The Inuyasha anime is over, now go read the manga

[Majin Darshe]

In case you were wondering, yes, that WAS the last episode of Inuyasha (Episode 167). Because of a combination of low ratings, a major producer leaving the show, and the series catching up too close to the manga, the series was formally put on hiatus in Japan over a year ago. There has been NO word of renewel since then.

The manga however is still going on and is still going strong in popularity. THe anime ended at around the events of chapter 355, and the manga is currently at chapter 480, so those are the chapters you should read (although I suggest just reading the entire thing from the beginning, since the anime changed so much). MANY important events have occured, and several new characters have appeared, old characters have reappeared, and some...have died (another one seems to be about ready to bite the dust in the current story arc). Takahashi has said that she does plan on ending the manga soon, and recent events in the manga do support that it's coming to a conclusion.

Unfortantely, because of the way Viz is releasing the english version of the manga (every four months), it WILL literally take years for the U.S. release to catch up to where the manga currently is in Japan. So finding other sources to read it may be you best option.

You can read detailed SUMMARIES of the manga chapters as they come out here: http://www.furinkan.com/iycompanion/manga/index.html. Just let me remind you that the anime ends in at chapter 355, which is located in volume 36 of the manga. Thank you

[Aerozord]

I dont know, my only problem with Inuyasha is its starting to drag. And by starting I meant it has been for a good 20 episodes. I think the series should be ended. I dont mean just cut off, but be given a proper ending with lots of yummy closure.

Oh and if anyone knows where I can snag the past few episodes. Or Bleach, trinity blood, really every anime on adult swim, please let me know. I haven't seen any episode in almost a month. I'm starting to get the shakes.

[Magus]

Zheesh, 167 episodes? No wonder people got tired of it. Mangas are usually the main source, though, I usually prefer them. I certainly liked the FMA manga more than the anime. That's almost like apples and oranges though since they're completely different.

[Bells]

Inuyasha really dragged it self for a while on the later episodes of the anime... so yeah... is not even that big of a surprise...!

At least is not like the Gundam Wing Mangás... after seeing the anime, o bought them and really said... "The'hell... the animation was better!?" surprise surprise....

I mean... its not because Inuyasha (anime) was long... (Naruto is bigger, and Bleach is going to be too) but the story just drags it self way too much!

[POS Industries]

Well, having a long series is one thing. Having a long series where nothing is accomplished after 167 episodes is another. Seriously, I stopped watching for two years and tuned in one day, and nothing had changed!

"Oh no, we have to get all the jewel shards back!" The hell you do! You can travel through fucking time! Take what you have now and get your schoolgirl ass back to the present. The world's still there, so clearly your actions have no consequence. Screw Naraku.

[Satan's Onion]

"Oh no, we have to get all the jewel shards back!" The hell you do! You can travel through fucking time! Take what you have now and get your schoolgirl ass back to the present. The world's still there, so clearly your actions have no consequence. Screw Naraku.

But what about her heart? She has to follow her heart*.

...Typing that made me kinda puke in my mouth a little.

*I'm assuming that's still an issue in Inuyasha? It's been a while since I've seen any.

[BitVyper]

Takahashi's stuff has always been a good example of the differences between anime and manga.

[POS Industries]

But what about her heart? She has to follow her heart*.

...Typing that made me kinda puke in my mouth a little.

*I'm assuming that's still an issue in Inuyasha? It's been a while since I've seen any.

Oh, I'm sure it is, given how that show never resolves anything ever. Seriously, just send Ma-Ti in there and she'll have that whole heart thing figured out.

[grthwllms]

Can anyone give a count on how many times Naraku has "died"?

[phil_]

Well, we could say that he died once when Onigumo became Naraku, then we could say he "died" that time Inuyasha fought him after gaining the ability to break barriers. Whether he "died" again near the end of the anime, I can't say, as I was unable to watch it on the Teevee and haven't the interest to go looking for it.

So, really, he hasn't at all (unless that adamant barrage killed him; again, I haven't seen Inuyasha since just before Inuyasha got that technique). He's just consolidated his power in ways that appeared to be death. I'm sure Darshe could give a better answer, though.

[Aerozord]

I kinda hate how it switched to 'finding jewel shards' to 'finding naraku'. And I do mean find. I dont understand why they were always chasing him when they knew as things stood they would lose. Realistically the anime would have been over pretty quick. Naraku comes in, and just kills everyone. For most of the series he was fully capable of doing this.

Plus, what was the deal with the wind tunnel? I mean eventually it will kill them, but until then your enemy has the most destructive weapon that exists, and you gave it to him.

[Sesshoumaru]

But what about the poison insects? Cause obviously the most effective coutner to a minuture, directed black hole is the send overly large honeybees after it.

PS I think Naruko lets them live cause their existance amuses him.

[synkr0nized]

Naraku sucks.
But that's only my biased opinion, as the only thing that draws me strongly to the series in both incarnations is Kagura.


Which makes reading the rest of the manga not really worthwhile for me.

[Aerozord]

But what about the poison insects? Cause obviously the most effective coutner to a minuture, directed black hole is the send overly large honeybees after it.

PS I think Naruko lets them live cause their existance amuses him.
yea unless he feels self sacrificing and sucks them all in.

And if he lets them live for amusement then he is really stupid. I dont care how evil it makes him look, thats no reason to let the biggest threat to your existence live.

[bass_virus]

Yeah the anime did drag on way to long, but in my opinion, the only thing worse than dragging something on is ending something with nothing resolved, an anime shouldn't go past 50-60 episodes though. They really had plenty of chances to wrap the thing up, but instead they didn't and tried to bleed the thing dry. And i'm way to cheap to catch up on the anime, i mean i'm already buying either Death Note or Bleach every month.

[Buddha Fett]

I never really became that much of an Inuyasha fan, so I can't really say that I'm sorry for the anime ending. It dragged on WAY to long, and I hated how they spent the first couple minutes of every other episode retelling the whole backstory to what was going on. It kind of threw me off after a while. But then again, what do I know?

[Majin Darshe]

I kinda hate how it switched to 'finding jewel shards' to 'finding naraku'. And I do mean find. I dont understand why they were always chasing him when they knew as things stood they would lose. Realistically the anime would have been over pretty quick. Naraku comes in, and just kills everyone. For most of the series he was fully capable of doing this.

Plus, what was the deal with the wind tunnel? I mean eventually it will kill them, but until then your enemy has the most destructive weapon that exists, and you gave it to him.

They had to switch to finding Naraku eventually. He already had more than half of the jewel by the time he showed up. There's only one Shard left in the manga SPOILER The one in Kohaku's backSPOILER

And as for Miroku's Air Rip, sure, it is an effective weapon, but it's also a curse on his entire blood-line which will cause every descendant he has to die an early, painful death. Plus, Naraku is more or less immune to it as long as he has the Saimyoushou, so it's really just for his amusement really. Even if it does help Miroku, it's going to kill him one day, and that's enough for Naraku.

Because that's Naraku's only REAL weakness, his complete and utter sadism towards everyone, and his inability to understand people's hearts. He had a chance to take the Jewel of Shikon 50 years ago, but obtaining it wasn't his real goal...it was making Kikyou and Inuyasha, the two people he hated more than anything, to kill eachother. Unfortunately, he couldn't graps the idea that Kikyou would want to die with Inuyasha and take the Jewel with her...

[Sesshoumaru]

Everyone knows Creed and Darcia are the only real anime villains anyway. Everyone else is either a cheap knockoff or a poser ('cept for Shishio....maybe).

[Mauve Mage]

I'm glad it's winding down to a finale. I liked the show when it was actually about fighting demons and finding jewel shards, not hunting down Naraku only to find he's got yet another magic barrier that we can't break through. It got to the point where every other episode was an InuYasha/Kagome "I love you just the way you are!!!" fest or a "Naraku's got a new barrier! Let's look for a way to stop it, after which point he'll get a NEWER barrier!" moment with a dash of Kikyo and Sesshomaru just to keep the fans quiet. It should have ended a long time ago. I miss the good old days of InuYasha...

[Aerozord]

They had to switch to finding Naraku eventually. He already had more than half of the jewel by the time he showed up. There's only one Shard left in the manga SPOILER The one in Kohaku's backSPOILER


but here is the problem with that.
Watching Inuyasha and party kill demons = :)
Watching them search for Naraku for 20 episodes = :stressed:

As for his sadism, I hate that cliche. Naraku really needs to read this (http://www.eviloverlord.com/lists/overlord.html). Especially 11, 40 and 38 would have helped him out abit

Number 64 is exactly what his biggest problem is, and here is how to solve it.

[CelesJessa]

I was a pretty big Inuyasha fan awhile ago, but, to save myself from random pointless episodes, I would look up summeries of the episodes and only watch the ones that sounded good. I quickly realized that this was kind of dumb (and there was the problem with out of every 20 or so episodes, only about 4 or 5 sounded interesting) so I stopped watching.

I don't know who has the money to buy all of those mangas though. I've reached book 12 or 13 and I gave up because spending $120 or so on a story that was going nowhere was pointless.

[synkr0nized]

And thus is Takahashi.

[Majin Darshe]

I was a pretty big Inuyasha fan awhile ago, but, to save myself from random pointless episodes, I would look up summeries of the episodes and only watch the ones that sounded good. I quickly realized that this was kind of dumb (and there was the problem with out of every 20 or so episodes, only about 4 or 5 sounded interesting) so I stopped watching.

I don't know who has the money to buy all of those mangas though. I've reached book 12 or 13 and I gave up because spending $120 or so on a story that was going nowhere was pointless.

If it's any consolidation, roughly 1/4 of the episodes in the anime don't happen in the manga, they're just filler. Hell, In the manga the story goes from the showdown with Naraku at his castle straight to the Shichinintai/Band of Seven arc almost immediatately. In the anime there are about a dozen filler episodes between the two events. So I can safely say that even though the manga is very long, and does drag a bit, the plot moves at a lightnight pace compared to the anime.

[Aerozord]

Hmm thats what I thought. But our problem is 3/4 of the episodes were pointless. The show follows the same pattern
1. They break Naraku's barrier and find him
2. They nearly kill him.
3. He runs off to regenerate and puts up a new barrier
4. They go searching for him
Then after about 20 episodes of searching they repeat.

It gets to the point the episodes just meld together in my memory. Lets face it Naraku's a pussy. He almost never fight and every single time he does get into a series fight he runs. Heck sometimes he is winning and he still runs away.

[Sesshoumaru]

That Evil Overlord list was freaking hilarious. And I stand by my previous statement (about Creed and Darcia).

[Saria]

Yeah, I was a pretty big fan of InuYasha too, both the anime and manga. It was maybe the first manga I read and I reread the two first books several times. But then I couldn't find new books for a while, and I didn't know how to watch the anime without downloading (which took forever), and I started to notice how it wasn't worth the wait. So yeah, I haven't watched or read it in a while.

And Naraku suck. He seemed like a neat villain in the beginning, and I like/liked Kagura, but then he seemed very crappy, which is sad since the whole is about him (and Inuyasha's and Kagome's love, which I also liked, but kinda lost interest in... after the peach-guy, I think).

[derektherobot]

In case you were wondering, yes, that WAS the last episode of Inuyasha (Episode 167). Because of a combination of low ratings, a major producer leaving the show, and the series catching up too close to the manga, the series was formally put on hiatus in Japan over a year ago. There has been NO word of renewel since then.


Sorry, but they are working on a new series right now as we speak. I heard it would come out in japan in december. So it's safe to say that the anime is far from over.

[Majin Darshe]

Sorry, but they are working on a new series right now as we speak. I heard it would come out in japan in december. So it's safe to say that the anime is far from over.


You lie, therefore you must be destroyed.

And you need only read chapters 371-374 to see the depths of Naraku's evil.

[Aerozord]

And you need only read chapters 371-374 to see the depths of Naraku's evil.
Sorry but I dont care if he throws flaming puppies at them. No matter how evil he is he is still a wuss

[derektherobot]

You lie, therefore you must be destroyed.

And you need only read chapters 371-374 to see the depths of Naraku's evil.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha#Anime

[Majin Darshe]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha#Anime
...and at NO point does it say on the page that new episodes are being made. Hell, the first/second PARAGRAPH of that page says that episode production has ceased and no new ones have been produced yet.

[POS Industries]

I believe it's a misinterpretation of this statement:

In the United States, the final episode of InuYasha aired on October 27, 2006. The series is scheduled to begin its second run starting on January 1, 2007. The anime is licensed by in North America by Viz and ShoPro Entertainment, and the actual dubbing is done by the Ocean Group.

If I'm reading this correctly, this means that the second run of the entire series (from Kagome's arrival in Oz to Kagome and crew having achieved nothing since her arrival, like, 4 million years ago) is starting all over again in reruns until the end of time. This will officially make it, beyond a shadow of a doubt, DBZ for girls.

[derektherobot]

I'll tell you what. If there is no new sub episodes revealed in February or march, I will read every single chapter of the manga. (i like the anime better I don't know why. I could never get into the comic) From start to finish, then write a ten page essay on why the manga is better, then, make a video for youtube that has me saying: "i am dumb." one hundred times. Then, I will proceed to go to the tallest mountain in my state (i hate mountains) That is how confident I am that the anime has been renewed.

[Sesshoumaru]

You forgot to say that you'd email your social security number to Sesshoumaru of the NPF.

[derektherobot]

You forgot to say that you'd email your social security number to Sesshoumaru of the NPF.

No, I don't think I would ever do that.

[Majin Darshe]

The only official place to know if the anime will be renewed is The Anime News Network (http://www.animenewsnetwork.com), FYI

And I'd just like to say that the this weeks chapter marks the 10 year anniverary of Inuyasha's running in Shounen Sunday Magazine.

[Mirai Gen]

If I'm reading this correctly, this means that the second run of the entire series (from Kagome's arrival in Oz to Kagome and crew having achieved nothing since her arrival, like, 4 million years ago) is starting all over again in reruns until the end of time. This will officially make it, beyond a shadow of a doubt, DBZ for girls.
Is that when she crashed into Mount St. Helens?

Sorry, but I couldn't resist getting that shot in.