Inuyasha Characters

A half-demon, the son of a great dog demon and a human mother, with silver hair, golden eyes and dog ears on top of his head. Fifty years before the story he fell in love with the priestess Kikyo, until Naraku tricked them into turning on each other and she pinned him to the Sacred Tree with a sealing arrow. Freed by Kagome, he first wants the Shikon Jewel so that he can become a full demon, but as he fights beside his new friends with his father's sword Tetsusaiga, he comes to accept being half human. Proud, rude and quick to pick a fight, he will do anything to protect the people he cares about.

A girl from modern Tokyo who lives at her family's Shinto shrine and is dragged down its well into the past on her fifteenth birthday. She is Kikyo's reincarnation: the Shikon Jewel comes out of her body, and after she shatters it with an arrow she helps Inuyasha gather the shards, which she can sense. Kind, brave and outspoken, she becomes a skilled archer with strong purifying powers while trying to keep up with school back home, and she alone can bring Inuyasha down with the Beads of Subjugation.

A Buddhist monk who travels the countryside performing exorcisms and carries the Wind Tunnel in his right palm, a black hole that can swallow his enemies. It is a curse that Naraku placed on his grandfather; it killed his father and will one day kill Miroku too unless Naraku is destroyed. Clever, calm and quick-witted, he is not above talking a wealthy household into a free meal and a bed, and he is something of a flirt, but he is fiercely loyal and in time falls in love with Sango.

A demon slayer, the most skilled fighter from the village where the Shikon Jewel was first kept, who fights with Hiraikotsu, a huge boomerang of purified bone, beside her two-tailed demon cat Kirara. Naraku tricked her clan into a trap that destroyed it, took her younger brother Kohaku under his control and first sent her after Inuyasha by making her blame him for the attack. Brave, responsible and level-headed, she joins the group to free Kohaku and stop Naraku, and comes to love Miroku.

A young orphaned fox demon who first tries to steal the jewel shards from Inuyasha and Kagome to avenge his father, who was killed by the Thunder Brothers, Hiten and Manten. After the pair help him, he stays with the group for good and comes to see it as his family. He fights with fox magic and illusions, keeps scolding Inuyasha for the way he treats Kagome, and usually pays for his blunt remarks.

The priestess who guarded the Shikon Jewel fifty years before the story, and Kaede's older sister. She fell in love with Inuyasha and planned to use the jewel to make him human, but Naraku, posing as each of them, turned them against each other; before she died she sealed Inuyasha to the Sacred Tree, and the jewel was burned with her body. Brought back by the witch Urasue in a body of clay and grave soil, she is kept going by the souls of the dead and follows her own lonely path against Naraku, and her bond with Inuyasha hangs over his feelings for Kagome.

Inuyasha's older half-brother, a powerful, cold and proud full dog demon who scorns humans and half-demons and covets Tetsusaiga, the sword their father left to Inuyasha. He was given Tenseiga instead, a sword that seems useless in battle but can bring the dead back to life, and he travels with his servant Jaken and the orphan girl Rin, whom he revives with it. Rin slowly changes him, and over both series he moves from enemy to uneasy ally, until in The Final Act he wins a sword of his own.

The main villain, a half-demon born when Onigumo, a bandit whom Kikyo and Kaede once looked after and who wanted Kikyo for himself, let a swarm of demons consume his body. Fifty years before the story he tricked Kikyo and Inuyasha into destroying each other, then waited for the Shikon Jewel to return. Cunning and patient, he hides behind puppets, disguises and barriers, creates incarnations such as Kanna and Kagura from his own body, and is behind the curse in Miroku's hand and the destruction of Sango's village.

Naraku's second incarnation, a sorceress who controls the wind with her fan and flies on a giant feather. Naraku keeps her heart, so she cannot openly defy him, but she longs for her freedom, now and then quietly helps Inuyasha's group, and is drawn to Sesshomaru. She killed many of the wolves in Koga's tribe, which makes Koga her sworn enemy.

The young leader of the eastern wolf demon tribe, whose Shikon Jewel shards, set in his legs, make him astonishingly fast. He kidnaps Kagome for her ability to see the shards, then declares his love for her, and from then on he is Inuyasha's hot-tempered rival both in love and in battle. After Kagura and Naraku wipe out many of his comrades, he joins the hunt for Naraku as an occasional, reluctant ally.

Sango's eleven-year-old younger brother, who was training as a demon slayer like the rest of his family. Naraku brings him back after the attack on their village, keeps him alive with a Shikon Jewel shard and wipes his memory, then uses him against his own sister. When his memories return he hides it from Naraku and resolves to defeat him, and in the end he reconciles with Sango.

An orphan girl who had lost her family and who looks after the wounded Sesshomaru when she finds him under a tree. When she is killed during a raid on her village by wolves of Koga's tribe, Sesshomaru brings her back with Tenseiga, and from then on she travels with him, Jaken and the two-headed dragon she names A-Un. Her presence is a large part of why Sesshomaru changes.