This is by far one of the weirdest shows I've watched but it was the archetypes in this show that kept me coming back every night to watch. I would recommend this series to hardcore anime fans and even people who just love action, romance and a great journey.
The story begins with a flashback to Feudal Japan, when the half-demon, Inuyasha raids a human village to steal the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls, a magical jewel that enhances its wielder's powers and can grant a single wish. InuYasha hopes to use the gem to turn himself into a demon, but is soon stopped when Kikyo, the young girl of the village, shoots him with a sacred arrow, sealing him onto the sacred tree.
The story then shifts to modern Tokyo, where a junior middle school girl named Kagome lives on the grounds of her family's hereditary Shinto shrine. When she goes into the well house to get her cat, suddenly a demon bursts out of the well and pulls her through it. She emerges into a strange wilderness, unaware that she has traveled back through time to the Sengoku period of Japan. She finds Inuyasha still sealed onto the tree.
Their old priestess named Kaede,.the mentor of are hero Kagome, recognizes Kagome as the reincarnation of her sister Kikyo. When the demon returns, Kaede realizes that the Jewel of Four Souls has also been reborn in Kagome's body. She then frees Inuyasha so he can kill the demon, but after defeating it, Inuyasha again tries to take the Jewel for himself. Kaede thwarts him by placing a magical rosary around his neck. Inuyasha is the Evil figure with the ultimately good heart because of Kagome.
The Jewel of Four Souls attracts more demons, and the jewel is shattered into numerous shards that are across Japan. Even the individual shards are capable of granting great power. Kagome and Inuyasha quest is to set out to collect the shards and restore the Jewel of Four Souls. Along the way, they befriend Shippo, a small fox demon (friendly beast), Miroku, a cursed monk ,and Sango, a demon-slayer and her companion, a demon cat called, Kilala.
The group encounters many friends and foes during the adventure, including InuYasha's older half-brother Sesshomaru and Naraku the main enemy who manipulated the initial conflict between Kikyo and Inuyasha and a wolf demon named Koga, who is Inuyasha's dedicated rival in both love and war.
Great post Ronni!
ReplyDeleteI remember watching Inuyasha as a kid, and always wondered why it took them so long to find all the missing pieces of the jewel. I get it now, I hope. I wanted to ask you if you thought the jewel meant somehting in terms of the story, cause I thought it was a big part of the plot itself.
Interesting posting! I feel the same way about "Ong Bak"; it's the hero's journey that compells me to watch! How many series/films rely on archetypes to hook their reader/viewer?
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