InuYasha

Recently, throughout this trimester I've read this graphic novel book called InuYasha, by Rumiko Takahashi. For almost all the book she has written in her life, they're all Manga books. One of it is Ranma 1/2, the book is about a boy named Ranma Saotome that suffered an accident during a train journey. As a result, he's cursed to become a girl when splashed with cold water, while hot water changes him back to a boy. This book and InuYasha are both Manga books, even they have different main point or theme. They're also very interesting and attracts readers. InuYasha is about a half demon- half human guy and a girl named Kagome trying to collect pieces of Shikon Jewel to combine all of them together to one whole jewel, the theme is that these two main characters are going around the "fake world" to collect the shards before it falls into the enemy's' hand.

In Inuyasha's world, there's a powerful jewel called the Shikon Jewel, guarded by a priestess named Kikyo. She was later killed by Naraku in InuYasha's form while InuYasha was in deep sleep.The Shikon Jewel has massive powers to give any demon or half-demon like InuYasha the power and strength to defeat all other demons and rule the world. One time, the half-demon InuYasha attempted to steal the jewel, but failed and got shot by Kikyo and was pinned to a sacred tree with a sacred sealing arrow which also made him fall to sleep for 50 years. Meanwhile, in the real world in Japan, a Japanese girl named Kagome discovered a mystery well inside an abandoned house at the back of her house. As she falls down the well, it takes her to InuYasha's world. At one moment when the Shikon Jewel was taken by a demon who turned into an owl. Kagome wanted to help and shot the owl with an arrow, but she accidentally shot the jewel and pierced it into many pieces. After that, reluctantly agreed to work as a team to recover all the pieces of the shattered Shikon Jewel before it falls into the wrong hand. On their way to collect the fragments of the jewel, they also found and made friends with new people such as Shipo, a nine-tailed fox, Miroku, and monk with the Wind Tunnel in his hand which when opened can suck everything inside, the tunnel was a curse from Miroku's grandfather when he fought Naraku, and also Sango, a sister of Kohaku, who was her younger brother and was killed by Naraku, an evil, powerful demon. Along their path to achieve the goal to recover the jewel, all the demons have came and tried to take the Shikon Jewel but most of them failed.

      

Since volume 9, Naraku, an evil powerful demon, and the one who killed Kohaku, Sango's brother appeared. He also wanted to steal the pieces of the shattered Shikon Jewel that InuYasha and Kagome had collected. Naraku has an incredible power and he's very strong, so many volumes of the story are all about InuYasha and Kagome with their friends fighting against Naraku himself. The last volume I read, volume 13, was about InuYasha, Kagome and their friends, went into a cave and fought against a giant monster. And suddenly, Kikyo appeared, shot the monster and the monster vanished.

So far, I really like this book. I recommend you to read this book of you like manga books or fighting scenes. I can tell you this, THIS BOOK IS THE BEST MANGA BOOK EVER !! You should definitely read this book if you're a manga fan like me. 

Book Review by Khoi P.