List of Inuyasha chapters (199–398)
The manga series Inuyasha was written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi and serialized in Shonen 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 6⅝×10¼") 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 5⅝x8⅞"). 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 5x7½").
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 ongoing 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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| 21 | Yet Another Naraku | June 18, 2001[2] ISBN 4-09-125641-4 | April 12, 2005 ISBN 1-59116-740-X | ||
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| An orphaned girl, Satsuki, hopes that her "Shikon shard" will bring her older brother back from the wars. Shippo brings her to the house of the village headman, where the group is staying after Miroku exorcized a lizard demon there. Kagome and Sango look at Satsuki's shard and tell Shippo that it is just a "stone flower", a quartz crystal. Shippo tries to steal a real jewel shard for Satsuki, but InuYasha stops him. The lizard demon returns, disguised as Satsuki's brother, and takes her hostage. Shippo helps her escape, while InuYasha and Miroku kill the demon and then credit Shippo for it. Rather than remaining in her family's empty hut, Satsuki finally agrees to let the headman's family adopt her.
Koga's and InuYasha's two groups both catch Naraku's scent from a different castle. As Koga runs ahead, Kagura decides to attack him and cuts the jewel shards out of his legs. InuYasha's group arrives before she can kill Koga, so she takes his shards and flees. As both groups pursue her, Kagura finds Sesshomaru and offers him her shards if he will kill Naraku. When he refuses, she calls him a coward and tries to fight her pursuers. She drops the shards when Koga hits her, but she notices that InuYasha is transforming from human to half-demon, exposing his weakness on the night of the new moon. She attacks InuYasha with the dance of the dragon and he counters with his wind scar, now strong enough to work against her wind magic. Naraku's demons sacrifice themselves to let Kagura escape; when she returns to the castle, Naraku (who was secretly reorganizing his body) threatens to reabsorb her if she keeps displaying her own initiative. Koga returns the shards to his legs and flees before InuYasha can take them. A beautiful princess is bewitching men from their village into a mountain and stealing their youth. Miroku and Sango go to investigate, but a spiritual barrier separates them. The "princess" tries to seduce Miroku, but Sango interrupts and exposes the true form of a dog-demon which Miroku exorcises. Sango kills the dog-demon and Miroku comforts the freed princess, a long-dead spirit who now ascends to heaven. The villagers regain their youth and return home. Miroku lets Sango know that he thinks she is special, making her blush in confusion until he pats her rump. She slaps him. Bandits find a large, random lump of flesh and stab it. A new detachment of Naraku emerges as a naked faceless figure that kills the men, rips their faces off, and tries them on while checking its reflection in the river. A monk named Muso tries to exorcise the demon, but it kills him and decides to keep his face and name. A woman tells InuYasha's group what happened. When they finds a burning village full of dead bodies. Muso (the demon) says that he enjoyed killing them. InuYasha is surprised that Muso knows nothing of Naraku or InuYasha, while Naraku watches this in Kanna's mirror. | |||||
| 22 | Cast-Off Heart | September 9, 2001[3] ISBN 4-09-125642-2 | July 6, 2005 ISBN 1-59116-840-6 | ||
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| When InuYasha cuts off Muso's arm, saimyosho fuse into a new arm for him. Muso calls Kagome "Kikyo" before InuYasha seems to destroy him with the wind-scar. The group realizes that Muso is Onigumo, Naraku's original human core.
Naraku releases Kagura from her chains and sends her after Muso. Guided to Onigumo's cave by the saimyosho, Muso recovers Onigumo's memories. Kagura tells InuYasha's group where Muso is, and they prevent him from killing Kaede. Muso tells them Onigumo didn't want Naraku to kill Kikyo. After fighting Muso for a while, InuYasha aims at his spider mark, but Kagura pulls Muso away to Naraku, who forcibly reabsorbs him in InuYasha's sight. Naraku admits that he needs Onigumo to re-assemble himself during his periods of vulnerability as a half-demon. InuYasha uses the wind-scar against Naraku and Kagura, but Naraku blocks it and escapes. InuYasha asks Toto-sai how to break any barrier with Tetsusaiga. Myoga tells him to kill a certain ogre-bat who can create a powerful barrier, but the ogre that Myoga mentions is already dead. The ogre's half-human daughter is being raised by the lord of the ogre-bats, her grandfather, to maintain the barrier in her late father's place. When the bats raid Shiori's former village, InuYasha's group saves Shiori's human mother from the angry villagers. The ogre-bat lord had promised to spare the village if they gave him Shiori, but he now refuses to honor that promise and he threatens to kill Shiori's mother. Miroku sucks some of the attacking ogre-bats into his wind tunnel, but the rest hide behind the ogre-bat lord, who is carrying Shiori to generate the barrier around him. The grandfather admits that he killed his son himself for consorting with humans. To avenge her father, Shiori expels all the ogres from the barrier and InuYasha destroys them with the backlash wave. Shiori asks InuYasha to break the magic orb that creates the barrier; her grandfather's ghost emerges from the orb and attacks, but her father's ghost protects her. InuYasha destroys the grandfather's ghost and breaks the orb with Tetsusaiga, which becomes stronger. | |||||
| 23 | Two Brothers, One Enemy | November 17, 2001[4] ISBN 4-09-125643-0 | October 4, 2005 ISBN 1-4215-0024-8 | ||
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| Naraku takes Rin hostage to make Sesshomaru kill InuYasha; instead, Sesshomaru goes after Naraku. InuYasha's group catches Naraku's scent and also closes in, but splits up when Kagome detects the jewel shard embedded in Kohaku, who is guarding Rin.
Naraku says that he lured in Sesshomaru to be devoured, and they fight. InuYasha uses Tetsusaiga to cut through the spiritual barrier around Naraku's new castle; Naraku sends Kagura to stop him, but also sends demons and saimyosho to watch her. As InuYasha destroys Naraku's demons, Kagura makes a pretense at fighting him and flees. As severed pieces of Naraku's flesh engulf Sesshomaru, InuYasha disintegrates most of Naraku's body with Tetsusaiga. Telling them that Kohaku will kill Rin, Naraku dissolves into smoke. Before Kohaku can kill Rin, Sesshomaru finds them; InuYasha knocks down Kohaku to save his life from Sesshomaru. Kohaku escapes with Kagura. Miroku surprises Sango by comforting her about Kohaku without groping her, but when she mentions this, Miroku pats her breasts. She slaps him. InuYasha visits Kagome in modern Tokyo while she is trying to study for an exam and upsets her by running naked out of a hot shower. Curry rice is also too hot for him. After InuYasha hogs the bed all night, they go back to the feudal era. The small leftover fragments of Naraku under his castle combine into a giant hair-ball demon with a mouth. As Koga and InuYasha argue, the hair-ball comes after their jewel shards. Koga grabs Kagome and carries her to safety as InuYasha fights the hairball, but it breaks away and goes after them, saying that Naraku is going where no one can touch him. Koga rips the hair-ball apart and leaves. Kikyo's soul collectors can find no trace of Naraku's aura. A dying elderly bandit asks her to take his top-knot to Mount Hakurei so its spiritual purification can wipe away his sins. InuYasha's group meets an old incompetent exorcist who leads them to a haunted castle whose lord seems possessed and kills any servants who approach his quarters. At night, an ogre's head appears in the sky above the castle but their attacks go through it without effect. | |||||
| 24 | Liars and Ogres and Monkeys...Oh, My! | December 18, 2001[5] ISBN 4-09-125644-9 | January 10, 2006 ISBN 1-4215-0186-4 | ||
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| Miroku realizes that the apparition in the sky is an illusion distracting them from the real ogre, whose head was buried in an underground chamber that the castle's princess shows him. The ogre's escape turned the burial mound into a pit now filled with the remains of unsuccessful exorcists.
The castle lord assumes the ogre's form to fight with InuYasha; however, the princess is the real ogre in disguise and intends to devour Miroku as the 100th victim since its escape, yielding enough spiritual power to restore its entire body. The ogre's paralyzing aura does not affect the old exorcist, who uses all of her purification salts to help Miroku break the spell on himself and Sango. Meanwhile, the ogre goes upstairs to the real princess's dead body, which Kagome has found and where the souls from its previous victims are stored. It eats some of the souls and tries to get Kagome's jewel shards. InuYasha realizes he has been tricked and goes inside the castle. The ogre explains that it waited to escape from the mound because of hiding from Naraku, who wanted to absorb it but is now gone. InuYasha injures the ogre with the wind-scar and Miroku sucks her into his wind tunnel. Addressing InuYasha as "venerable dog god", some men beg him to save their village from rampaging monkeys. When he finds and defeats three monkey sprites, they give him a so-called peace offering: a stone that attaches itself to his hand and grows into a huge boulder. InuYasha manages to lift the boulder and threatens to crush them. The monkeys tell Kagome they're searching for the missing stone that houses the monkey god, who is the only one who can release InuYasha. They return to the village and search for the stone. Kagome realizes the monkey-god's stone is being used to weigh down vegetables in a pickling vat. The villages promise to build a new shrine to the monkey god, who releases InuYasha. The monkey god says that Naraku's aura recently passed nearby toward the northeast, but suddenly disappeared instead of fading into the distance. A dying wolf tells Koga about a terrible demon-devouring ghost in the north. This "ghost" is a giant human resurrected by a jewel shard in his forehead: Kyokotsu, a member of the Band of Seven. When Kohaku warns Kyokotsu of Koga's approach, Kyokotsu attacks Kohaku and tries to take his shard. Kohaku fights him off and leaves before Koga arrives. Koga takes Kyokotsu's forehead shard, returning him to bones, but saimyosho steal the shard from Koga. Kohaku warns Jakotsu, another member of the Band of Seven, of InuYasha's approach. Jakotsu, a homosexual sadist, uses a hinged multisection "snake bone" sword against InuYasha and is offended by Sango, a woman, daring to interfere. Jakotsu fights InuYasha alone while Mukotsu, another of the Band of Seven, deals with the other members of InuYasha's group. Mukotsu's poison paralyzes Kagome. | |||||
| 25 | The Battle with the Band of Seven Rages On! | March 18, 2002[6] ISBN 4-09-125645-7 | April 18, 2006 ISBN 1-4215-0383-2 | ||
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| Shippo fetches InuYasha away from the fight with Jakotsu. Mukotsu strangles Kagome, disabling Miroku and Sango with his poisons. Immune to the poisons, Sesshomaru saves Kagome by cutting off Mukotsu's arm and killing him with one blow from Tokijin. Sesshomaru asks them about Naraku's whereabouts, then leaves. A saimyosho takes Mukotsu's shard, but InuYasha chooses to stay with his friends rather than try to follow it to Naraku. Jakotsu observes all of this from a distance and reports to Renkotsu.
InuYasha's group looks for somewhere for Kagome, Sango, and Miroku to recover. InuYasha sends Shippo ahead with the others, but Ginkotsu attacks Kirara as she carries them to a temple. Inuyasha's wind scar opens a chasm in the ground that engulfs Ginkotsu. When InuYasha reaches the temple, the "chief priest" Renkotsu (who killed and buried the real priests) questions him about Naraku, but Ginkotsu interrupts to resume the fight. Renkotsu takes Kagome's shards, burns the temple, and uses fire to help Ginkotsu. Myoga, Shippo, and Kirara are also immune to Mukotsu's poisons, but they cannot pull their human friends to safety. InuYasha cuts Ginkotsu in half and runs past Renkotsu, who flees as saimyosho collect Ginkotsu's body. InuYasha carries his friends out of the temple, but they stop breathing until Myoga sucks the poisons out of their blood. Jakotsu attacks Koga and taunts him that Kagome is already dead. Koga breaks off and heads for the temple, where he accuses InuYasha of leading her to the "brink of death". Kikyo finds Doctor Suikotsu healing people in a village near Mount Hakurei. Surprised that a member of the Band of Seven is apparently a good man with a pure jewel shard, Kikyo helps him cure people at his clinic. InuYasha attacks the seemingly innocent doctor and is interrupted by Ginkotsu, Renkotsu, and Jakotsu attacking the villagers. When the doctor protests their actions, Jakotsu attacks him while Ginkotsu and Renkotsu take on InuYasha's group and Kikyo. The doctor transforms into Suikotsu of the Band of Seven, tainting his jewel shard. As Suikotsu fights InuYasha, Miroku saves Kikyo from Ginkotsu. When the children plead with Suikotsu, the other members of the Band of Seven drag him away to keep him from transforming back into the kindly doctor. At Kagome's suggestion, InuYasha carries Kikyo away from Mount Hakurei so that her soul collectors can revive her. | |||||
| 26 | The Sacred Mountain | June 18, 2002[7] ISBN 4-09-125646-5 | July 18, 2006 ISBN 1-4215-0466-9 | ||
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| Kikyo and her soul collectors cannot approach Mount Hakurei, but InuYasha's group goes to investigate it. Because of the way the mountain's purifying barrier affects demons, half-demons, and even Miroku (for his occasional vices as a lecher and con-man), they decide that Naraku cannot exist inside the barrier.
The entire Band of Seven attacks the castle of the lord who originally executed them. The band's leader, Bankotsu, uses his halberd, Banryu, to kill the castle's occupants, drawing InuYasha with the scents of blood and smoke. By the time InuYasha arrives, Koga is already there fighting the Band of Seven. Bankotsu has three jewel shards in his neck: his own, Kyokotsu's, and Mukotsu's. Renkotsu already stole Kagome's shards earlier, but targets her again to keep Bankotsu from finding that out. Rin follows Kohaku through the purifying barrier (where Jaken cannot follow) to a cave full of Naraku's demons; Kohaku warns Rin to leave before they tear her apart. Rin tells Sesshomaru that Kohaku saved her from Naraku's demons. Naraku orders the Band of Seven to retreat. InuYasha's group pursues them, but is blocked by a demon puppet that has a strange purity instead of Naraku's normal aura. InuYasha destroys the puppet and the group continues its pursuit, but Koga is blocked by the purifying barrier. Kohaku and Kanna give new orders to the Band of Seven. Kanna suggests using Renkotsu's stolen shards to strengthen Banryu, increasing the distrust and rivalry between Renkotsu and Bankotsu. InuYasha's group find a place with the same scent as the strange demon puppet: Hijiri Island, where Bankotsu is waiting at the ransacked tomb-shrine of Saint Hakushin. Hakushin's body is gone, but his dokko (the magic tool used during his lifetime) still emits a purifying aura until Miroku neutralizes it, allowing InuYasha to use the wind-scar. Banryu blocks the wind-scar and the dokko re-energizes, reducing Tetsusaiga to a normal sword, then teleports itself and Bankotsu away to another temple where the saint waits with Kohaku and Kanna. InuYasha's group decide that the saint is helping Naraku and they return to the mountain. Miroku and Sango enter the barrier while the others wait outside. Kikyo notices that the barrier is getting stronger and thicker. Renkotsu and Ginkotsu ambush Koga. | |||||
| 27 | The Unlikely Allies | September 18, 2002[8] ISBN 4-09-125647-3 | October 17, 2006 ISBN 1-4215-0467-7 | ||
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| Koga stuffs some of Renkotsu's armor into Ginkotsu's artillery; the resulting explosion kills Ginkotsu and wounds both Renkotsu and Koga. Renkotsu flees with Ginkotsu's shard, using it to heal himself.
Suikotsu and Jakotsu take Rin as a hostage, hoping to lure Sesshomaru to his death. As Sesshomaru fights both of them, Kikyo fires a sacred arrow into Suikotsu to revert him to Doctor Suikotsu, who pleads for death to stop his killing spree. Kikyo is about to remove his repurified shard when Jakotsu cuts it out and flees into the barrier with it. Suikotsu disintegrates. Except for Miroku and Sango, who are inside the barrier, InuYasha's group brings Koga to a cave to recover. Renkotsu sets the river on fire to drive them from the cave. InuYasha gives his cloak to Kagome and leaps over the river, but Renkotsu hits him and Kirara with cannon blasts and fires a third blast into the cave. When Renkotsu enters, Kagome and the others seem dead at first, but they were shielded by InuYasha's cloak. Having lost his cannon, Renkotsu pulls out fire sticks (dynamite) and lights the fuses. InuYasha pushes Renkotsu out of the cave and both of them fall towards the river with the fire sticks, which explode. Thinking InuYasha is dead, Kagome starts crying; Koga tries to comfort her by saying it wasn't her fault, it was InuYasha's. InuYasha reappears and fights with Koga about Kagome despite both of them ignoring her as she pulls herself together. Miroku and Sango notice that the purification does not extend all the way into a cave, letting them sense Naraku's aura. Inside the mountain, Kagura attacks with some saimyosho that keep Miroku from using his wind tunnel, though he can still use sacred sutras while Sango uses her boomerang. When Kagura separates them and knocks out Sango, Miroku leaps across the gap to reach Sango and opens his wind tunnel, saying that he would rather die from the saimyosho than leave her to be killed. Miroku tries to carry Sango, but collapses from the saimyosho's venom. Renkotsu, who threw away the fire sticks at the last moment, emerges downstream and encounters Bankotsu. Jakotsu gives Suikotsu's shard to Bankotsu who says that he's the only one he trusts. Reluctantly leaving Kagome in Koga's care, InuYasha enters the mountain alone in search of Sango and Miroku. When InuYasha reaches the barrier's limit for a half-demon, Renkotsu blasts him further in with his cannon, hoping to kill him; instead, InuYasha transforms into his human form (even without the new moon) and runs into a cave. Renkotsu sends Jyakotsu in after him. Miroku tells Sango to go on by herself, but she cries and says that she would rather stay and die with him. They realize they have crossed back into the purifying barrier, preventing Naraku's demons from finishing them off; Miroku also recovers from the saimyosho venom. They find the temple containing the mummified "living Buddha", Saint Hakushin, who turns out to be alive. | |||||
| 28 | The Rebirth of Naraku | December 5, 2002[9] ISBN 4-09-125648-1 | January 16, 2007 ISBN 1-4215-0468-5 | ||
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| Saint Hakushin says that his soul was in darkness for a long time before he was rescued by Naraku, which is why he is helping him now despite knowing that he is the vilest of demons. Miroku uses his wind tunnel until the temple begins to disintegrate, but the reappearance of saimyosho lets Hakushin escape with just a small spiritual shield around him.
Because of his human form, InuYasha is losing to Jakotsu, who wants to kill him slowly to make him plead and scream. The purifying barrier weakens, letting InuYasha transform back into a half-demon; leaving Jakotsu crippled, he goes after Naraku's strengthening aura. Renkotsu takes Jakotsu's shard, killing him. The saimyosho report this to Bankotsu, who kills Renkotsu and blocks InuYasha's path to Naraku. InuYasha cuts Bankotsu in half. Kikyo shows Hakushin how Naraku deceived him. His soul at peace, Hakushin ascends to Heaven and drops the entire barrier. Without it, Naraku's evil aura pours out of the mountain and many of his demons escape. Kagura drops Miroku and Sango deep into the mountain, where they find the remains of some baby-like creations of Naraku. Koga, Kagome, Shippo, and Kirara enter the mountain looking for the others. The rock of the mountain turns into flesh, dripping acid onto Kagome and enveloping both InuYasha and Koga. Naraku's head appears, saying that the mountain is now his body and they are all in his bowels, though he is not interested in digesting them. He takes all of the jewl shards to complete the transformation to his new and vastly more powerful form. InuYasha's wind-scar just bounces around inside the mountain and Naraku says that it will only kill InuYasha and his friends. | |||||
| 29 | Naraku's Perfect New Form | March 18, 2003[10] ISBN 4-09-125649-X | April 10, 2007 ISBN 1-4215-0900-8 | ||
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| Naraku traps InuYasha's wind-scar into bouncing around inside Mount Hakurei to eventually reduce InuYasha's group to mince-meat. Seeing Kagura leaving the mountain with an infant, Kikyo narrowly misses them with a sacred arrow. The infant stops Kagura from fighting back.
Kagome shoots a sacred arrow at Naraku to break his control of the wind-scar and free Koga. Naraku collapses Mount Hakurei onto InuYasha's group, hoping to crush them. Miroku and Sango escape on Kirara, Kagome on Shippo, and InuYasha saves Koga, but Naraku kills Kikyo and dissolves her body in a river of miasma. Sesshomaru slices Naraku into bits, but his body just re-assembles and hurls the force of Sesshomaru's attack back at him. Naraku leaves. InuYasha accuses Sesshomaru of letting Kikyo die, but Sesshomaru says InuYasha is the one who failed to save her from Naraku, who finally succeeded in removing his human heart so he could kill Kikyo. InuYasha searches for Kikyo's remains, but cannot find any. The group meets a monk who says that he saw Kikyo; InuYasha leaves to search for her again. When soldiers attack the rest of the group, Shippo and Kirara escape to fetch InuYasha, but the others are captured. The monk turns out to be a corpse animated by Kagura's dance of the dead. Kagura still has the infant, who searches Kagome's soul and tries to control her with her jealousy of InuYasha and Kikyo. InuYasha defeats the soldiers, but Kagura carries Kagome away, hoping to make her find more jewel shards. Kagura is unable to embed a tainted shard into Kagome before InuYasha rescues her, but his wind-scar reflects back at him from a shield around Kagura, Kanna, and the infant. InuYasha and Kagome argue about Kikyo and Kagome returns home. Naraku finds out that the last jewel shard is in the netherworld. InuYasha goes to modern Tokyo and brings Kagome back to the Feudal Era. A village of women worships a hanging picture scroll that flays men, whose skinned bodies the women dump into a river. InuYasha's group meet Shinosuke in search of his missing fiancee, Wakana. The village of women falsely denies having Wakana but invites the group to stay the night, separating the women (Kagome, Sango, Kirara) from the men (InuYasha, Miroku, Shippo, Shinosuke). The picture scroll tells Wakana to bring Shinosuke to its shrine. | |||||
| 30 | A Hideous Demon Baby's Mission | May 17, 2003[11] ISBN 4-09-125650-3 | July 10, 2007 ISBN 1-4215-0900-8 | ||
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| When Kagome asks if she likes Miroku, Sango's overly vigorous denials reveal her jealousy. Kagome says that Miroku treasures Sango, just as Miroku walks by with a village woman whom he is offering to "comfort". Later that night, the women of the village file past, Sango puts on her armor and follows them despite Kagome's suggestion to summon InuYasha and Miroku first. InuYasha and Kagome try to catch up with Sango, who reaches a lake where the women have apparently disappeared until they reach out of the water and drag Sango under.
The village woman and Miroku are in the picture scroll's shrine, engaging in foreplay until he is attacked by a salamander demon who was skinned and sealed into the scroll. Naraku allowed it to escape, but it needs the skins of men to restore its normal form and is controlling the village women via its eggs in their stomachs. Just outside the shrine, Wakana breaks through the control long enough to tell Shinosuke to run. Miroku injures the demon and it flees towards the lake. He punches the two women to drive the demon's eggs out of their stomachs and free them from its control. At the lake, Miroku joins InuYasha and Kagome fighting against the village women and the demon. InuYasha kills the demon, but the women keep fighting. Miroku and Kirara go into the lake to find Sango, who has been possessed by an egg and injures Miroku several times before he can punch her stomach and release her. InuYasha and Kagome destroy the other eggs. Shinosuke and Wakana return to their home village. Miroku proposes to Sango; she accepts, agreeing to have as many children as he wants, and asks him to stop chasing other women. He does not answer. Kagura takes Naraku's infant to various priests. She kills them and the infant interrogates their spirits about the afterlife. One priest cuts the infant in half, forming Akago and Hakudōshi. Kagura takes the two seemingly dead halves to Kanna, who takes Akago and tells Kagura to care for Hakudoshi. That priest's death releases a flying horse demon, Entei, whom he had imprisoned. When Hakudoshi revives, now aged to a child, Entei carries him through the air and breathes fire at InuYasha's group. Hakudoshi blocks InuYasha's wind-scar with his spiritual barrier, telling them that he was Naraku's infant and saw a jewel shard in the afterlife. Hakudoshi takes a nagamaki to behead demons, using their heads to see into the afterlife, but loses the head of an otter demon when it washes away. The otter's son recovers the head and InuYasha's group helps him find his father's body. Kagome, Shippo, and Tenseiga convince Sesshomaru to revive the otter demon, who tells them about his experience in the afterlife. InuYasha and Kagome recognize the place in the afterlife as the grave-site of InuYasha's father. Myoga tells them to ask an oyster demon, Hosenki, for a pearl which can link this world and the next. Hosenki's son says that his father died of old age and it will take the son 100 years to make a pearl for them. The saimyosho tell Hakudoshi about another path. He has Kagura tell InuYasha about the gate in the realm of fire, but not that InuYasha will die forcing the gate open so Hakudoshi can go through. | |||||
| 31 | The Demon of the Birds | July 18, 2003[12] ISBN 4-09-126661-4 | October 9, 2007 ISBN 1-4215-0902-4 | ||
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| InuYasha's group follows the saimyōshō to the fire realm's gate to the afterlife. Two giant statues, Gozu and Mezu, guard the gate and try to kill him because the living are not allowed to cross over. InuYasha breaks the chain that holds the gate closed. Kagura and Naraku's demons try to pass through the open gate ahead of him; the demons are petrified by the light from the other side, but Kagura escapes. Kagome senses the missing jewel shard beyond the gate which closes again, stilling Gozu and Mezu. Kagura cuts Hakudoshi in half for sending her to test the gate and probably die, but Hakudoshi regenerates and Naraku punishes Kagura with a heart-attack. InuYasha's group looks for another path to the afterlife.
The bird-demon Princess Abi orders her flock to collect human blood for an antidote to the poison her mother swallowed. Naraku lends her a trident made from his bones, which generates a protective barrier around her. InuYasha's group pass through many villages whose inhabitants have been drained of blood. They finally reach a surviving village, where the bird demons ignites the houses to drive the people out from shelter. Miroku uses his wind tunnel, but saimyosho force him to stop. Princess Abi attacks InuYasha's group; he counter-attacks with the wind scar, but the trident saves Princess Abi. She flees. Looking for Sesshomaru, Kagura approaches Rin and Jaken. Jaken says that if Sesshomaru were present, he would kill her. She agrees and leaves, deciding to find and kill Akago in order to kill Naraku. Kanna gives Akago to a noble lady in place of the lady's stillborn child. The bird demons's nest is hidden by a spiritual shield made by Naraku. InuYasha's groups encounters refugees traveling to the village of a holy woman who can protect them from the bird demons. The holy woman's whole body is veiled and she communicates through her assistants, Kocho and Asuka. InuYasha's group is attacked by some bird demons backed up by Kagura, Hakudoshi, and Entei, but they realize that this is a diversion while Princess Abi and the main force of bird demons attack the holy woman's village. Hakudoshi's barrier deflects InuYasha's wind scar until the holy woman appears and breaks the barrier with a sacred arrow, allowing the wind scar to kill Entei and wound Hakudoshi. Kagura flees with Hakudoshi. The holy woman disappears; although she does not have the same scent, but InuYasha's and Naraku's groups both suspect that she is Kikyo. At the village, Princess Abi and the bird demons are held at bay by a spiritual shield, which Asuka tells the villagers to stay inside even when the demons cover the shield with fire. The holy woman returns, kills the bird demons with a sacred arrow, and pursues Princess Abi when she flees. InuYasha's group hear what happened at the village and look for the holy woman, figuring that Naraku will try to kill her. Kocho and Asuka take soil from Kikyo's grave, fly to the forbidden mountain, and pour it into a pool at the base of a waterfall. Naraku's demons come to the mountain; some of them are destroyed by a sacred arrow from the holy woman and the rest fight with InuYasha's group. When InuYasha meets the holy woman. Kocho and Asuka tell him that she is dying from Naraku's miasma and cannot speak. After cutting down the holy woman, who appears to be Kikyo's spirit but dissolves away, Kagura says that the sacred arrows were smeared with soil from Onigumo's cave to make them toxic to Naraku and his incarnations. Kagome follows soul collectors to the waterfall, where she sees Kikyo's body in the pool. Kocho and Asuka tell Kagome that she is the only one who can save Kikyo. | |||||
| 32 | River of Blood | September 18, 2003[13] ISBN 4-09-126662-2 | January 8, 2008 ISBN 1-4215-1522-9 | ||
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| Kagome purifies the miasma and allows Kikyo to heal, but she leaves without thanking Kagome, who blames InuYasha for her own anger.
Princess Abi and her mother attack the castle where Akago is hidden. InuYasha's group arrive and help Kohaku defend the castle. Princess Abi and her birds escape with the blood of most of the castle's inhabitants. Under Naraku's orders, Kohaku kills the people around Akago, whom Kanna takes away. Sango confronts Kohaku before Kagura carries him away; he remembers everything and secretly decides to kill Naraku. Kagura realizes that Akago is Naraku's heart. Princess Abi's mother consumes enough human blood to recovers from her illness. Via InuYasha, Kikyo gives Kagome a special arrow which can destroy Naraku. By killing Princess Abi and beheading her mother, Naraku produces a river of blood that carries Naraku and InuYasha's group to the borderland between this world and the afterlife. Kagome sees the last shard of the sacred jewel in the remains of InuYasha's father. They are attacked with spears of diamond. Sesshomaru arrives too late to use the river of blood, but Kagura directs him to the gate in the realm of fire. | |||||
| 33 | Allies and Enemies | December 5, 2003[14] ISBN 4-09-126663-0 | April 8, 2008 ISBN 1-4215-1828-7 | ||
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| Myoga introduces the late Hosenki, source of the diamond spears. InuYasha fights Hosenki for the last shard of the sacred jewel, but Naraku takes it.
Sesshomaru arrives at the gate in the realm of fire and fights with Gozu and Mezu. Tenseiga forces them to submit and open the gate, allowing Sesshomaru to pass through to the afterlife and fight with Naraku. When InuYasha defends his comrades at risk to himself, Hosenki helps by giving him the power to create diamond spears, or "adamant barrage", which destroy Naraku's barrier. Kagome fires the special arrow at Naraku as he disappears. Sesshomaru and InuYasha's group return from the afterlife through the gate. As Naraku reconstitutes himself in the world of the living, the arrow misses him and hits Hakudoshi, who survives because Akago also contains his heart with Naraku's. Naraku orders Hakudoshi and Kohaku to force Kikyo into the open to be destroyed. Hakudoshi and Kohaku kill a giant demon rat and open the rat's shrine, releasing an unending stream of demon rats that devour all living things in their path. Kikyo creates a demon tree to lure in and purify the demon rats; she escapes before Hakudoshi can kill her. InuYasha and Kagome find the tree. Miroku and Sango find Kohaku in the shrine. | |||||
| 34 | A Mountain That Lives | February 18, 2004[15] ISBN 4-09-126664-9 | July 8, 2008 ISBN 1-4215-1829-5 | ||
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| Kohaku, still pretending to be amnesic, protects the shrine from Miroku and Sango's attack. Meanwhile, Hakudoshi attacks the demon lure tree with giant slugs. Inuyasha and Kagome kill the slugs, but the tree is blighted and the lure nullified. The shrine rats return to devastating the countryside. Inuyasha and Kagome find the shrine where the rats are now swarming Miroku, Sango and Kohaku. A timely arrow from Kikyo allows Inuyasha to destroy the shrine with Tetsusaiga, and the rats disintegrate. Kohaku runs off.
Later, while Inuyasha discusses Kikyo with Kaede, Kagome returns to the future without telling him. Miffed, Inuyasha follows her where he accidentally destroys her bicycle and meets her friends. They think he's cool. Inuyasha and Kagome return to the past in time to be victimized by Shippo's malicious pranks. He's been possessed by a parasitic nymph demon. Inuyasha scares the nymph off of Shippo who recovers. The gang follows the nymph back to its original host, Gakusanjin, a giant demon in the shape of a forested mountain. Gakusanjin was awakened from a 200 year slumber when Naraku stole Gakusanjin's nulling stone, an artifact that hides demonic auras. To help recover the nulling stone, Gakusanjin gives the group a fistful of crystals that fade when the stone is nearby. Kagura secretly observed this exchange, and acquires a few excess crystals. On his way to find Kanna, Kohaku meets Kikyo. Kagome senses the shard in Kohaku and directs the group to his position. Meanwhile, Naraku suddenly appears and attacks Kikyo. The group arrives in time to foil his attack. Kagura collects Kohaku. All now realize the strategic significance of the nulling stone, which Naraku gives to the infant. Hakudoshi and Kohaku team up to kill a demon that eats haku (life force). Later, Koga starts finding demon corpses and battles a demon that is patched-together from different bodies. | |||||
| 35 | Almost Human | May 18, 2004[16] ISBN 4-09-126665-7 | October 14, 2008 ISBN 1-4215-1830-9 | ||
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| Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo and Kirara arrive as Koga defeats a demon patched together from different corpses and is powered by haku. As they travel, the group battles patched-together demons that are increasingly more human in appearance. The group finally encounters Hakudoshi and Moryomaru, his latest amalgamation. A battle ensues. The battle ends after Moryomaru steals from Miroku the crystals that can detect the nulling stone. Koga leaves. Kagura finds Sesshomaru and leaves one of her crystals to help him find Naraku's heart.
Inuyasha and the group shelter at a home where two years ago, Miroku promised to marry Shima, the homeowner's daughter. Shima's been promised to the lake guardian in exchange for healing her illness. Shima pretends that Miroku and she consummated a relationship—the deception is to avoid marrying the lake guardian who wants a “pure” bride. Sango is upset and jealous. The guardian changes to his true form as a catfish demon. He tries to abduct Shima but is foiled by Sango. He then tries to abduct Sango. Miroku saves her, and Sango realizes that Miroku has strong feelings for her after all. Traveling on, the group encounters the corpse of Gakusanjin, the mountain demon. He's been killed by strange lights. The group encounters three boys carrying unusual urns which contain demons that take on the form of killer light rays. The group follows the children back to an unsettling temple where they meet Goryomaru. He is a priest whose right arm was replaced by a misshapen demon that is the source of the children's lights. After night falls, the temple is attacked by demon corpses created by Kagura. | |||||
| 36 | A Question of Time | July 16, 2004[17] ISBN 4-09-126666-5 | January 13, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4215-2218-0 | ||
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| Kagura storms Goryomaru's temple, using demon corpses as her strike force. Goryomaru grabs Kagome, and strengthened by the shard she carries, fires his light rays at Kagura. He blasts a hole in Kagura's chest. Severely injured, Kagura breaks off the attack. She flies away and collapses in a stream near Sesshomaru who callously ignores her plight. Little Rin attempts to rescue her but is swept away by the rushing water. Jaken tries to help, but eventually, Sesshomaru has to save all three. Kagura heals and tells him the location of Goryomaru's temple where she now knows the infant was hiding.
Kagura returns to the temple with Hakudoshi who begins battling Goryomaru. Inuyasha and the gang arrive to witness Hakudoshi behead Goryomaru. Kanna and the infant appear, and Hakudoshi covers their retreat. Kagura follows and allows the Inuyasha and the gang to discreetly trail her. The group enters an ogre-shaped cave. Naraku appears and tries to take the shard Kagome is carrying. The ogre-shaped cave comes alive. Miroku tries to destroy Naraku with the wind tunnel but is poisoned by the saimyosho, Naraku's demon wasps. Naraku leaves, and the group is stuck in the belly of the ogre who is beginning to digest them. Inuyasha tries to blast out using diamond spears, but Naraku has strengthened the walls. Desperate, Inuyasha takes the shard from Kagome and embeds it in Tetsusaiga. The evil aura from the ogre taints the shard and then flows into Inuyasha. He turns into full-demon form. Before Inuyasha can go on a rampage, Kagome flings her arms around him and purifies the tainted shard. Despite the acid burning her legs, Kagome holds onto Inuyasha, who still in full-demon form but clear-eyed and clear-headed, is able to use enhanced diamond spears to break out of the ogre's belly. Meanwhile, Kikyo meets Kanna who is fleeing with the infant. A surprise attack from Moryomaru prevents Kikyo from killing the infant. Naraku gives Kagura the task of guarding an imprisoned and very-much-alive Goryomaru. The group follows rumors of a traveling medicine man who has a potion that counteract all poisons. This traveler is reputed to be “the most handsome man ever met,” but seems to prey on women. Sango and Inuyasha set off to investigate. The traveler intoxicates Inuyasha and puts Sango under spell to drink her blood. Sango comes out of the spell, and contends with the man and a jealous Miroku. However, she allows the man to bite her in exchange for the magic potion which would help Miroku. Unfortunately, the man is a possessed mosquito, and the magic potion is a lie. | |||||
| 37 | A Question of Time | September 17, 2004[18] ISBN 4-09-126667-3 | April 14, 2009[19] ISBN 978-1-4215-2219-7 | ||
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| Sent to find the demon Hitoukon, who can merge with weak forms and control them, Kohaku is injured and lets the Hitoukon escape. A father and son invite Kohaku to stay for the night, but the Hitoukon takes over the son's body. Kohaku remembers being manipulated into killing his own father, and wants to save the boy. Inuyasha's group chases after the Hitoukon and expels it. While Inuyasha takes care of the boy, Kohaku meets Sango again, but runs away to keep anyone from finding out that he is acting for himself. Hakudōshi convinces Kagura to let Goryomaru escape from a castle, against her orders from Naraku. While Sango and Miroku are lured away by rumors about bandits, Goryomaru finds Kagome and Shippo hiding with InuYasha in his new-moon human form. He takes their jewel shard and absorbs it, then shows his true identity as Mouryoumaru, now with a soul and the ability to absorb youki (demon power). Sesshomaru appears with Jaken, who tells him that their crystal for detecting Naraku's heart shows no youki. Sesshomaru refuses to say where he got the crystal, but Mouryoumaru realizes that it came from Kagura and tells her to bring him Kohaku's shard or be absorbed herself. Hakudōshi is also seeking the shard as part of the plot to replace Naraku with Mouryoumaru. Kagura lends a flying plume to Kohaku so he can escape. | |||||
| 38 | A Heart in the Hand | December 10, 2004[20] ISBN 4-09-126668-1 | July 14, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4215-2220-3 | ||
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| Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Kagura battle Hakudoshi. Meanwhile Naraku commands his Saimyosho to come back to him and he breaks Hakudoshi's barrier allowing Miroku to suck up Hakudoshi in his wind tunnel! Kagura tells Inuyasha and his group about the location of Naraku's heart, which is inside Moryomaru. Later, Naraku confronts Kagura offering her freedom. Naraku then returns her heart, only to stab his tentacles into her and put miasma in her body. Meanwhile, Sango goes after Kohaku but finds Moryomaru instead! Kohaku oversees this battle and joins in. Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kagome arrive and Moryomaru retreats. Sango then figures out that Kohaku has his memories back, as Kohaku escapes as well! As Kagura is dying, Sesshomaru arrives before her. Kagura then dies peacefully, stating that she is as free as the wind. While Inuyasha and the group rest, Kikyo takes the priestess Midoriko's soul. Inuyasha confronts her and she states that Naraku can only be defeated by the Shikon Jewel itself. Kohaku then leaves with Kikyo determined to finish off Naraku. | |||||
| 39 | The Struggle Continues | February 18, 2005[21] ISBN 4-09-126669-X | August 11, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4215-2221-0 | ||
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| Koga of the demon wolf tribe comes in contact with the arm of Moryomaru that had killed the entire snake demon clan. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, and Shippo all arrive in time to help Koga, but the arm retreats. Koga then decides to retrieve a weapon in the sacred burial grounds of the wolf demon clan. But, a three headed stone wolf attacks Koga. Eventually, the stone wolf assaults Koga's comrades forcing Koga to save them rather than retrieve the weapon. But, in that act of courage the spirits of the wolf demon clan give him the Goraishi, a claw like weapon that can produce lighting. The spirits also said that they can protect Koga from the will that taints the shards in his legs only once. Later, Shippo comes in contact with a girl named Mujina who wields a blade that can absorb demon energy. Inuyasha's tensaiga's demon energy is stolen only to be returned after he defeats Mujina. Mujina really turns out to be a tanuki disguised as a human. Inuyasha and the group find a man named Toshu who is being hunted by a demon named Ryujin. Ryujin eventually attacks Inuyasha in hopes of taking back a sword called Dakki that was made from one of his scales. Inuyasha easily defeats Ryujin, only to be surprised when Toshu stabs Dakki into Ryujin and it absorbs his demon energy! | |||||
| 40 | The Fate of a Sword | May 18, 2005[22] ISBN 4-09-126670-3 | September 8, 2009 ISBN 978-1-4215-2890-8 | ||
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References
General
- "Official list of InuYasha Japanese manga volumes" (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved April 28, 2008.
Specific
- ↑ Ho Lin (April 22, 2009). "Takahashi News: Inuyasha Unflipped". Viz Media. Retrieved April 24, 2009.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 21 [InuYasha 21] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 22 [InuYasha 22] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved July 27, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 23 [InuYasha 23] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 24 [InuYasha 24] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 25 [InuYasha 25] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 26 [InuYasha 26] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 27 [InuYasha 27] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 28 [InuYasha 28] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 29 [InuYasha 29] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 30 [InuYasha 30] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 31 [InuYasha 31] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 32 [InuYasha 32] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 33 [InuYasha 33] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 34 [InuYasha 34] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 35 [InuYasha 35] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 36 [InuYasha 36] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 37 [InuYasha 37] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ "InuYasha Vol. 37". Viz Media. Retrieved April 13, 2009.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 38 [InuYasha 38] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 39 [InuYasha 39] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
- ↑ 犬夜叉 40 [InuYasha 40] (in Japanese). Shogakukan. Retrieved August 9, 2011.
External links
- Interview with English translator
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