The episodes of the Japanese anime series are based on the last twenty-one volumes of the ''

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series by

Rumiko Takahashi is a Japanese manga artist. With a career of several commercially successful works, beginning with ''Urusei Yatsura'' in 1978, Takahashi is one of Japan's best-known and wealthiest manga artists. Her works are popular worldwide, where they have ...

, continuing where the first adaptation left off. The series follows the half dog-demon, half human named

, the fifteen-year-old junior high school student

Kagome Higurashi The characters of the ''Inuyasha'' manga series were created by Rumiko Takahashi. Most of the series takes place in a fictional version of Japan's Warring States period with occasional time-travel/flashback elements to modern Tokyo or the Heisei ...

and their close companions Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara as they search for the last fragments of the Sacred Jewel of Four Souls and approach their final battle with Naraku.

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licensed the series as ''InuYasha: The Final Act''. The original staff and cast from the first ''Inuyasha'' anime adaptation were brought back together for the new series. The series premiered on

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on October 3, 2009, where it ran for twenty-six episodes, concluding on March 29, 2010. It is the first series to be produced and broadcast in 16:9 widescreen.

licensed the new adaptation before it premiered and aired its English subtitled version online through

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, releasing episodes within a day of their original Japanese air dates. As of April 14, 2013, the entire series remains available for free on Hulu in the United States. As of episode 14, the English episode aired first.

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aired the series with their own English subtitles, on its television stations and its online video service. As of September 23, 2022, the series has not been made available for streaming online in Canada. Voice actress

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was the first to announce through her

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fan page on May 11, 2010, that work on the English dub for ''The Final Act'' had begun. However, many of the cast were laid off:

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was replaced from her role of Kagome Higurashi by

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, David Kaye was replaced as Sesshomaru by

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was replaced as Kaede by Linda Darlow, and Danny McKinnon was replaced as Kohaku by Aidan Drummond.

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, the voice of Miroku, said on ''Voiceprint with

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and guests'' that Michael Daingerfield was able to mimic David Kaye near perfectly. On December 17, 2010, Paul Dobson announced on a podcast episode of ''Voiceprint with Trevor Devall and guests'' that he would be going back to the

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studio for his final recording session of ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' on December 23, 2010.

released ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' set 1 on Blu-ray and DVD on November 20, 2012, and set 2 was released February 12, 2013. The English dub, ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'', began broadcasting in the United States on

's online network,

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, on October 2, 2012. On October 24, 2014,

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announced that ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' would air on the

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programming block beginning Saturday, November 15, 2014. Previously, on March 1, 2014, Adult Swim had announced they had lost the broadcast rights to the original ''Inuyasha'' series. Four pieces of theme music were used, one opening and three endings. "

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" by

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was the opening theme song for the series, used throughout the series. "With You" by

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was the first ending from episode one to nine. The second ending was "Diamond" by

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from episode ten to seventeen. The third and final ending theme was by

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from episode eighteen to twenty-six.

Episode list

References

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