About Inuyasha
Inuyasha follows Kagome Higurashi, an ordinary modern-day Tokyo schoolgirl who is dragged down the Bone-Eater's Well at her family shrine and emerges five hundred years in the past, in Japan's feudal Sengoku era. There she discovers that she is the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyo and that her own body holds the Shikon no Tama, the legendary Jewel of Four Souls. When the jewel is shattered into countless shards scattered across the land, Kagome must recover them before they fall into the wrong hands.
Her unlikely partner is Inuyasha, a brash half-demon who is part human and part dog-demon, originally sealed to a sacred tree by Kikyo fifty years earlier. Bound to Kagome by a magical beaded necklace that subdues him with a single command, Inuyasha grudgingly joins her quest. Along the way they gather a loyal band of companions, including the lecherous but capable monk Miroku, the demon-slayer Sango and her fire-cat Kirara, and the orphaned fox-demon child Shippo.
Looming over the entire journey is Naraku, a cunning and shape-shifting villain born from the merging of countless demons, who manipulates events from the shadows and seeks the completed jewel for his own dark ends. As the group battles Naraku and his incarnations, Inuyasha and Kagome grow from reluctant allies into deeply devoted partners, and the series weaves together action, folklore, comedy, and a tender central romance across two eras.