Kagome uses pay phones
Episode is up on Hulu servers and Shonen Sunday, but isn't visible as of the time of this posting:
http://www.hulu.com/watch/125220/inuyasha—the-final-act-kohaku%E2%80%99s-shard#play-all
Episode 19: Kohaku's Shard
(琥珀の欠片 Kohaku no Kakera)
Chapters covered: 392, 521 through half of 525
Very faithful episode save for the first minute or so wasted in the modern era. I did not appreciate how Sunrise had Inuyasha destroy part of the Higurashi house. The use of payphones is probably a jab at how Rumiko couldn't decide whether the series would have 1997 or 2007 technology. Poor Kagome, all of her friends have cell phones though. Edit: Apparently I completely forget about chapter 392, Peaceful Table. My bad. It was very nice to see it animated.
Animation direction was done by Fujimori this week. His work is really nothing special, but you can thank him for when the animation and emotions peaked during Shippou's conversation with Sango. After that, however, everything started to go downhill. The ending of this episode was not handled that well in the manga to begin with, but the whole "Is it too late?" exchange looked terribly cheesy animated.
Next week, Kohaku goes into badass mode and gets his shard sniped. Should make for good times and a lot of emotion if the manga is followed and given proper deference.
Edit: Episode titles for 21-24 should appear on 2ch some time this week.
Also, remember this?
