Well it looks like time for
Saturday Anime!
Ok, so it's a bit late.
No big deal.
Basically, I only caught the shows I was intrested in seeing.
Inu Yasha and Yu Yu Hakashu.
Both were good, but in totally different ways.
Yu Yu had it's final episode of the dark tournament saga.
Genkai is alive!
That was the biggest event of the show. However, Taguro had major character development and back ground story working for him.
The story of his past was told and before he voluntarily went into limbo he had a nice talk with Genkai while she was still in spirit world.
In that talk we found out that Taguro really wasn't that bad of a guy. In fact, you find out that he had a good heart and that he really just felt guilty over the deaths of his friends.
Oh, I never mentioned that I guess...
It turns out that Taguro had friends who were all killed while he was absent from his dojo. Of course, who killed his friends?
The former tournament champion, a demon of the highest order.
So Taguro changed at that point and once he won the tournament he became a demon just like the one that killed his friends.
This was all in some sort of attempt to repress his guilt while at the same time ensuring that he would never be too weak to protect the people he cared for.
Unfortunately he did things all wrong and in the end he just wanted to be killed and sent into a torturous existance in limbo.
That is where Yuske came in... He was to be the one who killed Taguro.
Well of course that happend and in this particular episode it becomes more obvious than ever that Taguro was the master mind behind everything that happend in the Dark Tournament Saga.
It was a great show, but more of a story closing kind of episode than a kick ass demon hunter episode. Still something I am glad I caught.
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Then there is
Inu Yasha.
Inu Yasha was a different sort of show this week also.
Instead of a story closely related to Kagome, Inu Yasha and the rest of the gang, this week's episode was related to
Kagura, Naraku and Shessomaru.
It was the night of the new moon.
Inu Yasha lost his powers and the cocky wolf demon Koga showed up.
Well the wolf demon fought Kagura (the wind demon) and lost badly.
He even gave up the two jewel shards in his legs.
At that point in the fight Inu Yasha (in mortal form) showed up with the gang.
Kagura decided to run off at that point, but she still won since she was able to take the jewel shards from Koga (the wolf demon).
With jewel shards in hand, Kagura contemplated the chances of her escape.
Keep in mind that she is an incarnation of Naraku, but at the moment, Naraku is gone and the barrier to his castle is weak.
Well she thinks it over and decides that while Naruku is mysteriously absent she should take her jewel shards and escape.
She does so only after remembering Sheshomaru, Inu Yasha's brother (the full demon).
Sure enough she escapes and sure enough she finds Sheshomaru. She then offers him a deal. The jewel shards in exchange for his services to kill Naraku.
The show ended on that note.
It was obvious that they were stressing Kagura having feelings. Not just the feelings of a demon puppet, but the feelings of an individual and independant entity.
Plus, there was a quite a bit of dialoge and atmosphere suggesting that Kagura was falling in love with Sheshomaru.
So I am sure that those two will be a strong force in future episodes.
Now, this episode wasn't completely void of the usual stuff.
Plenty of bickering.
Plenty of flirting.
But for "the gang" it was really the presence of Koga that made a difference.
Keep in mind that he is seriously in love with Kagome. So every time he comes around it's a big fight between him and Inu Yasha. Well this almost happend, but instead the show concentrated on another element of that love triangle.
Yeah, actually, it was an important showing in some ways.
You see, IY asked Kagome not to be so nice to Koga, and instead of listening to him she just went ahead as usual.
However, at one point Koga went to make his normal move on Kagome and instead of getting Kagome, he got shippo!
It turns out that Kagome dissappeared and ended up by Inu Yasha's side.
So really, with Koga showing up it was a way to show that Kagome and Inu Yasha had become even closer; so close that when a rival showed up trying to steal Kagome's affection, the most he could end up with was a polite little girl who still loved Inu Yasha.
Oh, there was one more element to this episode that was important and unlike the above mentioned love triangle, this was important to the entire story of the series.
Remember me saying that
Naruku was gone and his barrier to the castle was weak?
Well guess what Kagura figured out?
When Kagura fled the scene of her fight with Koga and the entire team came running up, she saw the half demon Inu Yasha turned into a human.
Well guess who else turns into a human on the night of the new moon?
The other half demon Kagura knows... Naraku.
That's right,
Naraku turns into a human on the night of a new moon.
So it turns out that Naraku really is half human and half demon.
Well this is a new development!
Unfortunately Inu Yasha and the others still don't know that Naraku looses his powers on the night of the new moon (just like IY). However, I am sure it will all come out in time now that Kagura and Sheshomaru are going to be working together.
Any way, Inu Yasha was definately a good show and there were many elements to keep the fans intrested.
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As always, both shows were good enough to leave me wanting more.
So with that in mind, I will be back next time with the next installment of the story.
Until then,
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