The weekly column by Michihiko Suwa, the Yomiuri TV producer
August 24, 2004 Original Japanese text

On the 14th of this month, we notified on the site that Black Jack is starting at 7:00 PM on the 11th of October, and then the InuYasha message board on this site has received a lot of feedback. I am very pleased that you all seriously think of the work and have posted your feelings for InuYasha. As you have already known, InuYasha is to end at the one-hour special program on the 13th of September. It is due mainly to that the TV series has already caught up to the manga series. Filler and canon episodes have animated alternately so far. But because both restoring Shikon Jewel and beating Naraku are now in process in the manga series, we cannot complete the story in the TV anime series. We, the staff, intend to keep enjoying the further story in the manga series created by Ms. Rumiko Takahashi. At the end of the finale, the five voice actors/actresses are scheduled to send messages to the viewers. Please don't miss it!

The last voice recording took place last week on the 19th. At the time, I gave flowers to Mr. Kappei Yamaguchi (actor of InuYasha) and Ms. Satsuki Yukino (actress of Kagome) and the sound staff. After that, 50 voice actors, actresses and the staff held a party to celebrate the finale. In order to add an extra movie clip to a DVD that is scheduled to go on sale in the US where InuYasha gets very popular, the voice recording and the party scenes, and comments from the voice actors and actresses were recorded with a TV camera, which made the party warm up. In addition that the movie 4 Fire on the Mystic Island (Guren no Hourai-Jima) comes out in theaters this December, sound track CDs, CD dramas and related goods will continuously be released. Also in the future, We, all the staff, have decided to focus our feelings on InuYasha. We would like you all to continue to cheer InuYasha as much as have done till now. InuYasha is a very important work also to the staff. We want to follow the work in some way in the future. Although InuYasha ends, we are going to air good anime works on the block from 7:00 PM through 7:59 PM on Monday for entertaining you all.