Poll of the Day > With the Inuyasha sequel coming out soon, I went back to watch Inuyasha.

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Dang, I forgot so much of this. Like Kagome can sense the shards? I remember the sacred arrows and the "sit boy." I feel like I need harder facts about her sensing ability. What's the range on that thing? Also, how many shards were there in total? And did they eventually get the shards from Koga? I don't imagine him handing them over willingly, but he got powercrept pretty fast.

Also, Koga's clan killed Rin? WTF, man? I recall an episode where Rin sees Koga again and she's scared of him. I hope Sesshomaru ****s him up. I stopped watching at some point, so idk where they are (I remember seeing it again on TV at one point and the Tetsusaiga turned RED?!).

I only want to watch the episodes with Rin. She's the sweetest. Unfortunately, Netflix only has up to Tetsusaiga's second(?) ability.

Also, Bleach is pretty much Inuyasha, but everyone has Tetsusaiga.

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Ya, I remember liking InuYasha a lot... the show kinda ended on a dumb tho, ironically it's the same ending a LOT of shows do (Stargate SG-1 even ended the same way)

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I don't remember Koga's clan doing that, which I assume must have happened prior to her joining up with Sesshy... and, come to think of it, is that really spoiler-y? Or was it something only revealed far later into the series?.

I never finished IY, but I remember a lot of it so I don't think I'll be all that surprised. However, given that Kagome's ability to sense the jewel was one of the biggest reasons she's on the quest instead of handing the thing to somebody else, I'm a little surprised that a detail like that could be forgotten, especially since we can sometimes see her physically seeing the shards in demons' bodies.

And yeah, Rin was great, especially as an excuse for Sesshy to develop some emotion.

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Zeus posted...

I don't remember Koga's clan doing that, which I assume must have happened prior to her joining up with Sesshy... and, come to think of it, is that really spoiler-y? Or was it something only revealed far later into the series?.

Yeah, after Sesshomaru is defeated by the Wind Scar and healing in a forest. Rin stumbles upon him. She brings him food and stuff. After he heals and is preparing to leave, he stumbles upon Rin's body and brings her back with Tenseiga. The village she lived in was massacred by Koga's clan. She was killed as she was fleeing to Sesshomaru.

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Had too much filler. I don't know if I ever saw the end of the anime.

I remembered her being dead, but I couldn't remember the circumstances. Kinda weird that Koga kinda just becomes a hero after that, although I guess there was also a progress since he was beaten in his early encounters, actually got helped by the gang shortly after vs the Birds of Paradise, and was an anti-hero for a long time before becoming more of a hero.

Of course, the biggest thing I remember about Koga is Ayame >_>

Particularly when she's first introduced and insisted that her name sounds just like Kagome's.

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I still can't believe that we are actually getting a successor series to it. I don't think I made it much past episode 50 in the several times I've attempted to watch it all. I actually have my gamefaqs name from that series.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I don't think I made it much past episode 50 in the several times I've attempted to watch it all.

Once they really go all-in on Naraku, my interest started to fade.


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Why did they give Miroku the wind tunnel?

It was such a cool power negated by bees lol

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Naraku is basically Aizen. He made the bees and then put the curse on Miroku's family, so he'd have a use for the bees. Just according to keikaku.

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Ugh, such a shitty boring show. Every damn episode is the same. Only finished it out of stubbornness.

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Inuyasha is one of the OGs

Also has the best ops and endings

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The show had some cool bits but it also ran in circles for what felt like forever

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Something that never made sense about Inuyasha's supposed timeline is it's never really explained why the yokai went extinct. Sesshomaru especially is an especially powerful yokai that doesn't really age, so why isn't he still in the future?

Also, as famous as Inuyasha is, the anime was cancelled for a reason (than later started again to show the ending), because the plot started dragging really hard. There wasn't any progress anymore, Naraku is always behind everything, and once they find him he runs away and they look for him again. Naraku even states at some point that his entire life has become trying to kill Inuyasha and he doesn't know what to do with his life afterward if he actually killed him.

And yeah, I read the synopsis, this sequel stars different characters. I'm just not sure how many more ideas can be squeezed out of this story premise.
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DarkKirby2500 posted...

Something that never made sense about Inuyasha's supposed timeline is it's never really explained why the yokai went extinct. Sesshomaru especially is an especially powerful yokai that doesn't really age, so why isn't he still in the future?

A similar question is how jewel shards are still collected in the modern age. I recall the Noh Mask had one. Did they miss that one in the past or did they assemble more than a whole jewel at some point?

Another thing I was looking for was if a character in the modern age was Naraku in disguise, possibly trying to get close to Kagome and divert her from her actions in the past.

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I feel like a lot of authors have great ideas at the beginning because they think about it so much. The middle and end stuff have less thought put into them, which is why stories become stale. Eventually, it just became about pursuing one dude and upgrading your sword. I think authors are uncertain about the chance of success, so they focus a lot on the beginning and then hope and pray it's received well. Then when it is and their deadline is shortly approaching, they're not sure what to do next and just start winging it.

But yeah, I'm not sure what to expect with this one either, but I'll give it a few watches.

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I mean, especially with manga, thats exactly how it goes. You put in a lot more time and effort on starting the series but once it's serialized you have to pump out chapters usually each week AND you have to adjust the story as time goes on so you have basically a week minus the time it takes to draw the whole manga chapter to actually think about your story and even if you have plans your editor might tell you that actually it's doing too well to move towards the ending and you need to drag it out for another 100+ chapters.

Monthly manga have less of this problem and other forms of source material are mostly immune to this problem.

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YoukaiSlayer posted...

I mean, especially with manga, thats exactly how it goes. You put in a lot more time and effort on starting the series but once it's serialized you have to pump out chapters usually each week AND you have to adjust the story as time goes on so you have basically a week minus the time it takes to draw the whole manga chapter to actually think about your story and even if you have plans your editor might tell you that actually it's doing too well to move towards the ending and you need to drag it out for another 100+ chapters.

Monthly manga have less of this problem and other forms of source material are mostly immune to this problem.

weekly manga begins on a weekly basis though
but i agree they should input breaks so the mange would come out better and same with anime, this is why one piece has a pacing problem currently, they refuse to go on a break until the manga opens a decent gap
Also if something is really succesful the editors push the manga creators to milk the plot which also isn't good but from what i heard they are doing it less nowdays

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Wanded posted...

weekly manga begins on a weekly basis though

A lot of stuff is tried out as a oneshot and a lot that aren't are revised several times over a few months before they get serialized. As soon as it's serialized, each new one will be weekly, but usually the author has had at least a couple weeks if not months to think up how the story will go before the first chapter ever comes out and they may even have the first few chapters done at once and just make alterations if something goes wrong.

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