** Note for new viewers: If you haven't figured it out, this is a SEQUEL to Inuyasha, so yes, you'd have to watch Inuyasha to know who the original characters are. **
That being said, as I've just finished watching Episode 11, my disappointment in this show has grown tremendously. If anything, this sequel feels more like someone's failed fanfiction. I will go over a few things below.
The reason fans were excited about this sequel was because of seeing our beloved original characters living their life. They've brought back some or most of the original VAs, so why use them so little in the sequel? I understand that this show is focused on the new characters, however, what I don't understand is why the show is trying so hard to disassociate them from the original characters. Seriously, all this time they've spent with Kaede and they still have no idea what kind of parents they had LMAO The writers make it seem like the daughters have nothing to do with their parents. I also don't get the attitude for that... The entire show, the daughters question about their parents, but when it matters or when they have a chance, they suddenly couldn't care less. It's like the writer's own characters are going out-of-character LOL
Secondly, the writers used a cheap trick of killing off their parents. (Not a spoiler since this was already talked about when Yashahime was announced and also we still don't really know). There's better ways to do a sequel, and killing off characters randomly without even a reason isn't one of them.
Third; there's no plot. I would've been satisfied if this was a slice of life or a series of episodes for all their battles, kind of how Inuyasha was when they weren't worrying about the Shikon Jewel. But it's really confusing. Even as an avid Inuyasha fan, a lot of the things in this show don't make sense or aren't even explained. The writers have failed to asked themselves, what is the purpose of the 3 daughters? What is their individual purpose? When watching this show, it's painfully obvious how there's no clear direction.
Fourth; as I mentioned earlier, this show seriously feels like someone's failed fanfiction. There's so many things that don't make sense? Rainbow pearls? Okay, so there's 3 of them---wait there's actually at least 7 of them?? Doesn't even explain where tf the rainbow pearls came to be, why each daughter has it plus random monsters/"Perils". At least we understood how the Shikon Jewel came to be! If you're going to introduce something new, you better have a story for it!
Unfortunately, the writers couldn't take a hint from the original show and do a little story narration at the beginning, like Inuyasha. Would have saved all this pointless confusion and lack of organization.
And so we go to the last point; storytelling. This show is doing is really terrible job at telling the story. As someone mentioned, the pace is all over the place, often times too quick. If Towa thought it was hard to leave her modern family, you would think she'd brood over it for at least 2 episodes, considering how impactful and important her modern family is to her. But no, within 3 minutes she easily makes the decision and that's it lol
I don't know if Rumiko was involved in the making of the story? I thought she only did their character design. But yeah, whoever wrote the story for this show is definitely not an actual fan of Inuyasha... Writing is poor, takes way too many shortcuts, hopes ____ and ____ make sense at this certain time when it never did.
Really the only thing this show has going for it is the nostalgia of the original characters and teasing the audience in hopes we'll see them (i can assure by ep. 11, we still won't).
