Inu-Yasha Editing Report - Bring on the two-timing!

[Arxane]

So it’s finally happened. “Inu-Yasha” is on four nights a week. Hell, yeah! Hopefully, I can do these editing reports every night, but if I don’t manage to snag a TV up here at college, I’ll warn you.

Anyway, what was editing in tonight’s episode? Nope. Then again, this episode didn’t really need any, did it?

Anime v. Manga: Okay, this is where the anime takes liberties with the manga. I remember some people saying the director the anime couldn’t write a love story. Well, he must’ve thought so himself, because he cut out yet another intimate moment between Inu-Yasha and Kagome. Remember the scenes after the little incident with Kikyo, where Kagome got pissed with Inu-Yasha and went back to her own time, came back, overheard Inu-Yasha’s idea of two-timing, and knocked his ass down with a single word? Not found in the manga at all. Instead, Kagome tries to get back to the well but ends up being stopped by Inu-Yasha, who explains to her how both she and Kikyo mean so much to him. Kagome accepts his explanation, including how Inu-Yasha no longer thinks of Kagome as Kikyo’s replacement. Inu-Yasha then says that he likes Kagome’s scent, but she’s fallen asleep. -_-‘ As you can see, while the anime was funnier, the manga was more relevant to the story and made a little more sense.

Next week…no, tomorrow! Tomorrow, we introduce the lovely demon exterminator Sango, voiced by Kelly Sheridan. You gotta love a girl who looks just as hot as Kagome yet can kick so much more ass with a boomerang the size of Inu-Yasha’s ego. Look forward to it!

[Plague]

That scene offered a lot of depth to the plot, so I don't understand really why it was replaced. It's pretty important.

But, I loved Miroku's quote: "That's right... BIG sit."

Sango is coming up soon, but almost as importantly, Kirara! I wish I had one. I'll also have to keep an eye out for the initial impression between Miroku and Sango.

[Master Moron]

The director does believe that he is incapable of telling a love story. He says that's why he never had Relena and Heero get together on Gundam Wing. Though, I really don't see what's so hard about telling that story. All Relena had to do was get her hands on some top secret government files, stuff them down her pants, and tell Heero to come and get'em. Even Heero would get the idea eventually...then again, knowing Heero he'd probably just end up pulling a gun on her again....

[William C. Maune]

[indent]That would be a love story?

[Charred Knight]

I don't know if this is a dub error or not but in the manga Inuy-yasha didn't say that Kikyo smelled like she did in the past. He said that she smelled like grave soil.

This is important since Inu-yasha always says this when he meets a member of the undead and this helps differentiate people that are undead from people that were either completely revived or people that are suppose to die but are kept alive.

Also its a known fact that Kagome's holy arrows are more powerful than Sango's boomerang.

[sl4]

Great episode as usual, but my copy of it will forever have a 20-30 second cut from when my VCR timer decided to stop in the middle of it, and I had to start it again. :-\

It's good to finally see this show again after two weeks, it's been so long I completely forgot about the edit lists: this one caught me entirely by surprise.