Review of Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
Inuyasha was one of the first anime I ever knew about, back in the days when it would run on Adult Swim alongside FullMetal Alchemist and the like. Seeing a sequel series announced honestly came as surprise at first, but I guess not even anime is exempt from the trends of modern media. Soon we will be doomed to receive only sequels and remakes until the end of time. I think the story here relies too much on nostalgia baiting the audience. They know we want to see old characters and they'll dangle little bits here and there on a string to try and keep youengaged, only to pull the rug out from under you. The story is sort of like poetry, they rhyme. That's a nice way of saying they've essentially gone The Force Awakens route and rehashed pretty much the exact same plot with different characters. It's lazy and unoriginal, but I hate to admit I got suckered into it anyway. I do have nostalgia for these characters and settings much as I hate to admit it, so I found myself enjoying the show despite its flaws.
They had a part 2 planned from the start I think because the season ends on an episode that you really don't end a series like this on. I don't think it's spoilers to tell you that you don't kill off the tritagonist of your story before their arc is complete. That's a bad end route that you get an auto reload from, there's going to be some dragon balls or rinne rebirth shenanigans and everything will be fine.
Still, even though I knew there was another season on the way I couldn't help but feel a bit blue balled by that ending. They were literally still wrapping things up into and after the end credits of the final episode and still they didn't resolve anything. The parts of the show that were the most fun was when it wasn't trying to do any major story thing and was just episodic adventures with the hanyou trio, it reminded me most of the original show. I give it an optimistic 8/10, in hopes that the second half doesn't let me down with some stupid ending that ruins the whole show for me.