Hi, I'm new here so please dont shoot me down for asking this question.... ( no doubt its been asked alot) but does anyone know why they stopped making
the Inuyasha series (on dvd's) and movies??? its almost like they just didn't show up to work one day? or didn't the Japanese like the show
anymore?
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Why did they stop?
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Garbage Can Teleporter
Posts: 4 (01/31/08 06:34 PM) |
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 138 (01/31/08 06:42 PM) |
The anime caught up with the manga.
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Garbage Can Teleporter
Posts: 6 (01/31/08 06:56 PM) |
Ok at the risk of really sounding stupid here, what exactly is anime (I think this is the tv show) and Manga? (is this the comic book??)
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Garbage Can Teleporter
Posts: 7 (01/31/08 06:59 PM) |
luvIY wrote: Ok so if the manga is the comic book and they are still going, is there hope that the anime will make more in the future?? |
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Drunken Fan Dancer
Posts: 245 (01/31/08 08:25 PM) |
Nope. Sunrise, the producers, moved on to other projects and it's doubtful that they will pick it up again. Weirder things have happened, but I
wouldn't count on it. Some people suggested making movies, but there would have to be too many to get through everything that's happened since the
series ended.
Anime is the 'cartoon' and Manga is the 'comic book'. Currently, the manga is on chapter 539 and the anime stopped at chapter 355. We've predicted the manga will end around chapter 550, so around 200 chapters would have to be animated. All these questions and more are answered in the Inuyasha Companion at www.furinkan.com here's the FAQ link: http://www.furinkan.com/iycompanion/misc/faq.html#Q17 . They even have summaries of the manga chapters, if you're interested. Hope this helps! 
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Garbage Can Teleporter
Posts: 10 (01/31/08 10:28 PM) |
Thank you, its sad that they stopped making Inuyasha, and if the manga is doing well and everyone seems to love the anime I just cant get my head around why
they would stop? anyway thanks again for the help.
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Time Travelling Schoolgirl
Posts: 1516 (01/31/08 10:55 PM) |
The first time the anime caught up with the manga, the TV show was near the height of its popularity so the producers wrote a bunch of "filler"
episodes, kinda like official fanworks, that kept the anime going until there were enough manga chapters to animate.
When the anime caught up to the manga again, the market was very different. Inuyasha's TV ratings had fallen substantially, with no recovery likely. Also, some key production staffers were tired of the IY series and wanted to move on to other projects. So rather than write another bunch of filler episodes, the producers decided to end the anime series. Will animation resume? I don't think so. The Japanese TV animation market has moved on since 2004 when IY ended, with new trends and fads. (^_*) |
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Fluffy White Dog
Posts: 757 (01/31/08 11:18 PM) |
Will animation resume? I don't think so. The Japanese TV animation market has moved on since 2004 when IY ended, with new trends and fads. (^_*)One good reason to put Inuyasha back on the air would be so that none-pedophile Otaku can watch something that isn't moe for a change. |
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Garbage Can Teleporter
Posts: 12 (02/01/08 01:02 AM) |
I dont know where you are all from? but here in Australia its becoming popular, well around where we live it seems to be as the local movie library they are
always hired out and hard to get...... do you think another company might start making IY if it becomes popular again??
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Drunken Fan Dancer
Posts: 253 (02/01/08 08:47 AM) |
Well, in Japan, where it's made, reruns aren't really a thing like they are elsewhere in the world. It's probably not even in syndication anymore.
The Japanese viewing public just wouldn't be as interested in the continuation as we would be. Here in America, it's still showing on Adult Swim, but
at 5 in the morning
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(Though you can watch it if you bought the set  ). Like I said, it's not impossible, but it's really unlikely.
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Time Travelling Schoolgirl
Posts: 1517 (02/01/08 02:04 PM) |
At this point, the Japanese media companies remain focused on what the home market wants. They regard overseas sales as incidental revenue, the wasabi on the
sushi, so to speak. So the popularity of Inuyasha in the USA, UK, South America, Australia is irrelevant. Due in part to demographic changes in Japan, the
home market's tastes have gone toward moe, sprinkled with live-action interpretations of popular manga, so that's what the producers are putting out.
Inuyasha, as a family-safe action-adventure series with comedy and romantic elements, just wouldn't fit today. The "non-pedophile otaku crowd"
basically doesn't count anymore because there just aren't enough of them in Japan. (^_*)
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Fluffy White Dog
Posts: 760 (02/01/08 05:19 PM) |
In other words the quality of anime is dwindling... |
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Naraku's Slave
Posts: 98 (02/01/08 11:52 PM) |
Khuh, who's "moe"?
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Garbage Can Teleporter
Posts: 13 (02/03/08 12:04 AM) |
What kind of shows are the Japanese people into now days then??
And Herbkir...what is 'Moe'??
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Fluffy White Dog
Posts: 761 (02/03/08 12:30 AM) |
Think submisive little girls in maid outfits. |
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Naraku's Slave
Posts: 104 (02/10/08 11:23 AM) |
Does this mean that Japanese culture itself is changing? I thought that they cared very much about the happiness and innocence of their children!
~dip
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 172 (02/10/08 02:47 PM) |
dipinmilk wrote: Do I sense sarcasm in that? I don't think the culture is changing. They're still as unpredictable and outrageous as ever. The trends are just pretty dynamic.
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Naraku's Slave
Posts: 105 (02/10/08 04:21 PM) |
Actually, yeah, a little sarcasm. I am aware of the strange dichotomy in Japanese entertainment, between the sweetness and innocence they profess in the kiddy
shows, and the prurient nastiness that seems to invade or pervade so many other shows.
I guess I really want to know what has changed to cause the trend to go the other way. Are there significantly less children now, or is it because more kids are buying their own entertainment, and their natural curiosity leads them to seek the nasty stuff? Maybe it just boils down to the fact that the nasty stuff is more attention-getting, and therefore supposedly sells more stuff. Whatever happened to those values that brought them to create Children's Day? What are the Japanese parents saying about this, I wonder. If I were them, I'd just turn the TV off, and spend more family time together. The less distractions to a beneficial journey of discovery for the children, the better.
~dip
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Dr. Tofu's Patient
Posts: 173 (02/10/08 04:37 PM) |
dipinmilk wrote: Yup yup. There was a presentation the other day at our school about world statistics. I've learnt that Japan has become one of the oldest countries in
the world. Meaning the number of children has decreased significantly. Maybe that is it.
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Gosunkugi's Best Friend
Posts: 4 (02/10/08 04:49 PM) |
That, and maybe most Japanese people are just sick of all the pressures in Japanese culture, and are responding with complete irreverence.
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Fluffy White Dog
Posts: 779 (02/10/08 08:57 PM) |
Moe tends to be seemingly innocent. I think many moe shows are child apropriate despite the adult male target audience. You guys are misinterpriting what I said. Moe is not porn. I don't know much about this trend other than the girls depicted in moe anime are young innocent and shy, they don't actually do anything sexual but there is mild fans service and the creators of moe anime know that the otaku who are watching them are imagining them as their sex slave. Of course there is also lolicon but that's a whole different story... |
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