozens of demons in to devour himself. He has the ablilty to change his form into anything he wants, which he did to trick Inuyasha and Kikyo into hating each other. He has used Inuyasha's brother Sesshomaru to try and get rid of Inuyasha, but to no avail. He also has an 'army' of bug-type creatures, called Saimyosho. Naraku is also a half-demon like Inuyasha, but born in a different way. Naraku can choose the time of month to return to his 'original' form. He uses this time to re-arrange his body into a stronger and more powerful form. Naraku also gains the ablilty to make offspring, later. Koga - Koga is the son of a leader of the wolf demon tribe. He has 2 Shikon jewel shards in his legs (one in each) which gives him super speed. He first comes into the story when he attacks the village where Rin lived. He also says that he is in love with Kagome, which makes Inuyasha quite annoyed. Koga wants Naraku dead because he created Kagura who killed many of his friends from his tribe.moreless
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  • Miroku the wrong guy

    9.0
    "Superb"
    By sangolover12, Jan 11, 2012
    The first time i ever seen inuyasha i was a big fan but i was disturbed by miroku i mean come on hes wrong but boys will be boys. ^-^

  • The story just goes on forever…

    3.3
    "Bad"
    By az_0k, Jan 07, 2012
    Sunrise is always full of surprise. Sure they are known for prostituting themselves to the fans, but at the same time all their productions have a certain dignity that distinguishes them from other stupid shows. Inuyasha is a good example. I mean, face it, the manga is horrible. Thanks to Sunrise however, the anime is far from the worst even though they share the same story. Therefore, a fair portion of this review will be aimed at how Sunrise saved Inuyasha through their amazing presentation skills. 1
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    The story of Inuyasha started out ok. I was not really psyched about the whole time travel and reincarnation stuff. Then the boring Monster-of-the-Week kicked in, followed by the Seeking-Jewel-Shards saga. When I started to get bored of all the monster killings, the story took a really sudden turn (I mean really really really sudden, no foreshadowing or anything) and went straight to the Final-Boss-Is-Naraku Let-Us-Defeat-Him stupid Shonen theme which just dragged on and on and on and on and on andUntil this day I still don't understand how Naraku is connected to all those previous chapters. The story lost me around the Band of Seven arc, at that point I couldn't follow what was going on anymore. There were times when Inuyasha travelled to Kagome's world and those chapters are probably the only ones I found enjoyable. Traveling to the future always leads to mayhem and the humours really appeal to me for some reason ^^. Also the mangaka did try to build up a suspense regarding Inuyasha, Kikyo and Naraku's past in the beginning of the story. Personally I think the built-up is really average. If you want to introduce a villain, at least give some foreshadowing. The chapters involving Naraku making his first appearance felt rather sudden to me. But let's not be too mean and at least give her the credits for trying. Now what Sunrise did, and I think they knew the story sucked, was to either skip some of the monster fighting chapters or to condense two or three of those chapters into one single episode. Very smart decision. Doing one-chapter-one episode is how they screwed up the DBZ anime. They also stayed very true to the manga story. I know the story sucked but it would still be much better if the studio had decided to make their own fillers.
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    The characters don't really differ that much between the manga and the anime. Surprisingly I find them a little bit more realistic and more likable than the ones in Bleach (except Orihime of course ^^), and I did give Bleach a 4.2. I guess having some romance in your story is always a good idea. Besides that, they are just some typical Shonen characters like the ones in Bleach. 1
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    In terms of the artstyle the manga totally sucked. The facial expressions are ok but it lacks details in all other things. The anime is a huge step up however. The color scheme is very bright and very colorful. The graphics is certainly not bad at all, especially on the background. More importantly Sunrise seemed to get all of the characters redesigned, adding more details to their hair, eyes, clothes etc. 1
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    I can't really comment on the voice acting since I only watched some dubbed episodes on YTV. I can't comment on the OP and EP either. But I do like to comment on the background music. Background music is very important in terms of what I call presentation or delivery. Basically what it does is to enhance the atmosphere of a particular scene. In Inuyasha, background music was excessively used which certainly helped the delivery of the story. Sunrise also picked the right choice for the background music. A lot of them have that feudal Japan feel which fits the setting very well 1
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    The theme is errdefeating the evil? The love element is cute but is nowhere near Suzuka. I didn't expect much in this area from a Shonen work anyways. 1
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    Basically what it comes down to is that Inuyasha is perhaps the only manga-based anime that's better than its manga counterpart. Sunrise did everything they could to save the series. However the story really sucked and the fact that the anime production was ceased is a strong proof. What I don't understand is that why this show was cancelled but the Naruto anime is still running. Inuyasha is superior to Naruto in almost every aspect. I guess it's probably because Inuyasha is not a f ag:Pmoreless

  • Inuyasha

    5.0
    "Mediocre"
    By MadamStacey, Dec 22, 2011
    I loved this show in the beginning but then it just kinda dragged on forever. It was kinda pathetic
    how Inuyasha chased after a dead woman when he had her reincarnation with him who was alive and loved him. Not to mention all that over a jewel?

  • A most unusual hero

    9.5
    "Superb"
    By DojinFan_2K, Sep 22, 2011
    InuYasha is the Anime based on a manga series by Rumiko Takahashi in which a cute teen schoolgirl, Kagome is involved in a series of adventures with InuYasha, a demon/human hybrid along with their compatriots Shippo (a cute fox demon), Miroku (a monk of dubious piety) & Sango (a female demon hunter).

    They must face many dangers to seek out shards of a mystical jewel that in the wrong hands, can increase an evil being's powers. They must also deal with various characters in their travels in feudal Japan (some nice, others EVIL), including InuYasha's sinister brother, Sesshomaru & their archnemesis, Naraku.

    I'm so glad when i first saw this Anime on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim lineup back in 2005 & i'll be looking forward to a planned series of never-before seen episodes soon to be seen!moreless

  • A great example of a potetional series ruined by severe repetition

    4.0
    "Poor"
    By DBZAOTA482, Mar 27, 2011
    The first couple of episodes admittingly, were good, decent characters, decent set-up, decent storyline, great art, voice-acting and animation,& a top-notch soundtrack, but...as the series went on, plot and character development had taken a MAJOR backseat for overdone gags(I.E "sit boy"), unneeded characters introductions, lame fight scenes,& pointless character name shoutings. To simplify it, Inuyasha is jacked with filler, but I don't mind filler really as long as it's entertaining or helps develope the plot and characters atleast, much like a good series such as Dragon Ball, One Piece,or Yu Yu Hakusho. As for Inuyasha, the relationship between Inuyasha or Kagome never really went anywhere, it also adds to the confusion that Inuyasha also has feelings for Kikyo, there's the Wolf guy who likes Kagome, not the mention there were other so many characters I won't name were include in that mess as well, so that makes it a...I don't know what geometric shape can cover all them...anyways, the relationships never progressed at all, Kagome is also a complete drama queen, she's always causing unneccessary drama, Inuyasha has to bust his @$$ to save her from time to time repeatedly(he even says so himself). The fight scenes are lame as heck because the characters never developed in their skills, it follows the same pattern of: Kagome gets into trouble, Inuyasha and Kagome spent too much time shouting out each others names then Inuyasha attacks, gets hit for blindly attacking, this keeps on happening untill he defeats the enemy with the same, predictable moves in nearly every fight. The show also tries to tackle humor, the comediac timing is terrible, it tries too hard to be funny, you can easily tell when the characters are gonna use their annoying running gags, whenever Inuyasha does something Kagome disapproves on(very often), she says sit dog and his face is slammed to the floor,& when the little cub boy annoys Inuyasha, he attacks him or throws him miles away. You'll almost always know when it's gonna happen,& it's annoying. The plots are severely repetitive after the first couple of episodes, almost Pokemon repetitive(I do not kid), it goes: Searching for the sacred jewel shards, get distracted from the mission to save a village because they feel sorry for them, Inuyasha and Kagome bicker, fight a lame-@$$ villain, kill the lame-@$$ villian, done. The character development is also very thin, Inuyasha stays the same Jerk @$$ all the way throw, Kagome stays the same b!tch all the way throw,& the cub boy stay the same childish cutsie lump of hair... you know the story...and the biggest slap in the face of all, it lacks a proper ending, Naraku never dies and they never find all the sacred jewel shards. Suprisingly, the series ran for 167 episodes, I felt like it ran for 300-400+ episodes, Inuyasha would not have felt so long if it had more developement, Naruto and Dragon Ball Z with their long 200+ episodes length atleast had developed their plot and characters(as well their skills), not to mention they have good fight scenes as well. ---------------------------------------------------
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    Despite the negative aspects, it DOES have it's positives, the art is great, the character designs are highly detailing, the animation is near incosistiency free and moves very sharpely,& the soundtrack is one of the best I've ever heard in an anime, my personal favorite has to be "Fukai Mori" by Do as Infinity, the voice-acting is also nothing to scoff at..but sorry, it's gonna take more than slick art styling and an amazingly sound quality to win me over with all the anime's numerous flaws.

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    It isn't one of the worst animes out there, but if you're looking for a good action Shonen, you might wanna look somewhere else. Inuyasha is not worth missing a good night's sleep.moreless
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