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EP. REVIEW: Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon - The Second Act

I for one am loving this anime. The second season started out strong with great stories, animation and filling in so many questions. Not sure why the reviews on this has so much hate for this or in other word dislike. But it is apparent that whoever is doing these reviews does not like this anime from the get go. Just reading the reviews for the last three episodes it was straight forward dislike from the person doing them. Not sure but I believe we need someone else doing the reviews for this particular anime so we all can get a more objective point of view or review. As far as the characters I am loving them and so glad they went with the direction of Sess's daughters and Inuyash's daughter.

TanyaTheEvil wrote:

I for one am loving this anime. The second season started out strong with great stories, animation and filling in so many questions. Not sure why the reviews on this has so much hate for this or in other word dislike. But it is apparent that whoever is doing these reviews does not like this anime from the get go. Just reading the reviews for the last three episodes it was straight forward dislike from the person doing them. Not sure but I believe we need someone else doing the reviews for this particular anime so we all can get a more objective point of view or review. As far as the characters I am loving them and so glad they went with the direction of Sess's daughters and Inuyash's daughter.

It actually is a different reviewer than who they had last season I believe (and that one was just as critical).

Yeah, season 1 was reviewed by James Beckett and he really disliked it. Now it's Silverman and she seems to share a similar opinion but I don't know if it will escalate as mindscrew poor Beckett suffered in some episodes due to the show's writing.

I believe we need someone else doing the reviews for this particular anime so we all can get a more objective point of view or review.

I want to say I'm glad to see this review popping up. As a big fan of InuYasha I'm still not quite sure how I feel about this series, but after how critical last year's episode reviews were & the fact that it's taken three weeks into the new season for this one to show up, I was afraid the site had dropped it, which is a shame as I think it's important that at least one critical view stick around for the whole thing, as all the other people I've seen still covering it (on YouTube) are just die hard fans (usually of the Sess-Rin ship) that are too forgiving, and it's nice to have that counterbalance.

That said, I do think these first 3 episodes have been a bit better on the whole than season 1. Now maybe I've just gotten used to it, but it does seem that the animation is overall better than S1 (though it definitely still feels B-tier), Towa actually had to struggle to pull something off (in bringing Setsuna back), and they seem to be more focused on following a goal, as ever since Totosai left them with the goal of finding a Kyokun root (I know I misspelled that) the last two episodes (and the next one) seem to all be in service to that.

I don't think I'll be as critical of it this year though, as apparently the studio revealed that Rumiko Takahashi refused to greenlight a sequel centered around InuYasha & Kagome (or their kids) & only agreed to the sequel once they came up with the Sess twins idea (apparently their first pitch was a sequel focusing on InuYasha & Kagome having a son & she turned it down). If true, some of the biggest problems I have with the series are really out of their hands.

TanyaTheEvil wrote:

I believe we need someone else doing the reviews for this particular anime so we all can get a more objective point of view or review.

Since you like the series so much and think it has no weaknesses, it would be more useful to the discussion if, instead of just complaining that the reviewer doesn't share your opinion, you could bring up the specific points you disagree with and explain why they miss the mark or are factually wrong. So far all you've given us is that you like it and that some questions have been answered (which the review acknowledged as a plus). I mean, it's perfectly fine to just say you like it and not elaborate further, but not if your complaint is just that the reviewer doesn't share your appreciation of it. Maybe tell us why she/we should?

As for me, I was a little puzzled by Rebecca saying that the blending of the various fairy tale characters was "objectionable," especially after she'd just said it was interesting. When pointed out, that struck me as the most interesting bit (but I always enjoy her analyses via folklore). If it's because the sad ending doesn't match the "Feudal Fairy Tale" tag, that seems unfair since, if I understood correctly, that was Inuyasha's tag, not Yashahime's (I wasn't aware it was either's!). In any case, I'm not sure why such a mismatch would be "objectionable" even with the "least" qualifier. Then again, I'm not even sure it's a mismatch, as some fairy tales I've read I wouldn't say ended "happily ever after" (I'm lookin' at you, Urashima Taro).

I never said it had no flaws and I am not complaining, however it us very apparent that the reviewer is biased on a negative point. So I will repeat myself. We need a different reviewer someone like Mercedes who will give a non biased opinion. She says both the negatives and positives and when she is giving her opinion she says so. But the person who is doing the review on this anime is straight up biased from the beginning and that I have have a problem with. So instead of attacking me, why don't you read what I said and understand why I said it.

Episode 3 (or 27) did a pretty good job explaining Sesshoumaru's motivation and other things that the previous season didn't bother addressing, and now I'm more confident that head writer Katsuyuki Sumisawa really thought things through and has a plan.

I for one am loving this anime. The second season started out strong with great stories, animation and filling in so many questions. Not sure why the reviews on this has so much hate for this or in other word dislike. But it is apparent that whoever is doing these reviews does not like this anime from the get go. Just reading the reviews for the last three episodes it was straight forward dislike from the person doing them. Not sure but I believe we need someone else doing the reviews for this particular anime so we all can get a more objective point of view or review. As far as the characters I am loving them and so glad they went with the direction of Sess's daughters and Inuyash's daughter.

Rebecca, it seems you missed the subtext that Zero isn’t just angry that Sesshomaru had kids with a human woman (*cough* girl, 20 is the age of majority in Modern Japan), but that he didn’t have children with her. Zero very much fits the scorned/jealous (wannabe) lover stereotype. She’s just angry that Sesshomaru rejected her, which is why she chose a punishment that wouldn’t just kill Rin, but would take away Rin’s beauty.