Inuyasha Summary The story begins in Feudal Japan, when InuYasha, a half-demon (han'yō), steals the Jewel of Four Souls from a village. The Jewel of Four Souls is an item that can increase one's powers enormously. InuYasha does not get far before Kikyo, the young miko of the village, shoots him with a sacred arrow that indefinitely seals him onto Goshinboku, a sacred tree in the nearby forest. After being mortally wounded, Kikyo tells her younger sister, Kaede, to burn the jewel with her body to prevent it from falling into the hands of evil. In modern Tokyo, a junior high school girl named Kagome Higurashi is on her way to school. She stops in the well house of her family's Shinto shrine to retrieve her cat, Buyo, when a centipede demon emerges from the well and pulls her into the Sengoku period of Japan. Not knowing where she is, Kagome wanders around a forest near the well. She spots Goshinboku off in the distance and proceeds towards it. On the tree, she finds InuYasha, who is still sealed in an enchanted sleep. Villagers seize her and take her to the old priestess, Kaede. Recognizing that Kagome is the reincarnation of her sister Kikyo, Kaede tells her the story of Kikyo and InuYasha. The centipede attacks again, and Kagome is forced to release InuYasha from his enchantment so he can kill it. After defeating the centipede, InuYasha tries to take the Jewel of Four Souls from Kagome. In order to thwart InuYasha and to save Kagome's life, Kaede places magical prayer beads around InuYasha's neck so that Kagome can subdue him. The Jewel of Four Souls attracts more demons, and in a battle against a carrion crow demon, the jewel is shattered into numerous shards that spread across Japan. Kagome and InuYasha set out to collect the shards and restore the Jewel of Four Souls. Along the way, they befriend Shippo, a fox demon; Miroku, a cursed monk; and Sango, a demon-slayer whose brother was possessed and forced to slaughter the rest of his village. The group encounters many friends and foes during the adventure, including InuYasha's older half-brother Sesshomaru; Kikyo, who was resurrected with part of Kagome's soul; Naraku, who tricked Kikyo and InuYasha into turning against each other; and a wolf demon named Koga, who is in love with Kagome and constantly bickers with InuYasha. Inuyasha If it wasn't for Kagura, he'd be my favorite character from this series. I can relate to him a lot, cause he had to deal with racism and not being able to fit in anywhere...he sums it up real well with this quote... "I didn't have a place to fit in growing up...so I had to carve one out by force. It's the only way I knew how to live...I had to be brutal, or I'd get taken advantage of. But by the time i made myself a place in the world, I realized I was there all by myself. But then it was too late." True that...that's the same way with me and my life...but he's so fucking hot tempered it's funny. He's a two-timer and can't choose between two women...as much as I hate that....I can't blame him. If I was in his situation I'd be torn too. He didn't do anything wrong, he was just tricked...and now has to suffer for someone else's crime. InuYasha is a brave but naive Hanyō (half demon), the result of a relationship between a powerful inu yōkai (dog demon) general and a beautiful human woman. Orphaned at a young age, InuYasha is rejected by humans because of his yōkai side and looked down upon by yōkai because his human blood supposedly taints his superior yōkai blood. Thus, before InuYasha met, and consequently fell in love with, the powerful miko, Kikyo, he found it very difficult to trust anyone else, and even more to find anyone who accepted him as a hanyō. Since the Jewel of Four Souls (Shikon No Tama or Sacred Jewel) was powerful enough for InuYasha to become a full yōkai and Kikyo was the protector of the jewel, InuYasha was motivated to follow Kikyo. However, the two fell in love, and eventually, Kikyo talked InuYasha into becoming human, instead. A human, named Onigumo, plotted to take the jewel for himself. He was once a bandit who was obsessed with Kikyo and became jealous that she had fallen in love with InuYasha. Unable to take any other action, Onigumo gave his body to a horde of demons for power. Their union is Naraku. Naraku disguised himself first as InuYasha and then as Kikyo to deceive them into betraying each other. InuYasha broke into Kikyo's village and stole the sacred jewel. To defend the village and to keep him from escaping with the jewel, Kikyo shot InuYasha with a sacred arrow pinning him to Goshinboku. Moments later, Kikyo collapses from a wound she received from Naraku and gives final instructions to Kaede, her sister, to burn the jewel with her body so it would travel to the afterworld with her. Fifty years later, InuYasha was released from the Goshinboku by Kagome Higurashi. Kagome is Kikyo reincarnated in modern Tokyo, 500 years after the time of the story. She unknowingly carried the Jewel of the Four Souls within the left side of her torso. A centipede called Mistress Centipede from the Bone Eater's Well attacked Kagome for the jewel so she could obtain more power, dragging her into the well which transported her back to the time of the story. After InuYasha kills Mistress Centipede, he tries to steal the Jewel but ends up with the Beads of Subjugation around his neck. When Kagome says "sit" (お座り, "sit"?) the necklace plunges to the ground taking InuYasha with it. InuYasha becomes more civil as time progresses, losing some of his more childish qualities and becoming much more mature. He always tries to take the most direct route possible in solving any problem, which usually involves violence. He maintains a crass, rude attitude towards everyone except Kagome and Kikyo, and to a lesser degree the rest of his companions except Shippo. InuYasha speaks with pretty harsh Japanese. He never uses honorifics and when talking to people he does not like, he uses "temee" and "kisama", both of which are often translated as "you bastard". He does, however, stick with the standard "omae". He uses the tough masculine pronoun "ore", which suits his personality and strength.[3] He also does not show respect to his elders, often calling them "-baba" or "-jiji", which translates as "old hag" or "old geezer", respectively. InuYasha is offended when someone calls him a mangy mutt, puppy, half breed, or otherwise suggests that he is inferior to yōkai, due to his human parentage. Although InuYasha should be weaker than full demons since he is a hanyō, he tends to remain the victor in fights largely due to the fact he wields Tessaiga, [4] and his heritage being from that of a dai-yokai (grand demon) thus allowing him to take a humanoid form like Sesshomaru, Naraku and Koga giving him a great deal of power. Being a hanyō, InuYasha loses his demonic powers periodically and is turned into a normal human boy with black hair. For him, this "time of weakness" occurs during the first night of a new moon. His team members try their best to protect him at that time, and keep this vulnerability secret from others. Despite their efforts, however, some of InuYasha's adversaries, including Kagura, learn of this weakness. However, Kagura does not use it against him. Kagome I don't like her much. Nothing's wrong with her, she's just too cookie cutter for my taste. It's like she doesn't really know pain except that Inuyasha keeps running off to kikyo. She has a big heart and she's very....normal I guess...she's just like any other teenage girl, but I don't like characters who are portrayed to be soooo caring without any explanation as to why. But it's real funny when she yells 'sit' and Inuyasha falls face first into the ground. But holy shit her voice is annoying. Kagome is a protagonist of this manga and anime series. Her grandfather is the keeper of Higurashi Shrine, a Shintō shrine near Tokyo. On her fifteenth birthday, she is pulled into the Bone Eater's Well by a centipede demon, called Mistress Centipede. This takes her back in time to the Sengoku period of feudal Japan. It is here that she finds the half- demon, InuYasha, in a coma and sealed to the Tree of Ages by a sacred arrow shot from the priestess Kikyo for 50 years. Kagome removes the arrow from his chest, freeing InuYasha and beginning their adventures.[2] Miroku Interesting. He pisses me off though with his playing around with girls. What the fuck? I understand he doesn't have long to live but who the hell goes around randomly asking EVERY single pretty girl he meets 'EXCUSE ME WILL YOU HAVE MY BABY?!?!??!' and rubs their ass???? No wonder they beat the shit out of him all the time! otherwise though, he's real spiritual, knowledgeable, wise, mature etc. I respect that. He is a hōshi (法師, ほうし, lit. Buddhist monk), who possesses a rather unusual curse. His right hand has a slowly expanding Kazāna (風穴, かざあな, "wind void"; "Wind Tunnel" in the English dub) that sucks in anything nearby if it's not kept covered by a cloth and strand of japa mala beads. This curse was placed on Miroku's grandfather by Naraku and passed down to him. His father died because the wind tunnel grew so large that it sucked him up. Eventually, the curse will cause Miroku to be sucked in as well, unless Naraku is defeated, and the curse is broken. He is, therefore, one of the main reasons the group is after Naraku. Miroku meets InuYasha and his friends after walking away from a town after cheating a rich man there out of some money. While bathing in a hot spring, he sees Kagome naked, also taking a bath. He discovers she has shards of the Shikon no Tama (The Jewel of Four Souls) while staring at her breasts and takes them (the jewel shards) and her bike with the help of his tanuki friend, Hachi. InuYasha and Kagome catch up to him and InuYasha attacks him, but Miroku uses his Kazāna in return. Kagome, realizing that the monk will not harm humans, stands in its path and causes Miroku to quickly cover it with his prayer beads. Miroku explains his situation, and InuYasha reluctantly allows him to join them. Miroku has habit of asking countless, random women to bear his child, which is formally known as womanizing. He does this because if he would happen to die while in the process of killing Naraku, he would want his son to finish the family mission. Despite his good looks and temperament, Miroku's worst vice (and best running joke) is lechery, specifically shameless flattery and occasional groping with varying subtlety. He is a big flirt that always asks seemingly single women to bear his children. It is known that he had a foster father, grandfather and father, but no trace of a mother. Miroku must have a child in order to have an heir by the time he may be killed by the curse, and thus finds it perfectly fine to offer the chance to many young women to bear his child. In fact, it was lechery that got Miroku's bloodline into trouble in the first place. His grandfather was fooled into "caring" for a young woman, who turned out to be Naraku in disguise. It was then that he received the Kazāna (Windtunnel) curse. Despite knowing this, Miroku continues his ways. As an ironic twist of fate, one episode of the anime lands Miroku in a similar situation where he woos a young woman who turns into an insectoid yōkai. His Kazāna suffers a dangerous rip before he destroys the yōkai, forcing him to seek medical attention from his old caretaker Mushin. Nonetheless, the monk mellows out as time goes on and proves to be a very valuable ally. He is very knowledgeable about yōkai, and is the secondary fighter of the team after InuYasha. Though quite possibly the most intelligent of the group, Miroku often uses humor or lechery to lighten serious situations, especially if anyone is worried about him. Despite his lighthearted and lecherous exterior, it is clear he has an inner darkness (Shippo has been heard to comment that he 'never bought that holy man routine') and worries over his curse and the resulting death sentence that hangs over his head. Although he mellows out, he reveals feelings for Sango, who in turn has had feelings for Miroku for a long time, thus her jealousy over him womanizing all the time. There are many times where their trust in one another is challenged but it appears their feelings are true enough to work past a few misunderstandings and bad habits. Sango Realistic girl. Not much to say. I don't know how she deals with Miroku for a fiance thugh...I would've gotten rid of him a looooong time ago. Personality-wise, I'm a lot like her. Naraku, the main antagonist of the series, devised an elaborate strategy to destroy the demon exterminators and take their pieces of the Shikon no Tama. He first lured the five most skilled slayers of the village away to a castle. The castle was under the control of Naraku who had either taken the form of its young lord Hitomi Kagewaki or had been that person for many years. The slayers quickly killed a weak spider demon who they had been told was threatening the castle. Immediately after, another spider-demon in the disguised form of the castle's lord took control of Sango's younger brother Kohaku and had him attack the entire group of exterminators (including his own father). Sango was the only survivor. When she discovered the presence of the spider-demon controlling Kohaku, she turned to attack the demon. Kohaku stabbed her in the back with his kusari-gama (chain-sickle). Meanwhile, the spider-demon still disguised as the lord of the castle ordered his men to kill the "crazed" slayers. Sango and Kohaku were both shot full of arrows. Naraku, in the form of Hitomi Kagewaki, then appeared and killed the spider-demon. He orders that the bodies of the exterminators be buried with the exception of Kohaku which he takes away for other purposes. While the slayers were fighting at the castle, Naraku sent his saimyōshō out to lead a large force of demons against the village of the slayers. All the villagers were killed in the battle and Naraku gained their pieces of the Shikon no Tama. Sango was then buried but then digs herself out of her burial mound and afterward has her wounds briefly tended to by Naraku in the form of Hitomi Kagewaki (the young lord). In that form Naraku has his saimyōshō come to him. The saimyōshō (calling itself Naraku) tells Hitomi Kagewaki within listening range of Sango that her village was destroyed by demons under the leadership of a yōkai named InuYasha. Enraged at this "news", Sango demands her weapon and swears to kill InuYasha at all costs. Sango meets InuYasha and the group not long after she left the castle. Immediately she engages in a battle that InuYasha does not want to fight in, and he thus holds back. Naraku was watching closely with a yōkai puppet and sends the saimyōshō to deter Miroku from using his Kazāna. It seems like Sango has the upper hand by using her poison gas to fend off InuYasha's attacks, but InuYasha easily discovers that if he knocks off her mask she would not be able to use such an effective defense. Having done so, InuYasha 'saves' Sango from her own poison gas after knocking off her mask. Puzzled as to why InuYasha, the yōkai who supposedly killed her entire village would save her, she stabs him in the arm with her Wakizashi. InuYasha, after rather nonchalantly removing the weapon from his arm, bluntly points out that Naraku was tricking her and that she was bleeding rather badly. Sango is shocked to see that he was right because she had felt no pain from her wounds, soon afterward she passes out. She awakens on InuYasha's back and only after assurances and explanations from Kagome does Sango feel as if she can "trust" InuYasha for the time being. Naraku's Saimyōshō escape with the Jewel Shard he lent Sango and she loses consciousness due to blood loss. When she wakes up, they make it back to her village, where Sango finds out that they had already paid proper respects to all the villagers, who died defending the village without their strongest warriors from the onslaught of yōkai. The group learns from Sango that the Shikon Jewel has close ties with her village, and Sango in time realized the true nature of Naraku and joins the group. She is a valiant warrior in battle as she is the best yōkai exterminator from the village, and with her Hiraikotsu she is not an opponent to be taken lightly. Sango also has her fire cat demon companion, Kirara. She hopes to defeat Naraku and be reunited with Kohaku who was brought back from the dead by Naraku with a Shikon Shard. Shippo Cute kid. But his character is really underdeveloped. Takahashi should've put more effort into him-he's one of the main characters and yet, barely there. He is a kitsune, (a yōkai-fox) who tags along with Kagome and InuYasha after they defeat the Thunder Brothers. At first, Shippo tries to steal Kagome's shards of the Jewel of Four Souls (Shikon no Tama), needing them to become stronger so he can avenge his father's death at the hands of the Thunder Brothers.[3] After InuYasha and Kagome hear Shippo's story, they help him fulfill his revenge and he becomes the first new member of the group. Shippo, unlike some yōkai, has no problem with humans, but InuYasha and Shippo always tease each other while Kagome acts like katsumomo, a combination of mother and sister to Shippo. Though young and rather naïve, he has a very good grasp of the emotions and motives of his companions, and has oddly accurate moments of insight. He wishes very much that Kagome and InuYasha would not fight, and when they do, he is right there trying to convince InuYasha to apologize for whatever he did, resulting in a quick bop to the noggin for the kitsune. As a kitsune, his specialty is trickery. He has fooled with InuYasha in particular on a few occasions, once abandoning him on the side of a road with his hands trapped beneath a stone with a sutra on it, which he is unable to touch, one act among several that have garnered InuYasha's mild resentment. Shippō's illusions aren't always complete and don't always last for very long, leaving Shippo to face trouble from the people or yōkai he may be trying to deceive. As of recent chapters, Inuyasha's group come upon an inn which is being used by a group of kitsune in a sort of exam to test their skills at trickery and getting the better of others, and when Shippo arrives on the scene, he is immediately given the applicant number 77 by a leaf with the number 77 flying at and sticking to Shippo's head. When Shippo learns of the nature of the inn, he tries to evade InuYasha's usual harassment and in doing so gets him with his Spinning Top illusion, causing a slip of paper to descend from the sky, awarding him an increase in rank, to Upper Junior 8th Rank, 5 ranks up from the bottom out of the 30 available ranks [4]. According to a couple of participating kitsune, it ordinarily takes 100 years of studying (apparently the art of trickery and deception) to reach Senior 1st Rank, but thanks to Shippo's successful illusionary attack on InuYasha (who counts as a yōkai for the sake of the exam, and whose downfall at the hands of a participating kitsune awards him with a larger number of yet unexplained points than tricking say, a human) Shippo essentially begins the exam at Upper Junior 8th and later ends at Lower Senior 8th Rank, the next rank up from there. Kohaku Sad kid. just sad. Kohaku is Sango's younger brother. When Kohaku turned eleven, his father told him that he must now put his training as a yōkai taijiya (exterminator) to use and help the rest of his family (who are also yōkai taijiya) with their next mission; exterminating a Spider yōkai who is tormenting a castle. Kohaku is scared, but he does not want to disappoint his father. Sango cheers him up by telling him he will be safe with her. However, during the mission something goes horribly wrong. Kohaku becomes a puppet of the Spider yōkai, who has taken the form of the castle's lord, and kills his family. Sango sees the spider thread the yōkai is using to control Kohaku connected to the back of his neck and knows he is not himself. Sango tries to wake her brother up and a battle ensues. They fight until the false Lord orders them killed. Sango is wounded and Kohaku is released from the yōkai's spell. He rushes to aid Sango, only to be shot dead by the Lord's archers. It isn't until after this that the lord's son, Hitomi Kagewaki (whose body is later taken over by Naraku), realizes that his father has been possessed and kills him and order's that the yōkai taijiya be given a proper burial. It is later revealed that this was all setup by Naraku so that he could use the opportunity in which the yōkai taijiya village's best warriors were absent to attack the village and take the shikon jewel shard there, then tell Sango that Inuyasha was the one responsible so that she would attack him. Later on in the series, Kohaku is brought back to life by Naraku, and is kept alive by a shard of the Shikon no Tama lodged in his back. He remembers nothing of his past life and so, he becomes Naraku's servant. In episode 29 of the anime (Volume 11 of the manga), Naraku uses Kohaku's life as leverage to try and persuade Sango to steal the Tessaiga for him. Later on in the series, some of Kohaku's memories gradually return to him, but he still serves as a minion under Naraku. He is eventually instructed to deliver Akago to the castle of a noblewoman who had just miscarried her baby. Naraku orders him to remain ain in the castle under the guise of a servant so that he may protect Akago from any potential threats. While protecting the castle from Princess Abi and her bird yōkai, he begins to fully regain his memory. Kohaku is then ordered to kill all the people he helped defend, so that he could retrieve Akago for Naraku, but in doing so he not only fully regains his memories—including those of the day when he killed his father and comrades—as well as his own will. Desperate to determine his identity and trying to stop himself from killing the noblewoman, he begins to cry before her. Sango arrives to stop him as Kohaku struggles to accept the surge of memories he is recalling. Kagura arrives to take him away; as they escape, he is able to fully assess his recovered memory, but keeps it a secret and decides that even at the cost of his own life, he will kill Naraku. After recovering his memory, he revisits his abandoned village in episode 163, to give honor to the taijiya that was slain by his own hands. Kohaku also runs into Kirara and remembers his childhood of his father and Sango, who he refers to as Ane-ue, while also battling some rogue yōkai. At the end of this episode Sango realizes that she has a chance of seeing her brother and shouts his name while running towards the village. Kohaku decides to remain in the shadows and Sango narrowly misses him. After realizing about the secret flower garden, Sango now knows that Kohaku has his memories back. After he inadvertently reveals he has recovered his memory to Kagura, the two form an alliance of sorts seeing as they are in a similar situation. They will defend each other, given that the other is the only one they can somewhat trust; in Kagura's final battle, she holds off Hakudōshi so Kohaku can escape and as she dies from Naraku's poison, Kohaku runs off in search of her, sensing Kagura is in some sort of danger. Following Kagura's death, he joins Kikyo as he believes travelling with her will be the only way to redeem himself, full well knowing that she may sacrifice his life to complete the Shikon Jewel to defeat Naraku. He remains by her side until she tells him to separate from her for fear of being unable to keep his shard pure. However, he is nearly captured by Byakuya, and only a timely arrival by Sesshomaru saves him. Kohaku remains with Sesshomaru's group after this. After Kikyo's defeat, Naraku succeeded in reuniting and corrupting all of the Shikon Jewel, except for the shard in Kohaku's body. Naraku has attempted to decapitate Kohaku to retrieve his shard, however a light from the shard prevents him from taking it. Because of this attempt, he has managed to openly betray Naraku. He has also managed to reestablished communication with his sister. It was recently discovered that using the Tenseiga to bring Kohaku back to life would not work. However Magatsuhi is not only able to touch it but corrupt the shard. Shortly after his birth, the detachment attacks Kohaku to get the shard, sending Kohaku into a coma immediately upon touching it. Sesshomaru tries to protect him, injuring his arm, but ultimately winning the battle when he obtains his new sword, the Bakusaiga, and regrows his left arm. Kohaku remains in a coma for days, Kagome being unable to heal him due to her spiritual powers being sealed. While he sleeps, Magatsuhi takes possession of Kohaku's body and uses it to attack his comrades, poisoning both Miroku and Rin in the prosess. While battling Inuyasha and the others, Magatsuhi reveals that ever since he touched Kohaku's shard, he has been reliving that day when he killed his father and his comrades. Although Magatsuhi is confident that doing this would shatter Kohaku's soul, Kikyo's light in Kohaku's jewel shard is able to help him esape from this endless nightmare, allowing him to regain control of his body. Magatsuhi attempts to take Kohaku's jewel shard by force, but is thwarted by Sesshomaru, who defeats Magatsuhi with his Tenseiga and Bakusaiga. Following his defeat, however, Naraku takes Kagome hostage, saying that he will release her if Kohaku gives him his jewel shard. Kohaku, ignoring the warnings of Sango and the others, agrees. As Kohaku is in clutches, Naraku tells him that even though he is going to die, he had already died on that day when he killed his father and the others with his own hands. But Kohaku rebukes him, saying that even though what he did was unforgiveable, Sango, Inuyasha, and the others have shown him what significance his life has. It is then that Kohaku reveals an arrow of Kagome's that he had picked up earlier, and thrusts it into Naraku where the Shikon Jewel is. Kikyo's light inside Kohaku's jewel shard flows into Kagome's arrow and begins to engulf Naraku. As the arrow pierce through the armored shell protecting the jewel, Naraku is forced to let go of Kohaku, lest he be devoured by the purifying light. Naraku then flees, attempting to take Kagome with him, but due to is severely weakened state, Inuyasha is able to rescue her with ease. As Kohaku rejoins the others, he realizes that he has now finally come to terms with his past. Now finally at peace with himself, Kohaku decides that he will continue to live on no matter what happens. Just then, some pieces of discarded body parts from the earlier battle with Naraku suddenly spring to life, and pierce through Kohaku's back and coming out through his neck, along with the Shikon Jewel. [3] Having lost the one thing that sustained his life, Kohaku's lifeless body falls to the ground. However, Kikyo's light remains in Kohaku and sustains his life instead, at the cost of allowing Naraku to have and corrupt the final Shikon shard. [4] Kikyo One of the most interesting and well developed characters in my opinion. She died cause of a trap, hating Inuyasha who she also loved...then was resurrected, stuck in the state she was in when she died. And by the time that's happened, her reincarnation kagome's with her man. I understand her pain, and admire her strength. But it freaks me out when she's all "INUYASHA COME TO HEEEEELLLLLLLLLL WITH MEEEEE!" I guess that's why a lot of people hate her. Sometimes she acts like she hates Inuyasha, but then saves him...really has questionable tendencies. But by the time she died for good...her 2nd death...she'd changed a lot and was no longer so vengeful. It was tragic...looking at her life she could've been so much, she was after all "the most powerful priestess during her time" but her life amounted to nothing but this. Sad sad sad. When Kikyo was alive, she was a calm priestess with a reserved manner. With her kindness, she had helped several people that she met along the path. She was apparently very intelligent as well, and although she rarely smiled with joy, she showed her internal sadness at times. Her only wish was to become an ordinary woman. However, since she was a priestess with tremendous spiritual power, she felt that it would be inappropriate for her to express any personal emotions in front of anyone. Kikyo was the Shinto priestess entrusted by the Yōkai Taijiya (Demon Slayers) to guard and purify the fabled Jewel of the Four Souls (Shikon no Tama). Kikyo had slain many yōkai that tried to gain possession of the jewel; however, she could not force herself to kill InuYasha, a hanyō who is half-human and half-Inu yōkai (Dog Demon). She felt as though InuYasha was isolated from his kind, as she was from hers. On several occasions she would immobilize InuYasha when he attempted to steal the jewel, and had brief conversations with him. InuYasha had followed her for a long period of time. Soon they spent more time together, and the two of them began to have feelings of love and compassion for each other. Kikyo told InuYasha that the Shikon Jewel could be used to make him completely human, as opposed to his original intention of becoming a full yōkai. Kikyo speculated that if the jewel were used to turn InuYasha into a human, it would be purified and vanish, which would free Kikyo from her duty to protect the jewel and she could then live as a normal woman with InuYasha. He agreed, believing this was the better option. The following day, Kikyo arrived at the area where they had agreed to meet, but InuYasha was not present. When she went out into a field to attempt to find him, she was attacked by Naraku, disguised as InuYasha. She collapsed to the ground as he escaped with the jewel, proclaiming that he had "absolutely no intention of becoming human" and that the jewel needed to "absorb even more bitter blood", thus effectively framing InuYasha for the evil deed. Kikyo limped back to the village in pain, only to find that the real InuYasha, who was also tricked by Naraku in thinking that Kikyo wanted to kill him, had attacked the village and was escaping with the Shikon jewel. Drawing on her last strength, Kikyo fired a sealing arrow (Fūin no Ya) at InuYasha to seal him to the Sacred Time Tree (Goshinboku). She collapsed the instant after InuYasha was sealed, and instructed her younger sister Kaede to burn the Shikon no Tama with her body to assure that none can exploit the terrible powers the jewel holds. With that, she died.[3] In the anime (but not in the manga), this tragic fate of Kikyo was foretold through a curse laid by Tsubaki, (a powerful Miko and Kikyo's rival) when she told Kikyo that "a priestess must abandon her heart to achieve power ... this includes love as well" and "You must extinguish love. You must never hold a man dear," or else she would "suffer an untimely death."[4] Kikyo was originally introduced as the previous incarnation of Kagome with whom InuYasha had once quarreled. However, it is later revealed that Kikyo and InuYasha were actually in love, but were tricked into betraying each other by Naraku. Kikyo was led to believe InuYasha was just leading her on to steal the sacred jewel at the time of her death. When Kikyo was resurrected by Urasue, for a long time the only thing that she lived for was for revenge against InuYasha. The hatred that was inside of her soul at her death caused her to become callous after her resurrection from death. She still had some kindness towards other humans (when not involved in InuYasha's quests, she was often seen taking care of orphans, war-torn soldiers and poor people) and other living things, and wonders if she could ever rest in peace. She learns the whole story of InuYasha's "betrayal" when she asks Kaede to relay it for her. Though initially cold- hearted with vengeance when she was resurrected, Kikyo learned new lessons every day, and still loved InuYasha even when her main goal in her new life was to kill Naraku in order to reclaim the Shikon jewel from Naraku's corruption. Kikyo had been dead for fifty years already until the yōkai Kijo Urasue attacked her village and stole Kikyo's ashes along with some burial soil from her grave. Using her powerful magic, she re-created Kikyo's body in the hopes that Kikyo would find and retrieve the shards of the Shikon Jewel (which was incidentally shattered by Kagome) but, to the old yōkai's dismay, Kikyo's soul had not returned to her body. Urasue was angry for a while, until Kagome and InuYasha, along with Shippo and Kaede, were attacked by Urasue's guards. With a quick attack, Urasue had Kikyo's reincarnated soul and eventually (with InuYasha's unknowing help) revived Kikyo, who immediately killed Urasue and went on to attack InuYasha.[5] Most of the soul returned to Kagome's body after Kikyo's assault on InuYasha failed — he denied responsibility for her death and affirmed his continuing love for her. Kikyo fled with only a tiny part of Kagome's soul within her, fueled by the bitter hatred and anger she felt for InuYasha at the moment of her death.[6] However, despite this hatred that she bears for him, the confused Kikyo cannot deny her feelings of love and well being for him, for it is her wish to die with him and descend into hell, where they can be together forever. Kikyo attempted to do this once, yet upon seeing Kagome trapped to a tree, InuYasha interrupted the process. Though at a later point in the series, InuYasha tells Kaede that he would, "Gladly leap into hell with Kikyo if that is what she wants." Kikyo's body is not made of flesh and blood; she only has a wee bit of soul and strong, willful determination. As a result of this, she must find ways to sustain her life after death until she can kill Naraku. Kikyo fulfills this need by using Shinidamachu (dead soul insects, known as Soul Collectors in the dub of the anime) to collect the souls of deceased women, allowing her to move and continue her journey. The Kikyo appearing after her death is very different from the one who had just died. At first, Kikyo no longer smiled and hardly showed any real emotion, except pain or panic when being attacked by an opponent. She killed a priest who was trying to save her soul by releasing her from her desire to live, thus ending her life.[7] However, this changes as the story progresses and Kikyo adapts more and more to her new condition of existence. A lot of these changes can be attributed to the different characters she meets and the lessons she learns from them along the way. Whenever she is not going after Naraku, she can be seen aiding the wounds of soldiers or taking care of children, helping to rebuild the villages destroyed by the war or monsters. Sesshomaru I understand his attitude cause it's a kill-or-be-killed world. And I understand that the sword isn't just a good sword, it solidifies the fact that his dad left him and his mother for his brother and his mom...and preferred them over him. That hurts a lot. But he took it overboard...you damn ruthless murderer...even though he's not really like that any more. Leave the kid alone!!! No wonder he chopped your arm off! Otherwise he's a bit weird. He carries this gay looking piece of fluff with him everywhere and wears eyeshadow. He looks like a woman. He talks about himself in 3rd person, and he never really does or says anything, he just walks and walks and walks and walks and walks. Why does my favorite character kagura like him so much? I don't know. He's not good enough for her. Sesshomaru is the yōkai son of the powerful Inu no Taishou and another, yet unnamed inuyōkai known only as Sesshomaru's Mother.[2] Since Inu no Taishou is considered to be a daiyōkai (great yōkai), Sesshomaru is a daiyōkai himself. In both the manga and the anime, he appears stoic and hard to read. He rarely smiles, and when he does, it is usually not a good thing; Jaken once begged Sesshomaru to beat him rather than to smile because it was Sesshomaru's smile that he feared most.[3] Sesshomaru believes that struggle is the only way for survival, and throughout most of the series, he shows his contempt for InuYasha, his half brother. Although Sesshomaru inherited his father's Tenseiga, which can bring 100 people back to life with a single swing, he originally coveted InuYasha's inheritance, the powerful Tessaiga. However, a barrier was cast around Tessaiga so that full yōkai cannot wield it without burning their flesh. Even knowing that he cannot touch the sword,[4] Sesshomaru still desires to take it from InuYasha. He fights with InuYasha in their father's grave and by chance, InuYasha transforms the blade and hacks off Sesshomaru's left arm.[5] It is not until his fight with Magatsuhi that his left arm returns. [6] By the time he regains his left arm, however, he is no longer interested in obtaining the Tessaiga. He is followed by his retainer, an imp-like yōkai with a small beak named Jaken, and later by a human orphan named Rin, whom Sesshomaru brings back to life using Tenseiga, which he tells Jaken was merely a test of the sword (bringing a great deal of distress to the retainer). He is also followed by a two-headed dragon that Rin names Ah-Un. Ah-Un is Rin and Jaken's main form of transportation when Sesshomaru takes flight or when they need to cover long distances quickly. Also, Sesshomaru later saves Kohaku from Byakuya, resulting in Kohaku's decision to join his retinue as they leave Sesshomaru's mother's palace.[7] It is also revealed that none of his companions (excluding Ah-Un) can again be revived by the Tenseiga since they have all died before and were either already revived by Tenseiga or are being kept alive by a Shikon Jewel shard. Although Sesshomaru maintains a cool, disinterested exterior, throughout the story his compassion seems to be growing. When InuYasha is controlled by his yōkai blood, Sesshomaru comes to see for himself the power that InuYasha could produce. After defeating InuYasha, he instructs Kagome to return the Tessaiga to InuYasha in order to restore him to his former self. It is possible that he lost interest in obtaining the Tessaiga mainly due to InuYasha's need for the sword to control his yōkai blood, but also because he had recently got his own offensive sword, Tokijin. He left claiming that he intends to kill InuYasha one day, when InuYasha could adequately fight back. By making this public declaration, Sesshomaru is claiming first right to InuYasha's death by his own hand, and at his choice of time and place. Thus Sesshomaru can then choose to battle any shared adversary with no loss of face and without admitting any familial attachment or emotions. As by his declaration, any enemy attempting to kill InuYasha is infringing on Sesshomaru's right to do so. Though Sesshomaru is prone to hitting, kicking, and stepping on his servant Jaken, he has repeatedly warned Jaken to move out of the way prior to an attack. Sesshomaru also allows Rin to follow him and protects her when she gets in trouble. Kagura later kidnaps Rin for Naraku as part of his attempt to absorb Sesshomaru. When Naraku tries to escape after failing to absorb him, Sesshomaru intended to pursue Naraku, but upon hearing that Rin was in danger, he lets Naraku go, and instead goes to aid Rin. Later in the manga, when Rin appears to be dead due to her time in Hell, Sesshomaru enters Hell for the purpose of rescuing her, but upon learning that he cannot save her life, he is crushed. When he realizes that it was his urge to strengthen Tenseiga which brought them to Hell and ultimately killed her, he casts the sword aside and says for the sword to gain power at the expense of Rin's life means nothing.[8] When Kagura is injured, Sesshomaru originally intended to leave her in the river she was drowning in, but when Rin falls in trying to save her and Jaken follows after Rin, Sesshomaru pulls all three from the river. Later however, before Kagura's death, Sesshomaru seeks her out and considers using the Tenseiga, only to conclude that Tenseiga cannot save her.[9] He has also been shown "helping" InuYasha's friends on several occasions. On his way to Hakurei-zan, Sesshomaru saves Kagome, Miroku, and Sango from the poison master Mukotsu, one of the Shichinintai, but only claims that he killed Mukotsu because he was in his way. He also revives a young otter yōkai's father, claiming that it was the will of Tenseiga.[10] Another example is when InuYasha and his companions are involved in a fight with the "water god" Numawatari; when Sesshomaru arrives, he insults InuYasha's inability to kill a "low life yōkai", and then easily dispatches Numawatari using his Meidou Zangetsuha ability, leaving straight after.[11] Later, in Naraku's body, he allows Kagome to follow him, keeping her safe. Also, when Byakuya, Naraku's newest offspring, is about to take Kohaku, who has one of the last three shards of the Shikon Jewel, back to Naraku, Sesshomaru appears and launches a ranged Meidou-Zangetsuha (still in the crescent moon shape), barely missing him. Byakuya flees claiming that he does not want to die, and comments on how it is so unlike Sesshomaru to save someone. Thereafter, Sesshomaru seems to have taken Kohaku into his protection, albeit in his typical grudging fashion (after once more rescuing Kohaku from peril, Sesshomaru tells him curtly, "Don't make me waste time unnecessarily. This arm is only for holding a sword." However, he also advises Kohaku to take the path back to safety while he himself intends to proceed into greater danger). Later, when Kohaku's shard gets tainted by Magatsuhi, he attempts to save Kohaku at the expense of great injury to his arm.[12] It is his compassion that caused the Tenseiga to be reforged as a weapon. Its offensive powers were locked until Sesshomaru shows true compassion. In battle with Mōryōmaru, the villain insulted the deceased Kagura, which angers Sesshomaru to the point that he shatters Mōryōmaru's indestructible shell (and his only weapon in the process). Acknowledging the yōkai's growth, Tenseiga called to its creator to reforge it as a weapon. Later, to show his compassion and respect for his father, he gave the offensive powers of his sword to InuYasha (albeit in his typical fashion) in accordance with his father's wishes and acknowledgment of his brother's worth as heir to the sword. Despite his growing compassion, he, like his brother, uses impolite Japanese. He addresses strangers or people he does not like with "kisama", which, like "temee", is an offensive form of "you," though still more formal. He addresses himself with the polite "watashi", signifying his high rank and power. Other than "kisama", he uses "omae", either to Jaken or to InuYasha, the latter being occasionally and not rarely. Thus he can be insulting while retaining the dignified speech pattern of a lord, as opposed to the rougher speech used by Inuyasha. Koga Fucking retard. He stalks kagome, though he KNOWS she has a boyfriend and she's told him OVER AND OVER AGAIN she doesn't like him like THAT, he keeps stalking her talking about "HAR DEE HAR HAR IF YOUR MAN IS GONE THAN YOU'LL REALIZE YOUR LOVE FOR ME AND BE FREEE!" Plus he fucking wears a SKIRT AND A GAY PONYTAIL! the only thing he has going on for him is he's really fast. That's it. Dumb as a goddamn rock. Koga is the leader of a demon wolf tribe. In his first appearance, he allows his wolves to slaughter and feed on the villagers of Rin's, village. When InuYasha finds the massacre he attacks the remaining wolves who then call Koga for help. The two fight briefly. During their fight, Koga notes Kagome's ability to see the shards of the powerful Shikon Jewel. The battle is over because Koga retreats when he senses danger as InuYasha was about to perform his deadly Wind Scar attack. Koga soon returns to kidnap Kagome in order to put her skill at seeing the Shikon Jewel shards to use. He explains that he needs her to fight his clan's enemies, the so- called Birds of Paradise. He takes her into battle with him against the Birds and protects her as best he can while fighting. She helps him find the Bird with a jewel shard and then he fights on his own, leaving Kagome in the care of his pack mates Ginta and Hakkaku. With help from InuYasha, the Birds are defeated. In the middle of the battle, Koga claims Kagome as "his woman" and boldly declares his love for her, much to InuYasha's fury and dismay. After the battle, Kagome helps an injured Koga escape from a raging InuYasha, causing InuYasha to feel jealous and hurt. Though Koga is at first portrayed as a "villain" it is almost immediately clear from his demeanor and personality that he is hardly evil. He and InuYasha are more sporting rivals than arch enemies. Koga courts Kagome, protects her whenever possible, and seems to love her, thus irritating InuYasha in the process. In the anime, Koga ceases to allow his wolves to devour humans because if he kills a human, Kagome will hate him. Koga is strong, but he is mostly just talk. He's very cocky and bold, but he also follows his instincts to keep himself alive. Koga is infamous for running away from a fight, a quality that a prioed brave InuYasha finds cowardly, but one that does keep him alive and out of fights he can't win. Later in the series, Koga's entire pack excluding Ginta and Hakkaku are lured to their death by Naraku. After the slaughter, he vows to destroy Naraku at any cost. Once Koga and InuYasha share this common enemy, they cross paths often and even sometimes reluctantly fight together. Koga appears humanoid and has not to date taken any other forms in either the manga or anime. He was the possessor of two of the last four shards not held by Naraku. After Naraku takes them, Koga returned to the other wolves. Jaken Stupid toad...and i think he has a gay crush on Sesshomaru. They claim it's just a servant loyal to his master but he is too goddamn OBSESSED. Jaken is a small green yōkai who serves the powerful Lord Sesshomaru. Jaken is very loyal to him, primarily out of gratitude for once saving his life but also out of political ambition for himself. Despite this loyalty, Sesshomaru more often than not ignores Jaken's needs and wants. Jaken is not really a fighter, as he tries to avoid situations that might endanger him. And when he does engage in direct battle, it's usually with the company of some other strong yokai to help back up his threats. He is charged with carrying the weapon known as the Staff of Heads (人頭杖, nintōjō). Although he occasionally puts its power to use, it is generally of little use in a fight. He is useful in that he verbally promotes the greatness of Sesshomaru in ways that the aristocratic Sesshomaru would never do himself. Sesshomaru once resurrected Jaken with the Tenseiga when he was killed by Kaijinbo when possessed by Tōkijin. Rin Basically she's Sesshomaru's adopted daughter...but so many people want her to grow up and then marry the man who raised her. Fucking pedophiles, that's borderline incest. They may not have had the papers back then but he still adopted and raised her, don't fucking marry your children as soon as they hit puberty! Rin is a young child that first appears after InuYasha used the Wind Scar on Sesshomaru. The Tenseiga saves Sesshomaru by transporting him to a forest glade near Rin's village, though Sesshomaru is still injured by the attack. While in the forest, Rin finds Sesshomaru in a feral state. Rather than be frightened, Rin persistently tries to help Sesshomaru by bringing him fish from her village's preserve, despite his insistence that she mind her own business. The village men beat her for stealing the fish, and when Sesshomaru asks about the injuries when she returns, she simply smiles instead of responding - though he retracts the question at this. Rin is later killed following a conflict between the wolf demon Koga and a thief. After the thief is killed, Koga lets his wolves attack the village for food. Rin attempts to make her way to Sesshomaru, but trips along the forest path as the wolves catch up and attack her. After recovering, Sesshomaru catches her scent and finds her mauled and lifeless body. Remembering Rin's smile and stating aloud that he wishes to test his sword again, Sesshomaru uses Tenseiga to resurrect Rin. After setting Rin on her feet again, Sesshomaru walks away, leaving the dumbfounded Jaken and a wide-eyed Rin standing on the path. Still mute, Rin follows Sesshomaru. By their next appearance, Rin has a new, more colorful kimono and is devoted to Sesshomaru and Jaken. She now talks and acts more like a typical child. Naraku Obviously he's an evil bitch...he's the villain. But he's one of the most horribly developed fictional characters. There's no explanation to why he's so bitter and heartless. He just is. There's no story background after how Onigumo became him. He's portrayed as 100% evil, which in my opinion, doesn't exist. Every other character in this story has both good AND evil in them, but this one doesn't for some reason, and we're never even told why. Rumiko, please develop your characters better than this. Naraku is just unrealistic. Naraku is a hanyō ("half-demon" — yō is derived from yōkai, which means "demon"), although he differs from most hanyō. There was a man named Onigumo (鬼蜘蛛, おに ぐ も, "demon-spider"), who was full of deceit and hatred for others. He tricked his bandit leader, Rasetsu (the elderly man later on in both manga and anime who gives Kikyo his top knot to be sent to Mount Hakurei in order to purify his soul) into approaching Kikyo and attempt to obtain the Shikon no Tama, or Jewel of Four Souls; however, Onigumo did not warn him that with Kikyo, there was a hanyō named InuYasha. Rasetsu survived the encounter with InuYasha, lost an eye, and returns to camp annoyed to find that Onigumo has made off with his troops. Rasetsu finds Onigumo and his troops at an inn down the road celebrating their change in leadership. Rasetsu blows up the inn, but the charred body of Onigumo somehow manages to survive the blast. Rasetsu throws the barely-living Onigumo off a cliff. (This, however, does not explain the spider scar, as Onigumo had the scar before he met Rasetsu). By either chance or fate, Onigumo barely survived and was found by Kikyo who slowly nursed him back to the point of being able to speak. Onigumo developed feelings for Kikyo, but knowing that he could not move for the rest of his life, he summoned countless yōkai using his corrupted soul. He then had them devour his body in exchange for giving him a new body with which he could claim Kikyo and the Jewel of Four Souls. Thus the countless yōkai were bound together in a form with Onigumo serving as a connector. (In an anime special, it is implied that a spider-yōkai, which looked like a small replica of Naraku's spider form in the second movie, was the de facto leader of these yōkai.) This resulted in the part-human, part-yōkai Naraku. In the meantime, he did not forget about his ultimate goal of obtaining the corrupted Shikon no Tama. He disguised himself as both InuYasha and Kikyo and tricked them into hating each other, as he describes that "the Shikon Jewel is the most beautiful when it's tainted by the hatred Kikyo and InuYasha have toward each other". He mortally wounded Kikyo while disguised as InuYasha, took the Shikon no Tama and returned it to the village, then disguised himself as Kikyo and attacked InuYasha. InuYasha, sensing something was wrong, instinctively went back to the village to retrieve the Jewel. However, disguised as Kikyo, Naraku told the villagers that InuYasha would come for the Shikon no Tama at any cost, thereby forcing InuYasha to use force to obtain the Jewel. As he was getting away with the Jewel, Kikyo, with her remaining strength, sealed InuYasha to the Tree of Ages. Naraku, who desired both the Jewel of Four Souls and Kikyo, thought that she would use the Jewel to heal herself, but instead she requested Kaede to cremate the Jewel along with her dying body, so that it would be taken to the afterlife with her. Onigumo's soul, within Naraku, objected to Kikyo's death. At this time, Naraku took action to prevent Onigumo from consciously influencing the hanyō's actions. Onigumo perceived this process as imprisonment in a deep dark place where he proceeded to sleep. For fifty years after Kikyo's death, Naraku secretly plotted and waited for the Shikon Jewel to appear again. After the appearance of Kagome as the present-day reincarnation of Kikyo and InuYasha's awakening, he moved forward with his plan of gathering the shattered shards of the Jewel. Knowing his weakness as a hanyō, he relied mostly on evil tricks and traps while gathering information on his potential enemies that would stand before his insidious plot. Being a hanyō like InuYasha, Naraku also sometimes experiences a period of weakness. During those times, he loses all his yōkai powers and reverts to his human "form". While in this form, he is composed of his head attached to countless random yōkai parts. Naraku has the freedom of choosing this time, unlike InuYasha, and since he is made up of thousands of yōkai, each time he "experiments" and "reconstructs" his body, he gets rid of weak and useless parts while keeping the vital ones to get stronger. It is possible that during each of these periods he expelled more and more of his humanity. This process ultimately led to the creation of his stronger form. Kagura The #1 baddest bitch!!!! Well, fiction wise, and that's my opinion. She's strong, outspoken, brave, fiesty,intelligent, bold, doesn't give a fuck what other people think, and NEVER backs down! she's beautiful and a very strong wind witch. Also, HER LIFE IS JUST LIKE MINE! Though her dad Naraku always abuses and and shit she won't take that! No one can break her spirit and she rebels! She has a crush on Sesshomaru, a man who looks like a woman, but hey...her choice. She's misunderstood and labeled evil, but people don't even try to see she's only doing shit cause she's being FORCED to! sad thing is, she died...naraku killed her cause she got caught trying to help someone -.- But hell, her man was there for her when she died though his stupid healing sword wasn't working and he swore to avenge her... I wish I could be more like her.... Kagura the wind sorceress is the second detachment of Naraku. She dresses in a three- layer kimono typical of Kagura dancers and wears a pair of earrings (each is a string of five light green beads with a feather at the end). The irises of her eyes are red and her ears are pointy. If pupils are shown, they are dark red. Kagura uses her wind- manipulating fan to create slicing winds and powerful tornadoes with which to attack her foes. Even without the fan, Kagura can control wind; it merely helps focus her abilities. A pair of feathers in her hair can be enlarged to allow her escape on the wind if need be. After her first battle with InuYasha, which Naraku more or less staged to test the power of InuYasha's sword, Kagura's chief desire is to kill Naraku in order to free herself from his control. However, because Naraku literally carries her heart, she cannot openly defy him without quite literally being killed in a heartbeat; since Naraku knows her thoughts, he has squeezed her heart in his hands in front of her, making Kagura collapse in pain each time. Like the wind she controls, Kagura wishes to be free and tries to gain that freedom in any way she can. Despite the impediments her existence entails, Kagura frequently (though covertly) aids the two camps opposed to Naraku, those of InuYasha and Sesshomaru. Though the anime ends at a point where Kagura is still alive, she is eventually killed in the manga. When Naraku charges her with guarding Goryōmaru at a prison, Hakudōshi convinces her to release him secretly, since he is also secretly plotting to destroy Naraku. During this time, Kohaku inadvertently reveals to Kagura he has recovered his memory. The two end up becoming unlikely allies, sharing information as to Naraku's weaknesses and somewhat gaining each other's trust due to their common desire for his destruction. Kagura grows protective of Kohaku and ultimately defies Naraku openly in order to allow him to escape. As a mocking final gesture, Naraku grants Kagura her wish by giving her back her heart, only to subsequently poison her, ensuring that her freedom will be short-lived and extremely painful. Sesshomaru finds Kagura just before she dies, having tracked the scent of Naraku. When she notes that Naraku is no longer around, he reveals that he came knowing she was alone. He considers using Tenseiga to save her life, but concludes that it cannot do so. Despite this, Kagura seems content to have seen Sesshomaru one more time — "In the end, I was with you...", she thinks. She dies as InuYasha and the gang stand helplessly on the side, her body dissolving into the wind, her final thought is that now she is as free as the wind. When InuYasha asks whether Kagura was suffering, Sesshomaru simply says that she was smiling. |
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