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Summary: Rumiko Takahashi's Best Yet!!!!
Review: If you're looking for a new manga to read, you've found the right title. Rumiko Takahashi has written some wonderful works in the past such as Ranma 1/2, Mermaid Forest, Mermaid's Scar, and Mermaid's Gaze, but none can compare with Inu-Yasha. This is a manga with something for everyone. It's genres are romance, action, drama, adventure, horror, and comedy. If you get the second edition of this manga, you will notice that it is rated T+ Older Teen, and not this ages 9-12. Parents be warned that it has intense graphic violence, nudity, some infrequent coarse language, and few more mature situations (this for the entire series in English so far). This manga is by far my favorite. Please check out rest of Rumiko Takahashi's manga. They're all worth a read....
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Summary: Wow! I'm breath-taken!
Review: I just got this book today and WOW! I originally got this book because I love the anime show, Inuyasha. But I really did not expect the manga to be this good! Inuyasha is about a story of a girl named Kagome who was pulled into the sacred "Bone-eaters Well" by a demon. She is forced to set free a half-demon from a spell cast on him by her incarnant.This is a MUST SEE! You will find yourself laughing and at some points saying "What a BAKA!" in your head. Now not only can I look forward to watching Inuyasha on tv but reading it too! Cuz I am definatiely buying the next book of the series. This book is worth every penny and I will read it OVER and OVER again. I hope you enjoy this book like i did. You will truely be in heaven through the whole thing. There is not a sene I would change. So buy it! You won't be disapointed
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Summary: It's good, but not up to Takahashi's usual standards
Review: Don't misunderstand--Inu Yasha is a very good series. But it just didn't grab me the way that Ranma 1/2, Urusei Yatsura, and Maison Ikkoku did. For one thing, I noticed a lot of similarities between the characters of Inu Yasha and some of the author's earlier series.
Inu Yasha is a lot like boy-type Ranma--arrogant, loud, easily irritated, and has problems with females. Kagome is in turn much like Akane--easily offended, not willing to listen to reason occasionally, and stuck with a boy she can hardly stand. Miroku is a younger version of Happosai, and Sango shares traits with Ukyo from Ranma 1/2, including a preference for outrageously big utensils/weapons. This does not mean that these are carbon copies of the older characters; each one of the characters in Inu Yasha has a charm and style all their own. And the plot is interesting. The bottom line is, go ahead and get this book if you want. Just because I don't absolutely adore doesn't mean it's not worth a look. By the way, I had the same problem with this book that I had with the first two books of Ranma 1/2. The pictures are too dark, like it was run through a copier without Edge Erase before it was bound together in the book. Be warned.
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Summary: Never judge a book by it's cover
Review: ...i'm serious about that, don't judge Inu-Yasha by it's cover. For one thing, it *is* a great series, the plot's great, and the artwork is wonderful. But, for those parents out there, please for the love of god don't trust www.amazon.com whole-heartedly. I, a 15 year old male, have this book myself, and know for a fact that there is alot of gore, violence, and some brief nudity. I mean, there WAS a reason why Inu-Yasha (the tv show) aired with a warning before it on Adult Swim saying it was only meant for responsible viewers who are 18 and up. I, for one, may not be 18 and up, but i'm a responsible viewer and i think i'm mature enough to handle gore and intense language. .....
i don't think the parents of a 9 year old would like that
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Anyways, the as far as gore goes, i'm sure kids these days have seen a bunch of violence and stuff on tv and soft porn either on their computer or on mtv or something. In my opinion, the age range for this series would more likely be something like 12-18 rather than 9-12....i mean REALLY...jeez, come on people!
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Summary: Look for a great get away?
Review: Inuyasha is captivating and very addictive. This is Rumiko Takahashi at her best. Her most magical tale yet. Inuyasha draws you in from the first page and keeps you there. This is best Japanese comic to come ashore in a long time. You can't wait for the next adventure or the plot to unfold even deeper. The characters are all loveable. I don't think I have read or watched anything were I loved all the characters before. Even the villains!. Even though the graphic novels are thick it's never enough. Once you're done with one volume you have to read the next. This defiantly a story worth your time. This comic has enough action, mystery, romance, and fun to keep anyone entertained. They don't call Takahashi the queen of comics for nothing!
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Summary: Only the Beginning...
Review: Kagome is a 15 year old girl who lives in modern day Tokyo. On her 15th birthday, she is pulled through the Bone-eater's well by a demon and travels back in time to Japan's Sengoku Jidai (or age of warring states) about 500 or so years ago. It is here that she meets Inu-Yasha, a half-demon who tried to steal a powerful jewel, the Shikon no Tama, in order to become a full demon. However, the priestess who guarded the jewel, Kikyou, used an arrow to trap Inu-Yasha magically for before dying herself from fatal injuries. She had the jewel cremated with her, and now Kagome, who is the re-incarnation of Kikyou, has brought the jewel back to the Sengoku Jidai 50 years later, and releases Inu-Yasha from the entrapment spell. Not long after this the jewel is shattered, and Inu-Yasha is forced to pair up with Kagome (against his will at first) in order to collect the shards. The first Inu-Yasha comic ran in Shonen Sunday Isuue 50, December 1996, nine months after Takahashi's most successful series "Ranma 1/2" ended. Although it has a darker tone to it than Ranma, Inu-Yasha's tactiful blend of comedy, romance and violence has helped it to become another very successful series by Rumiko Takahashi.
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Summary: beautiful and brilliant
Review: I started reading Inu-Yasha after I saw the first few episodes of the anime on Adult Swim a few months ago. This is the first manga and the first Rumiko Takahashi that I've ever read and I've found it to be absolutely brilliant. I can't get enough. I spent most of the last few months tracking down and buying the 12 available graphic novels, quickly diminishing the size of my bank account. (I hope that the others are published quickly!) This first book is what started it all. There are many other great plot summaries posted here, so I'll just say that I find the characterization, art and plot to be absolutely irresistable. The story continues to get more complex and the characters more interesting; the combination of horror, adventure, comedy and romance is unlikely, but I find that it all fits together perfectly. The dynamic between Inu-Yasha and Kagome is established immediately in this book and continues to get more complex and interesting in future editions. I love reading this continuing story, and I sincerely hope for a happy ending (but not any time soon).
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Summary: Read in 30 minutes
Review: My daughter loved this book (unfortunately for my pocket book, because 9 more have been read since).
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Summary: Takahashi's Best!
Review: This is certainly Takahashi Rumiko's magnum opus, pulp at times and still with a touch of but beyond the bounciness of Ranma and more memorable than Urusei Yatsura with its gothic horror tinges. It's a supernatural tale of a schoolgirl who travels back to feudal Japan to find her destiny entwined with a seemingly, crude, anti-social half-dog demon. This is the first volume of their adventures together looking to piece the Shikon no Tama together, and it introduces my favourite villainess in the whole series, Yura of the Hair. Inu Yasha gets better than this. Volume One is good, but subsequent volumes are great. The character dynamics are unparalleled in any other manga I've ever read. The love and insults-based attraction between Kagome and Inu Yasha is first sparked here, to be set ablaze much later on.
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Summary: An great story from Rumiko Takahashi...
Review: Being a fan of the Ranma 1/2 series and also being a lover of Asian history I decided to order this first volume of the Inu-Yasha (Demon Dog?) series to see if I would like it. As you can guess from the stars I REALLY enjoyed it and plan to order as many of the series as I can. Kagome, a sane, normal school girl, is thrust into ancient Japan and finds out that many of the old legends her grandfather is obsessed with ARE real. Is Kagome the reincarnation of a village priestess? What IS the Jewel of Four Souls? What kind of shampoo does Yura of the Hair use? Why is Buyo the only one smart enough to stay away from the well and will he EVER get lunch?
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