Question about Inuyasha (Spoilers will be inevitable!)

[Gloria Harp]

Okay, I don't know all that much about Inuyasha and haven't seen all the episodes that have aired on AS, but I was just wondering by what episode do they beat Naraku and collect all the jewel shards in the anime. Is it by the last episode, meaning that Naraku is the only big bad throughout the entire series, or is their some other storyline and evil villain that Inuyasha and the gang get to face after Naraku is gone and the whole jewel shard thing is over with? How long is Inuyasha, anyways? It was created by Rumiko Takahashi so it must be long-like 200 episodes or so, right? Yeah, I'm asking for major spoilers, but I'm just curious about it. So if anyone could fill me in, I'd appreciate it! Thanks!

[ClockStomper]

A couple different villian groups show up and gain focus, but Naraku remains the end goal...

[MH Knights]

I think the show is still going in Japan, but I don't know what the actual number of episodes produced so far.

[Infinity Blade]

I think the show is still going in Japan, but I don't know what the actual number of episodes produced so far.
139 episodes, 3 movies.

[Rikou]

And it will never, ever end. Ever. It will go on and on until the end of time. And when the world starts all over again, it will still be going. Forever. And ever.

[Arxane]

And it will never, ever end. Ever. It will go on and on until the end of time. And when the world starts all over again, it will still be going. Forever. And ever. Yes.

Once Inuyasha and friends defeat Naraku and collect all the shards of the Sacred Jewel, Shippo will want to hold it and somehow accidentally shatter it into thousands of pieces once again. But Inuyasha and Kagome don't care anymore; instead they duck off somewhere so they can make sweet love.

Fifty years later, their kids, Aniyooshu and Kigami, will search for the jewel shards out of morbid curiosity. Their parents had died, but thankfully been reincarnated. Kagome is reincarnated as the lead singer of Do As Infinity! and Inuyasha as a cow...you know, so he can milk his own franchise...

[Tienshin]

Yes.

Once Inuyasha and friends defeat Naraku and collect all the shards of the Sacred Jewel, Shippo will want to hold it and somehow accidentally shatter it into thousands of pieces once again. But Inuyasha and Kagome don't care anymore; instead they duck off somewhere so they can make sweet love.

Fifty years later, their kids, Aniyooshu and Kigami, will search for the jewel shards out of morbid curiosity. Their parents had died, but thankfully been reincarnated. Kagome is reincarnated as the lead singer of Do As Infinity! and Inuyasha as a cow...you know, so he can milk his own franchise...
Don't confuse people. It will only make things worse.

[Xception]

The manga is still going strong. They are still looking for shards and they are still battling the big bad guy.

Sometimes an anime show will end before the all the manga episodes have been done like Ramna 1/2, but I believe that Inuyasha is still going strong in Japan.

It sounds like from the manga that things are getting pretty close to the end.

[Eddie G.]

We all know what the last episode will be, InuYasha will use the jewel to turn himself into a full human and him and Kagome will live happily forever in the past... YAY!

[Rikou]

Oh come on. Don't you know the woman never goes back into the past?

[Artimus Gigan]

I think it's only going to last to episode 200


seriously they might as well call it an oreo because it has so much filler...

[CryptiniteDemon]

I think it's only going to last to episode 200


seriously they might as well call it an oreo because it has so much filler...

hahahahah!!! That was a good one.

[lostrune]

We all know what the last episode will be, InuYasha will use the jewel to turn himself into a full human and him and Kagome will live happily forever in the past... YAY!
Oh come on. Don't you know the woman never goes back into the past?

Like Fushigi Yuugi. :)

[jeffrey 228]

Episode number currently on at this time, Episode 141 and it seems that it will be continuing from here, I just hope that it won't bee as long as Ranma 1/2.

[atari_14]

here's a site I use for all my Inuyasha needs... http://web.utk.edu/~bborchar/welcome.html

It's really cool. :anime:

[Watagashi]

here's a site I use for all my Inuyasha needs... http://web.utk.edu/~bborchar/welcome.html

It's really cool. :anime:
Oh yeah, I've been there! It has almost all the information on Inuyasha... ^^

Yeah, as much as I like it, I hope it won't go on TOO long... And it better have a happy ending, too! ^_^ How long was the Ranma 1/2 series, though??

[Arxane]

Sengoku Jidai is an excellent resource site for "Inuyasha", which is why it's such a pity the webmistress quit updating the site last year because she felt she had other things to do in her life.

How long was the Ranma 1/2 series, though??
Too long.

[Rikou]

Like Fushigi Yuugi. :)
All right, I was wrong.

Any woman with a brain, which clearly excludes almost all anime females, would go back into the past.

[lostrune]

Oh yeah, I've been there! It has almost all the information on Inuyasha... ^^

Yeah, as much as I like it, I hope it won't go on TOO long... And it better have a happy ending, too! ^_^ How long was the Ranma 1/2 series, though??

161 TV eps total. Urusei Yatsura is even longer at 196 TV eps.

[Artimus Gigan]

161 TV eps total. Urusei Yatsura is even longer at 196 TV eps.Yeah Inju-Yasha better not be that long, the DVDs are already looking like I';m going to have to move the collection to M.O.A.S. and put another series on the shelf it vacated....

[Cyporiean]

161 TV eps total. Urusei Yatsura is even longer at 196 TV eps.
165 Ranma
200 Urusei

[Youko Recca]

When I was about to give up on this show......Bankostu and the Shichinintai appeared.

[Tienshin]

When I was about to give up on this show......Bankostu and the Shichinintai appeared.
Agreed, that was a great arc. Really the only "true arc" in IY if you ask me.

[Rikou]

I still wanna know how they'll handle Jakotsu. Toshi wouldn't give a straight answer about that at Ohayocon, except he didn't know if he should cast a man or woman to do the voice since Orikasa Ai did his in the original. And Richard Cox looked like he was going to have a heart attack when he found out Jakotsu had a crush on Inu Yasha.

I think the final verdict was "He's not gay! He just likes pretty boys."

[Artimus Gigan]

I think the final verdict was "He's not gay! He just likes pretty boys."Isn't that still gay?

[Tienshin]

Jakostu likes the pretty boys, but his hang up isn't sexual per se...he likes to kill them (He makes a comment to that effect to Bankostu). Which, BTW, has to pretty much be the harshest S&M I have ever heard of.

Now let us never speak of this again. =(

[ClockStomper]

165 Ranma
200 Urusei
Lostrune is at least equivilant in his mistakes...he missed both by 4.

[lostrune]

161 TV eps total. Urusei Yatsura is even longer at 196 TV eps.
165 Ranma
200 Urusei
Lostrune is at least equivilant in his mistakes...he missed both by 4.

Heheh, thanks for the... backup.... But I was much closer than that. :p

According to Rumic World ('http://www.furinkan.com/rumic/'):
Urusei Yatsura ('http://www.furinkan.com/tomobiki/uy/anime/tv.htm') has 195 TV eps - though I was almost sure it was 196 because AnimEigo was supposed to release 49 volumes at 4 eps/vol, and I remember thinking it fit exactly.
And Ranma 1/2 ('http://www.furinkan.com/anime/') has 161 total TV eps (18 Nibunnoichi + 143 Nettouhen) - this I know by heart because I used to get the raw tape copies. :)

Yeah Inju-Yasha better not be that long, the DVDs are already looking like I';m going to have to move the collection to M.O.A.S. and put another series on the shelf it vacated....

Well... considering that neither Urusei Yatsura nor Ranma 1/2 TV series got "resolved" (they both sorta just ended without definite finales) despite a huge # of eps, while Inu-Yasha's plot most likely has to be resolved before ending, Rumiko Takahashi's manga should be thinking about wrapping it up soon if the TV series has any hope of a decent ending before reaching Ranma- or UY-length proportions.