Quote Originally Posted by Marshall banana View Post
Inuyasha is way more enjoyable as an anime (except in English), and since I've been reading the manga to find out what happens after episode 167, I've been wanting to see the rest animated, too. I really like the ending, myself, even though it's more of a cliff-hanger than an ending, but I have a hard time believing that we've seen the last of Inuyasha anime, anyway. <3

I think anime spoils me. I have a hard time reading manga if I've already seen its anime counterpart. =(
The anime does have it's moments where it surppasses the manga. I mean where else are you gonna find InuYasha and Kagome squaring off with 50 foot tall chibi versions of themselves. That was one of the best damn filler eps of all time IMO.

But then there are times when the anime REALLY falls short. InuYasha's fight with the leader of the schinintai was butchered in the Anime, and felt way too contrived as opposed to the impressive way ol puppy ears bested him in the manga. and Kikyo for the first fifty or so episodes was just way too evil. The manga showed her much more tormented and complicated. Also IY in the anime always seems to prefer kikyo, in the manga it's almost always been obvious that while he has feelings for kikyo, he almost always chooses Kagome in the end. Which I do like better as it's obvious that IY and Kagome are likely to wind up together at the end.

Quote Originally Posted by Nominus Experse View Post
the anime studios seem to have a notorious affiliation with ty, half-ass endings to unfinished mangas. Note FMA.
Ah hell, watch GTO sometime. The anime did a bang up job making the anime TV safe while still keeping the gritty and very adult tone of the manga intact, not to mention the pee your pants funny humor and intricate character development. Then they go ahead and destroy all that good work with the final three episodes. I was on the verge of tearing my hair out as you could literally hear them giving up on doing anything decent halfway through episode 41, and just working to shut it down.

Quote Originally Posted by corncracker View Post
I loved X's ending in the anime myself.
Movie or TV series?

The tv series I didn't like the ending. Kamui never really grew out of the shock of Fuma's betrayal, and fulfilled his prophesy that he would be the one to choose the fate of the earth. In the end he fell pray to his consequences and felt way to weak. Espescially when one of his own betrayed him and tried to kill him and he had to be saved by his friend.

The movie, didn't have half the character development and focused story, but I like it better because the battles fought in it FELT like the apoccalypse was going down. Tokyo was a wreck by the end. Also I do like that Kamui actually chose his fate, even at the cost of his own heart at the end. It felt like he rose above the consequences around him, which is what the Ten no Ryu represents, and established that though essentially weak, humanity CAN indeed choose to overcome difficulty. The movies ending I felt stayed far more true to the themes of X, which I think are awesome.