Quote: Ayiekie wrote:Point. I wasn't familiar with the creator commentary in question, so I'll revise that statement to "dragging out the series",
By the way, saying Rumiko Takahashi "dragged out a cash cow" in Inuyasha is silly. She was the world's best selling female comic artist and the
richest woman in Japan before she started the first page of that series (although I don't believe she held her current position as Japan's wealthiest
manga creator until after she started it). By her own words, she kept doing Inuyasha because she found it fun to write and fun to design new demons. While I
agree the series is excruciatingly slow-paced (every time I ran across a random IY plotline or two I liked it, yet I have no interest in collecting the whole
series, which is pretty damning), she dragged it out because she wanted to, not because she needed the money (or was bullied into it like Toriyama with
Dragonball).
end stop. The fact that both Ranma and Inuyasha apparently go on for years without making much character progression (reading summaries of both reminds me of
the "This new villain is more powerful than any other villain and we need a specific upgrade to our capabilities to beat him!" formula of DBZ) annoys
me, though, simply because it feels fluffed out for length. If the characters actively changed all that much in the same length compared to the glacial level
of character development that seems to be the norm, I'd be less begrudging of her for the length of the series.
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