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InuYasha
Who's in it
Cast
The principal ensemble across the run of the series.
Kappei Yamaguchi
InuYasha (voice)
193 eps
Satsuki Yukino
Kagome Higurashi (voice)
193 eps
Koji Tsujitani
Miroku (voice)
193 eps
Houko Kuwashima
Sango (voice)
193 eps
Ken Narita
Sesshomaru (voice)
193 eps
Mamiko Noto
Rin (voice)
193 eps
Noriko Hidaka
Kikyo (voice)
193 eps
Toshiyuki Morikawa
Naraku (voice)
193 eps
Izumi Ōgami
Kagura (voice)
193 eps
Takeshi Kusao
曲灵（配音）
26 eps
Kumiko Watanabe
Shippo (voice)
167 eps
TARAKO
Kirara (voice)
167 eps
Taiki Matsuno
Koga (voice)
167 eps
Akiko Yajima
Kohaku (voice)
167 eps
Kenichi Ogata
Myōga (voice)
167 eps
Cho
Jaken (voice)
167 eps
Yukana
Kanna (voice)
167 eps
Joji Yanami
Tōtōsai (voice)
167 eps
Ai Kobayashi
Hakudōshi / Akago (voice)
167 eps
Hisako Kyoda
Kaede (voice)
167 eps
The Nutevio profile
TV DNA
How InuYasha actually feels to watch, measured on the traits our editors track across every series.
Signature profile
InuYasha reads strongest on Spectacle, World Building and Bingeability.
Visual ambition — scale, craft and set-piece filmmaking.
The scale, internal logic and texture of the world.
How hard it is to stop after one episode.
How fully written and psychologically layered the ensemble is.
How much the series is designed to affect you.
The sustained pressure the series keeps you under.
How often an episode ends on a hook you can't ignore.
How often the series is genuinely funny, by design.
How much each hour depends on the one before it.
The story
What it's about
Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and posseses the "Jewel of Four Souls" (the Shikon jewel). One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow.
The run
Seasons
2 seasons · 193 episodes.
Season 0 · Complete
Specials
20091 episode
Season 1 · Complete
Season 1
2000167 episodes
7.5IMDbKagome Higurashi, an average ninth grader, gets pulled into an ancient well by a demon, bringing her 500 years in the past to a feudal era. There she meets Inuyasha, a half-demon who seeks the Shikon Jewel to make himself a full-fledged demon. With Inuyasha and new friends, Kagome's search for the Jewel of Four Souls begins...
Best episode · S01E15 Return of the Tragic Priestess, Kikyo
Season 2 · Complete
The Final Act
200926 episodes
Where the series peaks
Best Episodes
The hours that define the show, ranked by audience response and editorial signal.
S01E15
Return of the Tragic Priestess, Kikyo
Kikyo is revived when Kagome's soul flows into her. She tries to kill Inuyasha, but Kagome takes back her soul. Fifty years ago, Kikyo wanted Inuyasha to use the Shikon Jewel to become human. But on the day of their promise, someone who looked like Inuyasha fatally injured Kikyo. Inuyasha realizes that there is a mysterious person who made them fight.
S01E14
Kikyo's Stolen Ashes
The ogress, Urasue, robs the grave of Kikyo, the priestess who sealed away Inuyasha fifty years ago. She revives Kikyo's body using the ashes of Kikyo's bones and soil from Kikyo's grave. But Kikyo's soul has already been reincarnated in a different body.
- Directed by Megumi Yamamoto
S01E13
The Mystery of the New Moon and the Black-haired Inuyasha
Half demon Inuyasha's secret is that he becomes human once a month. That day, Inuyasha and the gang meet Nazuna and stay at a mountain temple. They fall into Kumogashira's trap and the sacred jewel shards are taken away from them. Inuyasha is injected with poison!
S01E17
The Cursed Ink of the Hell-Painter
Kotatsu, a painter, sees a dream in which he becomes successful by controlling an army of ogres drawn with ink that has a sacred jewel shard in it. Miroku, Inuyasha and the others become involved in protecting the princess that Kotatsu is in love with.
S01E06
Tetsusaiga, the Phantom Sword
The muonna makes Inuyasha reveal the location of his father's grave. Sesshomaru removes Inuyasha's right eye (the black pearl) and opens the entrance to the grave. Kagome is angered by Sesshomaru's cruelty. She goes with Inuyasha after Sesshomaru. Inside their father's tomb is a memento of Inuyasha's father, the sword Tetsusaiga.
S01E05
Aristocratic Assassin, Sesshomaru
Kagome learns that Inuyasha is a half demon, born of a human mother and a dog demon. Inuyasha's half brother Sesshomaru appears, looking for the tomb of their father. In order to manipulate Inuyasha, he brings Inuyasha's dead human mother with him. But the woman turns out to be a demon known as a muonna.
Behind the series
Created by
Showrunners, creators, executive producers and the writers who set the voice of the series.
The craft
Key Crew
Directing, writing, production, camera, music and editing.
Writing
- Masashi IkedaWriter
- Katsuhiko ChibaWriter
- Akatsuki YamatoyaWriter
Direction
- Masashi IkedaDirector
- Takashi IkehataDirector
- Kunihiro MoriDirector
- Noriaki SaitoDirector
- Tatsuya IshiharaDirector
- Tomoe ArataniDirector
Cinematography
- Shigemi OgawaDirector of Photography
- Kumiko ItouDirector of Photography
Music
- Kaoru WadaOriginal Music Composer
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