“I'm just your average school kid but, through some strange, weird situation, I've ended up here, in the "Warring States" era.” - Kagome Higurashi
“What you don’t get is that I’m only after the jewel!” - InuYasha
“Sit boy!” - Kagome Higurashi
“I want you to have my children.” - Miroku
“Mi...ro...ku!” - Sango
“You have it wrong! I was merely standing guard to protect you from danger, nothing more!” - Miroku
“I’m just a kid!” - Shippo
“To live is to die. To die is to live.” - Kikyo
“Oh yeah, I forgot, you have a thing for dead girls.” - Kagome Higurashi
“Die, Inu-Yasha!” - Sesshomaru
“I will not kill you... I will break you!” - Naraku
“Inu-Yasha!” - Kagome Higurashi
“Kagome!” - InuYasha
(author's note: I was so tempted to just make this entire article "Inu-Yasha!"/"Kagome!" repeated multiple times, which would be funny but a bit of a cheat)
“I have to be strong!” - Shippo
“Wind Tunnel!” - Miroku
“Iron-Reaver, Soul-Stealer!” - InuYasha
“Watch as I, Sesshomaru, destroy 100 demons with one blow!” - Sesshomaru
“It’s not over yet!” - InuYasha
“I love you... I love you as a half-demon!” - Kagome Higurashi
“Our journey isn’t over!” - Sango
InuYasha was a huge hit in the early 2000s in spite of, or perhaps because of, its strict adherence to a specific action-romcom formula with predictable plot beats and catchphrases. The main plot took forever to get going, eventually evolving into the much faster-paced follow-up series InuYasha: Kanketsu-Ken (InuYasha: The Final Act in English). Even if it took them forever to get those jewel shards, the characters were memorable and the show had decent action and humor. It's available on Netflix and Hulu if you want to give it a watch.
