Inuyasha (犬夜叉)
Inuyasha (犬夜叉?), also known as Inuyasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale (Japanese: 戦国御伽草子 犬夜叉 Hepburn: Sengoku Otogizōshi Inuyasha?), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008, with the chapters collected into 56 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan.
The series follows Kagome Higurashi, a 15-year-old girl from Tokyo who is transported to the Sengoku period after falling into a well in her family shrine, where she meets the half-demon dog Inuyasha. When a monster from that era tries to take the magical Shikon Jewel embodied in Kagome, she accidentally shatters the Jewel into many pieces that are dispersed across Japan. Inuyasha and Kagome start traveling to recover it before the powerful demon Naraku finds all the shards. Inuyasha and Kagome gain several allies during their journey, including Shippo, Miroku, Sango and Kirara. In contrast to the typically comedic nature of much of Takahashi's previous work, Inuyasha deals with darker subject matter, using the setting of the Sengoku period to easily display the violent content.
It was adapted into two anime television series produced by Sunrise. The first was broadcast for 167 episodes on Yomiuri TV in Japan from October 16, 2000 until September 13, 2004. The second series, called Inuyasha: The Final Act, began airing five years later on October 3, 2009 to cover the rest of the manga series and ended on March 29, 2010 after 26 episodes. Four feature films and an original video animation have also been released. Other merchandise include video games and a light novel. Viz Media licensed the manga, the two anime series, and movies for North America. Both Inuyasha and Inuyasha: The Final Act aired in the United States on Adult Swim (and later on its revived Toonami block) from 2002 until 2015.
Media
Manga
See also: List of Inuyasha volumes
Written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi, Inuyasha premiered in Japan in the November 13, 1996 issue of Weekly Shōnen Sunday,[2][3] where it ran until its conclusion in the June 18, 2008 issue.[4] The chapters were collected into 56 tankōbon volumes published by Shogakukan, with the first volume released in May 1997 and the last released in February 2009.[5][6] In 2013, a special "Epilogue" chapter was published in Weekly Shōnen Sunday
as part of the "Heroes Come Back" anthology composed of short stories
by manga artists to raise funds for recovery of the areas afflicted by
the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami.[7]Viz Media licensed the series for an English translated release in North America. Initially, Viz released it in monthly American comic book format, each issue containing two or three chapters from the original manga, but eventually abandoned this system in favor of trade paperbacks with the same chapter divisions as the Japanese volumes. Viz released its first trade paperback volume in March 1998. At the time, American manga reprints were normally "flipped" to conform to the American convention of reading books from left to right by mirroring the original artwork; among other effects, this caused right-handed characters to appear left-handed. Viz later stopped flipping its new manga releases, although Inuyasha was already well into printing by the time this change was made with volume 38.[8] As of January 11, 2011, all 56 volumes have been released in North America. From November 2009 to February 2014, Viz reprinted the series in their "VizBig" format, combining three of the original volumes into a single omnibus with slightly larger pages and full-color bonus art that was previously reduced to grayscale, and in the original right to left format.[8] Viz Media also issues a separate series of ani-manga volumes which are derived from full-color screenshots of the anime episodes. These volumes are slightly smaller than the regular manga volumes, are oriented in the Japanese tradition of right to left, feature new covers with higher quality pages, and a higher price point versus the regular volumes. Each ani-manga volume is arranged into chapters that correspond to the anime episodes rather than the manga.
Anime
Inuyasha
See also: List of Inuyasha episodes
The first Inuyasha anime adaptation produced by Sunrise premiered in Japan on Animax on October 16, 2000 and ran for 167 episodes till its conclusion on September 13, 2004. It was also broadcast on Yomiuri TV and Nippon Television.[9] In East Asia and South Asia it was aired on Animax's English-language networks. Avex collected the episodes in a total of seven series of DVDs volumes distributed in Japan between May 30, 2001 and July 27, 2005.[10][11]The English dub of the anime was licensed to be released in North America by Viz Media.[12] The series was first-ran on Adult Swim (although it had originally been planned for Toonami) from August 31, 2002 to October 27, 2006,[13] with reruns from 2006 to 2014. When Toonami became a block on Adult Swim, Inuyasha aired there from November 2012 to March 1, 2014,[14] when the network announced that they had lost the broadcast rights to the series.[15] The series aired in Canada on YTV's Bionix programming block from September 5, 2003 to December 1, 2006.[16] Viz collected the series in a total of 55 DVD volumes,[17][18] while seven box sets were also released.[19][20]
Inuyasha: The Final Act
See also: List of Inuyasha: The Final Act episodes
In 2009's 34th issue of Weekly Shōnen Sunday, published July
22, 2009, it was officially announced that a 26-episode anime adaption
of volumes 36 to the end of the manga would be made by the first anime's
same cast and crew and would air on Japan's YTV.[21] The following week, Viz Media announced it had licensed the new adaptation, titled Inuyasha: The Final Act (犬夜叉 完結編 Inuyasha Kanketsu-hen?).[22] The series premiered on October 3, 2009 in Japan with the episodes being simulcast via Hulu and Weekly Shōnen Sunday in the United States.[23] In other parts of Asia the episodes were aired the same week on Animax Asia.[24] The anime completed its run on March 29, 2010. Aniplex collected the series into a total of seven DVDs released between December 23, 2009 and June 23, 2010.[25][26]Viz Media released the series in two DVD or Blu-ray sets that include an English dub.[27] The first thirteen episodes comprising set 1 were released on November 20, 2012,[28][29] and the final thirteen episodes were released on February 12, 2013.[30][31][32] The series began broadcasting in the United States and Canada on Viz Media's online network, Neon Alley, on October 2, 2012.[33] On October 24, 2014, it was announced that Adult Swim would air The Final Act on the Toonami block, beginning on November 15, at 2:00 a.m.
Cover of the first tankōbon volume of Inuyasha, as published by Shogakukan on May 18, 1997.
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| 戦国お伽草子–犬夜叉 (Sengoku Otogizōshi Inuyasha) |
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| Genre | Action, Romantic comedy, Sengoku-jidai geki, Supernatural |
| Manga | |
| Written by | Rumiko Takahashi |
| Published by | Shogakukan |
| English publisher | |
| Demographic | Shōnen |
| Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Sunday |
| Original run | November 13, 1996 – June 18, 2008 |
| Volumes | 56 |
| Anime television series | |
| Directed by | Masashi Ikeda (1-54) Yasunao Aoki (55-167) |
| Produced by | Michihiko Suwa Hideyuki Tomioka |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Network | NNS (ytv) |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 16, 2000 – September 13, 2004 |
| Episodes | 167 |
| Anime television series | |
| Inuyasha: The Final Act | |
| Directed by | Yasunao Aoki |
| Produced by | Tomoyuki Saito Mitomu Asai Naohiro Ogata |
| Written by | Katsuyuki Sumisawa |
| Music by | Kaoru Wada |
| Studio | Sunrise |
| Licensed by | |
| Network | NNS (ytv) |
| English network | |
| Original run | October 3, 2009 – March 29, 2010 |
| Episodes | 26 |
| Feature films | |
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