At 08:23 PM 4/10/97 -0400, Bob Schroeck wrote:

Ukyou unshouldered the giant spatula and lept into the fray, its violent
swings dispatching fish and insect monsters left and right.  Her
ankle-length mahogany hair swirled around her like tendrils of smoke as
she launched herself at the ugly apparitions. 

"You're not bad with that thing, kid," said the huge, tiger-like creature
at her side, "but get more than 3 feet away from it, and I'm going to eat
you."

"Shut up, Tora!" Ukyou yelled as she *clanged* the battlespat over the
orange monster's huge head.  Damn, she thought, I should have left him
down there in the cellar under Dad's restaurant, pinned to the wall with
this stupid spatula.  Who'd've thought those family fairy tales were
*true*?  Who ever heard of a magical spatula powered by the human soul? 

-- From episode 1 of "Ukyou and Tora"

Is this based on Inuyasha, or is the similarity just a coincidence?