The End of Inu-Yasha?

Call me slow. The animated series for Inu-Yasha ended in Japan on September 13, 2004, after six seasons and four movies. The last episodes came out in America on DVD as Inu-Yasha volume 55, containing episodes 164-167, several months ago now. I only just watched it today, and for a while I truly was convinced that they were going to end the series.

Alas, the crew has another confrontation with Naraku and he escapes -- and they survive. The end. There's a little tag saying, "But the story's not over! We're still chasing Naraku! Read the manga!" Bleah. I've actually been collecting the manga since inception, but I long ago stopped reading them because they paralleled the anime so closely. Now I guess I need to go back and read them to find out what (eventually) actually happens.

According to Wikipedia, the anime ended at the equivalent of the 36th manga volume, chapter 356. Currently in Japan they've published Chapter 530, and Rumiko Takehashi has announced that the manga is entering its final arc. (What? So soon?) Which means it'll be a few years yet before I find out how everything gets resolved.

Although it kinds sucks to just end in the middle of nowhere like that, it also means they could always pick up the story and finish it later. Aside from that, I always hate it when anime series come up with goofy endings to wrap up a story that isn't supposed to be wrapped up at that point. They did that with Kashimashi Girl Meets Girl for example, and with Negima!. Usually when they do that, it sucks.

No more ice, no more ice!

So I'm thinking about going to the store to get some stuff for the game tomorrow, and I see that I have a phone messaage. When did I get a call? I've been home all day but I didn't hear it ring. Perhaps when I was taking a shower with the radio on?

It's dehd. We discuss having him and Valentine down for the game tomorrow. That gives me most of a day to clean up, which I need to do anyway. Having friends over is what it generally takes for me to put any effort into cleaning.

While I'm considering this, I remember that I need to take my bags full of plastic bags to the store to recycle. I tend to forget to do this for months at a time... many months. I have a lot of plastic bags to take in.

When I gather them together my blender/smoothie machine is revealed. I knew it was there, but I don't always see all of it because of the plastic bags.

Hmmm, I think. Making a fruit smoothie would be a good idea for Superbowl Sunday.

At the store I buy a cantelope, and then for variety some strawberries and a few bananas. I buy more stuff than I really need to, but it's been at least a week since I went shopping. I buy a bag of crushed ice.

Back home I go to put the crushed ice into the freezer. There isn't a lot of room. I realize that this is because there is stilll a bag of crushed ice (now frozen into a block) in the back that I've been meaning to remove for a long time.

I further recall that it might actually be what's left from a bag of crushed ice that dehd brought over last year for Superbowl Sunday.

Yikes.



I swear I saw one of these in Fern Gully or some Warner Brothers cartoon....

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