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Inuyasha (犬夜叉, lit. "Dog Yaksha") is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. The series begins with Kagome
Higurashi, a fifteen-year-old middle school girl from modern-day Tokyo who is transported to the Sengoku period after falling into a well in her
family shrine, where she meets the half-dog demon, half-human Inuyasha. After the sacred Shikon Jewel re-emerges from deep inside Kagome's
body, she accidentally shatters it into dozens of fragments that scatter across Japan. Inuyasha and Kagome set to recover the Jewel's fragments,
and through their quest they are joined by the lecherous monk Miroku, the demon slayer Sango, and the fox demon Shippo. Together, they
journey to restore the Shikon Jewel before it falls into the hands of the evil half-demon Naraku.

Inuyasha was serialized in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 1996 to June 2008, with its chapters collected into
56 tankōbon volumes by Shogakukan. In contrast to the typically comedic nature of much of Takahashi's previous work, Inuyasha deals with a
darker and more serious subject matter, using the setting of the Sengoku period to easily display the violent content while still retaining some
comedic elements.

The manga was adapted into two anime television series produced by Sunrise. The first was broadcast for 167 episodes on Yomiuri TV from
October 2000 to September 2004. The second series, Inuyasha: The Final Act, ran for 26 episodes from October 2009 to March 2010, covering
the rest of the manga series. Four feature films and an original video animation have also been released. Other merchandise includes video
games and a light novel. A sequel anime television series titled Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon premiered in October 2020.

Viz Media licensed the manga, the two anime series, and movies for North America. Both Inuyasha and Inuyasha: The Final Act aired in the
United States on Adult Swim (and later on its revived Toonami block) from 2002 to 2015.

The manga series had over 50 million copies in circulation as of September 2020. In 2002, the manga won the 47th Shogakukan Manga
Award for the shōnen category.

Contents

 1Plot

 2Development

 3Media
o 3.1Manga
o 3.2Anime

 3.2.1Inuyasha
 3.2.2Inuyasha: The Final Act
 3.2.3Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
o 3.3Films
o 3.4Original video animation
o 3.5Soundtrack CDs
o 3.6Video games
o 3.7Light novel
o 3.8Live-action

 4Reception
o 4.1Manga
o 4.2Anime

 5Notes

 6References

 7External links

Plot[edit]
See also: List of Inuyasha characters § Inuyasha main characters

In modern-day Tokyo, Kagome Higurashi lives on the grounds of her family's Shinto shrine with her mother, grandfather, and younger brother. On
her fifteenth birthday, while searching for her cat, Kagome is dragged into the enshrined Bone Eater's Well (骨喰いの井戸, Honekui no Ido) by a
centipede demon that emerges from it. But rather than hit the bottom, Kagome finds herself in another universe which is parallel to her universe -
but in the past, during Japan's Sengoku period. The demon was originally defeated fifty years prior by Kikyo, a warrior priestess who was the
previous keeper of the Shikon Jewel (四魂の玉, Shikon no Tama, lit. "The Jewel of Four Souls"), a powerfully magical artifact created from the
sacrifice of the priestess Midoriko, which grants its holder any wish their heart desires. Kagome is revealed to be the reincarnation of the now-
dead Kikyo. The Shikon Jewel was burned along with Kikyo's body to cast it out of this world entirely, in order to keep it safe from the hands of
those who would use its power for evil. Kagome comes across a sleeping boy pinned by a sacred arrow to a tree, learning he is Inuyasha, a half-
human, half-demon (yōkai) whom Kikyo pinned to the tree as her final act when he attempted to steal the jewel. Kagome then gets attacked by a
centipede demon and desperately frees Inuyasha to kill the centipede demon, but when he turns on her and tries to steal the jewel again, he is
subdued with a magical beaded necklace to keep him in line with Kagome saying "sit" or "sit boy", which causes him to violently fall to the ground.
The Shikon Jewel is extracted from Kagome's body and taken by a crow demon, which Kagome destroys with an arrow, but in doing so,
inadvertently shatters the jewel into many shards that scatter across Japan and into the possession of various demons and humans.

After Inuyasha gains his father's sword Tessaiga, placing him in the odds with his older half-brother Sesshomaru, a powerful demon who seeks
Tessaiga for himself, who is with a mortal girl called Rin a kind human, he aids Kagome in collecting the shards and dealing with the threats they
come across as they are joined by Shippo, a young fox demon. Kikyo is later revived and revealed to have been Inuyasha's lover, but her version
of how their falling out occurred brings the events into question. It is when the group is joined by the perverted monk Miroku, whose hand is
cursed with a Wind Tunnel that was passed on to him from his grandfather, that they learn that his family's curse and the events which resulted in
Inuyasha's imprisonment and Kikyo's death were all caused by the spider half-demon Naraku, who was born from the soul of the bandit Onigumo,
who, longing for Kikyo, made a pact with demons to acquire the Shikon Jewel for his own ends. Naraku comes into possession of most of the
shards while absorbing demons to increase his power and remove any weaknesses. Inuyasha's group is soon joined after by the demon
slayer Sango and her two-tailed demon cat Kirara. Sango's entire clan was killed when they were tricked by Naraku and her younger
brother Kohaku fell under his control. Over time, Inuyasha enhances Tessaiga into stronger forms while he contends with Naraku's schemes and
minions. Inuyasha's team is loosely allied with Sesshomaru, who also becomes an enemy of Naraku after he attempts to manipulate him into
doing his bidding, the resurrected Kikyo who plans to destroy Naraku by purifying the Shikon Jewel once it is completed and