Inuyasha

OK, before I begin, I would like to say two things. First, you may want to watch the dubbed version of this for reasons that will become apparent if you try the sub. Second, do not watch InuYasha if you are prone to heart failure, badpunitis, wormholes, or are annoyed by Old English/Japanese.Thank You.

Genre: Adventure, supernatural, fantasy

Summary (belongs to rawranime.com this time): The story begins in Feudal Japan, when InuYasha, a half-demon (han'yō), steals the Jewel of Four Souls from a village. The Jewel of Four Souls is an item that can increase one's powers enormously and can also turn InuYasha full demon. InuYasha does not get far before Kikyo, the young miko of the village, shoots him with a sacred arrow that indefinitely seals him onto Goshinboku, a sacred tree in the nearby forest. After being mortally wounded, Kikyo tells her younger sister, Kaede, to burn the jewel with her body to prevent it from falling into the hands of evil. In modern Tokyo, a junior high school girl named Kagome Higurashi is on her way to school. She stops in the well house of her family's Shinto shrine to retrieve her cat, Buyo, when a centipede demon emerges from the well and pulls her into the Sengoku period of Japan.

The Good and The Bad: InuYasha was over all a pretty decent anime. The good news is that it actually supports the plot and sticks to it without too many side trips (ZOMG IT HAS A PLOT). Unfortunately, the characters are so freakishly annoying in both languages that they make me want to shoot something and if I hear the old lady say "ye" again, I'm giving up (I was only able to make it to episode 97 out of 167 and skipped the movie completely).

My Rating: 5.6/10