>>280575523
The plot does involve a girl traveling to a past period and meets a sword user, yet:
Inuyasha’s group is of 6 characters always traveling together, Mao’s group is of only 3 which in fact is like Rinne's group of Kyoukai no Rinne (a boy not rude running an honest business with his little servant and a female companion), and their allies appear on and then.
2. It features demons, yet most of the major characters are humans. There are between 20 and 30 significant characters so far, and only 2 of them are demons, and some of them are like the Black Cats of Kyoukai no Rinne.
3. Unlike the mystery of Inuyasha and Kikyo's tragic past which was quickly uncovered, the pieces of the puzzle of the past in Mao are slowly coming together and even after more than 150 chapters, not everything has been uncovered.
4. In Inuyasha, despite regularly coming across Inuyasha’s group and Naraku and some of his incarnations, Sesshomaru, Kikyo and Koga rarely crossed paths (Sesshomaru and Koga in fact never cross paths in the manga (ep99 was a filler episode, and it’s probably the cause)). In Mao, the handling of the major characters crossing paths seems better.
And that's not all, I just don't want to spoil too much. You might see few things that could remind you of Inuyasha, yet you have to see it until its most recent chapter to see for yourself if it's exactly like Inuyasha.
