VIZ Media announced at New York Anime Festival that it will be streaming a subtitled version of the final season of Rumiko Takahashi’s hit series InuYasha on Shounen Sunday and Hulu coinciding with the Japanese broadcasts. The series will begin October 3rd and is scheduled to air every Saturday thereafter for 26 weeks. The first part of the series originally appeared on Yomiuri TV and Nippon Television in Japan from October 16, 2000 through September 13, 2004, spanning the first 36 volumes of the manga. The English dub was shown on Cartoon Network’s Adult Swim programming block from August 31, 2002 through October 27, 2006.
For those who are not as familiar with the series, VIZ offers this tidbit:
“When an enchanted well draws her into the past, Kagome, an ordinary modern schoolgirl, finds her destiny tied to the doglike half-demon Inuyasha and a mythical gem called the Shikon Jewel, or “Jewel of Four Souls,” of which the smallest shard can grant the user unimaginable power.
Throughout their quest to restore the shattered Shikon Jewel, Inuyasha and Kagome have never faced an enemy more deadly or more cunning than the demon mastermind Naraku. With the Shikon Jewel nearly whole and in Naraku’s hands, the race to collect the remaining shards intensifies and a battle of epic proportions is brewing on the horizon…”
InuYasha: The Final Act will cover the remaining 20 volumes of Takahashi’s work, which finished a 12 and a half year run in Shounen Sunday in June 2008. The final volume of the collection was published by Shogakukan in February 2009. VIZ Media has the publication rights to the manga as well as the anime.



