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InuYasha (犬夜叉, InuYasha?), full title InuYasha, a Feudal Fairy Tale (戦国お伽草子–犬夜叉, Sengoku Otogi Zōshi InuYasha?) (also romanized as Inuyasha), is a Japanese manga series that was later adapted into anime. Written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi, the story centers around a time-traveling middle school student, a half-demon, a lecherous monk, a young fox demon, a demon slayer, and a nekomata during the Sengoku period who seek to restore the Jewel of Four Souls (Shikon no Tama) and to keep it out of the hands of the evil Naraku. This series also displays the hardships and chaos in that Japanese era.

The manga was adapted into a 167 episode anime series directed by Masashi Ikeda (episodes 1 to 44) and Yasunao Aoki (44 onwards) and produced by Sunrise. The anime first aired on Yomiuri TV in Japan from 16 October 2000 to 13 September 2004. The television run of the anime ceased without a conclusion to the story. As of October 2007, the manga is still being released in Japan.

In 2002, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen title of the year.

The story begins in Feudal Japan with InuYasha, a hanyo stealing the Shikon no Tama, a jewel that can increase anyone's powers enormously, from a village. He does not get far before Kikyo, the young miko of the village, shoots InuYasha with a sacred arrow, sealing him forever to Goshinboku, a tree in the nearby forest. Mortally wounded, Kikyo tells her younger sister, Kaede, to burn the jewel with her body to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

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 bursts forth 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. When she reaches the tree, she finds InuYasha, who is still sealed with an arrow to the tree, asleep. Villagers seize her and take her to the old miko, Kaede. Recognizing that Kagome is the re-incarnation of her sister Kikyo, Kaede tells the story of Kikyo and InuYasha.

The centipede attacks again, and Kagome is forced to release InuYasha to kill it. After defeating the centipede, in order to prevent InuYasha from taking the Jewel of Four Souls, Kaede casts magical prayer beads around InuYasha's neck so Kagome can subdue him.

Then the jewel attracts more demons. In a battle against a carrion crow demon, the jewel is shattered into numerous shards.

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 tricked into slaughtering the rest of their village. The group often encounters: InuYasha's older half-brother, Sesshomaru; Naraku who tricked Kikyo and InuYasha into turning against each other; Kikyo who was brought back from the grave with part of Kagome's soul; and a wolf demon, Koga, who is in love with Kagome and wants to make her "his woman".

Characters
Kagome Higurashi (日暮かごめ, Higurashi Kagome?) Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (Japanese), Moneca Stori (English)
Kagome is a 15 year-old 9th grade student. She is the reincarnation of Kikyo, a miko who died 50 years before the time Kagome first emerges from the Bone Eater's Well in the Sengoku Jidai. Because of this Kagome has powerful spiritual powers herself and can even sense the Shikon no Tama. Kagome can be extremely sweet, but can also become very dangerous when provoked. InuYasha wears a special bead necklace which only responds to Kagome's command: when she yells "Sit!".[1] At this, InuYasha is thrown to the ground. The necklace was placed upon him by Kaede because he was threatening to kill Kagome if she did not give the jewel to him. [2]

InuYasha (犬夜叉, InuYasha?) Voiced by: Kappei Yamaguchi (Japanese), Richard Ian Cox (English)
InuYasha is a hanyō, the product of an inu-yōkai (犬妖怪, inu-yōkai? dog demon) and a human. He wields the Tessaiga,[3] a supernatural sword made from one of his deceased father's fangs. This sword, when properly wielded, can destroy one hundred demons with a single swing. InuYasha can quickly recover from injuries which would be fatal for any average human, because of his demonic heritage. On the night of the new moon each month, InuYasha will change into a normal human with negru hair, brown eyes, and loses his yokai power during this time. InuYasha was bound to Goshinboku by Kikyo's arrow for fifty years until Kagome freed him.

Miroku (弥勒, Miroku?) Voiced by: Kōji Tsujitani (Japanese), Kirby Morrow (English)
A Buddhist "hōshi" (low-ranking, itinerant monk), Miroku traveled the countryside performing services such as exorcisms and yōkai exterminations to earn his living. He suffers from a hereditary curse originally inflicted upon his grandfather Miyatsu (also a Buddhist monk) by Naraku. The curse created a hole in his hand that became a kazaana (風洞, kazaana? air void or "wind tunnel") which sucks in anything not nailed down, regardless of mass. However, absorbing poisons harms him, a fact Naraku takes advantage of by creating highly poisonous insects whose presence prevents Miroku from using his kazāna on Naraku or his allies. Miroku uses the kazāna as a powerful weapon against yōkai, but if the curse is not broken (by defeating Naraku), it will grow too large to control and consume Miroku himself. Miroku is a talented con artist who does not hesitate to invent fictitious supernatural menaces which he can then offer to combat in return for food and shelter, and he has a distinct weakness for pretty single women. He makes a point of asking every attractive woman he meets if she will bear his child, and he habitually strokes the buttocks of attractive women. He eventually proposes to Sango, though this does little to curb his flirtations with other women.

Sango (珊瑚, Sango?) Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (Japanese), Kelly Sheridan (English)
A "yōkai taijiya" (demon slayer) who hails from a village of professional yōkai slayers. Sango wields the Hiraikotsu, a massive boomerang made of yōkai bones, in addition to a broad repertoire of tools and tricks for battling yōkai. Sango seeks revenge against Naraku for the death of her family and her entire village. In addition, Sango seeks to rescue her brother Kohaku from Naraku's influence and somehow save his life, even though Kohaku's life is tied to the jewel shard embedded in his back. She also eventually falls for Miroku. Although everyone but InuYasha noticed, she never wanted to admit it. Her interest was manifested by hitting Miroku when he flirted with other single women.

Shippo (七宝, Shippō?) Voiced by: Kumiko Watanabe (Japanese), Jillian Michaels (English)
A young orphan kitsune whose father was killed by the Thunder Brothers, Hiten and Manten, and the first character in the story to join InuYasha and Kagome in their travels as a group. Shippo can shapeshift, but his forms are temporary, often incomplete and ineffective, and he is usually given away by his tail. His other noteworthy abilities illusionary tricks with toys like his giant spinning top attack, using his race's notable fox fire magic, and making things like leaves or himself multiply. He tends to be naively observant and often makes pointed and cheeky comments directed towards InuYasha, earning him a retaliatory bonk on the head for his unsolicited "advice".

Kirara (雲母, Kirara?) Voiced by: Tarako Isono
Sango's faithful nekomata; Kirara [4] has cream-colored fur, with black ears, two black stripes on each of her two bushy tails near the tip, and black-tipped paws. Kirara can change between two forms, a ferocious yōkai the size of a lion with the ability to fly, and a cute little kitten. Sango, Miroku, and Shippo often use Kirara's flying ability as transportation in order to keep up with InuYasha.

Manga
The manga was serialized in Japan in the weekly publication Shonen Sunday by Shogakukan, with the first installment issued on 13 November 1996. Every 180 pages, usually ten chapters, the issues are collected in bound tankōbon. The latest chapter (published on 28 November 2007) is chapter 532, Inside Naraku's Body. The end notes of the most recent chapters seem to indicate that the manga has reached its climax, and will soon have a conclusion.

In the United States the English version is published by Viz Media. The artwork is flipped to conform to the American standard of reading left to right. Volume 1 was published in March 1998, with either two or three new volumes following each year. At present, the series has stepped up to a quarterly release basis. Volume 30 was published on 10 July 2007, and volume 31 on 9 October 2007. Volume 32 is expected to be in stores on 8 January 2008. Viz is still several years away from catching up to the number of volumes in Japan.

The manga won the 2002 Shogakukan Manga Award for best shōnen title of the year.

The anime ended at the equivalent of the 36th manga volume, chapter 356.

Anime
The InuYasha anime series spanned 167 episodes. It was broadcast across Japan by the anime satellite television network Animax, which also aired the series on its English-language network in South Asia and on its networks in East Asia, Yomiuri TV and Nippon Television. The series ended its television run in Japan on September 13, 2004.

The anime is licensed in North America by Viz and ShoPro Entertainment, with dubbing done by the The Ocean Group. It was first broadcast in the United States on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim on August 31, 2002 in dubbed form. In the United States, the final episode of InuYasha aired on October 27, 2006. It is now in rotation, with one episode airing Tuesday through Sunday at 2:00 a.m. Eastern Time (repeated at 5:30 a.m.).

The series premiered in Canada on YTV on September 5, 2003. YTV's Bionix programming block aired the final episode on December 1, 2006. Reruns continued to air in the Bionix block until October 12, 2007.

InuYasha has also been dubbed in Mandarin Chinese and aired on Xing Kong, a Taiwanese TV Channel. It has also been dubbed in Bahasa Melayu for ntv7. The show airs every Friday at 7:30 p.m.

In Latin America, InuYasha is shown on Cartoon Network LA, dubbed in Spanish and in Portuguese (Brazil or with SAP in other countries). At one point in Latin America, new episodes of InuYasha were airing twice a day, 5 times a week, with reruns airing Saturday night - 5 episodes in two hours. Due to this faster schedule, the series finished a complete run faster in Latin America than in the United States. The final episode aired in December 2006, with reruns continuing to air.

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