Forum - View topicIs there any hope for Inu Yasha anime fans?
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MaxGoof
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With the series finished for several years now, is there any hope at all for fans of the Inu Yasha anime series? The ending was, well--not an ending at all. I don't necessarily want a new series--a movie, an OVA, whatever will do.
I don't read the Japanese manga so I don't know if the story is complete yet, but surely there must be some new material that could be animated by now. Did Inu Yasha really have such bad ratings that the anime won't be continued in Japan in any form? 
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ikillchicken
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There's really no point in asking this kind of thing here. Nobody is going to have any information on plans for a future Inuyasha project and even if they did they wouldn't be at liberty to divulge it. Anything posted here would just be baseless speculation. It could potentially happen but there is no proof that it will. Being that revivals of old anime are fairly rare there is no particularly good reason to think this will be an exception.
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Ishmoo
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Some time ago I read an article that Takahashi intentionally tried to match the number of episodes to that of Ranma 1/2 as a kind of tribute. They aren't exactly the same, but they are pretty close. The manga is still ongoing to my knowledge. If you really want closure you'll have to wait and read it. Maybe someone else knows if there is an end in sight. I certainly wouldn't wait around for more anime though.
There are several movies, 4 of them I think. |
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LeoKnight25
 Posts: 319 Location: Puyallup, WA |
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I'd actually like to respectfully disagree that there isn't much hope for a revival. There have been lots of remakes and revivals of old series, especially in the past few years. We've seen remakes like Area 88, Guyver, Giant Robo, Gaiking, Babel II, Cyborg 009, Kikaider , 009-1 and I'm sure many other remakes. There have been quite a few revivals of old series as well in the sense that they aren't remakes but, continuations of old series. Saint Seiya is still going with new OVA's that are finishing off the previously manga only Hades Chapter, Fist of the North Star has had several new movies and OVA's that are telling new stories, Armored Trooper Votoms has also recently seen a new series of OVA's, and Macross just saw a brand new series as well. So, really I think Inu-Yasha could potentially have new OVA's or something added to the canon sometime down the road. Sunrise has been known to continue series until they are beaten into the ground anyway...just look at the Gundam franchise. 
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Veoryn87
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Yeah, there are 4 movies, but they are pretty much extended episodes and I don't think any of them really continue the plot. This is coming from someone who hasn't read the manga. |
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ikillchicken
Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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LeoKnight25:
I agree it's certainly possible. But for every anime that does get some sort of continuation there are many that don't. (Also a lot of your examples aren't exactly accurate. Remakes don't really seem applicable here and continuing franchises are a whole different story as well.) When you look at the ratio of anime that get revived compared to those that don't, unless there is some specific reason to think this particular anime will, I would define the odds as not good. |
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Kruszer
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The second movie, Castle Beyond the Looking Glass is probabally the closest any fans of Inu Yasha will ever get to something resembling a conclusion. spoiler[They kill off Naruku] but spoiler[of couse it was all part of his evil plan and he comes back.] |
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Unmei No Deai
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^ Of course, spoiler[Naraku can't die. Where would the plot be without him?]
I'd really love for the anime to continue though, it really deserves a proper ending. Isn't the manga coming to an end soon anyway? Surely they could just animate two episodes or something to correspond with that. Anything would be better than the last two episodes aired. =\ |
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LeoKnight25
Posts: 319 Location: Puyallup, WA |
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To be perfectly honest with you, I think the examples I gave were pretty spot on. All of those mentioned were series that had ended at least 10 years prior to new material or remakes being made and you did say old series without giving many criteria as to what would constitute a revival of an old series. And Inu-Yasha would fall under the continuing franchise banner like Fist and Seiya. But, you are right that there does need to be a specific reason to revive the series, which in the case of Inu-Yasha, the anime is unfinished compared with the manga. I also think that most series that have been extremely popular in one form or another will most likely be revisited compared to those that weren't popular. I'd take a guess and say Inu-Yasha was at least somewhat popular to spawn 4 films, 167 TV episodes and a TV special. But, really I'm just getting ahead of myself with the speculation. It'd be a shame to wait 12 years to see the final result of the manga like fans of Saint Seiya had to but, I guess it's just one of those things that we'll have to take a wait and see approach to though. |
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Ishmoo
Posts: 413 Location: Fredericksburg, VA |
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You have some good points. My kids and I would all love to see a conclusion to Inu Yasha. It has been fairly popular here in the states. I see Inu Yasha stuff all the time in Hot Topic and the local Video Store. Maybe it'll get revisited. That would be nice. |
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fighterholic
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The possiblity is there, but I would in no way get your hopes up. Simply said, it won't happen. The anime has been dead for 5 years, and there hasn't been anything to indicate that there will be a revival. Personally I would rather not see one, either.
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sanosuke32
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It ended so long ago that I stopped caring what they do with the series, if they do continue it in another series, i probably won't even watch it, chances are, it won't even end again, they'll try to milk it out to be 300 episodes or something and forget to end it. If it's a movie, then I'll probably watch it because its short.
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TsC_BaTToSai
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If the manga is STILL ongoing in InuYasha, that means that InuYasha's sword has evolved at least 17 more times, Kikiyo has died and been reincarnated at least 7 times, InuYasha and Kagome are still nothing more then "friends" and Naraku is still alive and collecting jewel shards.
Seriously, do you really want more of the exact same thing for another 300 episodes? They had PLENTY of time to give that anime an ending but they failed to do it...probably so we'd all go read the manga. F that i say |
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ikillchicken
Posts: 7272 Location: Vancouver |
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Regardless of how I phrased it though the type of thing being compared here is a series that has been canceled and then later continued. A series being remade doesn't really apply here since I don't really see any way Inuyasha would be remade. It just doesn't make sense for a long running series like it. You also mentioned things like Gundam and Macross. However those are franchises. The various series don't even really follow one another and even in the cases of franchises that do, they usually don't stop for long periods in between. You did provide some examples of series that had ended and later had new content added. However, there really is only a handful of them.
Sure thats a reason why you could or should, but it's not a reason why they will. There are tons of incomplete series out there. The reality is though that much more often than not, anime companies would rather move on and push their next big thing than to try and bring back a popular but old series. Sorry, I don't mean to try and burst your bubble or anything. If you feel there is reason to be optimistic then thats great. I just think that unless there is some exceptionally good reason to think otherwise, it probably won't be one of the exceptions to the rule. It's just not statistically very likely. |
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Orange_Popsicle
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While I would love to see the anime continued, I honestly don't think that it'll happen.
The most I could hope for would be a short 3-4 episode OVA which ties up all the loose ends the anime left. But... even if that does happen, it won't be for another little while. I think Rumiko said she wanted to hurry and finish Inuyasha, but who knows when that'll actually happen. |
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