Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

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Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
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半妖の夜叉姫
(Han'yō no Yashahime)
Genre Adventure, fantasy[1]
Anime television series
Directed by
  • Teruo Sato (#1–24)
  • Masakazu Hishida (#25–)
Written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa
Music by Kaoru Wada
Studio Sunrise
Licensed by
Network NNS (ytv)
English network
Original run October 3, 2020 – present
Episodes 35 (List of episodes)
Manga
Written by Takashi Shiina
Published by Shogakukan
English publisher
Viz Media
Demographic Shōnen
Magazine Shōnen Sunday S
Original run September 25, 2021 – present
Portal icon Anime and Manga portal

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon (Japanese: 半妖の夜叉姫 Hepburn: Han'yō no Yashahime?) is a Japanese anime television series produced by Sunrise. It is a sequel to the Inuyasha anime series, which itself is based on the original manga series of the same title written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It follows the adventures of Towa Higurashi and Setsuna, Sesshomaru and Rin's twin daughters, and Moroha, Inuyasha and Kagome Higurashi's daughter. The series' first season aired from October 2020 to March 2021. A second season premiered in October 2021.

Viz Media has licensed the series for North and Latin American territories, while Medialink has licensed it for Southeast Asian and South Asian territories.

Plot

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See also: List of Inuyasha characters § Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon characters

Several years after the events of Inuyasha: The Final Act, Sesshomaru and Rin's four-year-old daughter Towa is separated from her twin sister Setsuna, and gets stranded in the modern era, where she is adopted into her paternal half-aunt Kagome Higurashi's family, raised by Kagome's younger brother Sota and his warmhearted wife Moe. Towa becomes close to her younger adopted sister, six-year-old Mei, who is Towa's "substitute" for Setsuna.

Ten years later, Towa is reunited with Setsuna, when she leaves the modern era through the vast time-traveling power of the mystical Sacred Tree of Ages. During their separation, Setsuna became a hardhearted, feisty demon-slayer working with Kohaku and does not remember her past as they and her dreams were stolen by the mythical Dream Butterfly. In order to restore them, the half-demon twins embark on an adventure alongside their quarter-demon bounty hunter cousin Moroha, the feisty, hard-as-nails fourteen-year-old daughter of Kagome and Inuyasha, who lacks knowledge of her parents; except that her human mother is an uppermost-level priestess and that her equally feisty and impulsively rash father is half dog-demon, half-human hybrid.

At times, the vital essence of the mighty and powerful Sacred Tree of Ages finally reveals itself after many centuries of dormancy, warning them that a longtime rival of their paternal dog-demon grandfather is planning on warping time itself, since Sesshomaru refuses to fight him directly in place of his late father. At the same time, the unparalleled time-based unsurpassable entity is harboring adult Rin in suspended animation for her husband Sesshomaru because of her fatal connection to Zero, the elder sister of Kirinmaru and creator of the seven mystical Rainbow Pearls, whose respective mighty demonic abilities rival those of the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls.

Media

Anime

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See also: List of Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon episodes

The series was first announced in May 2020.[2] It aired from October 3, 2020 to March 20, 2021 on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV.[3][4] The series was produced by Sunrise, directed by Teruo Sato with main character designs by Inuyasha original creator Rumiko Takahashi.[2] Staff from Inuyasha returned, with Katsuyuki Sumisawa in charge of the scripts while Rumiko Takahashi acted as storyboard supervisor,[5] Yoshihito Hishinuma in charge of the anime character designs and Kaoru Wada composing the music.[2] The opening theme "New Era" is performed by the male idol group SixTONES, while the ending theme "Break" is performed by Uru.[6][7] The second opening theme "Burn" is performed by NEWS, while the second ending theme "Kesshō" is performed by Ryokuōshoku Shakai.[8][9]

Viz Media announced the rights to digital streaming, EST, and home video release of the series for North and Latin American territories.[2][10] Viz Media streamed the series on Crunchyroll, Funimation and Hulu.[11] On October 26, 2020, Funimation announced a partnership with Viz Media to release an English dub of the series, with the English cast of Inuyasha reprising their roles.[12][13] Funimation began streaming the English dub on November 6, 2020 along with Hulu and Crunchyroll.[14] The English dub of the series began broadcasting on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning on June 27, 2021.[15] Medialink licensed the series in Southeast Asian territories.[16] The series premiered on Animax Asia on June 21, 2021.[17]

On March 20, 2021, a second season of the series was announced following the release of Episode 24.[18][19] The second season, titled Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon - The Second Act, premiered on October 2, 2021.[20][21] The opening theme is "ReBorn" performed by NEWS, while the ending theme is "Toumei na Sekai" performed by Little Glee Monster.[22]

Manga

A manga adaptation by Takashi Shiina started in Shogakukan's Shōnen Sunday S on September 25, 2021.[23][24] Viz Media has licensed the manga for North American territories.[25]

Reception

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon ranked 9th on Animage's 43rd Anime Grand Prix in 2020.[26] Rumiko Takahashi and Yoshihito Hishinuma were nominated for the Best Character Design category in the Crunchyroll's 2021 Anime Awards.[27]

In her review of the first two episodes, Kara Dennison of Otaku USA made positive comments about the series, praising its cast and its way to "echo the story of Inuyasha without simply retreading it."[28] James Beckett and Monique Thomas of Anime News Network listed Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon as one of the worst anime of the winter 2021 season.[29] The series received criticism from some reviewers for its portrayal of Sesshomaru and Rin as a couple, considering the fact that in the original Inuyasha series Sesshomaru traveled along with Rin when she was a young girl, calling their relationship as "grooming".[30][31][32][33]

References

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