I am a big fan of Rumiko and her OLD anime, and yes, Inuyasha sucks. Why would someone watch a poorly conceived anime that (used to) come on Mondays at 7pm until it was eventually canceled in 2004? (I gleefully watched only one episode - THE LAST ONE)
Here in America, Inuyasha is like crack for the newbie anime watcher; they can't get enough of it, and it's basically a cheaper, less refined form of the original. It's a shame that Inuyasha viewers don't get a dose of the cocaine that is the REAL RUMIKO. In other words, time for Urusei Yatsura:
Urusei Yatsura is perverted, there is a lot of Osaka dialect, and it shows the old school dirty Japan (you know, when Shimura Ken still had boobs during his Baka-Tono show and there were Porori Mizugi Taikai every summer).
The saddest fact about Urusei Yatsura is that NOBODY (outside of Japan) KNOWS ABOUT IT. The music is addicting and the plot makes no sense, but it's lecherous and fun as hell to watch! Keroro Gunso steals their scene cuts from this intro to the degree of plagiarism! My favorite line? "If only this child was never born!" (said by Ataru's mom)
This dude doesn't have a playlist for Urusei Yatsura, but he has all the Ranma 1/2 too!
There's also Maison Ikkoku and Mermaid's Forest:
I'm an educator, after all...
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I know this post is old, but I actually got into anime because blockbuster used to rent VHS copies of Ranma 1/2 and the Urusei Yatsura movies. But every anime fan I met online before 1999 loved Urusei Yatsura and Ranma 1/2, so maybe you haven't been talking to the right Americans?
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