Inuyasha anime run

Chibi Koga, Kagome, and Inuyasha

Hachi (flying form), Shippo (balloon form), Kirara (normal form)

Dawn and I spent the last month making a run through Rumiko Takahashi's Inuyasha.

167 first run episodes + 26 final act episodes + four movies later, we completed the run on Wednesday evening.

Random notes (SPOILERS)

• Shippo's drawings of Kagome and Inuyasha in Episode 38 (~15:50) at the beginning of Episode 39 looked great
• Episoe 53 ("Father's Old Enemy: Ryukotsusei"; 父の宿敵 竜骨精) represents one of my favorite mini-clips: Miroku, Sango, and Shippo riding on Kirara...the demon cat sort of just moves statically across the screen...just looks sort of silly, contrasted the audio of the demon cat roar at the same time
• Episode 68, (""Shippo Receives an Angry Challenge"; 七宝へ怒りの挑戦状) has a cute-looking mini-dragon demon named Koryu...plus more kid drawings by Shippo and Soten.
• Episode 106 ("Kagome, Miroku, and Sango: A Desperate Situation"; かごめ、弥勒、珊瑚、絶体絶命) shows Shippo's full bag of tricks around the 13:16 mark
• Episode 130 ("Shippo's New Technique, The Heart Scar!"; 吠えろ七宝奥義 心の傷!) with the young fox demons, was cute
• Episode 3 of The Final Act ("Meido Zangetsuha"; 冥道残月破), where Shippo advances in rank by pulling tricks on Inuyasha, also was cute
• We noticed a steady improvement in the production quality as the seasons progressed
• Hachi, the Tanuki demon, transforms into a floating bus...one of our favorite characters, even though he seems to show a general character flaw 
• Buyo the family cat seemed really nice...Inuyasha seemed to really like playing with him
• In the final episode, Inuyasha dumps the twins on Shippo, saying, "Slay the fox"
• It was weird watching Sesshomaru in the second ending credits in such a melancholy attitude, after watching him as a pseudo-antagonist
• Ugh, English dub...thankfully, we watched all as English sub...they even say the names of the characters wrong x_x "Kuh-GO-mey" instead of "KAH-go-mey", "Nah-RAH-koo" instead of "NAH-rah-koo" , "Seh-SHO-mah-roo" instead of "SESH-oh-mah-roo"
• A lot of beautifully-done incidental artwork and audio ... pictures of feudal Japan life, such as cooking, vendors, dress, mountains, shrines, statuary, buildings
• I think Kagome's mom comes across wonderfully understanding and supportive...almost to the point of incredulity...I suspect she harbors secret superpowers. ; o )
• Totsai's three-eyed cow seems like a really inventive addition
• Sexual advances of Miroku really awkward and struck me as not aging well...
• Favorite song: "Come" by Namie Amuro. (audio)
• Banzai! Banzai! Banzai! : o )