Audience reviews
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If you are interested in the sequel of Inuyasha, I would honestly suggest reading the manga instead. I love the characters designs of the anime as they heal the longing of wanting to see the original Inuyasha crew once again, but Yashahime's story was written before given proper direction of how this adaptation was going to proceed.
I would strongly recommend the manga because it goes more into explaining what happened to all of the original characters, how Towa encountered Moroha and Setsuna, and better goes in depth of what happened with Kagome, Rin, Inuyasha, and Sesshomaru and how they were separated from their children.
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It's better to just stop until the Final Act rather than continue watching this one...
The story is a bit unsatisfying to me, more precisely, it's boring for me... 4/10.
The opening doesn't match the music a bit... 6/10.
There were several questions that arose in my mind when I first watched the anime... but I won't put them here because I'm too lazy to type at length.
I don't really care about the main characters... and for me, the three of them are not interesting at all... the MC lacks "Character Development" in the story, especially Towa.
This anime really disappointed me... yes, I was wrong to have my hopes too high when this anime was released at that time (when it was still going on...)
Note: I should have written this when the anime finished in 2021.
The main point is, that this a…
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Spoilers ahead!
Hanyou no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi, or more simply, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, is in theory, a sequel to Inuyasha (and Final Act, if you're following the anime rather than the manga), set a little less than two decades in the future, and follows the twin daughters of Sesshomaru, and the daughter of Kagome and Inuyasha.
In THEORY.
In practice, it feels a lot more like someone's fanfiction. Plot holes abound, and the show barely has even a fraction of the original anime. Enemies are weak, old, beloved characters are practically nonexistent, and why the HELL do we have to have character introduction tags showing up at the start of every single goddamn episode?! Do the creators think their watchers have the memory of a particularly dense sea cucumber? We don't nee…
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A continuation of the popular fantasy adventure with very strong references to the original series. Unfortunately, the new series fails to score in any discipline. First impression, don't do it!
Story: feels like a cheap rehash of the original story (4/10)
The daughters of Sesshomaru and Inuyasha embark on a journey through time between modern and feudal Japan. They have very different reasons, but together they face the adventures that await them. The short introduction makes it clear that the plot will not be a firework of innovations. It feels more like a cheap remake. My personal low point is episode 14 with its discourse on a smartphone, built in for the target group, with no real reference to the series. Unfortunately, the plot largely consists of independent missions that often hav…
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POSSIBLE MINOR SPOILERS!!
Yashahime was a HUGE disappointment for me. I don't understand why the characters behave the way they do, many Inuyasha characters have been replaced with other hollow ones (like Takechiyo replaced Shippo -I mean, come on! They even use the same powers-) and the "bad" guys are just a joke, you can't even take them seriously. I just can't accept the storyline (which, in my opinion, makes no sense AT ALL) and the fact that the characters we've grown so fond of feel so foreign, especially Sesshomaru acting so coldly towards Rin and his daughters without explaining the reason (don't get me started with what happened to Inuyasha and Kagome -they simply took them out of the way-). Many things that happened throughout the season remain unanswered and there are character…
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The show started off very strong but as I progressed, my interest in the show dwindled. It almost felt like I had to force myself to keep watching it. Initially, I rated this show an 8/10, but perhaps my nostalgia for Inuyasha and my overexcitement clouded my judgment.
I understand the show is about the offspring of Inuyasha and Sesshomaru but it was frustrating that old characters, the parents more specifically, were cut out from the story. It was like they were discarded. It's one thing to leave a little mystery for viewers to wonder about the parents but to do that entire season is a bit much. As a watcher, I felt lead on astray. Also, the battles against the antagonists seem to be too easy in comparison to Inuyasha; they weren't as catastrophic. Lastly, a romantic pairing revealed in…
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Yashahime follows the trend of most modern sequels. It’s heavily dependent on the original cast, it has a lot more emphasis on chicks than men, and is overall unneeded and a waste of time. Inuyasha had already outstayed its welcome by over a hundred episodes, but at least it ended. You were free to leave it behind you as a very good action adventure than ran out of juice very quickly and then kept going in circles until you no longer gave a damn. Years later and for no logical financial reason they decided to make a sequel for a show nobody asked for or was looking forward to. How did they expect to make back their money I have no idea, since everyone had either moved on to other shows, or stopped watching anime altogether. And they didn’t exactly win back a lot of people with the directio…
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As a major fan of Rumiko Takahashi's work and having watched all of InuYasha content, I was pretty excited about this new anime. Unfortunately it didn't deliver on those expectations and I'll explain why. There will be a few spoilers but I'll warn in advance.
Visuals:
1) I love the character design of the main cast
2) Some scenes break continuity and in doing so it breaks my immersion as well. The best example I can give on this is how Moroha's quiver has different number of arrows depending on the angle we see her in, which I don't see how it could be such a difficult thing to fix
Sound:
1) I love the 1st OP and the 1st ED and I was sad when they changed them;
2) There's a mix of rookie seiyuus with veteran seiyuus but you wouldn't be able to tell without looking up because everyone…
Read at the sourceKomatsunana_
First of all, I would like to say I love Sesshoumaru and I'm happy he married Rin. I'm not complaining because I'm a hater.
That being said, this show sucks. We've had a whole season of random episodes, the plot is still not clear. Why is Zero angry? Why is Kirinmaru angry? No one knows and apparently that's not important. What about the butterfly? No explanations either.
They could have saved it with some fan service, maybe appeal to the nostalgia feeling of Inuyasha fans, but decided to be suuuuper original and that was a huge and pretentious mistake. You see, if you have a good story, trust it and don't appeal to fan service, but if you don't... At least put something we can love and relate on it. (Moroha is probably the closest to the original series the show offers, since she is jus…
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Basically, you can divide up Yashahime into 3 parts.
one part, that fans of inuyasha fans will just love, are the 2 episodes that feature the case of inuyasha, and what happened after the end of inuyasha and before the start of yashahime. Probably the best 2 episodes out of the 24.
Then you have Inuyasha slice of life. The majority of the episodes are these. You follow the 3 partial demon girls as two of them do their actual jobs, and one tags along just because she has nothing better to do. These episodes are decently enjoyable for what they are, and can be watched in any order and it makes no difference, and you can skip them all and not miss anything from the story. The series would have been fine really if these episodes made up the entire thing. Could use more actual character inter…
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I waited almost a week for the experience to settle down, so I wouldn't end up writing stuff on impulse alone. So let's see: a sequel to Inuyasha, one of the big "classics" - how bad can it be, right? In short: if the original is near and dear to your heart, do yourself a favour and stay away, because this is a cringefest that's just checking some new-fangled boxes on a to-do list.
Sadly, the answer is anything but flattering. From the very start I had a feeling I stumbled upon some third rate Mary Sue self-insert fanfiction, and that feeling did not go away. If anything, it got progressively worse as the series went on. Straight from the start I felt iffy about the protagonists: the very obvious and very cheap pandering to certain more recent mindsets that just had to make this series ab…
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In its original manga and anime run, Inuyasha was a huge hit. The original explored the life of someone who was born between two sides and belonged to neither one. It told a love story that ultimately could have been a metaphor for coping with lost love and moving onto someone else, our tendency as humans to try to see someone we loved and lost in the new person. The list of things that the original Inuyasha tale left behind is long and can be enumerated further, but this review is about its sequel: Yashahime.
This show is being done by the same studio as the original and the character designs have largely not changed in style. They are in fact pretty consistently keeping with the original. Sunrise also has a decent sized budget for animation work, though a few cuts did have mediocre back…
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Disclosure: This is not a full review, these are just my heated thoughts (edited it a bit) after managing to finish this trainwreck of an anime:
This is a disgrace.
Inuyasha was one of my favorite anime series when I was a kid and I remember all the characters very dearly.
This show just stomps on all the original characters to introduce a new uninspired cast that could have perfectly came straight out of an OVA or side story. The way they disregard the old characters is disgusting and sad.
The plot is also a bore to watch and lacks any cohesion. The director had no idea what he was doing when he plotted this story. There are loose ends all around and none of them can be remediated with simple flashbacks as they did with Inuyasha and Kagome's (which was terribly executed).
This is…
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So, I finished Yashahime and finally I can say, with an open heart: this was a terrible experience. You know, I'm a huge Inuyasha fan since my 11 years old and when the notice of Yashahime came I was super happy, I put a lot of expectations because I like Sunrise works and the previous series. Well, right now I'm terribly disappointed. Let me explain some points about this (IT CONTAIN SPOILERS):
1. Even the art and sound are pretty good, they're nothing amazing. You can easily enjoy what you see but when it comes to the story and when you think about it deeper... That was a poorly written. The Rainbow Pearls, the Dream Butterfly, it's just too basic, we needed creativity here!
2. The main characters are very boring, specially Towa. They don't have convincible ambitions, most of the epis…
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I hope you like hearing Towa screaming "SETSUNA!" a lot because she does it... a lot.
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS MINOR SPOILERS
I've seen & finished both the manga and anime of Inuyasha + The Final Act. So I have prior knowledge of background & character information.
- The story starts off pretty decent but then stagnates significantly up until a few important episodes. There are more questions than answers even by the end of the season.
- Moroha does very little throughout the season as the show mainly focuses on Towa and Setsuna. Even Moroha's solo-focused episode comes off as poorly forced-in.
- Very little blood is shown; all the monsters just disintegrates when killed, only a few stab wounds and bleeding from the mouth is shown
- They play the flashback with Towa and Setsuna separating w…
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As many fans who watched this show, I grew up watching Inuyasha and loved it so much that my imaginary characters were Inuyasha and the gang. When I heard about it getting a sequel I admit that I was worried that it would be trash...and boy was I right.
1) Yashahime relied a bit too heavily on nostalgia and that's the only ship that kept it sailing, I'll tell you that. We have Moroha who is the daughter of Kagome & Inuyasha, she has a nice balance of their personality and could have been extremely interesting but sadly gets treated as the butt of the joke. We have Seshomaru's twins, Setsuna has the same exact personality as her father, she's aloof, quiet and prefer workings alone. She had potential but was also cast out. Then we have the older twin, Towa, who was raised by Kagome's family…
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Let me state some things first:
Inuyasha is my favorite anime/manga of all times and I waited for a sequel or at least something new about it for more than 10 years. And honestly? It delivered.
Do I really think this show deserves a 10?
No. I would say it is an overall solid 8. But damn I enjoyed this show ways more than I ever thought I would. So I'll keep my 10.
Now, about Hanyou no Yashahime.
It starts giving us a little bit of what happened after Inuyasha with the old cast and then we have our new generation cast to take the show. And I can say that the entire new cast is pretty enjoyable and we frequently have some nostalgia moments with our old friends showing up once in a while (sometimes personally, sometimes in flashbacks).
At the start, the pace is kinda fast on how things a…
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Hanyou no Yashahime was a mistake. There I said it.
I never was a huge fan of Inuyasha but I did like that series, it was a big part of my childhood and I just liked all the variety of characters there! If you miss Inuyasha, don't watch this serier, go and rewatch original one, I promise you, you will have way more fun than watching 24 episodes of Yashahime.
Although the main 3 characters aren't exactly terrible, they are not very entertaining either, somehow their interactions aren't enjoyable to watch, they are just plain boring. Something really is lacking. I don't know if it's because it's only three girls and there is no male or fun sidekick to just balance them out, it just doesn't work for me. As single characters, I see nothing wrong with Towa, Setsuna and Moroha but as a group,…
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I may be in a rare position to criticize Hanyou no Yashahime because I started, and finished, all of InuYasha in 2020 before Hanyou no Yashahime was released. Because I watched InuYasha so recently, I do not have fond memories from years past to cloud my judgment. I am able to compare and contrast these two shows rather easily. Given that, I can safely say that if you are looking for an adequate sequel to InuYasha you may be disappointed. I say you “may be disappointed“ because if you can look past the problems with the story and only look at the good parts such as the art, then you are in for a good, and perhaps even a great, ride down memory lane. I, however, was not looking for this. I wanted a worthy sequel to InuYasha and I was left rather disappointed. 6/10.
*Spoilers beyond this po…
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I'm not gonna mince my words: if you're a fan of Inuyasha, please STOP at The Final Act and don't pursue Yashahime thereafter, and this is coming from a hardcore fan who has grown up with Inuyasha since its inception. Call me biased, but this was to be expected.
It's been more than a decade since Sunrise gave us quite the finale to one of the most beloved series of legendary mangaka Rumiko Takahashi's works, but the resurgence with Hanyou no Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, only proves that both the production staff team (the original Inuyasha staff for that matter, minus the original creator herself) behind this sequel at Sunrise only knows the term "cash-cow", and milk this show all they want, because all the charm of the original is (almost) completely gone, and I wouldn't blame you if…
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