I'm tempted to meme about this but I would actually like to seriously discuss why this was such a profound and poignant common experience that it bordered on the religious.

>>281203047 (OP)
How did he fuck their human mother

>>281203047 (OP)
because sovl

>>281204035
Beyond that man. Every time I hear it, it's like someone is dangling my true and unknown home just out of my reach. Like I'm briefly connected with a past life, or a correct life.

for me, it's probably because it was on tv really late and i'd only occasionally catch it while teetering between awake and asleep, and i'd rarely get to actually watch the episodes, so there was an ephemerality to it

>>281205348
This is a big part of it for me as well. Drifting off to sleep to the Inuyasha endings in the early morning, just as the sun is starting to rise, is probably the most at peace I'll ever feel in my life.

>>281203047 (OP)

Streaming wasn't a thing back then, so monoculture was more prevalent. A lot of kids were exposed to anime, outside of stuff like DBZ, Pokémon, Card Captures, etc., because of this show. In Canada, specifically, it came on at a very prime spot for TV.

>>281203047 (OP)
That's the power of aesthetics. The original form of religious/magic cultism surrounded the idea that just seeing an image changes the observer's reality. In the city-state temples of Sumeria, the central icons were divine images labelled things like "crown" and "metalworking" and "law." This is the true nature of idolatry, worship of idols or the magic of images. As Dr. Ioan Culianu discusses in his masterwork "Eros and Magic in the Renaissance," the old system regarded Eros as the moving force of reality and images as the control mechanisms for consciousness. In that sense, the strongest anime can produce explicitly religious experiences of contact with idols and transformation through narrative.

Bump

>>281206773
Well, that explains Inner Universe.

>>281208889
Music itself originates as a form of magic with the explicit purpose of consciousness manipulation. The reason the lyre is legendary is because it's said you can sit down and play and the music will cause a city to be built. The badly degraded story of Jericho's fall shows the inverse function, destruction by music. Medea's golden fleece was the most valuable object in the world because it held her song, more powerful than the drugs of resurrection she wielded. Images can be modulated by voice and string as well as by sight. Offensive music was once banned, or at least regulated, because it was understood to be a force that sows disharmony.

>>281206741
>A lot of kids were exposed to anime, outside of stuff like DBZ, Pokémon, Card Captures, etc., because of this show. In Canada, specifically, it came on at a very prime spot for TV.
This was my experience. I watched all the shows you listed but they all just felt like any other cartoon to me. Inyasha actually felt like something different with it being set in Japan and still having the Japanese OPs, EDs, OST and not having the cultural difcerences white washed like a 4kids dub. It had romance, visceral violence, amazing designs for the characters and the monsters. It was like crack to me. I've been thinking of watching it all again.

>>281203047 (OP)
Watching late night FLCL was like this for me too. The hazy distorted pillows tracks elicited a weird other-lively feel. It didn't just look cool. It made me feel cool. A decade later their music basically became a whole genre but never quite captured that wailing energy and tempo.

It's comfy and soulful.

>>281205348
I watched it in the afternoon when my mom wasn't home since she thought the show was demonic lol

I played the absolute shit out of this game on the AS website.

this and the meatwad headless carl game

>>281203063
He has a human form

>>281209531
Stick death, newgrounds, homestar runner and toonami/AS games on the school computers after hours

>>281203047 (OP)
The whole thing with Kagome finding a portal to the past in her backyard was very magical and grounded into childhood fantasies, similar to Narnia.

>>281210364
I always thought her concept as a city girl who has a sort of rural streak because she's from a shrine family who have their own little home apart from the city was neat. And then bringing a bike and other little bits of modern gear through the well, perfect.

>>281203047 (OP)
Aside from everything mentioned in the thread, Inuyasha had phenomenal backgrounds and color palettes. Easily one of the best looking shows to air on tv in the west. Everything was so grounded in nature too that its easy connect with the visuals. Take op for instance. Even if you remove the massive demon and the spirits and the jagged rocks, its still able to capture some of the most magical moments in life. Nothing beats the moments just after sunset with crisp breeze as night settles in.

>>281203063
>All of Rumiko’s half demon characters are products of Demon male/Human female, never the other way around
What did she mean by this?

>>281203047 (OP)
Since no one else mentioned it, it's literally because of Rumiko being the author and Ranma collectively being THE show in most of the world globally.
So Inuyasha also picked on in latino countries really well and rest was history.

>>281211562
She's single because she's a monster fucker and there's no monsters

>>281203047 (OP)
Literally saturday morning cartoon.

>>281206773
This, it’s not simply nostalgia. Inuyasha hits very differently, at least the first two seasons. Rumiko’s unique art style, the studio’s outstanding environments, a fantastic dub, the focus on interpersonal conflict, and very grounded characters make it easy to feel immersed in the story.

>>281209289
Also interesting

>>281203063
Seshomaru is a full demon.

>>281203047 (OP)
It really needs to be studied. Honestly, I think it's because it's true art. That's what art is supposed to do to people.

> BOKU DACHI WAAAAA

>>281204412
I listened to this ending on repeat for like three days when my Dad died. It was the only thing that could capture my feelings. I find it really poignant when Sesshomaru sees his Father's fang and touches the remainder of his pelt that he wears.

>>281209468
That seen where the brother's girlfriend bites his ear and tells him she's going to explode did things to me

>>281203047 (OP)
for me it was because it was the first thing that I saw that felt like real anime, in my pre-internet, cable tv childhood.
something alien and captivating.

>>281209390
>>281206741
maybe this really was a Canadian thing then.
this shit on Friday night was like a drug to my 12-year-old brain.
then .hack//sign would come on and I'd try my hardest to stay up and watch more of this magical 'anime' thing but the show would invariably put me to sleep.

>>281209468
I never watched FLCL late at night, I borrowed the DVDs from a friend a few years after it stopped airing. My memories aren't hazy at all, but it still did manage to induce some sort of pocket dimension/rarefied air. I remember getting home from school, being alone in the house, the family room sort of a dim blue in twilight, the bright blue LED and chrome and clear plastic of our new slim DVD player, sitting on the couch and marathoning the first four episodes. Knowing - KNOWING - that this thing was going to be withe me for the rest of my life. And as a furry, the cat ear episode did something to me, and specifically the scene with Naota and Ninamori in his bed.

>>281203047 (OP)
make epic memes

>>281214285
>9:30pm friday nights on BIONIX

>>281214285
>The primal digital scream that begins OBSESSION
Shit did not come from this world.

>>281214285
Inuyasha was bigger in latino world than Canada could ever hope for my man

>>281217599
Can't the same thing be said about any anime?

>>281218336
Most but not all, there's a show in my country that's only popular here and two other countries.