Inuyasha character ------------------- Inu-Yasha: Race: Hanyou (Half Dog Demon/ Half Human) Age: About 17-18 Weapons: claws and Tetsusaiga After being framed for attacking Kikyou, she seals him to a tree-never to awaken. 50 years later, her reincarnate appears and releases him. Together they set out to piece together the Shikon no Tama back together. Kagome Higurashi: Race: Human Age: 15 Weapon-Bow & Arrows, Miko powers She's just your typical school girl that can slip between two time periods using her families old well. On her 15th birthday she slips 500 years into the past where she meets her true love. Sango and Kirara: Race: Human, Kirara is a Fire Cat Demon Age: 15-18 Weapon: Hiraikotsu (giant Boomerang), Sword She is a Demon exterminator (exception of Inu-Yasha) that joins the group after her village is destroyed by Naraku. Kirara can transform into a large fire cat that Sango and the others ride, she's even fought several times. Miroku: Race: Human Age: 19 Weapon: Kazaana (Air Rip), Shakujou (staff) His family was cursed by Naraku to have an Air Rip in their hand that will eventually swallow themself. He searches to kill Naraku. He also searches for a woman to have his child. For a monk he is extremly perverted. Shippo: Race: Fire Fox Demon Age: 4-8 Weapon: Kitsunebi (Fox Fire) After his parents are murdered, he joins up with Kagome and Inu-Yasha. He can't do much yet, as he is still very young, but he does have a few tricks up his sleeve. He really manages to irk Inu-Yasha, expecially at a bad time. Sesshomaru: Race: Dog Demon Age: older than Inuyasha Weapon: Claws, Tenseiga Episode 05-Sesshomaru showed up one day looking for his father's burial ground, so that he can get the sword made from his father's fang. He thinks the sword will make him more powerful. He threatens Inuyasha with some pretty evil tricks and eventually finds the place. Inuyasha and Kagome both go there to fight for the sword. This is the first of many interesting brotherly fights. This episode is also the first appearance of Myouga, the little flea that seems to know everything about everyone. Rin: Rin's village, along with her entire family, was destroyed. She survived the attack and went to live in another village, but was always shunned because she didn't have any parents. She found an injured Sesshomaru in the woods and brought him food. Sesshomaru tried talking with her, but she was unable to speak since she saw her family slaughtered so she said nothing. Later on, Sesshomaru found her body after she was killed by wolves. He decided to test out the powers of his new sword, Tessaiga, on her. She was revived and has traveled with him since that day. Naraku: Naraku is the result of a merging between a human and a few thousand miscellaneous youki. He is not the same as either of the ingredients, but he still loves the priestess Kikyo as he did when he was a human. He was completely immobile as a human, so Kikyo and her little sister Kaede tended to him. All he did was lay in a cave thinking about Kikyo's beauty, and it got a bit out of control. Naraku struggles with the fact that he, like his enemy Inuyasha, is a hanyo (half-demon). He is always trying to find ways to purge his humanity and strengthen his youki. His ultimate goal is to gather the Shikon shards in order to expell his human half and become a full demon - which is the same goal as Inuyasha's original one. He wants Inuyasha dead because he is an obstacle to this goal and also because Kikyo once loved him. Kagura: Kagura sprung from Naraku as a full grown woman. She is called his detachment, which is similar to a child, but she is a full demon. She fights using wind attacks and travels on a feather. She has a distinctly different personality from Naraku, and does not enjoy listening to him. But, Naraku holds her heart and therefore controls her life. If she disobeys him and gets caught, she dies. Kouga: Kouga is proud and violent, but loyal to his wolf tribe. He openly professes his love for Kagome and thinks that she will someday be his wife. He and Inuyasha are constantly arguing. Kagome protects him from Inuyasha, which only gets Inuyasha more angry. Kouga is over-confident in his abilities, especially since his main power comes from the shards in his legs. He is always getting beat up by Kagura. But on the upside, he shows up whenever Kagome needs rescuing that Inuyasha can't handle alone. Ayame: a female wolf demon who was engaged to Kouga since she was a child. She has some fighting ability and decent speed. He saved her from a bird demon and promised to marry her when she came back from her training. The problem with this is that Kouga forgot his promise and engaged himself to Kagome. Ayame has it in for Kagome since she sees her as a rival for Kouga's affection. First appeared in Episode 83. Kikyo: Kikyo is really two different characters. The first Kikyo was a strong and noble priestess who fell in love with Inuyasha. She was given the Shikon Jewel by a village of youkai (demon) exterminators so that she could purify its evil and protect it. She was a master archer and healer. That Kikyo is fatally wounded in the first episode. Before she died, she told her sister Kaede to bury the Jewel with her, so that it could do no more damage. The Jewel was not seen again for fifty years, until it was removed from Kagome's body. This is the main reason that most people believe that Kagome is Kikyo's reincarnation. The kind of re-Kikyo that appears in episode 15 is really the bones of the old Kikyo which have been reanimated by a witch named Urase. She can't live on her own for very long, so she collects the souls of dead women and they follow her around rather creepily.