MM: Anime - Inuyasha by Rumiko Takahashi
From Wikipedia:
InuYasha (犬夜叉?), full title InuYasha, a Feudal Fairy Tale (戦国御伽草子 犬夜叉, 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. The series follows a time-traveling middle school girl, a half-demon, a lecherous monk, a fox demon, a demon slayer, and a nekomata during the Sengoku period as they seek to find all the fragments of the Jewel of Four Souls and to keep them out of the hands of evildoers, especially Naraku.
The manga was adapted as two anime television series produced by Sunrise. The first, broadcast for 167 episodes on Yomiuri TV in Japan from October 16, 2000 until September 13, 2004, was directed by Masashi Ikeda for the first forty-four episodes and by Yasunao Aoki for the remainder. The second series, called InuYasha: The Final Act, began airing October 3, 2009 to cover the rest of the manga series and ended on March 29, 2010.
Definitely an anime that holds a special place in my heart. Sailor Moon may have been my first anime favourtie as a kid but Inuyasha was my first anime fav as a teen and by that time I at least knew what anime was.
My sister and I used to stay up late at night after our parents had gone to bed to watch this show on Adult Swim even though we had to wake up early the next day for school we didn't care (what kid does?).
Free of lengthy opening theme song we were glued to the set for half an hour as we watched this addicting show filled with romance, action and lots of humour. There are many arcs the characters have to go through and as the story progresses you can see them grow and change especially Inuyasha, a half-dog demon with his goal of becoming a full demon. You can see him caring for Kagome and his friends the more he stays with them even if he retains his gruff I-can-do-fine-all-by-myself- attitude you know deep down that he has a good heart.
On my never ending list of things I want to buy are the DVD box-sets for the entire show because I never got to see the end of this series. Adult Swim would always annoyingly give me a good amount of episodes before starting the show all over again from the very beginning so I never found out the conclusion. I know some people were not happy with the ending and others were but I still want to see the whole show for myself so I don't have to keep wondering how everything turned out.
Anyway to end my trip down memory lane I just want to say if you haven't seen the show give it a try or if reading is more your thing then there is the manga that came first. There are also four movies and I've seen them all (IMO Affections Touching Across Time is the best).