Inuyasha The Final Act Episode 19
Posted in Blog on February 8, 2010 2:21 pm by Narasu Rebbapragada | View Comments (0) | Add Comment
Facing your demons takes on a whole new meaning in "Kohaku's Shard," episode 19 of Inuyasha The Final Act. Wow, what a cliffhanger! Thank goodness for the scenes from next week, or else I'd be a nervous Nellie waiting to find out how Kohaku fares.
The episode starts off lightly, with another one of Inuyasha's hilarious efforts to participate in Kagome's modern-day life. (Talk about tasting the rainbow…) But quickly we're knee deep in danger on the other side of the well, as Magatsuhi rears his deviously ugly head, Sesshomaru handles a trickster, and Rin and Miroku suffer the consequences. There are a couple more things that I'm not even going to dare to give away, or else I'd suffer the consequences.
Watch the episode. Things are really heating up on Inuyasha The Final Act.
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Posted in Blog on February 5, 2010 11:41 am by Narasu Rebbapragada | View Comments (7) | Add Comment
Chapter 37 of RIN-NE really set some wheels in motion. Will Ageha figure out who her sister's boyfriend is? Will Ageha save her from him? Will she figure out Rinne's relationship to said boyfriend?
You'll have a couple of weeks to think about how the story will play out, since RIN-NE is taking a short break. Chapter 38 will be posted on February 24.
The bond that Ageha has to her sister is touching, so even though she's a little high-strung, we can understand where she's coming from. We can also admire the lengths to which she'll go to help her sister. Hopefully, Rinne won't get caught in the middle. The expression "Don't shoot the messenger" comes to mind. We'll just have to wait and see.
Do any of you have siblings who you'd save from the Damashigami bossman? And who are your favorite manga siblings? Let us know.
| | | RIN-NE Chapter 37 Live Now!
Posted in News on February 3, 2010 10:46 am by Narasu Rebbapragada | View Comments (9) | Add Comment
Ageha, the shinigami, tells Rinne about what happened to her sister and
why she holds such a grudge against one damashigami in particular.
Ageha's nemesis unfortunately is someone Rinne knows quite well, but
he'd better not let that slip. And what will Sakura make of Ageha's
appearance?
Read RIN-NE chapter 37 now!
| | | He's the Cheesiest!
Posted in Blog on February 3, 2010 10:45 am by Mike Montesa | View Comments (2) | Add Comment
I gotta say that I like the direction of this current plot with Ageha in chapter 37. It looks like it’s already shaping up to be a huge misunderstanding followed by an explosion of zaniness. And even though Sabato is the antagonist in RIN-NE, I really like him — he’s got this sleazy used car salesman sort of smarminess and cheesiness that appeals to me on some level (I love the postcard image of him and Ageha’s sister). I wonder what that says about me?
— Mike Montesa, RIN-NE editor
| | | Inuyasha Volume 44 and Wolves
Posted in Blog on February 2, 2010 5:27 pm by Annette Roman | View Comments (3) | Add Comment
Volume 44 of Inuyasha is full of surprising twists and turns as Inuyasha and company continue their quest to help the demon sage recover his stolen liver (ewwww, gross!). I won't say much more to avoid any spoilers, but suffice to say you will be surprised!
The rest of this volume is quite tragic. A wolf demon tribe is attacked, and many clan members are slaughtered. A tribe member fights to save his brother's life, and fellow wolf demon Koga joins the battle. These wolf demons are humanoid, but the story got me thinking about wolf hunting in the real world. It makes me so sad to see these magnificent, intelligent, social animals hunted down.
Like the clan of imaginary wolf demons in Inuyasha, real wolves have a complex social structure. The adults mate for life, and packs live, hunt and raise their young cooperatively. Shooting the adults for trophies disrupts these social groupings and breaks pair bonds, thereby jeopardizing all the pack members' chances for survival.
Now it's true that ranchers suffer financial loss when wolves kill livestock. But ironically, hunting wolves can just make the problem worse. Killing adult wolves, who are experienced hunters, pushes the younger wolves to attack livestock because they are easier prey.
And no, I'm not totally opposed to hunting. Many hunters are great conservators of our wild natural land. Deer live a better life wild in the woods than a steer does in a stockyard or a chicken does in a cage. Deer can quickly overpopulate so the whole herd suffers starvation. In that way, shooting and eating deer makes sense to me.
I think the public and our government should support ranchers by helping them with costs to erect "fladry," non-lethal strings of cloth and plastic used in Europe to repel wolves.
And shooting an animal just to stuff its head and stick it on your wall...not so sensible. Furthermore, I don't understand how you can get a rush from shooting fierce wolves...with high-powered rifles from a great distance or after running them to the point of exhaustion with a helicopter! Can't you get the same thrill of the hunt by photographing wild animals or doing target practice in a video game?
If you're interested in learning more about wolves and wolf hunting, check out the short documentary Return to the Wild: A Modern Tale of Wolf and Man as well as the Defenders of Wildlife website and the Center for Biological Diversity website, which has some cool free animal ring-tones too! At least I thought they were cool…until my fellow VIZ Media editors objected to the howling, hooting, and growling emanating from my cell phone...
— Annette Roman, Inuyasha manga editor
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