I love the fact that all the characters have unique character flaws....

Kagome is vindictive at times....
Miroku is a pervert, he's an ass man like me....LMFAO!
Sango is jealous
Shippou is naive as I don't know what....
Inuyasha has many....he's Brash, stubborn, but he is more so of an open person than a self contained person...meaning what ever he thinks comes out....

That and the fact the animation is superb, gotta love the eye candy *watchin all those special attacks...Kaze no Kizu, Hijen Ketsou, Sankon Tessou, Bakuryuha, Kazzana, Hiraikotsu, Kagome's arrow and Shippou's top attack* and you gotta love the romance.....so kawaii.....gosh this is one of the best anime series ever!!!!!!
Just had to get that out...im ok now!

SESSHOUMARU








Sorry, just had to do that...here's my list.

1. It's just fun to watch.
2. You can identify with all the characters. Even a guy with long white hair and dog ears.
3. Fanservice for all! (It's not that important, but every bit helps...)
4. It's historical...kinda...set in the past, anyway...
5. It has enough romance to work, and not so much that it goes overboard.
6. There's one main plot, and a million different plots that branch off of it. Even though the one main plot can get old, there are the other plots...and....yeah.
7. Youkai and things of that genre interest me.
8. The characters are likable and interesting for the most part.
9. The (Japanese) voice actors are very good and suit the characters. (It adds to the story. Really!)
10. Sesshoumaru. (Maybe it ties in with number three, but...meh. It had to be done.)

Sesshoumaru-sama!
(That's two words. )

1.) The episodes are great!
2.) The plot is good!
3.) Everyone wants a series where they can scream,"Die Kikyo!!"

Ooh, nice topic. I love an excuse to rant.

Number one thing for me would have to be the characters. For a series to stand out to me, it has to have great characters--characters that are interesting and funny and mysterious and easy to relate to--and the cast of Inuyasha is definitely up to the task, as much so as any other anime cast I can think of... maybe even more. To modify a quote from Lord of the Rings, "You can learn all there is to know about their ways in a day, and yet after a hundred episodes, they can still surprise you."

They're all simple, more or less, and yet they have so much depth. Inuyasha's a brash hanyou who won't hesitate to pick a fight, and yet beneath all that he's really a sweet, sensitive guy who just happens to have had a really tough life. (Such is the profile of many a great anime hero... but hey, the formula works.) Kagome's a naive schoolgirl, but she's got heart, and there's more to her than you'd expect (definitely more than your typical anime schoolgirl heroine). Miroku's a lazy pervert of a monk, and yet he's the most intelligent and observant of the group, and probably the second most capable after Inuyasha. And so on and so on. I never get tired of them.

Number two is definitely the epic scale of the story. I like more episodic series like Trigun and Cowboy Bebop just fine, but the epic series are the ones I get addicted to. I love to watch the characters develop as they go through so many different trials. I love following along the plot as it moves forward--and backward--and goes through all sorts of twists and turns. I love seeing the characters' romances move along the same winded path, even when it gets frustrating. It just makes it all the more satisfying in the end when, hopefully, we get a happy ending. To me, long, epic stories are the best stories, and Inuyasha is one of the most enjoyable I've seen in a long time.

And number three, last but not least, is the bishounen. Oh, I'm sure I'd love Inuyasha, Miroku, Sesshoumaru, and everyone else even if they weren't outrageously hot... but as an admittedly shallow fangirl, I'm sure not complaining.

They character In Iy are all cool Cept kouga ive never really watched an anime where i liked all the characters cept IY

But the best this is of course SESS!!!

Okay, let's agree from now on that everyone who posts likes Seshoumaru unless they say otherwise, to save room. And I'm not saying otherwise .

This anime looks good. Perhaps that shouldn't matter but, well, it does to me . Though the action animation isn't always good lately (ep 112's fighting was pretty dull), it's generally not bad either.
I like the characters too, though they could develope a little more IMHO. As far as I can see, they've pretty much stayed the same for some time now. Inu Yasha turning good was nice, but that procces ended some time ago. I don't think he's gonna get nicer than he is now. The Inu-Kagome romance hasn't moved lately either (okay, I'll admit, ep 109 was good). Some new developments please .
I like the overall story arc. The fight against Naraku had simmered down a bit too much after ep 50 or so, and especially after 82, but now it's back on track, with a cool developing story arc. Way to go.
It's pretty. I don't like the action-filler eps, but the comedy fillers are usually cool. I just love ep 68, when Shippo fights the small thunder demon. It's so great.

All in all, Inu yasha isn't perfect, but it sure is worth my time, especially now with the Shicinintai.

First: The voices. I mean, just listen to them.
Inuyasha got Yamaguchi Kappei like Ranma in Ranma½,
while Kikyou got Hadaka Noriko like Akane in Ranma½ (get it?).
And the only reason I like Miroku is because of his voice.
Hm... I have to say that Yamaguchi sounds better as Inuyasha than as Ranma...
and Hadaka Noriko puts on that dark voice... but why no Hayashibara Megumi!?

Second: I love the way you get stuck in the beginning.
The way Kagome finds Inuyasha is just sooo good.... stuck to a tree.
And the background story between Inuyasha and Kikyou is awsome!

Third: It's a story made by Takahashi Rumiko - therefore it's GOOD!
It's the most well payed female manga artist of our time,
so of course you can allways rely on that she does a good job!
Just look at Maison Ikkoku, Urusei Yatsura and Ranma½! All good!
And she is the best when it comes to characterizations, and that's it.
She knows what it takes to make a good manga, you need a good main character.
If the main character is boring, then the manga won't gain any popularity.
Inuyasha is a cool boy with awsome powers and personal issues.
Ranma's a smart martial artists with waaay too many fiancées.
Ataru in Urusei Yatsura is the biggest loser ever with an alien girlfriend...
what more do you need? hehehe... and all the other characters are also good.
Like Ryouga, Sesshoumaru-sama, Hiroshi (one of Ranma's friends), Bankotsu,
Mao Mo Lin and the weird Kunou family... anyways, I'll stop now.

MIROKOU/MIROKU(forgot spelling)

1.The series is funny, exciting, scary, romantic, and adventerous at the same time.
2.Kirara. Nothing like a kitten that turns into a huge raging cat-thing.
3.Shippo. Not sure why, but I think he is coo.

My favorite filler episode was 93. That's the episode where a certain Tanuki is inpersonating Miroku. =P

My favorite thing about Inuyasha and the reason why I think it is so popular is really two things; great characters and consistency. There have been a few posts about why the characters are so good and I'll just add that the characters all have great depth. Not only do they evolve and change, but there are lots of levels to all of them. This is shown by the numerous types of relationships within the show, and I don't just mean romantic ones. Inuyasha is the center and he has a different relationship with just about everyone in the show. My main point though is that Inuyasha consistently delivers quality entertainment episode after episode. Everyone will have their favorites but never, in 112 episodes have I finished watching and said, "That was a waste of time" or even "I'd rather have watched something else." I wish more people in America would watch Inuyasha and realize just how shallow, repetitive, and just bad most American cartoons are. (Do we really need ANOTHER Scooby Doo series? )

Yeah, that was fun. But there was a tiny catch there: You knew it was that Tanuki immediatly because of the transalation notes at the start. That's a problem I think: I like those transalation notes, but on some occasions, they are spoilers (don't quite recall if the title of that ep gave it away too)