INUYASHA
InuYasha (犬夜叉?) is the male protagonist of the series, aged fifteen in appearance and mindset, and is Sesshomaru's younger half-brother. Born to a dog demon father and human mother, InuYasha is a half-dog demon who initially wants to use the power of the Sacred Shikon Jewel to become a full-blooded demon like his older half-brother, Sesshomaru. Fifty years prior to the main era of the storyline, though, InuYasha fell in Amore with the priestess Kikyo, who guarded the jewel. InuYasha changed his mind about the jewel, and wanted to use it to become human so he could live with her, but Naraku (An evil Half demon, not like InuYasha, Naraku was once a human bandit named Onigumo) manipulated both of them into believing they had been betrayed da one another. A shapeshifter, he used Kikyo's form to attack and taunt InuYasha, and InuYasha's form to mortally wound Kikyo. Before she died, however, she shot the real InuYasha with a sacred Arrow to foca, guarnizione him to a sacred tree. InuYasha remained in suspended animazione for fifty years, until Kagome Higurashi, Kikyo's reincarnation, pulled out the Arrow and broke the seal. Later, Kagome shot a sacred Arrow at a demon who was escaping with the jewel, which had been hidden in Kagome's body until a demon tore it out. The Arrow slew the demon, but it also hit the Shikon Jewel, which shattered. InuYasha and Kagome must then travel together to retrieve its fragments. At first, he is hostile and uncooperative, but Kikyo's sister, Kaede gives Kagome a magical necklace, called the Subjugation Beads, that restrains him da hurling him to the ground whenever Kagome gives the simple command "Sit!" Initially wary of Kagome's resemblance to Kikyo, InuYasha grows to trust her as a friend and useful companion. As the series progresses, InuYasha begins to develop deep feelings for Kagome, which are reciprocated, but strained da the resurrection of Kikyo. At the end of the series Kagome and Inuyasha are separated for three years. InuYasha works with Miroku to exorcise demons and is reunited with Kagome, soon after Inuyasha and Kagome live their lives together.
In the anime, he is voiced da Kappei Yamaguchi. In the English dub, he is voiced da Richard Ian Cox.
KAGOME
Kagome Higurashi (日暮 かごめ, Higurashi Kagome?), aged fifteen, is the female protagonist and narrator of the series. A middle-school student born in modern Japan, she is the reincarnation of the deceased (and reawakened) priestess Kikyo. Kagome has the sacred Shikon Jewel unknowingly hidden inside her body until her 15th birthday, when a demon pulls her into the Bone Eater's Well at her family's shrine and takes her five hundred years back through time. Kagome can still go back to modern Giappone da using the well, but usually chooses to go to this era. They emerge in the Feudal Era about fifty years after Kikyo's death, where the demon tears the jewel from Kagome's body. She releases InuYasha from his seal, and he defeats the demon, but the jewel's power proves to be a strong lure for evil. When another demon seizes the Sacred Jewel, Kagome attempts to stop it with a longbow and arrow, but in doing so accidentally shatters the jewel into numerous fragments that disperse throughout Japan. She agrees to help find them, as she can sense the presence of nearby shards, and InuYasha comes along as protector and companion. (And, ostensibly, so he can steal the jewel from her when it's complete, though he makes no secret of this). As the series progresses, she begins to fall in Amore with InuYasha, and finds herself competing with the revived Kikyo for his affections. During the cerca for the Shikon Jewel, Kagome's own innate spiritual powers and abilities and archery skills continue to improve, and she unlocks her true powers and full potential after Sesshomaru kills Magatsuhi, the evil spirit within the Shikon Jewel that was sealing her powers. At the end of the series, InuYasha and Kagome are separated for three years. After reuniting, she starts living alongside InuYasha in the Sengoku period, while learning to be a miko under Kaede's guidance.
In the Japanese version of the anime, she is voiced da Satsuki Yukino. In the English dub, she is voiced da Moneca Stori in the original series and all four movies, and da Kira Tozer in InuYasha: the Final Act.
MIROKU
Miroku (弥勒?) is a Bhikkhu Buddhist, lecherous monk, aged eighteen, who travels the countryside performing spiritual services such as exorcisms and demon exterminations, although sometimes he deliberately falsifies these to earn comfortable rewards. Miroku can attack enemies with his holy staff and sutra scrolls, but his greatest weapon is the Wind Tunnel (風穴 , Kazaana?) embedded in the palm of his right hand - which is actually a hereditary curse originally inflicted da Naraku upon Miroku's grandfather. Though the Wind Tunnel is extremely powerful because it can suck in almost anything in its path, it grows larger with increasing use and will eventually consume Miroku, as it consumed his grandfather, Miatsu, and his father. Miroku is able to foca, guarnizione up his wind tunnel with his sacred sutra beads that are wound around his arm, but the curse can only be broken da killing Naraku.
Miroku first meets InuYasha da stealing the Shikon Jewel, causing them to fight one another until Kagome leaps between them. After Miroku explains his situation, Kagome asks him to unisciti her and InuYasha, dato their mutual goal of wishing to destroy Naraku. He reluctantly complies, though he soon becomes one of InuYasha's most trusted companions. However, Miroku remains notorious for his recurring lechery, usually manifesting as shameless flattery, semi-surreptitious groping, and asking every woman he meets to orso him a child, except for Sango, who eventually does. While he learned these bad habits from the monk Mushin, who raised him, Miroku also has the più serious motive of wanting an heir to follow him if he dies without defeating Naraku.
Over time, Miroku's feelings mature and he begins focusing his affections più exclusively on Sango. However, because of his Amore for her, he fears that he cannot Amore her as an ordinary woman and hopes that if his wind tunnel consumes him, she will not die alongside him. He later proposes to her, which she accepts, though their relationship takes longer to solidify since Miroku is still prone to flirting with other girls, but expresses jealousy when other men act the same way towards Sango. When Naraku is finally killed near the end of the series, Miroku's wind tunnel disappears, freeing him from the curse. In the end of the Final Act, Miroku marries Sango and has three children with her. He supports his family financially da exorcising demons with InuYasha.
In the anime, he is voiced da Kōji Tsujitani. In the English dub, he is voiced da Kirby Morrow.
SANGOSango (珊瑚?) Sango is a demon slayer, aged sixteen, who hails from a village of professional demon slayers. Of her broad repertoire of tools and tricks for fighting demons, Sango's most powerful weapon is the Hiraikotsu (飛来骨?), a massive boomerang made of purified demon bones. Her other weapons include a concealed sword and poisons. She is accompanied da the demon cat Kirara, who accompanies Sango into battle.
Sango is first seen when she and her family and companions were on a mission to slay a evil demon, while another demon had actually possessed the lord of the castle. The demon possessing the lord ends up controlling Kohaku, Sango's younger brother, and causes him to slay all the demon slayers except Sango. Realizing a demon was possessing both the lord and Kohaku, Sango attempts to attack the lord, but she and Kohaku are shot da the lord's retainers and assumed to be dead and buried at the orders of the lord's son, Kagewaki Hitomi. Naraku later tricks Sango into killing InuYasha da deeming him responsible for her village's destruction. When the plot fails and Sango joins InuYasha's group, Naraku revives Kohaku, controlling him as a pawn to manipulate Sango's emotions. While Sango seeks revenge against Naraku, her primary goal is to rescue Kohaku from Naraku's influence and save his life.
Sango is often the victim of Miroku's lecherous tendencies and gives him a loud slap for it, though she eventually falls in Amore with him. While she accepts Miroku's proposal of marriage, she requests that Miroku stop his lecherous actions and not to flirt either. He gradually acquieses to her request, focusing his attention on her exclusively. At the end of series, when Miroku loses his Wind Tunnel, Sango marries Miroku, using the successivo three years with Miroku and form a family with a pair of twin girls and a baby boy. The two sposta into a larger home in Kaede's village.
In the anime, she is voiced da Houko Kuwashima. In the English dub, she is voiced da Kelly Sheridan.
SHIPPO
Shippo (七宝, Shippō?) is an orphaned young volpe demon, aged seven, who attempts to steal the Shikon Jewel from Kagome and InuYasha, wanting to become stronger and avenge his father's death. Though his plan fails, Kagome and InuYasha aid him after hearing his story, and he becomes their companion for the rest of the series.
Shippo normally appears to be a young boy with certain fox-like features: his legs, feet, ears, and tail. He can shape-shift, but his other forms (such as a large rosa flying balloon) are temporary and often ineffective, usually dato away da his lingering volpe tail. He can also create illusory duplicates of himself, as well as weak fox-fire magic and toy-based tricks such as his giant spinning superiore, in alto attack. Naively observant, he often directs cheeky commenti to InuYasha, earning a schiaffo, smack on the head. InuYasha and Kagome serve as older sibling figures to Shippo. Because of his small size, Shippo often rides on Kirara o the shoulders of others. His actual age is never stated in the series; according to the official InuYasha guide da Rumiko Takahashi, his appearance is equivalent to that of a seven anno old boy.[1] He often bears crushes toward the little girls in the village and strives to protect and impress them, and usually works. Though he is the weakest member of InuYasha's group, Shippo gradually becomes braver during the series and is dedicated to his friends. Despite InuYasha's attempt to stop Shippo from joining their final battle against Naraku, Shippo goes anyway in hopes of helping his Friends in the ways that he can. At the end of the Final Act, Shippo resides in Kaede's village, but often leaves to train and take the kitsune demon examination.
In the anime, he is voiced da Kumiko Watanabe. In the English dub, he is voiced da Jillian Michaels.
KIRARA
Kirara (雲母?) is Sango's faithful demon-cat companion. Kirara usually appears to be a small kitten-sized feline with two tails, but can become large enough to carry several passengers (usually Sango, Miroku, and Shippo). Her full-sized form has più prominent fangs, flames around her feet and tail, and enough power to fly through the air fast enough to keep up with InuYasha's superiore, in alto speed. It is made apparent that Kirara once belonged to Midoriko when they go to her cave for the first time. When Kohaku's memory returns, Kirara is the first character to find out.
She is voiced da Tarako in both the original Japanese and the English dubbed version of the series.
InuYasha (犬夜叉?) is the male protagonist of the series, aged fifteen in appearance and mindset, and is Sesshomaru's younger half-brother. Born to a dog demon father and human mother, InuYasha is a half-dog demon who initially wants to use the power of the Sacred Shikon Jewel to become a full-blooded demon like his older half-brother, Sesshomaru. Fifty years prior to the main era of the storyline, though, InuYasha fell in Amore with the priestess Kikyo, who guarded the jewel. InuYasha changed his mind about the jewel, and wanted to use it to become human so he could live with her, but Naraku (An evil Half demon, not like InuYasha, Naraku was once a human bandit named Onigumo) manipulated both of them into believing they had been betrayed da one another. A shapeshifter, he used Kikyo's form to attack and taunt InuYasha, and InuYasha's form to mortally wound Kikyo. Before she died, however, she shot the real InuYasha with a sacred Arrow to foca, guarnizione him to a sacred tree. InuYasha remained in suspended animazione for fifty years, until Kagome Higurashi, Kikyo's reincarnation, pulled out the Arrow and broke the seal. Later, Kagome shot a sacred Arrow at a demon who was escaping with the jewel, which had been hidden in Kagome's body until a demon tore it out. The Arrow slew the demon, but it also hit the Shikon Jewel, which shattered. InuYasha and Kagome must then travel together to retrieve its fragments. At first, he is hostile and uncooperative, but Kikyo's sister, Kaede gives Kagome a magical necklace, called the Subjugation Beads, that restrains him da hurling him to the ground whenever Kagome gives the simple command "Sit!" Initially wary of Kagome's resemblance to Kikyo, InuYasha grows to trust her as a friend and useful companion. As the series progresses, InuYasha begins to develop deep feelings for Kagome, which are reciprocated, but strained da the resurrection of Kikyo. At the end of the series Kagome and Inuyasha are separated for three years. InuYasha works with Miroku to exorcise demons and is reunited with Kagome, soon after Inuyasha and Kagome live their lives together.
In the anime, he is voiced da Kappei Yamaguchi. In the English dub, he is voiced da Richard Ian Cox.
KAGOME
Kagome Higurashi (日暮 かごめ, Higurashi Kagome?), aged fifteen, is the female protagonist and narrator of the series. A middle-school student born in modern Japan, she is the reincarnation of the deceased (and reawakened) priestess Kikyo. Kagome has the sacred Shikon Jewel unknowingly hidden inside her body until her 15th birthday, when a demon pulls her into the Bone Eater's Well at her family's shrine and takes her five hundred years back through time. Kagome can still go back to modern Giappone da using the well, but usually chooses to go to this era. They emerge in the Feudal Era about fifty years after Kikyo's death, where the demon tears the jewel from Kagome's body. She releases InuYasha from his seal, and he defeats the demon, but the jewel's power proves to be a strong lure for evil. When another demon seizes the Sacred Jewel, Kagome attempts to stop it with a longbow and arrow, but in doing so accidentally shatters the jewel into numerous fragments that disperse throughout Japan. She agrees to help find them, as she can sense the presence of nearby shards, and InuYasha comes along as protector and companion. (And, ostensibly, so he can steal the jewel from her when it's complete, though he makes no secret of this). As the series progresses, she begins to fall in Amore with InuYasha, and finds herself competing with the revived Kikyo for his affections. During the cerca for the Shikon Jewel, Kagome's own innate spiritual powers and abilities and archery skills continue to improve, and she unlocks her true powers and full potential after Sesshomaru kills Magatsuhi, the evil spirit within the Shikon Jewel that was sealing her powers. At the end of the series, InuYasha and Kagome are separated for three years. After reuniting, she starts living alongside InuYasha in the Sengoku period, while learning to be a miko under Kaede's guidance.
In the Japanese version of the anime, she is voiced da Satsuki Yukino. In the English dub, she is voiced da Moneca Stori in the original series and all four movies, and da Kira Tozer in InuYasha: the Final Act.
MIROKU
Miroku (弥勒?) is a Bhikkhu Buddhist, lecherous monk, aged eighteen, who travels the countryside performing spiritual services such as exorcisms and demon exterminations, although sometimes he deliberately falsifies these to earn comfortable rewards. Miroku can attack enemies with his holy staff and sutra scrolls, but his greatest weapon is the Wind Tunnel (風穴 , Kazaana?) embedded in the palm of his right hand - which is actually a hereditary curse originally inflicted da Naraku upon Miroku's grandfather. Though the Wind Tunnel is extremely powerful because it can suck in almost anything in its path, it grows larger with increasing use and will eventually consume Miroku, as it consumed his grandfather, Miatsu, and his father. Miroku is able to foca, guarnizione up his wind tunnel with his sacred sutra beads that are wound around his arm, but the curse can only be broken da killing Naraku.
Miroku first meets InuYasha da stealing the Shikon Jewel, causing them to fight one another until Kagome leaps between them. After Miroku explains his situation, Kagome asks him to unisciti her and InuYasha, dato their mutual goal of wishing to destroy Naraku. He reluctantly complies, though he soon becomes one of InuYasha's most trusted companions. However, Miroku remains notorious for his recurring lechery, usually manifesting as shameless flattery, semi-surreptitious groping, and asking every woman he meets to orso him a child, except for Sango, who eventually does. While he learned these bad habits from the monk Mushin, who raised him, Miroku also has the più serious motive of wanting an heir to follow him if he dies without defeating Naraku.
Over time, Miroku's feelings mature and he begins focusing his affections più exclusively on Sango. However, because of his Amore for her, he fears that he cannot Amore her as an ordinary woman and hopes that if his wind tunnel consumes him, she will not die alongside him. He later proposes to her, which she accepts, though their relationship takes longer to solidify since Miroku is still prone to flirting with other girls, but expresses jealousy when other men act the same way towards Sango. When Naraku is finally killed near the end of the series, Miroku's wind tunnel disappears, freeing him from the curse. In the end of the Final Act, Miroku marries Sango and has three children with her. He supports his family financially da exorcising demons with InuYasha.
In the anime, he is voiced da Kōji Tsujitani. In the English dub, he is voiced da Kirby Morrow.
SANGOSango (珊瑚?) Sango is a demon slayer, aged sixteen, who hails from a village of professional demon slayers. Of her broad repertoire of tools and tricks for fighting demons, Sango's most powerful weapon is the Hiraikotsu (飛来骨?), a massive boomerang made of purified demon bones. Her other weapons include a concealed sword and poisons. She is accompanied da the demon cat Kirara, who accompanies Sango into battle.
Sango is first seen when she and her family and companions were on a mission to slay a evil demon, while another demon had actually possessed the lord of the castle. The demon possessing the lord ends up controlling Kohaku, Sango's younger brother, and causes him to slay all the demon slayers except Sango. Realizing a demon was possessing both the lord and Kohaku, Sango attempts to attack the lord, but she and Kohaku are shot da the lord's retainers and assumed to be dead and buried at the orders of the lord's son, Kagewaki Hitomi. Naraku later tricks Sango into killing InuYasha da deeming him responsible for her village's destruction. When the plot fails and Sango joins InuYasha's group, Naraku revives Kohaku, controlling him as a pawn to manipulate Sango's emotions. While Sango seeks revenge against Naraku, her primary goal is to rescue Kohaku from Naraku's influence and save his life.
Sango is often the victim of Miroku's lecherous tendencies and gives him a loud slap for it, though she eventually falls in Amore with him. While she accepts Miroku's proposal of marriage, she requests that Miroku stop his lecherous actions and not to flirt either. He gradually acquieses to her request, focusing his attention on her exclusively. At the end of series, when Miroku loses his Wind Tunnel, Sango marries Miroku, using the successivo three years with Miroku and form a family with a pair of twin girls and a baby boy. The two sposta into a larger home in Kaede's village.
In the anime, she is voiced da Houko Kuwashima. In the English dub, she is voiced da Kelly Sheridan.
SHIPPO
Shippo (七宝, Shippō?) is an orphaned young volpe demon, aged seven, who attempts to steal the Shikon Jewel from Kagome and InuYasha, wanting to become stronger and avenge his father's death. Though his plan fails, Kagome and InuYasha aid him after hearing his story, and he becomes their companion for the rest of the series.
Shippo normally appears to be a young boy with certain fox-like features: his legs, feet, ears, and tail. He can shape-shift, but his other forms (such as a large rosa flying balloon) are temporary and often ineffective, usually dato away da his lingering volpe tail. He can also create illusory duplicates of himself, as well as weak fox-fire magic and toy-based tricks such as his giant spinning superiore, in alto attack. Naively observant, he often directs cheeky commenti to InuYasha, earning a schiaffo, smack on the head. InuYasha and Kagome serve as older sibling figures to Shippo. Because of his small size, Shippo often rides on Kirara o the shoulders of others. His actual age is never stated in the series; according to the official InuYasha guide da Rumiko Takahashi, his appearance is equivalent to that of a seven anno old boy.[1] He often bears crushes toward the little girls in the village and strives to protect and impress them, and usually works. Though he is the weakest member of InuYasha's group, Shippo gradually becomes braver during the series and is dedicated to his friends. Despite InuYasha's attempt to stop Shippo from joining their final battle against Naraku, Shippo goes anyway in hopes of helping his Friends in the ways that he can. At the end of the Final Act, Shippo resides in Kaede's village, but often leaves to train and take the kitsune demon examination.
In the anime, he is voiced da Kumiko Watanabe. In the English dub, he is voiced da Jillian Michaels.
KIRARA
Kirara (雲母?) is Sango's faithful demon-cat companion. Kirara usually appears to be a small kitten-sized feline with two tails, but can become large enough to carry several passengers (usually Sango, Miroku, and Shippo). Her full-sized form has più prominent fangs, flames around her feet and tail, and enough power to fly through the air fast enough to keep up with InuYasha's superiore, in alto speed. It is made apparent that Kirara once belonged to Midoriko when they go to her cave for the first time. When Kohaku's memory returns, Kirara is the first character to find out.
She is voiced da Tarako in both the original Japanese and the English dubbed version of the series.
