Last year, Japanese anime studio
Sunrise gave one of the best pick-me-ups anime fans would get during the
ravages of the global pandemic: a sequel/spinoff of long-running anime series “Inuyasha,”
based on Rumiko Takahashi’s manga. This new anime, “Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon,”
premiered in October (with an English dub by Viz following next month) and ran
for 24 episodes, chronicling the adventures of three half-demon girls
travelling between medieval Japan and modern-day Tokyo to search for their
missing family, memories, and the ones responsible for taking them. The finale
which aired this past March was an epic, tragic cliffhanger. Surely that was
not the ultimate end?
Of course not; Sunrise was quick
to announce a follow-up season to “Yashahime,” and ComicBook.com has it that a trailer for that season was released going
into the previous weekend. Sunrise and Viz uploaded the trailer come August 6, and
the scene depicted did not mince words on what will be happening next in the
lives of Towa Higurashi, Moroha, and Towa’s sister Setsuna who was killed in
the battle during the season 1 finale.
As seen right from the first
scenes of the trailer, Setsuna’s soul is taken by spirits to the underworld,
and Towa must follow her there, carrying the broken blade of Tensaiga, the
sword of their demonic father Sesshoumaru which has the power to revive the
dead. There is also a scene where Setsuna’s spear is revealed to have been
forged by the demon blacksmith Totosai, who created the swords used by
Sesshoumaru and his half-demon half-brother Inuyasha. Next, Towa meets a spirit
that apparently gives her a new sword in her arsenal, called the Zanseiken. The
money-shot is when Moroha, hanging on to a flying spirit, sees her parents
Inuyasha and Kagome, where they recognize each other. And then, there is the
matter of their rematch with Kirinmaru, Setsuna’s killer.
While original fans from “Inuyasaha”
may have felt that the first 24 episodes of “Yashahime” were somewhat
disjointed and slow going (like the source anime, actually), they might be more
comfortable with how the plot for “Yashahime” season 2 is moving at a faster
speed. Then again, it might just be the trailer editing that makes it so. But
it would be better to hope that the secret of Kirinmaru, the still-missing
Inuyasha and Kagome, and other mysteries of the show will be unraveled across
season 2 of “Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon,” premiering on October 2 in Japan,
with Viz following up with an English dub sometime later in the fall.
Image from Comic Book Resources
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