Higurashi Kagome is a slighly average 15 year old girl. She lives at the Higurashi shrine with her family. While wondering around the old well of the shrine, she accidently falls in it and comes out in feudal Japan. Turns out she is the reincarnation of a famous priestess: Kikyo. Not only that, but inside her is the powerfull Shikkon Jewel. One the jewel exits her body after being attacked by monsters seeking it, she has no choice but the release Kykyo’s old foe: Inuyasha. But while Inuyasha is rude, brash and very impulsive, he hardly seems evil. At least not evil enough to seal off in the first place. What happened between Inuyasha and Kikyo? And what will happen now? By accident the Shikkon Jewel is shattered into hundreds of pieces, each dangerous on its own. Kagome and Inuysaha have to travel together and find all the shards while uncovering the plot that got Kikyo killed and Inuyasha sealed.
Oh man, nostalgia central. One of my first long running anime. I love it to pieces, but I can admit it has some serious problems, mostly in charatcer growth and pacing. But I sill adore it. The animation is pretty damn good, the charatcers memorable and the fight exciting. Naraku is one of the biggest pieces of shit in anime histroy, while Sesshomaru is one of the coolest anti-heros ever put to film. I hope you enjoy this as mush as I do. Don’t forget to also watch the 4 movies and the final season (get Rizel). Also, since this is a huge show, let me know if you find any errors.
Series rating: 9/10
Opening & Preview (Middle-click the image to open video in new tab. Contains subtitles)
Since this release is a bit unusual, I added this FAQ.
Q: What the hell is up with the size? 154GB? Why is it this big?
A: Because the show is very grainy, had a good ammount of action and at least half the action happens at night. Any less and I beleive the quality would have suffered. You can’t tell me this doesn’t look good.
Q: OK, but why only the first 98 episodes are 1.5GB each? What about the quality of the rest of the episodes?
A: Well, the things is the first 98 episodes look much better. I think they were produced on film. Starting with episode 99 I think they went digital. There’s no more grain, and the colors are a bit washed out. Obviously, that compresses far better. Basically, blame Sunrise.
Q: This show is 4:3. Why the hell didn’t you crop it? Why did you leave the black bars?
A: Two reasons. First off, it doesn’t matter to the player. Unless you are using a 4:3 monitor the player will add black bars by itself. But more importantly, cropping the video loses me 1 pixel of animation on each side. That might not sound like much to you, but to me it is unacceptable.
Q: I’m looking at the episode titles I see some things I don’t recognize. What the hell is the “Exploding Dragon Wave”?
A: I hated the way the English subs named some the techniques, but I also don’t want to leave them in Japanese. So I changed them:
Q: Why the hell doesn’t the first OP have the song?
A: Licesing issues. And it’s not just the 1st OP. The 5th OP and the 8th ending, as well as one insert song are missing. Why? Because Johhny’s are pieces of shit that nobody outside of Japan wants to deal with. Well, Japan doesn’t either, but they have no choice. Don’t worry though. All the OP and ED are in the Extras folder, clean versions.
Q: What is the OVA you have here? I’ve never heard of that one.
A: The OVA is actually an extended cut of episode 15 of the final act anime. It’s about 2 minutes longer then the actual episode so I thought I should include it.
Q: What’s the source of this anyway?
A: Spanish blurays. Subs are from the US DVD version, ripped from the RUELL-Next DVD release. The US will have its own BD starting in July 2020. I don’t think the video quality will be any better, but I’m hoping they redo the subtitles. The ones from the DVDs aren’t great. They’re decent, but not great.
Question: Favorite opening? Mine’s the 4th. I have as my alarm.
PS: Yeah, seeding this will take a while. Don’t forget I turn my PC off for 8 hours a day.
Comments - 92
Geonode
Just came here to say: Seekers Of The Sacred Jewel ass
DmonHiro (uploader)
(ノ≧∇≦)ノ ミ ┸━┸
Every time!
ot4ku
just pure awesomeness, great releas with lot of love for detail, thanks so much!
Tehe
Damn you’re late. I’m at 164 rn… could’ve done with your release earlier. Thanks tho.
DDL of the last 3 episodes would be appreciated.
Godim
Finally, it’s here. I hope this looks better than Fullmetal’s bit starved release.
Bleachway
I was unaware the US will be having a BD release in August 2020. Looking out for BD Dual Audio Release. Thanks for this release!
DmonHiro (uploader)
My bad, it’s supposed to come out this month, first 25% of the show. Next 25% in August. The rest? Who knows. Might have saved me a lot of pain if I had just waited for those subs, but I started this a long time ago. Also… yeah, it looks MUCH better then Fullmetal’s release.
Glordit
I want to change za warudo~
Minifreeza
Cool, but would’ve been better as multiple DDL links. Torrents will take foreeeeever to download :/
DmonHiro (uploader)
I don’t do DDL. It’s one of those “take it or leave it” deals. Really popular in the 90s.
areen
I think fullmetal release didn’t bad at all, he just keep the old classic with doesn’t add much filter on his release or CMIIW
Arsy
Thanks!
oxyghene
IT’S SO BIG
areen
And yeah isn’t bad for those who watching this series for nostalgic purpose.
Xystus
This shit is like downloading Call of Duty games.
Tehe
Does it look better than the source tho? Those were ~4GB per episode (dual audio)…
DmonHiro (uploader)
Actually, it was triple audio on the source. Each episode with only Japanese audio was 3.5 GB.
surume
AND WE WILL HAVE THE NEXT GENERATION in fall 2020
redflares
OH MY GOD THANK YOU!
Marche
Don’t care much about the Openings and Endings, but aren’t some of the OSTs missing for the same reason or something?
DmonHiro (uploader)
The OST, not that I’m aware of. Just one insert song in one episode, for the same licensing issue.
sorrow
These subs better than the [a-S] subs? Might I include them in my coming release?
DmonHiro (uploader)
I don’t know what subs a-S used. If it’s the same DVD subs, then they’d be the same except for the changed attack names. And yeah, you can do whatever you want with them.
sameer
time to finish before Next Generation arrives
Soul-shattering Iron Claws cooler
Tehe
Yeah you’re right. But does it look any better?
sorrow
The [a-S] subs are what is included in [Fullmetal]'s release, though style stripped by the person who retimed them to the Spanish BDs on subscene.I’ve noticed that they have some issues with spacing where words sometimes don’t have spaces in between.
sameer
sounds like typical OCR issues
Impakt
Never seen this series so this seems like a great opportunity to.
Thanks.
Para_dox
No openings or endings?
Zhou
The first US BD set including episodes 1-27 just came out, and surprisingly they all feature “Change the World” as the opening theme. Either Viz is better at negotiating than Selecta Visión or Johnny’s has become easier to negotiate with now that its founder/head pedophile is dead. Or maybe Viz just threw more money at them.
DmonHiro (uploader)
That depends on when the president died. I think these deals are made way in advance of the release. Still, this IS a surprise. I did not expect the BD release to have the missing songs. I’m pretty sure nobody did. The people on the Viz forums were quite sad about them. Say, did they happen to improve the subs?
Marche
Why didn’t you use the retimed subs from the BakaBT torrent, der richter spent a lot of time fixing the subs there.
Draken
Awesome release, thank you DH
DmonHiro (uploader)
Marche, do you mean the subs from RUELL-Next? Cause that IS what I used. But those are DVD subs.
petzkuh
can you explain this more? can’t you just crop it to not-a-perfect 4:3 then?
DmonHiro (uploader)
Nope. Apparently you cannot crop by just 1 pixel, you need a multiple of 2 to crop. So if you have a black border of 43 pixels, you wither crop by 42 and leave 1, or crop by 44 and lose one. The first one is pointless and the second one is unacceptable to me. Maybe there IS a way to do it, but I don’t know it. But even if there was a way, I still don’t see a point. You’re going to see black borders anyway.
Marche
I mean did you use the ones in the BakaBT torrent that is retimed and such?
petzkuh
I’m fine with not accepting the second option, but why do you consider the first one pointless? for instance, I like to sometimes watch stuff windowed, so that I can use my screen space for other things I do at the same time. having the unnecessary black bars hurts that. and conversely, I don’t see any reason not to do it.
DmonHiro (uploader)
Marche ,I really have no idea what you mean. Which torrent?
petzkuh, I’m in the “either do it completely or don’t do it at all” group. If I can’t crop all of it I’m not going to bother. I’m sorry, but all I care about is watching stuff full-screen. I have no idea what someone who multi-tasks needs/wants, and to be completely honest, I don’t care.
LightArrowsEXE
Can’t wait to see you demux everything instead of just the subs/fonts.
DmonHiro (uploader)
My previous statement was only valid for cropping.
LightArrowsEXE
Sad!
SomaHeir
Amazing work!
I’m watching FullMetal’s version which is based on Italian BD’s.
https://nyaa.iss.one/?f=0&c=0_0&q=[Fullmetal]+Inuyasha
Unfortunately, the OP music has been replaced with one of Inuyasha’s tracks from the OST. ED still kept the original JPN one.
Does this contain the original JPN OP with music?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwCfHVGamn8
Not even sure if this will be case for future episodes. So I may have to switch to yours.
Maybe the US version will be able to keep the Opening(hopefully).
I hope you can do the movies and Final Act someday! But this should keep me for the coming months!
Godlike work!!
DmonHiro (uploader)
You should read the FAQ. I wrote about the missing songs. Also, I won’t be doing the movies or Final Act because Rizel already did those.
HandaSei
Idk bro, but somehow my old 768p DVDrip i already have in pc looks a little better that this one…
All colors are just soo wrong in the BD and all dark scene are so shiny, is just not fit for some old anime like this one!
( https://slow.pics/c/EwjdRJa6 )
And also all OP and END are pretty nice, soo i think i will say a BIG no for this upgrade, because honestly is looks more like an downgrade…
DmonHiro (uploader)
HandaSei… are you… claiming that the 2nd picture looks better then the 1st? Because if you are, you should immediately go see an eye doctor. I mean RIGHT NOW. Drop whatever you are doing and see an optometrist before your eyeballs explode or something, because something is definitely wrong.
SomaHeir
Thanks for clarification! For some reason I missed that one out.
So unless they release a JPN BD version, we’re pretty much stuck with some missing OP/EDs :|
I saw you commented on Ghost Sweeper Mikami BD.
https://nyaa.iss.one/view/1258478
What do you think about it? I feel you could do a encode of this. Even if the quality is not good, I’m general curious about the audio quality which maybe better than the DVD one??
Keep up the good work! I’m really happy you came back and started releasing more and more projects!!!
DmonHiro (uploader)
No, no. Surprisingly, the US version has the songs intact. At least the 1st OP, since only that part is out. I was shocked as well. Guess the pedo pres in Johnny being on death’s door softened them out.
As for the Mikami SD BD, hell no. The video quality is far too shit for me to bother with it. And to time audio from that to the DVD rip is far too much work for me.
DmonHiro (uploader)
I will be shutting down my PC in approx. one hour. Then I will turn in back on in approx. eight hours.
nicky_008
(less than one hour)
I just have a time for coming and commenting on your works
well… :v
giftigkeit
@HandaSei are you drunk?
Ransumone
How is it not possible to crop with 1px precision? It’s 2020 ffs.
DmonHiro (uploader)
And we’re back.
Godim
DmonHiro vs Fullmetal
Screenshot comparison
ninjacloud
Lot of ppl love it big, thanks!
nosebleeds
BD(3.75GB) - SAD(766MB) - DmonHiro(1.18GB) screenshot comparisons from E001
https://slow.pics/c/cjux2Iv4
SAD - DmonHiro scaled to 1080
https://slow.pics/c/m0weHnGj
DmonHiro (uploader)
Uhm, no offense nosebleeds, but comparing screenshot at different, especially if some are uncropped, is pointless.
It’s even more pointless to compare scaled screenshots.
nosebleeds
How so when that is the native output, and how it is most likely to be viewed.
DmonHiro (uploader)
Because it will be very hard for most people to see the differences when the frames are so different in size and position.
nosebleeds
I do mostly agree what that, I think, or at least hope that the people who actually look at comparisons know to look past those issues. On a 1440p monitor with slowpics different crops don’t really matter though as 1080p images at different crops can still be displayed at the same positioning at 100% scale.
DmonHiro (uploader)
Turning my PC off in one hour. BTW, you guys better let me know when you actually finish downloading. Nyaa’s tracker is not very accurate about the number of seeds. For example, it’s been saying 5 seeds since I started.
Kazeyuki
Thanks alot, much appreciated!
nks
Thanks for this. 1080 would have been nice, any reason you chose 720?
DmonHiro (uploader)
I don’t do 1080p, usually. Plenty of 1080p raws.
Intervencion
Cool job man, tho I’ll wait for the full bdmv as usual. And wtf, OP1 is back on BD? xD Oh well. Good news I guess?
nks
Apparently the US blu ray that just came out has the opening and ending songs intact.
DmonHiro (uploader)
I was shocked. Just so you know, the US version only has 27 episodes out so far. So it will be a long time before the entire series is available like that. Don’t worry though. I’ll put out a new torrent when it’s all out in 22 years.
nks
1080 for me when you do daddy dmonhiro? <3
DmonHiro (uploader)
I don’t do 1080p, and don’t call me daddy.
nks
;__;
smengy
If you use Virtualdub you can crop at odd numbers right where the break is and then resize it to whatever size you want. Also the one little line that it covers was there in the old days to account for screen size and for most part was cut out anyways!! Dunno what you used to encode, but yeah if you got someone elses raws its hell to re-encode. I tried this version in Virtualdub and it crapped out. And in avidemux I couldn’t figure out how to do it either. so no BFD
megusto123
I hope someone can upload the extra features from viz edition. I would LOVE to watch the interviews with the producers of the show.
vanquisher
Anyone doing the smaller version of this? Its too big for me to download
MetalicBox
I find it very silly that you’re happy to use 720p only even for shows that are native 1080p. But losing one pixel on the sides of a 4:3 video in order to save a huge amount of space, and make the videos actually watchable for people using portrait 16:9, or 16:10, or other resolutions is unacceptable.
DmonHiro (uploader)
gwarp
Thank you for the ova!
Scoped
"losing even 1 pixel is unacceptable to me."
wait till you hear how celluid based anime work. Just stick to the R2J DVDs if you need the extra footage that badly.
Arcus_Deer
Hey DmonHiro, I found Raizel’s version of final act on irc (on your recommendation) but haven’t had any luck with the second movie. Is it anywhere outside of private trackers? Also, here’s a quick and dirty comparison with a-s for those of you who wanted it. https://slow.pics/c/9SxTnyZE
DmonHiro (uploader)
I can hook you up as long as you don’t need the English dub.
Arcus_Deer
I’d appreciate that, thanks!
JohnDoeOfNyaa
Anime without Filler Blu-ray 1080p English Subbed (I renumbered the Episodes order):
Episodes 001-050: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1Ezq6XEqfg11hM4DtGv9sb7WsfQ4K0Pzu?usp=sharing
Episodes 051-106: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1NvQUtFDnyumenzKCZ7KoiICidUBAWUP-?usp=sharing
Episodes 107-155: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18DcacU-l2M50qRpDMWwuJiTWpcDifYGE?usp=sharing
Movies Blu-ray 1080p English Subbed: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/18DcacU-l2M50qRpDMWwuJiTWpcDifYGE?usp=sharing
Manga: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1QF6hheYPjUWxpuVHpR5WHsrIyfzKSCDX?usp=sharing
Songs: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1cH4UjU3ontx0wYzGMcVQfsGDDA2diyeB?usp=sharing
Anime, Movies, Manga and Songs (Mega Link): https://drive.google.com/file/d/134h50fuPGHut3srae0NqxytkS8RuEuzq/view?usp=sharing
kamineko
@JohnDoeOfNyaa What do you mean by ‘Anime without Filler’? Filesizes are quite small compared with DmonHiro’s.
kamineko
For anyone not happy with DmonHiro’s creative technique name changes:
Use
sed -i 's/Exploding Dragon/Backlash/g' path/to/\[DmonHiro\]\ Inuyasha\ \(BD\,\ 720p\)/*.ass
(from Linux, Mac, or WSL - Windows subsystem for Linux) to rename all occurrences of ‘Exploding Dragon Wave’ to ‘Backlash Wave’. Trust me, when you watch with others who know Inuyasha and the names from before, you prevent a lot of whining “But it is called ‘Backlash Wave’!” everytime the technique is used. And that’s 39 times. You can count it withgrep -Fnr Exploding path/to/\[DmonHiro\]\ Inuyasha\ \(BD\,\ 720p\)/*.ass | wc -l
before the change. That’s what I used to make sure that the lines and linebreaks are still proper. Enjoy!PS: You need to replace
path/to
with your own path to the directory, obviously.PPS: And that’s why having the subtitles in the .ass files is a good idea. Thanks, DmonHiro.
Dan
God Bless you DmonHiro !! I take it like a merry christmas gift !
grishrak
Well time to see if I can delete old stuff off my hard drive this is a massive file but since I never seen it time to check it out
Rambology
Lol not gonna lie the episode titles are hilarious with the .ass attached at the end.
ptkptk
Hello. First of all, thank you very much for the content :D
I’m trying to watch these on my TV (lg 55c9 ) but I get an error saying that the file type isn’t recognized … But they’re mkv …
I can watch them on the PC, but … it’s not the same. Anyone experienced anything like this? Any workarounds?
(initially I’ve put on the external hdd all the files - including .ass corespondent for each episode => NOK ; then i’ve put just the mkv files => NOK )
AryaAprilia
Does anyone have google drive or mega DDL for this torrent?
Jaegers
@ptkptk this is not going to play on your TV because it’s 10-bit. You’ll need to setup a plex server or get an Nvidia shield that will play it natively.
Garo7
Hey, I downloaded episode-1 to check it out, and I am impressed. This encode looks really good, considering the source quality. Thank you for your work and sharing-it. Anyway, I apologize for asking, but any chance anyone could maybe seed this a little? For a l little while… :) hee
Tanks
RamenNinja
Amazing work, thanks for this @DmonHiro. And thanks for keeping both this and the newer US version available. I prefer this/Spanish version, both for the colours, and your much clearer font ASS subtitles. The US PGS subtitles look too small/squashed for my tastes.
Nyann
Video glitch in EP42@11:16
