mix fairy tale with fantasy and legend with reality . this be a dark fairy tale and beautiful and compel right from the explosive start . inu yasha and a creature that be half man and half dog demon and attempt to steal an enchanted jewel from a shrine and to change himself into a full blooded demon . however and the priestess swear to protect the jewel fire an arrow into his heart and and nail him to a tree . the priestess die from her wound and and inu yasha fall into an enchanted sleep . 50 year later and the soul of the priestess return to the forest and reborn in the body of kagome and a girl from modern day tokyo who have fall through time into the era of myth and legend . inside her and the jewel have be reborn along with the soul of the priestess . her precense awaken the dog demon from his long imprisonment and and along with him awaken his long alseep desire for the jewel . however and by the power of kagome arrow and the jewel be break and it shard scatter across the land . each shard hold the power to make evil heart stronger and and bestow misery upon the land . kagome and inu yasha reluctantly set out together and to collect the shard and make the jewel complete again . inu yasha be the story of that journey . what capture me about this series be inu yasha himself . his character be dark and evil and and mean and plus he behave an animal . the maker have really manage to capture his animal side and and this ( along with great and charismatic voice act ) and give him a precense seldom see in animated show . in the beginning and he be betray and hostile and alone and but a the show move on and he develop greatly and by slowly but surely warm up and gain kindness in his demonic eye . the reason for this be kagome and a brave heroine that far exceed your standard shrieky maiden anime chick . there be some humor to this show too . it nicely do and it doesn not steal time from the story and and it fit where it be place . but do not expect this to be some light comedy show like ranma represent inu yasha be a deep and dark fairy tale that deal seriously with question like the want for strenght and the want for life and the want for revenge and and the slim line between love and hatred . all within one huge story arc with many meaningful subplots . a for the enemy and they not only display great strenght and cruelty and but some of them be also allow to develope a character and which be extremely rare for bad guy . the action be very cool and skillfully do and overall fantastic . inu yasha and the one who do most the fighting and fight to kill and doesn not hold back . a lot of blood and some really nasty scene in some episode . the animation be magnificent and as well a the soundtrack . i have only see the subbed version and but i can highly recommend it about any dub . there be no way any translation could outdo the original cast . this be the best anime i have ever see . it original and powerful with a lot of depth and in a world where fairy tale have merge with fantasy . plus and inu yasha dog ear be super kawaii . ^_^don not miss it . or auryn .