The one that just won't die: Inuyasha anime is BACK

[Bells]

Long running classic Inuyasha is set to be given a new series dealing with the as yet unanimated portions of the manga (which itself finally concluded after a marathon run some time ago).

The new series will see volumes 36 to 56 of the manga animated, so it looks set to be a long running production (the original anime ran for four years).

The anime is set for an autumn broadcast, by which time much additional information will doubtless have been made available.

The previous anime continuation made nary a ripple, but doubtless this will be a different matter…

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Inuyasha is back, and maybe, just maybe this new set of episodes might actually advance the plot!

[Magic_Marker]

I don't think I'm happy about this...

No, not happy.

[phil_]

Inuyasha is my favorite anime to mock. This is the most acceptable way to keep one of my favorite anime relevant for a few more years. I'm probably not going to watch it, but, you know, I'll be aware.

Overall, I'm glad that they're finishing it for the sake of people who actually like the show, and I'm glad I get to make references to it for a little longer.

[NonCon]

I don't think I'm happy about this...

No, not happy.

You care?

As far as I see it, there are two kind of people where this is concerned. People who like and and yay for them they get an ending, and people who don't like it so they won't be watching it so who cares.

[POS Industries]

and maybe, just maybe this new set of episodes might actually advance the plot!
http://i119.photobucket.com/albums/o159/posindustries/facepalm/laugh.gif

[Marc v1.0]

Yeah, this didn't happen.

This topic does not exist.

[Fifthfiend]

It did and does!

:(

[BitVyper]

God damn it, if you're going to finish a Takahashi anime, finish Ranma you bastards.

[Rokrin]

God damn it, if you're going to finish a Takahashi anime, finish Ranma you bastards.

I'd actually totally forgotten Ranma even existed until you said this.

I'd much rather see that than Inuyasha. That was an enjoyable series, Inuyasha just feels...I dunno, milked. Not to the extent of Naruto however.

[krogothwolf]

I must say, I am glad I never enjoyed inuyasha. Ranma I enjoyed greatly but inuyasha always seemed to follow the same script every freak damn episode and it annoyed me.

[BitVyper]

That was an enjoyable series

It was a good anime IN SPITE OF the fact that that they almost pointedly avoided animating all the best arcs. I mean the fight with Herb would have been absolutely crack-tastic in anime.

Inuyasha I kind of liked in the beginning. It sort of felt based on Journey to the West (there's parallels for most of Tripi's group of misfits), but it went downhill really fast early in the series, and then it just kept going. It doesn't help that Naraku is like that one villain your DM just won't allow to die. Takahashi's style just seems to work better with short stories or arcs. Plus Inuyasha was more serious, and Takahashi's humour is one of her strongest traits. She does really well with humour-focused series' puncuated by bouts of intense drama instead of the other way around.

[POS Industries]

Plus Inuyasha was more serioys, and Takahashi's humour is one of her strongest traits.
Explains why Miroku was far and away the most enjoyable character.

[Marc v1.0]

You are all horrible people for continuing to spread this ungodly LIE.

For Shame

[BitVyper]

It's no worse than that horrible story about there being other Dragonball arcs after the end of Z.

[Rokrin]

It's no worse than that horrible story about there being other Dragonball arcs after the end of Z.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tkwccXVN9uI/SJwbW3CYyBI/AAAAAAAAA3s/nEYXxHuq_3Y/s400/DragonballGT16.jpg
IT'S CANON

[Marc v1.0]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tkwccXVN9uI/SJwbW3CYyBI/AAAAAAAAA3s/nEYXxHuq_3Y/s400/DragonballGT16.jpg
IT'S CANON

Unfortunetly

[Regulus Tera]

Inuyasha is back, and maybe, just maybe this new set of episodes might actually advance the plot!

I had the same thought about Haruhi. We all know how that turned out.

[BitVyper]

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_tkwccXVN9uI/SJwbW3CYyBI/AAAAAAAAA3s/nEYXxHuq_3Y/s400/DragonballGT16.jpg
IT'S CANON

That's some pretty ugly fanart. Where did you find it?

It's obviously not from Toriyama's design, anyway.

[Rokrin]

That's some pretty ugly fanart. Where did you find it?

It's obviously not from Toriyama's design, anyway.
I think this was a joke in which case I laughed profusely but just in case (because you never know)...

It's actually a scaled-down image from GT. Which I'm under the impression Toriyama had like 10% to do with anyway.

I won't derail the thread with a discussion of Dragonball canon though because that could get messy.

[Chocobo]

my face when i saw this thread:

http://archives.bulbagarden.net/w/upload/f/fa/164Noctowl.png


though, i knew it would happen eventually

[POS Industries]

IT'S CANON
Actually, it's not. Toriyama was largely uninvolved with it, didn't make a manga for it, and I'm given to understand the whole series is being struck from continuity in the production of the new DB MMO, which Toriyama is personally overseeing.

So yeah, GT didn't happen.

[Aerozord]

My opinion on this varies. The basic idea of Inuyasha I liked, and when I first watched it I enjoyed it. Then, it just got stupid. It was fine when the episodes went new demon has jewel shards, fight new demon, collect jewel shards. This was good as it was varied, often with completely different and interesting demons. Then it shifted to find Naraku, "kill" Naraku, Naraku escapes, go looking for him again. Which since its the same demon and the solution to finding him is almost always "break the barrier" it got old fast. His incarnations atleast mixed things up.

Now if the anime dragged from filler then this might be good. If it dragged because the manga dragged it wont be worth watching.

[synkr0nized]

This show is one that I enjoy overall but rarely for anything beyond clumps of episodes or scenes. The episodes are too numerous for the content, characters do too much of the "let's talk about what we just did and narrate aloud what is happening in case our audience is still a bunch of cells merging together to form a rudimentary life", and the "tension" between Inu Yasha and Kikyo was plain retarded (eg. from one episode: "I am dead but still alive come to Hell with me so we can be together forever but I want you dead waaah waah waah").

But I do like some of the characters and ideas behind them. If anyone was EVER able to get Takahashi to condense anything (hint: not happening) and make something like this into, say, a 52-episode series, it could be a lot of fun.


But I digress. I'll probably watch this, if it is true that it's being done.

[Rokrin]

Actually, it's not. Toriyama was largely uninvolved with it, didn't make a manga for it, and I'm given to understand the whole series is being struck from continuity in the production of the new DB MMO, which Toriyama is personally overseeing.

So yeah, GT didn't happen.


It's actually a scaled-down image from GT. Which I'm under the impression Toriyama had like 10% to do with anyway.


So yeah. I was kidding. :sweatdrop

[BitVyper]

If anyone was EVER able to get Takahashi to condense anything

To be fair; the entire series is based on a single short story she did. Like I said; she seems to do best in a short story format, or with series' like Ranma and Ursei Yatsura that are basically a bunch of short stories with the occasional short arc.

And yeah, there's a lot of ideas in Inuyasha that I liked. I also liked the character designs. It just.... failed to grasp the epic feel that it should have had. Also I found Kagome irritating as hell.

The anime had some fantastic music.

[Regulus Tera]

Actually, it's not. Toriyama was largely uninvolved with it, didn't make a manga for it, and I'm given to understand the whole series is being struck from continuity in the production of the new DB MMO, which Toriyama is personally overseeing.

So yeah, GT didn't happen.

I lack a source at the moment, but I'm sure Toriyama himself did the designs for the SSJ4s. They look very similar to his other contemporaneous work (mainly Tobal and Dragon Quest VI).

[PyrosNine]

I hope there are more catgirls and less dangling plot threads.

What makes Ranma so much better than Inuyasha is that you have to realize, besides the obvious emphasis on humor in Ranma and emphasis on serious fantasy drama of Inuyasha, is that both are meant to be episodic jaunts that either A: Follow the basic gist of the plot: Ranma/Inuyasha's lives suck because of Curse/Jewel Shards, B: Side adventures that introduce strange and exotic places or people that may occasionally have to do with main plot, or C: An adventure that could possibly resolve the main plot thread.

They are good when they start with a, then lead into a series of B's, with one or two C's that keep the audience on track with the adventure, and a BIG C to end the season/arc.

However, while Ranma does this, Inuyasha veered off track and focuses more on C, to the point it no longer feels episodic, but rather a long and ongoing journey with seemingly no end. We are able to deal with the fact that Ranma will never rid himself of his curse, or manage to overcome his complicated love decahedron, but we can't deal with Inuyasha's inability to defeat Naraku.

There are not enough things resolved by the end of each story Arc, and it's not because our heroes are the suck, but because apparently Naraku is both omniscient and has superhuman luck to add to his demonic powers of bullshit and his hardon for barriers of all kinds. If Naraku could be taken off his high horse, or at least be made a sympathetic or less of a static character the plot would be bearable, and the same goes for Kikyo as well. It could still be acceptable if that in every encounter, Naraku still manages to escape to work his wickedness elsewhere if he wasn't so untouchable or unflappable even in defeat. If more Naraku episodes ended with Naraku getting away sneakily instead of Naraku not actually being there in the first place, or flying slowly away in an impenetrable bubble, there'd be improvements. Hell, if he were to be killed and just "get better" like every other recurring main antagonist he'd be acceptable.

The only way for Inuyasha to save itself is that it's story arcs would be shrunk down to show only the major details, the actual "romance" was more than just calling out "Kagome!" and "Inuyasha" and "Sit!", all characters get their own character episode, and Naraku dying or defeated for a long period to pave the way for some new Demon Lord to get in Inuyasha's way.

At the end of every Ranma arc, he still love/hates Akane and is cursed to be a girl, but the villain or nuisance of the week has been dealt with, the status quo has been slightly altered in terms of scenery and cast, and all characters are kept in check by each other or by their own personality faults. The big arc villains are multi-layered and often seek the same thing Ranma wants, are more than a match for him but still are defeated by the power of love, ingenuity, or dumb anti-climactic luck, and we're okay with that!

[Bells]

well in the very least we can agree that the humor was spot on for the show (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBfgSXOrH-Y)

But watching the show it feels sometimes that Naraku is just a "wrtiers block". You know? considering how everything happened so far, any solution to actually end it will most likely feel rushed and forced

[POS Industries]

I lack a source at the moment, but I'm sure Toriyama himself did the designs for the SSJ4s. They look very similar to his other contemporaneous work (mainly Tobal and Dragon Quest VI).
He was hired on for some character design work and has stated that, were he to have introduced Super Saiyan 4 in his own work, it likely would have looked like that. However, he was completely uninvolved with the writing with the one notable exception of the Super 17 saga, and thus GT is really no more canon than any of the movies.

Like Broly.

[phil_]

any solution to actually end it will most likely feel rushed and forcedThe manga went on for a couple hundred more chapters after the point the anime stopped at so, like everything to do with Takahashi, being rushed is the last thing to worry about.

[Marc v1.0]

He was hired on for some character design work and has stated that, were he to have introduced Super Saiyan 4 in his own work, it likely would have looked like that. However, he was completely uninvolved with the writing with the one notable exception of the Super 17 saga, and thus GT is really no more canon than any of the movies.

Like Broly.

I guess the fact that he'd have to give them permission to use his property and ideas, thus giving it at least a partial nod of canon, is something we're just gonna ignore...

Unless he was dumb and gave someone else all the rights to it, in which cause yeah he had GT coming.