The Original Inspiration for Inuyasha (began in the 80s...) 

The story for their time traveling is really a twist. To make it simple the boy belongs to the present time and the girl belongs to the feudal era. Very confusing and interesting story at the same time. Very unique plot twist. I don't think any of animes i watched had this twist.

Soooo she was actually from the past and traveled to the future then traveled back to the past with the boy who aged into a man because they got separated in time when they both went back to the past 🤯😭 jesus.

As an inuyasha fan myself, I find this to be mind blowing

Rumiko is obsessed with time travel romance. There's FIre tripper, inuyasha and Mao. The only work of here's I know of that isn't time related is Ranma 1/2.

I think, chronology speaking... A little boy shows up in the past and is adopted into a family. He grows up, meanwhile his adoptive parents have a girl of their own. When the village is invaded, the little girl is caught in a fire. But instead of dying, she shows up in the future and is adopted into another family. Then she grows up and meets her neighbor’s kid, which turns out to be the little boy from the beginning all along. They were separated as they traveled back in time. So if I’m right... she is actually from the past and he is from the future!

Side note: this animation looks really good for the 80’s. 😳

I first saw Fire Tripper in the late 90s early 2000s when I rented the VHS at Blockbuster. Yes, I’m old! I was just barely getting into anime when I was finishing high school and starting university. I really liked Fire Tripper and it was one of the few animes available to rent. It wasn’t until years later that I first saw InuYasha and saw some similarities between the two, but didn’t put it together. It wasn’t until many more years after that when I realized they had both been done by Rumiko-Sensei.

rumiko inspired by her own artworks=genius

I actually feel like Inuyasha was an improvement for Fire Tripper whilst Fire Tripper feels like a pilot for Inuyasha/Mao. Whenever I come across with one of Rumiko Takahashi's works, the more it makes me want to read them.

Interesting and very informative. So it seems the Rin/Sesshomaru relationship was more like a older brother watching his little sister but then turns into romance as they get older. Which I believe Rin is the twins mother in the sequel. And the fire triggering the time travel thing reminds me of how Towa went to the future during a fire. I have a weird theory but it’s kind of twisted that Rin is a direct ancestor of Kagome. Which I heard Kagome’s felt a connection to Rin so I’m curious if Yashahime will explore that. That also means Towa and a Setsuna are as well.

OMG how did i just find out about this, fire trooper resembels inuyasha a lot. The boy in fire trooper looks a lot like koga from inuyasha and the girl looks a lot like sango.

My dumb ass really saw Fire Tripper and said “Wow. I can really see where the influence comes it! Looks just like Rumino’s work”. XD

You got me right at the start when you said Inuyasha holds a special place in your heart💕🤗

Plot twist...everything is so similar because Suzu was actually Kagome's mother who fire tripped back to the future with an unborn Sota. Which would explain SO MUCH to her lack of surprise to the time travelling. At least that is my headcanon for this video...

I guess you can say Fire Tripper was indeed trippy... Definitely going to watch this. Thank you for sharing this 😊

I read Fire Tripper when I was little! I loved how it was basically the prototype of Inuyasha.

Yeah, I originally read Rumic World - Fire Tripper and Laughing Target - which is what got me into Lum, Ranma 1/2, and Inuyasha and now into Yashahime. She has real good stories/characters.

I wish this anime was longer it seem so interesting and kinda romantic.

I thought Inuyasha was inspired by Japanese mythology, but this makes more sense and never knew about Fire Tripper at all.

Never heard of Fire Tripper until your video. I'm definitely going to watch it now and also Your Name. Thanks

This was very informative and it does kinda freak me out the very close resemblance, it low key gave me chills. But I don’t agree with the people saying “Sesshomaru and Rin's relationship is gross/grooming” and I believe they haven’t watched the anime lol if you watched it you know the relationship between the two characters is nothing like a father/daughter or sibling relationship. That’s why Sesshomaru is cold, he never once asked Rin to come with him or even feed her. It’s always “if you want, go look for food for yourself, you choose” I highly recommend the channel AxelBeats! In which he describes why their relationship isn’t wrong and for that time it was normal. Also brings up good counter arguments to the “the age gap, grooming” debate that comes between the characters and brings in historical facts about what was normal during that time period in Japan :) great video!!!

omg this is so informative and descriptive! how do you know so much about InuYasha??

Thank you I found myself a new old-fashioned anime movie to watch because of your video

Loved this video! Thank you!

Such a great video!!! Really good info!!

Thanks for this! I'm gonna give FireTripper a watch

Wow! I never knew about these inspirations. The similarities are so intriguing. I'll definitely have to give them a look

really like this video hope you make more video essays!

Thank you this is lovely. Would you ever make a video of the love triangles in Rumikos mangas?? I see alot of similarities between them especially on her latest work Mao/Inuyasha.

Well, mind blown. Good research on Inuyasha's blueprint you did here.

Thank you for being back so many good times 😊

Just wanted to say that I love Inuyasha soo much, I'm always rewatching it now and then, and I didn't know the other animes from the same creator so thanks for that imma check them out. ❤️

Ok, this is mind blowing 🤯😍

I so appreciated this video. I love analysis like this and I would never have known such a cool anime ever existed that had ties to "your name" and "yashahime"! Well done on the research! I'm curious tho...has anyone else here noticed that the kimono the young suzu wears is almost exactly the same as the little pink kimono rin is wearing when she first meets sesshomaru? Might be a coincidence but I highly doubt it.

Great content I didnt know I needed ! Thanks 💯 🙏🏽 more ? Lol

Inuyasha is one of my favorite anime, this anime fire tripper sounds interesting 😊

This is the first I've ever heard of Fire Tripper. I'll have to check it out.

Sounds interesting, I will search and watch it. Thanks for sharing!

I love this so much!

This is amazing

Really cool find!

Obviously, Suzu/Suzuko had a rare form of telekinesis that only activates with the right amount of stimuli. The only reason it didn’t happen as often and so she didn’t discover this power she had sooner and therefore grew up in the modern time (albeit mid-80s Japan) perfectly stable is that she lived a mostly uneventful childhood/teenhood with very little traumatic incidents. Clearly, she never encountered that much fire during her time in the modern era, no doubt because the time in history she grew up in had very few cases involving fire, which means she didn’t have to deal with coming near fire. That’s why she didn’t time travel as frequently and lived oblivious to her power between the times she was 4 or 5 and 17.

Thanks

I love the 80s anime style.

Oh nice thanks for sharing im going to go watch that anime.

Hi! Thanks to this I watched Fire Tripper and it's definitely interesting as a prequel. I'd love to know if you have a source link to the interview you reference Rumiko stating the Sesshomaru/Rin relationship. Thanks!

Very cool. I never knew about this

This is so cool! Tnx for sharing! I hope Rumiko Takahashi will make a crossover tho! That'll be so epic! It can be a follow up series after Yashahime!!! 🥰🥰🥰🥰

Sweet Commentary 😎👍🏾

Mind blowing

Not seen anyone mention Mao, another Takahashi manga where a girl goes back in time and there's memories of a fire and time travel as both a teenager and as a little girl. Except this time they go to the 1920s.

Hey I love your voice 👌🏿🔥

Wow that is cool

this is crazy

Interesting and yet informative. Okay, so we or (I) know that the original inspiration for InuYasha is Fire Tripper and where the inspiration of Koga came from as well as Sesshomaru /Rin's inspiration. I had to ask what about the other characters of InuYasha where and what are their original inspiration come from? For example: Kagome's school friends Yuka, Eri & Ayumi. Another example: Sango, Miroku, Kohaku, Hisui, the sisters, Myoga or even Koga's wolf-demon tribe travelers Ginta & Hakkaku. It would be great and interesting if we get to see their original inspirations.

I think what fire tripper tried to do was introduce the japanese concept of adopting spouses into the family to the western audience. Many families are stuck in the tradition of having men be the heirs to the family company/business. So when the family has only produced girls, they wait until the girls are older so that they can either arrange a marriage or just let them fall in love. Once the guy proposes the father of the bride gives a sort of adoption papers so that the man can change his last name legally to be the same one as the father's bride. This insures that the next head of the company/business is a male "of the family". So it's sort of like getting to marry a relative without actually being related and never been in the family at all until just then. It's not something that is super common but it's something that does happen frequently in Japan. You can even see it with the car company Nissan. I think it's been 3-4 generations of men being adopted into the family name so that they can run the company in the stead of the bride.

Omggg a fan of Inuyasha since i was in gradeschool, this is so interesting for me. I watched another creation by Takahashi called Urusei Yatsura (Lamu: The Invader Girl) and loved it too. Takahashi really has a distinct style that you can easily tell if it's her creation. Question though: do you have any idea how/where I can watch Fire Tripper? 😬

wow, thank you so much for sharing this! i’m definitely gonna look into fire tripper. and is the anime you mentioned before ranma ½ just a movie?

Fire Tripper is one of my favorites! I saw it in the mid 90s. I'd say Koga is more like Ryoga from Ranma 1/2. The character dynamic between Ranma/Ryoga plus vying for affection with Akane is very similar to Inuyasha/Koga/Kagome.

What was the anime that you mentioned that was like fire tripper the one you said about the bell.

:0 omg i didn't know that :o

Back when isekai wasn't even a term xD

I don't know why but Fire Tripper...seems like a very sad sad OVA for its time...extremely depressing and isolating -,-....

I havent watched fire tripper but man, who knew a prototype or like "alpha" inuyasha existed? And with a Kagome who looks more like Sango. And with really trippy time travel, where luckily, INCEST does NOT occur. But I am sure many paradoxes do.

She's from the past and grew up in the future (present? Not sure on the actual correct tense here honestly, gotta love time travel) before going back to the past. He's from the present, but grew up in the past, and went back to the present (future?). Then they both go back to the past. Not the most convoluted I've seen at least. It's definitely no Primer lmao.

What was the other anime you recommended toward the end of the video? I couldn't quite make it out but the animation looked incredible

Fire tripper is the prototype of inuyasha

Rumiko's CREATIVITY seems since the beginning of the series. Fire Tripper (one of my favorite OVAs) is just like the Inuyasha pilot episode!! Shukumaru (or Shuu in the modern era) design seems more like Koga. 🐺 And Suzuko's hairstyle is similar to Sango. COINCIDENCE? 🤷🏽‍♀️

she looks like Kagome meets Akane Tendo & he looks like Inuyasha meets Ranma.

I think Shikumaru looks way more like Ranma from Rumiko Takahashi’s Ranma 1/2! I’m definitely gonna have to watch Fire Tripper :)

this story just makes my head spin. first i think it's a past self meets younger self movie, and then it turns to be supposed incest plot line and then very predictably so the guy actually turns out to be her own adopted family's brother. WTH!! two things, I do feel SUPER bad about the family that lost two of their children in a f*** gas leak incident. the very children that they didn't know were getting married in a feudal japanese setting through time slip incident. Any f*** couple would be BEYOND MORTIFIED to learn that they're long lost, thought to be deceased children are not just alive, but also ARE GETTING MARRIED TO EACH OTHER!!! so the parent's of the past they matter, they raised you, BUT what about the couple who gave birth to you, your birth parents, they don't matter??? They just lost their LIVES, then and there. While you two go having fun, your parents, BOTH OF YOUR PARENTS, are wailing in sorrow Also another thing to point out, anyone, I don't care who, I don't care in what time setting, if he or she, was telling anyone, in a joyful manner, that i'm gonna get married, specifically, not much AFTER THEIR OWN SISTER(supposedly, they didn't know) AND VILLAGE GOT BURNT, HE OR SHE SHOULD BE STRANGLED ON SIGHT 'Cause remember the villagers don't know that the guy whose supposed to be protecting them, is marrying his kind of sister.

“childlike” that’s a literal child wym 😭

I'm late to this party. MY FUCKING MIND.........I'm lookin into this Fire Tripper

Well it's super "trippy", I'll give them that

im laughing at how this is js on 2x speed

What episode was 6:00? I can't find it anywhere 😫

I’m definitely looking up Fire Tripper if it’s anywhere to still be found. I am familiar with this author’s works so I wonder how it never came across my path? Ps: Siri origional auto-corrected it to Fire Stripper. Wtf?!? 😅😵

It also looks kinda like Ranma 1 half to very interesting might check it out if I can

hii just wanna ask what episode was 7:12??

I love the story, but a friend of mine hates the idea that she and the guy ended up together, saying it's no different from Sesshomaru marrying Rin.

:o

😳🤯

Honestly I swear Rurouni Kenshin was the inspiration and they don’t hide it at all

Fire Tripper's character looks like Ranma and Akane🤍

What is the name of the movie of the 80s?

I never watch 80’s anime before

the character inuyasha was inspired by a friend of rumiko

Interesting because Towa was separated from Setsuna during the fire in the forest and travelled into modern Tokyo 🤔

I haven’t Fire Tripper in so long omg!!!!! Dude wtf, RU-vid fyp knows it’s sh*t.

Sesshoumaru and Rin's relationship still doesn't make sense...

What is this anime?!

My favorite thing about both Shukumaru from the Fire Tripper and Koga from the Inuyasha is that both of them have such short pants. Kinda make you wanna see what's down there, hehehe... Peekaboo!

Same author But Inuyasha more famous after unused yatsura + ranma1/2.

Name??

I'm probably gonna regret making this comment >x

i'd gladly prefer whatever fire tripping had going on compared to rin & sessh (no hate just my opinion!)

Kagome and Inuyashas love is so great though. They are trying to recreate it on inuyasha with random characters, and it’s not working. Lol they really trying to hook the gay guy and lesbian up

You can't just say anything. Where is your proof that RT said Rin is the canon to Fire Tripper? SessRin fans have been spreading a lot of lies about FT and ended up with egg on their faces.

questionable?