Talk:Inuyasha/Archive 2

Moving the Character Descriptions to another page

Uhm, for those of you who want to have this article become a featured piece, I would suggest that we move the Characters to a separate page as it would clean up that particular messy section.

Also, as you may have noticed, some of the descriptions of the characters are far longer than others, including some very detailed information that would normally only appear in a dedicated page for certain characters. I think all those could be cut down to a short sentence or two, as there are links that point to each individual pages.

We can still keep the main characters on this page. What you peoplez think? LG-犬夜叉 04:50, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Sounds good to me. →Reene^✎ 05:08, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

In that case you should expand on the main characters a bit to a short paragraph or so. Inuyasha, Kagome, Naraku, Shippo, Sango, Sesshomaru, Miroku, Kikyo, Koga, Myoga, Kaede, and Kagura seem like a good list to go with. Might want to add Jaken, Rin, and Kohaku too. Maestro25 05:09, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Moving the characters to a separate page might be a good idea, but be careful not to make the descriptions too long, since many of them already have separate articles. Wikipedia:WikiProject Anime and manga may be a helpful reference for naming purposes. Josh 09:15, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Here is a list of the featured article objections that people mentioned the last time around. We should probably deal with those issues as well. Josh 09:51, Jan 14, 2005 (UTC)

Live-Action movie by Columbia Pictures

PAY ATTENTION, HOLLYWOOD! Rumours are that one of your studios, Columbia Pictures, is working on a live-action film version of Inuyasha. Now, as you know, Columbia is to Inuyasha as Disney and TriStar are to Ranma 1/2. If I were to pick the cast like Chris Columbus (Home Alone), Jake Lloyd would be Inuyasha and Emma Watson would star as Kagome. --66.191.240.103 00:28, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Where did you hear this rumor from? WhisperToMe 00:36, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

What the heck is you talking about? I got it from the Internet Movie Database! --66.191.240.103 01:19, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

While searching for what, praytell? You see, a search for Inuyasha brings up only the television series and the four (animated) movies that have come out in Japan. →Reene^✎ 02:40, Jan 15, 2005 (UTC)

I was talking about the message board, you Moog-playing Warner Brothers-supporting anti-Columbia Pictures nerf! 66.191.240.103 14:41, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

1. Wikipedia:No personal attacks.

2. The person making the post may be lying. Please give us a URL from a company spokesperson. WhisperToMe 17:12, 15 Jan 2005 (UTC)

[sounds like Caboose] I knooooooooooooooow! I take back that comment. 66.191.240.103 16:33, 16 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• So we still have no confirmation as to whether this is, in fact, true. -Litefantastic 13:56, 19 Jan 2005 (UTC)

• even if it is...i wouldn't be very interested in it....
• just think about the english dubbed versions of the anime...only a few characters truly live up to their japanese counterparts. For a live-action film, it would be extremely hard for actors or actresses to achieve the same level of performance as that of animation, and frankly i don't think Emma Watson is the candidate.
• IF it was somehow made, then A LOT of the sequences will be CG... i just don't see any significant differences between CG and animation.
• and btw, i just have a feeling if it was made it would do EXTREMELY poor in box-office sales and thus would actually bring the popularity of InuYasha down....and please, the Japs are not even thinking about it, why should Americans? Every year there are a lot of dumb movies, and i mean DUMB movies. I just don't want to see such a fine creation go down the drain because of some stupid foreign adaptation. Plus, anime is not American's style to begin with. LG-犬夜叉 01:55, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

I would not be wildly excited about such a film either, but I do not think that this is really the place to discuss that. The question is just whether or not the claim is true. Personally, I doubt it. Josh 06:32, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

what? i was on topic the whole time -__- this is something related to InuYasha...and this is a talk page... so relax. LG-犬夜叉 07:45, Jan 20, 2005 (UTC)

I'm sorry. I was not trying to sound angry. Josh 00:47, Jan 21, 2005 (UTC)

We're not supposed to refer to them as 'Japs' anymore, though. And we've still made no headway as to whether this is, in fact, true. having visited the IY boards on the IMDb, I see nothing suggesting this, though. -Litefantastic 01:09, 21 Jan 2005 (UTC)

Closure: It's hypothetical; only this, and nothing more http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0290223/board/thread/17941239 -Litefantastic 13:49, 27 Apr 2005 (UTC)

There was a live action stage version of Inuyasha around 2001-2002 in Japan. The only major reference I have seen is a poster from the show. http://fs6.deviantart.com/i/2005/099/7/7/Inu_Ya_Sya_by_vickyjane.jpg

CrookedPenguin 07:07, 27 October 2005 (UTC)

Citing Sources

I have noticed that we do not really seem to cite any sources in this or other InuYasha articles. It is true that most of the information here comes from the series itself, but even if that is the case, shouldn't we at least cite the anime episodes or manga volumes that we are using as the basis for our claims? Josh 09:16, Mar 22, 2005 (UTC)

The problem is that if you do cite the episodes/manga, it will make the information seem ..."rigid" almost, because on a whole, the story is continuous, the episodes are there just so that they can draw viewers to watch every time they broadcast one. However citing the movies is fine i think, because the movies they have produced are stand-alone stories. LG-犬夜叉 00:13, Mar 30, 2005 (UTC) You Guys are all Stupid that was just false alligation.by:GeorgeDJ_14

Glossary

Does this page really need a glossary? Most of the words mentioned in the recently added glossary have their own pages, and those that do not are not really used on this page. (Although some of them should have their own page, such as yōki, which currently redirects to aura. Josh 16:47, Apr 1, 2005 (UTC)

Well, no one ever responded, so I guess that means I can remove it. Josh 07:23, August 17, 2005 (UTC)

A wiki all our own

For those of you who may have missed the little box on the article page, we do, in fact, have our own wikicity now: http://inuyasha.wikicities.com

This means that we now have something akin to an InuYasha-specific Wikipedia at our disposal, and now NOTHING InuYasha related is too obscure to warrant a page.

-Litefantastic 18:43, 14 Apr 2005 (UTC)

Inu Yasha - Episode 168?

In the wikipedia article on Inu Yasha, found at: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inuyasha

It states that there is an episode #168 available only in Japan.

The most popular/frequented websites on the Inu Yasha anime do not list or mention this episode, neither do the various fansub sites that have followed and translated the Inu Yasha anime.

Can I please have further information on this reference?

Thank you

[Someone here might know but the better bet would be to ask on the talk page for that article, Talk:InuYasha. Dismas 21:26, 23 August 2005 (UTC)]

I originally posted this on the general page and someone was kind enough to send me here. Can anyone at this page help?

Thank you, Fujifunmum

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Hi, I just wanted to clarify that from all the websites and InuYasha fans on hte internet, episode 168 is apparently nothing more than a rumour that was started over the internet. There's no actual proof of it as far as I can tell. If it had been released in Japan, someone would surely have made a translation of it by now (some anime fans make translations and subtitles in astonishing speed) and I find it rather perplexing that no such version exists so long after episode 167. Episode 168 may one day exist, since the series still has to continue to where the manga (japanese comic book) version is currently running at.

But just to let all the Wickipedia guys know, there is no proof of a final episode 168, that is aired only in Japan: [1]

Thanks, Persianlor

Thanks. I'll remove that mention then, I guess. One thing though...shouldn't it be mentioned that the series ended unexpectedly at episode 167 and statements were made to the effect that it will likely be continued some time in the future? Hairouna 00:38, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

what is a 'Detachment'?

The list of characters keeps saying so-and-so is the nth detachment of soemone. What is a detachment? (Could this be a translation error? Incarnation looks like a possible substitute). RJFJR 04:07, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

No, I believe it is intended to be quite literal. Naraku's detachments are actually parts of himself that he has somehow separated from himself and given separate lives. According to Inu-Yasha Companion: "As Naraku increases his power he is able to spawn demons from himself. He creates his 'children' in large pots of organs, bones and various bits and pieces." Perhaps a different word could be used, but I believe 'children' would be misleading since it implies natural birth. 'Incarnation' does not really work either, since that implies that Naraku is merely a spirit who is embodied in his 'children'. Josh 05:35, September 1, 2005 (UTC)

continuation of the Anime

Will they continue the anime series....Because it's pretty stupid ending the series like that.

They say that the producers and those involved hinted that the series will eventually be continued. Unfortunately, they haven't said when, nor have they confirmed if it will be resumbed. Hairouna 00:39, 11 January 2006 (UTC)

That good.... I hope its soon....

By the way when will new episodes of InuYasha come to the US.

I thought it was a bit odd to end it that way, but the manga is still going on so that might be why, or maybe the creator can't come up with any new ideas. But I have seen sites saying it will be continued in the future.

Koharu and other minor characters

Should Koharu even have her own article? She isn't a major character at all and only shows up for two episodes. While I admit she provided some insight into Miroku's past and did act as a stock character for the Miroku-Sango relationship, she really isn't any more important than the other characters who show up for a plot thread (like Nazuna, Nobunaga, or Shima (the chieftain's daughter in one of the very late episodes) for example). —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 24.81.150.125 (talk • contribs) .

For Shippo's benefit, I'd like someone to considering helping out in the creation of a Satsuki wiki, one for the Thunder Brothers (perhaps a comparison to a similar teen titan pairing too...), as well as the little girl thunder brother relative who shippo had such a cute romance with :) Tyciol 08:52, 4 February 2006 (UTC)

If you want to talk about Satsuki and Soten (the thunder girl), put it in Shippo's article. Creating another article is somewhat pointless because they aren't important characters or reocurring characters.

Template for characters

I created a very simple template for InuYasha characters. Right now it is a stripped down version of the Dragon Ball template. A test of the template can be found in InuYasha's page. Feel free to edit it to add and remove information. Just remember that it should not be longer than 8-10 cells. I may do something better with time. -- ReyBrujo 03:40, 8 December 2005 (UTC)

Edit by 70.187.78.204

I find this edit questionable. Some of the changes were good, but the user removed a lot of content. Could someone please re-add any worthwhile content that was deleted? Mushroom 01:51, 11 December 2005 (UTC)

I completely agree. I don't have time to do re-add anything now, but hopefully I will be able to do it later. Josh 10:15, 20 December 2005 (UTC)

Should had been reverted. Seems like mainly vandalism since all the categories and links to other language pages were removed. --Zeno McDohl 06:20, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Try not to bite him. He seems to be a good fellow in the sense that he is not vandalizing, just trying to clean articles (check his contributions). By mistake, he may be also deleting categories and language links. -- ReyBrujo 12:38, 27 December 2005 (UTC)

Mmm, I don't know. He also removed the Japanese characters for the names as well, obviously on purpose. --Zeno McDohl 01:08, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

I have seen that behaviour somewhere else. If he supplies the same answer (or if they are both the same), it is a question about usability, not vandalism. Remember, assume good faith. -- ReyBrujo 01:49, 28 December 2005 (UTC)

Error

I don't have time to fix it just now, but there's an error in the 'Popularity' section. The pieces in quotes are actually from an article on anime.com; they're not fan references. -Litefantastic 15:43, 6 March 2006 (UTC)

Here is another error. Under Production broadcast history it says "At one point [in Japan], new episodes of Inuyasha were airing twice a day, 5 times a week, and reruns were being aired Saturday night - 5 episodes in two hours. This is why the series concluded much faster than in the United States. Inuyasha is on rotation on the network, and the official site should be visited to see if the show is currently re-airing." As anyone can tell from the original broadcast dates Japan never did this. I suspect that [In Canada] is probably the correct wording for this section, but as I do not know I'll leave this up to someone else. SMimas 03:04, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

from Popularity on the page: "Leaping onto American TV's in August of 2002, Inuyasha made its debut in Cartoon Network's Saturday Adult Swim Block. American fans hated it and the show's rapid decline in popularity quickly pushed it to air four nights a week. Leading the pack of anime heavyweights such as Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Lupin the 3rd, Inuyasha is one of the most shitty programs on cable among 12-17 year olds."

Someone went and changed it from what the actual article said because they have somekind of malice for the show. Porbably a 12 year old. this is the real quote that the reference points to: "Leaping onto American TV's in August of 2002, Inuyasha made it's debut in Cartoon Network's Saturday Adult Swim Block. American fans loved it and the show's rapid rise in popularity quickly pushed it to air four nights a week. Leading the pack of anime heavyweights such as Cowboy Bebop, Trigun, and Lupin the 3rd, Inuyasha is one of the most popular programs on cable among 12-17 year olds. " I am changing it. Irishgt 17:06, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

HOW DO WE GO ABOUT BANNING A PERSON WHO KEEPS CHANGING ARTICLES MALICIOUSLY??? Look up "Daytona king" and his/her contributions. They keep attacking and messing up articles all morning. Irishgt 17:21, 15 November 2006 (UTC)

Report the vandals at Wikipedia:Administrator intervention against vandalism. Read the instructions and go thru the process. However, it is difficult to persuade them to block an IP vandal permanently. JRSpriggs 06:17, 16 November 2006 (UTC)

Wake up! Wake up everybody!

Trying not to sound too blunt: this article is beginning to come apart at the seams. It gets half a dozen edits a day, and still it seems to be going downhill? Where did all the cornerstone players go? Where did the pictures go? We have to get to work - I will see this a featured article someday! -Litefantastic 17:42, 22 March 2006 (UTC)

I'm available to help; let me know what is needed/how to do and we can get back on track! DJLon 03:45, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

Despite all these revisions, nobody caught the inconsistency in the storyline under the Criticism section! Kikyou was brought back to life in episode 151 and so her story was never resolved. If the article is going to refer to "recent" plots (or any part of the plot at all,) there needs to be a date, or better yet, an episode number in order to indicate how recent (of course, the television series has ended now.) 202.61.229.85 20:40, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Is InuYasha for girls or boys??

For space reasons, the lengthy post previously contained here can be found at /2006-A -Litefantastic 00:29, 28 March 2006 (UTC)

I think that inuyasha is a show both for female and male viewer being its romantic side atracts the female viewers while the action side atracts the male veiwers plus the comedy is loved by both male and female viewers its a great show altogether!

I've always seen it as being Shōjo, or aimed at females. If for no other reason, I think the theme of feminist escapism (i.e., the main character being a normal girl transported to a fantastic place) suggests this in much the same way as it does in Alice in Wonderland. Metalrobot 11:01, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

I believe so it is too simplistic to call it shonen (As it is currently in the introduction). I think it tries to bridge the gap between martial arts themed shonen and romantically themed shojo anime. I would say that it is slanted towards shojo as it has some strong feminist themes and the main character, title name not withstanding, is a girl. --Omnicog 00:11, 18 October 2006 (UTC)

I think it makes sense as both shonen and shojo (sorry, can't do accents on this comp >,<). ~Sushi 23:10, 21 July 2006 (UTC)

A better title would have been "Kagome Higurashi and the search for the sacred jewel". JRSpriggs 04:54, 21 October 2006 (UTC)

I dunno, I think it's pretty shounen-ish. It's basically an action-adventure series with some comedy and romance thrown in. Technically speaking, though, it's for both genders. Brutannica 00:54, 19 November 2006 (UTC)

An even better title for the series could be taken from the first episode (see The Girl Who Overcame Time... and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome), reducing it to "The Girl Who Overcame Time". JRSpriggs 03:23, 25 December 2006 (UTC)

Profanity

Someone deleted most of the page to place some profanity in its place. I quickly changed it from that text. However, the page appears lost. It would be best is someone could restore it. 20:56, 8 June 2006 (EST)

Obviously it's for girls, because VGcats says so. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by VodkaJazz (talk • contribs) .

Then if its for girls why is Inuyasha a Shōnen anime/manga??????? (70.113.5.108 17:39, 11 July 2006 (UTC))

Movie title spelling

It appears that the spelling InuYasha has been agreed upon, yet the movie titles use Inuyasha. For consistancy, I'd suggest changing the movie titles. –RHolton≡– 02:02, 10 July 2006 (UTC)

I changed them to camelcaps on the Inuyasha media and release information page but don't know how to change an article title. DJLon 03:44, 14 July 2006 (UTC)

External links: Unofficial sites

What should be included here? I've been watching this for a while and the links changes constantly. IMHO I'm not impressed with the current offering. DJLon 19:09, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

In fact now that I look at it some more...sites for merchandise? DJLon 19:12, 15 July 2006 (UTC)

How about a screenshots gallery that currently carries 1000 screenshots? (:

Article for Deletion

Before you jump and think Inu Yusha is up for deletion, it isnt. Kiddy Grade is, but unfortunately the discussion has started to critise this article too. And in order to delete the Kiddy Grade articles they would have to do the same here. It is of note because, obviously, you don't want that to happen.

This is quote from one of the people: "I don't want to be rude and please don't take this is gnawing the newbies or assuming ill intentions of an editor. I don't, it's not the editor, it's the culture. But there has been a pervasive explosion of these character articles in Anime articles. They contain little chunks of information, but only seem to exist to hold an image and an infobox on the character and to fill out a character navagation template... I have half a mind to say delete the lot of them and start from scratch .. but I'd only push for that if we could throw in the similarly formatted character articles from OMG, IY, and Tenchi as well. They were all created in the same manner, and it's not well suited to the wikipedia. First off, they contain way too many pictures and (some of them) seem to only exist because an infobox was able to be created for the article. But, I will not be mean to the information and I will push for a SUPER speedy merge These articles fall under the auspices of the WP:FICTION which give a wonderful steps on how to create such pages. Also, a aticle like Eclair and Lumiere (Kiddy Grade) contains WAY too many photos and is a definite violation of the fair use policy. It needs a lot of trimming regardless of the outcome of this debate. I would vote to Delete the Kiddy Grade Infobox and navigation templates, if I could."

The discussion is here

--Crampy20 09:49, 25 July 2006 (UTC)

WP:POINT. I was being sarcastic. If you actually read what I wrote, I suggest that we merge articles in accordance with wikipedia style guidelines. i.e. WP:FICTION. I've contriubted to most of the individual IY character articles. --Kunzite 03:33, 29 July 2006 (UTC)

Major cleanup

This article (and most InuYasha articles) need a major cleanup, if not an overhaul. List of what's needed:

• The criticism and popularity sections need to be cited, or completely removed. Actually, if cited, the two should be reduced and merged together under "Reception".
• The overview is far too long, most of it should be made into plot of InuYasha. Done. It now needs a cleanup.
• There should be 1 fanpage link at most. I've removed all unofficial pages for now. If anyone has a website to suggest to use, reply here. It should be notable at the least, of course.
• The InuYasha character template (used at bottom) should instead be a general InuYasha template, like Naruto has. The new template is {{InuyashaInfo}}. Needs a cleanup sometime (it shouldn't link to anchors for one).
• Many (if not most) of the InuYasha pages need a cleanup. Take this change for example[2], where you can see the bottom edit was changing the stub tag. This edit still existed today from such an old edit. This is probably going to be the biggest part to do. Also, a lot of pages have way too much details on them and some should be moved to Wikibooks.
• Pages linking to Inuyasha (instead of InuYasha) which should be fixed. I will be using WP:AWB to do this (not a priority).
• The introduction paragraph should be longer (explain what the basic plot a little etc).
• Pages that need to be created (and merged from existing pages): List of InuYasha video games Eh, maybe they should just remain on media. There aren't many IY video games.
• I don't even know what to do with Clothing in a historical context.

67.161.135.133 deleted this as of 06:06, August 19, 2006, was this supposed to occur? DJLon 23:57, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

Yes, read their comment below. It was moved. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 00:24, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

It's not there, that's why I asked. DJLon 00:40, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Sure it is.[3] --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 19:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Ugh, so sorry—guess I need better reading glasses. I was looking for it at InuYasha characters. DJLon 00:16, 21 August 2006 (UTC)

• See the peer review and FAC comments for more details.[4] [5]

That's just to start. Take a look at Naruto, while it may not be the best it's certainly something to follow while cleaning up. I will assist when I have the time. Argh, and now 206.255.24.180 has gone and changed Sesshomaru's name all over the place without discussing it first.

I'm considering watching every InuYasha page, making that my sole purpose here but I find it hard when I have hardly any help. I asked this a question on Talk:Jewel of Four Souls about a fact a long time ago, and have yet to get a reply. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 05:59, 3 August 2006 (UTC)

I see that the "front page" article is becoming more wiki-mainstream. as the author of "clothing" may I suggest the following: make a new sub-heading titled "InuYasha: Historical Context" under either the bottom nav box along with "plot", "Characters", "Places" or under "see Also". Then PLace "Clothing" under that page. This would quickly clean up the main page, and yet allow further expansion of historical aspects (ie: a discussion of the encounter with Nobunaga alone could fill a page - esp "why" Oda Nobunaga was called "a fool"). —Preceding unsigned comment added by 192.18.101.5 (talk • contribs)

I moved "clothing to the "InuYasha Character" page, as it fits better there. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 67.161.135.133 (talk • contribs)

I'm working on fixing all articles refering to "Inuyasha" to "InuYasha" as I type this. --Ampersand2006 18:04, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually as I mentioned on your talk page, I have WP:AWB to use for this now. So no need to do it manually. :) --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 18:11, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Okay :) I already did 16. --Ampersand2006 18:13, 15 August 2006 (UTC)

Names

Please do not change character/item names spelling or casing without first discussing. Thanks. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 18:37, 6 August 2006 (UTC)

Actually, we need to decide on a naming convention. I'm going to suggest to use all names/spellings from the Viz English manga. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 06:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

We already did that - except, of course, for Tessaiga WhisperToMe 17:30, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

I figured that. Where is it located? I'd like to know the consensus result so I know if I should be certain reverting name changes. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 20:19, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

It should be linked from Talk:Tessaiga - If you want, you can read the discussion, and then, if you wish to revive the discussion again, do so. I disagreed with the move to Tessaiga, by the way. WhisperToMe 01:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Article tags

I've marked a number of statements and whole paragraphs which could use references. There where at least three areas that I identified as original research and should either be rewritten using reliable sources or removed. The Criticism section needs to be completely rewritten to remove all use of weasel words. The same goes for the first sentence in the Artwork quality section, which also uses a weasel word. And finally, I find the Popularity section to be far to US and Canadian centric. Why does US/Canadian popularity gets 3 to 4 large paraphrase, Japan gets 1 small paragraph and everyone else is smashed into one tiny paragraph, the latter two appearing to be tacked on as an afterthought? It should be much less focused on US/Canadian popularity and much more attention should be paid to popularity in other countries, especally Japan. --TheFarix (Talk) 02:09, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Oh, and when you do give a citation, use one of the citation templates. --TheFarix (Talk) 02:41, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Section removal

Popularity and Criticism

I removed the entire section. It was all POV and original research. If you can find a way to rewrite it so it doesn't sound like some random inuyasha fan wrote it, then be my guest. dposse 17:40, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Criticism section seems to be the same way. I had suggested above to merge (if they ended up being cited) the two, but it looks like they won't be cited. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 17:57, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

This entire article could do with a rewrite. Right now, we're gutting the body of the article because inuyasha fans decided to go crazy on this article. This is going to need alot of work. dposse 18:07, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I hate to see both sections go. But since neither of them could be salvageable, well... that's the way that cookie crumbles. Anyways, the section on artwork quality could be expanded to form a Critical reception section. --TheFarix (Talk) 19:39, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I've cleaned up the section and renamed it to critical reception. It could probably still be cleaned up though, perhaps totally rewritten. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 19:48, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Trivia

I removed the Trivia section. It added nothing to the article and it started to become a place for original research. We can re-add the trivia section if we can find some good trivia. dposse 19:58, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

I didn't think anything was wrong with the Conan cameo note. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 20:02, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Besides the fact that it was unsourced? dposse 20:21, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

Would be better to cite it than remove it. It'd be very easy to cite, just open up the episode and find the time it happens. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 20:26, 20 August 2006 (UTC)

"Inu-Yasha is often disputed to be the equivalent of DBZ for girls." This is trivia? DJLon 22:02, 11 November 2006 (UTC)

Yasha

I'd always heard Yasha translated as Forest Spirit, tieing into the woods he was pinned in being Inuyasha Forest, but here it's translated as Demon-- which is correct? Kuronue 23:06, 24 August 2006 (UTC)

According to Excite.co.jp's translation site, the Kanji literally translates to female devil, which is ironic. --TheFarix (Talk) 20:12, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

See yasha for more details. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 22:40, 25 August 2006 (UTC)

When I translated it, it came out as " Dog night 叉 "-KojiDude 07:25, 31 August 2006 (UTC)

the character "Inu" is japanese for dog, however many japanese characters, when combined, have alternate meanings, some of which are founded in their chinese counterparts. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by AlexOvShaolin (talk • contribs) .

PS1 game

Why is there no Page for the PS1 game. it links back to the main page. It needs a page. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 68.170.1.82 (talk • contribs)

What page are you trying to go to? --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 03:04, 5 September 2006 (UTC)

InuYasha article

I merged some of the sections from "Media and information" page with the main article since I found the previous format confusing when compared to the standards set in other articles where they had most of the information in the main page and a separate article for episodes list and movies. -- Ladida 09:32, 8 September 2006 (UTC)

Terminology

Can I put "Osuwari" there? It is Japanese word and some people don't know it is only used to command dogs. Can I also put honorific titles nad ha-fu? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 83.131.105.58 (talk • contribs) .

Name Dispute

This section isn't really adding anything to this article. I propose removing it. CPitt76 00:46, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

I disagree. Although it is kinda trivial I think it's interesting enough to stay. You should just left it where it is. Keaze 21:56, 14 October 2006 (UTC)

OR Wild Goose Chase

It was rather conspicuous to me that in the box at the right where it shows which television networks carry the show and where, there are flags of Latvia, Moldova, Russia, Ukraine, Lithuania, Belarus, and Estonia with the caption "MY3TB" (an apparent Volapük Encoding of "МузТВ"), when I was under the impression that the show was not licensed in that region. This piqued my curiosity, so I started reading things on that network's online forums, as well as a couple of other Russian-language anime web forums, and found absolutely no evidence that the show has ever been broadcast in either Russia or Ukraine (or presumably the others), nor that any plans have been made to do so. Also, none of the anime licensing companies there make any direct mention of the series. The edit putting that in was made on 2006-07-02 from 201.225.167.12, an IP address in Panama. I'm not sure whether it's a bizarre hoax or what, but it needs to be investigated and/or verified somehow. Google shows that a great many websites have already copied this strange datum from Wikipedia. I don't know how this has managed to get overlooked for three whole months while great care has been taken of things in the article that are much more subtle. Ok, I'll stop talking now... 66.218.54.163 09:23, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Just to make sure I'm understanding you, you're saying that you don't think the show is airing in those countries, right? What's the significance of "МузТВ"? CPitt76 15:11, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

Yes, I doubt it's airing there, but I have no conclusive proof that it's not. From what I can tell, the only anime known to television audiences there (not counting otakus) for many years was Sailor Moon. MTV Russia was receiving for localization much of the same programming as MTV networks in other countries, including some anime. As a result, they apparently became the first television network to broadcast anime outside of the Sailor Moon franchise in Russia. MTV Russia has a competitor called МузТВ which decided to copycat this by showing anime series between music videos. MC Entertainment is the oldest (and until recently, the only) anime licensing company over there, in the business of producing and selling R5 DVDs. They had a long-standing stated policy of not licensing "long" anime series, much to the dismay of fans of series as long as Fullmetal Alchemist and longer. Recently, МузТВ signed a deal for broadcast licenses from MC Entertainment for a lot of anime and began to air it, including titles not available on MC Entertainment DVDs. One of those is Fushigi Yūgi, which seems to go against that policy. Despite all these developments, InuYasha does not appear to have been licensed. 66.218.54.163 17:31, 9 October 2006 (UTC)

If you doubt the validity of the info, feel free to remove it. If someone wants to put it back, we can discuss further. CPitt76 00:08, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

WP has an "if in doubt, remove" policy? Could've fooled me. Anyway, that doesn't sound like a very workable policy for a wiki. I would hope that some verification one way or the other may be obtained before taking any action, so as to give the decision some meaning, rather than having it be completely arbitrary. BTW, you seem to be the only one posting to this talk page recently. Has everyone else just lost interest in the series or something? Looks like the prospects for an OVA keep getting bleaker and bleaker... 66.218.54.163 00:32, 11 October 2006 (UTC)

Unless I'm misunderstanding you, you're saying the research you did shows that those countries are not seeing the show. That's enough verification to warrant removal, again, unless I am missing what you're saying. Not sure why others havent been contributing. Could be that they feel the article doesn't need much improvement. CPitt76 00:11, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Per our verifiability policy, if there is no way to verify the information, it must be removed. Some users use the {{fact}} or {{unreferenced}} tag to gain some time, to give opportunity for other editors to find sources. However, if after some time the information could not be verified, it must be removed. Note that Jimbo Wales stated that Zero information is preferred to misleading or false information,^[6] especially in articles about living persons. Remember, in Wikipedia, we don't care what is true or not. We care that the information can be verified. If it cannot, it does not fit here. -- ReyBrujo 00:15, 16 October 2006 (UTC)

Eye-catcher?

What is it? It's just a table describing where the eye-catcher is, but honestly, I have no idea what it's describing and what an eye-catcher even is. Is it even important in InuYasha? --Cpryd001 05:27, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

See Eyecatch. --Zeno McDohl ^(talk) 12:17, 17 October 2006 (UTC)

Second Series Run Date

My question regards a piece under the subtitle "Production broadcast history." The final line reads:

"In the United States, the final episode of InuYasha aired on October 27, 2006. The series is scheduled to begin its second run starting on December 25, 2006."

Why is there no reference for the December 25th "second run starting" date? Or, more vaguely, is there even conclusive evidence that there is going to be a second run, much less one starting so soon? In any event, this needs to be cited, because I spent a few minutes trying to google up evidence for this, and came up with nothing but idle speculation. If no citation can be provided, it needs to be cut. —Preceding unsigned comment added by GDBreuer (talk • contribs)

Taken care of. DJLon 21:07, 29 October 2006 (UTC)

Ummm, I remember watching the final episode a couple years ago(on TV in the US)...where are people getting the idea that this series ending recently? Irishgt 23:42, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

because it just did end on cartoon network i dont know where you saw the last episode on tv but it wasnt legal or dubbed more than likly--Zetsuie 23:18, 28 January 2007 (UTC)

Inuyasha kanji

'夜叉' keeps being translated to 'Night Person'... is there any verification of that?
The way I see it, 犬夜叉 is literally 'dog demon' and '夜叉' would be 'demonic warrior'.
It also could be a Buddist guardian but the latter sticks more.
It also is explained in the Japanese wiki of 夜叉.
Heck, look into [7]online dictionaries.
Sakana-rin 16:09, 6 November 2006 (UTC)

I did some further digging on the subject. The infoseek dictionary says: 夜叉〔梵 yaka〕もと、インドで人を害する悪鬼。仏教では毘沙門天の眷属で北方を守護する鬼神。八部衆の一。薬叉。 Yasha (Sanskrit, Yaksa)) of Indian origins, a demon which harms a people. In Buddhism it is a type of ancient Indian demon that have converted to Buddhism and are used as a protector of Bishamonten. One of the Group of Eight Guardian Deities of Buddhism. ... Most of this is in the Yaksa article.

The kanji is literally just copying the sound of the Indian term which was imported with Buddhism through China into Japan. To translate or assign meaning the kanji individually is a common misconception. I would say "Yaksa" and "Demon" are the best translation. It seems to have been corrected, though. --Kunzite 05:20, 7 November 2006 (UTC)

Thorough work there!! I put 夜叉 into 'demonic warrior' because the kanji meaning fits well in the story; the dog daemon father and all that. It's just a piece out of 犬夜叉, though; which seems to be 'dog demon' together. The last change I saw now was 'night walker' so I'm changing it again ^^; would a literal note of the name as a whole 'dog demon' instead be more fitting? Maybe if 夜叉 is expanded, it could be a bit of trivia/background. Sakana-rin 06:53, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

Australian Releases, music?

I think something should be put in about Madman Entertainment releasing DVDs in Australia... I personally have bought almost the whole series through them... but as you can probably tell from this piece of text... I'm not the right one to do it. Also, is the music mentioned at all in this article? I'm pretty sure there are three soundtracks for the show, one for each movie, a best of compilation, and a symphonic thing... Kaoru Wada does all the music for the anime and movies... I don't know, I'm not good at all this stuff, I'm just a fangirl... :) (202.183.102.94 21:16, 10 November 2006 (UTC))

Final episode of InuYasha aired tonight on YTV

I've added after the bit in the article about when the series ended in the US, that IY ended on December 1, 2006, which was just 8 minutes ago. --Ampersand2006 ^{( & )} 02:36, 2 December 2006 (UTC)

Reference please...this series ended in the US and CA a couple years ago...Irishgt 23:46, 5 December 2006 (UTC)

For one thing, the series ended a couple years ago in Japan. It ended in the US about a month or so ago, and it ended a week ago in Canada. The series wasn't even CLOSE to ending here in Canada a couple years ago. More than likely it was around episode 30-50. --Ampersand2006 ^{( & )} 13:55, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I for some reason remember watching it years ago now...with sub titles of course...but it was on TV. BUt it might have been while I lived in Japan, can't remember fully. Irishgt 23:33, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Character section

Whoever it is who keeps removing this section and saying it's vandalism needs to stop. You are the vandalizing it by removing a section that has ALWAYS been here. Irishgt 23:23, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

I agree with Irishgt. That is a very important section, especially the pointers to the "Main article: InuYasha characters" and "Main article: InuYasha yōkai list". Please leave it alone. JRSpriggs 10:18, 8 December 2006 (UTC)

Inu yasha and Zenki

Inu yasha has a similar look and feel to those of Zenki at first glance. But while Inu yasha is a masterpiece, Zenki is worse than trash. Anyone agrees? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 203.88.224.181 (talk) 08:54, 24 December 2006 (UTC).

If Zenki is such garbage (and I have no reason to doubt you there), then why mention it here (or at all)? JRSpriggs 13:07, 24 December 2006 (UTC)

Because...I feel...sorry for Zenki. With all the great drawing, sound tracks etc it could have been...a much better cartoon, but it turned out...so pathetic, and my dream...was broken into a million of pieces. As I said, the two share some similarities ( I watched Inu first). So, when I came here, I was...reminded...of Zenki. I'm still holding deep regret.