I was told that Season 2 was a huge step up from Season 1 and they got a different showrunner. So at some point, I gave season 2 a chance.
My 1st impressions of the 1st episode is totally great because for one reason alone, a short recap of what happened and how it the previous season ended. This is a problem I had with the 1st episode with Inuyasha: The Final Act when it started. It just straight up starts and continue where the original Inuyasha left off and pretend the last episode of the 1st series happened like it was a week ago. No recap or anything. It's been about 5 years since the original show ended in Japan and they somehow expect people to remember everything. Most people were confused and completely forgot who Moroyomaru was despite being introduced in the last few episodes of the 1st series and being set up as the new big bad for next arc.
I admit I needed a refresher too for Yashahime's 1st season since I haven't watch the thing in months at the time and I may of forgotten some stuff here and there.
This season starts with Towa giving her all to restore Setsuna back to life. After that, Sesshoumaru tells Towa to go sidequesting to find rare materials to craft new weapons. Yes, this is totally like a video game.
There are fillers in Season 2 but it's not all over the place and they arrived every now and then, plus they at least try to connect to the main plot mostly. So this is a huge set up.
Very early on in the 3rd episode of all things, we got an episode explaining why Rin is in a tree, or why Inuyasha and Kagome were sent to the shadow realm, as well as why Setsuna has her dreams stolen by the Dream Butterfly. Rin got cursed by Zero to have silver scales that will kill her quickly. So Sesshoumaru had to put her inside the magic tree to put her suspended animation to prevent her death. Also the whole Dream Butterfly with Setsuna was done to help keep Rin suspended.
My 1st impressions of the 1st episode is totally great because for one reason alone, a short recap of what happened and how it the previous season ended. This is a problem I had with the 1st episode with Inuyasha: The Final Act when it started. It just straight up starts and continue where the original Inuyasha left off and pretend the last episode of the 1st series happened like it was a week ago. No recap or anything. It's been about 5 years since the original show ended in Japan and they somehow expect people to remember everything. Most people were confused and completely forgot who Moroyomaru was despite being introduced in the last few episodes of the 1st series and being set up as the new big bad for next arc.
I admit I needed a refresher too for Yashahime's 1st season since I haven't watch the thing in months at the time and I may of forgotten some stuff here and there.
This season starts with Towa giving her all to restore Setsuna back to life. After that, Sesshoumaru tells Towa to go sidequesting to find rare materials to craft new weapons. Yes, this is totally like a video game.
There are fillers in Season 2 but it's not all over the place and they arrived every now and then, plus they at least try to connect to the main plot mostly. So this is a huge set up.
Very early on in the 3rd episode of all things, we got an episode explaining why Rin is in a tree, or why Inuyasha and Kagome were sent to the shadow realm, as well as why Setsuna has her dreams stolen by the Dream Butterfly. Rin got cursed by Zero to have silver scales that will kill her quickly. So Sesshoumaru had to put her inside the magic tree to put her suspended animation to prevent her death. Also the whole Dream Butterfly with Setsuna was done to help keep Rin suspended.
It's so nice to actually get answers. In a few episodes, the Dream Butterfly is killed, meaning Setsuna should be able to sleep, however it means they need to finish up their quest or their mother is dead from the curse now that time is ticking. I'm glad the 2nd season isn't playing around.
On their quest, they meet the Big Bad's innocent undead daughter, Rion. She's basically like Kikyou, a dead being in an artificial body made of clay and dirt. She joins the good guys on their adventures as well as Riku. Riku is an offshoot of Kirinmaru and Towa's love interest. It's funny the big bad has two of his kids working against him.
We did get a filler episode in Season 1 about an annoying spoiled princess that try to get everyone in arena combat. I didn't know she will come back again as a recurring character. Now she wants to sneak away from her home school class and try to switch places with Setsuna when no one is looking. When it was revealed that her teacher for the day was Miroku's son, I said to myself, "Let me guess, she's going to fall for him and will regret running away." Turns out I was right.
The next couple of episodes has the trio split up for a very good while before they get back together. Setsuna and demon slayers deal with a former village deity. Moroha is joined with Takchiyo(the Yashahime knockoff of Shippo) and Hachi to overthrow an evil tanuki from their village. I know that Hachi was just simply a very minor recurring character in the original series that never did anything special and didn't have a backstory. All he did was occasionally help Miroku but man, I would never thought we get to see exploration of Hachi's background or anything.
Towa was captured by Zero.
The sister of the Big Bad was filling Towa with sorrow and angst, basically brainwashing her and fill her with anger. Episode 13 is where the gang try to stop the brainwashing and use the power of family love to undo the brainwashing. They battled Zero and it ended with her filled with regret of not being able to prevent the man she totally simps over, InuDaddy. She dies while Rin's curse is lifted, meaning she can finally get out of that tree.
It never really bother me in the original series or Final Act because they never referred to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's dad that often but in Yashahime, good gosh. It's annoying to keep hearing "The Great Dog Demon".
It never really bother me in the original series or Final Act because they never referred to Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's dad that often but in Yashahime, good gosh. It's annoying to keep hearing "The Great Dog Demon".
It times like this I wish he had an actual name. That be like someone from Jr High who had a crush on you and referred to you as a title or something because that's what Zero acting like. The dad never got a canonical name always referred as "Your father" or "The Great Dog Demon(or Great Dog General)" Supposedly, early drafts for the 3rd movie was going to call him Toga but it never went through. Somehow, alot people on social media and wiki sites referred to him as that like that his official name or something. There are other times people thought his actual name was Inutaisho but it's just an untranslated word for his title of being the dog demon or dog general.
Since Zero is no longer a threat and Rin is curse free.
And I nearly threw up after seeing their reunion.
Gosh, I always saw her as his adopted daughter, never his baby mama. It feels odd and wrong.
Sesshoumaru gives Moroha a pearl to reunited with her parents, only for Kirinmaru to come in steals it. He demands that they take Akuru's pinwheel. A mysterious spirit that been seen briefly episode to episode. Kirinmaru is going to use the macguffin to bring the Degenerate Age. The next episode has a big battle and Sesshoumaru is badly wounded but sent the three girls into the black pearl. After that episode, we finally get the heart warming reunion with Moroha meeting her parents. Unlike season 1, Moroha acts like she cares and wonders what happens to her parents throughout this season.
They said they were able to watch their daughter grow up by watching a magical lake and making them see through Jaken's staff. The girls who happen to have Sesshoumaru's healing sword was the key to get them out of the shadow realm and they return back to Earth.
They said they were able to watch their daughter grow up by watching a magical lake and making them see through Jaken's staff. The girls who happen to have Sesshoumaru's healing sword was the key to get them out of the shadow realm and they return back to Earth.
Kirinmaru revealed by the end of the episode that the Grim Comet that's been foreshadowed since the previous season is not going to caused the end of the world in the Feudal Era but in the Modern Era. He also reveals that Towa's school teacher, Osamu from that era is actually an offshoot of Kirinmaru that got transported through time. It was a common fan theory that there was a connection, mainly because they share the same voice actors in both Japanese and English versions. Plus, the school teacher does look like the Big Bad if he wore thick glasses and wore a suit.
Also guess who finally return? It's Shippo...somehow? He's an old dude a class but according the trickster, he's only appearing in that form because he believes he think his students wouldn't take a younger man as their teacher seriously.
Shippo transforms again and dude got a big glow up and he has a hot waifu. I mean dude.
Shippo transforms back into his normal kid form and the hot waifu is actually belongs to someone else. The show purposely trolled us. I had a good laugh on the total scene. Afterwards, he joins up with the other good guys in the show and assist them.
I was a little curious where he was in the sequel serious but I'm not too concerned. He was last seen going to an academy to practice his fox magic and he had his own happy ending. Plus, he's not directly related to the new trio, so him being on the new series wasn't a major deal to me.
I admit I didn't like Shippo in the original series. All he does is him and Inuyasha have unfunny banter and his magic does nothing in battle or anything. Fillers do try to do something about the kid where he clashes with demons on the same (weak) power levels with him in a humorous manner or he falls in love with a girl close to his age, for the six different times. He also gain a few abilities that are actually useful to the gain like a giant top that teleports the gang to a different location. I'm surprised to say this but Shippo somehow went to one of my least favorites to one of my favorites. Maybe it's because he was saved up to near the end, or he became useful, or he's actually funny for once and not all over the place and overused like the original series.
His kinda replacement Takchiyo is simply ok to me. He does transports the gang but doesn't get too involued and simply a middle-man for the person that Moroha works for. Basically he never annoyed me like Shippo did in the previous series.
Back to the plot, the trio split from their parents and their allies as they try to hold back the big big while they go see Sesshoumaru's unnamed mom. It was funny back in the day that we all assumed that she was dead long before the dad got with his 2nd wife but then she out of nowhere showed up and all our theories were thrown out of the window. Now we have new questions, did they divorced, did he cheat on her with Inuyasha's mom, was their relationship a one-time fling, or dog demons having a polygamy relationship is totally normal?
I'm going off subject. The mom task them with a trial and fight a demon from hell. Then this Akuru helps make them time travel to present era.
I'm going off subject. The mom task them with a trial and fight a demon from hell. Then this Akuru helps make them time travel to present era.
The next set of episodes take a break from the whole conflict with Kirinmaru's long fight that's been happening for six episodes as the three girls entered the Modern Era and catch up with Towa's step-family. They also met with homeroom teacher, Osamu and unlike demon he's an offshoot of, he actually wants to save the Modern Era. They join forces to stop the comet that's going to crash in Tokyo, problem is it's an invisible magic comet, meaning the muggles are unaware they're going to die. The four warriors did everything to stop the doomsday rock but nothing happening. Osamu then decides to have a change of heart and teleports the comet to the Feudal Era.
We also see Miroku with his new magical powers from his training and Sango got a new Black Hiraikotsu
Now suddenly, Kirinmaru out of nowhere had his main villain status hijacked from the school teacher. He wants to destroy all the demons of the Feudal era by merging with the comet and wants take his sister Rion to all the great cities all over the world. The three girls go inside to fight against Kirinmaru and Osamu inside the comet. They were defeated, Kirinmaru makes amends with his daughter as they passed on to the afterlife.
The final episode is basically an epilogue and maybe a teaser if there was a season 3. The three girls say there goodbyes to their parents as they and Towa's love interest plan to have more adventures in the western lands that's completely separate from the whole Kirinmaru plot.
We also see Miroku with his new magical powers from his training and Sango got a new Black Hiraikotsu
Now suddenly, Kirinmaru out of nowhere had his main villain status hijacked from the school teacher. He wants to destroy all the demons of the Feudal era by merging with the comet and wants take his sister Rion to all the great cities all over the world. The three girls go inside to fight against Kirinmaru and Osamu inside the comet. They were defeated, Kirinmaru makes amends with his daughter as they passed on to the afterlife.
The final episode is basically an epilogue and maybe a teaser if there was a season 3. The three girls say there goodbyes to their parents as they and Towa's love interest plan to have more adventures in the western lands that's completely separate from the whole Kirinmaru plot.
I admit season 2 is leagues better. May not be the greatest show or most worth watching but it's nice to see a huge set up from season 1. I think the main issues the show starts dragging after Zero got defeated.
