I've been reading this for about a week now. It's a classic, and is a finished series with in excess of 500 chapters. There has also been a long running anime of the manga too. There is tons of stuff out there about the series so I'm sure you can find lots of information about it if you are interested.
The basic plot so far, 296 chapters in, is that a girl, Kagome, from the modern world has somehow returned into the ancient world where demons, known as youkai, roam. She somehow carries a jewel of power called the Shikon no Tama (Tama being 'egg' in Japanese). This powerful item is wanted by the many many youkai that roam as it provides them with immense strength and power, as well as granting half-youkai the ability to become full human or full youkai. Due to circumstance, the jewel is shattered into many peices and scattered across the kingdom, and the quest to recover them all begins.
Besides Kagome, there is a 'good' half youkai called Inuyasha that enters the play. In ancient times, he was involved with a miko (a priestess of sorts) called Kikkyo who used to possess the Shikon no Tama, but with a bad youkai's influence, she seals Inuyasha to sleep for eternity, and dies. Kagome accidentally re-awakens Inuyasha and ends up having him being part of the team. Oh, as a side note, Kagome appears very similar to Kikkyo and is believed to be the reincarnation of Kikkyo.
Thrown in a fox tanuki, a leecherous priest, a youkai terminator and some other people, and you have a epic adventure with comedy, romance, death, destruction, emotions and everything else inbetween.
It really is no wonder why it is one of the most popular series out there (ranked 13th at One Manga). Got the time? Got the bandwidth? Then try this one ^^
I was going to upload a picture of the front cover of volume one but blogger was having internal problems so it tells me.
The basic plot so far, 296 chapters in, is that a girl, Kagome, from the modern world has somehow returned into the ancient world where demons, known as youkai, roam. She somehow carries a jewel of power called the Shikon no Tama (Tama being 'egg' in Japanese). This powerful item is wanted by the many many youkai that roam as it provides them with immense strength and power, as well as granting half-youkai the ability to become full human or full youkai. Due to circumstance, the jewel is shattered into many peices and scattered across the kingdom, and the quest to recover them all begins.
Besides Kagome, there is a 'good' half youkai called Inuyasha that enters the play. In ancient times, he was involved with a miko (a priestess of sorts) called Kikkyo who used to possess the Shikon no Tama, but with a bad youkai's influence, she seals Inuyasha to sleep for eternity, and dies. Kagome accidentally re-awakens Inuyasha and ends up having him being part of the team. Oh, as a side note, Kagome appears very similar to Kikkyo and is believed to be the reincarnation of Kikkyo.
Thrown in a fox tanuki, a leecherous priest, a youkai terminator and some other people, and you have a epic adventure with comedy, romance, death, destruction, emotions and everything else inbetween.
It really is no wonder why it is one of the most popular series out there (ranked 13th at One Manga). Got the time? Got the bandwidth? Then try this one ^^
I was going to upload a picture of the front cover of volume one but blogger was having internal problems so it tells me.
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