InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time

Inuyasha the Movie Affections Touching Across Time , Eiga Inuyasha Toki o Koeru Omoi? is a 2001 anime film directed by Toshiya Shinohara and written by Katsuyuki Sumisawa. It is the first of four films released in the Inuyasha movie series. With characters more closely resembling the original manga rather than the series, Affections Touching Across Time used Hideyuki Motohashi, who had previously worked on character designs for Fushigi Ygi, Ako the Versus and Ceres Celestial Legend. The film was released in Japan on December 15, 2001, and in the United States on September 7, 2004. The film was released in Japan between episodes 54 and 55. The title refers to the genuine, close and strong romantic love relationship and feelings between Inuyasha and Kagome.

When Menmaru is finally able to access the tremendous demonic power of his predecessors, sealed away by InuYashas father, he becomes the new Hyga and exponentially much, stronger and more powerful as each generation gains the power of all of the preceding generations. Hyga soon begins to change the essence of time and space as he absorbs the souls of countless people in order to fully merge himself with his familys demonic energy that causes the mindcontrol that he put on Kagome to awaken and an injured Kaede and search for InuYasha. As hes crossing a bridge, InuYasha thinks he sees Kikyo but instead its Kagome who is wearing Kikyos clothes. InuYasha greets her on the bridge while Kagome is trying to tell him to run, but unfortunately cannot be heard. Then walks over to InuYasha and puts her head on his shoulder. He embraces her after which Kagome says InuYasha... get away., warning him of her attack. He looks in amazement but is then stabbed by magical claws that come from Kagomes hands afterwards, he realizes what Menmaru has done. He then is chased by the controlled Kagome to the tree that he was sealed to. Regaining control of herself for a moment, Kagome tells InuYasha to run.After returning to her own time, Kagome walks out to a snowy Tokyo. When she is walking towards the tree that InuYasha was sealed to and where he sits now, she sees him there, knocked out due to her shooting with an arrow while she was controlled by Menomaru. As she walks towards him, a snow flake floats by and erases the image. It is then that she realizes that without a way back to Feudal Japan, that she can never see InuYasha again and that she collapses and begins to cry. Once she gets back up, she heads over to the tree and places her hand on it. InuYasha and Kagome are then emotionally connected to each other through the tree and begin to talk through thoughts, as their romantic love feelings and affections towards each other proves to be quite strong and genuine. He asks where she

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