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Summary: Excellent series!
Review: This is a fun series, especially to start on. The characters are well defined, and easy to like. And it IS possible to find this series in DVD. I have at this site. If you are a fan of this series, the anime is a must have.(Try looking in Z-shops)
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Summary: Takahashi's Best!
Review: This is certainly Takahashi Rumiko's magnum opus, pulp at times and still with a touch of but beyond the bounciness of Ranma and more memorable than Urusei Yatsura with its gothic horror tinges. It's a supernatural tale of a schoolgirl who travels back to feudal Japan to find her destiny entwined with a seemingly, crude, anti-social half-dog demon. This is the first volume of their adventures together looking to piece the Shikon no Tama together, and it introduces my favourite villainess in the whole series, Yura of the Hair. Inu Yasha gets better than this. Volume One is good, but subsequent volumes are great. The character dynamics are unparalleled in any other manga I've ever read. The love and insults-based attraction between Kagome and Inu Yasha is first sparked here, to be set ablaze much later on.
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Summary: Sweet!
Review: This is the best book on the face of the earth! In this book it tells you about the main plot of inuyasha. (where inuyasha is attacking a city looking for the jewel shards and the kikyo sticks inuyasha to a tree and kagome saves him after she falls down a well after her cat goes down there ) So if you like inuyasha you must buy this book!
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Summary: buy!!
Review: This is(was? hmmmmmmm) my first manga and i just want to say i hope the rest of them r just as good. The plot is old(everyone else said it, i might as well) but the characters are very carefully planned, funny, and unpredictable! It starts out, Kikyo, a girl in feudal Japan imprisons Inu-Yasha, a half demon, then dies, taking the Jewel of Four Souls (which Inu-Yasha wanted so badly..it makes demons stronger)with her to the grave. Years later in modern Japan, Kagome is taken into a well by a demon, then she meets the sleeping Inu-Yasha, wakes him up because she resembles Kikyo, and he slays the demon stalking her, but not before the Jewel of Four souls fall from her body in a cut... Then he attacks her. An old woman puts a...thing...around his neck so whenever Kagome says "sit" he falls to the ground. Soon many demons come from all around for the Jewel of Four Souls... can Kagome hold them all off with the tempermental Inu-Yasha?
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Summary: Takahashi does it again!
Review: This just might be the best I've read by the formidible and prolific (and gifted!) Ms. Takahashi. Human, funny, kinda scary and packed with Japanese mythology, she's at top form in this new series. Kagome lives in moden Japan, with a grandfather obsessed with tales legends and magic, which Kagome completely ignores -- until her 15th birthday, when the legends, magic and myths of Japan come to life to pull her out of her own time and into Japan's feudal past. There, she discovers that she is the reincarnation of a priestess, Kikyo, who was the town's only barrier of defense from the demons swarming the land -- and the bearer of the Jewel of Four Souls, an item of great magical power that all the demons of Japan wish to get. Especially Inu-Yasha, the half-demon, whom Kikyo put under a trap spell, and who's got a major axe to grid with that priestess, even if her spirit is now in Kagome's unaware and innocent form. Yeah, no matter how I summarize this, it's going to sound confusing. Takahashi plotlines are always complicated, and always a joy to read. I, myself, am going to have a *very* difficult time waiting for the next volume to come out! If you're a Takahashi fan, this is a must-have. If you've never read her stuff before, this might be the best way to start (though you can never go wrong with Ranma 1/2!). Those five stars above this text are spinning and sparkling ones, and this volume more than deserves them!
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Summary: Anime does not equal G rated
Review: To respond to the "beware of this book for kids" review, I must confess that there must have been a lack of research on her part because it is clearly stated just below the book on this site that it's young adult which is not fit for 7 year olds to begin with. Anime is known for it's nudity and violence and should not be confused with American cartoons. If one is looking for anime for kids of that age range then one needs to look no further then dragon ball z or pokemon. Inuyasha is a very well constructed anime series with a lot of plot depth and charactor development. It's not the author's fault that this woman purchased these books on the assumption that they'd be appropriate and please do not use her review as a prime example. It is certainly worth the effort to purchase this series. Perhaps her returning her books will only leave more for the 7 year olds to purchase. Let's hope they find Inuyasha as good as we do. Thank you!
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Summary: Beware of this book for kids
Review: Violent, gruesome, nudity. Should be removed from the shelves. My 7 year old son told me he read one of these books that a friend in his second grade class brought in. I purchased a few books in the series and we reviewed one for content. I was horrified to see that it talked about murder, a person saves a bucket of human livers and has to move to another town because he has run out of victims. There were pictures of nude girls on a few of the pages. Although it says it is for Teen on the back cover- Young kids are reading these books. My nephews, who are teens, think these books are for young kids. Most teens are not interested in reading them. Which shows that these books although labeled for teens have a young child audience. I am bringing the books I purchased last night, back to the store this morning.
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Summary: Possibly my favorite manga!
Review: While I have never been disappointed by a Rumiko Takahashi manga, this is certainly my favorite. Takahashi's fairy-tale style storytelling shines in this series. A modern-day Japanese schoolgirl accidentally travels to feudal Japan by way of a cursed well. Eventually, she ends up releasing a half-demon named Inu-Yasha, from a 50-year enchantment (whoops). While it is a typical pairing of unlikely partners, this series as a whole is far from typical. The tone of the comic flows seamlessly from humorous (I have laughed aloud in some spots), to action, to romantic, and sometimes to downright creepy. No one pulls off such mood switches like Takahashi. The characters are well developed to the point of being nearly believable (in an imaginary, fantasy sort of way). The artwork, chracters, and story are some of the most imaginative I've seen. If you enjoy a good fantasy manga, I highly recommend Inu-Yasha. It is a super-fun read. I also highly recommend seeing the anime series if you get the opportunity.
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Summary: Sing sing sing!!!
Review: While the plot is not exactly fresh (think Fushigi Yugi, Rayearth, etc.) this is still my absolute favorite series of all time, anime or regular books. If you're wondering about the title of my review, it's because this series has, on occasion, caused me to burst out singing!! No, i'm not a patient in a mental hospital, I just love these books! They're funny without being ridiculous, as Ranma 1/2 is(don't get me wrong, Ranma is great. IY is better.), and they have and element of Maison Ikkoku in them, but Inu Yasha shines above the rest. I really care about the characters. This series isn't just entertainment, there are some real, more serios themes under all the jokes. My only real complaint is that, (again, like Fushigi Yugi and Rayearth) the main character, Kagome, runs around in a her school uniform (with an incredibly short skirt) to fight demons!! I mean, come on!! Get real!!! She should at least wear jeans or something..... Anyhoo... I could talk all day about Inu Yasha and probably bore the heck outta you, and put you off the books forever.... so I'll shut up now! Wait! One word of advice!!! See if you can borrow them from the library instead of purchasing them, becuase just like all other anime books, these are EXPENSIVE! So, unless you as obsessed as me, go to your library!!Libraries rule!
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Summary: captivating!
Review: Wow! I have probably read this book a million times! It is way up there (perhaps at the very top itself) with my favorite mangas. Plus, it's by Rumiko Takahashi who is definitely a respected and well known manga author. It's filled (the whole series, not just this one) with interesting plot twists, gory battles, creepy demons, and a touch or two of romance and comedy.
And most of all, the characters are very easy to get to know and relate to. After you have finished the book (and make sure you have the second and third one two, and maybe the fourth lying around 'cause you'll wanna read them right away) the characters will still be in your mind.
Here's the beginning of the plot (it wont give away anything important): Kagome, a newly turned fifteen year old school girl lives in a home filled to the brim with legends. Beside her home, there is also an old well that comes with a legend: the legend of the bone eater demon who lived in the well, a horrible creature with six arms. When Kagome's grandfather, the biggest teller-of-legends you'll ever see gives her the Shikon jewel, the jewel of four souls, things change for Kagome. By legend, the Shikon jewel has incredible powers, power to make demon's strength horrific, which is why when Kagome's cat, Buyo gets into the well house, and Kagome has to follow him, she gets ripped away, literally, by the bone-eater itself, looking for the Shikon jewel. And after Kagome fights off the demon and climbs out of the well, she is no longer home. She has gone back in time to the fifeenth century where she finds Inu Yasha, a half-demon punished for his want of the Shikon jewel's powers. But when an accident rips the jewel away from them, shattering and scattering it across the land, they must go on a quest to find it, battleing horrible demons and meeting new characters to join their search. This is truly a magnificent book, absolutely (and I say this for every book in the series) worth the money!
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