Inuyasha: an eternity and a half.

[secondlina]

My friendtuppa_tuppa sent me an email with some odd news. She read the following about Inuyasha on http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumiko_Takahashi : 

-> During the latter half of the 1990s, Rumiko Takahashi continued with short stories and her installments of Mermaid Saga and One-Pound Gospel until beginning her fourth major work, InuYasha. While Ranma ½, Urusei Yatsura, and Maison Ikkoku all were heavily seated in the romantic comedy genre, InuYasha was more akin to her dark Mermaid Saga. The series became her most eclectic work, featuring action, romance, horror, fantasy, (folklore-based) historical fiction, and comedy. This series remains ongoing in Shônen Sunday and is as of this writing 48 volumes. Rumiko Takahashi recently stated that the series will continue to be at least 500 chapters, or 50 volumes, making it her longest work by far.

My friend in question was a bit taken aback. She's been re-reading her series and after 8 volumes, she's already fed up of Kagome's and Inu's sexual tension. I think all this waiting is going to stress the hell out of you all. Wikipedia also mentionned how fans either though Takahashi was an awesome writer or a sellout that adapted her style to please the crowds. I think she's a bit of both. Her style did evolve with the times after all. The article also mentionned she was one of the richest women in japan. 

Oddly enough, apparently, Takahashi-sensei as been known to have made the worse ever manga endings with Ranma and Urusei Yatsura. But, with Maison Ikkoku, apparently, she did one of the best. So...Will inuyasha end well or not? I truly wonder.

Aside from that, i'm already working on my first project: I'm planning to make ome kind of paper sculpture from a book. The artist Su Blackwell was a great inspiration. I discovered her while I was looking for book designs. Look at her stuff, it's great!



Here she did this with the Snow Queen fairy tale book (one of my favorites!)



Here we got the transformation of the Alice in wonderland book.



And this one is just beautiful....

What i'm planning to do is recreate failling rain. Wish me luck!
-Secondlina

Comments

[paynesgrey.livejournal.com]

That drawing is freaking awesome. I love you! *worships*

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

I like the manga. It's wonderful and interesting. And yup, it's true, it's VERY similar to the level of violence and destruction as the Mermaid Sagas.

However, I'm on book 18, and I understand why Inu Yasha and Kagome aren't together, though it's frustrating to my inner fan-girl. It's the whole Kikyo thing, and how he feels responsible for corrupting her. It's a noble reason, even though it's incredibly sad.

And I seriously had thought that the series was over already o.o;;;.

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

We're on frikkin' manga 48 in Japan and it's finally starting to cruise toward an ending oh ever so slowly. It looks like we're working on Miroku and Sango's final big arc, which means once that's over and done with, we have nowhere to go but toward the end. I'm ready for this series to be over. (You can see why when Slayers came along, I latched onto it so tightly.)

Those paper sculptures are absolutely beautiful. I'd love to see how you would do something like that. Do you have any ideas what books you would like to use for the falling rain project?

A friend of a friend

[tuppa-tuppa.livejournal.com]

Isabelle (Secondlina) told me I should talk to you, that we had lots in common.
She talks about you and makes refences to you all the time, so here I am, making the first step.

Well if they're on Book 48, please, oh please let me know at what volume the series end, when you find out yourself.

Re: A friend of a friend

[dqbunny.livejournal.com]

Hi there!!! *hugs* Nice to meet you! Isa's told me a lot about you too!! Just remember, take everything with a grain of salt and verify the...oh, wait, that's only if you've talked to kitesareevil.

I'm guessing that the series will end somewhere in volume 52-53, though at this rate, it'll probably end at manga 501 and we'll all be pushing up daisies in some cemetary. But, it looks like we're finally getting somewhere. The next new chapter comes out tomorrow and I'm hoping it'll be an end to the latest Miroku/Sango arc.

[yukinoomoni.livejournal.com]

PS I LOVED the end of Maison Ikkoku, but I haven't finished Ranma and I haven't read Lum.

[ichiban-victory.livejournal.com]

Okay, I never could get into InuYasha, but I love that drawing. (Kagome looks so put out! ..and old!) XD

The artist in me is really fascinated by the pop-up book art, but the book lover in me is cringing at the thought of someone taking a book and cutting it to pieces like that. Gah, the conflict! And for some odd reason I feel like doing Origami now...

[earthstar-moon.livejournal.com]

I do enjoy Inu-yasha, although I do agree that it's a very long series. I just hope that it will get a good ending after having such a long plot.

That artist does amazing artwork. I think the last image would be my favorite too.

[snapdragon76.livejournal.com]

Oooh, new layout? Coool...

Hey, those book sculptures are pretty cool looking! And I wish you luck on your upcoming project.