List of Inuyasha chapters (1–198)
The manga series Inuyasha was written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in Weekly Shōnen Sunday from November 13, 1996, to June 18, 2008. The 558 chapters have been collected into 56 bound volumes by Shogakukan, with the first volume released in May 1997 and the final one in February 2009.
Viz Media licensed the series for an English translated release in North America. Initially, Viz released it in monthly American comic book format (page size 17x26cm, or 65⁄8×101⁄4") under the title "Inu-Yasha[sic]: A Feudal Fairy Tale", with each individual issue containing two or three chapters from the original manga. Eventually, this system was abandoned in favor of collected volumes in trade paperback format, using the same chapter divisions as the Japanese volumes.
The first-edition series of Viz trade paperbacks retained the same title and subtitle but reduced the page size to approximately ISO A5 dimensions (14.5x22.5 cm, or 55⁄8x87⁄8"). After volume 12, the first-edition A5 series was discontinued. Subsequently, Viz issued new volumes and reprints of older volumes in the "Action Edition" second-edition format, with the simple title "Inuyasha" and slightly smaller pages (12.8x19cm, or 5x71⁄2").
Viz released the first 37 volumes on a quarterly schedule, mirror-imaging the artwork to a "flipped" left-to-right format as standard in English-language works, as opposed to the right-to-left reading direction of Japanese. Volume 1 was released on July 6, 1998; volume 37 was released on April 14, 2009. On April 22, 2009, Viz announced that future volumes would be released in an unflipped format on a monthly schedule, starting with volume 38 in July 2009.[1] However, reprints of the first 37 volumes have remained "flipped" instead of being reflipped back to right-to-left.
In November 2009, Viz began to issue a third-edition set of paperbacks in their "VizBig" format, with three of the original volumes combined into each omnibus. These restore the page dimensions to the slightly larger size of the first-edition paperbacks, and also faithfully reproduce the occasional full-color bonus pages that were reduced to grayscale in previous printings.
The chapter numbers listed below refer to the overall placement within the series. The Viz reprints have used several different renumbering systems; in the second-edition collections, the first chapter of each volume is indexed as "Scroll One", the second chapter is "Scroll Two", and so on, with the numbering reverting to "Scroll One" at the start of each new volume.
Volume list
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| 1 | Turning Back Time | April 18, 1997[2] 4-09-125201-X | July 6, 1998 (1st ed.)[3] April 9, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[4] 978-1-56931-262-9 (1st ed.) 978-1-56931-947-5 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Kagome Higurashi, a 15-year-old junior high school student, is dragged into the Bone Eater's Well by Mistress Centipede, an insect-demon. She escapes and emerges in the past. Kagome turns out to be the reincarnation from the deceased maiden Kikyo, with the sacred Shikon Jewel also reborn inside her body. When Mistress Centipede attacks again and rips out the jewel, Kagome awakes the half-demon Inuyasha who was sealed 50 years ago by Kikyo. Inuyasha kills Mistress Centipede, then attacks Kagome to get the jewel. Kikyo's younger sister, Kaede binds Inuyasha with a necklace that crashes him into the ground when Kagome says "sit". When a carrion-crow demon steals the jewel, Kagome shoots the crow with an arrow and shatters the jewel into hundreds of shards that scatter all over Japan. Demon Yura of the Hair attacks Kagome to get a jewel shard, throwing Kagome falls down the well and back to her time. Kaede tells Inuyasha that to defeat Yura, he needs Kagome's help; he goes through the well to Kagome's time, but Yura sends her hair after them. Kagome returns with Inuyasha to his time to stop Yura. | |||||
| 2 | Family Matters | June 18, 1997[5] 4-09-125202-8 | December 6, 1998 (1st ed.)[6] April 9, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[7] 978-1-56931-298-8 (1st ed.) 978-1-56931-948-2 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Back in the Feudal era, as Inuyasha and Yura fight each other, Kagome breaks open one skull whose hair strands lead to Yura's hands; Yura dissolves, and Kagome recovers Yura's jewel shard. Some time later, Inuyasha's half brother Sesshomaru and his subordinate Jaken search for the grave of The Great Dog Demon, Inuyasha's and Sesshomaru's father, and the heirloom sword Tetsusaiga that lies in the grave. Inuyasha sees a vision of his dead human mother saying that Sesshomaru has resurrected her and is holding her hostage in exchange for the location of the grave. Kagome destroys the illusion, but Sesshomaru deduces that a portal to the grave is in one of Inuyasha's eyes, which he rips out to open the portal. Sesshomaru, Jaken, Inuyasha and Kagome pass through the portal and discover Tetsusaiga inside The Great Dog Demon's skeleton. Sesshomaru cannot touch Tetsusaiga because of its magical shield against full demons; Kagome accidentally pulls it from the stone and gives it to Inuyasha. Inuyasha and Sesshomaru fight, and Sesshomaru retreats after having one arm cut off. | |||||
| 3 | Good Intentions | October 18, 1997[8] 4-09-125203-6 | May 6, 1999 (1st ed.)[9] July 9, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[10] 978-1-56931-340-4 (1st ed.) 978-1-56931-960-4 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Inuyasha and Kagome meet Takeda Nobunaga on his way to rescue Princess Tsuyu, whose husband's soldiers have been kidnapping young women. Inuyasha and Kagome kill the demon and recover its jewel shard, liberating the women from the eggs. In the modern times, a woman approaches the Higurashi shrine to have a flesh-eating Noh mask exorcised, but the mask escapes and takes over her body. Because the mask's body is disintegrating, it tries to compensate by eating more and more people. When the mask attacks Kagome for her jewel shards, she runs away and sends Sota to the well to summon Inuyasha. Inuyasha follows them and destroys the mask, recovering the jewel shard which was animating it. Back in the Feudal era, a child demon named Shippo steals Kagome's jewel shards, seeking revenge on the Thunder Brothers Hiten and Manten for his father's death. Manten senses that Shippo has some shards and goes after him. | |||||
| 4 | Lost and Alone | December 10, 1997[11] 4-09-125204-4 | May 6, 1999 (1st ed.)[12] July 9, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[13] 978-1-56931-368-8 (1st ed.) 978-1-56931-961-1 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Manten captures Kagome, planning to boil her to make hair-potion. Hiten and Manten find and fight Inuyasha to get the remaining shards. Manten is about to kill Shippo and Kagome when Inuyasha throws Tetsusaiga at him, killing him. Hiten eats Manten's heart to absorb his brother's demonic powers into his own. However, Inuyasha slices him in two with Tetsusaiga. While Tetsusaiga's scabbard is being repaired, Kagome returns to modern times. A girl's ghost is trying to hurt people. The girl, Mayu, died in a fire and mistakenly blames her death on her mother and brother (also injured in the same fire). Inuyasha stops Mayu from killing her brother and Kagome. When the soul piper demon tries to drag Mayu to Hell to become an evil spirit, Inuyasha and Kagome follow them to the apartment where she died. Kagome grabs Mayu from the brink of Hell, telling her to reconcile with her mother. Mayu agrees and the demon releases her. Mayu and her mother forgive each other and Mayu becomes a good spirit, ascending to Heaven. | |||||
| 5 | Flesh and Bone | March 18, 1998[14] 4-09-125205-2 | January 5, 2000 (1st ed.)[15] October 1, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[16] 978-1-56931-433-3 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-052-6 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| While staying in a temple, Inuyasha, Kagome, Shippo and Myōga are attacked by spiders-heads. The night of the new moon temporarily strips Inuyasha of his demonic powers, but the group is able to escape. When Inuyasha and Shippo go back for the jewel shards, the leader of the spider-heads injects Inuyasha with spider venom. Kagome rescues Inuyasha and they hide in another room, sealing the door with Tetsusaiga while Myoga sucks out the venom. Inuyasha regains his demon strength at sunrise and kills the master by ripping the shards back out. Meanwhile, the ogress Urasue robs Kikyo's grave and creates a clay doll from her ashes and grave dust, attempting to resurrect the dead miko. Realizing that Kikyo's soul has been reincarnated, Urasue kidnaps Kagome; just as the others arrive, Urasue drives the soul out of Kagome's body when Inuyasha utters Kikyo's name. Revived in the clay body, Kikyo kills Urasue and tries to kill Inuyasha, blaming him for her death. | |||||
| 6 | Wounded Souls | May 18, 1998[17] 4-09-125206-0 | May 1, 2000 (1st ed.)[18] October 1, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[19] 978-1-56931-491-3 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-053-3 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Inuyasha denies killing Kikyo, who runs away when Kagome starts recovering her soul. Miroku, a lecherous and thieving monk, recruits Hachiemon, a tanuki demon, to help him steal the shard. When Inuyasha and Kagome find him in a town, they run to the outskirts to avoid endangering the town's people. Miroku uses his wind tunnel against Inuyasha, who is saved when Kagome leaps between them. Miroku identifies Naraku as the killer of Kikyo. They decide to work together to hunt Naraku and collect jewel shards. An artist is creating demons from his paintings of Hell, drawn with a jewel shard in his ink. He fights with Inuyasha. When he gets a cut and spills ink on himself, the ink dissolves him. Kagome picks up the tainted jewel shard, purifying it in the process. | |||||
| 7 | Close Enemies | August 8, 1998[20] 4-09-125207-9 | October 30, 2000 (1st ed.)[21] December 24, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[22] 978-1-56931-539-2 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-114-1 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| To replace the arm cut off by Inuyasha, Naraku offers Sesshomaru a human arm with a jewel shard embedded in it, claiming that it will allow him to wield Tetsusaiga. Sesshomaru finds Inuyasha and his friends, knocks Tetsusaiga away, and seizes it with his new arm. Sesshomaru unleashes a giant demon which Miroku starts to suck into his wind tunnel, but the poisoned bees sting Miroku and force him to stop. Inuyasha partially tears off Sesshomaru's new arm and reclaims Tetsusaiga, which regains its powers. Sesshomaru flees to remove the rest of the arm, which is turning against him. When Naraku explains that he added something to allow him to retrieve his jewel shard, Sesshomaru decides to kill Naraku. Fearing for Kagome's safety, Inuyasha takes away her jewel shard and throws her down the bone-eater's well, trapping her in modern times by blockading it. Inuyasha fights off the hell-wolf Royakan, to whom Naraku then gives a jewel shard and a plant that will kill Royakan unless he kills Inuyasha. | |||||
| 8 | Stolen Spirit | November 18, 1998[23] 4-09-125208-7 | July 6, 2001 (1st ed.)[24] December 24, 2003 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[25] 978-1-56931-553-8 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-115-8 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Shippo hides at the bottom of the bone-eater's well with a shard, which allows Kagome to return to the feudal era just as Royakan's wolves detect Shippo's location. Energized by her nearby scent, Inuyasha easily defeats Royakan. After Inuyasha spots him spying nearby, Naraku describes his origin from the fusion of Onigumo with a horde of demons and admits tricking Inuyasha and Kikyo into betraying each other. As Naraku disappears into a miasma, Kagome removes the jewel shard in Royakan's forehead, saving his life and turning him back into a friendly demon. Inuyasha hears of Kikyo's location this searches for her. Kagome finds Kikyo first, but Kikyo binds Kagome with a concealment spell. When Inuyasha confronts Kikyo about stealing souls, Kikyo embraces him and tries to drag him down to Hell. Angered by this sight, Kagome unconsciously tries to pull her detached soul fragment away from Kikyo, forcing her to release Inuyasha and flee. | |||||
| 9 | Building a Better Trap | January 18, 1999[26] 4-09-125209-5 | October 10, 2001 (1st ed.)[27] April 7, 2004 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[28] 978-1-56931-643-6 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-236-0 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| The "Peach Man" Tokajin lives on a mountainside and eats both people and peaches. A riverside tree consumes his leftovers and bears fruits that look like human heads, which Inuyasha's group find floating downstream. Inuyasha goes ahead, hoping to finish before the night of the new moon. Tokajin knocks Tetsusaiga away, then shrinks and swallows Inuyasha. Shippo and the others fall into Tokajin's tiny magical garden that shrinks them down to scale. Inside Tokajin's stomach, Inuyasha loses his demonic powers, but stabs Tokajin's belly to get vomited out. He regains his full size, but awakes entangled in a thorn bush as Tokajin plans to pickle him. Tokajin takes Kagome out of his tiny garden to restore her to full size as his next meal. Miroku and Shippo escape by hanging onto Tokajin's sleeve and Miroku and help Inuyasha to untangle himself. Inuyasha breaks into the kitchen and sees Kagome being boiled alive in sake. They find Tokajin's mentor, a sage who regrets his actions, but is powerless to stop him since he has been converted to a plant. Tokajin acquired his mentor's powers by eating him, except for the secret of longevity which is why he preserved his head. The mentor changes himself into a bow to help Kagome to shoot a sacred arrow at Tokajin as he battles with Inuyasha. Her arrow dislodges a jewel shard from Tokajin, whom Inuyasha then tackles out through the window. Tokajin is killed by the fall, but Inuyasha lands in the tree and is saved. Sango exterminates a demon and takes its jewel shard as payment. Inuyasha's group hears of this and goes looking for her. Naraku manipulates Sango's brother Kohaku into killing their relatives as they exterminate a demon, then sends his demons to kill the rest of Sango's village and take their jewel shards. When Sango survives, Naraku tricks her into blaming Inuyasha for the murders. | |||||
| 10 | A Warrior's Code | April 17, 1999[29] 4-09-125210-9 | January 9, 2002 (1st ed.)[30] April 7, 2004 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[31] 978-1-56931-703-7 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-237-7 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Seeking revenge but still weakened by her injuries, Sango allows Naraku to embed a jewel shard into her back before she attacks Inuyasha. During the battle, Naraku steals Kagome's jewel shard and flees, but also partially reveals his demonic nature; distrusting him, Sango sends Kirara after him. She faints and awakens while being carried on Inuyasha's back as he chases Naraku, who confesses that he killed Sango's relatives to steal their jewel shards. She joins the group as the best way to find Naraku and get revenge. A village headman's son pays Inuyasha's group to destroy a water god who has been demanding the village boys as sacrifice. The god's attendants are brushed aside, but the god himself is armed with the Amakoi Halberd which is stronger than Tetsusaiga. Some water sprites tell Miroku that the true water goddess is sealed in a cave, and Miroku and Sango free her as Inuyasha fights the impostor. | |||||
| 11 | Scars of the Past | July 17, 1999[32] 4-09-125581-7 | July 6, 2002 (1st ed.)[33] June 23, 2004 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[34] 978-1-59116-022-9 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-332-9 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| The real goddess opens the waters to help Inuyasha fight the impostor god, and kill it. Miroku secretly leaves the group to visit his foster father, Mushin, who can repair the wound from his tunnel. Naraku hears of this and sends a demon puppet to lead the rest of Inuyasha's group away from Miroku. An urn grub possesses Mushin and causes him to attack Miroku during surgery; Miroku escapes to his father's grave site besieged by demons. Inuyasha and the others stop the demon and save Mushin. Mushin repairs Miroku's hand as far as he can, but the wind tunnel is permanently widened. Concerned by Inuyasha's increasing power, Naraku resurrects Kohaku with a jewel shard in his back and sends him to destroy a village. Sango follows Kohaku to a meeting with Naraku, who threatens to destroy Kohaku unless she brings him Tetsusaiga. To keep Kohaku from killing himself by removing the jewel shard, Sango steals Tetsusaiga and takes it to Naraku. | |||||
| 12 | Trials and Traps | September 18, 1999[35] 4-09-125582-5 | October 6, 2002 (1st ed.)[36] June 30, 2004 (2ᶮᵈ ed.)[37] 978-1-59116-023-6 (1st ed.) 978-1-59116-333-6 (2ᶮᵈ ed.) | ||
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| Naraku orders Kohaku to kill Sango, who is wounded but tries to restrain him instead of fighting back. Inuyasha's group arrives and attacks Naraku, but he dissolves into poisonous vapor. Kagome purifies the vapors and destroys most of Naraku's body with her sacred arrow, but Kohaku escapes with Naraku's head. Inuyasha and Kagome leave Kirara and Sango in the care of Miroku and Shippo while they look for herbs to counteract the poison. They find that a half-demon named Jinenji is wrongly accused of eating his fellow villagers. Kagome stays with him and his mother to protect them from the villagers, while Inuyasha searches for the real culprit. When the real man-eating demon and its offspring also attack, Kagome wounds it with an arrow, but gets knocked down; Jinenji saves her by punching the man-eater in the mouth and grappling with it. Inuyasha returns and kills the demon's offspring while Jinenji rips the parent demon apart. Jinenji gives healing herbs to the villagers, who help repair the damage to his field. Inuyasha's group finds a pit where hundreds of demons are trapped together by Naraku's spells, and are fusing into a composite "imp" intended to become Naraku's new body. Miroku warns Inuyasha not to kill it, lest he become absorbed into the composite. Kikyo arrives to investigate the pit's evil aura and falls in. | |||||
| 13 | The Mind's Eye | November 18, 1999[38] 4-09-125583-3 | April 9, 2003[39] 978-1-56931-808-9 | ||
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| As Inuyasha fights the composite imp to protect Kikyo, Kagome jumps into the pit herself, hoping to save Kikyo and calm Inuyasha down. Saying that Kagome's actions are more likely to make Inuyasha lose his reason instead, Kikyo shoots an arrow that breaks Naraku's spell and frees the imp from its pit.
Pursued by Kikyo, InuYasha and Kagome, the imp escapes and attacks Naraku for imprisoning it, but he absorbs it as his new body. Naraku casts a magic barrier that blocks Inuyasha from attacking him, and takes Kikyo to the Hitomi castle where they discuss their past. Naraku sends nightmarish illusions to ensnare Inuyasha's group. Immune to the illusions, Kagome shoots at Naraku's demon puppet, but a sinkhole opens up and nearly swallows her. Kikyo finishes destroying the demon puppet and tells her that Naraku fears Kagome more than anyone. Kikyo steals Kagome's jewel shard, tells her that only one of them (Kikyo or Kagome) is needed, and allows her to fall into the sinkhole. Inuyasha's concern for Kagome breaks the spell on him; he rescues Miroku, who rescues Sango. Inuyasha pulls Kagome out of the sinkhole. Kikyo gives Naraku the jewel shard, intending to let him collect the rest of the jewel and then kill him for it. The swordsmith Toto-sai attacks Inuyasha with a hammer and blocks Tetsusaiga with a piece of leather, testing whether Inuyasha is worthy of the sword; if not, then Toto-sai, who first made Tetsusaiga, will destroy it. Sesshomaru threatens to kill Toto-sai for not making another sword like Tetsusaiga for him. When the brothers fight each other, Toto-sai breathes fire to interrupt them and tells Sesshomaru that the sword Tenseiga is superior to Tetsusaiga, but Sesshomaru calls Tenseiga a mere slab. Toto-sai strikes his hammer into the ground, causing lava to erupt, and escapes with Inuyasha's group. Sesshomaru demonstrates to Jaken that he cannot kill with Tenseiga, which is a sword of healing. Inuyasha again fights Sesshomaru, who uses a dragon's arm to fend off Tetsusaiga until Inuyasha figures out how to use Tetsusaiga's "Wind Scar" attack. | |||||
| 14 | Gray Areas | February 18, 2000[40] 4-09-125584-1 | June 11, 2003[41] 978-1-56931-886-7 | ||
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| Partially blinded by poison, Inuyasha hits Sesshomaru with his new "Wind Scar", causing his brother to disappear in a flash of light. Toto-sai decides that Inuyasha is worthy of Tetsusaiga after all and agrees to hone the blade; he also says that Tenseiga chose to save Sesshomaru.
Some distance away, Sesshomaru awakes paralyzed by his wounds, but alive. A little girl, Rin, finds him, dumps water on his head, and offers him food which he rejects. The villagers beat Rin for stealing the fish she took to Sesshomaru, but when he asks what happened to her, she just smiles. The wolf-demon Koga leads his pack to Rin's village in search of a jewel shard; all of the villagers are killed, including Rin. Healed from his wounds, Sesshomaru follows the scent of blood to Rin's body and uses Tenseiga to resurrect her. Inuyasha's group kill some of Koga's wolves, who howl to summon their leader. When Koga returns to fight, Kagome senses the jewel shards in one of his arms and both legs. Koga retreats before Inuyasha can use the Wind Scar, then returns to kidnap Kagome and Shippo. Koga tells Kagome to help him find jewel shards, and that he has taken her for his mate. She shows him the location of the jewel shard implanted in his arch-enemy, the king of the harpy demons. As the wolf-demons fight with the harpies, she saves one of Koga's friends with a sacred arrow; Inuyasha's group arrives and help to destroy the harpies, but the harpy king escapes. As Koga and Inuyasha fight over Kagome, the harpy king returns to rip the jewel shard out of Koga's arm, severely wounding him. Inuyasha destroys the King with the wind-scar and takes his jewel shards, but Kagome stops him from killing Koga for the two shards in his legs. Koga's friends carry him away over his protestations, Inuyasha and Kagome argue, and she returns home to modern Tokyo. | |||||
| 15 | Feminine Wiles | April 18, 2000[42] 4-09-125585-X | October 15, 2003[43] 978-1-56931-999-4 | ||
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| In modern Tokyo, Kagome's friends push her to date their schoolmate Hojo; her reluctance makes them accuse her of having another boyfriend. They badger her into talking about Inuyasha, who ends up sounding like a violent, selfish, two-timing chump. Kagome tries to defend his character, making her friends conclude that she loves him.
Inuyasha climbs into Kagome's room, where her brother Sota warns him that she is in a really bad mood. Inuyasha tells Sota to keep his visit secret and goes back to the past. Kagome studies for her exams; Inuyasha comes back to watch her sleeping, then runs away when her alarm clock goes off. Kagome returns to the past and is about to apologize (insincerely) to Inuyasha when he apologizes to her for breaking her alarm clock. Inuyasha's group fights a man-eating bear with a jewel shard in its forehead, but before they can defeat it, a swarm of Saimyosho stings the bear and takes its shard. When the group follows the swarm to a castle, they meet Kagura, who has already killed Koga's followers and now uses the corpses to attack Inuyasha, covering him with wolf blood. With a fake, poisonous shard in his body, Koga arrives, concludes that Inuyasha killed the pack, and fights him. After Koga defeats Inuyasha, Kagura uses the wolf corpses to attack their former leader, who now realizes the deception but collapses from the poison. Inuyasha revives, but cannot use the Wind Scar until Kagome shoots an arrow that disrupts Kagura's control of the wind. The Wind Scar reveals the mark of a spider on her back before she escapes. Because of the spider mark and her scent, both of which resemble Naraku's, they conclude that she is a "detachment" created by Naraku. Kagome uses an arrow to dig the poisonous shard out of Koga, who revives and flees. Kagura confronts Naraku and accuses him of endangering her by not telling her about Tetsusaiga's powers, but Naraku threatens to kill her himself. Koharu, a young girl in love with Miroku, is so overjoyed to meet him again after a three-year absence that Kagome and Sango suspect him of having been intimate with her when she was only eleven years old, but Miroku denies it. Koharu wants to join the group to stay with Miroku, but he tells her that it would be too dangerous; Sango begins to feel jealous. They take Koharu to another village where she will no longer be enslaved. Kanna, another detachment of Naraku, uses her mirror to steal the villagers' souls and control their bodies. Sango throws her boomerang, but Kanna's mirror bounces it back and knocks Sango out. Kanna controls Koharu into seizing Kagome to steal her soul. As the controlled villagers fight with Inuyasha, Kagura arrives. | |||||
| 16 | Mirror Image | June 17, 2000[44] 4-09-125586-8 | December 31, 2003[45] 978-1-59116-113-4 | ||
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| Kagome's soul is too large to fit into Kanna's mirror; although weakened, Kagome is able to defend herself and prevent Kanna from taking her jewel shards. Koharu attacks Miroku, but he knocks her out.
Kanna flees and reappears behind Kagura, who is fighting Inuyasha. Kagura deliberately lapses her control of the wind, allowing Inuyasha to launch a wind-scar attack on Kagura; Kanna reflects it back at Inuyasha, severely wounding him. Naraku himself appears and gloats over Inuyasha's failure. Miroku is about to open his wind tunnel, but Naraku points out that it would devour all of the souls trapped in Kanna's mirror. The controlled villagers attack Miroku; Naraku orders Kagura to take Inuyasha's head. Meanwhile, Kagome has Kirara carry her to Inuyasha and Miroku. Naraku says that his power to create detachments comes from the nearly-complete jewel which Kikyo stole from Kagome and gave to him. When Kagome shoots an arrow at Naraku's group, Kanna tries to reflect it, but her mirror begins to crack from the extra charge of spiritual force added to its burden of souls. Kanna is forced to release all the souls to save her mirror, losing control of the villages and allowing Kagome to recover. Kagura launches a wind attack which Miroku sucks into his wind tunnel, and Naraku's group flees. Inuyasha's group moves to another location to let Inuyasha and Sango recover. While Kagome and Miroku are out looking for food and medicine, Kikyo meets with Inuyasha. Kagura spies on them for Naraku. but Kikyo drives her away and leaves. Kagome and Miroku return and question Inuyasha about Kikyo. Goshinki, an ogre detachment of Naraku, devours the inhabitants of a village. Inuyasha's group cannot fight him effectively because he anticipates their moves by reading their minds. Goshinki breaks Tetsusaiga with his teeth, then knocks out Miroku and tries to eat Kagome. Inuyasha completely loses his half-human personality and transforms to his "full"-demon form, killing Goshinki with his bare hands. Kagome stops his crazed rampage and reverses his transformation with "sit". On Myoga's advice, the group collects Tetsusaiga's pieces and takes them to Toto-sai, who pulls out one of Inuyasha's fangs to repair Tetsusaiga. While they wait for the repairs, Inuyasha loses his powers due to the new moon. Sesshomaru takes Goshinki's head to Toto-sai's renegade apprentice, Kaijinbō, to make a sword from the fangs that broke Tetsusaiga. When Jaken goes to collect the resulting sword, Tokijin, Kaijinbō kills him with it. | |||||
| 17 | A Savage Cut | August 9, 2000[46] 4-09-125587-6 | April 7, 2004[47] 978-1-59116-238-4 | ||
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| Sesshomaru resurrects Jaken with Tenseiga. Controlled by the sword Tokijin, Kaijinbo attacks Inuyasha during the night of the new moon; the rest of the group tries to fight him off while Inuyasha remains in his vulnerable full-human form. Tokijin cuts Sango's boomarang in half; even when Miroku splits Kaijinbo's head open, his body keeps fighting.
Toto-sai brings the reforged Tetsusaiga, but Inuyasha cannot use the sword at full strength-- in human form, he cannot tap into its demonic powers, and when his half-demon shape returns, the sword becomes almost too heavy to lift. When Tetsusaiga and Tokijin clash, Kaijinbo's body disintegrates under the strain. Toto-sai says the extra weight is from Inuyasha's fang and he must build up his strength. Sesshomaru claims Tokijin, easily overcoming its evil aura, then knocks Tetsusaiga out of Inuyasha's hands to test his brother's transformation. Inuyasha involuntarily returns to berserker full-demon mode again; Toto-sai breathes fire as cover to let the rest of the group drag Inuyasha away. Toto-sai repairs Sango's boomerang. The group persuades Inuyasha to never part with Tetsusaiga again, though without telling him that it suppresses his full-demon transformation. Yearning for freedom, Kagura asks Sesshomaru to kill Naraku, who now creates two new detachments: Juromaru and Kageromaru. Although partially bound, Juromaru fights and pursues Koga. As their path intersects Inuyasha's group, Naraku unshackles Juromaru's muzzle and chains. Juromaru destroys Naraku's surrogate demon puppet and fights Inuyasha. Kageromaru emerges from Juromaru's gut to join the fight, moving almost too quickly to see, and eats some of Inuyasha's innards. Koga rejoins the fight to protect Kagome, taking on Kageromaru while Inuyasha focuses on Juromaru. Inuyasha passes out but awakes when Kageromaru threatens to eat Kagome. | |||||
| 18 | Love and Lust | October 18, 2000[48] 4-09-125588-4 | July 7, 2004[49] 978-1-59116-331-2 | ||
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| Inuyasha cuts off one of Kageromaru's arms; when the injured "detachment" hides underground, Sango poisons the nearby soil to drive him back up. Kageromaru emerges and disappears back into Juromaru's gut. Inuyasha unleashes the Wind Scar to destroy both detachments. Nearly hit by the Wind Scar himself, Koga argues with Inuyasha until Kagome ends it with a "sit"; after Koga departs, Inuyasha jealously argues with Kagome and she goes home.
Naraku sends a giant soul-collector demon to deprive Kikyo of the dead souls she uses for energy. Unable to fight the demon, she flees, running into Inuyasha as he waits near the Bone Eater's Well for Kagome's return. Inuyasha destroys the demon. Kikyo tells him that Naraku tricked her into sealing Inuyasha onto the sacred tree out of jealousy, wanting to eliminate his rival and take her for himself more than he wanted the Shikon Jewel. Kagome returns to see Kikyo and Inuyasha embracing, while Naraku secretly watches all of them in Kanna's mirror. Kikyo uses soil from Onigumo's cave to protect herself from Naraku, whose right arm she then shoots off; when one of his demons touches her, it dissolves. She warns him to leave her alone or suffer the same fate. Kagome gives her supplies to Miroku and Sango and returns home again. Miroku tells Inuyasha to go to Kagome to retrieve her jewel shard and then leave her alone. When Kagome's friends again tell her to dump Inuyasha, she tells them he dumped her and she doesn't want to talk about it. Although she says she is fine, they sense her grief. She cannot make herself return the shard to Inuyasha because she might never see him again, exposing how deeply she loves him. She finally returns to Inuyasha, confessing that she needs to be with him even if he is still in love with Kikyo. Naraku's castle disintegrates and the barrier hiding its location dissipates. When Inuyasha's group investigates the ruins, the remains of Sango's family convinces them that it is the real thing and they move the remains to sacred ground. Kohaku has forgotten Naraku, but the sight of approaching saimyosho jogs his memory and he flees. He encounters Inuyasha's group, which fights off the saimyosho from taking the jewel shard that keeps Kohaku alive. As Sango treats Kohaku's wounds, she tells him that he is her brother. More demons come with Kagura, who demands Kohaku's shard despite suspecting that Naraku is playing a trick on them. | |||||
| 19 | Target: Kagome! | January 18, 2001[50] 4-09-125589-2 | September 7, 2004[51] 978-1-59116-678-8 | ||
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| Kagura leads a demon horde against Inuyasha's group, supposedly to recover Kohaku's jewel shard. As the others fight, Kagome and Kohaku wait inside the shelter until demons break in. Kohaku fights them off, then runs into the forest with Kagome to hide.
Miroku notices that the demons are still focused on him, Inuyasha, and Sango instead of pursuing Kohaku, and concludes that Kohaku is still working for Naraku to get Kagome. Miroku opens his wind tunnel to finish the fighting, in spite of being stung by saimyosho, and Kagura flees. Naraku's demon puppet orders Kohaku to kill Kagome, but he only wounds her, grabs the jewel shards, and runs away. Sango pursues him alone, planning to kill him to free him from Naraku and then commit suicide. Inuyasha stops her and recovers the shards. Kohaku escapes with Kagura's help, but Naraku punishes him by briefly restoring his unbearable memories. An ancient Magnolia tree-demon, Bokusen'on, whose branches were made into the scabbards of Tetsusaiga and Tenseiga, explains Inuyasha's demonic transformation to Sesshomaru. Gatenmaru, a moth-demon, leads bandits to raid a village. When Inuyasha cuts Gatenmaru's war-ax with Tetsusaiga, Gatenmaru envelops Inuyasha and Miroku in a poisonous cocoon and tries to take Tetsusaiga, but it burns him as it burned Sesshomaru. Inuyasha undergoes his demonic transformation, rips through the cocoon, and kills Gatenmaru and all of the bandits, even though some of them were pleading for their lives. To test the information from Bokusen'on, Sesshomaru arrives, knocks out Inuyasha, and leaves. When the group gives Tetsusaiga back to Inuyasha, he returns to his normal form and is appalled at his own actions. Afraid that he might kill Kagome when transformed, Inuyasha asks Toto-sai for advice. Toto-sai suggests killing Inuyasha's father's killer, Ryukotsusei, to gain more control over Tetsusaiga. As Inuyasha arrives at the place where Ryukotsusei is sealed, Naraku breaks the seal and tells Ryukotsusei that Inuyasha is the son of his old enemy. | |||||
| 20 | Shards of Evil? | March 17, 2001[52] 4-09-125590-6 | January 4, 2005[53] 978-1-59116-626-9 | ||
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| Inuyasha is unable to injure Ryukotsusei, who gloats that his body is harder than steel and thus invulnerable. Toto-sai arrives with Inuyasha's group and says that unsealed, Ryukotsusei can only be destroyed with the Bakuryu-ha ("crushing stream", or "backlash wave" in the anime).
When Tetsusaiga is knocked away, Inuyasha transforms to his demonic form and begins to drive Ryukotsusei back, but Toto-sai says this will not make Tetsusaiga lighter and wants to flee. Kagome insists that they stay to support Inuyasha, who returns to his normal form when he recovers Tetsusaiga, which starts to feel less heavy. Inuyasha pierces Ryukotsusei's heart, but Ryukotsusei merely bleeds a little and keeps fighting. Toto-sai advises Inuyasha to run away now that Tetsusaiga is lighter, but Inuyasha refuses and says that he will out-do his father by killing Ryukotsusei. Enraged, Ryukotsusai uses his entire aura to unleash an enormous blast of energy; unable to dodge it, Inuyasha cuts through it with the wind-scar. Toto-sai is amazed – this is the Bakuryu-ha, Tetsusaiga's ultimate move, which reverses Ryukotsusei's blast and cuts him into small pieces with whirlwinds. Inuyasha demonstrates that he can now produce the wind-scar at will, but is chastised for showing off. Naraku offers the nearly-complete Shikon jewel to the dark priestess Tsubaki, a former contemporary of Kikyo's, who preserves her youth and beauty by dealing with demons. Kagome tells her friends in modern Tokyo that she made up with Inuyasha; when she returns, Tsubaki uses the jewel to curse Kagome's jewel shards and control her. Miroku and Sango look for Tsubaki, hoping to kill her and free Kagome. At Naraku's request, Tsubaki orders Kagome to kill Inuyasha and is surprised at her resistance. Naraku tells her not to underestimate Kagome, since she is Kikyo's reincarnation, but Tsubaki is unimpressed. Kagome tells Inuyasha to run away so she can't kill him, but he stays. Miroku and Sango cannot pass through Tsubaki's shield, but Kikyo walks right through it and destroys Naraku's demon puppet. Tsubaki realizes that Kikyo is undead. Kikyo says that Kagome will defeat Tsubaki, and threatens to kill Tsubaki herself if Inuyasha is harmed. Inuyasha brings Kagome, who shatters Tsubaki's shield with an arrow. Kikyo leaves. Tsubaki threatens to kill Inuyasha if he uses Tetsusaiga, attacks him with her main demon, and reinforces her curse on Kagome. Miroku is unable to exorcise Tsubaki's shikigami to break the curse. Kagome manages to shoot an arrow at Tsubaki, but it misses and Tsubaki reinforces her curse again. After InuYasha kills Tsubaki's main demon, her other demons and shikigami all attack. Kagome rebounds the shikigami, just as Kikyo did in another duel with Tsubaki fifty years ago. The curse breaks and the jewel is purified, although Tsubaki carries it away with her remaining demons before they die. A saimyosho takes the jewel away from Tsubaki, completing her defeat. | |||||
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