InuYasha

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. Ina 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.

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.

Mod Edit: This review may contain spoilers. I debated writing a review for Inuyasha since I believe for the most part the majority of people already know what they think of it but after forcing myself to re-watch the series I felt compelled to write this. Story: The story is designed to never end and gives you roughly 4 filler episodes in-between anything that actually progresses the story. Is it a spoiler to tell you that at the end of 167 episodes they still have to complete the jewel and defeat the villain? Well I wish someone would have spoiled it for me. However despitesaying that the anime clearly isn't trying in any way to have an interesting or meaningful story so some of you maybe able to over look that. This is a anime that is trying to relie on fights and characters to be entertaining. Art: Honest opinion? I've seen better and I won't be watching anything worst I hope. Mediocrity's definition really. Normally art is one of the last things I base a anime on. Sure it's important but to me so long as everything looks okay I don't care. However in the case of Inuyasha the fighting animations were really disappointing. If you don't wanna have a story that is fine, but in this case with nothing else going for it I feel like going beyond normal really would have made a huge difference in term of enjoyability. Sound: Meh. Characters: They are all so shallow. One personality trait was handed to each of them and trust me they only get one. If you don't think mary-sue after meeting kagome read a fan-fiction with an oc. Actually never mind, it would probably be better. Enjoyment: Inuyasha may have been more enjoyable if it hadn't of been so long. Also since I didn't find it funny (I don't like slapstick humor) that to could contribute to it's lack of enjoyability. Overall: It get's a 5. Inuyasha easily could have gotten a seven if it had done one of two things, either developed nicer fights or developed it's characters at all. It's a long anime with nothing going for it. If you like pointless filler episodes there are animes that cater to that much better, If you like action then there are animes that also cater to that much better. At the end of the day it's hard to find something outstanding or great about Inuyasha. It is an anime I can not recommend to anyone.

Personally, I was surprised to see that not many people enjoys this anime as much as I do especially when I tend to watch a lot of animes and get bored then quit. I first watched this a few years ago, it entertained both me and my mom. Then recently, I re-watched everything the beginning to what I've missed and I still find that I enjoy it. The characters are all complete, but they can still be frustrating in their own ways. For instance, Kagome has a strong heart and remains pure, but she can seem to fend for herself and always trouble the people aroundher, yet she still insists to join every fight. Inuyasha is a hot-headed and adorable, but he can't seem to grow up and learn from his experiences. His sword obtains more and more powers, but he's too childish sometimes that it makes me feel that he's unworthy of wielding such a sword. However, on the occasions where he and sword becomes one, it becomes an excellent fight. Miroku and Sango always seem to have the attention taken away by Inuyasha, they sometimes are really helpless in a fight without him. Still, the characters being reliant on each other just shows the bond they have. The catchy characters are ones like Sesshomaru, Rin, and a lot of times the bad guys. The art isn't that great, but after a while, you'd get accustomed to it. The art isn't terrible so I just got used to it. The plot on a whole is awesome, it's just the tiny little bits in it that gets too repetitive. Such as the number of pointless fights, the number of failures, and how long it takes to obtain a clue. Even so, I still find it entertaining, and the action was well made. The comedy sometimes gets repetitive, but if you don't take it too seriously, you won't stop laughing that easily. On a whole, while it has its flaws, I think this anime is great. You just shouldn't take it too seriously. This anime ended with a cliff hanger in waiting for the next season, which I have seen up till it last aired and I think it has improved dramatically. Definitely worth a watch

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