Is this shit worth watching?
is life worth living?
Are you a fat woman who lusts for nippon because you hate your home country?
>>139567327Sadly no
>>139567277
Is the year 2002?
>>139567277
No. Skip it and watch Rinne instead.
Can someone explain why it's bad?
Yes, skip the filler.
>>139567488
Honestly, it went on too long and lost its steam, and by the time it was over I didn't give a damn about any character in it.
well I watched tsubasa, can't be a worse time waster than that.
It was the first anime I ever watched, so I'm biased. I think it's a great anime. Too much filler maybe, but still great.
>>139567277
Yes because Kagome is a good masturbation material
>>139567690
Pretty much this. I also remember the finale having absolutely no closure of any kind.
>>139568825
I think it was finished later, like 10 years later.
It's a pretty nice and raw fantasy-adventure that still has an old-school feel to it, as well as a Japanese schoolgirl, if you don't mind some Noragami-like drama
You should be able to find which episodes to skip pretty easily
Might be worth if if you skip all filler episodes.
Watch Inuyasha, skip the filler in that
Then watch Inuyasha: The final act for the ending.
>>139568864
Yeah I remember going back and finishing it after about 8 years. The ending was predictable, but good.
if you remove all the filler how many episodes do you have to watch?
>>139567277
I lost interest in it after Inuyasha got adamant barrage and still let Naraku get away, and I was a little kid, It usually took to make me lose interest in a big kid show.
>>139567277
>shit
>worth watching
You just answered your own question.
>>139568472
It's even worse than Tsubasa.
>>139567277
Skip the filler watch final act, feel dead inside. That's how it works.
>>139567277
It's very enjoyable but also very repetitive.
>>139567277
the first 20 episodes are good
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4j8W7uphhI0
https://www.youtube.co/watch?v=evp1LERTbzM
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ki5WFWha0XU
It's worth it for the music if anything.
>>139567277
endless loop where the only redemption is the ecchi/abuse between minor characters,or if you're a sadsac edgefag then the sasugay prototype for brosest
>>139567538
The filler was the highlight of the show anon, never thought i would ever say that about any show.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mne9NsPguU
hoping to annoy some nostalgiafags with this.
KAGOME
>>139567478
Go back and watch Ranma instead
>>139567277
skip to Band of 8 ark and then final act
Say what you want but if they made an Inu-Yasha Kai and condensed it down to 24 episodes it would be pretty good. The manga needs a Kai as well.
About a third of the ~200 episodes are filler, with about a fifth of those being decent or, if they're based on Sesshomoru's group, better. The Koga episodes suck and the Band of Seven is a worthless arc.
>>139571526
>Band of Seven arc
Don't recommend that garbage.
You fags will watch it for shota Inuyasha.
>>139567277
It looks good for a while, but it loses steam over time and then it just doesn't give a fuck about progressing anymore and just does this "Next week: Same song and dance".
"K-Kagomi!?"
"Inuyasha!?"
"K-Kikyo!?"
"What do I do?"
And then literally everyone is left disappointed
>>139571697
>not liking the best ark
sure it didn't add anything to the series but then again most of the time nothing did anyway, at least it was fun and entertaining for being a inu yasha episode
I'd give you a quick rundown on how this show works:
Mwahaha my barrier is unbreakable
I learned a technique to break it
Nooo not my barrier
But my other barrier is fine
And repeat this 4 times-ish
Thats about all ya got
>>139568864
Yeah. Final Act.
>tfw Kagura's death hit me hard
>tfwKikyo's death hit me harderhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kb2Q3Is0zRI
>>139572508
>Kikyo
there was no way she was gonna live threw the series
>>139567277
Don't use the word "Shit" around inuyasha. You may use "Cliche"
>>139570332
>>139572573
True. I think it was the combination of actually being surrounded by allies and dying in Inu-Yasha's arms, saying "yeah. I'm happy now", then the fucking "Dearest" instrumental kicking in that gave me that extra gutpunch.
It was top-notch shit back in the days when Toonami was the only way to get anime on your TV, but maybe that's the nostalgia talking.
That first OP is still one of my favorites.
>>139572969
>First OP
Pardon, first ED.
YTV
FRIDAY NIGHTS
MIDDLE SCHOOL
MASTURBATING TO KAGOME
I want to revisit this show
>>139573076
Marathon that shit. Your childhood awaits!
>>139567277
I remember the first series being solid through 40 episodes or so, beyond that it was really hit or miss with a ton of filler. The Final Act was a satisfying conclusion though.
>>139572462
Forgot something
>WIND TUNNEL
>OH FUCK BEES
>>139567277
Fucking no it is not
It is not worth watching at 2x, not even at 4x speed. It is a low budget episodic shoujo/shonen piece of shit that is mostly repetitive filler with the worst sort of power creep with character development that crawls as slowly as a quad amputee up a hill. And it is over 100 episodes of that. The girls are cute, I guess, but then again what anime girl isn't?
If you want to watch it because you never saw all of it when you were younger or out of some childhood nostalgia, it is quite possibly the worst anime that ever aired on Toonami for the longest period of time. I went it into it with a nostalgia boner that was castrated by the 80 episode mark.
Nice OPs and EDs though.
>>139573464
what shonen you suggest instead?
>>139567277
It depends. Watch for Kagome-fapping. The beginning is wonderful characters and japanese folklore combined. Excellent OST and I MEAN IT. Inuyasha has GOAT OST. However shit starts going downhill shortly after Naraku is revealed. It becomes utter shit later and ends terribly.
I've read more Inuyasha fanfic than the official manga just to put away all the sex tension. Go ahead, OP. It's a classic. Like Yu Yu Hakusho it starts great and goes to shit later. It is my favorite manga just because I was 12 when first reading it and watching the anime.
Watch Love Hina instead, Naru is a great character.
>>139573140
unfortunately I'm multiple months into a sailor moon marathonit is probably the greatest anime ever made though
>>139573596
I'd recommend any of Rumiko's stuff that is not Inuyasha.
Also I just said shoujo/shonen because it's definitely heavy on shitty romance but to my adolescent mind there wasn't much difference between Inuyasha and Yu Yu Hakasho.
>>139573076
I thought people Masturbated to Sango. She had the bigger tits and ass of the two.
>>139574007
But Sango's bare tits were never on screen (I think)
>>139574007
I remember not liking Sango.
Also there was that one episode where they were on a mountain and Kagome stood up while taking a bath when Inuyasha walked in, good stuff.
>>139574007
I masturbated to all of them. I remember paying close attention to each episode to see if I could spot Kagome's feet.
>>139571697
Literally the best thing to occur in Inuyasha. Opinion discarded. Fuck you, faggot. All the Kotsus were satisfying, even the frog one. Not to mention best boy.
>>139573625
We have the exact same opinion. Naraku's introduction was right around where everything fucks itself. It was intriguing and mysterious with an excellent atmosphere prior to that. The first clash Inuyasha has with Sesshoumaru was excellent. I rewatched a good deal of the show about 3 years ago so I can say it's not just nostalgia speaking.
>>139574432
Have you watched all of it?
I don't want to watch nearly all of the episodes just because of nostalgia, which arcs are actually worth it?
>>139567327
Of all anime, why is Inyasha so strongly associated with this exact demographic? Is is due to being the most fujyoshi appealing series with relatively high mainstream exposure?
>>139574566
Only the beginning is worth it, to be honest. I watched about 90 episodes, so I didn't get through all of it before I got distracted and stopped. I don't remember anything being good except maybe some of the development Sesshoumaru had with Rin, and the episodes where Inuyasha would go to modern Tokyo because those were fucking hilarious.
>>139574432
On some level, I kind of respect that she had a single "big bad" throughout the entire showand it turned out not to be Naraku.
>>139574645
Maybe I could shed some light on this. Inuyasha became popular around the beginning of the anime boom in the early 2000s... to many, it was the first "serious" anime they were exposed to, and that included proto-fujos and weebs. Inuyasha was a case of being in the right place at the right time. It had a dramatic teenage relationship that hinged on unpredictability and three-way romance, just as soap operas commonly do, and a diverse cast of pretty male characters to rope in female interest. Especially Sesshoumaru, bitches fucking LOVED him.
>>139574645
The main character of Inuyasha is a modern female high school student who has the titular character's balls on a vice. Kagome and Sango are the only to female characters who have their love interests whipped.
there's a change in directors after episode 44
https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E7%8A%AC%E5%A4%9C%E5%8F%89
After this it falls into filler hell and the tone in general changes significantly (the early episodes are atmospheric and tense)
>>139573665
You're correct on that. I've not seen anything that actually approaches SM in its totality. It feels weird watching it as a kid and being disappointed that I couldn't follow the plot or see if it really went anywhere while otherwise being subjected to random filler, only to come back as an adult and realize that it's somehow exactly as awesome as I'd always hoped it was, based on the limited glimpses of its great parts that I had at the time.
>>139574892
I remember the height of Inuyasha's popularity, it was crazy. Especially the Kagome vs. Kikyo arguments. And yeah Sesshomaru had a shitton of fangirls.
>>139575484
>>139574892
I made my first and only internet friend because I really liked her Inuyasha fanfiction. She was a landwhale but not annoying (to my 13 year old self at least).Bonus, she introduced me to her friend and I eventually got nudes from her. I wish I knew what I did with those, though I guess it would technically be CP for me now.
No, but I enjoyed it anyway. Pacing issues are severe but the story's enjoyable.
>>139575671
This is actually something interesting to consider... if you were given nudes of a girl when you were both underage, and the subject is no longer underage, and the picture was gifted to you willingly, would possession still be considered illegal? Would it only be ok to have at the time and you would lawfully need to discard of it later despite the circumstances?
>>139574645
When I was in high school/middle school, the only people I knew of that liked inuyasha were overweight girls obsessed with japan.
>>139568864
>>139568946
This is my first hearing about it. I decided to start watching it for some closure. Watching Inuyasha was such a big thing for me when I was a kid that the nostalgia of seeing all these characters again hits really hard.
>>139575807
It was technically never legal to have them in the first place, baka.
>>139574645
The boys were cute.
Many middle school husbando wars were waged over this show and also Yu Yu Hakusho.
>>139575484
I remember that too. "Kinky hoe" is a clay pot bitch, Kagome is slut in a skirt etc. There was also shit loads of Sesshomaru/Kagome fanfiction. Some of it was even more popular than Inuyasha/Kagome fanfiction.
>>139567277
yes, especially for the 14 year old girl
>>139575860
As if teenagers aren't going to swap pictures of being naked and have sex.
>>139575860
Technically, she can also be charged for producing child pornography even though the child in question is herself.
>>139575976
Well I'm sure some of them have been tried for cp (in America at least).
I don't make the laws, anon.
>>139567277
It's good until they start chasing after naraku for 127754093128349201 seasons. When it feels like it's dragging on, skip to the final season.
>>139567488
Naraku (main villian) dies and rejenerates so many times at the last second, that everyone (including him) forget why he's even after the fucking jewel near the end.
Seriously, in the last episode of the reboot anime, Kagome literally asks him what the fuck his problem is and what he'd even do with the jewel now, considering he was a kajillion demons rolled into one, the strongest one alive, and nigh-immortal.
And every single time someone gets a powerup, its deemed useless by the next chapter/episode.
>>139567277
NIJYUYO-O JIKAN KIMI WO SHINN-JI-TE-EEEERUUUUNE (chorus: oohh eh ooh)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RTKleCMHpTE
>>139573625
The OST really is great, probably my favorite aspect of the anime. It's hard to decide on one favorite track.
>>139575872
Guess it's not surprising when Sesshomaru is so popular and Kagome is the easiest character to self-insert as.
>>139575821
That's exactly my experience and exactly what I was saying in the first place. Inuyasha just seems unusually tied to overweight Japanophile girls who watched it in junior high school, there was no one other then them who openly liked it nor did they seem to be anywhere near as obsessed with anything else.
It just feels unusually exclusive for what it is, especially given the first run of episodes was somewhat half decent, and should have more universal appeal, while the rest is just more pointlessly repetitive.
>>139576823
Kagome was shipped with everyone, even with characters from different fandom like Naruto and Kingdom Hearts.
>>139577022
ugggggggg dont remind me of that shit
>>139577022
>>139577220Can any of you recommend me actual fanfic of this sort, just so that I can glimpse into the minds of the deranged fandom of the time? Do your worst.
>>139567277
I would definitely recommend it, especially if you like quest-adventure stories. Maybe there were a lot of filler episodes, but most of those were relaxing and a fun break from the main storyline.
>>139577341
https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7141799/1/A-Second-Chance
Here you go, anon. 50,000 + words of Kagome/Riku fanfiction. Enjoy.
>>139577792
>https://m.fanfiction.net/s/7141799/1/A-Second-Chance
This is great, every sentence seems to get worse and worse.
My favorite part is when Inuyasha gets a new power for a sword which critically injures Naraku, causing him to go into hiding until he's become immune.
Just read/watch UY, the only good thing Rumiko ever did.
>>139575892
>not Inuyasha
shit taste desu
>>139575892
Kagome was my first anime crush
>>139567277
Does /a/ prefer the dub or sub?
>>139567277
Not really worth it.
>>139567277
Take Inuyashas hand and listen to these and decide for yourself. I'm sure you'll make the right choice.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=kvN9mr3sxMM
>>139579299
Forgot pic.
>this never was canon
Kagome is shit. Inuyasha should have went for best girl. It's clear she wanted the D
Inuyasha and Seshomaru will make you a little bit gay for demon dick.
>>139578687
I prefer the dub.
>>139579355
There interactions together were cute, I kind of wished they had a fling.
>>139578687
I prefer the dub (especially Inuyasha, Kagura, and Kikyo's voices) but that's because I grew up watching the dub.
>>139579355
Rumiko Takahashi pretty much always pairs the male MC/female MC.
>>139579299
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>>139573665
>>139575150
Sailor Moon is one of the few shows that managed to do crazy amounts of filler right. The only "bad" parts about them was that they always had a crazy monster of the week fight tacked on near the end in traditional sentai/tokusatsu fashion.
Maybe if Inuyasha didn't constantly reset it's main plot and instead had ancient Japanese SoL adventures spreading everything out it would have been looked back upon better.
>>139579571
I love the episode about Midoriko's cave where Inuyasha carries Sango piggyback style because of her injuries.
>>139579731
Yea that's true but the Inuyasha filler is actually the best part of the show.
There's been quite a few Inuyasha threads on /a/ lately. Is it just nostalgia, or do people *want* to like it?
If it's the latter, I can sort of get it. It's got some great concepts, but the execution was terrible. It's a tragedy what a waste of potential this was.
>>139579731
>The only "bad" parts about them was that they always had a crazy monster of the week fight tacked on near the end in traditional sentai/tokusatsu fashion.
You have no idea how much I begged in hope that the show would somehow get over that and break out of the MotW format at some point. It's just so ridiculously unfitting for what it is and only ever worked in SuperS. But to start off like that and then turn into something else would have been epic as all hell.
>>139571162
I was way more interested in what kind of mischief Kagome's grandpa and brother were getting into than anything else. Even Kagome going back to school and hanging out at mcdonalds was more interesting that another heaping dose of poison insects.
Imagine how excited I was when I actually got into anime and found out that they make entire shows that are just Inuyasha filler episodes.
>>139574645
Its literally dragonball Z for girls.
>>139580400
>or do people *want* to like it?
It's the later for me. Like, I totally get how people would have nostalgia for it, but I never watched it until recently because I saw it as a series for landwhales. It has a rare few qualities that stand out as being legitimately exceptional, things like the EDs and conceptual direction, but otherwise is completely pointless.
>>139580400
Yeah, Inuyasha had a great setting and atmosphere, but the plot sucked for the most part. And it dragged on far too much. Still it's hard not to have nostalgia for something I used to like a lot as a young teen.
Would you a inu yasha soul game?
>>139568472
The OST of Tsubasa was fantastic though. And the OVA's were really good.
>>139575892
Kagome wearing Bloomers was the best.
Watch season 1 and then drop it.
Read up to book 10-12 and then drop it.
Inuyasha started out as a horror manga with cute tsudere leads and then turned into a big mess with every one and thing coming back to life.
I never actually finished this series as a kid. should I go back and finish it? the only thing I really want answered iswhy in the shit did sesshomaru protect that little kid constantly? was that ever elaborated on?
>>139585641
Not sure. I figure so he could begrudgingly become like his father and feel compassion for humans.His mom is hot, though.
>>139575484
I got into the show a little late (2009-2010). I was 12-13 back then, and Kikyo vs. Kagome arguments ran rampant to that day. Originally I was on Kagome's side, but ever since rewatching it a year ago, I like both girls. Especially since Kagome would selflessly help Kikyo even though she thought of her as competition.
>>139567277
The last time I watched it was with a friend. He had never seen the show before and I tried to skip most of the filler episodes as we went.
I wouldn't consider him a huge anime fan but he really enjoyed it so I'd say give it a go.
The animation is good, if nothing else.
It was actually entertaining for the first 30 or so episodes. Then it started repeating the same shit every fucking episode till the end
Fun fact there are no good dojins of sango and her brother fucking.
>in b4 that one where the old guys are forcing them to have sex.
That one is not that good.
>>139567277
Watch it until he gets the red sword, maybe the 7 mercenary arc as well if you like it then drop it.
>>139585641
Yeah, he wanted to protect her because a small portion of him cared for her. Rin constantly brought him food when he was injured, even though he tried to scare her away. When he found her dead, he was able to save her with his sword only because he had a slightest bit of sadness over her.
After Rin started following, it eventually led Sesshomoru to reform into the person his father meant him to be: someone who could care for at least a few people (mainly just Jakken, Rin, and Kagura, but that was good enough.)
