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InuYasha

Original Name
戦国お伽草子ー犬夜叉
Romaji Name
Sengoku o Togi Zōshi InuYasha
Type
TV
Episodes
193

Synopsis

InuYasha is a shōnen action adventure romantic comedy, with elements from the horror genre. The story begins in Tokyo, modern-day Japan, with the narrator, a junior high-school girl named Kagome Higurashi, who on her way to school heads to the covered well on the family property (which happens to be a Shintō shrine). She does this to retrieve her cat, Buyo, from the well, since her brother was afraid to go in the dark wellhouse. When she approaches the well a centipede demon bursts from the well and grabs her. The demon claims that Kagome possesses the Shikon no Tama (aka Sacred/Shikon Jewel), and attempts to seize it. When she drives the demon off by an unknown and mysterious power, the very confused Kagome emerges in the Sengoku period of Japan. Kagome wanders and meets an old miko (priestess) by the name of Kaede, who claims that Kagome is the spitting image of Kikyō, her elder sister who had died and had her body burned with the Shikon no Tama, taking it with her into the afterlife. Kaede relates the story of how, fifty years earlier, a hanyō named Inuyasha had tried to steal the Jewel from Kikyō, mortally wounding her in the process, but Kikyō had managed to strike him with a magical arrow, sealing him to the Time Tree and into an enchanted and supposedly eternal sleep, retrieving the Jewel before she finally died. It turns out that Kagome is the reincarnation of Kikyō, and that she does possess the Shikon no Tama, embedded inside her body. When the centipede demon rips it from her and swallows it, granting the demon a great boost in power, Kagome is forced to pull out the arrow and awaken Inuyasha so he can defeat it. Soon after they recover the Jewel, it is lost again, and Kagome accidentally shatters it into pieces as she tries to recover it. The pieces scatter far and wide, and the story tells of Inuyasha and Kagome's adventures as they search for the shards of the Jewel. As they search, they meet new characters who either join them on their quest, or oppose them for various reasons. Throughout the story, Inuyasha and Kagome come closer and develop feelings for each other, though the romance apparently remains as a side plot for most of the story and is not a main topic.

TV193 Episodes
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Sango

珊瑚
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Kikyō

桔梗
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Sesshōmaru

殺生丸, せっしょうまる, "Destruction of Life"
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Inuyasha

犬夜叉, "Dog Demon"
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Yura

Sakasagami no Yura
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Kagura

神楽
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Rin

りん
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Kanna

神無 God of Nothingness
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Naraku

奈落
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Jakotsu

蛇骨

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