Ohmygod! Maya making a post?! Stop the presses!…

…Yeah, yeah. I suck…blah, blah…moving on…

INUYASHA! KYAAAAAHAAAA!…(Fangirling? Me? Neeever…)

Moving past the indecipherable psychobabble, I would like to use this post to reflect and muse on the great chapter of my otaku life that has been Inuyasha.

Inuyasha Kanketsu-Hen has been the only anime I have been keeping up with out of all the animes that have come since I stopped blogging. This is because Inuyasha was my shounen anime and the first anime that truly opened my eyes to the entire online-episode-downloading-japanese-subbed-watching-blogging-fangirling experience. (Yes, I’m aware how dumb that sentence was.) I’m sure I’ve mentioned all of this in that past.

I was so excited when I realized that this final season of Inuyasha was airing that I went back and rewatched ALL of it, not to mention reading the 500 someodd chapters of the manga. And now I’m sad. It is truly depressing when all of the great things in life come to an end. Inuyasha was one of my great things.

But, as I watched and read and continue to watch I can’t help but be astounded by one fact.

One of the most popular shounen animes of the last ten years was created by a woman.

This both amuses and amazes me. The fact that Rumiko Takahashi created something so awesome and great, but also that it universally appeals to most boys. And that most of them probably don’t know one of their favorite animes was created by a woman. (The dub watching America idiots, I mean)

I think it is truly fantastic that a woman created one of the most popular animes for boys, because it says something about that whole women-can’t-understand-men thing, and vice/versa to me.

In my opinion, Inuyasha captures every aspect of anime much more successfully than any other shounen anime, or a lot of general animes for that matter. It has something from almost every genre, in some part of it. It’s a completely round and perfected plot of action, romance, friendship, inspiration, violence, guys standing and yelling at their opponents for twenty minutes, slice of life…etc. I’ve never come across another anime that at least touches  base on ALL of it. It’s always missing something.

Like with Fairy Tail, for example. I’ve read the manga and thought it was a great series, but it was missing key things that Naruto, Inuyasha, Bleach and all those other 6000+ episode animes have. Not only is there zero to none romance in it (I know, not the point, but I’m a girl) but it lacks depth.

Naruto teaches you to believe in yourself and all that crap. So do a lot of other shounen animes (though this message being purely shoujo at heart isn’t picked up by a lot of the shounen demographic). Fairy Tail lacks that greater depth in my opinion, or at least the proper way of delivering it.

I think I’ve started to babble.

So, moving on…

Some of my favorite things about Inuyasha include…

The relationship between Inuyasha and Kagome. Because it’s just awesome. And obvious. So enough said. =))

This is my lately developed Inuyasha obsession. The relationship between Sesshomaru and Rin. =) It’s cute and sweet and by the end of the series, she is really all he cares about. It’s amazing how much she changes him.

Kirara, cause she’s so damn two-tailed and cute…

Hiraikotsu (I know I butchered that spelling) because I’ve always had a thing for big boomerangs…

Kikyo, who I spent about three years hating with the burning passion that consumes all Kikyo haters, but have now come to respect upon finishing the manga, and realizing she is a great character in general. ^.^

The highly entertaining bickering that goes on between Inuyasha and Shippo…(Cause there’s always at least two characters that do it…)

Koga randomly getting written out of the story. Because he annoyed me and was kind of useless to begin with…But he served the purpose of making Inuyasha jealous so I put up with him. ^.^

This! This is my favorite arc in the entire series! IT IS PERFECT! AMAAAAZING! STUPENDOUS!!!! And any other adjective you can think of for awesome. I love it.

I just realized this list could get really long since I love a lot about Inuyasha…Lol. Maybe I’ll do a countdown at some point.

But I posted! YAYAYA!