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Summary: Great for a time...
Review: As half of the US, plus everyone in Japan, knows, Inu-Yasha is about a girl who goes back in time to the Feudal Era of Japan and releases (desparate decision time!) a half-demon from a spell put on him 50 years before she arrived. This may sound boring, but Rumiko Takahashi's works will draw anyone into her fantastically woven tales; even more so now that her art has much improved since the still-running Ranma 1/2 series-And that's the problem. I was a fan of Ranma 1/2 from...'97 to '99? And Inu-Yasha from 2000, since it came out, till mid 2002. Her works drag on way too long, and in the end you lose sight of how it started and the good memories become marred with the constant looping of the anime/manga. (I stopped watching after episode 120, I believe). Concerning the product, I highly suggest it- but don't go looking for an ending or you'll be sorry you ever spent your money.
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Summary: Good introduction to both series
Review: Cross "Much Ado About Nothing" with "Lord of the Rings" and you'll get "Inu-Yasha," a boy-meets-girl story with a time-travelling twist. Rumiko Takahashi manages to take what sounds like a typical second-rate fantasy story, and transforms it into something funny, romantic, sinister, and very hard to classify. This boxed set includes the first two volumes of the manga and the first three episodes of the anime. In the manga, schoolgirl Kagome is dragged by a monster into an old dry well on the family shrine's grounds. She emerges in medieval Japan. As if that wasn't weird enough, she learns that she is the reincarnation of a venerated priestess who died clutching the Sacred Shikon Jewel fifty years before. And when the jewel turns up (from inside Kagome's body) and is shattered, she has to join forces with the hostile young half-demon Inu-Yasha -- who was sealed with a spell by Kagome's pre-incarnation. They don't like one another (they bicker constantly, even though the first signs of attraction are blooming) but they have to work together. Not just to collect the jewel shards, but to defeat deadly demons like Yura of the Hair, and Inu-Yasha's ruthless half-brother Sesshomaru. In addition, this set includes the first volume of the anime TV series, currently running on the Cartoon Network's Adult Swim. It basically includes the events of the first manga volume, up until midway through the Yura storyline. There's slightly less gore, and the dialogue is slightly different (for example, Kagome calls Inuyasha "peeping tom!" instead of "animal!"), but overall it's very faithful to the manga's content. This is a good introduction to the Inu-Yasha series, and will probably leave a lasting impression on those new to either the manga or the anime. A worthwhile buy.
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