Why is it so popular?

I was just going through alot of the top ten lists of anime series and almost every time I read one, Inu Yasha made it? WHY? I have to know what everyone sees in this show? Is it the American public just being pushed toward whatever crud AS spits out? Or is there actually something worth taking a gander over to it and watching the series?

Jam it back in, in the dark.

Well, I guess I never really saw the appeal that was put into the show myself. It just astonished me that so many people would rank it so high on the the list. Granted, it is the day and age where anything on CN is like gold apparently and whatever is being shown is supposedly good. Don't get me wrong some of them have been good but it was just this one show I could never bring myself to watch. It had that "something" I didn't find appealling.

This is just making me wonder, "What makes for a popular anime anyway these days?" It has to be the "furry" appeal that's all I am going to say.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

Not sure about Saiyuki myself, I didn't find the characters that interesting but I guess the concept was sorta new. I will give you the fact that the story moves really slow toward something worth watching all those episodes. That's why I like the question "What happened to the 10-14 episode series?"

These were just long enough to get the point across and still come up with a good story line and not lose the audience, sometimes.

Check out The Melancholy of Haruhi Suzumiya it really has a decent story going for it, but the episode situation(if you've seen the series you should know) confused me.

http://www.gamingforce.com/forums/an...ancholy+haruhi

How ya doing, buddy?

Yeah, I guess the whole series is running on the expectations of "Will they say it this episode? Will we be getting 1/4 demons soon?"

I guess the popularity of a show has to do with something that I can't see. It has to be those darn "cat people". If the main character didn't have ears of a lynx would he be appealling all the same?

I am a dolphin, do you want me on your body?

Why can people never finish an anime the way the viewer thinks it should? We all believe it will go one way and then the last episode hits and "bam" it has that open endedness to lead into another season. Another reason I like the short simple 12-25 episode series. Most of the them give you an ENDING. Which like you all stated is probably that something that gets to me with any of Rumiko Takahasi's works. The premise of her works I just really view as a money grubber and not to entertain.

I was speaking idiomatically.