In late 2020, suddenly out of the blue that we had a sequel to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru had daughters it seems. My opinion towards this sequel is mixed, more to the negative side.
The show had great promise for a while at first. It set up our new trio of protagonists. Sesshoumaru had two daughters who were separated at a young age. The white-hair Towa who got stuck in present era and grew up there and the dark-hair Setsuna, who was left behind the Feudal era but had her memories and her dreams remove due to a magical butterfly. Moroha is Inuyasha and Kagome's daughter and she's in some serious debt and takes up demon slaying to clear it.
Half of the 1st episode was a flashback of our heroes from the previous show and takes place a few months after the ending and they slay a tree root demon. The demon sort of came back from the dead years later and try to attack our new set of heroes but dies quickly. I found out months later the 1st episode was an adaption of a bonus manga chapter that was released years after the manga finished. I doubt most people knew about the bonus chapter since Inuyasha was long over and there is barely a reason to come back to check for new content. Plus it didn't hit front page news all over the webs. There are people who may of saw The Final Act when Adult Swim finally got around to airing the series despite it's been more than half a decade since it's premiered both subbed and dubbed and already on DVDs and streaming but I doubt people who were watching on Adult Swim were aware of the obscured manga chapter.
Well at first it showed promise. There are questions of how everyone got separated and where is the entire cast of the previous show. I know it ain't going to be answered in one or two episodes.
After episode 4 where everything is set up and our trio heads out to save the day.
Well we ended up getting filler after filler, technically they are canon to the anime series. It's really a bunch of demon of the week stories here and there. Inuyasha was guilty of fillers too and I don't mean the non-canon anime-only ones, I mean canon fillers. The problem is this is a 26 episode season, meaning they should have a beginning, middle, and end set up from the get go, this is not a 100+ series that's adapting from a manga that still going and slowing the pacing just for the sake of not caching up with the manga.
There's still been no word of what happen to Inuyasha and his friends. I know this is a new generation of heroes and they need to have a chance to shine without our previous set of heroes overshadowing them but in recent years, I been seeing in fiction this is done all wrong and it felt like they just want to do it in the most disrespecting manner possible, because that's exactly I felt with this sequel series. Moroha has missing parnets and she doesn't seem to care less what happen to them.(Or till Season 2 retcon her feelings about this)
Star Wars' new Sequel trilogy felt like that where they killed off the main trio and changed their personalities for cheap drama and shove in new characters we barely got to know. Terminator: Dark Fate killed off John Conner and gave us some knockoff we don't care for as they fight a knockoff of Skynet. You can argue which post-T2 film is the worse but for me, it's Dark Fate
Cobra Kai, the sequel to the Karate Kid trilogy is one of the few examples of the old generation passing the torch to the new generation actually works. It gives both the new and old generations a chance to shine, gives everyone character growth, and it doesn't come off as disrespectful to the old film characters for the sake of cheap drama.
For 15 episodes, it's nothing been filler after filler after filler. Our patience been wearing thin. The season is more than a half over and nothing has happen. We would forgive this if this was non-canon fillers because everyone skips them and they don't count. The early part of Inuyasha long before we learn about Naraku or the entire gang got together was more forgivable. You can tell our two heroes were slowly bonding together and they slowly gained a new member one by one while setting up side characters like Sesshoumaru or Kikyou's return. Yashahime on the other hand just straights up sets up our trio four episodes in and then threw them in filler with over a hundred questions for the viewers. We didn't have that many questions in the old anime back in the day.
The trio does encounter the Four Perils who all have Macguffin pearls and work for the show's Big Bad but they come off as your typical demon of the week. Also they barely explain about the rainbow pearls and when they do talk about it, it's so rapidly told. So even it is important to the story, it feels like another filler.
Three of the episodes between episodes 4 and 15 are adaptions of old Inuyasha manga chapters that replaced the old set of characters with the new trio in their place. After the original Inuyasha series got caught up with the manga and the anime went on a hiatus for a few years, a continuation called The Final Act adapted 21 long volumes of manga and crunched into a 26 episode series. Now some stories from the manga got skipped.
Episode 6 has our trio fighting a Bakeneko or a ghost cat which is adapted from a skipped manga story. Towa's blade is pretty much like Inuyasha's dragon scale blade where he absorbs demon energy or Yokai into his blade.
https://inuyasha.fandom.com/de/wiki/Bakeneko (You may have to use google translate)
Episode 10 has a set of conjoined twins called Kinka and Ginka who are trying to kill each other. The problem is we saw a different Kinka and Ginka who both got killed in the Final Act. Do all members of their species name themselves that?
https://www.furinkan.com/iycompanion/characters/kinka.html
Episode 12 has them fight a demon called Nikosen while Towa is affected by the New Moon, causing her to lose her power and briefly turns 100% percent human for one night. Well this is an adaption of a skipped manga story and that also had Inuyasha revert to a human state for a night.
Speaking of the New Moon, it's strange that Towa's night to be human is the same exact night as Inuyasha.
The show had great promise for a while at first. It set up our new trio of protagonists. Sesshoumaru had two daughters who were separated at a young age. The white-hair Towa who got stuck in present era and grew up there and the dark-hair Setsuna, who was left behind the Feudal era but had her memories and her dreams remove due to a magical butterfly. Moroha is Inuyasha and Kagome's daughter and she's in some serious debt and takes up demon slaying to clear it.
Half of the 1st episode was a flashback of our heroes from the previous show and takes place a few months after the ending and they slay a tree root demon. The demon sort of came back from the dead years later and try to attack our new set of heroes but dies quickly. I found out months later the 1st episode was an adaption of a bonus manga chapter that was released years after the manga finished. I doubt most people knew about the bonus chapter since Inuyasha was long over and there is barely a reason to come back to check for new content. Plus it didn't hit front page news all over the webs. There are people who may of saw The Final Act when Adult Swim finally got around to airing the series despite it's been more than half a decade since it's premiered both subbed and dubbed and already on DVDs and streaming but I doubt people who were watching on Adult Swim were aware of the obscured manga chapter.
Well at first it showed promise. There are questions of how everyone got separated and where is the entire cast of the previous show. I know it ain't going to be answered in one or two episodes.
After episode 4 where everything is set up and our trio heads out to save the day.
Well we ended up getting filler after filler, technically they are canon to the anime series. It's really a bunch of demon of the week stories here and there. Inuyasha was guilty of fillers too and I don't mean the non-canon anime-only ones, I mean canon fillers. The problem is this is a 26 episode season, meaning they should have a beginning, middle, and end set up from the get go, this is not a 100+ series that's adapting from a manga that still going and slowing the pacing just for the sake of not caching up with the manga.
There's still been no word of what happen to Inuyasha and his friends. I know this is a new generation of heroes and they need to have a chance to shine without our previous set of heroes overshadowing them but in recent years, I been seeing in fiction this is done all wrong and it felt like they just want to do it in the most disrespecting manner possible, because that's exactly I felt with this sequel series. Moroha has missing parnets and she doesn't seem to care less what happen to them.(Or till Season 2 retcon her feelings about this)
Star Wars' new Sequel trilogy felt like that where they killed off the main trio and changed their personalities for cheap drama and shove in new characters we barely got to know. Terminator: Dark Fate killed off John Conner and gave us some knockoff we don't care for as they fight a knockoff of Skynet. You can argue which post-T2 film is the worse but for me, it's Dark Fate
Cobra Kai, the sequel to the Karate Kid trilogy is one of the few examples of the old generation passing the torch to the new generation actually works. It gives both the new and old generations a chance to shine, gives everyone character growth, and it doesn't come off as disrespectful to the old film characters for the sake of cheap drama.
For 15 episodes, it's nothing been filler after filler after filler. Our patience been wearing thin. The season is more than a half over and nothing has happen. We would forgive this if this was non-canon fillers because everyone skips them and they don't count. The early part of Inuyasha long before we learn about Naraku or the entire gang got together was more forgivable. You can tell our two heroes were slowly bonding together and they slowly gained a new member one by one while setting up side characters like Sesshoumaru or Kikyou's return. Yashahime on the other hand just straights up sets up our trio four episodes in and then threw them in filler with over a hundred questions for the viewers. We didn't have that many questions in the old anime back in the day.
The trio does encounter the Four Perils who all have Macguffin pearls and work for the show's Big Bad but they come off as your typical demon of the week. Also they barely explain about the rainbow pearls and when they do talk about it, it's so rapidly told. So even it is important to the story, it feels like another filler.
Three of the episodes between episodes 4 and 15 are adaptions of old Inuyasha manga chapters that replaced the old set of characters with the new trio in their place. After the original Inuyasha series got caught up with the manga and the anime went on a hiatus for a few years, a continuation called The Final Act adapted 21 long volumes of manga and crunched into a 26 episode series. Now some stories from the manga got skipped.
Episode 6 has our trio fighting a Bakeneko or a ghost cat which is adapted from a skipped manga story. Towa's blade is pretty much like Inuyasha's dragon scale blade where he absorbs demon energy or Yokai into his blade.
https://inuyasha.fandom.com/de/wiki/Bakeneko (You may have to use google translate)
Episode 10 has a set of conjoined twins called Kinka and Ginka who are trying to kill each other. The problem is we saw a different Kinka and Ginka who both got killed in the Final Act. Do all members of their species name themselves that?
https://www.furinkan.com/iycompanion/characters/kinka.html
Episode 12 has them fight a demon called Nikosen while Towa is affected by the New Moon, causing her to lose her power and briefly turns 100% percent human for one night. Well this is an adaption of a skipped manga story and that also had Inuyasha revert to a human state for a night.
Speaking of the New Moon, it's strange that Towa's night to be human is the same exact night as Inuyasha.
https://inuyasha.fandom.com/wiki/Nikosen
Also it seems strange that it only happens when she's in the Feudal Era but not present time. This is alot of weird retconning about half-demons and their time to be human. Thankfully Season 2 answered why she didn't get affected by the New Moon. I guess it doesn't affect Quarter Demons seeing Moroha is ok.
Episode 13 shows what happens with Miroku. Dude has let his hair down and doing some spirtual training. He feels useless since his main ability, the wind tunnel is gone. Miroku, you were useless even when you had it because poison insects always appeared why it try to appear. I didn't mind this episode that much since it gives our pervert monk a spotlight and some character growth.
Both his Japanese and English VAs passed away unfortunately. His old English VA was around for the 1st episode and people notice he sounded rough. His new voice doesn't sound quite the same but it works here because he's meant to be older and he's looks way different.
Now don't asked me why Sango looks exactly the same, maybe she ages well?
We finally got answers in episode 15 but oh boy, it wasn't the answers people been wanting to know. There was some questions on who Sesshoumaru's baby mama is. Alot theorized it was Rin aka the human child that followed out dog demon around. Sadly, SesshoumaruXRin unfortunately became canon. (Or non-canon since the original Mangaka didn't write this)
Some were grossed out while others were happy. There been shipping flame wars all over the place. People did accused Sesshoumaru being a child groomer. Others pointed out it's Feudal Era and it's totally normal for a man marrying a minor, also he was only with her for a few months and than dropped her off at a village to be raised by humans when the original show ended, and it was many many years later when they meet again when she's all grown up.
Also it seems strange that it only happens when she's in the Feudal Era but not present time. This is alot of weird retconning about half-demons and their time to be human. Thankfully Season 2 answered why she didn't get affected by the New Moon. I guess it doesn't affect Quarter Demons seeing Moroha is ok.
Episode 13 shows what happens with Miroku. Dude has let his hair down and doing some spirtual training. He feels useless since his main ability, the wind tunnel is gone. Miroku, you were useless even when you had it because poison insects always appeared why it try to appear. I didn't mind this episode that much since it gives our pervert monk a spotlight and some character growth.
Both his Japanese and English VAs passed away unfortunately. His old English VA was around for the 1st episode and people notice he sounded rough. His new voice doesn't sound quite the same but it works here because he's meant to be older and he's looks way different.
We finally got answers in episode 15 but oh boy, it wasn't the answers people been wanting to know. There was some questions on who Sesshoumaru's baby mama is. Alot theorized it was Rin aka the human child that followed out dog demon around. Sadly, SesshoumaruXRin unfortunately became canon. (Or non-canon since the original Mangaka didn't write this)
Some were grossed out while others were happy. There been shipping flame wars all over the place. People did accused Sesshoumaru being a child groomer. Others pointed out it's Feudal Era and it's totally normal for a man marrying a minor, also he was only with her for a few months and than dropped her off at a village to be raised by humans when the original show ended, and it was many many years later when they meet again when she's all grown up.
I feel sick to my stomach
If you argue that this is normal back in the day. Inuyasha may been set in Feudal times but was more closer to fairytale fantasy, it never went with full medieval gritty realism. This isn't like Game of Thrones or Berserk.
I always saw Seeshoumaru as Rin's father-like caretaker, not potential love interest when she grows up. Even Sesshoumaru's Japanese VA and the original Mangaka even saw the dog demon as a father figure, not future husband. *throws up*
Also the show can't make up it's mind when Rin gave birth. It sound like she gave birth at age 12-14 *throws up*. Later on, it said 18 years old. I guess Inuyasha and Kagome were the type of married couples to wait several years before deciding to have a kid because they got together long before Sesshoumaru did.*throws up*
Also the show can't make up it's mind when Rin gave birth. It sound like she gave birth at age 12-14 *throws up*. Later on, it said 18 years old. I guess Inuyasha and Kagome were the type of married couples to wait several years before deciding to have a kid because they got together long before Sesshoumaru did.*throws up*
Enough ranting about SessXRin. The other bad thing from episode 15 is we learn what happen to the main couple of the 1st series. Sesshoumaru banish Inuyasha and Kagome into the Shadow Realm aka The Next Dimension, no really. You know, when anime airs on kids networks and try(and fail) to censor death. Actually the couple got sent into the Border of the Afterlife.
Basically where InuDaddy's skeleton is located. Not the place I want to start living of over a decade.
The heroes of the previous generation been stuck there for over a decade. What a way the writers decide to treat our heroes and their daughter acts like she doesn't give a care.(At least in Season 1).
The remainder of episode 16 and 17 did say Moroha grew up with Koga's tribe before she ended up in debt. Some question why she ain't living with Miroku's family or why they ain't doing something about her debt.
Episode 20 shows that Shiori, the half-demon bat lady who was a little girl from a small arc in original series returns and told us that she raised Setsuna after she got separated from her sis. Also the villain designers gotten lazy and copied an old moth demon from a filler episode from the old series who was a copy of a filler movie villain.
https://inuyasha.fandom.com/wiki/Moth_y%C5%8Dkai
The remaining episodes finally started to feel less fillery but it's so fast paced and all over the place. I was getting lost. We learn that the main villain and his sister knew Inu-Daddy and they destroy a giant comet that would destroy everything and said it will come back again centuries later. The heroic trio clash against the two siblings. Sesshoumaru's healing sword breaks while Towa dies and the season ends on a cliffhanger. Honestly, I was not feeling it.
I heard there is a manga adaption that re-imagines the story. Setsuna and Moroha were raised in Kaede's village and while RinXSesshoumaru does happen, she looks way way older than the anime. It sounds like the superior version of the story.
