Quote Originally Posted by Seifer
I'd say part of the problem is there being too many episodes. This series would be much better if the number was halved...maybe even quartered.
Agreed. That's a common problem I find in Rumiko Takahashi's various series. Like Ranma 1/2 for example. I really enjoyed the first 30 or so episodes. But it goes on and ON, with the same four basic formulas, nd it gets very old.

As for Inu-Yasha, I think it's a wonderful idea. Very interesting, very mystical. But I couldnt stand it, because for me, I may have just as well been watching Ranma 1/2. In essence, it's the same characters, just in different forms. Inu Yasha and Kagome have the love/hate relationship of Ranma and Akane (which grates on the nerves very quickly. Get over the easily offended crap you two!), there's the lech and the tough, toy-boyish woman, and so on.

Now it's not to say that many other manga-ka, or creators in any field really, dont do the same thing. Sometimes it's quite enjoyable. But Inu Yasha just didnt do it for me.

And as for the fans, there's <i>always</i> a legion of annoying, obsessive freaks who love the same thing you do. I'm a huge Sailormoon fan, for instance, and there's always a sect of obsessive people who just bug the crap out of me. Or like, when I camped out overnight (with ShlupQuack and ButThePoncho nonetheless) for Attack of the Clones; there were some people that had been there just a few hours more than us, and those that showed up the next day; fun fans who could see the flaws in their own fandom and were well-versed but not psychotically knowledgable in Star Wars lore. <i>Then</i> there were the people who had camped out for 2 months (some of them very nice, mind you) who were... well... insane. I suppose it's something we have to deal with in everything.

Oooh I ranted.