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Inu-Yasha - The Movie - Affections Touching Across Time Director: Toshiya Shinohara Number of Items: 1 Format: Color, Closed-captioned, Widescreen, Dolby Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated) Running Time: 100 minutes Studio: VIZ VIDEO Product Group: DVD Release Date: 2004-09-07 Buy from Amazon |
 "InuYasha Movie 1 : Affections Touching Across Time"If you are a InuYasha fan this movie is for you. Between Kagome and InuYasha's relationship growing, it has a couple good laughs in it. For a brief moment, InuYasha hugs Kagome!!! Yet, this would be a good movie to add to your collection along with the 2nd & 3rd movie!! "Great Anime Movie!"Inuyahsa: Affections Touching Across time is a great movie! The animation is doen perfectly and makes me only wish they put as much hard work into the actual anime series that they did in the movie. Oh well....its all still good. Anyways what this movie is about is an evil demon named Menomaru wants to unseal the power of his father, Hyoga, who was sealed away by Inuyasha's father. To do so he needs the power of the Tetsusaiga to destroy the fang left behind to seal the demon. Once Inu Yasha is tricked into doing this the real trouble soon begines as the souls of the many villagers on the island are slowly being drawn to Menomaru. To make matters even worse, Kirara has been tunred against Sango and the others and now Sango must fight her one and only friend left from the demon slayer village. Thats the basic plot....now on to thhe specs...This movie has the following special features... ~Line-art Gallery ~Japanese Inuyahsa Movie Promos ~Special Inuyasha Footage (all this is a background on the story) ~Dolby 5.1 digital audio A few things that i noticed when watching the movie in english i noticed that some characters where speaking while anothers character's mouth is moving. For example....when Kagoem is holding an arrow to Menomaru's two femal helpers you HEAR menomaru say "you're a fiesty one" but the blue haired girl is the one who's mouth is moving! This is not the only time it happens...so i have to say that they didnt do the best of dubbing job. Although if you like the japanese version you should be just fine. One of the best parts of the movie i think i just in the beggining as it moves back and forth between the characters and to a scene with flames with cast and so on listed...i thought is was cool. One thing i noticed tho that this film starts out light hearted and funny like we all love and quicly gets serious within about 15 minutes. You will then have the occasional funny scene between Miroku and Sango and one particular good one with Haachi...but i think it balances out okay...especiall at the end...make sure you watch thru all the credits to witness a very hilarious scene between Kagome and Inuyahsa! In a nut shell....buy This movie if you like Inuyahsa....it is a great asset to the series and you will surly be missing out if you dont. It's great anime...no doubt about it.  "i don't like it"i don't know why a lot of people like this, but i really don't. it seems like the plot of a hundred other animes out there, it's really predictable. and why do everyone have long hair?  "Inuyasha rules!!!"This is Inuyasha's first movie to come out, which I was really surprised to see the movie. I actually saw this movie on Cartoon Network, on saturday, Adult Swim. Basically, this movie moves...before and after the end of the series, but of course, the second movie will tell more information. "The first Inuyasha movie"Inuyasha - Affections Touching Across Time. The first Inuyasha movie. INTRODUCTION: When I was younger, I was a big-time anime fan. Although little of the Japanese animation was being shown on American TV back then, what little I saw, I liked. It fast became apparent that the Japanese had a much better way of creating animation - one that fused seriousness and comedy perfectly, and one that would appeal to people of all ages - NOT just children. And in recent years I had pretty much abandoned my interest in anime altogether. However, I had always remained curious, and in the more recent years I had heard of a series called Inuyasha that was constantly getting praised. I watched a few episodes, and it wasn't hard to see why. The series was created by Rumiko Takahashi, creator of Ranma 1/2 (a series that remains VERY popular.) The series was so popular that, like many animes, full-length movies of the series were created. The first of which was Affections Touching Across Time. Read on for my review of the first film. STORYLINE: Two hundred years ago, Inuyasha's father battled against a demon called Hyoga, and succeeded in sealing him away. It seemed that conflict, two centuries old, was at its end. But that's not the case. Hyoga had a son, Menomaru, and his son seeks to break the seal on his father's point of sealing away, so he may absorb his father's power and achieve the level of destruction his father never got the chance to. It's up to Inuyasha and the rest of the heroes to find a way to keep this newfound threat from destroying the planet, and causing a never-ending winter in Kagome's era. OPINIONS: This movie is extremely good. I really had my doubts, since movies based on anime series are often subpar. But that's not the case here. First and foremost, this is a FULL-LENGTH movie, nearly two hours in length. I admit, the plot isn't the most original thing I have ever experienced, but that doesn't mean it isn't pulled off well. All the characters you know and love from the series (with Koga and Naraku noticably absent) are all here, and pretty much everything you love about the series comes together nicely here. The quality of the animation is greatly improved over the series, and that's saying a lot since the series had very good animation! In the end, this movie is nothing short of excellent. If you like the series, you're gonna like this movie. DVD: Much like the DVDs of the series, the DVDs of the movies are a rip-off pricewise. However, you DO get the option of watching a dub or sub version, as well as several other smaller features, like a documentary overview of the series, line drawings of the characters from the film, uncensored Japanese introductions/conclusions/film trailers, and a few other bonuses. These are nice bonus features, but they don't make the DVD worth the radically-inflated price that some stores charge for it. OVERALL: Inuyasha makes an excellent transition from a series to a movie. In many cases, anime-based movies are dismal failures, but in this case, that is as far from the truth as you could possibly get. If you're a fan of the series, you must see this movie. I can almost guarantee any fan of the series will be satisfied with it. |
