{"id":87511,"date":"2025-10-19T04:13:09","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:13:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87511\/"},"modified":"2025-10-19T04:13:09","modified_gmt":"2025-10-19T04:13:09","slug":"25-years-ago-the-biggest-anime-isekai-was-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/87511\/","title":{"rendered":"25 Years Ago, The Biggest Anime Isekai Was Born"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Isekai<\/a> genre has become one of the biggest storytelling methods in the anime world recently, with countless series seeing protagonist transported into very different worlds from their own. Franchises like Overlord, Sword Art Online, Mushoku Tensei: Jobless Reincarnation, and The Rising of the Shield Hero are just a few of the biggest series to make good use of the Isekai method. Amongst the many anime isekai that have been released over the years, there has been one that has withstood the test of time. Twenty-five years ago, anime fans were introduced to a demonic being known as Inuyasha, and nothing has ever been the same.<\/p>\n

While Inuyasha\u2019s original manga debuted in 1996 from creator Rumiko Takahashi, the anime adaptation from Sunrise premiered four years later in the year 2000. The story following the titular character, Kagome, Sango, Miroku, and Shippo was often not considered an isekai at first, but the parameters of the story clearly made it an example of one of the earliest examples of the sub-genre. Specifically, the teenage Kagome found herself being transported to the supernatural past, encountering Inuyasha and the demonic threats facing the world to help fit the Isekai bill. Ever since debuting in Japan, the Isekai anime has become one of the most successful anime to hit North America, thanks to the help of one big platform.<\/p>\n

Inuyasha arrived as a part of Cartoon Network\u2019s Adult Swim in 2002, playing late at night under the adult-oriented programming block that allowed the show to air all of its moments free of censorship. Much like Dragon Ball Z and Cowboy Bebop, the Isekai hit wild heights, and even to this day, there are still memes shared online when it came to the anime\u2019s ending that would play late at night for years. Garnering close to two hundred episodes across the original anime series and its follow-up, Inuyasha: The Final Act, the franchise also released several movies to help expand on the supernatural terrain. Of course, Inuyasha\u2019s story didn\u2019t end here.<\/p>\n

The Sequel That Introduced The Next Inuyasha Generation<\/p>\n

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Following the conclusion of the anime in 2010, Inuyasha stunned the anime world when it was announced that a sequel series was in the works. One decade later, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon introduced the daughters of both Inuyasha and Sesshomaru<\/a> in a surprise follow-up that many didn\u2019t expect. While Yashahime didn\u2019t hit the same \u201cheights\u201d as its predecessor in either popularity or episode length, as the sequel series housed forty-eight episodes in total, it continued the world\u2019s story in some surprising ways. Unfortunately, when this sequel series ended, there has been no word of Inuyasha\u2019s world making a comeback since.<\/p>\n

This isn\u2019t to say that the series ended in such a way that it couldn\u2019t return, as Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha were last seen venturing to the sea to explore new worlds and tackle new challenges. However, creator Rumiko Takahashi does have another big project in the works for the anime world. Takahashi\u2019s latest manga, Mao, first began in 2019 and has continued dropping new chapters to this day. While Mao isn\u2019t a series that takes place in the same universe as Inuyasha and Yashahime, it has a wildly similar art style and focuses on the supernatural with its titular character. The manga is also spawning an anime adaptation set to arrive next year from Sunrise, as Takahashi and the anime studio clearly have had a good history with one another.<\/p>\n

Luckily, watching the original Inuyasha isn\u2019t too difficult<\/a>, especially thanks to Pluto TV. The platform not only allows anime fans to revisit the series, but the outlet has a 24\/7 channel devoted to the supernatural story. The first season is also available to watch on Amazon Prime Video, with the entirety of the anime also housed on Tubi. The sequel series, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, is available on Crunchyroll, rounding out the full story from creator Rumiko Takahashi. Even if we never see Inuyasha return with new stories, the isekai universe won\u2019t soon be forgotten thanks to anime fans\u2019 love of the world.<\/p>\n

What do you think of Inuyasha\u2019s amazing anniversary? Leave a comment below\u00a0and join the conversation now in the\u00a0ComicBook Forum<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Isekai genre has become one of the biggest storytelling methods in the anime world recently, with countless…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":87512,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[156,66247,66248,111,139,69,11013,437],"class_list":{"0":"post-87511","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-tv","8":"tag-entertainment","9":"tag-inuyasha","10":"tag-isekai","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz","14":"tag-regular-feature","15":"tag-tv"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=87511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/87511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/87512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=87511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=87511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=87511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}