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Mistress Centipede (Mukade Jōrō)

Voiced by: Rei Igarashi (JP), Pauline Newstone (EN), Adriana Casas (LA SP), Sonia Scotti (IT)

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The very first hostile demon in the series who kickstarted the plot by dragging Kagome into the feudal era via the well. She's killed pretty quickly by Inuyasha.

Artistic License – Biology: Her centipede body has a snake-like skeleton. Given that she's a demon though, this may be justified.
Back from the Dead: Was shown regenerating from a skeleton when she yanked Kagome into the well.
Barbie Doll Anatomy: Anime only.
Bowdlerise: Her breast size is reduced in the Viz dub, and when adapted from manga to anime, her nipples were not drawn.
Clipped-Wing Angel: Even after she transforms due to eating the jewel, as soon as Inuyasha is freed from his seal, he rips her apart with one attack.
Creepy Centipedes: She has the lower body of a centipede, on top of a torso of a naked human woman with six arms.
Cute Monster Girl: Her human part is actually pretty attractive... until she opens her mouth and reveals her fangs.
Dark Action Girl: Less of a girl and more of your garden variety monster.
Fan Disservice: Her monstrous form, especally after eating the jewel. The skin on her attractive human half sloughs off, revealing a hidious monstrosity with very big teeth.
Full-Frontal Assault: As a strict animalistic carnivore, she doesn't feel the need to wear clothes.
Half the Man He 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.
Healing Factor: Due to the Shikon Jewel, she's able to regenerate limbs.
Hostage for MacGuffin: In Episode 147, set prior to Kikyo's death, she attempts to kidnap Kaede with the intent to ransom her to Kikyo for the Shikon Jewel; fortunately, Inuyasha shows up and kills her before she can make good on her intent.
Immortality Inducer: Via Shikon no Tama. Unlike other villains, she's rejuvenated just by being near it.
Made of Plasticine: She gets splattered all over the place by Inuyasha.
More Teeth than the Osmond Family: When she opens her mouth.
Multi-Armed and Dangerous: Has six arms, and that's without counting the huge number of insectile legs all over her body. And she's still a menace even without arms, seen when she bites a chunk of flesh from Kagome.
Non-Mammal Mammaries: Sport breasts in her human form. Said breasts were apparently reduced in size in the English dub.
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). Either way, she was around when Kikyo was still alive.
One-Winged Angel: Sheds her human skin and transforms into a grotesque monster after eating the Shikon Jewel.
Overly-Long Tongue: Seen when she licks Kagome's face.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Again, her monstrous form.
Small Role, Big Impact: Gets offed in the first episode, but if it weren't for her appearing in the well, Kagome and Inuyasha would have never even met.
Starter Villain: A tougher one than most. The villagers are powerless against her, but Inuyasha dispatches her easily.
The Worf Effect: For Kagome and the villagers she's an unstoppable, immortal killing machine. For Inuyasha she's a mere pest.
Youkai: Centipede Mononoke/Omukade. Her mouth may be a nod to the Kuchisake Onna myth.

Shibugarasu

A monstrous three-eyed crow Youkai who makes his nest in corpses and manipulates them. Tries to swallow the Shikon Jewel, but is killed by Kagome, who also shatters the jewel in his belly, kickstarting the quest.

Child Eater: After powering up, he tries to pick up and devour a child.
Creepy Crows: A crow Youkai with three eyes and a reptilian tail with a penchant for eating the hearts of men and makes his nest in their hollowed wound to animate their cadavers.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Kagome manages to slay him by tying his leg (which is trying to connect back to the main body) to her arrow, which allows her to land her attack.
Kidnapping Bird of Prey: Not a raptor, but he still takes advantage of his powered-up form to snatch a kid and tries to carry him away to eat him.
Losing Your Head: When he reappears, he's just an animated head snapping at Inuyasha before being killed off for good.
Meaningful Name: "Shibugarasu" translates as "Crows who Dances on Corpses". It's a crow youkai who can animate cadavers.
One-Winged Angel: After swallowing the Shikon Jewel, he transforms in a more monstrous, reptilian form (manga) or a larger avian form (anime).
Pulling Themselves Together: After using the Jewel, he can regenerate by putting the fragments of his flesh back together. Turns against him when Kagome ties her arrow to his mutilated leg, which promptly leads the arrow to his target.
Puppeteer Parasite: Shibugarasu devours the heart of a bandit chief and manipulates the corpse to get the Jewel.
Small Role, Big Impact: He's a two-bit demon whose actions kickstart most of the conflict when Kagome accidentally shatters the Shikon Jewel in his stomach.
Third Eye: Has three eyes, for a more sinister look.
Toothy Bird: Despite being a bird, he has teeth in his beak. When he transforms, the beak becomes a crocodilian maw filled with fangs.

Yura of the Hair

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (JP), Chiara Zanni (EN), Liliana Barba (LA SP), Perla Liberatori (IT)

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One of the first dangerous villains seen in the series, she appears as a skimpily dressed ninja girl. In the manga, Yura hides her soul in a comb to ensure nothing done to her body affects her. In the anime, her human form is a mass of demonic hair while her true form is a cursed hair comb.

Adaptation Species Change: In the manga she was a demon girl who put her soul in a comb as protection, while in the anime her true form was the comb.
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience: Her comb is hidden in the only red skull admist a pile of them.
Cool Sword: Benigasumi (Crimson Mist), a short sword which can cut flesh but not the hair.
Faux Affably Evil: Cheerfully mocks Inuyasha and Kagome and flirts with the former as she tries to brutally kill both to take their skulls and hair.
Feel No Pain: Despite having both her arms severed and her chest pierced, she doesn't react at all. Justified, as her body is immortal as long as her comb is intact.
Human Resources: It's heavily implied that the hair she manipulates is taken from the hair of her victims.
Invisible to Normals: Her hair wires can apparently only be seen by Kagome and Kaede; while they're being attacked by it, Kagome has to warn Inuyasha where her attacks are coming from.
Kunoichi: She dresses like one, anyway.
Licking the Blade: Does this after slashing Inuyasha's chest.
Master of Threads: She can manipulate hair like wires that she uses to cut or control people like puppets.
Moral Myopia: She calls out Inuyasha and Kagome for stealing the jewel shard from her... when she stole it from them in the first place.
Nigh-Invulnerability: Nothing Inuyasha and Kagome do causes her any lasting harm or pain until they realize that they have to attack her Soul Jar.
No Body Left Behind: Turns to dust after her death.
Oh, Crap!: Something Inuyasha lampshades during their fight as, initially, she just seems to take any attack of his in stride. However, when one of his attacks hits close to her Soul Jar, she suddenly starts getting more serious. And she damn near loses it when Kagome manages to find the skull where her spirit, a comb, is hiding in.
Our Liches Are Different: Pretty much what she is, given that her Soul Jar is a comb.
People Puppets: Yura is able to control people by making them lose consciousness and using her hair as marionette strings.
Playing with Fire: Her comb, Onibigushi (Demon's fire comb) can spit flames.
Prehensile Hair: Her weapon is razor-sharp hair strands attached to her fingers.
Razor Floss: Her hair strings can cut through anything except Inuyasha's Robe of the Fire-Rat.
Soul Jar: As long as her comb is intact, she's safe.
Starter Villain: The first time Inuyasha and Kagome work together to defeat an enemy.
Stripperiffic: Her outfit leaves most of her legs exposed while also showcasing ample cleavage.
Torso with a View: Inuyasha opens a gaping hole right between her breasts. She simply scolds him for trying to cop a feel.
Victoria's Secret Compartment: Where she keeps the Shikon shards.
What the Hell Are You?: Her reaction when Kagome, protected by Inuyasha's haori, is unharmed by her razor hair:
"What are you? Why don't you bleed?!"
Youkai: A Tsukumogami, inanimate object that came to life after a hundred years of use.

Tsugumo Toad

Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (JP), Ward Perry (EN)

A 300 year old toad spirit who used a fragment of the Jewel to take over the daimyo of a castle and used his authority to gather girls to devour.

Breath Weapon: He breathes noxious gas potent enough to knock Inuyasha off his feet.
Demonic Possession: He used to be an incorporeal spirit before he took over the body of a daimyo with the power of the Shikon Jewel fragment.
Frog Men: After possessing a lord, he ends up looking like a fat, bipedal frog in a kimono.
Healing Factor: By eating souls, he can recover from any wound.
I Have You Now, My Pretty: Corners Princess Tsuyu after taking her to his private room, though he intends to literally eat her.
Kill It with Fire: As Myoga reveals, Youkai or not he's still a toad, and thus cannot stand heat. He's forced out of his body when Kagome uses an Aerosol Flamethrower on him.
My God, What Have I Done?: After Inuyasha hits him on the head with the back of Tessaiga, the actual daimyo takes control of the Toad's body and is shocked to see what happened, begging them to kill him to take down the monster.
Overly-Long Tongue: Being a toad, he can attack with a long, sharp tongue.
Screw the Rules, I Have Connections!: While possessing the daimyo, he took full advantage of his authority to kidnap girls from their homes and gather them in the castle to feed on. Myoga ouright states that that, combined with the jewel shard in the toad's possession, effectively means he can do as he pleases and get away with it.
Soul Eating: The Tsugumo Toad envelopes his victims in large frog eggs, where they slowly turn into human-headed tadpols. He enjoys eating matured souls, but can also consume them to heal himself.
Tap on the Head: When he angrily attacks Nobunaga for freeing Tsuyu from his egg, Inu Yasha slams the back of Tessaiga on his head hard enough to make him faint, causing the Daimyo to temporarly regain control of his toad body and offers his life as a way to make sure the Toad dies with him.
Youkai: Based on the Ogama, a toad who can turn into a noxious youkai, but his name is a pun on Tsukumogami.

Flesh-Eating Mask

Voiced by: Kazuko Yanaga (JP), Cathy Weseluck (EN)

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A demonic Noh mask sealed at Higurashi Shrine, awakened in the present day by Kagome's Shikon Jewel shards.

Artifact of Doom: A demonic mask that absorbs human flesh to make itself a body.
Blob Monster: In the anime, the body the mask forms takes the form of black goo.
Body Horror: Aside from having a Body of Bodies, the mask's flesh is continually rotting, causing it to seek out the Shikon Jewel to rectify it.
Body of Bodies: In the manga, the mask's body was a mishmash of gore and limbs from the people it absorbed.
Bowdlerise: In the manga, the mask's body was a grotesque mishmash of blood, gore, and body parts. In the anime, it's an amorphous mass of black goo.
I'm a Humanitarian: Eats humans and assimilates their flesh.
Instant Expert: It manages to work out how to operate a fire truck fairly quickly, albeit recklessly.
Normal Fish in a Tiny Pond: In the modern era, it causes catastrophic damage, kills several humans, and is unstoppable, forcing Kagome to call in Inuyasha to manage the situation. If it was fought in the feudal era and had not already had a Shikon Jewel shard, the mask would have been only slightly stronger than a normal youkai, who Naraku uses as mooks.
Who Needs Their Whole Body?: Downplayed, in the manga she still moves even when half of the mask is destroyed, and stops moving after being subjected to a Diagonal Cut which removes the fragment.

The Raiju Brothers

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)

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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 elder brother, Hiten, is more human looking and wields a lightning pike.

Berserk Button:
- DO NOT do anything to Manten's hair.
- Hiten goes really apeshit when his brother confesses that he accidentally let the Shikon Jewel fragments go and took Kagome instead. More seriously, he also goes berserk after his brother's death.
Big Brother Instinct: While Hiten tends to threaten to kill his own brother on more than one occasion, he reveals that deep down, he does in fact love his brother and goes apeshit when he's killed.
Breath Weapon: Manten's power.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: Hiten and Manten really love each other, to the point that Hiten cries when Manten is killed. The anime made it into a real Tear Jerker.
Flight: Manten uses a dark thundercloud and Hiten has flaming spurs on his heels.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Hiten's fate.
He-Man Woman Hater: Hiten views women as little more than playthings for him and Manten's sick pleasure, even going so far as to taunt Inuyasha when he thinks he killed Kagome, saying that no woman is worth shedding tears over.
Human Resources: Manten planned to process Kagome into a mystical hair tonic.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: Manten's fate.
Jerkass: Both of them are heartless killers who see no value in human life. Inuyasha, himself no saint by his own admission at the time, is openly disgusted by their depravity.
Kick the Dog: Hiten bloodily kills a demon girl (as in, "punch her through her head") purely for being next to him when Manten tells him something that upsets him greatly. Manten kills and skins Shippo's dad, then mocks Shippo's grief over it.
Monstrous Cannibalism: After Manten's death, Hiten does this to him to get his powers and jewel shards. In the anime, he merely bites into his forehead to do so, while in the manga, he outright eats his brother's heart. Regardless, Kagome is appropriately horrified.
Politically Incorrect Villain: Neither have a very enlightened view of women; Manten sees Kagome as nothing more than ingredients for a hair tonic, while Hiten outright mocks Inuyasha for worrying about her in the midst of their fight.
Hiten: A true warrior never puts a woman before a battle!
Shock and Awe: Their powers.
Strong Family Resemblance: Both Hiten and Manten share a strong resemblance to their father and mother respectively. Especially Manten.
Villainous Valor: Hiten really cares for his little brother, even if he threatens him.
Youkai: Raiju, of course.

The Kumogashira

Kumogashira

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Spider demons that infest certain tracts of land, lead by a monstrous web-bodied demon who seeks for the Jewel while disguised as a kind old buddhist monk.

Achilles' Heel: The leader can regenerate any part of his body, but he still need the Jewel Shards to do this trick: when Inuyasha severs the trunk in which the shards where contained he perish in no time.
Adaptation Deviation: In the anime, the second part of the episode involving the Kumogashira is dramatically shortened: rather than play on Nazuna's feelings to trick her into removing Tessaiga from the door, the Kumogashira Leader simply attacks the room from the outside of the temple, smashing it open. He's also slain almost immediately by Inuyasha after swallowing the fragments.
Adaptational Wimp: His anime self is much less durable than the manga counterpart, dying easily to Tessaiga as soon as Inuyasha regainst his strength and lacking his head-duplicating power.
All Webbed Up: They do this to their preys, wrapping them in a coccoon spun by multiple spiders at once.
Dissonant Serenity: In the manga the Kumogashira have expressionless human heads regardless of the situation.
Losing Your Head: Upon receiving a boost with the Shikon Jewel shards, the Leader can regenerate his head and even create more to spit silk at enemies from all sides.
One-Winged Angel: Upon devouring the Jewel Shards it takes a fiercer appearence with large pointy eyebrows, lack of nose, exposed teeth and fangs and circles of hairs along his body and arms.
Small Role, Big Impact: The Kumogashira story arc introduced the concept of Hanyou having a period of time where they're stuck in human form. Also, by swallowing all the recovered fragments of the Jewel he accidentally reforms them into a single bigger piece inside his body.
Spider People: The rank and file Kumogashira (Spider Heads) are either big spiders with a human head in lieu of their own (manga) or lanky humanoids with a spider's head (anime). Their leader is a grotesque monster whose body is a giant fleshy web with hands at the end of the strands and the ability to slide his head along it.
The Swarm: In the manga, the Kumogashira attacks in massive hordes, numberous enough to seemingly cover the entire ceiling of a room.
That Man Is Dead: In the Manga, the Kumogashira Leader (who apparently has killed and replaced the elder monk) claims this when Nazuna begs him to tell her if it was all a lie. According to him, the monk has been dead for "far longer than she can imagine".
Wounded Gazelle Gambit: Pretends to be a victim of the Kumogashira to get Inuyasha close enough to grasp him.

Urasue

Voiced by: Yoshiko Ohta (JP), Cathy Weseluck (EN), Magda Giner (LA SP), Alina Moradei (IT)

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.

Asshole Victim: She attacked Kaede's village, desecrated Kikyo's grave, and brought Kikyo back, planning to use the revived Kikyo as her obedient servant; needless to say, it's hard to feel sorry for her when Kikyo turns on her and blows her away.
Evil Old Folks: Damn...
Flight: Like higher tier demons, she can do this.
Hoist by His Own Petard: The first thing Kikyo does as soon as she gets a soul is completely vaporize her.
I Am a Humanitarian: Plans to devour Kagome's soulless body with Miso.
Necromancer: She can create both puppets and undead beings with burial dirt and bone's ash.
No Body Left Behind: Pulverized after death, but not before a last Kick the Dog moment.
No Plans, No Prototype, No Backup: Apparently, it never once occurred to her that the revived Kikyo would not be her obedient slave upon her revival.
Sinister Scythe: Which she can use to cast a Sword Beam.
Small Role, Big Impact: She only lasts about one or two episodes, but is nonetheless the one responsible for Kikyo's resurrection.
Super-Speed: On foot? No. In the air? Yes!!
Super-Strength: How else would she be able to wield that huge scythe and carry those big pots?
Villainous Legacy: An anime-only episode has the group meeting two revenants similar to Kikyo, Enju and Kawaramaru, with the latter trying to use his "mother"'s clay soldiers to take over the country.
Wicked Witch: Has the looks of one and uses her sorcery to create clay soldiers.
Youkai: According to Inuyasha, she's a Oni. Given her appearence she's a nod to the Kijo and Onibaba, demons taking the form of ugly but powerful hags.

Kotatsu

Voiced by: Bin Shimada (JP), Terry Klassen (EN), Ricardo Tejedo (LA SP), Luigi Ferraro (IT)

A creepy painter owning a demonic ink made from a mixture of ink, blood and entrails with a fragment of the Shikon Jewel in it, capable of bringing his painting to life. His story in the anime is different.

Art Initiates Life: Thanks to his special "ink" he can make paintings of ogres and monsters who can become alive. Is also shown that reproducing a person with said ink will steal the person's soul.
Dirty Coward: Begs for his dirty life when cornered. Justified as he's just a human.
Evil Is Not a Toy: Really should've known better then messing with cursed ink. Heck, a dream he has practically warned him of his fate if he kept going.
Hoist by His Own Petard: In the manga, he accidentally wounds his arm while running from Inuyasha, and the demonic ink, smelling the blood, jumps out of his flask and consumes him like a blob monster.
Loners Are Freaks: Lives alone, mostly because he chopped up his own manservant to make his ink.
Nightmare Fetishist: He used to search for inspiration in battlefields, looking at the mutilated corpses, always liked to draw ogres and devils torturing people and found "fascinating" the light of the Shikon Shard in a pool of blood and spilt organs.
Oh, Crap!: When the ink starts to devour him.
Serial Killer: He killed many people to replenish his reserves of livers and blood. Eventually he was forced to leave the capital and look for victims in the countryside. Now he uses his demons to collect the ingredients.
Stalker with a Crush: Towards the princess.
Summon Magic: Can summon giant ogres (or whole armies of them) from his paintings.
Too Dumb to Live: In the anime, he wounds himself on purpose before releasing the Ink, which sucks out all of his blood, killing him.
Youkai: The monsters he summons are Oni and Shoki (the latter being a little, murderous ogre-like imp).

Soul Piper/Tatarimokke

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A friendly demon who acts as a psychopomp to deceased children. Inuyasha and Kagome come into conflict with it in the modern day due to Kagome's efforts to save the soul of Mayu, a little girl who died in a fire and blamed her mother for her death.

Adaptational Heroism: The folkloristic Tatarimokke is a vengeful spirit who curses all those who encounter, here is overall a benevolent spirit, even if he can sent tainted souls to hell.
Anti-Villain: It's just doing its duty, whether escorting children to Heaven or sending them to Hell. When Mayu is on the verge of suffering the latter and tearfully begs for a chance to make amends with her mother, the Piper changes its judgment and spares her.
Eyes Always Shut: Its eyes open a little more every time one of its charges does wrong. Once its eyes open completely, the soul of said charge will be Dragged Off to Hell.
Friend to All Children: It plays with the souls of deceased children until they're ready to move on.
Youkai: In the original manga, he's actually Tatarimokke, an owl-like spirit born from the rancorous soul of an infant.

Mayu Ikeda

Voiced by: Ayaka Saitou (JP), Chantal Strand (EN), Georgina Sánchez (LA SP)

A little girl from the modern era who died in an apartment fire that she caused. She had become a vengeful ghost attempting to kill her little brother.

Anti-Villain: The entire reason for her hateful actions toward her brother and mother is because she mistakenly believed that her mother deliberately left her to die while only saving her brother.
Barred from the Afterlife: Being a vengeful ghost trying to kill your brother won't endear you to heaven, which almost gets her dragged to hell had Kagome not rushed in to save her and make her see the error of her ways.
Children Are Innocent: Heaven didn't seem to think so, given that trying to kill your brother as a ghost just to enrage your mother almost got her sent to hell. Luckily, Kagome is able to put sense back into her.
Creepy Child: As a Vengeful Ghost and an Undead Child, she is obviously this until she becomes a Cute Ghost Girl.
Cute Ghost Girl: After her Heel–Face Turn.
Death of a Child: Trying to worry her mother, she had hidden in a closet and was unable to get out when her apartment burnt down because of a fire she caused.
Dragged Off to Hell: Is very nearly a victim of this as a result of her attempts to kill her brother. Kagome's intervention prevents it.
Died Happily Ever After: Thanks to Kagome.
Earn Your Happy Ending: Thanks to the help of Kagome and Inuyasha, she's able to break free from being dragged off to hell, especially after winning a battle with herself by finally being able to convince herself that her mother truly loved her after she kept trying to deny it. She's thus able to meet her mom as a ghost one last time for forgiveness, thanks Kagome, and dons the kimono her mother made for her before happily passing over to heaven.
Enfant Terrible: A plot point for the episode, she became a Vengeful Ghost with a sizable mean streak and a homicidal grudge against her brother. This trope turns against her when she almost gets Dragged Off to Hell for it until she accepts Kagome's Last-Second Chance.
Girlish Pigtails: She appears as a little girl with pigtails as she was still a child when she died in a fire.
Gone Horribly Right: A plan of her's to make her mother worry about her was to hide in a close she'd never go into, unfortunately Mayu left her scarf over a stove which then fell and set fire to the apartment. Thus when her mother rushed into save her children, Mayu's prediction was right and she didn't think to look into the closet to save her.
Heel Realization: On the verge of being sent to Hell, Kagome helps her realize that her mother always loved her and would never have left her to die. Thinking back to all of the happy times she had with her mother, Mayu suffers one of these and tearfully begs for a chance to atone. This convinces the Soul Piper to spare her.
Jacob Marley Apparel: Her ghost form is dressed in a heavy winter coat and having no footwear outside of her socks. This was because she had died during a winter season and was hiding indoors when the fire that killed her happened. This is what tips Kagome off that there's something off about her when they first meet since, at the time, it's in the middle of summer (plus, y'know, what child goes about the neighborhood in their socks?). After she makes peace with her mother, Kagome last sees her in a kimono that her mother made for her (having likely left at her grave or shrine) before she ascends to Heaven with the Soul Piper.
Never Got to Say Goodbye: Once Kagome convinces her her mother still loves her, it's the motivation that finally allows her to let go of her rage and spares her from Hell. She ultimately achieves it afterword.
Not Evil, Just Misunderstood: Zig-zagged, as her actions were bad enough for her to almost end up in hell, though Kagome does point out she was an upset little girl instead of truly evil, and this realization helps convince Mayu that she loves her mother and brother. Thus, heaven forgives her, and allows her to speak with her mom and Kagome for forgiveness and thanks one last time before she passes onto heaven happily.
Outliving One's Offspring: Not her, but her mother of course, though she attempts to invoke this again on her mom by trying to kill her brother as a ghost. Luckily, she comes to her senses.
Parting-Words Regret: Both the last time she and her mother spoke before Mayu's death was yet another argument, which contributed to Mayu thinking her mother loathed her. Luckily, Kagome being able to convince her this wasn't the case allows her to be spared from the after life and subvert this trope, as she is able to appear before her mother one last time where the two forgive each other. She also subverts this with Kagome, thanking her before passing onto the after life for good.
Redemption Earns Life: A complicated example. While she's still dead and nothing can change that, Mayu eventually realizes the error of her ways and begs for a chance to make amends with her mother, which saves her soul from Hell. Essentially, in this case, redemption earns afterlife.
Tears of Remorse: Upon learning that her mother never played favorites between her brother and her and that she genuinely still loves her, she starts crying as she begs for the chance to atone.
Too Dumb to Live: If she didn't leave her scarf above the heater, she wouldn't have set the fire and subsequently die in the blaze.
The Un-Favourite: The primary source of her rage is that she believes she was this to her brother Satoru, to the extent that she believes her mother deliberately left her to die in the apartment fire while only saving Satoru. In reality, her mother didn't even know she was still there.
You Can See Me?: Is shocked that Kagome can actually see her (thanks to her spiritual power) since she's a ghost.

Royakan

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A massive humanoid wolf Youkai sent by Naraku to attack a weakened Inu Yasha after his battle with Sesshomaru, though he's later forced to fight after being implanted a shard of the Shikon Jewel in his forehead... alongside a flesh-boring plant.

Adaptational Heroism: In the anime, Kaede mentions that Royakan is the guardian of the woods around Musashi Village, so she's surprised to see him acting hostile.
Ascended Extra: He makes another apperence during the anime-only Panther arc, where he tries to offer his services to Sesshomaru in the battle against the Panther Tribe, remembering how he and many other local monsters once fought for Sesshomaru's father.
Body Horror: In the manga, the tiny sprout planted by Naraku grows into a massive infestation of ivy covering the head, shoulders and upper torso of Royakan, causing him tremendous pain. In the anime he just assumes a more wolf-like appearence.
Do Not Taunt Cthulhu: In the manga, he pretty much tells Naraku to get lost after he shows up in his cavern to force him to take action against Inu Yasha once more. Naraku answers by planting a seedling attached to a shard of the Shikon Jewel into his forehead, stating that the plant will eventually kill him if not removed.
Forced into Evil: More apparent in the anime, where Royakan was more of a neutral guardian of nature rather than a mindless man-eating monster. He even genuinely begs Naraku to leave him alone when confronted.
Karma Houdini: After having the shard removed by Kagome, Royakan thanks the heroes and leaves, despite being a man-eating Youkai. Averted in the anime, which makes Royakan less evil and more sympathetic.
Mook Maker: He can puke out a seemingly infinite amount of three-eyed wolves to fight on his behalf alongside him, turning himself into a literal Wolfpack Boss. In a filler episode he uses the wolves to find a way out of a magic illusion to no avail.
One-Winged Angel: In the manga he grows longer hair, his mouth reshapes into a vaguely lupine muzzle and an ivy-like growth overtakes most of his upper body. In the anime he simply morphs into a gigantic humanoid wolf.
Punch-Clock Villain: He gets involved with the heroes only because Naraku sent him. Otherwise he'd rather stay in his lair and mind his business.
Red Baron: Claims to be known as the "Infernal Wolf" when he confronts the heroes.
Savage Wolves: He can summon hordes of ferocious demon wolves from his mouth and use them to overwhelm any opponent.
Screw This, I'm Outta Here: When he realizes how dangerous Miroku is, he promptly runs for it and refuses to obey Naraku any longer.
Wolf Man: Has the appearence of a massive humanoid wolf-like beast with a huge flat face that doesn't actually resemble that of a proper wolf. He gains a more wolf-like form in the anime.

Tokajin

Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (JP), Samuel Vincent (EN), Jorge Ornelas (LA SP), Roberto Stocchi (IT)

A normal man who wanted to become a hermit. In the Manga, he appears in Volume 9 (right before Sango's arrival) and is a cannibalistic hermit who's trying to obtain an immortality elixir by turning people into a demonic tree, the Ninmenka. Is ultimately defeated by Inuyasha. In the anime, the Ninmenka tree is actually evil and Tokajin is supplying it with fresh corpses in order to obtain an immortality elixir, but is eventually backstabbed and absorbed. Also, he appears much later than in the manga.

Adaptational Late Appearance: In the manga his story happened before Sango was introduced, in the anime it happened after Inuyasha learned the Backlash Wave.
Big Eater: Of people. He also keeps whole jugs of digestive potion in his mansion, just in case.
Blood Knight: When Human!Inuyasha stumbles upon his fault immortality elixir (a concoction made from people which restore wounds), he orders him to drink some, as fighting a weakling like him isn't funny.
Bowdlerise: In the anime, he just shrinks people and then, when they're mature, feeds them to the Ninmenka. In the manga, we first see him blocking one of his runaway disciples and devour his remains onscreen. Also, while in the anime he traps Inuyasha inside his gourd (filled with corrosive water) which is later broken by Tessaiga, in the manga he swallows him whole, and Inuyasha gets out by, essentially, causing him to vomit.
Death from Above: One of his attacks? Jumping high in the air and body-slamming Inuyasha with his humongous belly.
Decomposite Character: in the anime he learns his evil spells from the Jinmenka itself rather than from forbidden scrolls as in the manga.
The Dog Bites Back: In the anime, he ultimately is fed up with Ninmenka's requests and takes his fragment for himself, depriving the Tree of it.
Disney Villain Death: How he dies in the manga. In the anime he's grabbed by Jinmenka's roots.. which possess him, making him a target for Inuyasha's Wind Scar.
Dull Surprise: Upon seeing Inuyasha kicking his door down. He only worries about the fact that his flesh will be bad and hard to digest.
Evil Sorcerer: A Sennin (a hermit-like man said to have magical powers).
Eye Scream: In the manga, he has his right eye gouged by a thorn.
Fat Bastard: So obese that Tessaiga would bounce off his belly (also thanks to a Shikon Shard in his bellybutton).
Freudian Excuse: Apparently he came from a really miserable background, so he came to despise normal humans and decided to become a sage to avoid all the troubles that people have. It barely makes him more sympathetic.
Green Thumb: Can summon flowers and spiked roots with his staff. He also turned his master in a human-headed flower.
Hoist by His Own Petard: In the anime, he's absorbed by Jinmenka's roots.
I Am a Humanitarian; He though that he could gain hermit powers faster by eating his master, and that's how it started. Manga only.
I Have You Now, My Pretty: Subverted: When he finds an unconscious Kagome he has her bathed... in sake, so he can eat her later.
Jerkass: Even before he turned into a cannibal, he wasn't the nicest person around.
Just Eat Him: What he does to Inuyasha at their first encounter (he shrinks him first).
Kevlard: Invoked, the fragment endowed him with a body able to repeal swords. In fact, Tessaiga bounces against is stomach.
Lack of Empathy: He treats people like food.
Lazy Bum: Back when he was a human. In the anime Ninmenka actually took advantage of this side of his personality.
Manipulative Bastard: In the manga, he manipulated several unlucky souls into becoming his "disciples". In the anime not so much, as he is the manipulated one.
Meaningful Name: "Peach Man".
Non-Standard Character Design: Tokajin is drawn with an eerie vaguely human design compared to the Bishōnen or down right hideous characters in the series, as well as being plump. His "human" self was still uncanningly skinny.
One-Winged Angel: Turns into a rock monster thanks to the Shikon fragment.
Petal Power: Can summon magical flowers that shrink people.
Stupid Evil: There's not much to say about this guy, really: he doesn't have long term plans or something, just to eat people and fruits and prepare elixirs.
Womb Level: When Inuyasha is swallowed, he has to figure out a way to leave his stomach as he's turning back to human.

False Suijin

Voiced by: Ryusuke Obayashi (JP), Colin Murdock (EN)

The water god of a shrine located in a lake, who has people sacrificed to him to spare the nearby village from his wrath, it's actually a snake Youkai who stole the sacred halberd from the real Suijin and is taking advantage of the situation.

An Arm and a Leg: First Kagome's sacred arrow blows up one of his hands. Later, Inuyasha rips off his other arm with the halberd, turning him back into a giant serpent.
Child Eater: Implied he feeds on the sacrificed children, though when he realizes that the kid before him is not the one he asked for he threatens to cut him into pieces and send him back with a flood.
God Guise: He has sealed away the real Suijin and is pretending to be her to force the local village to offer him children as sacrifices. He also insists on referring himself as a deity when confronted by the heroes.
Family-Unfriendly Death: First Inuyasha slices him at the mouth in half, leaving him jawless, then Miroku sucks him inside the Wind Tunnel as a coup de grace.
From Nobody to Nightmare: He was just one of the many lesser Youkai who served the local deity before he betrayed her and took her place.
Kick the Dog: When he realizes that the kid in front of him isn't the son of the chief he asked in sacrifice, he ignores his plea to take his life instead and plans to cut him into pieces and send them back to the village with a flood.
Prongs of Poseidon: Wields the sacred halberd of the original water god (resembling a small golden trident), which allows him to cancel out Tessaiga's demonic aura and turn it into a normal dull sword, as well as turning everything he stabs into foam and use his powers over water and clouds.
Rubber Man: Possibly because of his snake body, he can extend his arms and neck at will, which he uses to grab the sacrifical victim with a Facepalm Of Doom.
Scaled Up: Involuntary example, when Inuyasha rips off the arm he wields the spear with, he's forced to take his real form.
Snake People: For the second match, he turns his entire lower body in a giant snake one.
The Starscream: Implied to be one when he was a simple water snake youkai.
This Cannot Be!: Reacts in genuine shock when Kagome's sacred arrow blows up his hand.
Weather Manipulation: The full power of his sacred halberd allows him to summon storms and tornados, though the true Suijin can also dispel them just as easily.

Kaijinbo

Voiced by:Takeshi Aono (JP), Robert O. Smith (EN), Carlos del Campo (LA SP), Saverio Moriones (IT)

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.

Demonic Possession: Ends up being possessed by Tokijin, which is filled by Goshinki's hate towards Inuyasha. The possession is so powerful that it keeps him alive even after Miroku splits his skull in half.
Evil Counterpart: To Totosai.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Get possessed by the sword he forged. Lampshaded by Totosai, who calls him an idiot for it.
Kick the Dog: Bisects Jaken just for the lulz.
Killed Midsentence: As he comments about the new Tessaiga's being "nothing special", the sword pressure shreds him to pieces before he's done talking.
Ludicrous Gibs: Splattered to pieces by Tessaiga's pressure.
Razor Wind: While wielding Tokijin.
Ultimate Blacksmith: Not only did he make Tokijin, but also the Naginata of Kenkon in a filler saga.
Would Hurt a Child: Why Totosai disowned him? Because he murdered ten children and used their fat and blood to forge an Evil Weapon filled with their hate. Oh, and he didn't regret that.
Youkai

Gatenmaru

Voiced by:Takehito Koyasu (JP), Adam Henderson (EN), José Luis Reza (LA SP), Massimo Corizza (IT)

A moth demon masquerading as an effeminate leader of a group of bloodthirsty bandits, he delights in devouring women by sucking them dry.

Adaptational Badass: In the manga, he goes down (and everywhere) as soon as he's done boasting and transforming, in the anime he lasts a little longer, showing off the ability to spit poisonous cocoons and create whirlwinds of venom.
Asshole Victim: Inuyasha in his fully awakened demonized form kills him and his men in a gory manner, the same group that had just murdered an entire village and had women they've captured to be eaten alive by their master, all while making a restrained Inuyasha watch.
Blow You Away: Does this in his real form with poisonous gusts of wind.
Clipped-Wing Angel: His true form, a demonic moth, was taken out instantly by a demonized Inuyasha with even more ease than Goshinki was.
Cover-Blowing Superpower: He exposes himself as a demon when he uses his powers on Inuyasha and Miroku.
Curb-Stomp Battle: See Clipped-Wing Angel for more details
Dirty Coward: When Inuyasha chips his axe, he responds by using a woman as a Human Shield, allowing him to land a cheap shot and cocoon him.
Fantastic Racism: Like most demons, views Inuyasha as an inferior for being a half breed
For the Evulz: He seems to eat women for pleasure rather than satisfying his stomach
Guyliner: Wears lipstick.
Humans Are the Real Monsters: Not him, but his men. While they aren't initially aware that he's a demon, when the truth comes out, they're even more eager to work for him and commit atrocities than they were before, helping him slaughter an entire village and allowing him to eat the captured women alive while making a helpless, All Webbed Up Inuyasha and Miroku watch. Inuyasha succumbing to his Superpowered Evil Side and slaughtering them in a berserker rage is completely well-deserved.
Karmic Death: He and his men are slaughtered in a brutal way by a demon Inuyasha for the hedonistic slaughter and gorging of the villagers.
Kick the Dog: He eats a village woman in front of Inuyasha to show how helpless he was before he died.
- The Dog Bites Back: Turns he wasn't so helpless after all.
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: His cruel actions backfire when Inuyasha succumbs to his Superpowered Evil Side and kills him and his men. Furthermore, after snapping out of his rampaging state, Inuyasha begins to question if he truly wants to be a full-fledged demon if it means killing people left and right.
Overly-Long Tongue: Which he uses to drain people's blood.
Poison Is Corrosive: His poison can dissolve whatever it touches slowly while making the victim paralyzed.
Poison Is Evil: He taunts Inuyasha in a very sadistic way while trying to dissolve him and Miroku with his poison.
Real Men Wear Pink: He wears a pink overcoat.
Sissy Villain: Looks like one, but prefers women to eat.
Small Role, Big Impact: He's only around for two episodes, but it's because of him that Inuyasha gives up his plan to become a full-fledged youkai, having butchered Gatenmaru and his human minions in an Ax-Crazy rage.
Underestimating Badassery: Even after seeing Demon!Inuyasha tear free of the cocoon and slaughter several of his flunkies in cold blood, Gatenmaru isn't impressed; needless to say, he gets a very rude awakening when Inuyasha slices him into pieces.
Youkai: A really nasty bigot of a moth.

Ryukotsusei

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (JP), Trevor Devall (EN), Martín Soto (LA SP), Stefano Mondini (IT)

An elder Dragon Youkai who fought with Inuyasha's father in the past and was sealed in a cliff, not before inflicting a fatal wound to the dog demon. He's freed from his seal by Naraku in order to kill Inuyasha.

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A dragon with a human face, but unlike most, he is very intelligent for his size.
Beast with a Human Face: Ryukotsusei is a dragonlike youkai who has a human face in the middle of his forehead. It's the human face that does the talking, while the dragon one focuses on spitting lightning bolts.
Blood Knight: Smug Super aside, why else would he stick around the place he was sealed to fight Inuyasha other then for exercise after being locked up for over a century?
Breath Weapon: Spits lightning bolts from his dragon mouth.
Bullet Seed: In addition to his pink lightning, he can fire lightning bullets out of his mouth.
Defeating the Undefeatable: Inuyasha's purpose was to pierce his heart with Tessaiga to make it more powerful.
Dragons Are Demonic: Ryukotsusei is an extremely powerful dragon demon (To be more exact, a daiyoukai.) who battled the Inu no Taisho, Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father, to a standstill before being sealed by being stabbed above the heart by one of his fangs. Even then, the injuries suffered by the Inu no Taisho during the battle proved enough to kill him afterwards.
Facial Markings: His human face.
Foreshadowing: He's the first youkai in the story to be identified as a daiyoukai and he was sealed with a fang through the heart. Stabbing him through the heart could not kill him. He's too powerful for that kind of death to work on him. Towards the end of the manga, Sesshoumaru gets stabbed through the heart and everyone thinks he's dead. However, it neither kills nor seals him. Instead it unlocks his true power and he gains daiyoukai status.
Hero Killer: Killed Inuyasha and Sesshomaru's father via fatal wounds
Hoist by His Own Petard: Killed by the Bakuryuha attack, that uses his own energy against him.
I'll Kill You!: His only reaction to having Tessaiga shoved in his heart. It also marks the moment when Ryukotsusei stops toying with Inuyasha.
Our Dragons Are Different: Is gigantic and has a smaller human face on his forehead. Said face speaks too. Kinda appropriate, as in Eastern Zodiac, the Dragon and the Dog are opposite of each other.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Naraku destroyed the seal.
Shock and Awe: Pink lightning.
Smarter than You Look: He's quite intelligent, as well as very powerful.
Smug Super: He views himself highly, and it's not surprising as he was a demon of the highest caliber and managed to inflict fatal wounds on Inu no Taisho, the strongest character in the series.
Sorting Algorithm of Evil: Downplayed. When he was introduced, he was the strongest opponent Inuyasha had faced thus far. He is definitely more powerful than Goshinki and Naraku, in fact can be called the 2nd strongest demon in the series for landing fatal blows on Inu no Taisho, the strongest demon. However, he is taken out in one blow by Inuyasha's Bakuryuha, since the attack sends his own powerful energy back doubled. Lesser beings would have less to add to it. You can tell by the effect of the Bakuryuha when Inuyasha used it against him versus other demons. With most demons, the Bakuryuha forms a wind tunnel that contains the attack it was redirecting. With Ryukotsusei, it forms a great tempest made of several tornadoes.
This Cannot Be!: His reaction to the Bakuryuha rending his body to pieces. A minor one earlier when Demon!Inuyasha manages to push his body away from Tessaiga with brute force alone.
Ungrateful Bastard: In the anime he bothers to send a ball of lightning at Naraku's simulacrum even after he freed him. Downplayed as Naraku probably wasn't really expecting to form an alliance with him.
You Killed My Father: Ultimately, responsible for Inuyasha's father's death. Subverted in that Inuyasha didn't care about avenging his father. He was there to improve his sword.
Youkai: Not your typical dragon, that's for sure.

Tsubaki

Voiced by: Miho Satou (JP), Sharon Alexander (EN), Mónica Manjarrez (LA SP), Laura Lenghi (IT)

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.

Adaptation Expansion: In the manga, she's an arc villain who doesn't survive her own arc. In the anime, not only she still lives to make a second attempt on the group, but there's a whole flashback episode implying that her curse caused Kikyo's death after she fell in love with Inuyasha.
Alas, Poor Villain: In the anime, she dies bemoaning her fate and regretting that she ever trusted Naraku; Momiji and Botan, the two apprentice priestesses whom she briefly used as pawns, openly express pity for her.
Aloof Dark-Haired Girl: When young. Rare villainous example.
Always Someone Better: Kikyo was this for her, too.
Curse: Her specialty.
Demonic Possession: In the anime, she absorbs the Golden Oni sealed inside the forbidden tower to transform herself in an attempt to kill the group.
Driven by Envy: Envied Kikyo because she was chosen over her to keep the Shikon no Tama.
Evil Counterpart: To Kikyo.
Evil Wears Black: As an evil miko, her robes are black instead of the traditional miko's white and red.
Eye Scream:
- When Kagome deflects her snake familiar's attack, it's absorbed into her left eye. We later learn that Kikyo did that to her too.
- And later in the anime, she absorbs a demon through her eye, and that's also where Naraku's insects go through when they take the Shikon Jewel away from her.
Hoist by Her Own Petard: Has her snake familiar redirected against her. Twice.
Hot Witch: Well, an attractive dark priestess.
Kick the Dog: Contaminating the Shikon shards she has handy with her miasma, which causes Kagome incredible pain.
Lady of Black Magic: A sadistic dark priestess of great spiritual power, using it to cast curses and sutras.
Miko: Was one prior her Face–Heel Turn.
Paper Master: Used shikigami in the form of paper animals to cast spells.
The Rival: To Kikyou.
Rival Turned Evil: Became as such to Kikyo out of jealousy.
Small Role, Big Impact: She put a curse on Kikyo back when they were rivals that would weaken her spiritual powers if she ever fell in love, this ultimately left Kikyo vulnerable to Naraku's attack which led to her death and Inuyasha being framed and pinned to a tree for fifty years. In a sense, Tsubaki is the reason this entire series exists. Note that this is an anime-only episode though.
Vain Sorceress: One of her biggest motivations to serve Naraku was that the Shikon Shards he gave her restored her youth.
What Happened to the Mouse?: In the manga after she's defeated, one of Naraku's wasps takes back the jewel shard he loaned her and she's never heard from again (it's heavily implied 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). 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 ogre demon to defeat the heroes. She fails once again and rapidly ages to dust due to using up all her power.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: After Inuyasha defeats her, Naraku takes back the jewel shards he gave her and leaves her to die.

Taigokumaru

Voiced by: Ryuuji Saikachi (JP), Scott McNeil (EN), Gerardo Vásquez (LA SP), Vittorio Di Prima (IT)

An old, giant Bat demon. He uses his very young granddaughter, Shiori, to keep up a powerful barrier on his lands.

Barrier Warrior: Used to be one, like all the leaders of the Bat Demons tribe.
Didn't See That Coming: Judging from his reaction, he didn't think that Shiori's control over his barrier was so great she could just forcefully expel him from her barrier, demonstrating a control not even he or his son had over it.
Evil Old Folks: He lies, manipulates his only granddaughter into protecting him and murdered his own son in order to satisfy his Always Chaotic Evil bat tribe
Giant Flyer: He's the leader of the Bat Demons, and the size of a giant.
Gruesome Grandparent: He looks down on Shiori for being half-human and sees her as nothing but a Barrier Maiden he can use for his own ends.
I Lied: Said that in return for Shiori, he'll spare the nearby village of fishermen. Which is promptly attacked the next night. When Shiori's mother calls him out for not honoring the deal, he simply mocks her for believing that he would actually honor a deal he made with humans.
Kick the Dog: Boasts about how he killed his own son for bonding with humans right in front of his grand daughter. Who expels him from her barrier and leave him to die at Inuyasha's Sword Beam.
Kinslaying Is a Special Kind of Evil: He's already a nasty piece of work, going back on a deal he made with a village to stop attacking them almost immediately, but he reaches a whole new level of depravity when he reveals that he killed Shiori's father, his own son, for bonding and fraternizing with humans. Shiori immediately turns on him and expels him from the barrier, letting Inuyasha take him down.
Large and in Charge: He's surprisingly big, dwarfing all his underlings (who are human-sized).
Manipulative Bastard: Guilt-trips both Shiori's mother and Inuyasha, claiming they have no right to accuse him of making Shiori suffer when they were the ones who left her to be abused by humans. As it turns out, he's much worse.
Moral Myopia: As with many Youkai, he sees nothing wrong with eating humans by the dozens, but calls out Inuyasha and Miroku for killing so many of his people.
Offing the Offspring: Murdered his own son for bonding with humans. It's implied his son returned the favor when Taigokumaru's spirit tried one last ditch attack on his granddaughter and her mother. Only to run straight into a barrier created from his son's spirit.
Our Vampires Are Different: For example, try to figure him drinking someone else's blood...
This Cannot Be!: His reaction to Shiori expelling him from her barrier, which implies that the little girl has an even greater control on the barrier than he ever had. Plus, by expelling him Shiori is now falling to her death.
Villain Ball: He's got Inuyasha and co. on the ropes thanks to his barrier, until he decides to inform Shiori about how he killed her father for fraternizing with humans; this is all the incentive Shiori needs to expel Taigokumaru from the barrier and let Inuyasha slay him.
Villain Has a Point: While he is an hypocrite and a nasty piece of work, he asks both Inuyasha and Shiori's mother how could he let his granddaughter grow in a village whose inhabitants would kill her at the slightest provocation. Indeed, many humans fear and hate Hanyou.
Youkai: A bat one, with many features taken from the Oni, wuch as the skin, horns and lair.

Demon's Head

Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (JP), Elena Ramírez (LA SP), Raffaella Castelli (It)

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The head of an ancient and powerful Oni who was defeated by a feudal lord and buried under his castle. Now, it's causing paranormal events in the Demon Head Castle.

Bait-and-Switch Boss: Loves doing this, using an illusion and the lord of the castle, in order to hide its true possessee, the princess.
Curb-Stomp Battle: After the head's true form is revealed, it is easily injured by Inuyasha, Shippo, and Kagome, who can even hurt it with hairspray. It tries to flee, but Miroku easily defeats it with the Wind Tunnel.
Dead Person Impersonation: Turns out it killed both of them and is masquerading as both in order to hide its presence.
Demonic Possession: The lord of the castle is suspected to be this but it turns out to be the princess.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: As she barely escapes Inuyasha's Wind Scar and threaten to form a new body and get back to finish them off, Miroku just sucks her up inside the Wind Tunnel.
Filler Villain: Yes, it appeared in both the anime and the manga, yet its role has no relevance whatsoever on the plot (Except for mentioning Naraku's whereabout.)
Horned Humanoid: Being an Oni, she has small triangular horns on her temples.
The Paralyzer: Its demonic aura is extremely powerful, so much that being in its presence can render a person helpless.
Red Eyes, Take Warning
The Undead: Implied to be just a ghost.
Vain Sorceress: Gets mad when Inuyasha scratches her face.
Youkai: Oni, of course, but she owes quite a bit to the myth of the nuke-kubi, a person whose head detaches while they're sleeping and flies around attacking people and drinking their blood.

Salamander Youkai

Salamander Youkai/Mistress of the River

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An old salamander demoness who was defeated by a bonze, skinned and sealed in a portrait of Kan'non Bosatsu. Due to Naraku's aura she revived and implanted her eggs in the women of a village to force them to gather victims for her.

Amphibian Assault: Her original form is that of a truly humongous, half-skinned salamander. Her children can also be used to control people against their will.
Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: He true form is gigantic, big enough to swallow a single person in one bite.
Brainwashed and Crazy: The entire village of women is under her control, having being force-fed her eggs and bearing her children in their bodies. However, if the victims are hit hard enough in the abdoment they'll puke out the little salamander controlling them.
Blob Monster: For most of her appearense she manifests as a towering gelatinous head vaguely resembling the face of Kan'non. After being wounded she's forced to assume her real form.
Flayed Alive: She was defeated and skinned alive in the past. Now she seeks to devour the skins of her victims to regain her full powers.
No Ontological Inertia: A rare aversion: even when she's slain, her eggs still force people to act against their will, forcing Miroku to fight Sango to remove her egg.
Picky People Eater: She devours only the skin of her victims, leaving a flayed corpse behind. Said corpses are disposed by the villagers.
Sealed Evil in a Can: She was sealed inside the portrait of Kan'non. Naraku's aura was enough to stir her from her sleep and allow her to turn her prison into a hideout and regain her powers.
The Worf Effect: Her true form is easily dealt with in one slash.

Saint Hakushin

Voiced by: Fumio Matsuoka (JP), Hiro Kanagawa (EN), Gonzalo Curiel (LA SP)

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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. Based on the real historical practice of sokushinbutsu

Anti-Villain: He merely had Heroic Self-Deprecation for his fear of death, something Naraku took advantage of to make a use of him.
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.
Black Eyes of Crazy: Subverted, he's sane compared to the Band of Seven
Buried Alive: And it brought him to despair.
Cooldown Hug: Receives one from Kikyo, who helps him let go of his despair and peacefully pass on.
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.
Evil Counterpart: To similar undead priest Kikyo.
Evil Old Folks: Subverted, he was more of a very embittered Anti-Villain.
Face–Heel Turn: Courtesy of Naraku.
Heroic Sacrifice: Deconstructed very much the first time.
Heroic Self-Deprecation: He heavily blamed himself for having a fear of death.
Hesitant Sacrifice: He decides to sacrifice himself to save his village, but as he waited to perish he realized he didn't want to die, hating his followers for praying for his death.
Holy Hand Grenade: His barrier of holiness.
Our Zombies Are Different: Unlike the Band of Seven, he didn't regenerate his looks prior his death.
Pure Is Not Good: Naraku manipulates him, a Living Buddha, into protecting him by erecting a purifying barrier that destroys demons (except for Naraku's).
Talking the Monster to Death: Kikyo manages to do this when she meets him. Allowing him to redeem himself, come to terms with his death and move on peacefully.
Token Good Teammate: He's one of the few decent people that has come to Naraku's services.
Too Good for This Sinful Earth: Very much so; a humble man who did nothing but good for others, but he blamed himself for being flawed, and so joined Naraku.
The Undead: Unlike the Band Of Seven, he looks the part of a mummified corpse.

Entei

A giant demon horse wreathed in flames. He's released by Hakudoshi and serve as his steed for a while before getting destroyed by Inuyasha. The anime gave him a backstory.

Adaptation Expansion: The anime gives some time to him and shows his former master, a naginata-wielding ogre named Rengokuki.
Breath Weapon: Can spew fire.
Curb-Stomp Battle: In the manga Inuyasha deals with him in one blow. Averted in the anime where it does take some creativity to beat him as Inuyasha can't hit him due to this speed. So he tricks Entei into following him into a cave where there is narrow space to dodge and finishes him with a Backlash Wave.
Flaming Hair: His mane and tails are made of billowing flames.
Flight: He can fly in the air unaided, like Kirara. The difference is that he's incredibly faster.
Hellish Horse: A Youkai Horse with flaming hair and an appetite for destruction who used to be the mount of a monstrous ogre.
I Fight for the Strongest Side!: Will only let those he deems powerful ride him. When he first meets Hakudoshi and stares him down, he quickly bucks his former owner, Rengokuki, off him.
Playing with Fire: He's costantly on fire.
Sealed Evil in a Can: Was sealed inside a mountain by a powerful monk. When the Infant kills the monk, he's released.
Super-Speed: Not only he can gallop in the sky at great speed, but also side-steps out of incoming attacks with ease.

Mimisenri

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A humanoid Youkai with large ears who dwells in a dark swamp. He has the finest ears of all the Youkai World and is willing to help Naraku in his quest.

Ascended Extra: In the anime opening he appears alongside Naraku's gang of minions, despite being a stand-alone monster who only shows up to help him once.
Bald of Evil: He's first introduced by his massive bald, misshapen head rising from the surface of his pond.
Blind Seer: His eyes are covered with shut eyelids, but thanks to his ears he can seemingly hear everything in this world. Naraku seeks him specifically for this ability.
Karma Houdini: He's an evil monster who willingfully helps Naraku, but his role is so small that a punishment makes no difference.
Meaningful Name: Mimisenri literally means "Thousand Li Ears", referring to his prodigious sense of hearing.
Not Worth Killing: Considering Naraku's ruthlessness and tendency for Bad Boss behaviour, it's notable that he doesn't do anything to Mimisenri after consulting him.
Small Role, Big Impact: Sets up the arc leading to the battle with Naraku in the Netherworld after hearing that the last shard of the Shikon Jewel is no longer in this world.
Super-Hearing: His giant ears are so good he can pretty much hear everything in the world just by staying where he is and rising his head. He needs some time to apparently browse through everything he hears though.
Tempting Fate: When he appears before Naraku he jokingly asks him if he has come to absorb his prodigious ears into his body. Subverted when Naraku snarks that he wouldn't gain nothing from absorbing him.

Gozu and Mezu

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (Gozu) & Naoki Makishima (Mezu) (JP), Michael Kopsa (Gozu) & Jason Simpson (Mezu) (EN), Javier Rivero (Gozu) & Gabriel Ortiz (Mezu) (LA SP), Federico Di Pofi (Gozu) & Stefano Billi (Mezu) (It)

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The guardians of the gate to the Underworld, they can't be harmed by any mortal weapon.

Adaptational Attractiveness: Gozu and Mezu are usually portrayed as huge ogres with the heads of a bull and a horse. Here they're shown as rather attractive male statues with a half fiendish face in their chests.
Hopeless Boss Fight: When Inuyasha faces them, the fight is so one sided that Inuyasha only managed to knock one down briefly and soon after escaped due to how mismatched the fight was.
I Let You Win: They surrendered to Sesshomaru when the latter pulls out Tenseiga, as it's the only weapon capable of hurting them.
Living Statue: What they apparently are.
Mistaken for Granite: At first they seem to be ornamental. Just say that you want to cross the gate though and...
MacGuffin Guardian: They're the keepers of the Gates to the Netherworld.
No-Sell: Inuyasha's power is useless against them.
Red Oni, Blue Oni: They're the original ones, though they don't seem to display much personality.

Princess Abi (Abi-hime)

Voiced by: Saeko Shimazu (JP), Teryl Rothery (EN), Maru Guerrero (LA SP), Laura Latini (IT)

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A bird demoness 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.

Animal Motifs: Birds, most notably her shoulderpad resembling a giant wing.
Chronic Backstabbing Disorder: Tekkei decides to betray Naraku, and in turn she is killed by him. Abi herself is then also killed by Naraku.
Dark Action Girl: She leads a whole army of blood-drinking birds.
The Dragon: To her own mother, Tekkei.
Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas: She's collecting blood from hundreds of villages to heal her ill mother.
Fantastic Racism: She loathes the fact that she's being dragged into the fight between two Han'you, despising both Naraku and Inuyasha equally.
Fangs Are Evil: When turning into a demon she sports them.
Femme Fatalons: Grows talons on her hands when angry.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: After losing an arm to Naraku's trident, she's stabbed in the chest by his tentacled claws.
Incendiary Exponent: Her birds can set themselves on fire to storm people.
Mama Bear: Her mother is fiercely protective of her. And vice versa.
Playing with Fire: For God's sake, she rides on a freaking fire cloud!
Red Eyes, Take Warning: When she really gets serious, her eyes change to a blood red color and her fangs become more visible. She also grows bird-like talons in lieu of hands.
Teeth-Clenched Teamwork: She's willing to use Naraku's help with healing her mother, but she doesn't like it one bit. Her mother is pragmatic enough to persuade her to exploit this alliance.
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.
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness: This bites Abi and her mother hard in the end.
Youkai: Though she doesn't correspond to any specific real-life Youkai.

Tekkei

Voiced by: Junko Mashina (JP), Linda Darlow (EN), Rosanelda Aguirre (LA SP)

Princess Abi's mother, a gigantic fiery phoenix demon that commands a legion of demonic birds. She had eaten a poisonous demon that caused her to become ill, this allows Naraku to convince Abi to work for him to find blood to dilute the poison

Attack of the 50-Foot Whatever: A giant flaming chicken
High-Pressure Blood: Invoked, a true river of blood (in which anguish-laden faces appear) springs from her severed neck, serving as a temporary portal to the netherworld.
Meaningful Name: Her name literally means "Iron chicken"
The Phoenix: Represents this with her flame powers and the fact blood revives her.
Playing with Fire: Is wreathed in azure flames and can breath fire.
Too Dumb to Live: Despite being a powerful youkai, she doesn't seem to learn her lessons well, as what had her sick in the first place was eating a poisonous youkai, however, she tries to eat Naraku and this gets her killed.
Too Spicy for Yog-Sothoth: Eats Naraku, only to find out he's hard to chew. In fact, this is the reason she was sick in the first place because she ate a poisonous demon which bit her in the beak.
Youkai

Ryuujin

Voiced by: Hajime Iijima (JP), Peter New (EN)

A dragon-demon whose scales can absorb demonic energy. He possess an energy-sucking shield and is in cahoots with a human swordsmith, Toshu, forcing him to forge the Dakki (Ablative Demon), a scaled energy-absorbing sword. Is defeated by Inuyasha.

Achilles' Heel: According to Toshu, his scales are almost impossible to damage, but there are weak naked spots there where he removed his scales to make his shield and the Dakki.
Dragons Are Demonic: He's an evil dragon demon, though not even close to Ryukotsusei's level.
Energy Absorption: His scales are said to have this power, but apparently he must apply said scales to weapons or shields to make them effective.
Fangs Are Evil: Has long fangs and happens to be a villain.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Is almost killed by the Bakuryuha, and finished off by Toshu's Dakki.
Luckily, My Shield Will Protect Me: Has a large buckler made from his own scales which can absorb energy and spit it back.
No Name Given: He's simply referred to as the "Dragon Demon" in the Italian dub.
Our Dragons Are Different: His name literally means "Dragon Man" and, well, it shows.

Toshu

Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (JP), Matt Ellis (EN), Leonardo Graziano (IT)

A human swordsmith with a scaled scar on his eye, he was forced by Ryujin to use its scales to forge the Dakki, a sword capable of sucking demonic energy and store it.

Become Your Weapon: He does this with Dakki.
Cool Sword: Dakki, a katana ornated with scales capable of absorbing demonic energy at will.
Deal with the Devil: Was forced into one by Ryuujin. He actually volunteered himself.
Dropped a Bridge on Him: Just as he was about to deliver the finishing blow, Dakki's energies destroy his body.
Evil All Along: Turns out to be the mastermind behind Ryujin.
Evil Makes You Monstrous: As the fight continues, Dakki's power makes him more and more draconic in appearance.
Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has scales on his right eye, which serves as a sign that he's not normal
Hoist by His Own Petard: Relies too much on Dakki to defeat Inuyasha. Then, at a critical time Dakki decides to use him as a shield for Inuyasha's attack.
The Man Behind the Man: He's actually manipulating Ryuujin.
Manipulative Bastard: See above.
One-Winged Angel: By the end of his fight with Inuyasha, he's covered in dragons scales from head to toe and the handle of Dakki is now merged with his wrist.
Power-Upgrading Deformation: As Dakki's power increases, he becomes more reptilian in appearance.
Story-Breaker Power: The Dakki can absorb demonic energy from any source in order to strengthen itself.
Ultimate Blacksmith: He forged one of the most dangerous weapons of the setting, though it takes him some time. More notable, since he's a human who made a demonic sword.

Unnamed Cat Demon

Voiced by: Taro Kiuchi(JP), Imari Williams (EN)

A Bakeneko that was sealed under a temple until a novice nun tried to purify it, causing her to be possessed by it. It then lures travellers to their deaths until Inuyasha defeated it with his Dragon-scaled Tessaiga. Years later, its spirit possesess a monk named Juan under similar circumstances, but is defeated when Towa first manifests her yoki absorbing powers.

Adaptation Expansion: Was a manga only character in Inuyasha until it was brought back in animated form in Yashahime.
Bakeneko and Nekomata: An old and powerful bakeneko. He even claims that Kirara is nothing but a kitten compared to him.
Body of Bodies: His phantom form is actually composed of bones forming a giant cat's body.
Hostage Situation: When he's discovered, he buries his paw into the nun's chest so that Inu Yasha will have to slay her to get to him. Unfortunately for the cat, Inu Yasha just uses the Dragon Scale Tessaiga's absorbtion to drain his Youki and absorb him.
This Was His True Form: His actual body (or what's left of it) is a cat's paw, clutching the chest of the nun he's possessing.

Numawatari

Voiced by: none

A Manga-Only Youkai. A living pond made of sentient poisonous water. Because of this, he's incredibly hard to slay, even for Tessaiga.

Blob Monster: One made entirely of poisonous water, manifesting a demonic visage to talk to people. Due to his liquid nature and his adaptability, he's an incredibly difficult opponent to take down.
Making a Splash: He's mainly composed of poisonous water and can form whirlpools, tidal waves or even turns himself into rain to reform after being scattered.
Meaningful Name: Numawatari literally means "Wandering Swamp".
Nigh-Invulnerable: Physical attacks simply go through him without doing any lasting harm, the Wind Scar just scatters him, his venomous aura makes him too hard to be absorbed with either the Wind Tunnel or the Dragon Scaled Tessaiga. Eventually Sesshomaru has to send him to the Netherworld with Meidou Zangetsuha and even them he doubts that he has actually slain him.

Mizuchi

Venomous Mizuchi

Voiced by: none

A Manga-Only Youkai. A giant human-faced serpent who became incredibly venomous after ingesting a piece of Moryoumaru's flesh. Fighting his highly noxious aura allows Inu Yasha to learn how to use his Dragon Scaled Tessaiga.

Beast with a Human Face: Mostly resembles a giant snake with a serpent-like human face sporting horns and wavy hair.
From Nobody to Nightmare: According to Sango, normally Mizuchi aren't that much venomous and can barely affect plants. This one has wiped out a whole forest and an army of samurai with ease thanks to the piece of Moryomaru's flesh.
Half the Man He Used to Be: Inu Yasha finally kills him by cleaving his whole upper body in half, his insides exposed with plenty of detail.
Our Dragons Are Different: Mizuchi is the Japanese word for Jiao, a race of inferior water Dragons found in China. Mizuchi are usually depicted as lesser Dragons able to create illusions with their breath.
Person of Mass Destruction: Thanks to Moryoumaru's miasma he can now wipe out whole armies with his venom.
Poisonous Person: All Mizuchi are venomous, though normally they're just toxic enough to make a few plants wilt. Thanks to his upgrade, he can destroy whole forests and armies.
Small Role, Big Impact: In the manga, the battle against the Mizuchi allows Inu Yasha to see how really dangerous the Dragon Scale Tessaiga can be.
Snakes Are Sinister: Mostly resembles a giant snake, his head also sports eyes with slit pupils and a snake-like mouth.
Who Dares?: Arrogantly asks who dared striking the waters of his lake when he first appears.

Meiouju

Voiced by:Tadahisa Saizen (JP), Scott McNeil (EN, original series), Bob Carter (EN, Yashahime)

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An ancient turtle-like youkai, whose shell was said to be unbreachable, was killed by a monk long ago, and part of his armor stolen. Moryomaru brings him back to like in order to manipulate him, so that he can add its armor to his body. He fights against Inuyasha, resisting his Adamantine Barrage, but is eventually manipulated by Moryomaru and assimilated.

Achilles' Heel: Only his shell is invulnerable. The rest of his body (head and legs) is soft.
Demoted to Extra: In the anime the Infant has him absorbed by Moryomaru immediately after he first appears. Also, the entire subplot about him being dead and his missing fragment of shell is skipped.
Idiot Ball: Justified In-Universe: he's doing pretty well against Inuyasha, but suddenly Moryomaru's fragment inside him take over his mind and force him to take the final blow, so that he can obtain the strongest defense and strongest attack at the same time.
Impaled with Extreme Prejudice: By Inuyasha's Adamantine Barrage in the neck and legs.
Made of Diamond: His shell is said to be the strongest in all the demon world, and lives up to it as Inuyasha isn't able to pierce it.
Nue: His chimera-like body and ability to turn into a thundercloud to move around and attack castles liken him to a Nue.
Papa Wolf: In Yashahime, one Meiouji is shown to be the father of Meifuku, protecting him from one of the Four Perils.
Roaring Rampage of Revenge: Starts storming castles left and right upon being awakened, looking for his missing plate.
Shock and Awe: Can attack by summoning electrical spheres and hurling them.
Spikes of Villainy: After rebuilding his shell.
Spin to Deflect Stuff: Does this after retracting the soft parts in his shell.
Unwitting Pawn: Moryomaru's playing him like a flute.
Youkai: His chimeric body, tiger paws and black cloud liken him to a Nue.

Nikosen

Voiced by: Hideaki Tezuka (JP, Yashahime), Jason Marnocha (EN, Yashahime)

A hermit who turned into a vegetal monster who can regenerate at will thanks to a special sacred organ called "Seimeikan" (Life Duct), which Inuyasha has to cut so that the Dragon Scaled Tessaiga may be purified. He's sent by Naraku so that Inuyasha may gain an edge on Moryomaru.

Achilles' Heel: The source of his healing powers, the Seimeikan. Is located inside his body and protected by a holy aura.
Combat Tentacles: Or rather, roots.
Demoted to Extra: Nikosen's role is divided between a hermit for Inuyasha to train under and a more tree like demon in The Final Act. He doesn't even get an appearance or mention.
Evil Old Folks: Was an old human sennin, before turning into a plant-demon by unknown means.
Green Thumb: He's a plant-like monster who can manipulate roots and restore his power by draining energy from plantlife.
Losing Your Head: Being beheaded for him is a minor hindrance, as he can grow back a new head and the sliced head can still float and move on its own.
Poison Is Corrosive: His body releases poisonous aura, which is also corrosive.
Suicidal Overconfidence: Thinks that he can take on the whole Inuyasha gang with only one fragment.
Unwitting Pawn: For Naraku himself.
Was Once a Man: Used to be a human hermit. According to Sango, several youkai were once people.

Kinka and Ginka

Voiced by: Makoto Yasumura (Kinka) and Daisuke Endou (Ginka) (JP, original series), Kazuyuki Okitsu (Kinka) and Jun Osuka (Ginka) (JP, Yashahime), Alistair Abell (Kinka) and Michael Adamthwaite (Ginka) (EN, original series), Xander Mobus (Kinka) and Sean Chiplock (Ginka) (EN, Yashahime)

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Two demon brothers from a clan of Youkai who are born with two torsoes on one body. They both survived to adulthood and so they costantly fight each other to no end, causing collateral distruction all around them. Naraku sends Moryoumaru to them as their blood can reinforce his body shield, forcing Inuyasha and co to help them out.

Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Both brothers are overconfident.
Demoted to Extra: Their story is greatly diminished in the anime: Ginka's Heroic Sacrifice never occurs and the two never meet Inuyasha. In fact, Moryomaru absorbs them rather quickly.
Elemental Powers: Kinka has power over fire and flames, while Ginka can use lightning.
Enemy Mine: They're not above fighting together against outer threats like Moryoumaru, but more often than not they'll start accusing each others of sneak attacks and get back fighting.
Flight: They can both fly unaided by wings or tools.
Heroic Sacrifice: When Ginka is absorbed by Moryoumaru, Kinka let himself be absorbed by Tessaiga, turning it into a flaming sword.
Improbable Weapon User: Kinka holds a conch which he can use to breath fire, while Ginka has an Oddly Shaped Sword similar to a buddhist prayer tool.
Meaningful Name: Their names means Gold Disgrace and Silver Disgrace, and are likely a nod to the demon brothers Kinkaku and Ginkaku from Journey to the West.
Shout-Out: To the demon brothers Kinkaku and Ginkaku from the Chinese epic Journey to the West.
Snake People: At birth, they have two torsoes and heads, but before they grow out of infancy, one of the two heads eat the other one. In their case, both developed and are now struck together.
The Only One Allowed to Defeat You: Kinka thinks so of Ginka, and viceversa.

Kao

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (JP), Alistair Abell (EN)

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Kao is a powerful demon who feeds on the sorrow of others, feeding their used bodies to the ground afterwards. He takes the form of noble with dark, messy hair. He often carries a fan with him.

Emotion Eater: He's a demon who devours emotions
Faux Affably Evil: He speaks politely, but really intends to absorb the souls of his victims; though he claims otherwise.
Game Face: His real visage is puppet-like, veiny and has a mouth filled with sharp teeth.
Guyliner
Lotus-Eater Machine: Does this to villagers with flowers, making them feel bliss as he absorbs their essence.
Sissy Villain: Love of pretty flowers check, very flamboyant, check and has Guyliner, Double check.
Tears of Blood: What happens to those including Inuyasha who are trapped in the Lotus-Eater Machine.

Bone Demon

Voiced by: Makiko Ohmoto (JP), Ellen Kennedy (EN)

She is a demon with the ability to rip the bones from a person's body through their mouth by simply placing her hand in front of the victim's face.

Bitch in Sheep's Clothing: She pretends to be a beautiful, young woman walking alone at night, which makes her victims feel sorry for her. This allows her to absorb their bones.
Body Horror: She absorbs victims' bones by absorbing them through her hand placed on the victim's face.
The Cameo: Both she and her father make an appearance in a flashback in episode 5 of Yashahime.
Daddy's Little Villain: She is very loyal to her father and is trying to protect him.
Demoted to Extra: Her story arc goes from 4 chapters in the manga to barely 5 minutes in the anime.
Even Evil Has Loved Ones: She is gathering bones to heal her beloved father.
Mad Scientist's Beautiful Daughter: She is beautiful, her father is a demonic skeleton demon.
Necromancer: She's able to animate skeletons to do her bidding.
Our Vampires Are Different: She sucks out bones instead of blood, has a demonic skeleton for a father and dies when showered in sunlight.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: When revealing what's Beneath the Mask.
Weakened by the Light: How she dies.

Bone Demon's Father

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (JP), Richard Newman (EN)

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Father of the Bone Demon, he was ill so his daughter was trying to heal him with quality bones.

Attack Backfire: When Sango tries to use Hiraikotsu on him, he takes a bite out of it, and even goads her to throw it at him again.
Back from the Dead: "Killed" by Miroku when he uses the Wind Tunnel to suck part of his head from inside his mouth, he's brought back to like when his daughter repairs him with skeletons.
The Cameo: Both he and his daughter make an appearance in a flashback in episode 5 of Yashahime.
Dem Bones: He is a demonic skeleton after all.
Demoted to Extra: Same as his daughter above, his story arc gets cut down to a few minutes in the anime.
Eating the Enemy: Tries to do this to Sango and Miroku after trapping them in a spherical cage of bones and skeletons.
Hoist by His Own Petard: He wanted the Hiraikotsu, so he got it, complete with corrosive poison, which killed him.
Necromancer: He also can animate skeletons using his breath.
Our Demons Are Different: Bone Demon is in fact a demon skeleton.
Poisonous Person: He is able to emit a poison that weakens Miroku.
Red Eyes, Take Warning: Like most demons, he has red eyes.

Shishinki

Voiced by: Osamu Sakuta (JP), David Orth (EN), Gabriel Ramos (LA SP), Flavio Aquilone (IT)

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Once a powerful demon, got half of his head banished to hell by Inuyasha's father. Later on in the series, he comes back to fight Sesshomaru. Was the original wielder of the Meido Zangetsuha technique, which was absorbed into Tessaiga and sealed thanks to Tenseiga.

Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: Like most demons, but especially with his "Meido Zangetsuha" that made him almost invincible.
Berserk Button: While he's mostly composed and calm, he gets worse when Sesshomaru shatters his mask.
Body Horror: Half of his face is missing due to Sesshomaru and Inuyasha's dad using the Meido Zangetsuha against him.
Break Them by Talking: Gives a rather honest and damaging example to Sesshomaru, making him realize that Tenseiga was a cast-off part of Tessaiga and that the Meido Zangetsuha technique was always intended for Inuyasha. It's so efficient that Sesshomaru suffers from a Heroic BSoD after the fight.
Casting a Shadow: His powers over darkness allows him to open a black-hole like gateway to the netherworld which sucks the opponents in.
Dangerous Forbidden Technique: Meido Zangetsuha.
Double Weapon: His staff has a large crescent blade on one end and a smaller one on the top, surrounded by a larger circular blade.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Back in the past, Inu no Taisho stole his technique and used it to seal half of his face to hell. Later Sesshomaru use a huge Meido Zangetsuha to banish him to hell once and for all.
Kick the Dog: Presents Sesshomaru with the Awful Truth that the Meido Zangetsuha was intended for Inuyasha all along.
Magic Staff: Which he uses to summon the Meido Zangestuha.
Meaningful Name: His name roughly translates to "Demonic Death God".
Story-Breaker Power: One hit and you're sent to hell. Enjoy the afterlife.
Warrior Therapist: A villainous example. He deliberately turns up while Sesshoumaru is emotionally vulnerable fully aware of what happened and why Sesshoumaru couldn't fully master Tenseiga. Inuyasha's arrival allows him to immediately realise the half breed younger brother was chosen over Sesshoumaru to receive Tessaiga. Most of the fight consists of Shishinki insightfully exposing every single one of Sesshoumaru's fears over the meaning of the two swords and whether it's proof his father hated him. This culminates in the Awful Truth, causing an Heroic BSoD that lasts beyond the fight and takes a while for Sesshoumaru to recover from.
White Hair, Black Heart

Hitomiko

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (JP), Jennifer Cameron (EN)

Hitomiko was a priestess who was forced by Naraku to trap Kagome Higurashi in an attempt to take her life.

Anti-Villain:
- Type II, Naraku was using her as she died and in her first death she knew this.
- In the anime, she also warns Kagome to leave the village or she would eventually take her life.
Barrier Warrior: In the anime, strong enough to force Naraku to flee, even as a child.
Blood Magic: The bells have been shown to work only when they have the blood of the victim. Kagome was cut with the spiritual powers that came out of them and formed a ring around her, preventing her from moving.
Cassandra Truth: When a priestess tells you to cut her head to prevent her to be resurrected by a monstrous Big Bad, you should do it.
Goo-Goo-Godlike: In the anime, even as a small child, Hitomiko had enough spiritual power to cause Naraku to flee.
Go Out with a Smile: When she finally was allowed to rest in peace.
Grand Theft Me: Naraku takes over her body to fight Kagome.
Off with Her Head!: Invoked. She suggests that they should do this in order to not have be Back from the Dead.
One-Winged Angel: She gained fangs and her hands became more like claws when interrogating Kagome, while manipulated by Naraku.
Sadistic Choice: Hitomiko is used by Naraku to force such a choice on Kagome: kill Hitomiko, knowing that Hitomiko would be sent to Hell, and save herself, corrupting her heart in the process; or allow Hitomiko to kill her.
Stealth Mentor: Her taunting of Kagome was actually meant to show the latter how to use her power and get out of the sadistic choice Naraku gave her.
The Undead: She's killed by Naraku's spiderwebs and later brought back by him to corrupt Kagome.

Major Villains

Ancient Composite Youkai

Ancient Composite Youkai

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In the Heian Period, an immensely powerful composite youkai was born when hundreds of lesser demons fused using the body of an evil man as a medium. The man desired the powerful miko Midoriko, but the new composite demon only sought to kill her and they fought for seven days before the composite youkai succeeded in eating Midoriko. In her final moments, Midoriko sealed both her own soul and that of the composite youkai together, creating the Shikon Jewel. Its mummified corpse, and that of Midoriko, is contained in a cave near Sango's village.

Body of Bodies: He was created in the same way as Naraku. His mummy in the sacred cavern shows him having a dragon-like body with tentacles, ogre's heads, spider limbs and other various appendages randomly jutting around.
Draconic Abomination: He resembles an Oriental dragon with a Lovecraftian makeover, and is an amalgamation of countless yōkai.
Early-Bird Cameo: He is first seen as a mummified body still attempting to finish Midoriko (his soul and hers are contained within the Jewel) and early in the anime Inuyasha ends up fighting a projection or spirit form of his. By the end of the series, his soul within the Jewel is the True Final Boss.
Eviler than Thou: As the final few manga chapters and anime episodes show, he was this to Naraku, having fed off his power and corrupting the Jewel so it would replace him with Naraku, letting him go free.
Fusion Dance: A fusion of a bunch of demons and a human, just like Naraku.
Greater-Scope Villain: As the indirect reason the Shikon Jewel exists at all (and therefore the reason it makes Naraku its instrument of destruction), his malice is the cause of the entire series. On top of that, he becomes the True Final Boss after Inuyasha finishes Naraku and dives into the Jewel to save Kagome.
Lamprey Mouth: He has a dragon-like upper jaw, but a radial mouth instead of a lower jaw.
The Man Behind the Man: Naraku states in his final moments that the Jewel is sentient and was merely using him; this is because the Composite Youkai has corrupted it to near-perfection so that he may return to the world of the living.
No Name Given: It is unnamed.
Not Quite Dead: His soul is alive within the Shikon Jewel.
Predecessor Villain: He's essentially an even more powerful version of Naraku who lived several hundred years prior to the latter's formation.
Sealed Evil in a Can: His soul is sealed inside the Shikon Jewel.
Sealed Evil in a Duel: His soul is trapped in an eternal battle with Midoriko's.
Voice of the Legion: In his true form, he speaks with voices of the demons that formed him.

Moryomaru

Voiced by: Masaki Terasoma (JP), Ross Douglas (EN), David Allende (LA SP), Roberto Draghetti (IT)

A powerful humanoid demon born from thousands of demonic bodies merged together with part of human souls. Has the dreadful ability of absorbing yokai and human alike and take over their powers. Created as a sort of Elite Mook by Hakudoshi, he's later given a soul by Kanna, making him sentient and dangerous.

Arc Villain: For a while he steals Naraku's role.
The Assimilator: His powers, to a even greater extent than those of Naraku. He specifically looks for specific demons to absorb their powers into itself.
Big Bad Wannabe: He tried to surpass Naraku in power (even tried to absorb him), and since it contained The Infant, aka Naraku's heart, he became very important, however when he went up against his creator, it didn't go so well for him.
Bishōnen Line: The result of demonic experimentations that gradually became more and more humanoid. It's even lampshaded by Hakudoshi when he states its easier for it to move in that form.
Body Horror: His grotesque transformations.
Body of Bodies: After gaining a soul, The Infant instructs him to gather as many strong demons to enhance his defenses.
Butterface: Inverted: he has a rather pretty face on an eldritch body.
Combat Tentacles: The most recurring use of his powers.
Curb Stomp Cushion: After absorbing Meioju and the cast tries to fight him. It's nearly a Curb-Stomp Battle, the only reason he doesn't win is because off a stab wound from Sesshomaru threatened to knock his fragment of Shikon Jewel lose, and Sesshomaru broke Tokijin doing it.
Dumbass No More: After absorbing Goryomaru, he gains sentience and becomes less pleasant as his mocking of others show.
Energy Absorption: His body can absorb youki (demonic energy).
Facial Markings: Has a bluish mark over his left eye.
Flesh Golem: Originally was one, before getting the Infant inside him.
Hoist by His Own Petard: Turns out, Naraku's a bit too hard to digest... let alone assimilate.
Humanoid Abomination: The result of several experimentations that slowly become more humanlike, he has a Bishōnen face on a otherwise demonic body.
Identical Stranger: Judging from what he said, his resemblance to Goryomaru really was a coincidence.
Jerkass: After absorbing Goryomaru, he becomes much more scornful and mean-spirtied.
Kick the Dog:
- Telling Sesshomaru that Kagura has died a pitiful death completely alone.
- Telling Kohaku that his death will bring sorrow to Sango, as well as telling him his very being brings her grief.
Lack of Empathy: When Sesshomaru senses Kagura has died alone, Moryomaru mocks her passing.
Made of Diamond: After absorbing the shell of Meiouju (a turtle demon) and the Adamant Barrage.
Meaningful Name: Moryou is a very old and outdated word for "dark monster".
Nice Job Fixing It, Villain: Choosing to absorb Meioju when he did. The demon was doing well against Inuyasha and might well have beaten him if he waited a little longer
Nigh-Invulnerable: After absorbing Meioju. Tokijin doesn't hurt him, the Adamant Barrage doesn't hurt him, even Kagome's arrows and Kikyo's powers have no effect on him.
One-Winged Angel: Three of them, actually, as he grows stronger. A specifically battle-one happens during the battle against Inuyasha and Koga: after losing nearly all his body to the Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga and Goraishi, Moryomaru discards his useless bodyparts and turned into a floating orb-like being covered in diamond plates with tentacles.
Playing with Fire: Gains this after absorbing Kinka and Ginka
Poisonous Person: Has the same miasma as Naraku.
Power Copying: His last form can use Inuyasha's Adamantine Barrage.
Power Parasite: Gains abilities from other demons, even attacks from demonic blades.
Puppeteer Parasite: His pieces of flesh, Including Goryomaru's arm, can be used to merge with other yokai and manipulate them.
Shape Shifter Mashup
Shock and Awe: Raimeihou (Thunderclap Cannon).
Soulless Shell: Kinda at first, see Flesh Golem above.
Spikes of Villainy: After absorbing Meiouju he gets a spaulder of black spikes over his right arm. Later, said arm turns into a mass of Konso shards.
Vocal Dissonance: In the Italian dub his voice is rather deep and harsh, contrasting his bishonen-like looks.
Winged Humanoid: As part of his many bodies, he can sprout wings to fly.

Magatsuhi

Voiced by: Takeshi Kusao (JP), Michael Dobson (EN), Román Abreo (LA SP), Alessandro Quarta (IT)

Magatsuhi is an evil spirit and the evil will of the Shikon no Tama and the composite youkai inside it.

Anthropomorphic Personification: He is the manifestation of the will of the Shikon Jewel and the Ancient Composite Youkai - in a sense, he is the Youkai, or rather an extension of his mind.
Badass Boast: When asked whether or not he's another Naraku Incarnation, he scoffs and demands not to be compared to a half-demon, showing that he considers himself superior to Naraku himself.
Bullying a Dragon: It doesn't matter if you're a uber-powerful spirit, you should not taunt Sesshomaru.
Combat Tentacles: Since he's borrowing parts of Naraku's body, he can use regenerative tentacles to attack his enemies.
The Corrupter: Due to his enormous demonic aura, can corrupt things simply by being near them.
Demonic Possession:
- He possessed Kohaku to get his shard and inflicts some Shape Shifter Guilt Trip onto Sango by mocking her with her brother's voice.
- Later he possessed Rin to have as hostage so that Sesshomaru wouldn't use his new destructive sword.
- And finally, he possessed Inuyasha to make him kill his own allies, and tries to possess Kagome as well. This proves to be his undoing when Inuyasha uses his Yoketsu and Dragon-Scaled Tessaiga to block him so that Sesshomaru can kill him for good.
Dirty Coward: Seals away Kagome's powers as soon as he sees her, and also hides inside the bodies of Kohaku and Rin for protection, and later tries to possess Kagome herself.
Early-Bird Cameo: It is mentioned and named around volume 10. About 30/40 volumes later, he becomes important.
Facial Markings: He has ones under his eyes that are similar to Inuyasha's family.
Guyliner: His humanoid form formed from Naraku's parts, has circled eyes and purple lipstick.
Huge Holographic Head: Has markings under his eyes similar to that of Inuyasha and his kin.
Kick the Dog:
- Mocks Miroku for taking in his poisonous aura to protect Sango and Kohaku.
- His Breaking Speech to Sesshomaru about his worth.
Killed Off for Real: Unfortunately for him, Sesshomaru's Bakusaiga and Tenseiga were perfect for destroying his body and cutting down his spirit respectively.
Meaningful Name: Magatsuhi literally means "bent spirit", contrasting Naohi (straight spirit).
No Body Left Behind: What happens when you piss off a Bakusaiga-wielding Sesshomaru. But when you're a spirit on a borrowed body, doesn't matter much.
Poisonous Person: Like nearly all the Youkai in the later part of the manga, he has a great poisonous aura.

Shikon Jewel

Voiced by: Tōru Furuya (JP), Michael Adamthwaite (EN)

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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 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 created the Shikon Jewel, where they keep fighting for eternity.

Amplifier Artifact: If a youkai possesses it, they will be transformed into a more powerful, often more monstrous form.
Applied Phlebotinum: It makes youki stronger, revives the dead, grants wishes, serves as a painkiller, gives supernatural abilities to common objects...
Artifact of Doom: Humans and demons alike kill and cause many atrocities for it and the end result is nothing but sorrow and death.
Convenient Color Change: It goes from a bright pink when is pure to a very dark purple when it's corrupted.
Creepy Monotone: When it finally speaks.
Dismantled MacGuffin: Due to Kagome accidentally hitting it, shattering it to pieces.
Four Is Death: An alternate name for it is the "Jewel of Four Souls," and the Shi part of it's name literally translates as the number four.
Happy Fun Ball: It's basically a round pink jewel the size of a large marble.
Jackass Genie: It's supposed to grant any wish, but when corrupted at best it just won't grant it and at worst will twist it to its own benefit. It's even stated in-story that every single attempt at using the jewel for benevolent purposes has backfired.
Lotus-Eater Machine: The Jewel puts Kagome in one, presumably to make it easier to control her.
Nigh-Invulnerability: It's 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 Good in a Can: Midoriko trapped her soul inside the Jewel.
- Sealed Evil in a Can: Along with her, the Shikon no Tama contains the soul of a monster composed of thousands of fused youkai and a human.
- Sealed Evil in a Duel: The souls of Midoriko and the youkai are locked in an eternal duel.
Sentient Phlebotinum: As it turns out, not only does it have a will of its own, but it also can speak.
Split Personality: Housenki mentions that the Shikon Jewel shard he found instructed him to take it to the afterlife to prevent it from being corrupted by Naraku, and Sango explains to the group that the Jewel itself is neither good nor evil, implying that when the Jewel is pure Midoriko's soul becomes its will, and when it is corrupt the youkai's soul takes over. Since it spends most of the series corrupted...
Suddenly Voiced: After being merely an object beforehand, it finally speaks in the climax.
Unholy Holy Sword: It can be either pure or impure, depending on the person using it.
Villainous Legacy: Before it was destroyed, the Jewel prophecized that Kirinmaru would eventually die at the hands of a being neither demon nor human. Because of this, Kirinmaru's sister Zero became driven to murder the mixed-blood descendants of Kirinmaru's old rival, Tōga the Inu-no-Taisho. It's almost as if the Shikon Jewel foresaw its own end and left behind a curse to eventually attain vengeance on its destroyers.

Characters / Inuyasha - Other Villains

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Minor Villains

Mistress Centipede (Mukade Jōrō)

Voiced by: Rei Igarashi (JP), Pauline Newstone (EN), Adriana Casas (LA SP), Sonia Scotti (IT)

Shibugarasu

Yura of the Hair

Voiced by: Akiko Yajima (JP), Chiara Zanni (EN), Liliana Barba (LA SP), Perla Liberatori (IT)

Tsugumo Toad

Voiced by: Fumihiko Tachiki (JP), Ward Perry (EN)

Flesh-Eating Mask

Voiced by: Kazuko Yanaga (JP), Cathy Weseluck (EN)

The Raiju Brothers

Kumogashira

Voiced by:

Urasue

Voiced by: Yoshiko Ohta (JP), Cathy Weseluck (EN), Magda Giner (LA SP), Alina Moradei (IT)

Kotatsu

Voiced by: Bin Shimada (JP), Terry Klassen (EN), Ricardo Tejedo (LA SP), Luigi Ferraro (IT)

Soul Piper/Tatarimokke

Mayu Ikeda

Voiced by: Ayaka Saitou (JP), Chantal Strand (EN), Georgina Sánchez (LA SP)

Royakan

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Tokajin

Voiced by: Hideyuki Hori (JP), Samuel Vincent (EN), Jorge Ornelas (LA SP), Roberto Stocchi (IT)

False Suijin

Voiced by: Ryusuke Obayashi (JP), Colin Murdock (EN)

Kaijinbo

Voiced by:Takeshi Aono (JP), Robert O. Smith (EN), Carlos del Campo (LA SP), Saverio Moriones (IT)

Gatenmaru

Voiced by:Takehito Koyasu (JP), Adam Henderson (EN), José Luis Reza (LA SP), Massimo Corizza (IT)

Ryukotsusei

Voiced by: Kazuhiko Inoue (JP), Trevor Devall (EN), Martín Soto (LA SP), Stefano Mondini (IT)

Tsubaki

Voiced by: Miho Satou (JP), Sharon Alexander (EN), Mónica Manjarrez (LA SP), Laura Lenghi (IT)

Taigokumaru

Voiced by: Ryuuji Saikachi (JP), Scott McNeil (EN), Gerardo Vásquez (LA SP), Vittorio Di Prima (IT)

Demon's Head

Voiced by: Hiromi Tsuru (JP), Elena Ramírez (LA SP), Raffaella Castelli (It)

Salamander Youkai/Mistress of the River

Voiced by:

Saint Hakushin

Voiced by: Fumio Matsuoka (JP), Hiro Kanagawa (EN), Gonzalo Curiel (LA SP)

Entei

Mimisenri

Voiced by:

Gozu and Mezu

Voiced by: Susumu Chiba (Gozu) & Naoki Makishima (Mezu) (JP), Michael Kopsa (Gozu) & Jason Simpson (Mezu) (EN), Javier Rivero (Gozu) & Gabriel Ortiz (Mezu) (LA SP), Federico Di Pofi (Gozu) & Stefano Billi (Mezu) (It)

Princess Abi (Abi-hime)

Voiced by: Saeko Shimazu (JP), Teryl Rothery (EN), Maru Guerrero (LA SP), Laura Latini (IT)

Tekkei

Voiced by: Junko Mashina (JP), Linda Darlow (EN), Rosanelda Aguirre (LA SP)

Ryuujin

Voiced by: Hajime Iijima (JP), Peter New (EN)

Toshu

Voiced by: Nobuo Tobita (JP), Matt Ellis (EN), Leonardo Graziano (IT)

Unnamed Cat Demon

Voiced by: Taro Kiuchi(JP), Imari Williams (EN)

Numawatari

Voiced by: none

Venomous Mizuchi

Voiced by: none

Meiouju

Voiced by:Tadahisa Saizen (JP), Scott McNeil (EN, original series), Bob Carter (EN, Yashahime)

Nikosen

Voiced by: Hideaki Tezuka (JP, Yashahime), Jason Marnocha (EN, Yashahime)

Kinka and Ginka

Voiced by: Makoto Yasumura (Kinka) and Daisuke Endou (Ginka) (JP, original series), Kazuyuki Okitsu (Kinka) and Jun Osuka (Ginka) (JP, Yashahime), Alistair Abell (Kinka) and Michael Adamthwaite (Ginka) (EN, original series), Xander Mobus (Kinka) and Sean Chiplock (Ginka) (EN, Yashahime)

Kao

Voiced by: Kazuki Yao (JP), Alistair Abell (EN)

Bone Demon

Voiced by: Makiko Ohmoto (JP), Ellen Kennedy (EN)

Bone Demon's Father

Voiced by: Kiyoyuki Yanada (JP), Richard Newman (EN)

Shishinki

Voiced by: Osamu Sakuta (JP), David Orth (EN), Gabriel Ramos (LA SP), Flavio Aquilone (IT)

Hitomiko

Voiced by: Fumiko Orikasa (JP), Jennifer Cameron (EN)

Major Villains