Inuyasha is the son of a dog youkai and a human woman. Persecuted throughout his childhood due to his halfbreed nature, he sought to use the Shikon Jewel to become a full youkai, but fell in love with the Jewel's human guardian, the miko Kikyo. Fifty years prior to the start of the series, Kikyo sealed Inuyasha to a tree with a magical arrow; when Kagome releases him, he resumes his mission to obtain the Shikon Jewel, which requires him to team up with Kagome to track down the broken Jewel's many shards.
All Genes Are Co Dominant: He's half dog-demon and half human, so he usually looks like a human with pointy dog ears and dog claws. His abilities are somewhere between that of a demon and that of a human, with an odd twist on the transformation ability.
Green-Eyed Epiphany: Even though he made it clear through his acts that he cares for Kagome but never said it out of pride, whenever Kouga shows up or if Kagome just as much as talks about him in a non-derogatory way, Inuyasha will become fiercely possessive and jealous.
Heroic BSOD: One time when Kagome told him he was "exhausting". To which he replied "What? Do you mean you're tired of being with me?" Cue the signature sitting position and a (very) blank stare.
Holding Your Shoulder Means Injury: Whenever he's injured, he holds his shoulder. In fact, the only time he doesn't hold his shoulder is when he is literally too injured to move.
Indy Ploy: Despite his reputation as the Idiot Hero, he's probably the character most likely to think outside of the box in a pinch, such as the time he was told of there being an Achilles Heel somewhere on his youki-absorbing opponent with the intent that he would find it and attack there instead. His reaction was basically, "That'll take too long, so I'll just use my Beam Spam to blow up the ground underneath him and smack him while he's off balance." And that's not even counting Tessaiga's tendency to prompt him to use specific abilities for no apparent reason in the middle of a fight.
Ki Attacks: Pretty much all of his attacks depend on the power of his ki. His Counter Attack, Bakuryuuha, turns his enemy's ki against them and consequently can only be used against enemies with strong ki.
The Lancer: Although he could be seen as The Hero or The Big Guy (because of how how important he is to the show or because he does most of the fighting), he is the Lancer to Kagome. Inuyasha is constantly trying to be a loner and go against what the group wants to do. The fact that Kagome 'makes him sit' when he is bad or the fact that whenever Kagome leaves, Inuyasha is helpless in his quest to find the jewel shards, is proof that Kagome is the Leader of the group.
Could be argued both ways. He is the one who decides the path they're taking next and of course does everything and drives much of the plot. She has the "sit" ability (mostly comic relief) but it may be best to make them both the heroes and have Sango and Miroku be the Lancers. Kagome can't do it by herself either, without his aid.
"Yasha" means "friendly spirit," "forest spirit," or "holy demon." It seems to refer to a demon that is fueled by positive energy (reiki) rather than negative energy (youki).
Really 700 Years Old: Inuyasha's exact age and whether or not the fifty years he spent asleep count toward it is the subject of considerable debate in the fandom, due to the fact that Takahashi prefers not to provide exact ages for youkai and hanyou characters. It is, however, established in the series that youkai live longer and age more slowly than humans, so while official materials only state that he's effectively a teenager, it's generally accepted that this trope is in effect. Swords of an Honorable Ruler sets his actual age at about two hundred and fifty (including the time spent in stasis) but is not considered canon.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: His eyes are gold, but the scleras turn red when his youkai blood drives him berserk.
Sibling Rivalry: It's a ding-dong battle with his older brother who has daddy issues. It eventually gets resolved but not before it descends into a temporary period of Cain and Abel. Lampshaded in the manga itself when Inuyasha complains about two fighting brothers causing trouble for everyone and realises his True Companions are thinking he's talking about himself and Sesshoumaru. When he claims it's all Sesshoumaru's fault, Miroku observes that's exactly what a troublemaker would say.
Sir Swearsalot: Especially in the Japanese, in which his language is pretty crude.
Super Powered Evil Side: He inherited more power from his youkai side than his half-human body can handle. If it's not sealed, it drives him into fits of feral Unstoppable Rage.
Team Dad: He's an unorthodox example, but he tries to give the Team Mom emotional support, physically prevents the Action Girl from giving up on her brother and the Smart Guy from throwing his life away, and is an example for both the Tagalong Kid and Kagome's little brother.
When All You Have Is a Hammer: His solution to any problem eventually works out to some form of "I hit it with my BFS." Admittedly said BFS was apparently made for the Swiss Army's Magical WMD Division.
The Worf Barrage: The Kaze no Kizu / Wind Scar eventually turns into this.
Kagome Higurashi
Kagome is a girl from the present era who finds herself in Japan's Sengoku era after falling down an old well in her family's Shinto shrine. She proves to be Kikyo's reincarnation, and discovers that she possesses strong spiritual powers resembling that of a miko. After she accidentally shatters the Shikon Jewel, she joins up with Inuyasha to find and reassemble the broken pieces.
Voiced by: Satsuki Yukino (JP), Moneca Stori (EN), Anna Lobo/Leyla Rangel (LA SP), Letizia Scifoni (IT), Maelys Ricordeau (FR)
The Archer: Her skills increases with her character development: at the start when she's at her most immature, it sucks. Near the end when she's grown into The Messiah, its great.
Clingy Jealous Girl: To some degree, but not as bad as other examples in the page.
Disappeared Dad: The novels explain that he died in an accident when Kagome was little, therefore her family had to move into the Shinto temple owned by Grandpa Higurashi.
Distressed Damsel: Quite a few times, especially early in the series. She gradually grows out of it, though.
Badass Damsel: And she wasn't exactly super helpless and docile, either.
Eek, a Mouse!!: She can handle youkai, blood, guts, wounds, two-timing boyfriends, time-travel, saving the world while trying to pass exams, lifting the spirits of the depressed, downtrodden and bullied and can even befriend the reclusive, the painfully shy, and aggressively hostile, but ask her to help a giant beast-faced hanyou in his herb garden when there's an earthworm in plain sight and she'll fall to pieces.
Five-Man Band: Fulfills a number of roles as the story goes.
The Chick: Before Sango came she was the only girl in a group of three guys, often kidnapped, and did more bickering with Inuyasha than shard detecting.
The Heart: She's a Parental Substitute for Shippo, emotional support for Sango, and steers Inuyasha to the path of herosim instead of jerkism.
The Hero: Although it could be argued that Inuyasha is The Hero, Kagome is the Leader of the group and the Narrator of the show. The fact that Kagome 'makes Inuyasha sit' when he is bad or the fact that whenever Kagome leaves, Inuyasha is helpless in his quest to find the jewel shards, is proof that Kagome is the dominant one in the relationship.
Genki Girl: Down played. She's more plucky than genki but can get really excited.
Holy Hand Grenade: The bulk of her powers are holy spiritual powers.
Limited Wardrobe: She actually does change outfits from time to time, but spends by far most of her time in her school uniform. Some attempt at justification is made when Kagome mentions that her uniform is easier to clean.
Shipper on Deck: She's a Sango/Miroku fangirl, specially in the anime.
Stepford Smiler: Slightly, as she learns to keep her feelings in regards to Inuyasha and Kikyo to herself. Very obvious when Kikyo almost dies for the second time and disappears: Kagome ignores her own distress and tells Inuyasha to go search for her... and her inner jealousy makes her an easy prey for The Baby's Hannibal Lectures.
Every one of her friends — ordinary high school girls and super-powered youkai hunters alike — are terrified of her smile when she's pretending that she's not upset.
Supporting Protagonist: Kagome is the view point character of the series, but a good deal of the plot (and fights) tend to focus on her other companions. As the series continues though, Kagome plays more and more of an active role.
Aside from his considerable spiritual power as a Buddhist monk, Miroku possesses a "wind tunnel" or "air void" in his hand, a miniature black hole which sucks in anything if it's not kept magically sealed. The wind tunnel is the product of a family curse originally put on Miroku's grandfather by Naraku, and it dooms Miroku to an early death unless it can be removed by killing Naraku first. To that end, Miroku joins forces with Kagome and Inuyasha.Miroku is a rather unusual monk, since he is a skilled con artist and a Handsome Lech who habitually asks any pretty girl he meets to bear his children - to carry on the mission to kill Naraku if he doesn't succeed, he claims.
Voiced by: Kouji Tsujitani (JP), Kirby Morrow (EN), Gabriel Gama (LA SP), Fabio Boccanera (IT), Benoit Marchand (FR)
Broken Hero: He's easygoing, carefree and cheerful, even when he'll die very young being swallowed by his own hand.
Bunny-Ears Lawyer: He flirts, cons, and generally comes across as a terrible Buddhist, but he wields a substantial amount of holy power and proves to have a deep core of spirituality when it really counts.
Con Man: His favorite trick is to, upon arriving in a town, single out a particularly large and wealthy-looking house and announce that it is "threatened by evil spirits," which he then generously offers to exorcize in return for a meal and a place to stay for the night.
Cursed with Awesome: His curse really is a curse, but in an admirable example of making the best out of a bad situation, he uses it as a very powerful weapon as well.
Awesome, but Impractical: It quickly becomes this once Naraku starts using insects that, if they get sucked in, will poison him. Because they're present in almost every battle, Miroku rarely has a chance to use it.
Dark and Troubled Past: He watched his father die being sucked into his Wind Tunnel when he was a little boy.
Expy: Ataru, sort of, but he is nicer and more mature.
Feel No Pain: After taking Yakurou Dokusen's "medicine", so he's able to suck any poison into his Wind Tunnel and keep fighting even though it's still killing him.
Loveable Rogue: He'll do anything to have a comfortable and enjoyable life, whether it's conning, lying or even stealing to get food, lodgings, money and women.
Lust: Runs in his family, and one of the reasons his grandfather ended up with the Wind Tunnel.
Moment Killer: Tender moments between Miroku and Sango are most often ruined by Miroku's wandering hands.
On one hilarious occasion, when he managed to keep his hands to himself, she reached around to touch his rump — checking for a tail, to make sure he wasn't Shippo in disguise. [1]
On another rare moment, Miroku tries to comfort her which he usually would've ruined with his wandering hands, however Miroku remains perfectly chivalrous and prepares to walk away. Sango's lampshading of the usual routine, arguably, it's the starting cause of the moment killer.
Sango: "That's it?"
Miroku: "Hm?"
Sango: "Well it's just that usually after the encouragement you try to do something lecherous."
Miroku: [smiles, sighing] "Sango..." [places his hand on her breast] "If that's all you wanted you should have said so."
Nun Too Holy: Well, more like Monk Too Holy, but the motif applies. Inu Yasha draws on lots of stories from Japan's Feudal Era and stories about Buddhist monks acting in a very unmonkly fashion date back at least that far.
Sango comes from a village of professional demon slayers. After the deaths of the other hunters, including Sango's father and little brother Kohaku, she first mistakenly pursues Inuyasha intending to kill him, but later joins forces with him and the others. Sango's primary weapon is Hiraikotsu, an enormous boomerang made from demon bones, but she's also skilled with a variety of other weapons and tricks, and has a broad array of knowledge about youkai and how to fight them.
Voiced by: Houko Kuwashima (JP), Kelly Sheridan (EN), Liliana Barba (LA SP), Emmanuela D'Amico (IT), Yael Elhadad (FR)
Badass: Very much. As stated below, she was stabbed with a scythe, shot with multiple arrows, buried alive, and she did not let that hold her back and dug herself out of her own grave.
Berserk Button: Miroku being a lecher. She later calms down as long as he's only a lecher with her.
The Big Girl: She fills the role in the Five-Man Band, despite being neither big nor a guy, by being the hardest hitter short of Inuyasha himself. She's also the only one that's been formally trained to fight.
Demon Slaying: The protagonists do a lot of this in general, but for Sango it's both her profession and a family tradition.
Determinator: She was stabbed with a scythe in her back, got hit with several arrows and was buried alive. But instead of dying she just got pissed off, dug herself out and later proceeded to hike for miles and fight Inuyasha who she thought had destroyed her village, all this while bleeding to death.
Hot Amazon: Miroku and Kuranosuke want to marry her, and even though she's a demon slayer that didn't stop some youkai from trying to kidnap/grope her.
Absurdly Youthful Mother: By the end of the story she's about 19/20 years-old and already has three kids. This is Feudal Japan after all and she married Miroku.
It's Personal: Naraku murdered her family and destroyed her village, tricked her into thinking Inuyasha was responsible and brainwashed her brother.
Parental Abandonment: We never see her mother, and her father is killed by her brother when he's under Naraku's control.
Please Kill Me If It Satisfies You: Naraku gives her the choice between killing Rin to kill Naraku in order to save Miroku's life, or staying her hand to save Rin and therefore letting Miroku die. She chooses to save Miroku but Kagome manages to save Rin just in time. Sango promptly offers her life to Sesshoumaru as payment for her attempt on Rin's life. Sesshoumaru lets her live.
Yamato Nadeshiko: She's actually quite the spin on the trope: she's tall, willowy, dark-haired, gentle and follows the family tradition... which just happens to be demon slaying. Slightly based on how several Yamato Nadeshikos were trained in weapon use so they could defend their households when in a pinch.
You Are Worth Hell: She prefers to die with Miroku than live without him.
Kirara
Kirara is a nekomata - a two-tailed youkai cat - who is also Sango's companion. She can change from a tiny feline to a huge fanged one for Sango to ride on, and has the ability to fly in her larger form.
Really 700 Years Old: Being a nekomata, this is obligatory. In the anime it's implied she was Midoriko's companion.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Subverted. When she's first introduced to Inuyasha's group, she's a snarling beast with glowing red eyes. Then it's revealed she's a friend of Myouga's and was just trying to protect the dead villagers of the place she calls home. She's a friend and ally after that.
Shippo is a young fox youkai who joins Kagome and Inuyasha following the death of his father. Since he is still a child, he is not very strong in battle, but can change his shape and has a repertoire of trickery that occasionally comes in handy. His youth and immaturity bring him into frequent conflict with Inuyasha; it is not clear exactly how old he really is, given that youkai age more slowly than humans.
Green Eyes: Despite his young age, he has immense magical talent for his species, lampshaded when he's accidentally dragged into a kitsune examination session he didn't even know existed. Despite having no time to prepare for his exams and being the youngest examinee present, he wipes the floor with his fellow examinees, earning their absolute awe as he breaks records in the speed at which he climbs the Kitsune rankings. It's confirmed in-universe that one day he'll grow up to be a [2]youkai.
Myoga the flea was once a servant of Inuyasha's father, and tries to help Inuyasha and his friends by providing useful information, although he is a coward and a bit of a lecher. He claims Inuyasha's blood is delicious, and often appears by biting Inuyasha to drink some of his blood, usually resulting in getting squashed by Inuyasha.
Voiced by: Kenichi Ogata (JP), Paul Dobson (EN), Daniel Abundis (LA SP)), Mino Caprio (IT), Hughes Boucher (FR)
As a miko and the Shikon Jewel's guardian, Kikyo's responsibility was to purify the Shikon Jewel and keep it out of anyone else's hands. Falling in love with Inuyasha, however, led to her death, and she had the Jewel burned with her body in order to protect it, causing it to reappear within the body of her reincarnation, Kagome. However, this is not the last we see of her...
Voiced by: Noriko Hidaka (JP), Willow Johnson (EN), Georgina Sánchez (LA SP), Francesca Guadagno (IT), Claire Beaudoin (FR)
I Just Want to Be Normal: Before her death, she told Inuyasha more than once that she wanted to live as a normal girl instead of as a priestess and guardian of the Shikon Jewel.
Ill Girl: Took this role more than once, despite being undead. Namely, more than once she either was weakened by poison or suffered the physical downsides of having a clay body.
Manipulative Bitch: When she took the Jewel from Kagome and gave it to Naraku... but only to lull him into a fake sense of security rather than help him.
Technically, that's how Kagome killed Naraku. However, Kikyo wasn't as ruthless as she thought she was and was unwilling to let Kohaku get killed by Naraku in exchange for purifying the Shikon no Tama, since she was a bit more Ax Crazy when she came up with that plan. Also, no one planned for the Shikon no Tama trying to grant Naraku's wish by trying to pull Kagome into itself with his soul.
The Messiah: She was an unadultered version of this, until she died. She still retained some of the traits after being forcibly revived and becoming a Dark Magical Girl, helping the poor and disinherited whenever she could and helping Saint Hakushin to finally let go of his hate and despair..
Out Gambitted: She tried to lull Naraku into a false sense of security by giving him the portion of the Sacred Jewel Kagome had been previously holding onto in order to destroy both him and the jewel was it was completed. This scheme ultimately works out about as well as Vizzini's drinking contest against Wesley...with her being Vizzini.
See Manipulative Bitch. Her plan worked, she just wasn't as ruthless as she thought she was.
Yamato Nadeshiko: Prior to her death. Eventually, as she calms down and loses her rage with the world she develops back into a mix of YN and Dark Magical Girl in the later parts of the series.
Yandere: Arguably, right after being revived. As said above, she got better.
Sesshomaru / Sesshoumaru
Sesshomaru is Inuyasha's half-brother, and unlike Inuyasha is a very powerful full-blooded youkai. He initially appears in pursuit of the sword Tessaiga, which their father had created from his own fang and left for Inuyasha to inherit; although Sesshoumaru also inherited a sword, Tenseiga, he feels he has no use for it since it is a healing sword which cannot wound anyone.
Voiced by: Ken Narita (JP), David Kaye (EN), Alfredo Basurto (LA SP), Niseem Onorato (IT), Phillpe Leroy (FR)
Anti-Hero: Type V --> Type IV: Adopting Rin touches off a period in which he is portrayed increasingly sympathetically, though he remains an antagonist until later in the series, with his compassion for Kagura completing his development out of being a villain.
. For most of the series anyway. It doesn't slow him down at all. In fact, he once admits he doesn't hate Inuyasha for what happened because it's actually made him even stronger than he was before he lost it.
Evil Plan: Back when he was the first major villain, it was to find his father's grave and steal Tessaiga. When he mellowed into an Anti-Villain he focused less on stealing a sword and more on making one.
Facial Markings: A crescent moon on his forehead and two pairs of stripes. (Also, his “eyeshadow” isn’t makeup - they’re part of the markings around his eyes.)
Fantastic Racism: Like many fully-fledged Youkai in the series, Sesshomaru looks down upon any Hanyo/Half-Demon he meets. Inuyasha particularly gets this from his elder brother.
Flight: Like many of the stronger Youkai, he has his own methods of flight.
Good Powers, Bad People: At first after getting Tenseiga, a sword that can heal instead of kill, and he's dismayed he got it while Inuyasha got Tessaiga. After Character Development, it gradually becomes Good Powers Good People.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Magatsuhi. One of his opening moves was to pierce Sesshoumaru's only arm in three places. He eventually stabbed Sesshoumaru through the chest twice, including once through the heart.
It's Personal: Naraku used him several times to kill Inuyasha, tried to absorb him and kidnapped Rin. Kagura's death is the last straw and he starts going after Naraku to avenge her.
Jerkass-> Jerk with a Heart of Gold: It starts with Rin, encompasses Kagura, then Inuyasha and his entire group. The manga eventually ends with the implication that his compassion is still growing - he still doesn't like it being pointed out though.
Master Swordsman: Except in the case of Tenseiga, he's able to use any weapon to its full potential the moment he gets his hands on it. This is most evident in the few occasions when he uses Tessaiga - Inuyasha, for whom the sword was made, has to be actively thinking about protecting a human before it will change from a rusty piece of junk to a usable blade, and it takes him at least a season to master the Wind Scar to the point that he can use it at will. Sesshoumaru is able to fire off Wind Scars immediately. He gets similar results with Tokijin, Bakusaiga, and even Sango's Hiraikotsu.
The Mourning After: Kagura's death filled an empty hole in his heart for the first time and he risks his life to defend her and vows to avenge her death.
Poisonous Person: Able to channel poison through his claws; he used this power quite often during his first appearances, but not so much in his later ones.
Pretty in Mink: The mass of fur hanging over his shoulder, referred to as “mokomoko-sama” or “Fluffy” by fans. It seems to be a holdover from his true form, as it is still visible as a fringe of fur across his shoulder when he's in his dog form.
Well Done Son Guy: A major element of his characterization revolves around his dissatisfaction with the thought that their father favored Inuyasha over himself. It's only after he moves beyond his daddy issues that he's finally able to obtain his own sword Bakusaiga.
Rin was a young orphan child who encounters Sesshomaru while he is recovering from being beaten by Inuyasha. In spite of Sesshomaru's coldness, she shows no fear of him and instead develops a case of hero worship. For his own reasons, Sesshomaru allows her to accompany him and Jaken thereafter.
Voiced by: Mamiko Noto (JP), Brenna O'Brien (EN), Mariana Ortiz (LA SP), Letizia Ciampa (IT)
Shipper on Deck: She becomes very excited when she thinks Kagura might like Sesshomaru, tries to convince Jaken that she's right, and says they should trust her more after she comes to this conclusion-seemingly trying to get them closer together.
Kohaku is Sango's younger brother. Apparently killed along with the rest of the youkai hunters, he reappears not long afterwards under the control of Naraku, who uses him in frequent efforts to manipulate Sango.
Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (JP), Alex Doduk/Danny McKinnon (EN), Eduardo Garza (LA SP), Fabrizio de Flaviis (IT)
Break the Cutie: He was a shy, gentle and somewhat frightened 11 year-old boy who was going to take part in his first demon extermination. And then he was forced to kill a lot of people (including his father), work for the one who destroyed his life and was constantly hunted for the Shikon shard in his back. After all this, he only wishes to die taking Naraku with him.
Dying as Yourself: When he died, he had come to his senses after being possessed, both times. Specially jarring the second time since he had just accepted to live and fight. Fortunately he got better thanks to...
Trauma Guided Amnesia: He was so badly traumatised by his murder of the youkai hunters under Naraku's brainwashing that he refuses to remember it. Naraku uses this to his advantage, as he does with everything; offering to use his powers to ensure that Kohaku can't remember anything about it, no matter how forcibly reminded, is why Kohaku agreed to serve him in the first place.
The Undead: The only thing that keeps him "alive" is the Shikon shard on his back.
This goblin-like youkai is Sesshomaru's longsuffering and loyal retainer. He is not a very powerful fighter, but can wield the Staff of Two Heads in order to assist Sesshoumaru when needed.
Voiced by: Yuichi Nagashima (JP), Don Brown (EN), Carlos Iñigo/Alfredo Basurto (LA SP), Fabrizio Mazzotta (IT), Christophe Giordano (FR)
Butt Monkey / The Chew Toy: Jaken's role in the series boils down quite effectively to "show up, highlight how annoying he is by being a jerk and/or kissing Sesshomaru's ass, then get abused by Sesshomaru for being such a lickspittle".
Fantastic Racism: Jaken hates humans and half-demons, and routinely insults and mocks them. Then again, this might be a way of singing the praises of the similarly disdainful Sesshomaru, given his jeers often revolve around how worthless such beings are compared to him.
He Will Not Cry, so I Cry for Him: Jaken both sneezes and cries on Sesshoumaru's behalf, both times explaining that Sesshoumaru would never do something so undignified himself.
Kaede is Kikyo's younger sister and assistant. Following her loss of an eye and Kikyo's death, she became a miko herself, and is an old woman when Kagome arrives in the past and unseals Inuyasha. She recognizes Kagome as Kikyo's reincarnation, and assists Kagome and Inuyasha by providing advice and information.
Voiced by: Hisako Kyoda (JP), Pam Hyatt (EN), Ángela Villanueva (LA SP), Cristina Grado (IT), Frederique Cantrel (FR)
Kouga is the leader of a tribe of wolf youkai. He has collected several Shikon Jewel shards, which enable him to run incredibly fast and to execute powerful kicks. He kidnaps Kagome due to her ability to sense Jewel shards, and soon develops a crush on her, much to Inuyasha's annoyance.
Voiced by: Taiki Matsuno (JP), Scott McNeil (EN), Irwin Daayán (LA SP), Corrado Conforti (IT), David Maisse (FR)
Easily Forgiven: After his initial appearance, none of the main cast members seem to remember the large number of villagers that he and his wolves killed, and aside from Inuyasha they don't seem to hold it against him that he kidnapped Kagome with plans to make her marry him and would have fed Shippo to his wolves if Kagome hadn't stopped him. Even Inuyasha's issues with him seem mostly rooted in jealousy over his romantic pursuit of Kagome, and the two of them end up as Vitriolic Best Buds.
Expy: In theory Ryouga, but appearance and name only, as he is enormously nastier.
Fantastic Racism: Constantly mocks and insults Inuyasha either because he's a half-demon or because his demon lineage is that of a dog, while Koga is a wolf demon.
Karma Houdini: Seesaws between subverting this and playing it straight. As mentioned above, nobody ever brings up his less than noble deeds, which includes butchering innocent people to feed his wolves. This becomes a Double Standard when Princess Abi is treated like a monster for siccing her bats on a village; a reaction never had to Kouga doing the same thing but with wolves. On the other hand, his greed for power got his whole tribe slaughtered, and his arrogance in both continuing to pursue Naraku and insisting on keeping two shikon shards for himself has gotten him brutalized on several occasions.
Throwaway Country: A rare example of a "heroic" character actually being a cause of this trope. Koga slaughtered the populace of two villages, on screen, and not a word is ever said about them — or the others he may well have destroyed before he met Kagome.
Ayame is a wolf youkai princess, grandaughter of the well-respected leader of a tribe allied with Kouga's. She claims to be Kouga's fiancee, though he says he doesn't remember any such thing.
Voiced by: Yumi Kakazu (JP), Natalie Walters (EN), Patricia Acevedo (LA SP), Eleonora Leti (IT)
A huge half-human, half-demon character who owns a field of healing herbs along with his old, human mother. Despite his large, intimidating appearence he's a gentle and shy creature.
Odd Friendship: With Kagome, who's the first person (outside of his mother) to not be afraid of him.
Super Strength: Capable of tearing giant demons to pieces with his very hands. Luckily he's also very peaceful.
Top Heavy Guy: His upper body is larger than his lower one.
The Unreveal: In the anime, Rin meets Jinenji in his "full human" period, but we don't get to see how he looks like, as he's covered by a giant blanket.
Naraku and his incarnations
Naraku
The main villain of the series, a youkai of strange and mysterious origins. He seeks to obtain and corrupt the Shikon Jewel, and uses extremely manipulative tactics in order to pursue that goal, proving to have a hand in nearly everything bad that happens over the course of the series.
Voiced by: Toshiyuki Morikawa (JP), Paul Dobson (EN), Luis Alfonso Padilla (LA SP), Andrea Ward (IT), Emmanuel Lemire (FR)
Love Makes You Evil: He once was a human thief (Onigumo) who fell obsessively in love with Kikyo when she took care of himafter he was burned to almost death, and when she rejected him, sold himself to demons to get her. Muso, one of his deattatchments, is his "human" heart and keeps the remnants of Onigumo's seriously twisted love for Kikyo.
The Man Behind the Man: Pretty much any antagonist the heroes ever run into can be traced back to Naraku somehow. And he has one... the demon inside the Shikon No Tama.
Yandere: His Onigumo side loves Kikyou. His Naraku side wants to kill her. Both sides want to kill Inu Yasha.
Kanna
Kanna is a "detachment" of Naraku, a creature created from his body. She appears to be an emotionless young girl with white hair, and uses a mirror which can monitor distant events, trap souls, and reflect energy back onto attackers.
Adaptation Distillation: The anime build up her emotion more steadly than the manga up to point that she has extra part of episode in the Final Act for herself.
Battle Butler: To Naraku. Inuyasha's group is shocked by the realisation that her loyalty to Naraku is so extreme she'll die for him. and then Kagome learns Kanna used her death to cover a last minute betrayal to reveal to Kagome what Naraku's Achilles Heel is.
Black Eyes: As black as the void her demonic nature represents. It also serves to emphasise her (mostly) emotionless state.
Subversion in the Anime: She feels sad about Kagura's death and it's implied to be the reason for her post-mortem betrayal.
Not really since in the manga before she faces Inuyasha and his Nakama for the last time she feels the wind and believes that it was Kagura. Also when Naraku tells Inuyasha and the others that Kanna had no feelings, Kagome says he is wrong and that Kanna didn't want to die and that she wanted to be free and also her betrayal were signs that she did have emotions.
Kagura, like Kanna, is a detachment of Naraku. She has power over wind, and unlike Kanna is more rebellious, with a will of her own. She serves Naraku only because he can kill her at any time, and hopes to be free of him someday.
Voiced by: Izumi Oogami (JP), Janyse Jaud (EN), Diana Pérez (LA SP), Cinzia De Carolis (IT), Isabelle Bouchemaa (FR)
Big Sister Instinct: Before her death, she became very protective towards Kohaku; the same way that his real sister Sango is. She also gets along fairly well with Kanna, though the same can't be said for any of her other "siblings".
Implied Love Interest: While it isn't blatant enough to be Official Couple since there was no kissing or marriage, there's plenty of implication with Sesshomaru.
Lady of War: A powerful and graceful fighter, up to how her attacks are named after dances.
Star Making Role: For Izumi Oogami who isn't known much aside from this role.
Goshinki
The third of Naraku's detachments, is a beastly-looking ogre with powerful fangs and the ability of reading minds. He destroy's Tessaiga with his fangs, but is slaughtered by Demon!Inu Yasha. Later Sesshomaru revive his head so that his teeth can be used to forge Tokijin.
Voiced by: Masaharu Satoh (JP), Michael Kopsa (EN), Roberto Mendiola (LA SP), Mario Bombardieri (IT)
Meaningful Name: His name can be read as "Mind-Reading Ogre".
Now That's Using Your Teeth: Manages to destroy Tessaiga's blade by biting it. Later his fangs are used by Kaijinbo to forge Sesshomaru's blade Tokijin.
Telepathy: And he loves to use his powers to sadistically torture his victims and opponents.
What Happened to the Mouse?: Sesshomaru used Tenseiga to revive his head, but what happened to him next is unclear.
Juromaru and Kageromaru
The fourth and fifth detachment of Naraku. Juromaru is a pretty looking boy with white hair who behave like a beast. Kageromaru is a worm-like creature with scythes for arms who lives inside Juromaru's body and can talk. They're defeated by Inu Yasha and Koga's combined efforts.
The sixth detachment of Naraku, appears as a faceless man born from a blob of flesh. He's actually the true Onigumo and Naraku's human heart. After a fierce struggle with Inu Yasha he's re-assimilated in Naraku.
Voiced by: Hiroshi Yanaka (JP), Brian Dobson (EN), Luis Daniel Ramírez (LA SP), Vittorio Guerrieri (IT)
The Blank: There's a grisly spot where his face should be. That's because Onigumo had his face burned.
Stupid Evil: He's extremely selfish and edonist and just wander around killing and pillaging without a cause.
The Infant
Another detachment of Naraku, created in the depths of Mt. Hakurei. The infant is in fact Naraku's human heart, removed in order to free Naraku from his remaining feelings for Kikyou. Removing his heart also means that Naraku cannot be killed unless the heart is destroyed or returned to his body.
Voiced by: Ai Kobayashi (JP), Chiara Zanni (EN), Héctor Emmanuel Gómez (LA SP), Stefano Mondini (IT)
After the Infant is split in half, one of the halves becomes Hakudoshi, a white-haired young boy with powers very much like Naraku's but had an agenda of his own.
Voiced by: Ai Kobayashi (JP), Chiara Zanni (EN), Héctor Emmanuel Gómez (LA SP), Stefano De Filippis (IT)
Like Father, Like Son: Naraku made many incarnations as servants, but Hakudoshi is much more of a son than any of the other creatures that emerged from his body, because Hakudoshi and Naraku share the same core. Naturally loyalty isn't a trait he inherited, since Naraku doesn't possess it either.
Naraku's final detachment, he appears to be a beautiful young man with a playful disposition. He is purely loyal to Naraku and has a wide variety of powers.
Dull Surprise: Inuyasha's group react intensely as they realise Kanna's literally tearing herself to shreds to carry out the last order Naraku gives her. Byakuya's reaction is clinical. He simply assesses the situation as evidence of the lengths to which Naraku will make his detachments go and contemplates the likelihood that something like this will happen to him. It does.
Fantastically Indifferent: Like Kanna, his main purpose is to performa a specific duty for Naraku that will result in his death. Unlike Kanna, he remains loyal to the end and barely bats an eyelid over having to sacrifice himself.
Foreshadowing: As he watches the manner in which Kanna dies, he contemplates that's his likely fate as well. He was right.
Just Following Orders: He tries to interfere with Sesshoumaru's pursuit of Mouryoumaru. When Sesshoumaru turns on him, he asks Sesshoumaru not to hate him because he's just doing his job, and then beats a hasty a retreat.
Half The Demoness She Used To Be: Episode 147, set sometime before Kikyo's death, shows her being cut in half by Hiraikotsu - wielded at that time by Sango's grandfather, Shako - in a battle for the Shikon no Tama.
Immortality Inducer: Via Shikon no Tama. Unlike other villains, she's rejuvenated just by being near it.
Older than They Look: Inuyasha calls her an old hag (although this may not have had anything to do with her age, and may instead have been a shot against her vanity, with Inuyasha's typical rudeness).
One of the first dangerous villains seen in the series, she appears as a skimpy dressed ninja girl who can manipulate hair like wires. Her true form is a cursed haircomb.
A pair of Raiju looking for the Jewel, they murdered and skinned Shippo's father. The younger brother, Manten is big and beastly and obsessed with his lack of hair. The eldest brother Hiten is more human looking and wields a lightning pike.
Voiced by: Nobutoshi Canna (Hiten) and Tetsu Inada (Manten) (JP), Andrew Francis (Hiten) and Alvin Sanders (Manten) (EN), Gabriel Ortiz (Hiten) and Jorge Ornelas (Manten) (LA SP), Stefano Crescentini (Hiten) and Nanni Baldini (Manten) (IT), Remi Caillebot (Hiten) and Pierre-Stefan Montagnier (Manten) (FR)
Villainous Valor: Hiten really loves his brother, to the point that he cries when Manten is killed. The anime made it into a real Tear Jerker.
Urasue
An old oni witch known for creating living clay puppets. She's the one who resurrects Kikyo in a body of bone dust and dirt in order to have a powerful servant, but is eventually destroyed by her.
An old evil demon who used to be Totosai's disciple, before being rejected for his brutal and inhuman ways. He forges the Tokijin sword for Sesshomaru but is possessed by the blade and eventually destroyed by it.
Voiced by: Takeshi Aono (JP), Robert O. Smith (EN), Carlos del Campo (LA SP), Saverio Moriones (IT)
Demonic Possession: Ends up being possessed by Tokijin, which is filled by Goshinki's hate towards Inu Yasha.
An elder Dragon Youkai who fought with Inu Yasha's father in the past and was sealed in a cliff, not before inflicting a fatal wound to the dog demon. He's fred from his seal by Naraku in order to kill Inu Yasha.
A miko and a contemporary of Kikyo. Tsubaki felt that she, not Kikyo, should be entrusted with the Shikon Jewel; when that didn't happen, her jealousy drove her to become a black miko.
Voiced by: Miho Satou (JP), Sharon Alexander (EN), Mónica Manjarrez (LA SP), Laura Lenghi (IT)
What Happened to the Mouse?: In the manga after she defeated, one of Naraku's wasps takes back the jewel shard he loaned her and she never heard from again The anime fixes this by adding a filler in which she hangs onto the jewel a little longer and uses it to merge into a powerful orge demon to defeat the heroes. She fails once again and rapidly ages to dust due to using up all her power.
Though it doesn't show it, the manga heavily implies she dies right after Naraku's saimyosho robs her of the Shikon jewel shard since all the demons to whom she sold her soul in exchange for youth died in the battle against Inuyasha. And since she doesn't show up ever again after that...
Leader of the Band of Seven, a powerful group of Psychos For Hire that roamed through Japan and was slaughtered ten years before the story sets. Naraku revives them with Shikon shards to have them as his bodyguards while his body evolves inside Mt. Hakurei.
Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (JP), Matt Hill (EN), Gerardo García (LA SP), Giorgio Borghetti (IT)
Anti-Villain: He was a bloodthirsty fighter, but he truly cared for his teammates. In fact, he snapped when Renkotsu killed Jakotsu, killing him in punishment for his treason
BFS: Banryuu (“Barbarian Dragon”) his halberd (not THAT kind, stupid!) is even bigger even than Inuyasha's. And he can wield it single-handedly with such ease!
Effeminate Misogynistic Guy: Jakotsu dresses like a woman, has a female voice actor on both sides of the Pacific, is Camp Gay, and is contemptuous of his female opponents.
What Could Have Been: Was originally supposed to be female, but the author decided she didn't want Inu Yasha hitting a human female so she made him a Villainous Crossdresser instead.
Another member of the Band of Seven, and even more bloodthirsty than Jakotsu... when he's dominated by his Superpowered Evil Side, that is.
Voiced by: Hiroaki Hirata (JP), Michael Donovan (EN), José Luis Orozco (LA SP), Mirko Mazzanti (IT)
Anti-Villain: It's complicated: his evil personality is Ax Crazy, but his regular personality is a kind doctor who isn't evil at all, who was traumatized after a soldier brutally killed one of his patients and laughed about it.
Go Mad from the Revelation: He was a normal medic, but watching a soldier kill one of his patients in the war and then laugh about it made him snap and become the evil Suikotsu from the Band of Seven.
I Cannot Self-Terminate: Asks Kikyou to kill him. When she can't bring herself to do so, Jakotsu does so.
Mid-Season Upgrade: After his battle with Inu Yasha. Renkostu turns him into a tank.
Schizo Tech: How did they manage this in Feudal Japan?
That technology became possible in China way over a thousand years ago. They were the first to use coal to power mechanical devices and even use gunpowder. Technology changes, but the principals of mechanics don’t.
Berserk Button: Really hates to be mocked or rejected because of his ugly face, to the point that he starts crying when Kagome stab his neck as he tries to embrace her.
Universal Poison: Subverted, he fights with several kinds of poisons, including an acidic cloud, a paralyzing toxin and a poison that affects the victim throught the eyes and skin.
Would Hit a Girl: He punched Kagome in the face when she tried to defend herself.
Kyokotsu
The first member of the Band of Seven, is a colossal brute of a man that feeds on demons to restore his power. Easily dispatched by Kouga.
Voiced by: Daisuke Gouri (JP), Mark Gibbon (EN), Carlos del Campo (LA SP), Massimo Bitossi (IT)
I Am A Humanitarian: Goes around devouring humans and demons alike to replenish his strength. Oddly enough, the other undead mercenaries don't show such need.
Neck Snap: Subverted in that isn't enough to stop him.
Odd Name Out: It's later stated that the seven mercenaries were decapitated, and their Shikon shards are hidden in their neck wounds, yet Kyokotu's shard is located in his forehead.
A Buddhist priest who agreed to sacrifice his life to save his people, but as he waited to die he succumbed to despair. He's responsible for the powerful barrier surrounding Mount Hakurei.
Barrier Warrior: One with Anti-Magic and Power Nullifier skills so great, that he was able to create an enormous barrier which either greatly weakened or killed demons and suppressed all kinds of spiritual powers while also reversing Inuyasha to his human form.
Despair Event Horizon: He was a human monk who offered himself to be Buried Alive for the well-being of his village. As his death neared, he got more and more scared and despaired, and Naraku used this to make him his servant.
A woman who commands a vast army of demonic birds. Naraku offers her a chance to join him in his quest to defeat Inuyasha, in exchange for a cure for Abi's beloved mother Queen Tekkei — who is actually a massive bird demon that lives in a cave.
Voiced by: Saeko Shimazu (JP), Teryl Rothery (EN), Maru Guerrero (LA SP), Laura Latini (IT)
Wouldn't Hit a Girl: Against Abi, Inuyasha remarks that he doesn't like fighting women, but she's so evil he'll make an exception. However, Naraku "gave" Abi a trident (made from his bones) that creates a defensive barrier. Eventually, it is Naraku who kills both Abi and her mother.
The Shikon no Tama or Jewel of the Four Souls is a powerful jewel the size of a marble that grants whoever possesses it great power. It was created when the powerful Miko Midoriko was fighting Magatsuhi, a composite Youkai, for seven days and seven nights and by the end of the battle Midoriko ripped her own soul from her body and combined it with that of the youkai, killing both of them. Their souls merged and were placed within the Shikon Jewel, where they keep fighting for eternity.
Nigh Invulnerability: Is basically indestructible. Burning it with Kikyo didn't work, neither did hitting it with Meidou Zangetsuha or Bakusaiga, and Kagome's power at most only managed to break it which proved to be way more troublesome. In the end the only way to destroy it was to wish for it to cease existing.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Along with Midoriko, the Shikon no Tama contains the soul of Magatsuhi, a monster composed of thousands of fused youkai. It used Naraku to temporarily manifest a body and almost killed Sesshomaru before its body was destroyed by Bakusaiga and it returned to the the jewel.
Inuyasha is the son of a dog youkai and a human woman. Persecuted throughout his childhood due to his halfbreed nature, he sought to use the Shikon Jewel to become a full youkai, but fell in love with the Jewel's human guardian, the miko Kikyo. Fifty years prior to the start of the series, Kikyo sealed Inuyasha to a tree with a magical arrow; when Kagome releases him, he resumes his mission to obtain the Shikon Jewel, which requires him to team up with Kagome to track down the broken Jewel's many shards.
Kagome is a girl from the present era who finds herself in Japan's Sengoku era after falling down an old well in her family's Shinto shrine. She proves to be Kikyo's reincarnation, and discovers that she possesses strong spiritual powers resembling that of a miko. After she accidentally shatters the Shikon Jewel, she joins up with Inuyasha to find and reassemble the broken pieces.
Aside from his considerable spiritual power as a Buddhist monk, Miroku possesses a "wind tunnel" or "air void" in his hand, a miniature black hole which sucks in anything if it's not kept magically sealed. The wind tunnel is the product of a family curse originally put on Miroku's grandfather by Naraku, and it dooms Miroku to an early death unless it can be removed by killing Naraku first. To that end, Miroku joins forces with Kagome and Inuyasha.Miroku is a rather unusual monk, since he is a skilled con artist and a Handsome Lech who habitually asks any pretty girl he meets to bear his children - to carry on the mission to kill Naraku if he doesn't succeed, he claims.
Sango comes from a village of professional demon slayers. After the deaths of the other hunters, including Sango's father and little brother Kohaku, she first mistakenly pursues Inuyasha intending to kill him, but later joins forces with him and the others. Sango's primary weapon is Hiraikotsu, an enormous boomerang made from demon bones, but she's also skilled with a variety of other weapons and tricks, and has a broad array of knowledge about youkai and how to fight them.
Kirara is a nekomata - a two-tailed youkai cat - who is also Sango's companion. She can change from a tiny feline to a huge fanged one for Sango to ride on, and has the ability to fly in her larger form.
Shippo is a young fox youkai who joins Kagome and Inuyasha following the death of his father. Since he is still a child, he is not very strong in battle, but can change his shape and has a repertoire of trickery that occasionally comes in handy. His youth and immaturity bring him into frequent conflict with Inuyasha; it is not clear exactly how old he really is, given that youkai age more slowly than humans.
Myoga the flea was once a servant of Inuyasha's father, and tries to help Inuyasha and his friends by providing useful information, although he is a coward and a bit of a lecher. He claims Inuyasha's blood is delicious, and often appears by biting Inuyasha to drink some of his blood, usually resulting in getting squashed by Inuyasha.
As a miko and the Shikon Jewel's guardian, Kikyo's responsibility was to purify the Shikon Jewel and keep it out of anyone else's hands. Falling in love with Inuyasha, however, led to her death, and she had the Jewel burned with her body in order to protect it, causing it to reappear within the body of her reincarnation, Kagome. However, this is not the last we see of her...
Sesshomaru is Inuyasha's half-brother, and unlike Inuyasha is a very powerful full-blooded youkai. He initially appears in pursuit of the sword Tessaiga, which their father had created from his own fang and left for Inuyasha to inherit; although Sesshoumaru also inherited a sword, Tenseiga, he feels he has no use for it since it is a healing sword which cannot wound anyone.
Rin was a young orphan child who encounters Sesshomaru while he is recovering from being beaten by Inuyasha. In spite of Sesshomaru's coldness, she shows no fear of him and instead develops a case of hero worship. For his own reasons, Sesshomaru allows her to accompany him and Jaken thereafter.
Kohaku is Sango's younger brother. Apparently killed along with the rest of the youkai hunters, he reappears not long afterwards under the control of Naraku, who uses him in frequent efforts to manipulate Sango.
This goblin-like youkai is Sesshomaru's longsuffering and loyal retainer. He is not a very powerful fighter, but can wield the Staff of Two Heads in order to assist Sesshoumaru when needed.
Kaede is Kikyo's younger sister and assistant. Following her loss of an eye and Kikyo's death, she became a miko herself, and is an old woman when Kagome arrives in the past and unseals Inuyasha. She recognizes Kagome as Kikyo's reincarnation, and assists Kagome and Inuyasha by providing advice and information.
Totosai is a youkai blacksmith, the one responsible of forging Tessaiga and Tenseiga from the fang of Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's father.
Kouga is the leader of a tribe of wolf youkai. He has collected several Shikon Jewel shards, which enable him to run incredibly fast and to execute powerful kicks. He kidnaps Kagome due to her ability to sense Jewel shards, and soon develops a crush on her, much to Inuyasha's annoyance.
Ayame is a wolf youkai princess, grandaughter of the well-respected leader of a tribe allied with Kouga's. She claims to be Kouga's fiancee, though he says he doesn't remember any such thing.
A huge half-human, half-demon character who owns a field of healing herbs along with his old, human mother. Despite his large, intimidating appearence he's a gentle and shy creature.
The main villain of the series, a youkai of strange and mysterious origins. He seeks to obtain and corrupt the Shikon Jewel, and uses extremely manipulative tactics in order to pursue that goal, proving to have a hand in nearly everything bad that happens over the course of the series.
Kanna is a "detachment" of Naraku, a creature created from his body. She appears to be an emotionless young girl with white hair, and uses a mirror which can monitor distant events, trap souls, and reflect energy back onto attackers.
Kagura, like Kanna, is a detachment of Naraku. She has power over wind, and unlike Kanna is more rebellious, with a will of her own. She serves Naraku only because he can kill her at any time, and hopes to be free of him someday.
The third of Naraku's detachments, is a beastly-looking ogre with powerful fangs and the ability of reading minds. He destroy's Tessaiga with his fangs, but is slaughtered by Demon!Inu Yasha. Later Sesshomaru revive his head so that his teeth can be used to forge Tokijin.
The fourth and fifth detachment of Naraku. Juromaru is a pretty looking boy with white hair who behave like a beast. Kageromaru is a worm-like creature with scythes for arms who lives inside Juromaru's body and can talk. They're defeated by Inu Yasha and Koga's combined efforts.
The sixth detachment of Naraku, appears as a faceless man born from a blob of flesh. He's actually the true Onigumo and Naraku's human heart. After a fierce struggle with Inu Yasha he's re-assimilated in Naraku.
Another detachment of Naraku, created in the depths of Mt. Hakurei. The infant is in fact Naraku's human heart, removed in order to free Naraku from his remaining feelings for Kikyou. Removing his heart also means that Naraku cannot be killed unless the heart is destroyed or returned to his body.
After the Infant is split in half, one of the halves becomes Hakudoshi, a white-haired young boy with powers very much like Naraku's but had an agenda of his own.
Naraku's final detachment, he appears to be a beautiful young man with a playful disposition. He is purely loyal to Naraku and has a wide variety of powers.
The very first hostile demon in the series, is the one who kidnaps Kagome and drag her beyond the well. She's killed pretty quickly by Inu Yasha.
One of the first dangerous villains seen in the series, she appears as a skimpy dressed ninja girl who can manipulate hair like wires. Her true form is a cursed haircomb.
A pair of Raiju looking for the Jewel, they murdered and skinned Shippo's father. The younger brother, Manten is big and beastly and obsessed with his lack of hair. The eldest brother Hiten is more human looking and wields a lightning pike.
An old oni witch known for creating living clay puppets. She's the one who resurrects Kikyo in a body of bone dust and dirt in order to have a powerful servant, but is eventually destroyed by her.
An old evil demon who used to be Totosai's disciple, before being rejected for his brutal and inhuman ways. He forges the Tokijin sword for Sesshomaru but is possessed by the blade and eventually destroyed by it.
An elder Dragon Youkai who fought with Inu Yasha's father in the past and was sealed in a cliff, not before inflicting a fatal wound to the dog demon. He's fred from his seal by Naraku in order to kill Inu Yasha.
A miko and a contemporary of Kikyo. Tsubaki felt that she, not Kikyo, should be entrusted with the Shikon Jewel; when that didn't happen, her jealousy drove her to become a black miko.
An old, giant Bat demon. He's currently using his granddaughter Shiori to keep up a powerful barrier on his lands.
Leader of the Band of Seven, a powerful group of Psychos For Hire that roamed through Japan and was slaughtered ten years before the story sets. Naraku revives them with Shikon shards to have them as his bodyguards while his body evolves inside Mt. Hakurei.
One of the Band of Seven, Bankotsu's best friend and most loyal follower.
One of the Band of Seven, the strategist and fire arms expert of the group.
Another member of the Band of Seven, and even more bloodthirsty than Jakotsu... when he's dominated by his Superpowered Evil Side, that is.
A robotic man who serves as the primary muscle of the Band of Seven.
Member of the Band of Seven, is an ugly, short man and poison user, who's obsessed over girls. Get's killed pretty soon by Sesshomaru.
The first member of the Band of Seven, is a colossal brute of a man that feeds on demons to restore his power. Easily dispatched by Kouga.
A Buddhist priest who agreed to sacrifice his life to save his people, but as he waited to die he succumbed to despair. He's responsible for the powerful barrier surrounding Mount Hakurei.
A woman who commands a vast army of demonic birds. Naraku offers her a chance to join him in his quest to defeat Inuyasha, in exchange for a cure for Abi's beloved mother Queen Tekkei — who is actually a massive bird demon that lives in a cave.
The Shikon no Tama or Jewel of the Four Souls is a powerful jewel the size of a marble that grants whoever possesses it great power. It was created when the powerful Miko Midoriko was fighting Magatsuhi, a composite Youkai, for seven days and seven nights and by the end of the battle Midoriko ripped her own soul from her body and combined it with that of the youkai, killing both of them. Their souls merged and were placed within the Shikon Jewel, where they keep fighting for eternity.
