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Summary: Takahasi Does it Again
Review: Brought to us by the same woman who created Ranma 1/2, Maison Ikoku and many others, we now have a story of grand proportions. Kagome is a normal school girl who lives with her family at her grandfather's shrine. One day she hears strange noises coming from a sealed well at the temple and goes to investigate, thinking it is her cat. Instead she is attacked by a monster like none she has ever seen. As she falls down the well, she is transported to another time and place...
This is one of the best anime series I have seen! The story keeps moving and is a truly amazing tale of both people, and events. The art is very well done, and the origional voices are amazingly appropriate for the characters. Kagome is out of her depth but manages to learn and adapt to new situations fairly well, and all the characters show realistic, three dimentional personalities that change as the show progresses. The show also has a fair share of silly moments like a dog demon being commanded to 'sit' by a magic neclace. The opening song is one of my all Time favorites! A great tale of conflict and quests, this belongs on your shelf if you like storytelling, humor, magic, or anything else by Rumiko Takahashi.
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Summary: One of the best anime's ever!
Review: My cousin got me and my sister into this show about 7 months ago and we have loved it since! I never even heard of this show because we just had gotten cable like 3 months before we found out about it and I don't stay up past 10:00(It was on at 11:00 but now 12:00) usually, but now I have a reason to. Anyways this show has enough everything to keep it interesting and if you haven't seen or heard of it, watch an episode on Adult Swim on Saturday nights.
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Summary: The Adventure Begins
Review: Inuyasha - Down the Well, Vol. 1, contains the first three episodes of the anime series. This is a wonderful, scary but enchanting series also called "a feudal fairy tale." In the first disc, Kagome and Inuyasha do not like each other at all. He even threatens to kill her. The sensitive and tender relationship between them will develop in later episodes, but not here. Inuyasha is raw, and Kagome as well is a little self-centered.
Episode 1: "The Girl Who Overcame Time and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome"
Kagome's ordinary life as a 15 year-old Japanese schoolgirl is violently interrupted by a chance encounter with a horrible demon, which bursts out of an old, sealed well in her family temple's basement. The demon drags Kagome in, leaving her distraught little brother shouting after her.
At the other side of the well is feudal Japan, but Kagome does not yet realize that. Kagome temporarily halts the demon. In exploring, she finds a strange youth pinned to a tree. He is under some kind of spell. She frees him, and thus Inuyasha and Kagome have their first meeting.
In flashbacks, the characters of Kikyo and her sister Kaede are introduced. Kaede is now an old woman who has taken her sister's place protecting the village from demons.
Episode 2: "Seekers of the Sacred Jewel
Inuyasha wants to take the Sacred Jewel from Kagome, even if it means over her dead body. To protect Kagome, Kaede gives her a necklace made of teeth and wooden beads. Once around Inuyasha's neck, Kagome is able to subdue him with the words "SIT, BOY!!!!" From then on, Kagome can use this tactic whenever she needs to.
Now that the Sacred Jewel has been released from Kagome's body, demons come from everywhere seeking to steal it to increase their powers. A crow demon steals it. As he is flying away, Kagome's arrow hits the mark too well, and the jewel is shattered into a thousand pieces all over a wide area.
Episode 3: "Down the Rabbit Hole & Back Again"
Kaede tells Inuyasha that he and Kagome must learn to work together to recover the jewel shards. Neither of them is very happy about that idea. In a huff, Kagome goes back home through the well. Meanwhile, Kaede and Inuyasha are trying to cope with magical and lethal hair controlled by a beautiful but evil demon girl with the shortest skirt ever.
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Summary: Inu-yasha - my veiws and information on this DVD/series
Review: After a chance fall into an abandoned well, Kagome Higurashi finds herself in the middle of Feudal Japan being chased by a giant demon centipede! Now what could be more random then that? Nothing I can think of...
Well, it just so happens that this "chance fall" plops Kagome 500 years into the past, where she meets Inuyasha, a half dog demon who had been bound to a tree until Kagome had released him. To everyone's surprise they find Kagome is apparently the reincarnation of a priestess named Kikyo, who had held a special jewel called the Shikon in her possession, which Inuyasha had tried to steal, getting him bound to the tree in the first place. Unable to get back home and stuck in the feudal era with nothing to do then protect this "Shikon Jewel" like Kikyo before her, Kagome naively and accidentally lets it slip into the hands of a demon, and while trying to retrieve it it shatters! Immediately spreading itself in areas all over feudal Japan...guess who's going to have to get them back?
Inuyasha still wanting the jewel for himself, and Kagome responsible for shattering it in the first place, embark on a journey to retrieve these pieces...but end up doing more then they bargained for...
I have to say I was never a fan of Rumiko Takahashi...but after this I was utterly amazed. At first look, Inuyahsa seemed like your typical fantasy anime. A teenage Japanese girl is transported to the warring states era through a magical well, where she accidentally awakens a cocky demon bound to a tree, but looks can be deceiving...
Focus On the Anime
This review is meant for new watchers of Inuyasha it's truly an amazing series and I am glad I get the chance to comment on how amazing.
Story- A+
I love it, I absolutely adore this series, it's to perfect in every way. The characters are lovable, the humor is hilarious, the plot is laid out at a reasonable pace and the twists are unexpected. I've never seen anything like it. Also, The character models are faithful to the manga, the movement is smooth and the backgrounds are incredibly detailed, in a nutshell Inuyasha is beautifully written as well as drawn.
Another compliment towards the story is the many types of themes it holds for everyone such as: revenge, loss, jealousy, hate, rivalry and along with the romance for the gals you have plenty of action for the guys.
(Also another thing I noticed was that it has a similar flavor to my all time favorite book by Lewis Carol, "Alice In Wonderland." If you liked that, you'll love this!)
Dubbing- A-
How do they do it? It's baffling really... Honestly I want to know where they find these people! OUTSTANDING JOB TO MOST OF THE MAIN CHARACTERS! Here are my good and bad comments on some things I think could have been approved and things that were right on!
Inuyasha's Voice- YES! YES! PERFECT! I can't even tell you how relieved I was! For those who watch the Japanese versions...I'm sure you will agree with me that it's always a huge shock when you pop in a dubbed DVD to find all your characters sounding totally different-- some good and some horrible! Well cheers to Richard Cox! WOO HOO!
Kagome's Voice- YAY! It's adorable! I always thought she sounded to old in the Japanese version...but they fixed it in the dubbed! If you want my opinion, get ready for one adorably fiery hot fourteen year old with a spunky attitude!
Kaede's Voice- What the hell is with the old English terms? That was never there in the Japanese version. But...I like it! It adds a certain era to the show!
Jaken's Voice- I don't think this little guy is in the first DVD...but get ready cause his voice is extremely annoying! What the hell were they thinking?!?!
Music- A+
I love the music from this show! It's very catchy! And what's best of all the theme song and the ending theme song change throughout the series! So you never get sick of them! You'll take a liking to every theme and ending theme and probably want to buy the soundtrack...trust me...it's a good idea. And beautiful background music! I listen to them every night when I go to sleep! It focuses on the old Japanese instruments each characters theme and background are beautiful. Infact, every time I hear this one background song, I burst into tears for no reason...ha ha but really it might just be because I'm a wimp...
Conclusion- A+
It truly deserves it, and if you don't believe me and you don't feel like buying it just yet the show is currently being aired on Cartoon Network's late night program, Adult Swim. (The schedule is on CartoonNetwork.com) In conclusion, Inuyasha is one of the best animes I've seen, although it is very long, so I suggest you start it with this warning: THERE ARE OVER 90 EPISODES AND IT'S STILL RUNNING IN JAPAN AS WE SPEAK! (Sigh...I dread the day I finish it.) All in all, it truly is amazing and if you don't buy it, you're really missing out on a great series and a show you'll watch over and over again.
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Summary: Good series.
Review: I like Inuyasha a whole lot and I have been watching the series on adult swim on cartoon network. It all takes place in a fuedual era of japan and a high school girl named Kagome who is also a reincarnation of a preistess was pulled into an old well. Kagome has an acient jewel in her body and thats how a teleport of some sort opens when a demon pulls her in. Later on Kagome meet's a Half demon named Inuyasha which was put into a long sleep and the only way to wake him up is to pull the arrow out. I am not going to tell a whole summary but the series is really great it is a combination of romance, action, and comedy and I love it completly. But the only reason I gave four stars instead of five is because there are only three episodes in each DVD, and unless you are hella reach you better just stick to watchin it on adult swim more specific cartoon network check this anime series out it is really good...........
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Summary: And so the legend begins...
Review: Kagome is your average middle school student. Her family are the caretakers of an ancient shrine. Kagome had no patients for all the stories her grandfather would recite at will until the day a demon popped out of the bone-eater's well and dragged her into fuedal Japan. There she meets the not-so-charming Inuyasha, a half-demon dog, who wants the Shikon no Tama in order to become a full-demon. When Kagome accidently shatters the jewel while trying to get it back from a demon she and Inuyasha have to team up to find the scattered shards. Let the games begin!
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Summary: playing hard to get
Review: Inuyasha is a tale of its own. After the opening with Inuyasha in the old Japan fighting for the jewel shard, it begins with the young Kogome falling into a well after trying to find her cat. When she finally is able to leave the well, she discovers that she is in futile Japan in another time. Kogome is forced to pull the arrow from Inuyasha that had pinned him to a tree to save the lives of many from Mistress Centipede. From then on, the adventure begins!Inuyasha and Kogome have indeed an interesting relationship; Love, hate, and companionship as they search for the missing pieces of the jewel shard. This anime series, though seemingly serious, really has plenty of comical relief. In fact, I find myself laughing more than being stressed about the characters' well being. However, if you do not like a lot of blood, this may not be for you. A fight scene takes place in every episode, but this is always complimented with the comedy. I find that people who do not even like anime happen to like Inuyasha. This is one of the many reasons why I say it is a tale of its own. Buying the series may be too spendy though, because each DVD is around $20.00 and there is only 3 episodes on a DVD which is disappointing. Just when it gets good, the DVD ends. There's a few extras to the DVDs: changing language to English and Japanese, looking at concept art, and previews for the DVD both done in English and Japanese. The features really aren't anything to get excited over, but the episodes themselves SHOULD! Watch Inuyasha...watch it again and again. This DVD, though the first, happens to be one of my favorites of the series. But, it gets even better as more characters join in the later episodes. The story development, characters, anime designs, battles, and comedy is such an excellent combination to make Inuyasha!
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