The weekly column by Michihiko Suwa, the Yomiuri TV producer
September 22, 2004 Original Japanese text

After the air of the finale of InuYasha, the viewers have posted many comments to the guest book at the official site. We thank you for the many comments. The most comment is the following opinion: "I wish you to resume the air" and "Please continue the show because it has been still the halfway". It appears to me that you have all regarded the finale as the end of Part I. Although the finale seems the forced plot because the manga series continues, I am proud that we can show the viewer the staff's feeling for InuYasha. The Comments about the appreciation to the program also make us very happy. The finale's rating is high. Following the manga series, we are planning to consider projects of the post-movie 4 with all the staff members. Now, Please see the movie 4.

I has, so far, been in charge of many TV anime programs such as City Hunter, YAWARA! and Young Kindaichi's Casebook. But, none the less, it is sad that the air of the program finishes. YAWARA! TV anime series was broadcast from 1989 to September of 1992, when Barcelona Olympics was hold. It stopped despite the manga series had gone on yet like InuYasha. But thanks to viewers' encouragements, in 1996, when Atlanta Olympics took place, the rest of the manga series could be animated, which was shown on TV as a two-hours special. InuYasha also started in 2000, the Sidney Olympics year, and finished in 2004, the Athens Olympics year. I felt a deep emotion because it looked like a circumstance. InuYasha is the second longest anime series among programs I has produced. The longest series is Detective Conan (Case Closed), which still continues.

Voice recordings have been scheduled on a same day of the week every week. But when a new program begins, in many cases, the voice recordings are set to a different day of the week that suits voice actors' schedules. The change in the day of the week varies my daily and bodily rhythms as well. When I feel the change in the rhythms, sometimes, I reawake the realization that the program has ended, and then I feel sad.