Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

It's good! Very good even! After trying to watch anime I stumbled upon a recommendation to read the manga and... Yep, I've been disappointed by the anime, but the manga righted its wrongs to me. And, oh yeah, it is not Inuyasha. The tone is different and the anime was the same. But the difference is - anime had close to no story in those 12 episodes I've seen. Manga starts very similar to anime, but it grabs you and immerses you into a story and did not let go till the very end. To be fair, I think some moment were a bit too muchof a "with our friendship and power of anime we can do anything". But it was awesome, so I will not complain about it. If we have to compare it to Inuyasha yet again, it has much less of a buildup and character development. But it was much shorter too, and I think they (whoever worked on it, I suspect there were more people then who get credited) did a good job making a coherent story... Thing that anime was failing at. Yes, it is entirely possible that anime get better after those 12 episodes...I just don't care enough to watch it further.