Any Inuyasha Fans?
POSTED BY: queenofthenorth
UPDATED: Sunday, January 8, 2006 05:12
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Yay! Someone who wants to talk about it! I've got the first and second seasons on DVD. Anyways, I kinda wanted to talk about the Inuyasha/Kikyo/Kagome thing and also why nobody but Inuyasha seems to have more than one parent.
Kagome rocks. Hands down. Way better than Kikyou. I'm sorry, but she steals the souls of innocent dead women. Just to get revenge on Inuyasha (and later Naraku). She's not even that strong, compared to Kagome later. Also, to stay alive she needs to keep eating those souls. I do feel bad for her, living a half-life, but it was her choice.
You're right about the parent thing. Where's Kagome's dad???
~A message from Serenyty~
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Hi, Sickdude's wife here. He mentioned this thread and the manga recommendations, so I asked, "Did you mention Rurouni Kenshin? Vagabond? Blade of the Immortal?" 
All three are period stories with lots of action, some of which is rated mature here (in the US). From Far Away is a girl-pulled-into-another-world series more suitable for the Fushigi Yugi liking crowd. He wanted to mention Nausicaa, so I figure Phoenix should be, too. Both are classics with unique fantasy elements, but neither really has romance, which seems to be a big draw for many Inu Yasha fans.
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I've never liked anime or manga of any kind. In fact, I've always found both existing somewhere between laughable and repulsive.
But my wife and I completely fell in love with Inuyasha. It's absolutely unlike anything I've ever seen. I thought "maybe I'm not giving anime a fair shake," but then I see something like Ghost In The Shell and it looks pretentious and hollow next to Inuyasha.
Anyway, yeah. I couldn't love this series more, and that shocks the heck out of me. I even imported the soundtracks, which are amazing.
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Originally posted by queenofthenorth:
Yay! Someone who wants to talk about it! I've got the first and second seasons on DVD. Anyways, I kinda wanted to talk about the Inuyasha/Kikyo/Kagome thing and also why nobody but Inuyasha seems to have more than one parent.
Kagome rocks. Hands down. Way better than Kikyou. I'm sorry, but she steals the souls of innocent dead women. Just to get revenge on Inuyasha (and later Naraku). She's not even that strong, compared to Kagome later. Also, to stay alive she needs to keep eating those souls. I do feel bad for her, living a half-life, but it was her choice.
You're right about the parent thing. Where's Kagome's dad???
~A message from Serenyty~
Yeah, I totally agree with you there. Inuyasha should definitely get over Kikyo. I mean, Kagome has done so much more for him than Kikyo ever did. She trusts him and stays by him through everything, while Kikyo was ready to believe the worst of him right away. She's also kind of an evil bitch. And yet I can't dislike her completely.
As for Kagome's dad, that was the first one I started wondering about. The only mention I've ever heard of him is in the 2nd season, when Kagome's mom says that he proposed to her under the Sacred Tree. And obviously she accepted. But where is he now? Did they divorce? Is he dead? And then I realized that none of the other main characters have two parents mentioned either. Shippo, Miroku, and Sango all have a father mentioned, but never a mother. It's really weird . . . .
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I've never liked anime or manga of any kind. In fact, I've always found both existing somewhere between laughable and repulsive.
But my wife and I completely fell in love with Inuyasha. It's absolutely unlike anything I've ever seen. I thought "maybe I'm not giving anime a fair shake," but then I see something like Ghost In The Shell and it looks pretentious and hollow next to Inuyasha.
Anyway, yeah. I couldn't love this series more, and that shocks the heck out of me. I even imported the soundtracks, which are amazing.
---
"If wishes were horses, we'd all be eatin' steak."
Glad to see someone else is so impressed with Inuyasha! I've been an on-again, off-again fan of anime for some time, but Inuyasha really rekindled my whole love affair with anime. It's kinda like the Firefly of animes, IMHO. I also really love the music for it, too. It's the first time I've ever really noticed the music of a series, and I was totally impressed with it. Not just the theme songs but the background instrumental stuff too. Glad to know I'm not the only one so blown away by this show.
"Sir, you actually said 'wink, wink'. I don't think that -"
"Oh, you'd be surprised."
"Yes, the new plan will STILL involve rocket skates."
"YAY!"
Like books? Go to this thread: http://www.fireflyfans.net/thread.asp?b=2&t=14862
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hey travelers!!
great to find some people who like anime here too. i devoured Full Metal Alchemist too. it's my absolute favorite! I love Inuyasha too! (awwwwww shippo!!) witchhunter robin is pretty good too. i love the movie "princess monanoke," "kiki's delivery service," and all of the inuyasha movies!! didn't at all like "spirited away."
well, keep flyin'
EngineAngel
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InuYasha is my favourite animé series, and my favourite series still on television (well, it's new where I am). Any show that can get an actual physical reaction out of me (*coughFireflycough*) has hooked me for life.
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In one of the first-season episodes, InuYasha grabs Kagome mid-argument and pulls her into a hug. I actually sat up and gasped, thinking for a split-second that he was gonna kiss her. (Yeah, I'm a sucker for sappy romance, so sue me.)
Also, there's the seeming reference to the great works of English Literature (I say "seeming" because if anyone's ever actually asked Takahashi-sama if this is intentional, I've never seen it). From Romeo & Juliet (InuYasha/Kikyo), to Hamlet (Sesshoumaru, the exiled prince), to The Canterbury Tales (Miroku would be right at home alongside the Pardonner and the Nun's Priest --and probably the Wife of Bath as well, since he's basically her masculine equivalent), and Paradise Lost (one of these days I'm going to write a comparison of Kikyo and the Miltonic Satan --the similarities [in the dub, at least] are stunning).
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Satan says: Oppression can make a Hell of Heaven (better to rule in Hell than serve in Heaven).
Kikyo says: Love can make a Heaven of Hell (better to die with InuYasha than to "live" without him).
And there's the feeling of Buffyness. I found this show right around the time of Buffy's cancellation, and it filled the empty space in my fandom. Nobody who remembers Clem (the friendly "demon-guy" from the last few seasons of Buffy) can dislike Hachi (the Tanuki-demon who's just trying to live his life --if he was human he'd drive a volvo and live in the suburbs). Then there's Myoga, the cowardly-but-loyal flea-demon (yes, a flea-demon
). Plus I get chills every time I hear Sango referred to as "a Slayer."InuYasha himself is perhaps the most sympathetic-to-me character I've ever encountered, so I can't help but be drawn in. InuYasha and I have a lot in common. Well, not so much the half-demon or broken home thing, but the problem of being nicer than the world wants to let us be. At times, I can act just as cruel and heartless as he does, with about as much sincerity. This makes it particularly enjoyable to watch the cracks form in his bad-boy mask --I can usually tell exactly what he's thinking/feeling, even if he can't. Especially over the long haul. His evolution is at times slow, but it's there.
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The heartless "let the kid drown, just save the jewel!" bastard of the premiere is indeed the same hanyou who takes time out of his training to help an obnoxious little demon kid, completely setting aside his own driving ambition just long enough to save the day. And who later endangers his own life to give a glimmer of hope to a little half-demon girl being used as a pawn.
And yes, Kagome rocks. She gets grabbed by a demon with absolutely no warning, dropped down a dry well full of dessicated bones, climbs out on her own, finds herself lost in a strange place, realizes on her own that she's about 600 years in the past, witnesses a massacre, gets attacked by the same demon and brutally stabbed, sees said demon ripped to shreds, and then nearly get decapitated by a homicidal half-demon --and at no point in any of this does she lose her cool. Normal high school girls freak out when their hair doesn't curl right. There's no way InuYasha could not fall for her.
As the series goes on, I realized that Kagome isn't just cool, but incredibly strong. She's the strongest character in that show, possibly in any show. Not so much physically, but in the "she's torn up plenty, but she'll fly true" sense. Kagome could possibly out-tough Zoe (with Zoe, you can tell she's hurting, Kagome will just not even mention it).
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In the first season, when she realizes that she loves InuYasha, and that he doesn't love her, but then decides that it doesn't matter: she'll follow InuYasha, even if he never notices. She can't do otherwis
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Well, I think Cybersnark said just about everything I wanted to about InuYasha. So I'm just gonna chime in and say that I love the show. I don't like most anime, but InuYasha just pulled me in (kinda like, uh, Firefly) and won't let go.
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Originally posted by Sickdude:
Hi, Sickdude's wife here. He mentioned this thread and the manga recommendations, so I asked, "Did you mention Rurouni Kenshin? Vagabond? Blade of the Immortal?"
My 2 en.
Ooh, Rurouni Kenshin! Wonderful choice, especially if girls like strong women (Kaoru). It's wonderful, especially if you love historical Japan.
He wanted to mention Nausicaa? Again, wonderful!!! I've started to expand my anime/manga horizons, though I'm pretty much broke now. So... yeah.
by the way, One of the good animes for fantasy/romance fans is Fruits Basket. It's a fun manga about the Zodiac, and a family that's cursed with it. It's great!
~A message from Serenyty~
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I really like Inuyasha. I have the whole show run on DVD. I'll actually buy the seasons when they come out, but we can just ignore how I got them for now. As I'm about to go to bed, I'll just put in a quick, insignificant comment right now. Shippo did mention his mother once. He mentioned that he and his mom and dad used to have fun in the hot springs. I guess it's assumed his mother died sometime before the Thunder Brothers killed his dad. Off the top of my head, I can't recall specific mentions of Miroku or Sango's mothers.
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