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Hey, Answerman! [2006-11-03]

Wait a second...

Also Zac, is incorrect in saying that the prospect of a second IY series is very slim. Right now I'd put it at about 50/50. The staff even as recently as a couple months ago expressed interest in continuing it once the manga is over. Ratings aren't really what caused the demise of the anime. They weren't as high as they had been at some points, but they weren't low enough to warrant a cancellation. I think they averaged about 11.0, and the cancellation cut is around 7.0 for the block IY was in.

Also Zac, is incorrect in saying that the prospect of a second IY series is very slim. Right now I'd put it at about 50/50. The staff even as recently as a couple months ago expressed interest in continuing it once the manga is over.

Ratings aren't really what caused the demise of the anime. They weren't as high as they had been at some points, but they weren't low enough to warrant a cancellation. I think they averaged about 11.0, and the cancellation cut is around 7.0 for the block IY was in.

In more recent history, the utter decimation of two Japanese cities by the Americans is something that's been ingrained into the Japanese culture (you see examples of this in many post-apocalyptic animes).

Answerman, there's a very simple answer to Zac's question, and it certainly doesn't involve racial intolerance and homogenious qualities (this isn't 1854, dude). I've been reading ANN for a while now, but only this has prompted me to actually speak.

Silly humans!! all these years reading manga and anime and still you don't realize that Rumiko Takahashi SUCKS on ending stories that she has taken and used every single trick on the book, and you guys (no matter what generation you belong) are still falling in the same ending she pulls on all her series "And we will keep moving on in life and see what happens"

If a little of history on her works can help you understand why you felt betrayed with the ending on Inu-yasha, why don't you take a look at the other work's endings? I won't call this a spoiler because all the endings are the same:

-Mermaid scar/mermaids forest: the immortal mermaid flesh eater couple keep moving on the road to see what's life have for them, they are not boyfriend and girlfriend just yet but they will see.

-Urisei Yatsura: at the very end, ataru does not tell Lum that she loves her, instead he said "I will never forget" and the show ends with the promise that "they will never forget the memories of youth and they will create a thousand more" that you won't see because the show's end is at episode 200 after 6 movies, 7 specials etc etc...

-Ranma 1/2: Ranma is cured and he tells akane that he cares (not love) about her, after a joke wedding that ends up being a mock party, they keep going to school and all the girls in the cast actually are glad that Ranma didn't marry, so everyone ends up going to school next day and literally at the end they say "We will wait for the future to see what happens" after 3 movies, 9 specials and 180 something episodes

And all the rest of her works always end up in some sort of "open ending" to the public without giving away the fact that "possibly" the characters can fall in love in the future, I haven't seen "Maison Ikkoku" just yet, but I doubt it has a definite ending.

I used to be a fan of rumiko's works but I decided to pass up Inu yasha because it looks a bit cartoony to me, not that her other works aren't cartoony enough, but with urisei yatsura and ranma 1/2 I was satisfied, now that I know that the ending of Inu yasha is lackluster, there is no reason to me to go on a show so incredibly big that will not take you anywhere.

that is so "Rumiko" why do you think she is the best paying mangaka in the world? she can sell you a story that will not end, will never end....

Speaking of which, it's interesting to see the reaction to the "ending" of the Inuyasha TV series. I stand by my statement that it's one of the most unsatisfying and irritating endings to a long-running action show I've ever seen, next to Rurouni Kenshin, which didn't even really have a proper ending. I never really was a fan of Inuyasha in the first place, but to drag people through 160+ episodes of the show and then flat-out not finish it is like giving the finger to a whole legion of loyal fans.

Hey Answerman, you're getting lazily cynical with your use of another ignore-cat. I demand cheerful innocently playing kittens having hilariously bloody mishaps!

In fact, I think we're already seeing that change, with several anime in the last couple of years clearly being made with an eye for the export market.

Um, all right... I'm an Asian. Why does American media get away with wholesale racism and other downright disgusting portrayals of minorities?

Sure, homogeneity gives Japanese society a different perspective on racial differences. I'd have to argue, however, that it's pretty Western-o-centric to assume that this "downright disgusting portrayal" is definitive, typical, or exceptionally prevalent in Japanese media. There's plenty of similar "racist" portrayal on American television-- stereotypes of Hispanics, African-Americans, and Asians abound.

The actual content is more strictly monitored in some ways and things critical of for example, the government or various other state institutions are not generally allowed. Additionally, they do not have the right to parody companies, people and situations to the degree that Americans are, which means that a lot of the parody shows we watch (Daily Show, much of Comedy Central and Adult Swim programming,) would probably not be able to be shown there.