Inu Yasha Visual Manga, Volume 1 covers the events of the first three exciting episodes of the TV and video series, using actual, full-color film frames to narrate the story. High-school coed Kagome lives with legends - a legendary tree, a legendary well, and a legendary fortune-teller grandfather. When her little brother goes into the shrine that houses the well, Kagome goes in to stop him from playing in dangerous places. Suddenly a demon appears and drags her into the well and out the other side into ... a legend. Rumiko Takahasi's vibrant tableaux of feudal Japan is filled with magic, demons, and a half dog-demon boy who is thrown together with the spirited, modern girl, Kagome, on an epic quest. This is where legends begin.

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I adore the show, and the dub too usually, and totally didn't mind forking over $10 for some great quality pictures and a bit of a guide to the dub script. (Plus, the incomplete sentences in episode 1 come out a *lot* better on paper.) However, a choice few lines and scenes were cut, redone (often to follow the subtitles), or shortened (my favorite part of the episode 2 dub, where Inuyasha says something like, "maybe you haven't noticed, but the world's full of monsters. You want I should go after them all?" was rephrased in here to be "you want me to" instead of "you want I should", which I had happened to think was about the funniest thing ever ^_^), so it isn't a dead-on guide, but if this really upsets you, I suggest you seek professional help.

Other fans might be angered about how the manga was flipped by Viz to read the Western way but this book is printed in Japanese style for pretty much no reason (since the dub was pretty Americanized anyway), but, I don't really care, and I don't recommend that you do either. (Oh god, they put Koga's jewel shard in HIS OTHER ARM!! THE TRAVESTY!!!) Both the manga and the show aren't meant to be taken that seriously. The creator has a great sense of humor. Just enjoy it!

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Inu-Yasha Uncovered in Ani-Manga Form.May 11, 2004
By Chao-Chen (Jack) Lin "The Professional"
You know, I've seen and heard about some Japanese Anime shows that are being put in Ani-Manga form, but I've never seen that kind of format would be as good as in Inu-Yasha. Of course, if you like to see anime in still motion, you're welcome to try it. The colour is so good, and the art is so superb!

Of course, the drawback is that some screencaps are omitted or altered for the book format, but I wouldn't be much worried about it anyway.

All in all, this is a great way to start knowing about Inu-yasha, and nothing does it better than VIZ themselves. Overall, I'll give this title a 5 stars (AKA An A+) for its outstanding performance and animation arts. So, I hope you'll enjoy it as much as I do. Thanks, bye!

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My Brother bought it and the show Rules!(By Joey)Mar 02, 2005

A girl named Kagome Higurashi. A Half-Demon Inuyasha.An evil girl Yura. Aninnocent girl is sucked up into an ancient well. She releases a Demon. Actually, a half - Demon who is Inuyasha.He is trying to steal the sacred Shikon no Toma jewel from Kagome. A crow snatches it and BOOM! Inuyasha n' Kagome hit the crow and POP goes the Shikon.So they look for pieces.

An Evil Girl Yura knocks Kagome down the well back home. Now he must fight Yura. Also it contains the legend of Kikyo Inuyasha's Physcho X.

9+(Mild violence, Minor Language,Mild Brief nudity(Nothing shows))

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The perfect book for any Inu-Yasha fan!!Jun 04, 2005

When I first saw the TV show, Inu-Yasha, I fell in love with it immediately. Unfortunatly, I wanted to own all the episodes for myself and my family doesn't have much money to buy all the videos. So I went to Borders and bought this first book! I loved it because it went exactly by the TV series and was amusing each time I read it. I can't wait till I raise enough money to get the second book. I hope that someday I will get all the books... atleast for the first season. The books will also last longer than the movies, and easier to handle. I really recommend to any Inu-Yasha fan to own atleast the first book in these series!

SWEET Ani-Manga!Apr 10, 2011
By K. Martin
I bought this ani-manga for myself awhile back and just bought one for my best friend's birthday and she loves it! We both have been big fans of the InuYasha series since we were young teenagers and this ani-manga has WONDERFUL animated art from the anime and an AWESOME storyline! It has alot of ancient Japanese mythology and we LOVE IT! This series is very fun, entertaining, neat, creative, charming, and enjoyable. It has action, horror, romance, drama, comedy, EVERYTHING! A great buy! We are very satisfied customers!

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