"Ryan Mathews" <mathews1@ix.netcom.com> wrote:

Folks, this has been done before.  It's called USHIO & TORA.

Now, I know the differences between INU-YASHA and USHIO & TORA are
far too numerous to even attempt to list, but that central core is
surprisingly the same.  (Unless the "impaled demon" is an element of
traditional Japanese folklore?)

    When I read the translations of the first couple of chapters, my
thought was, "This sounds a lot like Zenki, with the fragments of the
Shikon no Tama (the Jewel of Four Souls) taking the place of the possession
seeds."

Reid Carson
rcarson@mnsinc.com