In Minerva’s newest podcast, we go back in time to discuss whether or not the things we liked when we were kids were actually any good. For the first episode, we reflect on the classic and seemingly-infinitely running anime, InuYasha. 

A word of warning if you’re eleven years behind and are still planning on catching up on InuYasha, there are some mild spoilers in this podcast.

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  1. Lauren B

    Great episode! Though you neglected to mention the best character of all time, Buyo.

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      Erin E Rand

      Aw man, well, because I tend to skip Kagome in present day episodes, I also tend to miss the Buyo episodes. He’s pretty great, though. Also I think her friend Eri is cool but the rest of her friends are the worst.

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    Erin E Rand

    Also I realize that Sesshomaru’s fluff thing is called a Mokomoko and not a moshi-moshi. I had confused it with the common Japanese telephone greeting. I apologize.

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    Katy Mastrocola

    I think I agree with you guys on pretty much everything about Inuyasha, especially Kagome being a frustrating character because she feels like she has no personality. Also super pissed Sango and Miroku got sidelined because they were the best characters and waaaay more interesting than Inuyasha and Kagome (even though, like you said, Miroku’s perversion got really old really fast).

    I watched maybe like 50 episodes of the show in middle school but I stopped because it just got too repetitive. I had been introduced to the show because I knew it was by Rumiko Takahashi, who wrote Ranma 1/2, and one problem all her stories suffer from is from stretching on for far too long and using the same conflicts over and over again, resulting in mostly flat characters. Like the main couple from Ranma 1/2 pretty much has the exact same dynamic as Inuyasha and Kagome but Akane (Ranma’s love interest) at least had a bit more personality to her, even if she was significantly more abusive.

    AND OH MY GOD THE FANDOM. I remember Sesshomaru used to have the fan name “Fluffy” by his insane fangirls. Then there were the hysterical Kikyo-bashers. Hell, Kagome got bashed quite a bit too by fans who wrote self-insert fics with Inuyasha.

    I honestly don’t know if I’d rewatch because I feel like its just way too formulaic, but did you guys read the manga to completion? And I think they made an OAV after the anime ended that covers the end of the manga.

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      Erin E Rand

      Yeah, I think that the anime’s repetition problem also had a lot to do with the fact that they were sort of waiting for the manga to continue, so they stretched out arcs A TON, although I never actually read the manga. But The Final Act, which was the 26 episode continuation they made in 2009 after the manga ended, was much tighter, so I think that it benefited from not being tied to an unfinished series.

      Honestly, like I said in the podcast, I had a great time rewatching it. I genuinely enjoyed it despite it’s flaws and because of it’s repetition it makes for really good background watching. Although, I’m not going to lie, I skipped a lot of episodes.