is InuYasha in the same tier of 'classic anime' as Dragon Ball and Naruto, or is its legacy different?
>>288312145Foid anime
90% filler anime
>>288312145There are people who would say that dragon ball and Naruto are not in the same tier, but if you consider them to be in the same tier, then Inuyasha would also certainly fit there. I would still say it makes you a faggot, but I'll allow it.
>>288312145It's close, but different. At least so far as it was a series that appealed more to girls. There are more specific differences in its legacy though.
>>288312145No because I actually liked Inuyasha
>>288312217it's appealable to both
>>288312145It had shoujo elements, so it didn't gain as much traction with the lowest common denominator (i.e. shounen) fans. Otherwise, they're of comparable quality.
Inuyasha is actually the worst of the 3. It's a 558 chapter manga that could have ended in 120 chapters. It's the equivalent of Goku and some random villain having 6 Dragonballs(Shikon Jewels) in chapter 50, but spending the rest of the manga getting the last ball. Heck, at least DBZ changes shit up by giving Goku a kid. Inuyasha doesn't do any of that. Chapter 100 is the same as chapter 350.
>>288312145it's more dragon ball than naruto. nothing really happens in inuyasha for 100 episodes
It’s pretty solid. Naraku utilizing his bees a million times was horrendous, though. There were a lot of good character dynamics.
>>288312145Any category that includes both naruto and dragon ball should probably also include inuyasha. But what categorization includes both naruto and dragon ball?
>>288314408That's poppycock. It aired in a late night timeslot in the US whereas Dragonball was a saturday morning cartoon and Dragonball Z & Naruto were afterschool primetime. That's the only reason it doesn't have the same "legacy" most of the people who grew up with these shows were in bed when Inuyasha was on.
>>288312145Sailo Moon was bigger and more influential than Inuyasha was, and is more deserving of 'normalfag introductory anime'. though honestly I'd put Gundam or Space Battleship Yamato above that.
>>288312145I could consider Dragonball a classic shounen. I would not consider Naruto a classic shonen, I don't even consider it to be very good. And I wouldn't consider Inuyasha a classic shonen either, it's almost equal parts shonen and shojo. I would say Inuyasha would be the more out there alternative pick. For every handful of DB fans or narutards you'd maybe find one Inuyasha fan when it used to air on TV.
>>288312145Not sure why everyone here is grading it on whether or not it qualifies as a classic shounin when the question is whether or not it qualifies as a classic in general.Personally I would rate it right alongside Sailor Moon as a anime classic that should at least be experienced once. It’s certainly not without its flaws, but it’s still my favorite regardless of that fact.Also Inuyasha did the Naruto Run before Naruto was a thing. So, take that as you will.
>>288312145It's a Rumiko show that had lasting western popularity, it's a classic.
>>288312145Lmao never, Rumiko destroyed her own work and Inuyasha is joke tier because of that shitty ending
>>288316294>Shitty endingOkay buddy. Bet you think Black Zetsu and Kaguya were peak writing then.
>>288316294>>288316315You think inuyasha wasn't shit before the ending?
>>288316315Are you stupid? Inuyasha shit end has nothing to do with naruto.
>>288316294But the ending was good. The problem was that 80% of the chapters were pointless.
how much of the anime is filler?
>>288316578There are a few filler eps here and there and then a filler arc somewhere in the middle.
>>288316578Let's put it like this... if you want to avoid filler, you'd do better just reading a plot summary instead of watching.
>>288316578Ignore the faggots trying to convince you Inuyasha’s filler problem is as bad as Naruto, Bleach, or One piece. It has maybe a filler episode every now and then and two filler arcs that don’t last more than five episodes each.
this was published in a shonen magazine. it's target demographic was boys. just because the romance was better written than most doesn't make it a shoujo.
>>288316747No one is claiming it doesn’t count as a shounen. OP’s question just isn’t judging it based on that fact.
>>288316747>it's target demographic was boysNo it wasn't. Maybe back then it was a harder concept to swallow, but nowadays you should already be used to manga for girls published in shounen magazines.
>>288316663DependsAre you talking filler in terms of "we made up a random inconsequential mini story because we needed an episode but are getting dangerously close to running out of manga to adapt" or filler in terms of "I made up a random mini story because I needed to publish a chapter but I am getting dangerously close to running into the end of the story of this manga"
>>288316747>Better writtenIt was definitely... written.
>>288317260That bar is already too high to clear for most shounen
>>288317465Sometimes, I kinda wish inuyasha hadn't cleared that particular bar
>>288312145I'd rather rewatch Inuyasha than Naruto. Naruto had a lot of impact when it came out, but today everyone knows the best parts of it came from Kishimoto taking notes from Togashi. The question should be is Inuyasha in the same tier as DB and HxH, which is no, but it's as good or better than Naruto.
I always fucking hated this show as a kid. It was the one anime Adult Swim constantly pushed. I hated Kagome. I hated the relationship between Inuyasha and her. >>288317821I can't fathom liking Inuyasha more than Naruto. Naruto isn't great, but it has some distinctly memorable moments. Everything about Inuyasha feels like flavorless oatmeal. They go around, fight a monster of the week, and Inuyasha and Kagome bicker. Also, sometimes, Inuyasha's brother is there and does nothing.
>>288317863girls latched onto it because it had a lot of romantic melodrama, which they otherwise never got to indulge in because actual shojo never gets dubbed or aired on TV in the west. the tiny handful that did (Sailor Moon, CCS) were censored to hell and had much of that romance cut out.
>>288317239Filler as in “content not in the manga”What you’re describing is Padding, which is something entirely different.>>288317863I can’t fathom liking Naruto more than Inuyasha. Inuyasha’s only real problem is a pacing issue. Naruto not only has that but actively disintegrates its own narrative halfway through the story with shitty ass retcons and has one of the worst plot twist villains in anime and manga history.
>>288317895I'm not defending Naruto, but it has... things? The wave arc. Chunin exam. Blah fucking blah. I can't remember what Inuyasha had, other than it bored me to fucking tears. But it was the 2000s, and anime on TV, so I watched it. I remember Inuyasha had the Band of Seven arc? I don't rememer it being good. But I remember it being an arc. Some fuckers going around in a caravan, and then eventually they get bodied, and status returns to quo.
>>288312145Inuyasha is closer to Ranma, Sailor Moon, and Cardcaptors than it is Dragon Ball or Naruto. Classic, but its audience was very different in the end.
>>288312145InuYasha is absolutely as much of a classic, but nowhere near as impactful and revolutionary.
>>288317933Ranma was a huge deal in the Latin world, and Sailor Moon was as big as DBZ in the late 90s and the only reason it doesn't have the same cultural penetration now is because the creator basically stonewalls all attempts at adaptions, and explicitly forbade video games from being made for years. Toei went so far as to create the PreCure franchise just to have something to fill the marketplace gap left by Takeuchi refusing to let them do Sailor Moon spinoffs and continuations.
>>288317863>I can't fathom liking Inuyasha more than Naruto. Naruto isn't great, but it has some distinctly memorable moments. Everything about Inuyasha feels like flavorless oatmeal. They go around, fight a monster of the week, and Inuyasha and Kagome bicker. Also, sometimes, Inuyasha's brother is there and does nothing.Inuyasha has a far more endearing cast. Naruto is just edgy spicshit.
>>288317912The fact that your only memorable exposure to Inuyasha is the single longest running arc in the series tells me a lot about your stance on the show.
>>288318115I vehemently disliked Inuyasha and Kagome's relationship. It dominated a large part of the series, and was a main draw for most of the readers. There are plenty of annoying aspects of Naruto, but good fucking god do I hate Takahashi's tsundere romance. She pushed that fucking shit for 20 YEARS. Two decades. Between two series. Ranma and Akane are the exact same shit. Legitimately has to be her fetish. >>288318131I guess? Everything else blended together.
>>288312145Inuyasha's legacy is being the anime punching bag before Naruto
Show was okay, felt it was kinda formulaic in retrospect. Absolutely adore the second ED thougn, a nostalgic one of my adolescence.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qIoDWTF0qSo
>>288312145Inuyasha is underrated. There is a lot of pointless filler and the pacing is atrocious, but the characters are better than in most other popular TV anime that reached the west back then. The background music was S tier as well. And despite being popular with girls, some of the character designs were hot too. If it came out today, everyone would praise it as "one of the good" isekai.
>>288317863They made Kagome too much a bitch in anime, especially when dealing with relation between Inuyasha and kikyoIt's pretty normal to get the hatred towards her if you never read the manga
Inuyasha is good, it's a bit of a slow burn though which is something people don't like nowadays.
>>288318316I could have fixed her
>>288318115go back to gaia
>>288312145dragonball for foids
>>288314975This. You could only really catch Inuyasha if you were awake at some ungodly hours of the night.
>>288314975>>288318427"Ungodly" was more like 11PM on a Saturday when it was airing and premiering in the west. Seven year olds weren't watching, but 13 year olds? Absolutely.
>>288318476it was on during the weekdays, too. I remember staying up late every night in Jr High to watch it clandestinely because I was supposed to be asleep at 10. then the west coast broadcast at 1am, and the second airing (AS used to loop their bloc around midnight) at 2, and the west coast second airing at 6.
>>288318138>I vehemently disliked Inuyasha and Kagome's relationship. It dominated a large part of the series, and was a main draw for most of the readers. There are plenty of annoying aspects of Naruto, but good fucking god do I hate Takahashi's tsundere romance. She pushed that fucking shit for 20 YEARS. Two decades. Between two series. Ranma and Akane are the exact same shit. Legitimately has to be her fetish.Naruto was literally the same shit but with Naruto and Sasuke.
>>288312145It's an anime for old fujos. The hard truth is its audience overlaps more with Ouran Host Club than Dragonball or Naruto. It occasionally grabbed a young battleshonen fag who was watching for the action, but its legacy is being the pet show of overweight 2000s convention going cosplayers.
>>288314319True, it does some interesting stuff for a shonen and has pretty unique plotbeats but it does lack a certain sense of kai aura nen progression that other famous battle shonen have. You also can't separate this series into arcs like other big shonen and its more like FMA where the whole series is mostly just one big arc
>>288316294this. inuyasha could have been special and with a legacy but now it's just trash remembered as a missed opportunity.
>>288318839Is it true Rin raped Sesshomaru?
>>288312145It's responsible for spreading the fujo menace to the west.
>>288319521I thought that was Death note that did that
>>288319705I remember a girl brought gravitation manga to school BEFORE Death Note came out. so no. Finally, a good thread. Whenever I used to make inuyasha topics, it used to be insecure rumiko fags telling me her stuff was good.
>>288319297Don’t worry she waited until he was old enough
>>288318757>The hard truth is its audience overlaps more with Ouran Host Club than Dragonball or Naruto.No the hard truth is Inuyasha mogs on Yusuke but nobody is ready for that conversation.
>>288312145Literally listening to a dipshit complain about a show where a white haired protagonist goes on an adventure and has a few tiny little episodic adventures that are not super fkn plot relevant and it absolutely filters them for some reason over the 38 episodes of universally charming high budget, great music, etc. etc. etc.bUt It Is DiFfErEnT fOr ThEm WhEn InUyAsHa DoEs ItOver 167+26 episodes of absolute god damn mediocrity as 2 characters scream each others names at each other over fkn flute music!Rumiko is quantity over quality with all her shit.
>>288320346Who the fuck is saying Frieren is bad? Sounds like they just have shit taste anon. Just like any Tiktokbaby who complains about a show under 200 episodes being too long.
>>288312217Most of what I remember of it is that one girl at my school was obsessed
>is InuYasha in the same tier Dragon Ball and NarutoNot in my locale given that it never aired on TV, though I suppose neither did Naruto and that has gotten some mainstream appeal via videogames. And with it being the most popular anime in the west for most of its run and all.>Inuyasha is repetitive and drawn outThat really isn't all that much of a problem when it's a showcase for classical Japanese yokai and other mythical creatures and Rukiko Takahashi's character designs are genuinly very good. I think that if the character writing wasn't what it was, people wouldn't complain as much about Kikiyou and Naraku being shoehorned into the narrative all the time because they have some of the best character designs in the series.
>>288318839You absolutely can separate both Inuyasha and FMA into arcs.
>>288320346Inuyasha has better music than Frieren tho
>>288312145Naruto is not even comparable to the other two. Dragon Ball is a huge influence on most Shounen. Inuyasha influenced Bleach, Devil May Cry and other japanese media.What manga was even influenced by Naruto?
>>288320733Demon Slayer
>>288320875Sorry but that's also Bleach, try again.
>>288312145Inuyasha is one of those shows where the ending music was probably the most memorable aspect of it, especially if you grew up on the Adult Swim airing. Probably barely even remember any of it's villains besides Naraku and the Band of Seven.
PREPÁRENSE PORQUE EL PROGRAMA DEL GRAN INUYASHA VA A COMENZAR
>>288320523band of 7 and uhhhhhhh, the shikon jewel arc
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>>288312145More classic than Naruto will ever be
>>288323195The based department just wants midoriya to hear them gangfucking his fat mother
inuyasha was the better showthe english voice acting destroyed dragonball too
>>288323045It sounds retarded when you try to separate those series into arcs since they're more like one continuous arc with lots of segments and not exactly feature length arcs. No namek, no kyoto arc, no chunina exams, no soul society, no yorkshin, etc
>>288312145>Looks inside>It's shit>Series made by a womanChecks out
>DeviantArt-tier next-gen kid of the main characters>easily clears as best girlFucking HOW?
>>288320911Cope. Also My Hero Academia
>>288323442Sell me that sequel.
>>288312145Inuyasha is more of a gay shipping gateway animeI remember back in high school a lot of girls discussing which of the males in inuyasha were fucking each other
>>288323749there are literally no good malexmale ships in inuyasha. i don't believe you.
>>288323857he's not jokingthe primary audience for Inuyasha were always fujos Hell look at the fics, it's literally over 90% yaoi
>>288323749>>288323905Why are american girls like this? In my country girls used to imagine Sesshomaru fucking them. Most of them self-inserted as Rin. Others imagined Kagome cheating on Inuyasha with Sesshomaru.
>>288324037>girls used to imagine Sesshomaru fucking them. Most of them self-inserted as Rin. Others imagined Kagome cheating on Inuyasha with Sesshomaru.and that's the last 10%
>>288324075ntr
>>288324037As an american I knew four girls that liked the show, one wanted to be Kagome fucking Inuyasha, one tried to claim her desire to be Rin was not a sexual thing, the other two were a lesbian that wanted Kikyo, and a bisexual girl that wanted Sango and thought all of the men were trash. I knew there was another girl in their friend group that was absolutely enamored by the idea of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru fucking though, but I don't think I ever spoke to her.
>>288324252>one tried to claim her desire to be Rin was not a sexual thingMaybe she just wanted a father. Not everything is a fetish.
>>288324503>Not everything is a fetish.Anon....
>>288318839>You also can't separate this series into arcs like other big shonen and its more like FMA where the whole series is mostly just one big arcGood, that's how stories should be written.
>>288324503Her relationship with her father was fine, but her family were rather puritanical. So she could never admit to liking anything sexual.
>>288324608Nah
>>288323717Impossible. It's shit.
>>288320346>mediocrityBut that's exactly what Frieren is and no amount of budget can mask it.
>>288318316Every "isekai" from back then would be considered one of the good ones compared to modern isekai
>>288325802I'm out of touch. How and when the term "Isekai" became a thing? No one called anime like Inuyasha or Zero no Tsukaima isekai. Not even SAO was called Isekai back then. It was just fantasy or scifi or both. The idea that Alice in Wonderland, The Wizard of Oz and even The Lord of Rings would be called Isekai if they came out today disgust me.
