Inuyasha

I'm rereading/rewatching Inuyasha for my isekai presentation. And can I just say... I appreciate Inuyasha so much for what it is. I spent SO LONG trying to find a recent isekai anime/manga that wasn't overflowing with fanservice and harems. That turned out to be a REALLY HARD TASK. Like, some might not have a lot of fanservice in them, but they're just weird or not great? It's hard to commit to something new and hope that it'll be good for the presentation, because often times it can get bad later on.

There was this one that I tried to watch, but in the first episode (which was a whole hour by the way), a woman in the show falsly accuses the main character of sexual assault and rape. And like. WHAT?! That's how a show about four heroes sent to an RPG game world starts?! I was mad for it wasting an hour of my time. Then, I tried to read one about a college girl dying and being reincarnated in a world without books as a littler girl. Her whole dream is to be a librarian, but because there's no book, she ends up inventing books or something. I thought the premise was interesting, but the beginning of the manga was VERY weird, and I didn't want to dedicate a ridiculous amount of time to figure out if it was worth it for the presentation.

My initial first choice was going to be That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, because it was very fun, and embraced a lot of the tropes of the genre. The only thing that I was turned off by was the fanservice and some of the really bad fanservice designs of the women. Other than that though, the show is great.

Then I gave up and just decided to do Inuyasha because I loved it in middle school, and thought it probably held up well. I am happy to report that it is still good! Although, the story moves a lot faster than I remember. A lot of the isekai tropes are not present in this work, and everything that happens genuinely feels like it's naturally moving the plot along! It's great. I love it.

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