Through The Well

Episode 4: Yura of the Demon Hair
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Oooooh!  I wanna touch 'em!
This show picks up where Episode 3 leaves off, and Kagome is thrilled to be back in her own time.  Her grandfather believes her story, though her mother doesn't, and he decides to seal up the well.  He nails it shut and tacks a whole bunch of his useless talismen on it.  But, as Kagome is reveling in the conveniences of modern food, she gets a visitor, and guess who!  It's Inuyasha, on his first trip to the modern ages.  To say the least, he's a little peeved at Kagome, informing her that she did not have permission to go home.  Then Kagome notices a strand of Yura's evil hair on him.  When she picks it up, it cuts her hand, and she realizes that no one else can see it.  Then they go outside and Kagome sees the hair squirming out of the well.  She and Inuyasha go inside and seal themselves in the wellhouse.  Kagome helps
Oooh laaaah laaaah!
Inuyasha cut the single strand controlling the mass of hair, and then they jump down the well, after Inuyasha gives Kagome the coat to his Fire Rat Kimono.  When they arrive, Kagome and Inuyasha tear through the woods, and they come across a camp of beheaded men.  They call them villagers, but they look more like samurais to me, but who am I to complain?  Kagome takes one of the bow and arrows from the dead guys and they continue on to Yura's nest.  When they arrive, Yura uses her evil hair to grab Inuyasha and hang him, suspended in the air, to mock him.  This goes on for a while, and Inuyasha is stabbed for the first time by Yura.  Kagome gets mad and tries to shoot Yura with her arrow, but misses, though she claims she won't miss next time.  She bickers with Yura for a few minutes, and then releases another arrow, which very nearly shishkabobs Inuyasha and strikes Yura's giant evil hairball.  Yura gets peeved and pours evil flames down on Kagome who collapses we think is dead.  Inuyasha and Yura fight some more, and Inuyasha keeps inflicting wounds on her that normally would be considered mortal, but don't seem to even slow her down.  Eventually, we see Kagome climbin up the hair tower toward a red skull.  Kagome gets nearly up to the skull before Yura notices her.  Then, she tries to kill her, but Inuyasha shreds her with his blood attack, (sorry, can't remember the proper name at the moment, come on, it's a monday morning, have some pity, here), and the tower of hair collapses.  Then, Yura comes back together and Kagome jabs her arrow through the skull, breaking the skull into pieces just as Yura's sword is about to kill her.  We learn that Yura was actually a comb used to comb the hair of the dead (creepy).  Kagome and Inuyasha retrieve the lost jewel shard and the show ends.  There you go.
What a headache!

KATY'S RANTINGS
overall rating:  5/5
This show gets 5/5.  To be perfectly honest, there's nothing in this show that particularly bugs me, of course I have several nitpicks, but I'll save them until the end.  First of all, I awarded this show one point because this was the first time that Inuyasha went through the well.  Why do I award this points?  Well, the ear-rubbing he gets from Kagome's mother is one part that makes it so cool, but also the fact that Kagome decides to go back.  Inuyasha doesn't pick her up and drag her back, she decides to go.  This is the first time that Kagome realizes that what she's gotten herself into is fantastic and unbelievable but real.  I mean, killer hair?  Anyway, that earns the show a second point.  For the first time, Kagome and Inuyasha use their abilities together to fight and together they defeat the ogress Yura.  This earns them another point.  When Inuyasha thinks Kagome is dead, he freaks out, kinda.  Either way, we find see that Inuyasha doesn't hate Kagome as much as he would like to believe.  This gets another point.  However, I considered docking the show for points for several reasons, one of which being that those decapitated men weren't villagers.  They were wearing samurai armor.  I awarded the fifth point just because I feel like it and I'm in a good mood.  Inuyasha rocks!