Inuyasha has a really strong S1.
>>287597985If I were Kagome, I'd go back to the feudal era and invest in bitcoin
>>287598143Based retard??
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>>287597985Any scene like this in Mao?
>>287597985Inuyasha is peak until Shippo and Miroku show upI kind of like the Kikyo drama but it should have been a one off thing and then be resolved. Imagery like when she almost drags Inuyasha into the afterlife is fantastic but after the first couple of impactful scenes they get it all becomes routine and then she's a wandering side character in the rotating cast of soap opera stars who all show up at the same castle in the forest in a dramatic order before leaving in a dramatic order to go find another castle in a forest at which to meet.
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It could have been better.
>>287599474The issue with the whole series is that they are repeating the same story beats over and over again. When the story deviates from these beats is when it feels refreshing for a bit, but the whole second half of the story after the bandit mountain is just something you've already seen multiple times in the same story
>>287601226That's the same thing for most of Rumiko's works. But people will tell you she's this goat mangaka. But yeah. All the elements needed to end the inuyasha manga were there about 100 something chapters in. It lasted to 580 because she is not a good writer. You can easily compare the Shikon Jewel to the Dragonballs. Except Toriyama can write some semblance of a story. That's why he changed the status quo by giving Goku a kid. Inuyasha? Same shitty love triangle between her, Inuyasha and Kikyo for 400 chapters. Absolutely nothing changed between that time period. Inuyasha could have ended as soon as the band of seven arc.
>>287598802Bath scenes? Sure, I think there should be around three in this season. They're not as revealing as they were back in Inuyasha, though.
>>287601644>But people will tell you she's this goat mangakaIn a way she is. In her ability to generate revenue for herself and her magazine. Then again there are other successful works that actually do the draget out 500 chapters in 100 like Kimetsu. Bet the Jump editors and board were trying as hard as the could to get her to drag it out.
>>287601680But I'm talking about her actual storytelling. We might as well say Naruto is good at this point based off that logic. Inuyasha's writing flaws(and all of her manga basically) are so blatantly noticeable I simply cannot take anyone who thinks she writes good stories seriously. I dunno. Maybe her characters look cute. But the actual writing? Garbage. And wasn't Inuyasha popular among the gaiafaggots of the 2000s?
>>287601699>And wasn't Inuyasha popular among the gaiafaggots of the 2000s?pretty sure, yeah
>>287601699>But the actual writing? Garbage.Fuckin' take that back.
>>287601793Bro it's complete garbage in my opinion too
>>287601808i'm not your bro
>>287601808How? It develops the characters perfectly. They all have arcs.I will grant you this one huge gripe I have with it though. When Inuyasha loses the Tetsaiga and goes full demon form. That amounts to nothing outside that episode. He had full demon power and it's just glossed over when he gets his sword back. The fuck was that about?
>>287601830Dude. It was 550 chapters. the """development""" is essentially molasses. Also. Notice they completely wrote the Koga dude out of the story because Rumiko had NO IDEA what to do with him?
>>287601874Well I wouldn't say "out" of the story, but he did just kinda fade away...
>>287601673Does her curse have any kinky side effects, like she goes into heat like a cat?
>>287601902No. She wrote him out because she literally had no idea what to do with him despite him being a staple of the story for 300 shitty chapters. Inuyasha fans...
>>287601644> But people will tell you she's this goat mangakaShe is
>>287601673What about the manga?
>>287601915Yeah, I said he just kinda faded out. The mangaka still wrote him out. He didn't just disappear. I feel like we're agreeing here.
>>287601699>>287601808What do you think is a good example of storytelling and is it Solo Leveling
>>287601673The hair reminds me of Asa.
>>287601910Well it does make her body feel hot, but mostly she just grows fangs and her eyes go red. However, it does directly lead to a lot of handholding.>>287601927They're not very revealing in the manga either.
I noticed with most shows either S1 is grand because they have a bunch if source material to go off on, or S1 is crape because the show has no source material but they start world building better.
>>287597985The directing was great. Rumiko-sensei set up the series so she could end it at any time, but stretched the serialization out when it became stupidly successful. The anime production clearly struggled to keep a developing, never-ending, meandering story coherent.
>>287601699There was a storytime of Rumiko-sensei's works including several one-shots and short series she was doing before, during, and after Inuyasha as well as the full series recently. First she's an absolute work horse. Second her short stories are strong. I'll agree I don't think long running plotlines are her strong point, and Inuyasha was her first attempt at that.
>>287601181The manga had such a typical shoujo look.
>>287600305timotei
>>287601937Apparently, it's Dragon Ball
>>287597985Is the series worth watching now?
>>287604959If you think you'll like it, you probably will. It's pretty good.
>>287599474that's all of Rumiko's works. really great first 2-3 volumes, followed by years of burning wheels with pointless side plots and gag characters until the series ends with nothing meaningfully resolved. the only manga she's done that had a decent ending were Inuyasha and Maison Ikkoku.
>>287604985I think I will give it a watch.
>>287597985Inuyasha was crap
Seg with Kikyo
>>287601699Naruto is actually better than Rumiko's serious works because shit's happening. There's events taking place and people are doing things. There's a tangible story that actually moves along, that isn't just constituted of endless wheel spinning.Sure, more than a bit of the characterization and actual plot is mediocre at best, but the sheer presence of it puts it ahead of Inuyasha, for example.
post more Kagomes
>>287604997Inuyasha's ending was something that could have happened during the first 100 chapters or so and the story would have still been completely same. It's a pretty generic ending, but typically nips can't write good endings to save their lives so it's serviceable. All that pointless stuff between it really isn't
>>287606034Anything that isn't endless status quo is better than what Rumiko writes. Naruto couldn't have ended in 100-200 chapters. It couldn't have ended in 300 hundred chapters. Now, the final war was too long, but Kishimoto at least built shit up that could last that long. Characters die fairly early on in Naruto, or at the halfway point. That is the big difference. Nobody that matters in Inuyasha dies until well over half way in the manga, and I don't even think Kagura was really any important.
>>287606250my point was the ending itself was decent, not that the leadup was.
I had the most cringe-ass idea for an Inuyasha episode back when I was a wee lad.>an airplane full of people gets pulled into the feudal era>Kagome and the gang have to figure out how to send them back>but then Naraku shows up and holds them all hostage
>>287606313Who even died in Inuyasha? Kikiyo died a few times before finally dying for good, then a bunch of Naraku clones died before Naraku finally kicked the bucket. I don't think anyone else that wasn't a villain died unless I remember wrong
>>287606365If you think Kagura mattered, I don't think so, only Kikyo. And that's after 460 chapters of nonsense.
>>287606396I did like Kagura as a character, but her character didn't really go anywhere after a certain point. She had a crush on Seshomaru and was butthurt at Naraku for taking her freedom away. But then started the part with the baby and Hakudosti that made me tune out completely. At least her final moments were written pretty well
>>287606361Not inuyasha enough.Let me punch it up for you:>yada yada sit, something something shards, yada yada windtunnel, something something BEES
>>287606496>Miroku tries to suck the plane out of the sky, but right then the bees appear to stop him
>>287604959Depends. How old are you?
>>287597985Kagome owes me sex. Stupid mutt can fuck off.
>>287606642you lost, Koga
