InuYasha: Kanketsu-hen

Just watched the episode, and it seems like they just fast-forwarded through everything. It was one continuous play; they gave the viewer no time to absorb it. Events that spanned over many chapters were condensed into a minute or less, with the essential background information relating it to the plot dropped. The episode wouldn't even make much sense to people who haven't read the manga; I read the manga and even I had a hard time understanding what was going on.

The animators provided no recap. They just dived right into the middle of it. I know it's understood that the viewer can watch the ... InuYasha series on Hulu, but after over four years of being off the air, I expect some sort of recap.

I have to say, I'm disappointed with it. I had to stop watching after the first couple of episodes. They were just trying to milk the last bit from this cash cow.

I had no intention of ever watching this because I knew what was going to happen in the end and Naraku is my only favorite character in this twenty-six anime return.

This will contain spoilers because I don't know any other way to explain myself without them.

Okay so in the original anime I liked both Sesshomaru and Naraku and would not watch an episode if one or both were not in it. Well in the Final Act I find Sesshomaru to be less intelligent, more boring than he was before and nearly out of character from the original anime. I like that he cared so much ... for Rin, those scenes were nice. And it was so awesome to see his beautiful mother. But his actions half the time did not seem logical.

After episode eight, Kohaku's shard is the only one left but to make the anime longer, the episodes following are training and sword related. The brothers learn more about their swords and get new techniques to help them on their mission to kill Naraku.

Actually no. Since this is called Inuyasha, I should say he had to learn about his sword. Sesshomaru learning about his was just a pawn to help Inuyasha because after doing all the hard work, he ended up giving his sword's attack to Inuyasha.

The only thing that really made me sad in this anime is the death of Naraku's incarnations. No joke. I didn't even realize Kagura and Kanna grew on me until their last episodes aired. It was just so sad and really made me feel that this was going to be the end for Naraku. He was tossing everyone out and I wish he didn't though in Kagura's case I understood why.

Speaking of Kanna, she talked more in this anime and oddly enough that is something I did not like. It seemed out of character for her to recite a poem. That is the most she talked throughout.

I already know what happen in the end and I don't want to see it. I want to remember Naraku as a powerful, handsome demon and nothing more.

Don't watch this goofy ahh filler anime, it rushes like 200 chapter of the manga in 26 episode mixing all the major events togheter, it even changes how things really went.
If you've watched the og Inuyasha and you've liked it then just read the manga.
Some scenes are cutted and you don't even understand what is going on.
The pacing is ultra fast, obviously, and seems like something off all the time.
The quality of the anime is not even bad.
In the first episode basically everything changes because they did not add those scenes that explains what is going on.

So its an anime, has clean lines for art, sound for the dub at least seems fine they trigger when they should. Both the art style and the audio are throw backs to the original works.

The story progression is really dumbed-down, everything is narrated to a simpleton level so that children or those who are super stoned can follow it.

Characters are basic which can be overlooked to a degree. The characters whole development seems to resolve around being a modern day angsty teen who is confused about what gender they should associate with.

Sadly the main draw to this story is that ... it plays on nostalgia but like many things has been hijacked by political ideologies and propaganda and tells you so several times an episode.