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.
