Taiko drums rolling into a string hit that immediately takes you back to 2002. Inuyasha Music Collection 2 covers the anime's second wave and Kaoru Wada's compositions carry so much weight here. "Rin and Sesshoumaru" is still one of the most emotionally devastating character themes in anime, and "Demon Wolf Tribe's Kouga" brings a completely different wild energy.
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"Miasma" and "Naraku's Ambitions" handle the villain side perfectly. Thick, oppressive, the kind of tracks that make you dread a scene before anything even happens. The BGM arrangements of "I am" and "Dearest" strip the vocal versions down to something more intimate.
Recorder and strings respectively, both somehow still hit. If you grew up watching Inuyasha and need to feel something tonight, press play.