Inuyasha - Season 1
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Actor: Brittney Irvin, Hisao Egawa, Louise Vallance, Noriko Hidaka, Willow JohnsonBrand: Ventura Distribution
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Subtitled); English (Original Language); Japanese (Original Language)
Format: Animated, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 675 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: VIZ VIDEO
Product features:
- Kagome Higurashi, an average ninth grader, gets pulled into an ancient well by a demon, bringing her 500 years in the past to the feudal era. There, she meets Inuyasha, a half-demon who seeks the Shikon Jewel to make himself a full-fledged demon. With Inuyasha and new friends, Kagome's search for the Jewel of Four Souls begins.Running Time: 675 min. Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: ANIMATION
DVD Reviews of Inuyasha - Season 1
DVD Review: A Review of the Whole Series plus other Random Info Relating to the Manga and Merchandise
Summary: 4 Stars
Inuyasha is one of my favorite anime of all the anime I've seen.
First I'll start with the quality of the show:
Music plus openings and endings- 7/10 The music is great,but some opening songs are
annoying to me for some reason.I like 2 out of the six opening songs and sequences,
my personal favorites being "Change the World" from Season 1 and "Show Me the
Light" from Season 6. All of the openings have action packed scenes and make sure
all the characters important in that season get screentime. The endings are
beautiful as well but tend to have a more peaceful atomosphere than the opening
sequences. The ending themes are very emotional. My personal favorite ending is
"Every Heart" which I believe is from either Season 3 or 4.
Animation: 10/10 The animation is really beautiful. I love how they draw
backgrounds and they draw the characters very well. The characters look more
realistic to me in the anime than in the manga for some reason.
Characters- 9/10 The characters are all very well developed and complex. All have
flaws. None of the characters are completely innocent/pure and none, with maybe the
exception of the main villian, are completely or totally evil either. It's just
like real people where they can be a mix of good and evil,but some are mostly good
and some are mostly evil. The demon characters are also part animal, which is a
plus if you're an animal lover like I am. Also, characters are not defined as being
evil because of their species alone. Sometimes demons are good guys and humans are
the bad guys. The main character is a half-demon who has his flaws,but would never
intentionally hurt a human and one of his traveling companions is an innocent young
full fox-demon. The characters are really a plus if you like canines in particular.
Inuyasha,the main character, is half-dog, his older brother Sesshomaru is a full
dog-demon, there's Shippo the fox-demon, Koga the wolf-demon who makes an
occassional appearance every now and then, and Hachi, a raccoon dog(a type of asian
canine that somewhat resembles the north american raccoon) who is in a few of the
episodes. The demons look mostly human though,but share traits-like tails and ears
from their animal relatives. The main females, Kikyo, Kagome, and Sango, are all
women who can take care of themselves and are really strong and stubborn, unlike
alot of anime where the women are portrayed as being defenseless. All of the
characters have their own special technics and weapons. The human Sango is a
demon-slayer who fights with a gaint boomerang. Miroku is a perverted,but well-
meaning monk who fights with sutra seals and the Wind Tunnel, a black hole in his
hand that was given to him as part of a curse from the main villain,Naraku, a half-
demon made from a paralyzed human who sold his body and soul to demons in exchange
for mobility. Kikyo and Kagome are the other two humans. They are both preistesses
who Inuyasha is in love with,which causes alot of love triangle drama.
Story/Plot-8/10 The story is great, very well-written. The reason I docked two
points was because the entire Season 4 of the series seemed to me to be made up of
nothing but fillers which have nothing to do with the plot. Then again, I haven't
read much of the manga so I don't know if any of the 4th Season is actually from
the manga. I know the anime had to make some filler episodes based on scenes not in
the manga to stall time while they were waiting for new volumes of the manga that
they could adapt to be released. I took the points off also because the story of
the original anime ends uncomplete. However, in 2009, a sequel anime called
Inuyasha:The Final Act,which closed up the holes from the original series, was
released. Viz licensed it for an English dub,but they also have it for free to
watch with subtitles on their site www.vizanime.com. The reasons I gave the story 8
points though is because it successfully combines many different genres. There's
the ocassional humor, a great deal of drama,some romance every now and then, and
plenty of action/adventure and fantasy. There's also a rare philosophical moment
here and there,such as Kikyo's qoute, "Good has become evil. Evil has become good.
Pure has become impure. Impure has become pure. To live is to die. To die is to
live.",which really makes you think on it for a while to try and figure out what
she means.The story is heavily rooted in Chinese and Japanese legend, in
particular, in the legend of the Shikon No Tama, or Sacred Jewel of Four Souls. At
times the story can be really spiritual with priestesses Kikyo, Kagome, and monk
Miroku fighting off and purifying demons with sutra seals and the fact that the
jewel is occassinally used to symbolize the nature of both the human heart and soul
and how they both contain good and evil,but one takes over more. When evil takes
over,the jewel becomes black like an evil heart would,but when the good in the
jewel takes over, it's a pink color.
Summary:
Basically, the story is that Kikyo(a priestess who was killed and later raised from
the dead with black magic by an evil troll) and Inuyasha(half dog-demon who was in
love with her) were tricked into betraying each other by Naraku, Sango's(the demon
-slayer with a pet two-tailed cat demon who is a regular in the show) little brother is being kept as a mind-controlled slave of Naraku, and Miroku(the perverted,but well-meaning monk) had an awful curse put on him by Naraku. Along with Shippo, an orphan fox demon they pick up along the way, and Kagome, the priestess from the modern-day who accidentally shatters the sacred jewel into many pieces with her arrow, they go on a journey to not only get the shards of the jewel before Naraku does,but to also get revenge on
their one worse enemy, while trying to save the ones closest to them from Naraku's
evil control. Along the way, they run into many mythical beings from Japanese and
Chinese folklore, including the Snow Maiden, Shikigami, and various dieties and
other spirits plus other part-animal part-human demons.
Reccomendations:
If you like Inuyasha, try out Twelve Kingdoms as it is also heavily based on
Chinese mythology and includes sword-fighting action like Inuyasha does.
Kekkaishi is also a series more similiar to Inuyasha in which the main characters fight demons that you might like. And then there's the show Zenki. A priestess who lives at shrine has to unseal a demon and the two eventually grow to like each other. Zenki has the same voice-actor as Inuyasha. I haven't seen it yet,but the new anime from Viz Nura: Rise of the Yokai clan also features demons/yokai as major characters.
Other Things You Might Want to Know related to the anime, video games, movies,
merchandise,etc.:
1.Inuyasha and it's sequel Final Act are officially available to watch for free
with English subs at www.vizanime.com, which is also where you can find Kekkaishi
and Nura if you're interested in them as well.
2. Final Act is based on volumes 36-56 of the manga and cuts out alot of stuff
since it's only 26 episodes long,but the original anime follows the manga pretty
closely and lasts for 7 seasons and 167 episodes.
3. There are 4 movies in addition to the series which tell side-stories based on
more Japanese myths/folklore.
4. There are also 4 video games. The one for Nintendo DS(Secret of the Divine
Jewel) and the Secret of the Cursed Mask for Playstation 2 also contain sidestories
that make them kind of like watching another episode and/or movie of the series,
except you have to play it instead of just watching it and in the case of the DS
game, the characters don't talk except for through text bubbles. The PS2 one uses
the dubbing of the original English voice actors, making it even more like another
movie and/or episode.The other two, Inuyasha:Fuedal Combat(PS2) and Inuyasha: A
Fuedal Fairy Tale(PS1) are more like fighter games with less complicated plots.
There's also a free online game called Inuyasha:Demon Tournament that's pretty fun
to play,but again is a fighter game with no plot.
6. As of the time of this review, Volume 54 of the manga is the lastest one to be
realeased,having just been released this November. Volume 55 will be released in
December and volume 56 is scheduled to be released in January of this coming year.
7. In addition to the manga, there is a manga profiles book called Inuyasha Manga
Profiles which give more background on the characters and their techniques,etc.
8. There's quite a bit of merchandise for this series including: keychains,
plushies, action figures, collectors figurines and more.
9. It's easy to find pre-made cosplay items for the series if you're into
cosplaying.
10. As of the time of this review, Final Act's dub has not yet been released but it
has been confirmed that an English dub is in the making.
Description of Inuyasha - Season 1
Kagome Higurashi, an average ninth grader, gets pulled into an ancient well by a demon, bringing her 500 years in the past to the feudal era. There, she meets Inuyasha, a half-demon who seeks the Shikon Jewel to make himself a full-fledged demon. With Inuyasha and new friends, Kagome's search for the Jewel of Four Souls begins...Based on the manga by Rumiko Takahashi, the creator of Ranma 1/2 and Urusei Yatsura, the Inu-Yasha TV series (2000) blends elements of Japanese folklore and familiar anime devices into a deftly imaginative blend of humor and adventure, an extremely entertaining series that never falls into cliché. Beginning the first season's 27 episodes, Kagome Higurashi, a normal 15-year-old girl, falls down a dry well--and finds herself in the feudal past, 50 years after her ancestress Kikyo imprisoned the half-human/half-demon Inu-Yasha. As the reincarnation of Kikyo, Kagome possesses a magic jewel that greatly increases the power of demons. Kagome fetters Inu-Yasha with the help of her priestess-ancestor Kaede, and when the jewel is shattered Kagome and Inu-Yasha must ally to recapture the fragments.
The series really begins to hit its stride when Kagome and Inu-Yasha, while bickering, nevertheless prove an effective team against the demons they encounter in the Warring States netherworld. Two new characters create complications. Shippo, an orphan fox spirit, meets Kagome and Inu-Yasha in the Warring States period. A more conventional but potentially more dangerous addition is Hojo, a handsome upper classman at Kagome's school, who's concerned about her recent absences. His understated good manners contrast sharply with the prickly Inu-Yasha--just as Kagome is beginning to recognize his good points.
In the multi-part adventure that begins with "Kikyo's Stolen Ashes," the filmmakers presenting conflicting versions of the relationship between Kikyo and Inu-Yasha, and the intriguing plot twists typify Takahashi's sophisticated story-telling. The tone darkens as the back story emerges: 50 years earlier, Kikyo tended Onigumo, a badly burned thief. As his desire for the Sacred Jewel--and Kikyo--grew, Onigumo summoned a horde of demons, whom he allowed to consume his flesh and soul. The evil creatures fused to form the terrible Naraku. Recognizing his feelings for Kagome, Inu-Yasha tries to protect her from Naraku by sending her back to her own time and blocking the passage between the ages. Inu-Yasha, Kagome, Shippo, and Miroku face a bizarre array of monsters and villains, including a forest demon who vomits hordes of monstrous, three-eyed wolves.
As the tapestry grows richer, Kagome and Myoga begin to explore the origins and nature of the Sacred Jewel that radiates power yet brings misfortune to everyone who approaches it. The source of the jewel turns out to be the demon-slayers' village. Inu-Yasha, Kagome, and their friends learn how the Jewel was created long ago in a battle between hordes of monstrous demons and Midoriko, the greatest priestess of the age. But the Jewel is also a miniature battleground between good and evil: a metaphor for the world--and for Inu-Yasha's heart, as he vacillates between selfishness and kindness. (Rated 13 and older: violence, grotesque imagery, brief nudity) --Charles Solomon
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