Friday, September 28, 2007
A tribute to an old friend..
Friends have always walked by us through our lives imprinting fond and (not so fond..haha) memories into our lives. Friends may take different forms. Some of you may find this weird as of how they can be of forms. The one i'm going to RE-introduce is certainly going to invoke many memories. This one has made us laugh, discuss, joke and even cry about...
A tribute to...
I can still remember vividly, the series begin during my secondary school days. 2004 was the year if i'm not wrong. This is one of the first anime shown on arts central from the timeslot of 10.30 to 11.30. The story is one of romance, action, surpirses and comedy. It is very light-hearted with a masterfully presented dark side. It uses the basic principle of time travel to let the female lead Kagome meet male lead Inuyasha at the tree of time. It can be forseen that this is one story of which love will transend time and destiny. How the story ends is a little disappointing but that's not the main point.. haha. However, this is no simple love story. Kagome is an average schooler living in the future while Inuyasha is an half demon living in the Warring Period.
Alright, lets hear it from offical websites..
Our story begins one fateful day when Kagome Higurashi is celebrating her fifteenth birthday. She celebrates with her family, and then goes to check on her little brother who is playing around the old well on the temple grounds where they live. Sota, Kagome's little brother is afraid that Buyo the family cat has fallen down the well. Kagome bravely ventures inside the darkened shed where the well has been for centuries.
Suddenly arms emerge from the dark well and Kagome is dragged down into it. She finds herself face to face with a giant centipede woman who keeps mentioning a jewel. Kagome shoves her away causing her one of her arms to tear off in the process, much to Kagome's bewilderment. When she exits the well she finds that she is standing in a forest. Soon she notices a strange boy pinned to a tree with an arrow through his chest. Eventually Kagome makes her way to a nearby village where she meets an old woman named Kaede.
Everyone in the village, including Kaede is shocked by how much Kagome resembles her deceased sister Kikyo. Kagome discovers that she has travelled through time to feudal Japan and that the boy she saw pinned to the tree is Inu-Yasha, a half demon that was once in love with Kikyo, but Inu-Yasha betrayed her, and tried to steal the Shikon Jewel, a mystical jewel that grants demons immense powers. Inu-Yasha had killed Kikyo and the Shikon Jewel was cremated with her body. Eventually Mistress Centipede comes looking for Kagome again and manages to seperate her from the rest of the villagers who are trying to protect her. Mistress Centipede tears at Kagome's side and amazingly the Shikon Jewel pops out. Mistress Centipede swallows the Jewel and begins to transform. Kagome's only choice is to free Inu-Yasha in hopes he will save her.
Inu-Yasha makes quick work of killing Mistress Centipede and retrieving the jewel for himself. Kaede and Kagome manage to stop him with a necklace that forces him to the ground when Kagome yells "Sit!" though. Soon other demons arrive trying to claim the jewel and in the process it is shattered with pieces spreading across Japan. As Inu-Yasha and Kagome travel in seach of the jewels they meet Shippo, an orphened kitsune, Miroku, a lecherous monk with a curse on his hand, and Sango, a demon exterminator who's family was murdered. Soon they find that Kikyo has been brought back to life and then, ultimately, it is discovered that Inu-Yasha and she were lovers who were tricked into believing they each betrayed one another by Naraku, a creature who is responsible for Miroku's curse, Sango's family's death, and Inu-Yasha's loss of Kikyo. Now it's a race to see who can collect the shards first and use the reunited Shikon Jewel for the ultimate good or the darkest evil.
Since the series, it also begin to offer movies which are equally good.
Affections touching across time
Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
Swords of an Honerable Ruler
Fire on Hourai Island
These 4 of which are titles of the movies.
And who could ever forget the songs and OST from the series.
Change the world by V6
I am by Hitomi
Fukai Mori by Do As Infinity
My will by Dreams
All of which are soothing and transends you beyond time in the fluid notes and emotion which leaves you imagining another life out there somewhere.
Of course who could forget Sesshoumaru, Shippo, Miroku, Kikyo, Sango, Kaede and Kirara in their adventure to protect the world from evil.
And almost everyone's favourite....
Posted by saberX @ 5:46 PM
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