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| Toward Tomorrow... Indeed... Although I was spoiled about half the things that happened in this episode, I still felt really good watching it. I read somewhere that Rumiko Takahashi was in a dilemma on how to end the series: should Kagome stay in the modern world with her family or should she go back to the feudal era to live with Inuyasha? She ended up choosing the latter. I think it was the right choice. Kagome never seeing Inuyasha again would be too bittersweet and it wouldn't really match Takahashi's style, at least the one I'm most familiar with. If I was in Kagome's position Idk if I'd be able to make this decision. I'm so spoiled by modern technology I would never consider living in a rural area let alone 500 years in the past lol. But I guess things would be different if your soulmate was on the other side... Question is, is Kagome stuck in the Sengoku period permanently or can she move between worlds freely like before? I think it'd cheapen the ending a bit if she was able to travel between the worlds like she always could. So that may be why the ending is a bit ambiguous. The ending feels very old-school with the Higurashi family seemingly saying goodbye to Kagome forever as she's married off in a faraway place. Either way, it's not my favorite Rumic anime ending (mainly because of this question) but I still loved it a lot. The Final Act was rough at the beginning with the insanely fast pacing and skipped content. If it got at least 10 more episodes then I think Hakudoshi and Kagura could've gotten better send-offs. One common criticism of the original run of Inuyasha was that the pacing was slow and repetitive. The Final Act has the exact opposite problem. If Final Act had the same pacing and episode count as the OG Inuyasha I'd have no issues with it whatsoever. I think it could've been even better with it. I'd pick slow pacing over fast pacing any day. But I'm still satisfied with what I got. The pacing issues mostly disappeared after 6-7 episodes I think so The Final Act wasn't the disaster that I initially thought it was gonna be. I know that my experience with Inuyasha was vastly different from the earlier fans who had to wait years to see the ending. I could watch it at my own leisure since all the episodes were already out. Whereas people who started in the early 2000s had to wait a week for a new episode to come out. Not to mention the almost 5-year gap between the original show and The Final Chapter. These people have my respect. Inuyasha easily could've been one of the ill-fated shows that never got a proper ending like its predecessor Ranma 1/2 but I imagine this didn't happen mostly because the fans wanted to see the ending animated. So, thank you to the people who made this happen. I really enjoyed The Final Act and Inuyasha as a whole. It took me 14 days to finish The Final Act and 161 days or about 5 months and 11 days to finish Inuyasha as a whole from episode 1. I wanted to finish it in about 3 months but oh well. I'm unsure what I should watch next. There's the Inuyasha sequel series Yashahime which isn't written by Takahashi-sensei. It's anime-original and I heard bad things about it. It's definitely not as popular as I expected it to be, at least in the English-speaking communities. I think it was created to cash in on the "next generation" craze made by Boruto but it ended up being more like Dragon Ball GT? I won't know until I watch it. Even if it's just for fanservice, I'd like to watch Yashahime. My other option is watching Takahashi-sensei's 5th major series Kyokai no Rinne which also isn't as popular as I thought it'd be. Another problem is it doesn't adapt the ending of the manga (why did this happen after they wrapped up Inuyasha so well?) But I'll end up watching both eventually so it doesn't really matter much. I might end up watching the various Rumiko Takahashi OVAs first, starting with Fire Tripper which is apparently what inspired Inuyasha in the first place. |
0451Jan 3, 2023 10:21 AM
| I can't explain why I started tearing up when Inuyasha and Kagome hugged each other, but what better way to finally end the series? |
| gunk. |
| That was probably the happiest ending this anime could've possibly gotten. Everything has reached a satisfactory conclusion. Sango and Miroku having 3 kids right out the gate of course and Koga marrying Ayame was also nice. It took me a year and 8 months to watch this and I could've completed it way sooner of course. The slow pacing much of the time made it so that I wasn't eager to get through the episodes unless the show was near the end of an arc, and the filler didn't exactly help with that. So I would often play a game or invest my time in other media instead of watching Inuyasha, but the show had more than enough redeeming qualities for me to always wanna continue from where I left off eventually. That's why the first few episodes of the Final Act were a breath of fresh air for me and the fast pacing didn't bother me. Now that I've seen Inuyasha, the 4 movies, the OVA and the Final Act, Yashahime is the only one left. I've heard a lot about it, mostly about its faithfulness to the original anime. It doesn't discourage me from watching it though, and I'd rather be aware of its reception before watching it than not. But for now I'm going to catch up on some other anime. |
| Not gonna lie, I feel kind of disappointed with how anticlimactic the final confrontation against Naraku turned out to be (among other things), but... this finale was pretty alright. It hit the right emotional beats where it had to, and everything got wrapped up in a happy little bow. We even got a kiss between Inuyasha and Kagome, finally! (which I read didn't even happen in the manga?) Anyway, it took me literally almost a decade to get to this point (I wrote about this on the og series' final episode discussion), but nevertheless I'm glad that I eventually got to see this story through all the way to the end. P.D. I just realized that, even at the very end...Kagome never took the "sit, boy" necklace off of Inuyasha... what the fuck, lmao! |
OrororurandoDec 8, 2023 10:03 PM
| They're finally together. Finally. |
| "We brawlers are sustained by willpower! Even when mocked as reckless and crazy!" |
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