Ranked #940

InuYasha

Overall, Inuyasha is very enjoyable. The art is brilliant although in the movies the art does slip because Rumiko Takahashi (the mangaka) helps with the drawings.

The storyline is basic and very easy to follow, however the story does seem to drag on, so if you have patience with animes this could be for you.

The characters are pure genius, each with their own running joke. Each character (with the exception of Kagome) has a dark and kind of upsetting past often including the death of a loved one. My favourite is Miroku by far. He is a perverted womanising monk who flirts with pretty much any girl. However, some characters, like Shippo (an adorable fox demon), have a minor role with little or no fight scenes. (Then again that's a small part of his jokes).

The fights are good, lots of blood in some places. However the fights are short and it seems to always be Inuyasha doing most of the work. (As he has stated a few times). The others seem to be back up and use the same moves. For example, Sango, a demon slayer, uses her Hirakotsu (a giant boomerang often used hitting Miroku when he flirts with other girls or touches her butt) but she has a sword which rarely gets used. I think I've seen it 3 times and then I can only remember when she is about to use it on Kohaku (her little brother who has no memory of killing their whole village because he's being controlled by the main bad guy).

The romance is my favourite part in all of the series. It's more sweet than it is romantic. But it's the sort that makes you feel all warm inside. I'm sad to say that the romance barely progresses. (Apart from Miroku and Sango). And there is a really big love net. But like I said, it sweet in a LOT of places.(Oh, for you fan girls, I know Sesshomaru, Inuyasha's brother, is a favourite. Oh, I'm not a fan girl.)

All in all, Inuyasha is a good anime (and my favourite). Watch it if you have patience and love a good laugh, fight sometimes full of blood and sweet romantic bits in an anime.
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Inuyasha started off very well, it is fairly entertaining at the beginning of the series, with the story progressing rapidly at the start, coupled with lots of humour by Kagome. However, the series quicly deteriorated when the fillers start kicking in, and even in the later stages, many of the scenes and jokes were repetitive, not to mention the lack of plot development.Probably the only exceptions were episodes relating to Kagome's life in the present world - these episodes were definately worth re-watching.

After the intoduction of the fourth protagonist ( Sango), apart from a few side-stories, the plot essentially deteriorates into a viscous cycle. In a few occasions it seems there will be some new development, but I was dissapointed when the same-old thing happened again. The fillers were heavily Naruto-like, admittedly better.

Overall: I think the series can be alot better, but if you like extended series, this could be for you.

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Well, let me just note that I finished this anime a year ago or two so this is just what I reflected on.

Story - 6 - It sounds like another shounen adventure with romance and a plot where people need to collect something. You know what? Thats what it exactly is. Lol. But, in the beginning it was enjoyable. As it progressed, it got me more and more annoyed till I was about to quit. But I hung to it and tried to finish it just because I wanted to see two characters appear - Rin and Sesshomaru. The end was just a cliff hanger.

Art - 6 - Almost everyone's hair is black, brown, or a different shade of black/brown. Mostly, theres only like 3 1/2 people who have a different color hair. Yes, 1/2 a person because one of them has two hair colors. At least they varied what the people wore.

Sound - 8 - I did like the music and character themes.

Characters - 6 - (the main)

Kagome - 3 - I seriously don't see the resemblance in appearances to Kikyou. I really think all the characters who mistake her for kikyou are half blind. I dislike her. The reason why I wanted to quit was because of her. Like, if the main character is really annoying, then you would want to quit too. She gets jealous, a LOT. I mean, its okay to be jealous, but /every/ time even if kikyou just says 1 word to Inuyasha, she throws a fit. Ahhh, so stubborn too, naiive, and obnoxious.

Inuyasha - 7 - Hes a Tsundere, which means someone who acts rough but really is soft in the inside. He wants to protect Kagome so much. Oh, they both like each other but won't ever, ever admit it. Hes pretty dense; Always misses the hints Kagome and Kikyou give him. Like most shounen mains, they want to become stronger and stronger to protect they people they see dear.

Sango, Miroku, and Shippo - 6 - They focus little compared to Inuyasha and Kagome. But, as anything, they were so much more interesting than Kagome's personality. I thought the Miroku and Sango couple was so much entertaining than the main couple in this anime.

Sesshomaru and Rin - 9 - Mysterious, and the only reason that got me to finish this horrid anime. I thought it was so sweet.

Enjoyment - 4 - I had little enjoyment with this and only 1/3 of the whole series was enjoyable.

Overall - 4 - If you ask me, I wouldn't recommend this to many people, and I cant see how this anime has a rating of around 7. If you like shows with fighting, romance, and a very annoying main, then you should watch it. (; read more

When I watched InuYasha, I had not seen Blue Seed yet. Now that I have, I realize that InuYasha was a bit of a rip off of Blue Seed. Especially the love triangle between Kagome, Kikyo, and InuYasha is exactly the same as in Blue Seed. InuYasha does go in its own direction, but I think that’s mainly because Blue Seed was only 26 episodes and InuYasha is over 150 episodes.

InuYasha does have an exciting story to it, which I admit; I do enjoy InuYasha more than I do Blue Seed. One thing that I just loved about InuYasha was Sesshoumaru. I think InuYasha, for being such a long series; it does a good job of not repeating itself. I really enjoyed the imagination and creativity put into the establishment of such a variety of demons, humans, and hanyous. . InuYasha is always branching off into new stories, which is good, always keeping your attention and the excitement, plus they are never left untold. I know most series will start a side story and just leave you hanging on never knowing what happens. When that happens, rather its a good anime or not, I’ll begin disliking it like in Escaflowne (which I am referring to the whole Allen and his sister situation).

All the characters have wonderful depth and delightful personalities. My favorite relationship out of the whole, well 2 relationships, are Sesshomaru, Rin, and Jakens, then Miruko and Sango have a nice little thing going on between them. A plus about InuYasha, it keeps everything going smoothly, bringing in characters that are just, well can’t help but love, like the 7 man army that joins (I think) during the 90’s or 100’s, somewhere around there.

I have watched InuYasha both in dubbed and subbed versions. The English dub is pretty good, but I prefer the Japanese dialogue, mainly because the voices fit better with the characters personalities. Oh and it’s like OMG the music in InuYasha is awesome. I have 2 of the soundtracks, and I just love every minute of it. So not only are you going to get to enjoy an incredible charming series, but listen to delightful music.

I highly recommend InuYasha, but I also believe you should watch Blue Seed too if you like InuYasha. All Audiences should enjoy this anime. It provides a nice amount of comedy, action, adventure, romance, so everyone should enjoy InuYasha.
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The jokes got old fast, InuYasha and Sesshoumaru were the only characters with much character development, the fights were boring (InuYasha was a bad fighter, anyway), and the romance was like a cheap soap opera. The romance never progressed, nor did anything else, really. It's sad, because the characters were potentially very likeable, but as I said before, Sango, Miroku, and Shippou had no character development at all, and Kagome only had a little.

There's really not much of a plot. Think of it as Dragon Ball for girls, and you've pretty much got it. Kagome, Inuyasha, and friends search for pieces of a broken jewel. They find half of the jewel within the first couple of episodes, but another 150 episodes, give or take, go by after that with the jewel still incomplete. The series goes on seemingly forever with little progress in plot or character development. The seemingly infinite, pointless filler episodes that provide no character development and little, if any, entertainment, while also making up over half of the series, don't help matters.

Some of the fight scenes in the first few episodes were rather exciting, so this made up for the lack of character development. After all, it's pretty much natural for an action series to sacrifice character and story development for good action scenes. But as the show went on, InuYasha relied more and more on one big, flashy attack that finished every fight. The same animation of InuYasha using that attack was used in many of the episodes, as well. And instead coming up with a variety of different ways to stop InuYasha's technique, they just relied on the use of the same device over and over again. So the fight scenes, like much of the series, became very repetitive.

There are good aspects to this show. The artwork is beautiful, even if the fights reuse the same scene of InuYasha using his strongest move for nearly every fight. InuYasha is a very touching character, and Kagome is a character that is easy to identify with. However, anyone who knows the series Fruits Basket can see quickly that InuYasha and Kyo Sohma are nearly identical in personality, so InuYasha and Sesshoumaru's pretty faces, Kagome, and the occasional episode that's actually funny (a couple of them were hilarious) end up being the only really good reasons to watch.

Overall, it's mainly the plot (or lack thereof) and lack of character development that stop this anime from being great. Of course, being an action series, a lack of character development would've been fine if the fights were entertaining, but the entertainment value of the fight scenes is rather low. I definitely recommend watching a few episodes. There's fun to be had with this series, but the sub-par aspects of the show drag it down, making it something that's far worse than the sum of its parts. read more

I am forever confused by Why this anime is so popular and why it went on so long. Friends who have never seen anime get exposed to this first and I always pity them. If you are simple and like easy to understand story where you can jump in at any episode and know what it going on, (like Pokemon) then this anime is for you!

I admit, I watched the WHOLE anime from start to finish, even some of the movies. I love the beginning with a girl transported from the modern world into another, then finding she had secret powers (Escaflowne-ish); a gang of fun and lovable characters; the wonderful semi-antagonist who you can't get enough of (Sesshomaru); an impossibly tempting love story with several obstacles; and a plot line set up as a journey. What kept me watching was the possibilities for greatness.

But this anime turned out to be like walking into a wall over and over again. Other than a few small and nonthreatening antagonists, there was ONE Enemy, ONE objective, and over 69 hours of disappointment. The finale episode made me scream at the screen, and so I watched the movies to scream at the screen even more as NEITHER offered climax or closure!!! I finally went to the manga to see if it ever offered me an ending reading only the last few chapters (It does if you want to know).

Many will go on about how much they love Sesshomaru, b/c he was the ONLY character that developed at all: starting out as evil big brother, then saves a little girl, takes care of her, etc. (see manga around ch 470 for cool Sess-Rin stuff, and finale chapter 558 of course too). But he is not enough to save the whole show, he's not in enough of it. read more

A short review for the reader without much time:
Story (4/10): Repetitive, it's always about killing some demon, and the demon always gets killed in the same way. Unsatisfying ending.
Art (6/10): The art is probably the only good part of this anime. It is smooth and fairly detailed.
Sound (4/10): Really not much to say.
Character (5/10): I find the characters annoying because they don't change at all throuhgout the series, and are always up to the same things. The only characters there are are the repetitive main characters or the useless villagers. The only reason this got a 5 was because the character history was pretty good.
Enjoyment (4/10): Enjoyable at first, but then the repetitiveness gets to you.
Overall (5/10) read more

Potential, potential, potential.

That's what you can sum Inuyasha up with. Misused potential that could have made the series great.

What do I mean by potential? It was dragged out ad infinitum and honestly did not do much of anything in those 167 episodes. I can appreciate the overall faithfulness to the source material, however. The manga can be seen as superior, as it does not come to an abrupt stop, nor does it have the filler.

Speaking of filler, the series had some of the best of the stuff I have seen. Not that any of it ever played out due to the faithful nature, of course. Mini-arcs such as the Ancestor Named Kagome arc had me wiping tears out of my eyes, not just for the writing, but also because of how it could have played out.

What story they have is nothing new, but executed decently.
Art, I honestly can't answer without being biased towards the manga.
The themes used were surprisingly well done. Hanyou Inuyasha is actually on my iPod, a grand honor indeed. You won't be concentrating on hearing the orchestral themes, though, but the OPs and EDs were nice as well.
The characters were a giant cliche, but surprisingly got better for the most part.

Overall, it becomes an enjoyable series, that admittably has it's flaws. Wouldn't touch my top ten list, but it is fairly memorable. read more

I have to say that even though this is one of my favourite animes, it has a few drawbacks!
One is that yes, at first, the love triangle between Kagome-Inuyasha-Kikyo is very interesting but by the end of the series I was practically scratching my eyes out wanting Inuyasha to decide who to be with!!! (which is Kagome for me, by the way :3)

Also, there is a huge lack of character development (which isn't surprising seeming as the manga was still going strong at the time so nothing conclusive could happen in the anime dissapointingly) especially with Shippo, Koga & Kagome (Miroku and Sango as well, but... XD no spoilers!)

The most annoying thing by far is the ending, which is so unfinished I'm hoping that someday this anime will carry on!!

Things I do like now I've had my rant XD:
Artwork (Rumiko Takahashi has a refreshingly unique style) Characters (even though they don't have much development they are very likeable) and the fights are infact not the worst I've seen (although Inuyasha goes a bit overkill on the wind scar sometimes)
Yes, some of the jokes are overused (sit boy much?) but I still like them
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I would recommend this anime to anybody who wants an anime that ticks most categories (fighting, humour, romance etc. etc.) and also fans of the manga! (well duh!) read more

Inuyasha is a great story based on the feudal era of japan. It is a great adventurous
, action packed, love story where all the characters are always lively which keeps the mood of the story very up-beat. Many characters are introduced throughout the story which keep you stringed into the story, making it more long lasting. At times there are fights, laughs and even tears mainly dealing with the main characters:
Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku and Sango.

The story, art and character were also great factors that made this series
wonderful. The story is interesting and amazing because it deals with a young high school girl(Kagome) who goes back in time and ends up traveling with a half demon, a monk(Miroku) and a demon slayer(Sango). Although it has a great story most events may repeat themselves and at points there may be pointless events which occur and
which slow the pace to the plot of the story because of this i did not rate the story
as "amazing" as i wish it could be. The art was spectacular, each character was drawn great and the effects used in battles were tremendous. The characters within the story could have been better such as inuyasha which i think tempered most people especially because he is bound in a love triangle unable to choose the one he loves. The Story, art and characters of this story make it wonderful and enjoyfull which i fully admire.

Inuyasha is a great story. It exploits many genres which makes it a great story that anyone can love and admire. I have grown to love this series and so have my two elder brothers, anyone can watch it and love it thats what makes it so great!! So go ahead, it doesn't matter how old you are or what gender you are you can watch inuyasha and still love it!!!! =] read more