That’s right Inuyasha fans, the hunt for Shikon no kakera continues!! I was visiting Rumic World and they quoted Anime News Network: Inuyasha is picking up where it ended 5 years ago.

Jeez, I remember buying the first and second Viz book in 1998 at Borders. I remember thinking, ‘Hey, this is the lady that wrote Ranma, I’ll give it a shot.’, and I couldn’t put it down. Shortly after that, when I ran out of Viz manga, I discovered that it was being translated (by which I mean some guy typing it out like a screen play each week) on the internet as it came out in Japan. That was my first step into what would later transform into scanlations.

I also remember quite clearly when they announced that Inuyasha was being picked up for animation. There was a couple of teaser trailers (from Shounen Sunday, if I remember correctly) with Inuyasha in original pink outfit. None of that animation ended up in the show, though… When I found out, I was really hoping that Yamaguchi Kappei would voice Inuyasha, I couldn’t imagine anyone else. I remember waiting in October 2000 for someone to finish translating it. I remember watching it on my now dead HP desktop on a 15″ screen in 800×600 resolution. I was grinning from ear to ear the entire time. The music and animation were light years ahead of all the older anime I had been watching. That was the first anime I ever downloaded.

I was in my Air Force tech-school when they canceled it in ‘04. I was really angry, still am a bit. I think I ranted about it on my old majinblue domain, but thats vanished into inter-web history. It just ended. They didn’t try to resolve anything, just gave a cheesy speech about not giving up the search. At the time everyone was also thinking that the manga was nearing the end and they were just too lazy to finish animating it. Little did we know it would keep running until 2008. It starts up again in October (same as it did back in 2000). This time I’m watching it on a 21 1/2″ monitor with HD capability. Some things in life change, but me being an otaku probably never will.

Listening to :: Change the World – Inuyasha

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