Who here likes InuYasha? It generally has a more niche but devoted fanbase in the Anime community compared to some other Shonen Anime, so I'm genuinely curious.
Yeah the OST was very good. Sunrise in the late cel animation era was also on another level compared to pretty much every studio besides maybe Madhouse.Has to be stated that the soundtrack also did a lot of the carrying of the show .
God damn, that shit was good.
That's true .Here's the two issues I see with the series. There's a pretty big disconnect of the first bit of the series, up through around a bit after Inuyasha first confronts Sesshoumaru and the rest of the series. It used to have a bit more of a dark fantasy vibe with some minor ecchi elements and after that you only see a bit of the former here and there and almost none of the latter.
here's also an odd disconnect when you consider how weak the full Shikon was and then how strong each shard apparently was.
Somewhat fair but with two caveats.The second is Naraku and how he wasn't able to carry the entire series as an antagonist. They probably should've dealt with him by the halfway point or so if not sooner. I don't think he was a bad villain, but being stretched out wasn't in his favor either.
I was talking about the early part where like one or two demons had it while it was still whole.That's true .
A lot of the elements from the manga were censored in the anime which is understandable i guess since we're talking about a shounen story .
It can also be attributed to the fact that Rumiko didn't have a clear image and just went with whatever .
Don't think that's the case. If you meant under utilized , i'd agree but even then that was by design as Naraku flat out stated that he didn't want to do shit with it.
Somewhat fair but with two caveats.
Naraku after Hakurei was absent for a large portion of the story so the vilians for that period of time were either his incarnations or episodic ones .
Second, Naraku was never the main antagonist of the series. The Shikon Jewel was and i kinda liked the recontextualization or the reveal at the end when you realized that the great baddy manipulator was just a puppet.
Great irony , though you could certainly make the case that it could have been executed better and also it's clear as day that they pulled the " Main Party fights Naraku and then he runs away" one too many times
The main problems for me are the pacing and the lack of focus . Inuyasha could have easily been a 300 chapter manga as opposed to a 500+ and it would have been much better for it.
True enough although there's only so much the Jewel could do to to empower literal trash tier demons.I was talking about the early part where like one or two demons had it while it was still whole.
t's also important to remember that the incarnations even when acting separately are still offshoots of Naraku rather than completely new foes so he's still relevant even when it's not him.
It's not even like I'm saying that they're bad or that those were poor developments, but in the end it all goes back to him.
Agreed.I wouldn't mind giving the manga a shot one day, but honestly Rumiko's artwork isn't as good as her design work and the anime looks a LOT better.