This is why I watch Inu-Yasha. It's your standard Rumiko Takahashi show that goes on and on and on and on and on and never fucking ends, but when it hits, it hits.
My favorite character is Sesshoumaru (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/telophase14/sesshoumaru3.jpg), who hits all sorts of Cool Bits buttons for me - tall, silver-haired, is sort of nominally evil BUT NOT REALLY, pretends not to care but deep down the wall around his heart is cracking a bit. Inu-Yasha is his half-brother - Inu's mom was a human and Sess's mom was a youkai - and their unnamed dad, referred to as Inupapa by the fandom, was a mighty taiyoukai who left his two swords to his sons - the Tetsaiga, which can slay a hundred warriors with a single blow (but ONLY IF you're protecting someone, which they don't know), to Inu-Yasha, and the Tensaiga, which can save a hundred lives with one blow, (but ONLY IF you care, which they don't know) to Sesshoumaru. Sess is kinda hacked off about getting what is, to him, the useless sword, and spends most of his time showing up and administering smackdowns to his annoying baby brother. Inu cut Sess's left arm off during one of these battles, which is probably why Sess no longer transforms into his huge demon-dog form, because I bet he thinks he'd look stupid as a three-legged dog.
Sesshoumaru eventually figures out how his sword works when he brings Rin, a small human girl who was savaged by wolves that attacked her village, back to life. Even before the attack, she was an orphaned outcast in the village, so she tags after Sesshoumaru, who makes a few token attempts to command her to go away but eventually gives up and she, he, and the small comedy sidekick demon Jakken who also tags after Sesshoumaru (because he fought under Sess in a huge war and swore to follow him always - woo, command presence!), plus a two-headed lizard-beast-horse-thing form an unlikely pack.
Because Sess tends to leave Jakken, Rin, and the lizardy thing behind when he goes on the Inu!Rampage, it took a long time for the main characters to realize that the human-hating Sesshoumaru has basically adopted this small human child. The Big Baddie Naraku steals Rin at one point to try to manipulate Sesshoumaru, which means that Sess considers Naraku his mortal enemy now. Entirely because of the insult to his august personage, of course, and not because he cares one way or the other about Rin, oh, no. When he's notified that Naraku has Rin, it's great: as octopedingenue puts it, his reaction is basically. "Why should I care? It has nothing to do with me. I'm just going for a walk. In this direction. This is a good direction."
And all of that is only ONE TINY PART of the enormous sprawling saga that its Inu-Yasha.
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My favorite character is Sesshoumaru (http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v280/telophase14/sesshoumaru3.jpg), who hits all sorts of Cool Bits buttons for me - tall, silver-haired, is sort of nominally evil BUT NOT REALLY, pretends not to care but deep down the wall around his heart is cracking a bit. Inu-Yasha is his half-brother - Inu's mom was a human and Sess's mom was a youkai - and their unnamed dad, referred to as Inupapa by the fandom, was a mighty taiyoukai who left his two swords to his sons - the Tetsaiga, which can slay a hundred warriors with a single blow (but ONLY IF you're protecting someone, which they don't know), to Inu-Yasha, and the Tensaiga, which can save a hundred lives with one blow, (but ONLY IF you care, which they don't know) to Sesshoumaru. Sess is kinda hacked off about getting what is, to him, the useless sword, and spends most of his time showing up and administering smackdowns to his annoying baby brother. Inu cut Sess's left arm off during one of these battles, which is probably why Sess no longer transforms into his huge demon-dog form, because I bet he thinks he'd look stupid as a three-legged dog.
Sesshoumaru eventually figures out how his sword works when he brings Rin, a small human girl who was savaged by wolves that attacked her village, back to life. Even before the attack, she was an orphaned outcast in the village, so she tags after Sesshoumaru, who makes a few token attempts to command her to go away but eventually gives up and she, he, and the small comedy sidekick demon Jakken who also tags after Sesshoumaru (because he fought under Sess in a huge war and swore to follow him always - woo, command presence!), plus a two-headed lizard-beast-horse-thing form an unlikely pack.
Because Sess tends to leave Jakken, Rin, and the lizardy thing behind when he goes on the Inu!Rampage, it took a long time for the main characters to realize that the human-hating Sesshoumaru has basically adopted this small human child. The Big Baddie Naraku steals Rin at one point to try to manipulate Sesshoumaru, which means that Sess considers Naraku his mortal enemy now. Entirely because of the insult to his august personage, of course, and not because he cares one way or the other about Rin, oh, no. When he's notified that Naraku has Rin, it's great: as
And all of that is only ONE TINY PART of the enormous sprawling saga that its Inu-Yasha.