Reviews: "Inuyasha" - Week Two [1/20 - 1/23]

livingfruitvirus · #1 01-20-2003, 11:54 PM

It's that time again..........well, it's one of those times again. This time though it's new Inuyasha time. So time for, um....ahem. Episode list:

1/20 - "Lake of the Evil Water God" [27]
1/21 - "Miroku Falls into a Dangerous Trap" [28]
1/22 - "Sango's Suffering and Kohaku's Life" [29]
1/23 - "Tetsusaiga is Stolen! Showdown at Naraku's Castle" [30]

At least with Lupin I don't have to type as much.

Achika · #2 01-21-2003, 12:14 AM

Why did you put continued in the title again? It should simply be Inuyasha. Same with Lupin III....why must you also add in series 2? But yet Futurama is always Futurama. Everyone just has to treat anime differently eh.

DarthNuriko · #3 01-21-2003, 12:24 AM

I wasn't gonna say anything about that until I read your post, Achika. I kinda looked at it and wondered why it said "continued". And it's not like the first Lupin series is coming out on Swim also and we're in danger of confusing the two...

livingfruitvirus · #4 01-21-2003, 12:27 AM

Well, aren't we anal tonight.

I put continued in because we're still going from the new episodes that used to run weekly. Not like I can say "Season Two" or anything since that would technically be incorrect. I figured at least 2 weeks notice would get people acquainted with how the new scheduling works.

Achika · #5 01-21-2003, 12:29 AM

Yeah I am anal for perfection. I wonder what happened to Lupin's credits tonight? Ah, no time to ponder that as Inuyasha is now on!

Spike Mcdougal · #6 01-21-2003, 12:31 AM

Finally I was waiting to see Miroku act like that again

Perfect Cell · #7 01-21-2003, 12:37 AM

Inuyasha beating up the litle kid was just hilarious.

Spike Mcdougal · #8 01-21-2003, 12:41 AM

Ow.....

Wrong move Miroku

Killtacular · #9 01-21-2003, 12:52 AM

I think this is one of the worst filler episodes of IY. It was a very generic plot (we've already seen demon imposters) and I couldn't really pay attention throughout. Meh.

Arde · #10 01-21-2003, 01:03 AM

A great ep for Inu Yasha today.
It had humour(general and perverse), action, and drama, and executed them flawlessly.
Each character was exciting, except for Shippo and Kagome who didn't get that much attention in this ep.
This is more of a Sango-Inu Yasha plus Miroku ep.
Miroku continues to entertain us with his perverted view and guile... especially his "It would be the first for me, but I'm certainly willing to give it a try" line.
Sango is quite a serious young woman, isn't she? Not only that, she's very bold and brave herself, actually.
And Inu Yasha...being his usual immature, arrogant, kinda idiotic attitude...classic Inu Yasha...
Although today's ep was a filler, it was a really great filler nonetheless.

5/5 for today's ep.

JTurner954 · #11 01-21-2003, 01:11 AM

Yuck, what a negative word. There's no such thing as filler. There is always something going on.

Anyway, this was a good episode. The comedy here easily could of come right from Lupin the 3rd (this is a compliment, BTW). A good story with unique characters with some comedy in there and you have an entertaining episode. The series seems to get more and more entertaining as it goes along. Overall grade: B+

JoelFirestorm · #12 01-21-2003, 01:11 AM

At first I hated the new end theme just like everyone else, but it's starting to grow on me. I tracked down both in mp3 format and listening to them side by side, the new one's better. I'm Mattloaf1 on AIM, if anyone wants them. Copyright infringment be damned.

DarthNuriko · #13 01-21-2003, 01:12 AM

I screwed up recording this and lost five to seven minutes of this eppy. Crap crap crap crap....

Ques. I was under the impression "filler" episodes of anime referred to stuff that wasn't in the manga. Wasn't this one in the manga?

JoelFirestorm · #14 01-21-2003, 01:12 AM

By the way, tonite's ep was great. (Monday). Does CN seriously not have syndication rights beyond episode 36ish?

Arde · #15 01-21-2003, 01:17 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by JTurner954
Yuck, what a negative word. There's no such thing as filler. There is always something going on.

So what is considered filler then?
We've even considered one of the eps for the hunts for the shards a filler. This time, almost nothing actually happened that contribute to the main story other than the fact that Sango gets to know the guys in the group better.
But, filler or no filler, a good ep is a good ep regardless.
And this IS a GOOD ep.

Arxane · #16 01-21-2003, 01:22 AM

A "filler" episode for "Inu-Yasha" tonight, and one of the better ones, although it's not my favorite.

"Filler" is a dangerous term. Was tonight's episode really filler? Inu-Yasha did start to respect Sango and Miroku did start hitting on her, but they didn't find a jewel shard at all. Still, however you define "filler," the episode overall was quite entertaining, although its execution did feel a tad bit uneven. It did, however, have one major plus:

NO BLOODY FLASHBACKS!!!

'nuff said. I found it enjoyable, and that was good enough for me.

Script...dub...two words: great. I'm satisfied with the level the English version is at right now. Hopefully it won't be ruined by another Trishism any time soon.

Overall, a A-.

Midou Ban · #17 01-21-2003, 01:29 AM

Monday: A pretty good episode of Inuyasha. Didn't have much story progression. Had some action here and there and comedy too.

My Grade: B

Sir Gatts · #18 01-21-2003, 02:29 AM

Monday: There wasn't a lot of movement in the plot with this episode but we did get to see some semi-clean action from our characters. Semi-clean as that Sango directly got to learn of Miroku's lecherous personality up front. But the scenes between the human sacrifices, demon tyranny, and the snake-like demon getting cut to pieces kind of reminds me of the first manga volume and anime episode in the series Berserk. (Not any intent to bash Inuyasha.)

Anyone who has seen Berserk should be able to see some resemblance with this episode of Inuyasha. Even Sango's character appears to almost match that of Gattsu's,.. at least from what I've seen so far. In all, this episode of Inuyasha appears to be a needed movement in character development between Sango and the others.

Umino · #19 01-21-2003, 06:39 AM

Okay I missed Inuyasha last night could someone PLEASE, please tell me about it And PLEASE tell me it wasn't the water God episode......Please...god.

sl4 · #20 01-21-2003, 07:01 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by Umino
Okay I missed Inuyasha last night could someone PLEASE, please tell me about it And PLEASE tell me it wasn't the water God episode......Please...god.

Okay, we won't tell you... but it was, sorry.