Thirty years after his debut in Weekly Shonen Sunday, , inuyasha It remains one of Rumiko Takahashi’s most recognizable series. The event arrives in November 2026 with a commemorative volume that Shogakukan has published in Japan and that, for now, does not have an English edition announced.
Eleven years of travel between the Sengoku and the present
The story starts with Kagome Higurashi, a high school student from the current era who falls into the Sengoku period and runs into Inuyasha, a semi-demon. From there, the leading couple pursues the fragments of the Shikon jewel and tries to stop Naraku’s plans.
The serialization lasted more than eleven years and ended with 558 chapters compiled in 56 Tankobon volumes. Inuyasha was not Takahashi’s first series to arrive at a magazine, nor was the last one, but one of those that conserves readers around the world three decades later.
Shonen and Shojo on the same page
One of the points that explains its validity is the mixture of shonen and shojo elements, designed to attract both audiences without anyone feeling out of place. Action and romance advance on par: battles hold Kagome’s plot and feelings for Inuyasha land her.
The comparison with the Magical Girls of the nineties is inevitable, although Kagome is not. Like those heroines, she is an ordinary girl dragged into a fantastic world, but her supernatural destiny rests on the spiritual rather than on magic. And instead of waiting for her to rescue her, she fights.
The book that Shogakukan publishes in Japan
Shogakukan has launched Inuyasha: Sengoku Otogizoshi 30th Anniversary Original Artwork & Interview Collection, a volume that brings together color illustrations, covers of Weekly Shonen Sunday and collaborative pieces, in addition to comments from Takahashi, interviews and reflections on the characters.
The book also includes the author’s initial plans and her first ideas for the series. It is published in Japanese and there is no announcement of a translated version, so whoever wants to consult it will have to do it in its original language.
At the moment there is no official statement about an edition outside Japan or about other acts of the anniversary. What remains, and is not little, is the manga: 56 volumes and a leading couple that continues to function as a gateway to the shonen of the nineties.
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Source: CBR Anime
