Saturday, June 25, 2005
Inuyasha is the hit Japanese anime on Arts Central now! On Wednesday to Friday at 11.00p.m to 11.30p.m, Inuyasha is screened on Arts Central! I only got to know Inuyasha when my neighbour gave me the comic books when he shifted house. I read the books and kinda liked it. Similarly, Yang Xuan at that time, had an interest for Inuyasha and lent me the VCDs to watch. It is indeed nice and intersting but to me, the graphics still has room for improvement. The colours used are a bit dull although, I know, some of them are supposed to be. If the developers could make it brighter, it would be perfect.
Inuyasha is about a story of a half-demon who teamed up with Kagome, a girl from our times who accidentally found herself in the era where there was war by dropping into a "well". The quest is to find all the fragments of the Sacred Jewel which Kagome accidentally made it smash. Teaming up with Kagome, a pervertic monk Miroku, who was cursed by Naraku with a Wind Tunnel that sucks everything in, and a Demon Slayer named Sango who also wants to kill Naraku for killing her father, brother and comrades, Inuyasha sets out with the team to gather the fragments. Inuyasha, himself, also has a grudge with Naraku as he had set him and his lover, Kikyo up by severely injuring her and making her believe that was Inuyasha who attacked her. Oops! I forgot about the cute fox demon Shippo who wants to kill the Thunder Brothers because they had killed his father. Inuyasha had already sought revenge out for him. The story hasn't finished on television and neither do I have all the books to this series and so this is the main idea of this anime and I'm sorry, I do not know more.
Although if you want to know, later in the story, Koga, the chief of a Wolf Demon Tribe falls in love with Kagome and became love rivals with Inuyasha. Koga refuses to give Inuyasha the originally 3 but now 2 fragments of the Sacred Jewel he possesses. The two always fight the moment they set eyes on each other.
Naraku, in the later part, sort of "gave birth" to many "children", one who controls air and dead people, one who can steal the souls of people and control them, one who can read minds of other people and is now dead (Killed by Inuyasha) , one who has two bodies (An outer body who listens to the demon creature within it. The demon creature is an extrememly fast demon) , and I think one who can fuse human and demons together. If she gave borth to more or they ahve any other special powers, I don't know. This is all the information I could gather. I think this is pretty much to give you about the background of Inuyasha, so I think it's bye for now and hi to Shaman King - the second anime I'm gonna tell you bout'!
Cedric Lim // 4:35 PM
