Dakara Inu Yasha ga daisuki. And I know I have many rivals even among my own family but two words, who cares? I love love love him! I love his trying to be feigning indifference, easily irritable and charmingly sweet character. That only goes to show how great Rumiko Takahashi is at characterization. You’ve heard of Ranma 1/2 over and over again. That should tell you something already! Rumiko is fond of the greatest ironies all available in ONE character — and these all work! I haven’t even started on Kagome! I love Kagome! All the things I want to be done in anime heroine, she does! Whenever a hero runs off and fights an enemy, she doesn’t sit there and gasp accepting her fate as a “I’m-not-part-of-this-battle-so-I’ll-keep-out-of-this” cum less powerful sidekick. She actually does something! And defying the tradition of clumsy, ‘adorable’ character, Kagome is not only blessed with good looks, she’s very smart, perceptive and witty! Ahh… but not perfect. Didn’t I tell you about Rumiko’s fascination with ironies in characterization? The ironies and imperfections of those characters are just so great, let me tell you… Rumiko never fails to create GREAT CHEMISTRY with all her characters besides those!

Surely, Ranma 1/2 has great characters too but Rumiko put it all here — she put comedy, romance (and I mean romance, not the usual ‘will-they-or-won’t-they’ love concept in anime), action, magic all in one great universe of demons and priestesses. Okay, so I’m done… flaws of this anime? Well… that my Inu Yasha’s seiyuu is that of Ranma doesn’t bother me. I thought the opening song by Jpop bishounen but not so great in blending boy band V6 would bother me but later I found myself singing, “I want to change the worrrrllddddddd.”

So get this. Read the manga. Buy the videos and DVDs. Make a shrine to Inu Yasha and Kagome (and that guy Miroku too if you like). There are many reasons this anime is just great. Oh, and did I tell you I love Inu Yasha? And Kagome? I did?

Individual Rating: Art/Animation 8.5; Story 9; Characters 10; Sounds 8.5

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