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There is also the plot thread concerning the evil incarnate that is Naraku, a human-turned-demon that seeks the Shikon Jewel in order to taint it and become a full-fledged demon with powers far beyond anything any demon has ever known. His scheming and searching for the Jewel led to [[spoiler:InuYasha's imprisonment on the tree, Kikyo's death, the death of Sango's entire village, and the curse of the Wind Tunnel that Miroku is afflicted with]]. Over the course of the series, InuYasha and company confront Naraku several times, but each time he gets away, gaining more shards of the Jewel - and an extra power or two - in the process.
Naturally, StatusQuoIsGod (no matter how much it seems like things are building towards a resolution), and the anime was consequently CutShort with no proper ending, due in large part to the anime actually catching up with the production of the manga (and thus running out of episodal stories to do). The remaining chapters of the manga that the anime didn't cover before its abrupt end were adapted into the 26-episode series ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'', which picks up where the original anime left off and tells the remainder of the manga's story through to its conclusion: [[spoiler:InuYasha and Kagome eventually defeat Naraku once and for all, purifying the Shikon Jewel; after wishing for the Jewel to no longer exist, Kagome returns to her own time for three years, but eventually returns to the Feudal Era to marry InuYasha and live with him for the rest of her life.]]
Naturally, StatusQuoIsGod (no matter how much it seems like things are building towards a resolution), and the anime was consequently CutShort with no proper ending, due in large part to the anime actually catching up with the production of the manga (and thus running out of episodal stories to do). The remaining chapters of the manga that the anime didn't cover before its abrupt end were adapted into the 26-episode series ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'', which picks up where the original anime left off and tells the remainder of the manga's story through to its conclusion: [[spoiler:InuYasha and Kagome eventually defeat Naraku once and for all, purifying the Shikon Jewel; after wishing for the Jewel to no longer exist, Kagome returns to her own time for three years, but eventually returns to the Feudal Era to marry InuYasha and live with him for the rest of her life.]]
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There is also the plot thread concerning the evil incarnate that is Naraku, a human-turned-demon that seeks the Shikon Jewel in order to taint it and become a full-fledged demon with powers far beyond anything any demon has ever known. His scheming and searching for the Jewel led to [[spoiler:InuYasha's imprisonment on the tree, Kikyo's death, the death of Sango's entire village, and the curse of the Wind Tunnel that Miroku is afflicted with]]. Over the course of the series, InuYasha and company confront Naraku several times, but each time he gets away, gaining more shards of the Jewel - and an extra power or two - in the process.
Naturally, StatusQuoIsGod (no matter how much it seems like things are building towards a resolution), and the anime was consequently CutShort with no proper ending, due in large part to the anime actually catching up with the production of the manga (and thus running out of episodal stories to do). The remaining chapters of the manga that the anime didn't cover before its abrupt end were adapted into the 26-episode series ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'', which picks up where the original anime left off and tells the remainder of the manga's story through to itsconclusion: [[spoiler:InuYasha and Kagome eventually defeat Naraku once and for all, purifying the Shikon Jewel; after wishing for the Jewel to no longer exist, Kagome returns to her own time for three years, but eventually returns to the Feudal Era to marry InuYasha and live with him for the rest of her life.]]
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* FreeSamplePlotCoupon: Downplayed. Kagome already has the Shikon pearl inside her at the start of the series, but after some unsavory events it is fragmented into several pieces, scattered through Feudal Japan. Thus the objective is to retrieve them, and the first of them is held by a very powerful opponent, negating the trope entirely.
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* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Shippo, though on the road to becoming more like Inuyasha.
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* CuteShotaroBoy: Shippo, though on the road to become more like Inuyasha.
** [[YourMileageMayVary For some fans]], Kohaku, too.
** [[YourMileageMayVary For some fans]], Kohaku, too.
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* MoralityPet: Sesshomaru has a little girl, Rin. Kohaku becomes something of a MoralityPet for Kagura for a short time [[spoiler: until she dies saving his life, resulting in him defaulting to Sesshoumaru. One imagines that if everyone else got killed off, Fluffy'd probably end up with Shippo as well.]]
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* MoralityPet: Sesshomaru has a little girl, Rin.Rin, for Sesshoumaru. Kohaku becomes something of a MoralityPet for Kagura for a short time [[spoiler: until she dies saving his life, resulting in him defaulting to Sesshoumaru. One imagines that if everyone else got killed off, Fluffy'd probably end up with Shippo as well.]]
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* TreasureChestCavity: Inuyasha's father's grave is inside his pupil, and Kagome kept the Shikin jewel inside her soul.
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* TameHisAnger: Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, and Koga go through this as the series progresses.
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* FullFrontalAssault: Muso, although it is toned down by AnimeAnatomy. MoralGuardians, you know...
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* FullFrontalAssault: Muso, although it is toned down by AnimeAnatomy.BarbieDollAnatomy. MoralGuardians, you know...
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* SexyBack: All main female characters. Subverted by Sango and Kagura since it's done to show the large scars they have on their backs.
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* ToplessnessFromTheBack: All main female characters. Subverted by Sango and Kagura since it's done to show the large scars they have on their backs.
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** [[SubvertedTrope Subverted]] more than once in the OVAs. In the 2nd, [[spoiler: the command forces Inuyasha out of the path of Kaguya's attack.]] In the 3rd, [[spoiler: just when it seems no force in the world can get Sou'unga to release him, he gets Sat with so much force that ''[[ExplosiveOverclocking the beads explode!]]'' ]]
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* GiveMeLibertyOrGiveMeDeath: Kagura is willing to die for her freedom [[spoiler: and eventually does]]. Lampshaded by Mouryoumaru who insults her willingness to die for freedom, something he views as worthless.
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* RopeBridge: Jaken and Rin are confronted by a villain in the middle of a rope bridge. In a subversion, the bridge breaks because Jaken's attempt to defend himself and Rin relies on fire which burns the ropes and breaks the bridge causing all three of them to plunge into the gorge below.
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* CoolOldLady: Kaede, Jinenji's mother.
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* CoolOldLady: Kaede, Kaede and Jinenji's mother.
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* TakeThat: In the manga, when describing her mysterious "boyfriend" to her present-day school buddies, Kagome says that he is infantile, violent, selfish, and devoid of self-control. Her friends' first thought: "He's an ''American''??"
** The actual word they use is "Yankee", which in Japan is a slang word for delinquent.
** The actual word they use is "Yankee", which in Japan is a slang word for delinquent.
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''[[InuYasha InuYasha]]'' is an enormously popular {{anime}} based upon the similarly popular {{manga}} of the same name by RumikoTakahashi. Seven seasons totaling 167 episodes were made and shown on Japanese television, with the series ending in September 2004 in Japan. AdultSwim aired the final episode of a very decent English-language dub in October 2006, and the series continues to air in the very early Sunday morning slot, where it has been airing continuously since the series' end (the only other show to have run longer on Adult Swim is ''CowboyBebop'').
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''[[InuYasha InuYasha]]'' is an enormously popular {{anime}} based upon the similarly popular {{manga}} of the same name by RumikoTakahashi. Seven seasons totaling 167 episodes were made and shown on Japanese television, with the series ending in September 2004 in Japan. AdultSwim aired the final episode of a very decent English-language dub in October 2006, and the series continues to air in the very early Sunday morning slot, where it has been airing continuously since the series' end (the only other show to have run longer on Adult Swim is ''CowboyBebop'').
''CowboyBebop''). Inu-Yasha and friends appear in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover game, VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen.
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** Sesshoumaru's darkest hour occurs when he finally learns [[spoiler: the truth about Tenseiga's origins and the real reason why he was given Meidou Zangetsuha]], resulting in him [[spoiler: believing that his father had been [[TheUnfavorite training Inuyasha to kill him.]]]] His HeroicBSOD is so blatent that even [[spoiler: ''Myouga'' is desperate to help him. He's left so shaken that when [[BigBad Naraku]] attacks his group he doesn't even try to rescue them; Inuyasha ends up saving them while he watches from a distance. Nothing in the manga - not even Kagura's death or Rin's second death - has ever made him despair the way thinking his father hated him did.]]
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** Sesshoumaru's darkest hour occurs when he finally learns [[spoiler: the truth about Tenseiga's origins and the real reason why he was given Meidou Zangetsuha]], resulting in him [[spoiler: believing that his father had been [[TheUnfavorite training Inuyasha to kill him.]]]] His HeroicBSOD is so blatent overwhelming that even [[spoiler: ''Myouga'' is desperate to help him. He's left so shaken that when [[BigBad Naraku]] attacks his group he doesn't even try to rescue them; Inuyasha ends up saving them while he watches from a distance. Nothing in the manga - not even Kagura's death or Rin's second death - has ever made him despair the way thinking his father hated him did.]]
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* LadyOfWar: Kikyou, Kagura and Sango.
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* VictorGainsLosersPowers: Tessaiga works like this. Any time Tessaiga slays a powerful demon it acquires a new ability.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Jakotsu starts like the archetypical one, but is later made more sympathetic though CharacterDevelopment.
** More AffablyEvil than sympathetic. He's friendly and loyal, but he's still a violent misogynist and extremely {{Yandere}} to Inu Yasha. If it wasn't for Miroku and Sango chasing away the priest maintaining Mt. Hakurei's barrier, he would have murdered and raped Inu Yasha(in that order), and was busily torturing him until that happened.
** More AffablyEvil than sympathetic. He's friendly and loyal, but he's still a violent misogynist and extremely {{Yandere}} to Inu Yasha. If it wasn't for Miroku and Sango chasing away the priest maintaining Mt. Hakurei's barrier, he would have murdered and raped Inu Yasha(in that order), and was busily torturing him until that happened.
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* DepravedHomosexual: Jakotsu starts like the archetypical one, but is later made more sympathetic though CharacterDevelopment.
** MoreJakotsu. He's AffablyEvil than sympathetic. He's friendly and loyal, enough to soften the effect a little, but he's still a violent misogynist and extremely {{Yandere}} to Inu Yasha. If it wasn't for Miroku and Sango chasing away the priest maintaining Mt. Hakurei's barrier, he would have murdered and raped Inu Yasha(in that order), and was busily torturing him until that happened.pretty depraved.
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* DeathIsCheap: Ask Kikyo... or Kohaku... or Rin.
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* DeathIsCheap: Ask Kikyo... or Kohaku... or Rin. The series does try not to take it ''too'' far: before he could master Tenseiga's Meidou Zangetsuha, Sesshoumaru had to learn that even Tenseiga's ability to revive the dead has its limits, since he couldn't properly appreciate the value of the lives of others as long as he assumed he could simply bring them back. However, the lesson is rather undermined when Sesshoumaru's mother revives Rin a second time anyway.
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Miroku notably does NOT object when Kuranosuke Takeda proposes marriage to Sango, probably because unlike the catfish, Takeda is polite, respectful, and sincere in his admiration of Sango, and is offering a proper proposal rather than trying to claim her as a concubine.
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* BerserkButton: Miroku is normally very calm and collected, even in the presence of Naraku. But if you dare to hit on Sango in any way, [[http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1048/inuyashav35129.jpg he will beat you into a pulp.]]
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* BerserkButton: Miroku is normally very calm and collected, even in the presence of Naraku. But if you dare to hit make inappropriate advances on Sango in any way, Sango, [[http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1048/inuyashav35129.jpg he will beat you into a pulp.]]
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[[caption-width-right:345:From left to right: [[HalfHumanHybrid Inuyasha]], [[HandsomeLech Miroku]], [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Kagome]], [[TagalongKid Shippo]], and [[ActionGirl Sango]].]]
''[[InuYasha InuYasha]]'' is an enormously popular {{anime}} based upon the similarly popular {{manga}} of the same name by RumikoTakahashi. Seven seasons totaling 167 episodes were made and shown on Japanese television, with the series ending in September 2004 in Japan. AdultSwim aired the final episode of a very decent English-language dub in October 2006, and the series continues to air in the very early Sunday morning slot, where it has been airing continuously since the series' end (the only other show to have run longer on Adult Swim is ''CowboyBebop'').
Typical Japanese teenage OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent, GenkiGirl Kagome, granddaughter of a Shinto priest, has the ability to climb down into an ancient well on the grounds of her grandfather's shrine and, in doing so, TimeTravel to [[TheTimeOfMyths allegedly-feudal-Japan]], except for the fact that demons, goblins, vengeful ghosts, malevolent wizard-priests, short-tempered twelve-foot-tall ogres, and [[{{Youkai}} all manner of other creepy-crawlies]][[hottip:* :significantly, this is one of the few Japanese fantasy anime that ''isn't'' set in a pseudo-medieval-European fantasy world; just about ''everything'' in it is based on Japanese myths and legends, and that alone makes it worth your time to look for]] are all over the place and you can barely swing your arms without hitting one of them. Another noteworthy difference from most anime is that almost all of the characters who are supposed to be Japanese humans are actually depicted with black hair. If you've seen just a bit of anime, you might recognize how unusual this is (other HairColors are much more common).
One of the first characters she meets is the titular {{bishounen}} Inuyasha - an obnoxious, abrasive, arrogant [[HalfHumanHybrid half-demon]] teenage boy with [[WhiteHairedPrettyBoy long flowing white hair]] and super-cute [[UnusualEars doggy ears]] on top of his head; his father was apparently a dog-demon with [[MarsNeedsWomen a taste for human women]]. Inuyasha, needless to say, actually has [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a heart of gold]], though he requires Kagome's insistance to do good deeds. You all knew that was coming, didn't you? Right? Right.
Oh, and did we mention that Kagome happens to be the {{reincarnation}} of the {{miko}} that Inuyasha once loved 50 years in his past, who just happened to be the one who fired a sacred arrow which sealed him to the sacred tree, essentially killing him?
Kagome's arrival in the past is pivotal in that she is the one who releases InuYasha from his "death" by pulling the arrow from his chest. Her connection with his past love allows her to perform this otherwise impossible feat.
In addition to the romance angle between InuYasha and Kagome, there is an overarching plot about Kagome and her adventuring companions wandering pseudo-medieval-Japan in order to [[GottaCatchEmAll collect the pieces]] of the shattered [[MineralMacguffin Shikon no Tama/Jewel of Four Souls]], but the overall structure of the show is very much episodic.
There is also the plot thread concerning the evil incarnate that is Naraku, a human-turned-demon that seeks the Shikon Jewel in order to taint it and become a full-fledged demon with powers far beyond anything any demon has ever known. His scheming and searching for the Jewel led to [[spoiler:InuYasha's imprisonment on the tree, Kikyo's death, the death of Sango's entire village, and the curse of the Wind Tunnel that Miroku is afflicted with]]. Over the course of the series, InuYasha and company confront Naraku several times, but each time he gets away, gaining more shards of the Jewel - and an extra power or two - in the process.
Naturally, StatusQuoIsGod (no matter how much it seems like things are building towards a resolution), and the anime was consequently CutShort with no proper ending, due in large part to the anime actually catching up with the production of the manga (and thus running out of episodal stories to do). The remaining chapters of the manga that the anime didn't cover before its abrupt end were adapted into the 26-episode series ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'', which picks up where the original anime left off and tells the remainder of the manga's story through to its conclusion: [[spoiler:InuYasha and Kagome eventually defeat Naraku once and for all, purifying the Shikon Jewel; after wishing for the Jewel to no longer exist, Kagome returns to her own time for three years, but eventually returns to the Feudal Era to marry InuYasha and live with him for the rest of her life.]]
Viz has posted a licensed subtitled version of ''InuYasha'' online on [[http://www.hulu.com/inuyasha Hulu]]. For those who can't wait for the dub of ''The Final Act'', a sub for it is [[http://www.hulu.com/inuyasha-the-final-act also available.]]
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!!''[[InuYasha InuYasha]]'' provides examples of:
* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Naraku. Also Moryoumaru and Hakudoushi, for the obvious reasons.
* TheAbridgedSeries: There exists a series of parody [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sYtwgD_Pzw clips]] that were made before the abridged craze, and they are probably the most well-known for InuYasha.
** And there is an semi-official IY Abridged, done by [=ICanadianJutsuI=] and Scarlotte of YouTube and hosted on the former's channel (which is here [[http://www.youtube.com/user/lCanadianJutsul]]). It's quite funny and currently has 9 episodes. The guy who's doing it is on his ELEVENTH YT channel. Check it out!
* AbuseIsOkayWhenItIsFemaleOnMale
* AccidentalPervert: Inuyasha. Just how many times has he seen Kagome naked?
* ActionGirl: Sango, Kikyou, Ayame, eventually Kagome.
* ActionHoggingOpening: One or two.
* ActorAllusion: Kagome is voiced by Moneca Stori, who also voices [[{{Hamtaro}} Laura Haruna]]. When asked by Miroku if she will have his children, this is her reaction.
-->"[[FlatWhat Heke]]?!"
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* AdventureTowns
* AerosolFlamethrower: Kagome uses one of this once.
* AlasPoorYorick
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* TheAlcoholic: Mushin and Yakurou Dokusen.
* AllAmazonsWantHercules: Kagura, for Sesshoumaru.
* AllOfTheOtherReindeer: Every [[HalfHumanHybrid hanyou]] in the story, including [[TheHero Inuyasha]] himself.
* AllPartOfTheShow: During a school festival episode, [[YouJustRuinedTheShot Inuyasha unwittingly interrupts Kagome's play]] by challenging the male lead to a duel, then slays a watermelon demon that suddenly appears, then jumps through a hole he made in the ceiling while carrying Kagome, and none of the {{Muggle}}s in the audience realize this was unscripted.
* AlmightyMom: Sesshoumaru's mother is a plot device designed to help Sesshoumaru's CharacterDevelopment by achieving something almost no-one else in the manga managed to do - [[BreakTheHaughty putting him in his place]] in the most [[CruelToBeKind brutal]] [[LackOfEmpathy manner]] [[DeathIsCheap possible]].
* AlmostKiss: [[spoiler: Inuyasha and Kagome almost shared one before being rudely interrupted. It was the closest they got to a kiss in the manga. ''Final Act'' [[ReunionKiss fixed that.]]]]
* AloofBigBrother: Sesshomaru
* AlwaysSaveTheGirl: Sango suffers from this.
* AmplifierArtifact: The Shikon Jewel is shattered by accident by one of Kagome's arrows. Other demons that get even one or two shards get a comparatively large power boost. Naraku collects all the shards for reassembly into the intact Jewel for the purpose of becoming the ultimate youkai.
* AnatomyOfTheSoul: The soul is divided in two: Kon and Haku. Kon it's the heart (will) and Haku is the power that moves the body:
** Moryomaru is just a bunch of dead youkai body parts animated by Haku. When Akago is inside of him, he provides the Kon.
** Kikyo's Kon is the part she stole from Kagome's soul but she needs to constantly steal Haku to be able to move.
* AnchoredShip: Both Inuyasha/Kagome and Miroku/Sango are Type 1.
* AndThenWhat: Near the end, Byakuya asks Naraku what wish he will make on the Shikon jewel after he has killed Inuyasha and the rest; he admits he isn't sure.
* AndYourLittleDogToo: Naraku, who is behind almost everything bad that happens to, well, ''everyone''.
* AnimateDead: Kagura's Dance of the Dead.
* AntiHero: Kikyo settles into the role after her resurrection, once the worst of her initial rage has subsided.
** Sesshomaru starts off as a villain, but subsequent CharacterDevelopment shifts him from there to AntiVillain and from there arguably to AntiHero; exactly where he falls tends to vary [[YourMileageMayVary depending on your perspective]].
** A case can also be made for Kagura possibly reaching AntiHero status by the end of her character arc when she begins acting directly against Naraku - again depending on your mileage.
* AntiVillain: Saint Hakushin; Kagura and Sesshoumaru both evolve into this role as well, and [[YourMileageMayVary some]] also count Bankotsu and Jakotsu, although their actions overall make them more arguable cases.
* AppendageAssimilation: Sesshoumaru tried to replace his severed arm with other youkai arms, but they all turned out to be useless and after a while he just stopped trying.
* AppliedPhlebotinum: The Shikon no Tama.
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* TheArcher: Kikyou, later Kagome.
* ArmorPiercingQuestion: [[spoiler: Kagome to Naraku: "The Shikon Jewel didn't grant your real wish, did it?"]]
* ArmorPiercingSlap: Kagome, and not only on Inuyasha. Sango, mostly on Miroku.
* ArtEvolution: [[http://img197.imageshack.us/img197/2796/sesshoumaru.jpg Just look at Sesshoumaru.]]
* ArtShift: The first three movies have a different character designer from the anime, resulting in this. This is averted for the fourth movie, however.
* ArtifactOfDeath: The Shikon no Tama and its search only brings death and destruction.
* ArtifactOfDoom: There are... A lot of this in this show.
** Yura of the Hair is actually a spirit born from a comb used to comb the hair of dead people. Destroying the comb destroys Yura.
** The cursed Noh Mask. It is a deadly artifact that once placed on the face, it absorbs/consumes the wearer.
** Later, Sesshomaru commissions the making of the deadly sword Tokijin, crafted from the teeth of Naraku's detachment Goshinki. It possesses its own maker, but when Sesshomaru takes it for himself, he shrugs off the sword's attempt to possess him through sheer willpower.
** Kanna has her Mirror, which can steal the very soul of those she shows it to or, in some cases, absorb the power and devastating effect of a weapon and allow her to direct it back at the sender.
** The Naginata of Kenkon, aka the Naginata of Heaven and Earth, was fashioned from the corpses of 222 demons by the same demonic smith who made Tokijin.
** Dakki, the youki-absorbing sword that transformed its human smith into a pseudo-youkai in order to try and absorb Tessaiga's youki [[spoiler: and then transferred the full force of Inu Yasha's attack to said smith's body in a desperate attempt to save itself.]]
** The Movies also introduce a few more, like Kaguya's mirror and the terrible Sou'unga: The Sword of Hell. Sou'unga can not only create the devastation of the dragon vortex, but it can possess its owner and force them to commit murder wherever and whenever possible.
** The best example however, would be the [[spoiler: Shikon no Tama, the real BigBad of the story]].
* ArtificialHuman: Kikyo's body is made of her ashes and clay.
* AsiaRuneChant
* AsYouKnow: One of the many methods that the show uses to recap events.
* AttackReflector: Kanna's mirror, and later Naraku's barrier develops this as well.
* AttemptedRape: In the manga, [[MasterPoisoner Mukotsu]] attempts to rape Kagome but she's saved by [[IWasJustPassingThrough Sesshoumaru]]. The anime [[LighterAndSofter tones this down]] into having Mukotsu try to force Kagome into marriage with him.
* AssholeVictim[=/=]KickTheSonOfABitch: Inuyasha's SuperpoweredEvilSide killed several bandits in a brutal way.
* AwfulTruth: The truth about Tenseiga is kept secret for a long time because it's this trope for Sesshoumaru.
* AxCrazy: Evil!Suikotsu, as well as Inuyasha himself whenever he goes in his youkai form.
* [[spoiler: BabiesEverAfter:]] [[spoiler: In the manga's finale, Miroku and Sango have gotten married and have three children; twin girls and a baby boy who is born at the start of the final chapter.]]
* BackToBackBadasses: Inuyasha and Sesshomaru in movie 3.
** Inu Yasha and Koga vs. Naraku's two speedster detachments
* {{Badass}}: It is almost impossible to not be impressed by some of the characters' exploits in the story, such as Sesshomaru not flinching from having his arm ripped off, Naraku eating Moryoumaru from the inside out and later [[spoiler: dying with smarmy remarks and a smile at the end of the series]], Sango digging herself out of her own grave, Kagura slaying entire army of demon wolves with a couple of wind-blades, Inuyasha defeating the foe his father died fighting, Inuyasha being able to completely break the state of full-demon he became from losing Tessaiga and much more for every character.
** Hell, '''Shippo''' is something of a badass, when one considers all the things he's done even though he's a little kid, up to and including having to be knocked out to keep from following the team into the final battle against Naraku... and then did it anyway once he regained consciousness. Just look how the much larger kitsune treat Shippo's exploits during the kitsune youjutsu exam that he didn't even know existed until after he was auto-enrolled into it by accident.
** Whenever Inuyasha turns human he continues to try the same potentially fatal exploits that wouldn't even bruise him as a half demon, up to and including fighting homicidal demons three times his size. Crosses the line into {{Determinator}} territory when he ([[HeroicResolve of course]]) keeps fighting after massive blood loss and broken bones.
* BadassFamily: Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru and their father; Sango, Kohaku and their father.
* BadassInDistress: [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru]] in Chapters 512-518 when he has to be rescued by [[spoiler: his brother]]. [[spoiler: [[CameBackStrong He gets stronger]].]]
** Inuyasha, whenever he turns human.
* BadassLonghair: And how!
** Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Koga, Naraku...
* BadassNormal: Sango. She's completely human and the only protagonist who doesn't have any kind of supernatural or magical power, but she's able to throw around the huge boomerang as if it were a toy, and is just about as good of a fighter as Inuyasha himself.
** And of course, Kohaku. His shikon shard doesn't seem to do anything but keep him alive and under Naraku's control, but by the end of the series he's able to easily slaughter groups of trained guards and youkai like they were nothing.
* BandOfBrothers: The Inu-tachi.
* BandageBabe: Sango.
* BandagedFace: Onigumo.
* TheBarnum: PlayedForLaughs with Miroku. [[CharacterDevelopment He gets better as time goes by.]]
* BarrierMaiden: Poor little Shiori...
* BarrierWarrior: There are several, including Miroku, Kikyo and Naraku, but the most impressive is Saint Hakushin who is able to create an enormous barrier surrounding Mt. Hakurei which is incredibly powerful, enough to weaken youkai in the surrounding area and purifying them instantly if they get too close.
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* BathingBeauty: Kagome is the picture for the page.
* BathtubBonding: Kagome and Sango, but instead of a bathtub it's a hot spring.
* BattleAura: Demons and spiritually powerful humans have this.
** Sango, the only member of the group that doesn't have supernatural powers, also manifests one when she's really pissed off, usually at Miroku. It sends ''Inuyasha'' ducking for cover.
* BattleBoomerang: Hiraikotsu.
* BattleButler: Kanna, the only minion who's honestly ''loyal'' ([[spoiler: At least until right before she dies.]]).
** Byakuya's also completely loyal to Naraku, and [[spoiler: like Kanna, throws his life away for one of Naraku's plans, though in his case he didn't even do a posthumous betrayal.]]
** Jaken arguably also fits this trope, but with somewhat less "battle".
* BattleCouple: Inuyasha/Kagome and Sango/Miroku.
* BattleTops: Shippo has an arsenal of tops.
* BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor: Inuyasha desires to become full youkai. When it happens, he doesn't want it anymore and does everything in his power to stay as a hanyou.
* BeamSpam: [[EmpathicWeapon Tessaiga]] gets one that would make a Gundam jealous.
* [[BeastAndBeauty Beast and Beauty]]
* BelligerentSexualTension: Inuyasha and Kagome.
* BerserkButton: Miroku is normally very calm and collected, even in the presence of Naraku. But if you dare to hit on Sango in any way, [[http://img217.imageshack.us/img217/1048/inuyashav35129.jpg he will beat you into a pulp.]]
** Manten gets extremely upset when his last few hairs are lost from his head.
** Sesshoumaru's are mostly related to receiving Inuyasha's pity and [[spoiler: hearing Kagura's death being insulted]].
** Discuss Inuyasha's love for Kikyo around Kagome. I dare you.
* BettyAndVeronica: Kagome and Kikyo.
* BewareOfTheNiceOnes: Jinenji.
* {{BFG}} Renkotsu's grenade launcher and gatling gun, And Ginkotsu's flak cannon and ([[spoiler: Missile launchers after being made into a giant cybernetic tank.]]).
* {{BFS}}
* BigBad: Naraku. [[spoiler: Well, that's what the [[TheManBehindTheMan Shikon no Tama]] wants you to think.]]
* BigBadWannabe: Akago with Moryomaru.
* BigBrotherInstinct: Sesshomaru towards Inuyasha increasingly as the storyline progresses, Sango towards her little brother Kohaku, even the evil Hiten towards his younger brother Manten (and their little brothers love them too). Kagura also seems to develop one towards Kohaku, [[spoiler: which ultimately led to her dying for it]].
* BigBrotherMentor: Miroku to Inuyasha.
* BigDamnHeroes
* TheBigDamnKiss: [[spoiler: Inuyasha and Kagome in the finale of the anime.]]
* BigEater: Inuyasha and Shippo.
* BigEntrance: If the main activity suddenly gets interrupted by everyone being drawn to what appears to be a massive bolt of lightning that crashes into the earth, rattling the ground and releasing an overload of raw power, it almost always means Sesshoumaru's just entered the scene.
* [[spoiler: BiggerBad]]: [[spoiler: The Shikon no Tama.]]
* BiologicalMashup: Naraku.
* BirdRun
* {{Bishounen}}: Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Naraku.
* TheBladeAlwaysLandsPointyEndIn: And not just blades, but any weapon which is thrown or dropped, including staves and giant boomerangs.
* BladeBelowTheShoulder: Sango has a retractable blade hidden in her right sleeve that she uses as a last resort.
* BladeBrake: Inuyasha rams Tessaiga into the ground to prevent being sucked into the Wind Tunnel. In one of many amusing examples of just how alike the two brothers really are, when Sesshoumaru first experiences the power of the Wind Tunnel, he reacts in exactly the same way (and since he's holding Tessaiga at the time, he even uses the same sword).
* TheBlank: One of Naraku's incarnations starts off this way, until he starts stealing people's faces (leaving them faceless and dead).
** And of course, the Muonna that Sesshoumaru had impersonate Inu Yasha's mother looked like this under her illusion.
* BlatantLies
* BlessedWithSuck[=/=]CursedWithAwesome: Miroku. The Wind Tunnel in his right hand, a curse placed on his grandfather and passed down onto him, is basically a one-way dimensional gateway with the force of a minute black hole. Even the most powerful of demons seem to be unable to escape it if drawn inside -- witness the spirit of Kaguya, an entity stated to be truly immortal, being banished forever by being drawn inside the Wind Tunnel. However, Miroku can only control it by wrapping his hand in certain special beads, and as Naraku created it, he has also created a counter for it: a rapidly-breeding wasp-like creature called Saimyosho contain a poison that will cause Miroku intense pain and eventually death if he draws them in. Oh, and the Wind Tunnel, even if not used, is slowly growing ever larger, until the day when it consumes Miroku and everything around him in a fair-sized SphereOfDestruction, just as it has already devoured his father and grandfather.
** Inu Yasha's youkai form. Insanely high levels of strength and speed, a much improved healing factor, enough youki to make even ''Sesshoumaru'' [[NotSoStoic feel one, brief moment of fear]] and have a youketsu capable of holding the evil spirit of the ''Shikon no Tama'' immobile against its will and decay a frggin' portal to hell when its sliced by the Dragon-Scale Tessaiga. Of course, there's the little matter of him being a bloodthirsty monster that has barely any of Inu Yasha's restraint, and each time it gets even less controllable and less intelligent. Of course, he does get to occasionally take advantage of it and Tessaiga at the same time, whenever someone starts stealing some of Tessaiga's forms, or he boosts Tessaiga with purified Shikon shards.
* BloodFromTheMouth: This happens to Miroku (along with blood from the eyes, nose and ears) when he tries to suck Naraku into his curse only managing to absorb a lot of miasma.
* BloodyMurder: Inuyasha's first and most basic ranged attack involves him making flying blades out of his blood (or, sometimes, other people's). He tends to pull it out only as a desperation move, for obvious reasons.
* BlowYouAway: Kagura. Her wind powers include tornados, flight, manipulating the wind to (attempt to) cut off the wind-based attacks of opponents and even RazorWind.
* BodyHorror: Naraku's main fighting style.
* BoomerangComeback: Sango uses this technique several times. She lets her enemies attack her while Hiraikotsu is away so they'll be hit by it when is returning to her.
* BrainwashedAndCrazy: Kohaku. After being revived, Naraku erased his memories to be able to control his mind. He then ordered Kohaku to kill a lot of innocent people, including his own sister.
* BrattyHalfPint: Shippo.
* BreakTheCutie: Kohaku.
* BreathWeapon: Ah-Un being a dragon has this, in both heads.
* BridalCarry
* BrokenBird: Kagura, Kikyou.
* BrokenHero: Miroku is a carefree, cheerful guy in spite (or maybe because) of having death looming over him his whole life.
* BroodingBoyGentleGirl: Inuyasha and Kagome.
* BroughtDownToNormal: Happens to Inuyasha (and every other half demon) every month, most often during a plot that could be resolved effortlessly with Inuyasha's normal powers.
** Also happens during the Mount Hakurei arc.
** And to Miroku, of all people, in one of the questionably canon movies, when [[spoiler: his wind tunnel is removed by Naraku]].
* BrutalHonesty: Inuyasha, which normally earns him a [[FaceFault SIT!]]
* BuriedAlive: Sango, after being badly wounded. [[{{Badass}} She]] [[RiseFromYourGrave clawed her way out.]]
** Granted, they genuinely thought she was dead.
* CainAndAbel: Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru for a while. A better example would be Kinka and Ginka, brothers who are attached to one another because neither of them had managed to kill each other in their childhood as was the nature of their species.
* TheCallKnowsWhereYouLive: After returning to her time after her first trip to the feudal era, Kagome assumes the whole experience was a dream and proceeds to forget about the whole thing....until Inuyasha barges into her house while her family is having dinner. It doesn't help that one of the bad guys (Yura of the Hair) seeking the Shikon Jewel tries to enter Kagome's time moments later.
* CallingYourAttacks: Once the manga hit its stride, almost all the characters do this. Uniquely, Sesshoumaru's the only one who rarely calls his attacks out loud. He ''[[{{badass}} thinks]]'' them instead.
* CameBackStrong: [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru]] in Chapter 518.
* CampGay: [[{{filler}} Suzaku of the Flower]], a Demon Ninja based off of the [[TheFourGods Vermillion Phoenix]]. His comrades tell him several times to stop acting like that, as it creeps them out.
* CanisMajor: Sesshoumaru and his parents' true forms.
* {{Canon Foreigner}}: Ayame (Koga's childhood love interest), and Akitoki Hojo (an ancestor of one Kagome's classmates) only appear in the anime.
* CatchphraseInterruptus: Talking about his infamous question:
--> '''Sango''': "After all, she's the one you asked to bear your child."
--> '''Miroku''': "Well, it's something I always say when I meet a girl."
--> '''Sango''': "You haven't said it to me though."
--> '''Miroku''': "Forgive me Sango! Will you..."
--> '''Sango''': "You don't have to say it!"
* CatsAreMean: A rather impressive filler arc showcased some cat demons as this.
* ChangedMyJumper: Kagome traveling through Feudal Japan in her school uniform with a very short skirt.
* ChangingClothesIsAFreeAction: Played straight by Sango at least once in the anime where she changes from her normal clothes to her armor in a second, ''while leaping''. Usually she averts it though, either having some time to change, fighting in her kimono or already wearing her armor since the beginning.
* CharacterizationMarchesOn: Probably what happened to the smiling, talkative Sesshoumaru. Lampshaded briefly in the manga, however. In the early days, his smiles were usually only sadistic. Later on in the manga, once Sesshoumaru's unsmiling, taciturn personality is established, Jaken does briefly observe that Sesshoumaru only smiles when he's in a killing mood.
* ChastityCouple: Basically what Miroku and Sango become after the proposal [[spoiler: and before their marriage.]]
* TheChessmaster: Naraku.
* TheChewToy: [[ComedicSociopathy It's just too hard trying not to laugh]] whenever poor Jaken [[SlapStick gets the crap beaten out of him]].
** Shippo might be the Jaken of the good guys. Poor kid can't open his mouth without Inuyasha beating the living crap out of him. then again, most of the time he ''is'' [[MouthyKid asking for it]].
* ChivalrousPervert: Miroku is able to behave himself when the situation calls for it.
* ChronicHeroSyndrome: Kagome, although it's Inuyasha who ends up doing the saving most of the time.
* ClothingDamage: Kagura is prone to this.
* CockFight: Happens every time Inuyasha and Kouga meet.
* ColdFlames: Shippo's foxfire.
* ColorFailure: When Shima claims that she has already given herself to Miroku; he, Sango and the youkai Nushi (who Shima is promised to marry) all experience this.
* CombatCommentator
* CombatPragmatist: Miroku shows signs of this in his fight with Sango, tripping her with his staff so she'll lose Hiraikotsu. He's reminded painfully she has other weapons.
* CombinationAttack: The anime made up one for the films and a filler mini-arc involving Kagome's arrows and one of Inuyasha's special attacks combining together for impressive results. This doesn't actually make much sense because Kagome's arrows purify youki which is exactly what Inuyasha's attacks are made of, but it's not something that ever crops up in the manga.
* ComedicSociopathy
* ComicBookTime: While the manga lasted for 12 years, the whole story happens in barely one year, not taking into account the three-year TimeSkip at the end.
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* TheConstant: The Sacred Tree and Bone Eater's Well. To the extent that, [[spoiler: when the Bone Eater's Well ''disappears'' in the FinalBattle, it's seen as a very, very bad sign by everyone on both sides of the well]].
* ConvenientlyAnOrphan: Everyone in Inuyasha's group except for Kagome who has a [[OpenMindedParent living mother]] and the two humans in Sesshoumaru's group are an orphan and SelfMadeOrphan.
* ConvenientlyTimedAttackFromBehind: Inuyasha did this at one time and was almost sucked into the Wind Tunnel for his troubles.
* CoolClearWater: None of the character seem to worry about how safe the water is to drink unless it's because a dangerous {{Youkai}} might be lurking there waiting to pounce on unwary drinkers... despite the story being set during a time of rampant war, death and disase.
* CoolOldLady: Kaede, Jinenji's mother.
* CoolSword: [[InfinityPlusOneSword Tessaiga]], [[HealingShiv Tenseiga]], [[EvilWeapon Tokijin]], [[{{Anime}} Sou'unga]], [[MoreThanInfinite Bakusaiga]].
* CooldownHug: In the final episode of the (first) anime, when Inuyasha was turning into full youkai, Kagome's hug stopped the transformation. Justified in that she's in fact purifying the corrupt Shikon shard he was using.
** And again in the second movie, under similar circumstances - Inuyasha being forced to turn full youkai by the villain of the week. Except this time it didn't work until she kissed him.
* TheCorrupter: Naraku (His favorite tactics are those that involve messing with his enemies' hearts).
* CounterAttack: The Backlash Wave.
* CrazyPrepared: Sango habitually carries a backup weapon, a hidden backup backup weapon, and a considerable assortment of poisons designed for use against demons.
* CreepyCentipedes: The Mukade-Joro and tons of regular demon mooks serving Naraku.
* CrossPoppingVeins
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* CryIntoChest: Sango finally breaks down crying into Kagome's chest releasing all her heartache when the group forgive her for betraying them.
** Kagome does this to Inuyasha a lot. It usually freaks him out somewhat.
* {{Curse}}: The Kazaana/Wind Tunnel/Air Rip is a HereditaryCurse.
* CutShort: The anime initially ended just over half-way through the manga and there was nothing more for several years until the manga ended. This was finally subverted when a wrap-up series ''The Final Act'' was produced to conclude the anime, although it heavily truncated the story to try and fit over 200 chapters into 26 episodes.
* CuteShotaroBoy: Shippo, though on the road to become more like Inuyasha.
** [[YourMileageMayVary For some fans]], Kohaku, too.
* DamagedSoul: Kikyo only has one part of her soul since [[{{Reincarnation}} Kagome]] has most of it.
* DarkActionGirl: Kagura (starts off this way), Tsubaki, Jakotsu (or so he thinks), Princess Abi, Mistress Centipede, Yura, Kaguya
* DarkAndTroubledPast: Inuyasha and Miroku. Inuyasha was shunned by humans and hunted by youkai for being a [[HalfHumanHybrid hanyou]] (his half-brother hate him for that same reason), lost his mother early in his life and spent the rest alone, then he fell in love with Kikyo who betrayed him (or so he thought) and was sealed for fifty years. Miroku witnessed his father fall victim to his curse when he was a little kid, watching him being consumed by his hand only leaving a big crater afterwards, and grew up knowing that that would be his fate one day.
* DarkSkinnedBlond: Shiori.
* DarkestHour: [[spoiler: Sango and Miroku waiting for the Wind Tunnel to absorb them while their despair consumes the light within the Shikon no Tama leaving it in darkness]].
** Sesshoumaru's darkest hour occurs when he finally learns [[spoiler: the truth about Tenseiga's origins and the real reason why he was given Meidou Zangetsuha]], resulting in him [[spoiler: believing that his father had been [[TheUnfavorite training Inuyasha to kill him.]]]] His HeroicBSOD is so blatent that even [[spoiler: ''Myouga'' is desperate to help him. He's left so shaken that when [[BigBad Naraku]] attacks his group he doesn't even try to rescue them; Inuyasha ends up saving them while he watches from a distance. Nothing in the manga - not even Kagura's death or Rin's second death - has ever made him despair the way thinking his father hated him did.]]
* DatePeepers: Every time Inuyasha/Kagome or Miroku/Sango have any romantic moments, the rest of the group will be either spying or eavesdropping.
* DeathByOriginStory
* DeathGlare: Sesshoumaru. Early in the manga, he scares off a pack of wolves with his glare alone. Later on, he's badly injured to such an unusual degree that Kagome and Shippou worry about it and discuss healing him. His glare sends both of them scurrying behind Inuyasha for protection.
* DeathIsCheap: Ask Kikyo... or Kohaku... or Rin.
* [[spoiler: DeathOfTheHypotenuse]]: [[spoiler: Kikyo.]]
* DeflectorShields
* [[DefrostingIceQueen Defrosting Ice King]]: Sesshomaru, thanks to [[MoralityPet Rin]].
* DeliberateInjuryGambit: Inuyasha lets Sesshoumaru impale him through the chest, taking advantage of the moment and ripping off his older brother’s arm to get Tessaiga back.
* DemonHead
* DemonSlaying: A common theme of the series.
* DepravedHomosexual: Jakotsu starts like the archetypical one, but is later made more sympathetic though CharacterDevelopment.
** More AffablyEvil than sympathetic. He's friendly and loyal, but he's still a violent misogynist and extremely {{Yandere}} to Inu Yasha. If it wasn't for Miroku and Sango chasing away the priest maintaining Mt. Hakurei's barrier, he would have murdered and raped Inu Yasha(in that order), and was busily torturing him until that happened.
* DesignatedGirlFight: Subverted. When the Inu-tachi plus Kouga face the Band of Seven, Sango ends up fighting [[VillainousCrossdresser Jakotsu]], much to [[HeManWomanHater his chagrin.]]
* {{Determinator}}: The series is full of them.
* DevourTheDragon
* DiagonalCut: Inuyasha kills Hiten in this manner.
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* DiedInYourArmsTonight: [[spoiler: Kikyo in Inuyasha's arms.]]
* DirtyOldMan: Yakurou Dokusen.
* DisappearedDad
* DisappearsIntoLight: [[spoiler: Kikyo]].
* DismantledMacGuffin: The Shikon Jewel.
* DisneyDeath: Too many to count.
* DistantFinale
* DistressedDamsel: The anime likes putting the female characters into distress much more than the manga does, especially Kagome and Rin. In the manga, however, Kagome's last true kidnapping [[spoiler: by the hands of the baby]]. After that she [[spoiler: becomes a full-on ActionGirl, saves Kikyo's life, defeats Naraku alone ''while burning in the flames of Hell'', gets her ultimate weapon and her last part of CharacterDevelopment after facing the shadows of her heart before ultimately killing Naraku ''and'' the Shikon Jewel.]] Rin isn't really kidnapped much, given the length of the manga, but the final time she's kidnapped lasts for quite a few chapters [[spoiler: since it's the final battle.]]
* DivingSave
* DoesNotLikeShoes: Inuyasha, Rin, Kagura, Kohaku, Kouga... apparently Rumiko Takahashi has a well known [[AuthorAppeal foot fetish]], meaning you'll see plenty of her characters barefoot, and plenty of [[FootFocus close-ups]]...
* {{Dojikko}}: Rare male example: Akitoki Hojou. Also a DoggedNiceGuy towards Kagome, [[spoiler: like one of his descendants]].
* DoomItYourself: In one of the filler episodes, Inuyasha accidentally damages the handlebar to Kagome's new bicycle. While she goes to school, he volunteers to fix it. Given his lack of knowledge on bicycles - or anything else from the modern era for that matter - things quickly [[CrowningMomentofFunny get out of hand]], and by the time Kagome gets home, the bike is in even worse shape.
* DoomedHometown: The demon slayers' village.
* DoubleStandard: When Inuyasha gets jealous of Kagome's interactions with Kouga, in which she does nothing to discourage his flirting with ''her'', Inuyasha is usually subdued by Kagome. When it comes to Inuyasha's relationship with Kikyo and the two meet up, he's normally also subdued by a jealous Kagome and is criticized by the rest of the group for hurting her feelings.
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* DragonRider: Rin and Jaken. [[spoiler: Kohaku]], too, for a while.
* DramaticWind
* DressHitsFloor
* DropWhatYouAreDoing: PlayedForLaughs. When Kagome asks Sango, who's cleaning Hiraikotsu, if she's in love with Miroku (more like states it), Sango drops the weapon in shock and breaks the floor.
* [[DudeShesLikeInAComa Dude, She's Like, In A Coma!]]: Ironically, Sango kissed Miroku while he was unconscious.
* DyingAsYourself
* DynamicEntry: Happens several times. One example consists of Kagome, Miroku and Sango being saved from Mukotsu by a clawed hand slicing into Mukotsu's body signify the arrival of - to Kagome's shock - [[IWasJustPassingThrough Sesshoumaru]] rather than Inuyasha.
* DysfunctionJunction
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* [[spoiler: EarnYourHappyEnding:]] [[spoiler: After everything the main characters went through, almost all of them got a happy ending. Miroku and Sango are HappilyMarried and have three kids; Shippo is learning to get better with his powers; Kohaku, accompanied by Kirara, is atoning by helping other people; Rin is staying with Kaede and is often visited by Sesshoumaru; and even though they were separated for three years, Kagome and Inuyasha are reunited at the end.]]
* EmbarrassingCoverUp: Made by Kagome's grandfather.
* EmotionlessGirl: Kanna, at least before she dies.
* EmpathicWeapon: Several weapons in the series are this, most notably [[{{BFS}} Tessaiga]], [[HealingShiv Tenseiga]] and [[BattleBoomerang Hiraikotsu]]. [[EvilWeapon Tokijin]] starts off as one, but its will is completely suppressed by Sesshoumaru's.
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* EldritchAbomination: While [[HalfHumanHybrid Naraku]] likes to consider himself one, [[spoiler: Magatsuhi,]] the composite youkai who killed Midoriko fits the bill.
* EpisodeTitleCard: Always read aloud by Inuyasha himself.
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* EternalEnglish
* EvenBadMenLoveTheirMamas: Princess Abi joins Naraku to save her dying mother.
** A female [[{{Youkai}} bone-youkai]] stole Sango's weapon to try and save her father.
** While it's hard to tell how he and his mother feel about each other, a significant part of Sesshoumaru's character development involved getting over his daddy issues which required her help.
* EvenTheGuysWantHim: Inuyasha not only is in the middle of a LoveTriangle with Kagome and Kikyou, but VillainousCrossdresser Jakotsu is explicitly and obsessively in love with him. Jakotsu was also attracted to Sesshoumaru and Miroku, but concluded that he preferred Inuyasha.
* EveryoneCanSeeIt: Everyone could see Inuyasha and Kagome liked each other since the beginning. Everyone could also see Sango liked Miroku, except for Inuyasha.
* EverythingsWorseWithBees: The Saimyoushou, the poisonous insects Naraku uses.
* EvilEvolves: Naraku. Oh, Naraku.
** Tessaiga, though just demonic and not technically evil, qualifies as well late in the series, absorbing power from the demons it slays.
* EvilPlan: Each villain has one but its Naraku's that drive the plot.
* EvilerThanThou: Moryomaru's a mean guy but he's just a thug compared to Naraku.
* EvilWeapon: Tokijin
* ExcaliburInTheRust: In the hands of almost anyone except Inuyasha, Tessaiga looks like a katana that has seen better days. When Inuyasha weilds it, the blade takes its true form.
* ExponentialPlotDelay: It never ends! ''It never ends!'' (Well, until it finally does; the story does progress and characters do develop, just very slowly except for near the beginning and end of the series.)
* {{Expy}}: Mostly of [[RanmaOneHalf Ranma 1/2]]. RumikoTakahashi herself admitted that the [[PortmanteauCoupleName InuKag]] romance was supposed to be the [[OfficialCouple Ranma/Akane]] romance as it should have been written. Sango resembles Ukyo Kuonji in terms of design and Miroku looks a lot like Shinnosuke (and like the young [[DirtyOldMan Luckyosai]], Happosai's "old friend"). Also, Myoga resembles manga-Happosai in looks though not personality. And if you look at it the right way, Koga/Ryoga Hibiki.
** Bonus points for the fact that Ranma and Inuyasha share voice actors in BOTH Japanese and English (Kappei Yamaguchi and Richard Ian Cox, though only for the latter half of Ranma in Dick's case), and Kelly Sheridan is the English voice for both Ukyo and Sango. Further, David Kaye voices both Soun and Sesshomaru, and Paul Dobson voiced both Happosai and Myoga.
* EyeScream: In the manga, Sesshoumaru stabs Inuyasha's right eye in order to get the black pearl that's hidden there, a portal to his father's grave.
* FaceFault: Justified via phlebotinum: "SIT, BOY!".
* FaceStealer: Muso.
* FacialMarkings
* TheFairFolk: The demons tend to be otherworldly and ruthless. Some are very ugly, others very beautiful. It's stated that [[BishonenLine the most powerful and dangerous ones are those]] that ''look'' like humans.
** This actually plays into Japanese culture; the beings referred to in Japan as {{Yokai}} and {{Obake}} would probably be considered more Fey than Demons by Western standards.
* FamilyThemeNaming: The three named characters from the demon slayers' village -- Sango, her younger brother Kohaku, and their pet Kirara -- all have names referring to semi-precious stones (coral, amber and mica, respectively). Additionally, Kikyou and her younger sister Kaede both have names that begin with K and refer to plants (bellflower and maple).
* FanService: Kagome does seem in many shots to be almost entirely made up of ''very'' shapely legs, though we [[MagicSkirt never see]] ''up'' her skirt. Twice, Kagome's breasts were bared though this is edited for the American releases as is the short shot of Shippo disrobing for a dip in an onsen. Also, Sango's Taijiya uniform is ''[[SensualSpandex very]]'' [[SensualSpandex form fitting]]. All of the main girls have been subject to nude scenes shortly after their introduction. Kagura's top gets ripped off numerous times.
** Never mind the extreme frequency with which Inuyasha, Miroku and [[EstrogenBrigadeBait other male characters]] go shirtless.
* FantasticRacism: Humans and demons don't get along very well, even when they aren't straight-up killing each other.
* FantasticRomance: Inuyasha and Kagome.
* FateWorseThanDeath: Midoriko and Magatsuhi, having to battle each other forever inside the Shikon Jewel.
* FeelNoPain: Yakurou Dokusen offers a "medicine" to Miroku so he'll stop feeling pain everytime he sucks poison into his curse but it won't cure the shouki wounds that are killing him. He takes it.
** Shikon shards in the body will make it insensitive to pain no matter how severe the injuries are, which is how, for example, Sango manages to go toe-to-toe with Inuyasha in her first appearance despite being grievously injured.
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* FieldPowerEffect: The one night of the month half-demons lose their powers.
* FinalBattle: The series' final battle takes place when the FiveManBand plus Sesshomaru's group go inside Naraku after he transforms into a giant, floating spider.
* FireForgedFriends: The main group was formed because all the members (except Shippo) share a common goal, and at first they were hostile to each other. Inuyasha and Kagome are forced to work together to find the Shikon shards, they let Miroku join after learning they share a common enemy and Sango joins for the same reason. They warm up to each other and end up being [[{{Nakama}} best friends]] since they don't really have anyone else.
* TheFirstCutIsTheDeepest: Kikyo to Inuyasha
* FirstLawOfResurrection: [[spoiler:Kikyo]], and arguably [[spoiler:Rin]]. And ''definitely'' [[spoiler: Kohaku]]
* FirstNameBasis: Inuyasha starts to call Kagome by name after defeating Yura. Miroku jumps directly to first name basis with no honorifics with Sango, the only woman he addresses in such a fashion.
** Averted by Sango, who never uses Miroku's name at all, always calling him "Houshi-sama" even after she's promised to marry him. (This and Miroku's use of ''yobisute'' mentioned above are distinctions not carried over into the English dub due to the difficulty of translating them effectively.)
* FishOutOfTemporalWater: Both Kagome and Inuyasha.
* FiveManBand
* FlorenceNightingaleEffect: How Onigumo falls in love with Kikyo.
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* FollowTheChaos: Naraku, along with his "stink", also tends to leave behind trails of dead bodies everywhere he goes
* FoolishSiblingResponsibleSibling: Plays with this. Kagome isn't flighty per se, but often forgets to bring her homework to class, only for Sota to pick up the slack. Then again, considering she's spending most of her time in the Feudal Era, she can hardly be blamed for losing focus on her supposed off days.
* TheForceIsStrongWithThisOne: Most of the main characters are able to detect youki.
* TheFourGods: a QuirkyMinibossSquad in one of the late filler arcs (first half of the anime's sixth season) is a squad of four Demon Ninjas based on them; Byakko of the Snow (Byakko the White Tiger), Genbu of the Darkness (Genbu the Black Turtle), Seiryuu of the Moon (Seiryuu the Azure Dragon), and Suzaku of the Flower (Suzaku the Vermillion Phoenix).
** The villains of the the fourth movie, "Fire on the Mystic Island", are also based off of TheFourGods, though somewhat less blatantly than the aforementioned Demon Ninjas.
* {{Foreshadowing}}: A brilliantly blatant yet easy-to-miss example occurs when Naraku manipulates Sango into stealing Tessaiga for him. He is able to hold it and briefly uses it against her. Amids the ensuing drama, the audience isn't likely to remember that said sword was suppossed to have a demon-repelling barrier around it that should've left a full demon like Naraku with some ugly burns on his hand... this is explained when we learn that Naraku isn't a full demon at all...
** Another moment occurs as a result of the same incident. Sango tells Inuyasha's group that they can't trust her because, if Naraku attempts to use the same tactic on her in the future (making her choose between friends and a loved one), she'll make the same decision all over again. Right at the end of the manga, Naraku attempts what Sango feared and does indeed try to repeat the incident. [[spoiler: This time, it's a choice between Rin's life and Miroku's life and, as warned, Sango does indeed make the same decision again: attempting to kill Rin to save Miroku.]]
** Another throwaway comment, this time by Toutousai. When Inuyasha first masters the Kaze no Kizu while fighting Sesshoumaru and it's revealed at the same time that Tenseiga has chosen Sesshoumaru as its true master, Toutousai mutters to himself "Whether Tenseiga lives or dies will depend on Sesshoumaru's heart". It takes hindsight to show us just how significant that statement proved to be.
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* FuelMeterOfPower: The Wind Tunnel is constantly expanding (a process that is accelerated every time it's used and even more so if it's injured) until it's big enough to break the seal and kill Miroku.
* FullFrontalAssault: Muso, although it is toned down by AnimeAnatomy. MoralGuardians, you know...
* FuroScene
* FutureSpandex: Sango's fighting outfit includes this under her body armor.
* GatlingGood: Renkotsu battles Inuyasha with a giant gatling gun that seems to fire mortar rounds or cannon balls.
* GentleGiant: Jinenji.
* GoOutWithASmile: Several instances, most notably [[spoiler:Kagura]] and [[spoiler:Kikyo]].
* GoodIsNotNice: Inuyasha.
* GoodParents: Mama Higurashi.
* GoodScarsEvilScars: Scars in the shape of a spider on one back mark incarnations of Naraku; it's a taint that he can't get away from because of the part of him that's Onigumo.
* GoodThingYouCanHeal: Inuyasha.
* GottaCatchEmAll
* GuysSmashGirlsShoot: Inuyasha and Kagome. Inverted by Sango and Miroku.
* HairColors
* HalfBreed: The title character.
* HandicappedBadass: Sesshoumaru lost his left arm fighting Inuyasha in his first appearance. He still was one of the most powerful characters in the series. [[spoiler: He even got his arm back towards the end in a CrowningMomentOfAwesome.]]
* HandsomeLech: Miroku
* HarmfulToMinors: Poor Shippo, Kohaku and Rin.
* HazyFeelTurn
* HeManWomanHater: Jakotsu.
* HeWillNotCrySoICryForHim: [[spoiler:Jaken does this for Sesshoumaru when Rin dies.]]
* HeadPet: Inverted. When Shippo travels on Kirara, he usually does it on her head.
* HealingFactor: Everyone with youkai blood. [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru [[UpToEleven ups this to eleven]] later on in the series, however, which results in him being able to regenerate his missing left arm.]]
* HealingShiv: Sesshomaru's sword Tenseiga can revive the dead by cutting down the pallbearers of the afterlife as they come to collect the dead person's soul. However, as is eventually revealed under [[KillTheCutie tragic circumstances]], [[spoiler:people can be revived in this manner [[HoldingBackThePhlebotinum only once]].]]
* HeldGaze: This type of gaze occurs a few times between several different pairs, including [[spoiler: a [[TearJerker moment]] between [[TheStoic Sesshoumaru]] and [[BrokenBird Kagura]]. As her life ebbs away, they talk, run out of words, and finally hold each other's gaze as she [[NoBodyLeftBehind distintegrates]] into [[IDieFree the wind]].]]
* HeroStoleMyBike: Miroku stole Kagome's bike and the Shikon Shard she carried when they first met.
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* HeyThatsMyLine
* HiddenEyes
* HighOnCatnip: In a filler episode, a villain incapacitates Kirara with catnip.
* HimeCut: Many, notably Kikyou and Sango.
* HitchhikerHeroes
* HoistByHisOwnPetard: [[BatOutOfHell Taigokumaru]] picks the wrong time to mouth off about [[NobleDemon his son Tsukuyomaru's death]] to [[BarrierMaiden Shiori, his granddaughter]]. [[YouKilledMyFather Guess what happens.]]
* {{Homage}}: Doesn't the whole plot around how only the "right" person can pull the sword Tessaiga from the place it stands remind alot of KingArthur?
* HomeSweetHome: [[spoiler: All the protagonists settle down in Kaede's village at the end.]]
* HonorBeforeReason
* HornedHumanoid
* HorseOfADifferentColor: Kirara and Ah-Un.
* HotAmazon: Sango is wanted by both Miroku and Kuranosuke because of her beauty ''and'' her strength. Definitely Kagura's main appeal.
* HotDad: [[spoiler: Miroku, by the end of the series, with Sango as the (predictable) HotMom.]]
** Judging by the flashbacks, Miroku's father wasn't so bad either.
** Inupapa looks like Sesshomaru with a ponytail.
** Shiori's dad, Tsukuyomaru is a DarkSkinnedBlond bishonen.
* HowDareYouDieOnMe
* HowDoIShotWeb: It takes quite some time for Inuyasha to master the Wind Scar.
* HumanShield: Naraku uses Rin as a shield while prompts Sango to kill him.
* HurtingHero: Kikyo, Sango, Miroku is the [[BrokenHero cheerful]] kind, [[TheAtoner Kohaku]] after he regains his memories and Inuyasha after some CharacterDevelopment.
* HypocriticalHumor: Miroku: "What a terrible guy, to trick girls with a fake medicine"
* IAmAHumanitarian: Several Youkai feeds on humans/humans innards, but Tokajin the sennin takes the cake. Seriously toned down in the anime.
* IAmNotWeasel
* IAmYourOpponent: Used several times by Inuyasha and Sango; inverted by Naraku.
* ICanStillFight: Mainly Inuyasha and Sango. [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru, too,]] at one point - although he manages to avoid these exact words, he still ends up in an argument with [[spoiler: Inuyasha over [[BadassInDistress whether he should be on the battlefield at all]].]]
** Actually, at least in Inuyasha's case, it's usually TRUE. Very rarely will he actually reach a point where he can't fight anymore. When this happens, he usually continues anyway via Deus Ex Machina demonic blood.
* [[spoiler: IChooseToStay]]: [[spoiler: After finishing her education, Kagome opts to remain in the past with Inuyasha.]]
* IHaveYouNowMyPretty: Mukotsu, on Kagome. Jakotsu, on ''Inuyasha''.
* IHaveYourWife: Naraku revived and brainwashed Kohaku just to mess with Sango.
* IJustWantToBeFree: Kagura.
* IJustWantToBeNormal: Kikyo.
* IKnowYouAreInThereSomewhereFight: Basically every time Sango encounters brainwashed!Kohaku.
* INeverToldYouMyName: In the Hoshiyomi filler arc, demons manage to get a photo of three of Kagome's friends from her backpack, and use it to create puppets of them in order to trick Kagome and Hojo into handing over the magic blade that their master needs. Kagome is suspicious to begin with, but her suspicions are confirmed when one of the three calls her by her name - which she hadn't mentioned to them.
* ITakeOffenseToThatLastOne: InuYasha called Miroku a "fake lechering monk" once. His response? "I may be a lecher, but how ''dare'' you call me a fake!
* IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy: This is Miroku's reaction when Takeda proposes marriage to Sango, much to [[ShipperOnDeck Kagome's]] frustration.
* IWasJustPassingThrough: Sesshoumaru's favorite excuse whenever he helps the heroes.
* IWillDefinitelyProtectYou: Inuyasha to Kagome: "Shut up! I'm saying I'll protect you!"
* IdentityAmnesia: Kohaku.
* [[IfICantHaveYou If I Can't Have You]]: Naraku with Kikyou. [[spoiler: He tricks Kikyou and Inuyasha into betraying each other, in hopes that he might be able to whisk the girl away after she's killed her former lover, but to much of his dismay she decides to choose death. Then when she's resurrected, he tries to kill her over and over again until he finally succeeds. He even wanted her to die in his arms, hoping that Inuyasha would be too late.]]
* ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice: Happens several times in the manga, bad guys impaling good guys, good guys impaling bad guys. Brothers impaling each other. One of the most dramatic occurances, however, takes place in the latter stages of the manga when [[spoiler: [[UltimateEvil Magatsuhi]] impales Sesshoumaru through the [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat heart]], bringing the entire cast to a shocked, disbelieving stand-still.]]
* ImpliedLoveInterest: Sesshoumaru and Kagura, whose feeling are never specifically confirmed but whose significance to one another is clear in the later parts of the storyline (and helpfully spotlighted by [[ShipperOnDeck Rin]]).
* ImpossiblyCoolClothes: The demon slayers' uniforms, not to mention Inuyasha's fire rat kimono.
* InThePastEveryoneWillBeFamous: Subverted. When Inuyasha and Kagome meet a young samurai named Nobunaga, she immediately asks for his autograph excited to be meeting the famous OdaNobunaga. It turns out he's ''Amari'' Nobunaga and is offended to be mistaken for that "idiot".
* IncendiaryExponent: The first time Inuyasha turns into a human, he ends up having to fight a spider demon. So he pulls up a bunch of wooden grave markers amidst cries of blasphemy, ''sets them on fire'', and then uses them as flaming javelins.
* InfinityPlusOneSword: By the end of the series, Tessaiga can generate huge energy blasts, reflect incoming energy attacks, launch a spray of adamantine spikes, cut through energy barriers, siphon demonic energy, and CREATE DIMENSIONAL PORTALS TO THE UNDERWORLD.
* InterruptedSuicide: Inuyasha arrives just in the nick of time to stop Sango from [[KillTheOnesYouLove killing her brother]] and committing suicide.
* InterspeciesRomance: Inuyasha, Shiori and Jinenji all have human mothers and {{Youkai}} fathers.
* IntoxicationEnsues: Inuyasha: "I ain't drunk. And why are there two Kagomes?" On another occasion he ends [[CrowningMomentOfFunny following a butterfly and falling off a cliff]].
* InvoluntaryShapeshifting: Inuyasha turns human during the night of the new moon. He also transforms into full youkai when in danger (and not having Tessaiga near to seal his blood) and when a very corrupt Shikon shard is nearby (and not having Kagome near to purify him).
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* ItOnlyWorksOnce: Tenseiga can revive the dead, but only once. A second revival requires a trip to hell and a DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu, and that likewise will only work the one time.
* ItWasWithYouAllAlong: Toutousai explains that [[spoiler: Bakusaiga was this to Sesshoumaru.]]
* ItsPersonal: ''Everyone'' wants revenge against Naraku.
* JerkAss[=/=]JerkWithAHeartOfGold: Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Koga.
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* JidaiGeki: The story (while not in the present) takes place during the Sengoku Jidai.
* JokerImmunity: Naraku in the anime.
* {{Joshikousei}}: Kagome
* JourneyToTheWest: a ShoutOut only found in the anime version is the appearance of a Boar Demon named Chokyukai, who claims to be a descendent of Chohakkai, aka "Disciple Pigsy". He also has a monkey and a scrawny kappa as his slaves, and claims that they are descendents of Shagoyjo (aka "Disciple Sandy") and Son Goku (aka "Monkey", aka "Sun Wukong"). Kagome has to explain to Inuyasha and co. that Chokyukai is talking about the famous tale of a Monk who travelled to India alongside a pig demon, a water demon, and a rebellious monkey god to retrieve sacred sutras.
** The main characters mirror the Journey's main characters to some extent. Inuyasha just like Goku is bad tempered, is set free from a long curse at the beginning, has an elongable weapon, has animal traits and is subdued by a talisman which is under control of the person he's protecting. Kagome, like Tripitaka, is on a quest for a sacred item, is the reincarnation of a noble soul of the past, is the preferred target of demons and is helpless compared to most other characters. Miroku and Sango have some traits in common with Pigsy and Sandy respectively.
* JustFollowingOrders: Byakuya's excuse to Sesshoumaru when he interferes with Sesshoumaru's pursuit of Mouryoumaru is, "don't hate me, I'm just doing my job".
* KabukiSounds: Boy howdy.
* KiAttacks: Most all the attacks Inuyasha does are ki attacks focused through his sword; he rarely uses it to actually cut anyone, aside from monster-like demons. This is eventually [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] by Sesshoumaru, who [[BigBrotherMentor cryptically advises]] his brother that [[spoiler: he's put so many weird powers into the blade that he's forgotten what the point of a sword is ([[IncrediblyLamePun the point of the sword]] is to cut).]]
* KillerRabbit: Kirara. She's usually a very small and cute kitty with two tails but she can transform into a large saber-toothed cat with flames around her feet and tails, and in this form she's able to fly and carry up to three people on her back.
* KissOfLife: Miroku tries this on Sango. [[ArmorPiercingSlap Guess what.]]
* {{Kitsune}}: Shippo. One episode featured an Inn full of them.
* KnifeOutline: When Inuyasha was trying to steal the Jewel from Kikyo, instead of killing him she decided to pin him like this to a tree.
* KryptoniteIsEverywhere: Even though the Wind Tunnel is the most powerful (and destructive) weapon, Miroku rarely gets to use it since it's vulnerable to poison, and more often than not the foe they're fighting is poisonous. Naraku has the Saimyoshou (poisonous hell bees) exactly for this reason.
* LadyOfWar: Kikyou, Kagura and Sango.
* LadykillerInLove: Miroku falls hard for Sango. He still flirts with any beautiful lady, though.
* LapPillow: Inuyasha rests in Kagome's lap while he's poisoned during his human night.
* [[spoiler: LastKiss]]: [[spoiler: Inuyasha and Kikyo shared a kiss right before she died.]]
* LastOfHisKind: Sango is the last surviving demon slayer. [[spoiler: At least until Kohaku ''really'' [[BackFromTheDead gets better.]] ]]
* LeeroyJenkins: Inuyasha's preferred battle strategy.
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* LetsYouAndHimFight: This is Naraku's preferred tactic.
* LickedByTheDog: Sesshomaru and Rin
* LightIsNotGood
* LighterAndSofter: One example would be Mukotsu's attempted rape of Kagome in the manga. The anime gets around this by having [[AndNowYouMustMarryMe Mukotsu attempt to force Kagome into marriage with him]].
* LightningGlare
* LimaSyndrome: Kouga falls for Kagome after kidnapping her.
* LimitedWardrobe
* LivingMemory: Resurrected Kikyo.
* LongHairedPrettyboy: Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha, Naraku and Bankotsu.
* LongRunner: The first anime was 167 episodes plus four movies, five in Japan. ''The Final Act'' added 26 episodes, for a grand TV total of 193. The {{manga}} started in 1996, and finally concluded in June 2008 with its 558th chapter. Overall the series ran for ''twelve'' years.
* LosingYourHead: [[spoiler: The first of Naraku's Demon Puppets.]]
* LotusEaterMachine: [[spoiler: The Shikon no Tama makes Kagome believe she's living a normal life while she's trapped inside the jewel]].
* LovableCoward: Myoga.
* LoveBubbles
* LoveEpiphany: Kagome, not that it changes anything
* LoveHurts
* LoveTranscendsSpacetime
* LoveTriangle: Kagome/Inuyasha/Kikyo
* LoveableRogue: Miroku doesn't have any problems with lying, cheating, conning, stealing, drinking, womanizing, etc. He's still one of the good guys ''and'' a Buddhist monk.
* LoyalAnimalCompanion: Kirara, especially to Sango.
* LoyalPhlebotinum: Several weapons. Tessaiga initially appears to be this, then it seems to be averted when it's revealed Sesshoumaru can use it as well, it's only the youkai-repelling barrier that stops him. Finally, it's confirmed during a DieOrFly test of worth when Sesshoumaru deliberately steals Tessaiga's power to test its bond with Inuyasha only to find the power immediately flees back to Inuyasha at the first chance it gets.
** [[EvilWeapon Toukijin]] is so powerful and evil not even [[UltimateBlacksmith Toutousai]] can approach it. Sesshoumaru overcomes the blade's evil will easily and the sword obeys him loyally [[spoiler: until the day it's destroyed.]]
** Tenseiga accepts only Sesshoumaru as its true master even though Sesshoumaru doesn't want it at all. [[spoiler: Even when he deliberately shatters the blade and discards it, the sword ends up reforging itself and landing back on the ground near Sesshoumaru. The only reason Tenseiga is not a ClingyMacGuffin is because it can be physically separated from Sesshoumaru. It just won't stay separated.]]
* LuminescentBlush: Particularly Sango, but also Kagome and Inuyasha when things get a little too "romantic" between them.
* {{Lunacy}}: Inuyasha loses his powers whenever is the new moon.
* MagicSkirt: ''Kohaku'' has more panty shots than Kagome...
* MagicalGesture: Mikos and monks use this.
* ManBehindTheMan: Nearly every antagonist the Inu-tachi face is either working for or is a direct detachment of Naraku himself.
** Near the end of the manga, it's implied that [[spoiler: the ''Shikon no Tama'', or rather, the aggregate demon inside it]] manipulated [[spoiler: ''Naraku'']] in a bid to free itself while perpetuating the {{Vicious Cycle}}. The last chapter implies that [[spoiler: the Shikon no Tama]] was the REAL {{Big Bad}} that Kagome was sent back in time to defeat.
* TheManBehindTheMonsters
* ManipulativeBastard: Naraku ''loves'' to turn people against each other.
* ManlyTears: Inuyasha shed tears when Kagome, Sango and Miroku survived after thinking they had died. [[spoiler: And later, he cried as he held a dying Kikyo in his arms.]]
* MasterOfIllusion: Byakuya.
* MasterOfTheMixedMessage: Miroku ''so very much''. His proposal is infamous for this: first telling Sango she's a special woman to him but later saying he can't love her and she's only a friend to fight alongside with, and then culminating with asking her if she would live with him and bear his child after Naraku is defeated.
* MasterPoisoner: Mukotsu of the Band of Seven, Yakurou Dokusen and Sango.
* MasterSwordsman: Sesshomaru
* MayflyDecemberRomance: Since youkai are ReallySevenHundredYearsOld, any relationship between a human and a youkai. Curiously enough, in the three known relationships like this, the youkai died first.
* MeaningfulName: The series is rife with them, starting with Inuyasha himself whose name means Dog-Yaksa. A [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yaksha yaksa]] is a spirit who in Buddhism serves a benevolent god that protects the righteous. Because Tessaiga is meant to be used for the protection of humans, Inuyasha's name suits him very well.
** Naraku means "abyss", [[{{BFS}} Tessaiga]] literally translates into [[ImpossiblyCoolWeapon "Iron]] [[AncestralWeapon Crushing]] [[EmpathicWeapon Fang"]], Sesshomaru translates into something like [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "perfect]] [[AwesomeMcCoolname killing]] [[NobleDemon circle"]] (Yikes) and Miroku is the Japanese name for the future Buddha.
** Another very noticeable example is the entire Band of Seven, whose names all end with "-kotsu" (meaning "bone"), indicating their undead natures. The prefixes of their names are individually meaningful as well; for instance, the "ja-" in Jakotsu's name means "snake," a reference to his serpent-like WhipSword (accordingly named "Jakotsu-to," "snake bone sword").
* MeditatingUnderAWaterfall: Miroku.
* MegaNeko: Kirara.
* MegatonPunch: Inuyasha.
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* [[MenDontCry Men Don't Cry]]: Inuyasha says this to a crying Shippo when they think Kagome, Miroku and Sango have died. When it turns out they haven't, Inuyasha tries to hide his tears which Shippo is fast to point out.
* MindControlEyes: Kohaku and Kagome
** In the questionably canon second movie, [[spoiler: Inuyasha is forced to transform into a full demon by Kaguya, complete with the classic [[RedEyesTakeWarning "eyes fade to red"]] effect.]]
* MineralMacGuffin: The Shikon no Tama/Jewel of Four Souls
* TheMinnesotaFats: Kikyou, for Kagome.
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* MissingMom
* MistakenForDying: Mushin in a filler episode of the anime.
* MistakenForGranite: A pair of statues guard the doorway to the underworld
* MomentKiller: Kagome and Inuyasha get interrupted several times. One noteworthy example happens towards the end of the story [[spoiler: when they’re alone in her house and are about to kiss when Souta comes crashing through the door.]]
** Miroku and Sango on the other hand don’t need any help, they’ll ruin the moment themselves.
* MonsterLord
* MonsterOfTheWeek
* MonstrosityEqualsWeakness: It's stated that the more human-looking demons are the most powerful.
* MoralityPet: Sesshomaru has a little girl, Rin. Kohaku becomes something of a MoralityPet for Kagura for a short time [[spoiler: until she dies saving his life, resulting in him defaulting to Sesshoumaru. One imagines that if everyone else got killed off, Fluffy'd probably end up with Shippo as well.]]
* MoreThanInfinite: Unlike [[InfinityPlusOneSword Tessaiga]], [[spoiler: Bakusaiga]] does not need multiple flashy techniques. It has just one. [[spoiler: ''ChainReactionDestruction''. It [[FantasticNuke nukes]] everything - even things it [[TheVirus didn't cut in the first place]] if they come into contact with anything that took the original blow. It can take out ''[[WeaponOfMassDestruction thousands]]'' in a single blow.]]
* MorphicResonance: When Shippo shape shifts he is usually unable to conceal his tail.
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* MouthyKid: Shippo.
* TheMovie: Four times. They're generally [[NonSerialMovie non-serial]], but occasionally nods to them are thrown into the anime, like Sesshomaru's Soryuha technique, which was made up for a movie. The fandom periodically circulates rumours of a fifth but that generally refers to either the ending of an old computer game or a more recent OVA that was released as part of the Rumic World Specials and can be found, with minor editing, as episode 15 of the the Final Act.
* MrViceGuy: Miroku.
* MuggleAndMagicalLoveTriangle: Kagome has the most desired boy in school fall in love with her, but even when she goes on dates with him she finds herself thinking about Inu Yasha, half-dog demon from the mythic past.
* MultiMeleeMaster: All demon slayers are this, carrying a main weapon and a short sword, and if Sango is any indication, a chain and a hidden blade in their sleeve, too. Sango even fights with the Hiraikotsu and the sword [[DualWielding at the same time.]]
* MurderTheHypotenuse: Kikyo kinda tries this, letting Kagome fall to Naraku's miasma.
** Naraku is intent on killing Inuyasha. Although he also is intent on killing the other cathetus.
* MusclesAreMeaningless
* MyKungFuIsStrongerThanYours
* {{Nakama}}: Our FiveManBand.
* {{Nakamania}}
* NakedFirstImpression: Miroku to Kagome (she didn't see him).
* NakedOnArrival: Kikyou was resurrected naked.
* NamedWeapons
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* NarratingTheObvious
* NeverTrustAHairTonic: Two demon brothers kidnap Kagome. She thinks they simply want to eat her, but it turns out one of them is severely balding and embarrassed about it, and he has heard you can get a hair growth potion by boiling down a human maiden. At hearing this, Kagome angrily insists they eat her instead.
* NiceJobBreakingItHero: Literally for Kagome. She managed to kill the youkai that had stolen the Shikon no Tama but in the process also broke the jewel, putting into motion the plot of the story.
* NighInvulnerability: Naraku in many different ways depending on his current body.
** The Shikon no Tama.
** [[spoiler: In the end, Sesshoumaru is revealed to be this when the UltimateEvil tries to kill him by [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice stabbing]] him directly through the [[NoOneCouldSurviveThat heart]]. It only makes Sesshoumaru [[ItWasWithYouAllAlong even stronger]] than he [[CameBackStrong used to be]]. ]]
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* NoCureForEvil: Sesshoumaru, courtesy of [[HealingShiv Tenseiga]], at least until he receives CharacterDevelopment.
** Averted with Kikyou, who spent much of the manga as an evil mockery of her former gentle self while continuing to retain her healing abilities and her desire to heal. Eventually, her kind nature was [[RedemptionEqualsDeath saved and restored]].
* NoOneCouldSurviveThat: That's why Sango was BuriedAlive. Later on, [[spoiler: [[UltimateEvil Magatsuhi]] succeeds in [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice impaling]] Sesshoumaru through the heart and then bundles the limp body into his own ready for Naraku to absorb later. [[CameBackStrong He survives.]]]]
* NoOntologicalInertia: The only way for Miroku to free himself from the Wind Tunnel is to kill Naraku, the one who placed the curse on his grandfather.
* NoSocialSkills: Inuyasha.
* NobleDemon: [[DisappearedDad Inu-no-Taisho]] was probably one. Sesshoumaru's mother might also be one, but her single appearance leaves it difficult to tell: although she participates in Inu-no-Taisho's plan to teach Sesshoumaru compassion, interpretations vary as to whether or not she demonstrates a LackOfEmpathy. CharacterDevelopment eventually lands Sesshoumaru in this category; other examples include Totosai, Housenki, and the fathers of Jinenji and Shiori.
** As a rule, if you have a half-demon child, you are probably a NobleDemon.
* NoblewomansLaugh: Most every female villain.
* NonHumanSidekick: Kirara.
* NormallyIWouldBeDeadNow: Sango. Also, Kagura who gets blasted through the heart and only survives because Naraku had confiscated her heart.
* NotBrainwashed: After Kohaku regains his memories, he decides to act like he's still under Naraku's control to be near him and find a way to kill him.
* NotQuiteDead: Kikyo quite a few times, she seems to be prone to fall from cliffs.
* NotWhatItLooksLike: When Inuyasha refuses to let Kagome check on his injuries after their battle with Yura of the Hair, she tries to tear off his shirt in order to check for any serious damage. When Kaede and some of the children from the village bump into the two, they think they're doing....something else.
* NowOrNeverKiss: The reason why Sango kissed Miroku. Unfortunately for him, he was unconscious.
* NunTooHoly: Miroku is a Buddhist monk... who chases after women, has tried to peep on women bathing at least once, is willing to use violence to make others agree with him (he's beaten up the [[{{Obake}} Tanuki]] Hatchi at least once, and then threatened to use the Wind Tunnel on him a different time) and is quite willing to fake exorcisms in order to get food, money, lodgings or any combination of the aforemention. Of course, this kind of plays on real-world stereotypes of ''actual'' monkish behavior from that time period.
* ObfuscatingStupidity: Totosai.
* OcularGushers: Kagome's grandfather, particularly.
* OddCouple
* OddlyVisibleEyebrows: Everyone, but especially Inuyasha.
* OffingTheOffspring: [[spoiler: Naraku.]]
* OhCrap: Naraku has several, like when Kagome blew up his body realizing she's Kikyo's reincarnation or when Kohaku tried to purify him with the light in his shard. In those instances he's always quick to run. His servants likewise get more than a few, especially Byakuya who thought he could handle [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru with an army of a few thousand youkai to back him up.]] [[OhCrap He was wrong]].
* OldRetainer: Myoga and Jaken.
* OnTheNextEpisodeOfCatchphrase: Kagome's 'See ya soon!'
* OneManArmy: Despite the back-up his friends give him, Inuyasha is more than capable of this. His sword can slay a hundred youkai with a single swing... and that's its weakest ability. Then there's Miroku, who can take out many youkai with his Wind Tunnel (when he's allowed to use it). [[spoiler: And Sesshoumaru's sword can slay thousands of youkai with a single swing.]]
* TheOneThatGotAway: Debatably Sesshomaru and Kagura, sounds like a classic case of losing the one you love before getting a chance to tell them how you feel.
* OneWingedAngel: Naraku has ''5'' of them in the final battle.
* TheOnlyOneAllowedToDefeatYou
* OnlySixFaces: Kikyo and Kagome are the only two characters that have [[{{Reincarnation}} any business looking alike]], but they look like just about every other young woman, and [[{{Bishonen}} even some of the men]]. Ironically, Kikyo and Kagome are two of the more distinct comparisons, given their different hairstyles in the anime.
** There are in fact Only Four Faces - Young Woman, Young Man, Old Woman, and Old Man. The difference between the first two and last is also debatable.
* OnlyTheChosenMayWield: Tessaiga can only be wielded by Inuyasha. Tenseiga can only be wielded by Sesshoumaru.
* OpenMindedParent: Nobody in her family minds that Kagome is gone for days or weeks at a time adventuring in a past era full of {{Youkai}} and missing a lot of school to do it, or that she's falling for a guy who's only half human; on the contrary, they cheerfully make up excuses for her to explain her absences.
* OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent: Kagome
* OrnamentalWeapon: Kouga carries a sword he never uses. He even admitted he just had it for decoration after having to use it to free himself from Moryomaru.
* OrpheanRescue
* TheOtherDarrin: In the [[VizMedia Viz]]/[[OceanGroup Ocean Group]] English dub of Inuyasha: The Final Act, Kagome and Sesshomaru were recast from Moneca Stori and David Kaye, respectively, to Kira Tozer and Michael Daingerfield.
* OurDragonsAreDifferent: Ah-Un is a kind, loyal, two-headed dragon-horse that travels with Sesshoumaru. In the anime, he's also made herbivorous.
** Ryoukotsusei is a giant elder Dragon whose NighInvulnerable and speaks through what looks like a Noh mask in the middle of his forehead. Inuyasha's father is fatally wounded fighting and sealing him.
* OurTimeTravelIsDifferent: Wormhole Time Travel through the well.
* OurZombiesAreDifferent Type R: Kikyo, Kohaku and the Band of Seven.
* OutDamnedSpot: Inuyasha, and later Suikotsu (the good one).
* OutdoorBathPeeping: With Miroku around, it was inevitable.
* OvertookTheManga: The first anime ended without any resolution when it overtook the manga. After the manga ended, a second anime ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' was made and continued the story from where the first one left off.
* PaperFanOfDoom
* PaperTalisman: Miroku uses his ofudas to exorcise demons ''and'' rip-off wealthy people.
* ParentalAbandonment: Every major character:
** Inuyasha: His father died after his fight with Ryukotsusei shortly after he was born, his mother died when he was a kid.
** Kagome: Her father is barely mentioned. [[spoiler: In a novel it's revealed that he died in an accident when she was younger.]]
** Shippo: His father was killed by the Thunder Brothers soon before his introduction. His mother is never mentioned.
** Miroku: His father was consumed by the Wind Tunnel when he was little, his mother is never mentioned.
** Sango: Her father was killed by Kohaku during their introduction, her mother is never mentioned.
* ParrotPetPosition: Kirara (while in her small form) and Shippo normally travel on someone's shoulder.
* PastelChalkedFreezeFrame
* PercussivePrevention: Inuyasha punched Miroku in order to prevent him from using the Wind Tunnel after it was just repaired.
* PleaseKillMeIfItSatisfiesYou: [[spoiler: Sango offered her life to Sesshoumaru after she tried to kill Rin to save Miroku. Sesshoumaru just seems to forgive her.]]
* PleasePutSomeClothesOn: In the Tokajin arc, Inuyasha comes to rescue Kagome just to find her naked. After a few awkward seconds, he throws her his haori.
* {{Pointy Ears}}: Usually to help identify who the human-looking demons are. Not all of them have it but still...
* PoisonIsCorrosive
* PoisonousPerson: Naraku oozes miasma.
* PortalSlam: [[spoiler: The Bone Eater's Well stops working for three years after the final battle leaving Kagome "trapped" in her own time, only to work one last time to let her return to Inuyasha.]]
* PortalToThePast: The Bone Eater's Well.
* PosthumousCharacter: Midoriko
* PowerAtAPrice: Sesshomaru's quest for power results in the loss of his arm and, later, the death of [[spoiler: Rin (again)]]. He achieves his true potential only thanks to this and the death of [[spoiler:Kagura]]; the latter moves him to feel compassion for others and the former forces him to understand the irreplaceable value of life and the role that fear and sorrow must play in a warrior's life.
* PowerDyesYourHair: Inuyasha's hair turns black when he turns human. Of course, the disappearance of his doggy ears is a much bigger marker.
* PowerFloats: Sesshoumaru and Naraku.
* PowerGlows
* PowerIncontinence: The Wind Tunnel it's like a miniature black hole in the palm of the bearer that sucks everything in front of it unless it's sealed by special prayer beads. Eventually, it will grow big enough to break the seal and consume the bearer and everything around him.
* ThePowerOfFriendship
* PowerOfTheVoid: The Wind Tunnel and Meidou Zangetsuha.
* PrecisionGuidedBoomerang: Sango's Hiraikotsu.
* PrecociousCrush: Koharu on Miroku.
* PsychoForHire: The Band of Seven
* PuppeteerParasite: A salamander youkai had a whole village of women controlled by making them ingest its eggs.
* PuppyDogEyes
* PutOnABus: Kouga after Naraku stole his shards [[LongBusTrip and is never seen again]]. He appears briefly in the anime epilogue.
* TheQuest
* QuirkyMinibossSquad: A number of these, including The Band of Seven, and Kanna and Kagura, sometimes with Kohaku, Hakudōshi, and / or Akago.
* RagtagBunchOfMisfits: Inuyasha's group, especially for the setting and time period. Let's see, an outcast violent [[HalfHumanHybrid hanyou]], a cursed lecherous monk, a broken female [[DemonSlaying youkai exterminator]], a bratty {{kitsune}}, a [[{{youkai}} nekomata]], and a weird clothed girl with {{miko}} powers she doesn't really know how to use.
* RainOfBlood: This happens when Inuyasha attacked a group of bandits while in his youkai form.
* RazorFloss: Yura of the Hair
* RazorWind: Kagura's 'Dance of Blades' is, of course, with blades made of air.
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* ReallySevenHundredYearsOld: All youkai seem to be this, notably the Inu no Taisho's elderly retainers, Toutousai and Myouga. Sesshoumaru confirms that Bokusenou is a two-thousand year old magnolia tree. Sesshoumaru's mother's age is never stated but she's almost certainly this. Inuyasha himself is a cipher, but even if he was just a teenager when Kikyo put him on ice, Sesshomaru's appearance hasn't changed since Inuyasha was ''born'' - 65+ years older than his half-brother yet he still looks like a {{Bishonen}} in his late teens. Kirara, being a nekomata, falls under this as well; the anime even implies that she was Midoriko's companion.
* RedEyesTakeWarning: When the eyes of Sesshoumaru and Inuyasha turn red it means they're going to transform into a giant dog and full demon respectively. Either way you should be running... ''fast''.
* RedOniBlueOni: Inuyasha and Sesshomaru have this relationship going big time. Inuyasha and Miroku as well. Also, Jaken and Sesshoumaru as well.
* [[spoiler: RedemptionEarnsLife]]: [[spoiler: Kohaku]]
* RedemptionEqualsDeath: Most notably, [[spoiler: Kikyou. Also, Kagura, who [[HeroicSacrifice sacrifices]] everything to save Kohaku only to be killed by Naraku shortly afterwards.]]
* ReforgedBlade: After Tessaiga broke, Totosai reforged it with Inuyasha's own fang, which made the sword heavier. According to Totosai it means that Inuyasha now has to rely in his own strength instead of his father's.
** [[spoiler: Tenseiga]] is also reforged [[spoiler: in order to activate Meidou Zangetsuha, triggered by Sesshoumaru's emotionally bruised heart rather than the blade breaking.]] Later on in the manga, [[spoiler: Tenseiga does]] break in battle [[spoiler: but ''reforges itself''.]]
* {{Reincarnation}}: Kagome / Kikyo
* ReincarnationRomance
* RelationshipVoiceActor: Kelly Sheridan and Kirby Morrow
* ReligionIsMagic
* RestrainingBolt: Tessaiga prevents Inuyasha from becoming full demon and losing his mind in the process.
* ResurrectedForAJob: Kikyou was resurrected to go hunting for shikon shards for Urasue but she killed Urasue instead.
* ResurrectedRomance: Kikyo and Inuyasha.
* {{Revenge}}: The reason why most of the characters hunt for Naraku.
* ReviveKillsZombie: More like [[InvertedTrope "Killing 'Zombies' Revives"]]. Tenseiga has the ability to cut the undead and the spirits from the underworld. By slaying the spirits that come to collect the soul of a dead person it revives said person.
* RidiculouslyCuteCritter: Kirara. Until she transforms that is.
* RivalsTeamup: Inuyasha/Sesshoumaru, Inuyasha/Kouga and Kagome/Kikyo, all to destroy Naraku.
* RomanticFalseLead: Kuranosuke Takeda, a young nobleman who proposes marriage to Sango.
* RoofHopping: There goes Inuyasha now, look at him go; boing boing boing.
** Heck, Inu Yasha roof hops without roofs, somehow managing to double jump his way across the country side, way above the height of most roofs. To quote Kagome's friends, "Kagome's boyfriend runs like he's flying."
* RunningGag: "Inuyasha.... SIT!"
** "Would you like to bear my children?"
* SadisticChoice: Kill an innocent little girl or the person you love the most will die. So, what are you going to choose Sango?
* SailorFuku
* SanDimasTime: Why Kagome misses so much school while she's having her adventures in the past. A result of the series' PortalToThePast.
* SayMyName: Behold Adult Swim's [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0kecaTtDS2o view]] on the matter.
* ScarilyCompetentTracker: Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru with their heightened sense of smell. Jaken may also be this as, no matter how often Sesshoumaru leaves Jaken behind, Jaken ''always'' finds him again. How, is anyone's guess.
* ScarsAreForever: Sango has a big scar on her back where Kohaku stabbed her.
** No matter his form, Naraku has a giant spider-shaped scar permanently on his back. In one episode he ''cuts off the flesh of his back'' to remove the scar only for the scar to ''immediately grow back in place.''
* SchizoTech: Ginkotsu from the Band of Seven, a cyborg/tank in Feudal Japan.
* SchoolUniformsAreTheNewBlack: Kagome frequently strolls around in modern-day school outfit in feudal Japan.
* ScrewDestiny: One big theme in the series. Specially in the last battle [[spoiler: which is against ''the Shikon no Tama itself'']].
* ScrewYouElves: Inuyasha delivers a rather impressive one to Sesshomaru; after the latter spends two or three episodes going off on how humans and half-demons are worthless, Inu not only slices Sesshy's arm off, but he also mocks Sesshy on how a mere half-demon got to inherit the Tessaiga.
* SealedEvilInACan: The series final antagonist, [[spoiler: Magatsuhi, the ancient composite demon inside the Shikon no Tama]].
* SealedEvilInADuel: Turns out the Shikon no Tama is really a container for [[spoiler: an eternal struggle between a powerful Miko and a composite demon]].
* SecondLove: Inuyasha's first love was Kikyou, [[spoiler:but he ends up with Kagome]]. In the anime, Koga initially chases after Kagome [[spoiler:but ends up with Ayame.]]
* SecretKeeper: Kagome's family.
** [[UltimateBlacksmith Toutousai]]. Although it was obvious he knew the truth about [[InfinityPlusOneSword Tessaiga]] what had been hidden much better were the secets he was keeping about [[HealingShiv Tenseiga]] and [[MoreThanInfinite Bakusaiga]].
* SecretTestOfCharacter: At least half the time when Inu Yasha gains a new ability, and even more often whenever Kikyou gets within eyeshot of Kagome. And let's not forget Sango and Miroku when the former was getting Hiraikotsu repaired. [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru's entire journey through the manga turns out to have been this, a test he finally passes when he obtains Bakusaiga.]]
* SelectiveObliviousness: Inuyasha.
* SelfMadeOrphan: Kohaku.
* SelflessWish: Subverted in the backstory, where Naraku expects Kikyo to use the Jewel of Four Souls to save her life (she takes it with her into the afterlife instead). This sets up the ending, where Kagome and Inuyasha [[spoiler: are trapped in the Jewel. Like Kikyo before her, Kagome doesn't make the selfish wish, but wished for the Jewel to cease to exist. She and Inuyasha get home safely anyway.]]
* SentientPhlebotinum: The Shikon no Tama.
* SexyBack: All main female characters. Subverted by Sango and Kagura since it's done to show the large scars they have on their backs.
* ShamefulStrip: Kagome is knocked unconscious by the villain-of-the-week and wakes up naked in a big cooking pot. From the time Inu-Yasha rescues her until she retrieves her clothes, she wears his fire-rat-hair kimono.
* ShapeshifterDefaultForm: Even though we know Naraku can take any form since that's the way he tricked Inuyasha, Kikyo and Miroku's grandfather, once he took Kagewaki Hitomi's identity he stayed with that appearance for the rest of the series.
* ShapeShifterMashup: Naraku and Moryomaru.
* SheIsNotMyGirlfriend: [[NeverLiveItDown "She's a shard detector!"]]
* SheWillComeForMe: Kagome [[spoiler: while inside the Shikon no Tama]]: "Inuyasha will come... I believe in him."
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* ShipperOnDeck: Kagome, who tries to get Miroku and Sango together at times. Miroku, Sango and Shippo to InuYasha and Kagome. In Chapter 343 (animated in Episode 167), Rin is quite up-beat upon realising Kagura is in love with Sesshoumaru, to the extent where that realisation cures her fear of Kagura (earned as a result of Kagura having once kidnapped her on Naraku's orders).
* ShockCollar: Inu Yasha has a collar of enchanted prayer beads (or rosary) designed to make him hit the ground whenever Kagome says "Osuwari" or "Sit" / "Sit, boy". Kagome is an easily pissed off {{Tsundere}} Type B. Bad day for Inu Yasha.
* ShrinesAndTemples: Kagome lives in a Shrine.
* ShutUpHannibal: In "Hitomiko's Barrier"
-->'''Naraku''': Blah, blah, blah your soul will be corrupted. Blah, blah, blah."
-->'''Kagome''': You are rather talkative!
** In the last battle:
-->[[spoiler: '''Naraku''': "If you kill me, my shouki-stained body will rain upon the village"]]
-->[[spoiler: '''Sesshoumaru''': "So what?" ''Bakusaiga!'']]
* SickEpisode: Actually two of them, while Kagome is sick with a severe cold.
** Also, another episode involved Jaken being poisoned and Rin having to find a cure.
** The Jinenji story is borne from Inuyasha and Kagome searching for a cure for Kirara, laid up after biting Naraku.
* SidewaysSmile: Sesshoumaru sports a smile that goes from ear to ear and keeps growing as he transforms into his true form.
* SimpleStaff: Miroku's shakujo.
* SinisterScythe: Kohaku's kusarigama.
* SinsOfOurFathers: Miroku inherited the Wind Tunnel because his grandfather wanted to destroy Naraku.
* SituationalSword: Tenseiga has the power to protect Sesshoumaru from death - but it only kicks in if Sesshoumaru sustains an injury that might potentially kill him without that protection. It's also [[HealingShiv incapable]] of killing the living, but turns out to be capable of killing spirits.
* {{Sizeshifter}}: Kirara.
* SlipknotPonytail: In the final battle, Sango's hair falls down when she and Kirara are bathed in Naraku's miasma and it eats away her hair tie.
* SmallNameBigEgo: Jaken tries so, so hard to convince people to pay him the respect he believes he's due. It almost never works.
-->'''Kaede:''' "Little youkai, will you be staying here too?"
-->'''Jaken:''' "That's Jaken-sama to you!"
-->'''Rin:''' "You sure talk big..."
-->'''Sango:''' "... for such a little body."
* SneezeCut
* SoLastSeason: Inuyasha's constant upgrades to Tessaiga generally quickly diminish in usefulness.
* SoullessShell: Moryomaru.
* SpellMyNameWithAnS: Due to confusion regarding the small "tsu" character (which emphasizes the consonant that follows it), the official manga translation printed the name of Inuyasha's sword as "Tetsusaiga" instead of "Tessaiga." The error was perpetuated in the official subtitles and English dub (albeit pronounced as "Tetsaiga"), and the fandom continues to argue over which spelling is more correct. (For comparison, Sesshoumaru's name also contains the small "tsu," but is never romanized as "Setsushoumaru.")
* SphereOfDestruction: Meidou Zangetsuha's perfect initial form.
* SplitPersonality: Suikotsu from the Band of Seven. One personality is a kind and gentle doctor; the other one is a [[CompleteMonster bloodlust killer.]]
** [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Inuyasha]] [[BroughtDownToNormal himself]], at times.
* SpoiledBrat: Jaken seems to think of Rin as this, though it's hard to consider Sesshoumaru as even being capable of spoiling anyone.
* SpoilerOpening
** Not just the opening, but the first ending as well. The first ending focused on the main three female characters, Kagome, Kikyo and Sango. The problem is that Sango doesn't enter the story until episode 24, after the show has already moved to the second ending.
* SqueakyEyes
* StarCrossedLovers: Inuyasha and Kikyou.
* TheStarscream: Hakudoushi, also the [[EnfanteTerrible baby]] and [[CompleteMonster Mouryoumaru]]. All three tried to take over from [[BigBad Naraku]] by betraying and defeating him.
* StatusQuoIsGod: Sort of. Just remove the 540 chapters of filler and you have a 20 chapter story that's just as compact and at roughly 1/25 the length. See: ExponentialPlotDelay.
** While there was a lot of filler, limiting it to 20 chapters would pretty much require cutting out a ton of character development, and some of the cooler battles/arcs. Though considering how they both basically ended up disappearing by the end of the manga, and didn't really have much of a serious impact on the plot after their initial appearances, Takahashi could have probably ignored Houjo and killed off Koga after their first stories and not really changed the story notably. Hell, killing off Koga would have made a lot more sense than sparing him and it would have removed what is arguably Kagome's biggest scrappy moment in the series (which even she realizes was her fault).
* StealthHiBye: Happens sometimes. One example is when Byakuya is messing with Inuyasha's group and they don't even know he's in the area. He decides to leave while he's ahead and suddenly discovers Sesshoumaru looming out of nowhere behind him.
* StepfordSmiler: Miroku tends to hide his troubles and worries with a smile and a grope.
* TheStoic: Inuyasha at times because he's a brood machine. Although Sesshoumaru's stoicism is somewhat exaggerated by the fanbase, he's still one of the most stoic of any manga or anime characters and is certainly the most stoic of this manga's cast. He is not unemotional, however, and there are plenty of occasions where he proves that he's actually NotSoStoic after all.
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* StoryBreakerPower: The Wind Tunnel, but thanks to FuelMeterOfPower and KryptoniteIsEverywhere, Miroku can't use it too much.
** To elaborate: Miroku has what amounts to his own personal black hole in his hand, which he can use to suck any foe into oblivion. Early on in the series, Naraku begins using some poison bees that would kill Miroku if he sucked them in. This leads to nearly every episode having a scene where Miroku tries to use his world-breaking power, only for the bees to show up out of nowhere, forcing him to back off.
** Also, one of the last powers to be introduced before the FinalBattle, [[spoiler: [[ChainReactionDestruction Bakusaiga]]]]. As soon as it's introduced, characters begin observing that Naraku doesn't stand a chance against it. As a result, the plot almost immediately ensures that it can't be used even for most of the final battle. At the end, when it's finally unleashed, it's unstoppable. [[spoiler: [[NighInvulnerability It still doesn't even scratch the Shikon no Tama though due to the fact the Shikon no Tama is a soul-based creation that cannot be defeated by any sword]].]]
* StrikeMeDownWithAllOfYourHatred: Naraku urges Sango to kill him while he's holding Rin in his arms. Of course this being [[MagnificentBastard Naraku]], he's not really going to die since he's only an illusion, but Rin is real and if Sango strikes the girl ''will'' die, filling the Shikon no Tama with darkness.
* SuckOutThePoison: Myoga, being a flea youkai, did this twice. Once when Inuyasha was poisoned during his human night, and once barely saving Kagome, Sango and Miroku, when they almost died from Mukotsu's poison.
* SummonToHand: The Tessaiga has done this for Inuyasha at least once.
* SupernaturalSensitivity
* SuperPowerMeltdown: Miroku's black hole palm.
* SuperToughness: Yokai and Hanyou can take more damage than a human can.
* SuperpoweredEvilSide: Suikotsu of the Shichinintai.
* SuspendedAnimation: Inuyasha, sealed to a tree by Kikyo's arrow for 50 years.
* TheSweatDrop: An extremely common trope in this manga. Just about every single character experiences this on a regular basis. Sesshoumaru is the exception. He never sweats.
* SwirlingDust
* SwissArmyWeapon: Tessaiga, oh so very much.
* SwordBeam: Inuyasha's Wind Scar/Kaze no Kizu. Tessaiga's and especially Tokijin's "sword pressure". Also, Sesshoumaru's anime-only Souryuha.
* TakeOffYourClothes: When he sees Kagome dressed as a miko, Inuyasha soon asks her to take off the outfit. To which Kagome respond with a rock to the head and calling him a pervert. But Inuyasha doesn't want to see her naked (yet); it's just that with the priestess garb, she looks too much like Kikyō and that makes him uncomfortable.
* TakeThat: In the manga, when describing her mysterious "boyfriend" to her present-day school buddies, Kagome says that he is infantile, violent, selfish, and devoid of self-control. Her friends' first thought: "He's an ''American''??"
* TakenForGranite: Miroku, Sango and Kirara were turned into glass in a filler episode.
* TakingYouWithMe: Ginkotsu tries this to save Renkotsu from Kouga, but fails to kill the wolf youkai. [[spoiler: Miroku also decides to take Naraku with him when the Wind Tunnel is about to consume him. Unfortunately, the Naraku he's trying to kill is only an illusion.]]
* TalkToTheFist: In Chapter 518, [[spoiler: Sesshoumaru]] delivers a resounding [[spoiler: [[TalkToTheFist talk to the sword]] to [[BiggerBad Magatsuhi]], slicing]] his head in half during mid-gloat.
-->[[spoiler: '''Magatsuhi:''' "Hmpf. It seems that you've put on quite a show for me. However, this is still a borrowed body. I feel neither pain nor..."]]
-->[[spoiler: ''Slice.'']]
* {{Tanuki}}: Hachi.
* {{Tareme Eyes}}: Kagome, Shippo, Kohaku and Miroku. Everyone else is {{Tsurime Eyes}}.
* TeamShot
* TearsOfBlood
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* TearOffYourFace: In one arc, Naraku expels his heart, which takes the form of a naked faceless man, who proceeds to slay a whole bunch of bandits and rip off their faces, looking for a suitable one for him. Without them he's shown to be TheBlank.
* TechnicolorToxin: Naraku's purple miasma and Sesshomaru's green Dokkaso poison.
* ThanatosGambit: [[spoiler: Naraku plans to take Kagome with him and replace the dueling souls inside the Shikon Jewel.]]
* [[ThatDidntHappen That Didn't Happen]]: Sango goes into complete denial after declaring that she prefers to die with Miroku than leave him and save herself: "Did I say something? What did I say?"
* ThemeNaming: Kikyo, Kaede, Kagome, Kagura, Kanna...
** Additionally, the three named characters from the youkai exterminators' village (Sango, Kohaku, and Kirara) all have names referring to semi-precious stones (coral, amber, and mica respectively).
** The "army of seven" undead characters have all names ending ith "kotsu" for bone.
* ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill: Using the Wind Scar on an ordinary cockroach.
** Attempted by Byakuya against Sesshomaru in chapter 523. It doesn't work.
-->''Byakuya summons a swarm of demons''
-->Sesshomaru: "You can't stop me with dozens of these demons"
-->Byakuya: "Oh, I know that. That's why I've summoned thousands of them"
-->''Sesshomaru easily tears them apart''
-->Byakuya: "[[OhCrap Maybe I should have gone for millions...]]"
* TheyDo: [[spoiler: In the GrandFinale, Inuyasha and Kagome eventually become the OfficialCouple and share a TrueLovesKiss - although the kiss only occurs in the anime]].
* ThisIsUnforgivable
* ThoseTwoBadGuys: Hiten and Manten
* ThoseTwoGuys: Ginta and Hakkaku.
* TimeTravel
* TimeTravelRomance: Between Kagome and Inuyasha.
* TimeTravelersAreSpies: Kagome was suspected to be one when she first arrived at Kaede’s village.
* TimeyWimeyBall: Not a big problem, since the "fighting bad guys" matter more than the time traveling, but for example, Kagome finds a jewel shard in the present. So that means it's also back in the Sengoku period, meaning the Shikon no Tama eventually comes up to complete plus one extra shard stuck in a tree somewhere.
* TookALevelInBadass: Kagome ''does'' manage to catch up and become a true ActionGirl. She also develops from barely being able to fire a bow to making shots that are borderline impossible for trained archers in the real world.
* TookALevelInKindness: Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru, Kouga, and Kagura all experience this at varying speeds and to varying degrees.
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* TriangRelations: The Inuyasha/Kagome/Kikyo Triangle is closest to a Type 7 situation, where "Alice" is Inuyasha, and "Bob" and "Charlie" are Kagome and Kikyou who are rivals rather than having no interaction. Inuyasha was effectively engaged to Kikyou when she died and his relationship with Kagome was already well under way when Kikyou came back from the dead (shortly after Kouga's entry into the storyline, Kagome and Inuyasha are a confirmed couple), making him honour-bound to both women and completely unable to choose between them. At one point he even admits to Miroku that he was hoping he could solve the problem by having them both (which would have been relatively common for a man in Japan's past, but modern-girl Kagome was definitely not thrilled by that suggestion).
* TricksterTwins: [[spoiler: Miroku and Sango's twins seem to be growing up to be this. With that father it really isn't a surprise.]]
* TreacherousSpiritChase: Inuyasha nearly gets killed by a youkai disguised as his mother who has been dead since he was very young. If Kagome hadn't seen through the illusion and managed to convince Inuyasha that things weren't what they seemed to be, he would have died.
* TroubledButCute: Inuyasha is really handsome, but GOD did he have a crappy life!
** Miroku.
** Kohaku. Dear GOD, Kohaku.
* TroubledFetalPosition
* {{Tsundere}}: Kagome, though being a Tybe B aka more deredere she later mellows a bit. Inuyasha could count a bit as a male example, and Sango also has some flashes of Tsundere-ness despite being kind of a YamatoNadeshiko.
* {{Tsurime Eyes}}: See {{Tareme Eyes}}.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: Sesshoumaru and Kouga never go anywhere without their armor. Given that Inuyasha's fire-rat robe is supposed to double as armour, he never goes anywhere without it either.
* TwoGirlsToATeam
* UglyGuyHotWife: An extremely rare inversion that is ''not'' PlayedForLaughs with Manten's and Hiten's parents.
* UltimateBlackSmith: Totosai, also Kajinbo and Toshu.
* UmbrellaOfTogetherness: Miroku and Sango share one in the anime.
* [[spoiler: UndeathAlwaysEnds]]: [[spoiler: The Band of Seven all die, Kikyo dies and [[DisneyDeath Kohaku dies]]... [[IGotBetter and then he gets better]], this time for good.]]
* TheUnfairSex: The primary reason for why Kagome suffers ''DieForOurShip.''
* UnholyHolySword: [[spoiler:The Shikon Jewel.]]
* {{Unnamed Parent}}s
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* UnresolvedSexualTension: Sango and Miroku with the whole blush-grope-slap routine, at least until [[TheyDo they agreed to marry.]]
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* UnusualEars: Inuyasha, of course. And Kagome just loves them!
--> '''Kagome Higurashi (first look at Inuyasha):''' ''"[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnODqwpJ1I0 Dog ears? I think I wanna... Touch 'em!]]"'' (tweak tweak)
** And her mom follows suit in the same book. "Are these... real?" (tweak tweak)
*** Jakotsu prefers human Inuyasha, but he does want to keep his dog ears as a trophy.
*** The [[spoiler: [[http://img338.imageshack.us/img338/4755/inuyashav56191.jpg twins]]]] love them too.
* UnwantedRevival: Kikyo. She had chosen to die to follow Inuyasha and to take the Shikon Jewel with her to the afterlife, but things didn't quite go her way. She was not only reincarnated (along with the Shikon Jewel) but she was revived into a clay body.
* UrbanFantasy: When the stories are set in the present.
* UrbanLegendLoveLife: Miroku.
* VictimOfTheWeek: As with other fantasy stories, the main purpose of the villagers are to be either held hostage or brutally killed ten ways to Tuesday in order for the heroes to know just how bad the MonsterOfTheWeek is.
* ViewersAreGoldfish: The recaps can get pretty ridiculous. The Japanese version also reminds you who ''every single character'' outside of the FiveManBand is, every episode, by showing their name over the entire lower half of the screen.
** Even the FiveManBand wasn't immune to this, with their names being verbally announced along with onscreen captions during the opening credits.
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* VillainExitStageLeft: Naraku.
* VillainsActHeroesReact: Constantly. Inuyasha's group are always a step behind Naraku and persistently keep falling into his traps rather then plan out anything ahead of time.
* VillainousCrossdresser: Jakotsu. He gets CharacterDevelopment and becomes more AffablyEvil, getting an AlasPoorVillain death.
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* VisibleSigh
* VitriolicBestBuds: Inuyasha and Shippo. Sometimes, Inuyasha and Miroku too.
** Let's not forget Inuyasha and Kouga.
* VoluntaryShapeshifting: Shippo, Hachi and Naraku.
* WalkingTheEarth: The Inu-tachi and their quest. Sesshoumaru as well.
* WardingGestures
* WarringNatures: Inuyasha and every other hanyou.
* WarriorTherapist: Shishinki plays the role of the evil version of this trope.
* WeaponTombstone: The demon slayers tombs are marked like this.
* WeaponsThatSuck: Miroku's Wind Tunnel.
* WelcomeBackTraitor: The group forgives Sango quite easily for betraying them (and almost getting everyone killed, herself included), after Naraku forces her to choose between doing what he says (steal Inuyasha's sword and give it to him) or letting a loved one (Kohaku) die. Even when she warns them she will do it again, they still forgive her.
** During the final battle, Naraku makes [[spoiler: Sango face exactly the same choice again: do as he says (kill him by killing Rin) or let a loved one die (Miroku this time). She fulfills her earlier warning by making the exact same decision. Although Sango gives her life to Sesshoumaru in compensation for trying to kill Rin, he seems to forgive her as easily as Inuyasha did, albeit with far less fuss.]]
* WhatKindOfLamePowerIsHeartAnyway: It's eventually explained that the reason that Midoriko, the {{Miko}} sealed in the Shikon Jewel, was so powerful was because her heart bore each of the "four souls": Aramitama, Nigimitama, Kushimitaka, and Sakamitama. That is, Courage, Friendship, Wisdom and Love. An anime VillainOfTheWeek reveals to Inuyasha and friends that other Shikon Jewels can be made if you can find four souls that strongly embody each of these four characteristics and seal them into a single gem with a Miko as the center. In fact, he attempts to defeat the group because Kagome (the Miko), Inuyasha (Courage), Shippo (Friendship), Miroku (Wisdom) and Sango (Love) are pefect candidates for this process.
** A more canon example, this is the lesson Sesshoumaru's entire journey through the manga leads him to learn.
* WhatYouAreInTheDark: During Kagome's vision at the end of volume 46 she has to choose whether [[MurderTheHypotenuse or not]] to save Kikyo. The SpiritAdvisor points out that Inuyasha would never know if she decided to let Kikyo die. Kagome [[ShutUpHannibal tells the fake Kikyo off]] and realizes that she has nothing to be jealous over.
* WhenAllYouHaveIsAHammer: Wind Scar. Doubles as TheWorfBarrage
* WhenSheSmiles: Who could forget the adorable smile that little Rin bestowed upon [[TheStoic stoic]] Sesshomaru in episode 35 of the anime?
** More tragic examples: [[spoiler:Kagura's dying]] smile which stayed with Sesshomaru, sparking a more selfless compassion and [[spoiler: Kikyo's dying]] smile at Inuyasha.
** Subverted by Kagome, whose smile when she's trying to pretend nothing's wrong is apparently terrifying to her friends on both sides of the temporal divide.
* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler: Naraku and the Shikon no Tama are destroyed at the Well that brought Kagome to the past at the beginning.]]
* WhipSword: Jakotsu's sword.
* WhiteHairedPrettyBoy: Two of them, Sesshomaru and Inuyasha, but Inuyasha is a subversion.
** And Hakudoushi (White Child) is the shota version.
* WillTheyOrWontThey: Inuyasha/Kagome and, in a lesser extent, Miroku/Sango.
* WithGreatPowerComesGreatInsanity: When Inuyasha transforms into a full demon he gets incredible strength and resistance, but it's too much power for his half-human body to handle and he'll start to lose his sanity with each transformation until he'll end up being a mindless killing machine that will keep fighting until he destroys everyone around him or gets himself killed.
* WolverineClaws: Suikotsu's weapons of choice.
* WombLevel: The FinalBattle happens inside Naraku's body.
* TheWorfEffect: Sesshoumaru is the favored "test target" for Naraku's new abilities/henchmen.
* WouldHitAGirl: Inuyasha impaled Yura through her chest with his hand, Kouga hit Kagura in the face and Miroku punched Sango (and other girls) to free her from a youkai in her stomach possesing her.
* WouldHurtAChild: [[BigBad Naraku]] has no compunctions about doing any horrible thing to ''anyone,'' children included. Various other youkai such as Goshinki share his willingness to harm kids; even Kouga has no issue with letting his wolves kill Rin during his first appearance (although his personality is considerably softened thereafter). Kagura may be a notable exception, given that she fails to do anything more serious than kidnapping Rin, and becomes quite protective of Kohaku. Thanks to a multiple personality disorder, Suikotsu flipped between being a gentle doctor who wouldn't hurt a fly to a homicidal maniac that was willing to include children in his body count.
* WreckedWeapon: Goshinki broke Tessaiga, breaking with it the seal on Inuyasha's youkai blood.
** To save Miroku, Sango sacrificed Hiraikotsu spreading in it a very corrosive poison that succeeded in destroying the youkai they were fighting, dissolving the huge boomerang as well.
** On the other hand, Sesshoumaru didn't give a damn when Tokijin broke.
** Honouring a promise to Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru [[spoiler: sacrifices his claim to both swords by deliberately shattering Tenseiga's blade against Tessaiga to pass on [[CruelAndUnusualDeath Meidou Zangetsuha]]. The broken Tenseiga responds to this by guiding the pair out of the danger they're in and promptly reforges itself. Sesshoumaru can't get rid of this blade even when he tries.]]
* YamatoNadeshiko: Sango looks and acts the part... and that doesn't stop her from being an effective ActionGirl, since her family's tradition is ''demon slaying''. Also, Kikyou was quite the YamatoNadeshiko {{Miko}} before her death.
* {{Yandere}}: Naraku/Onigumo, the original evil spirit of the Shikon no Tama, and, of course, Jakotsu.
* YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe: Attempted with Kaede and the villagers in the early episodes of the dub, to fantastically {{Narm}}y results. Later on they [[NotEvenBotheringWithTheAccent just stopped trying]].
* YouAreNotAlone: After failing miserably at defeating Naraku and saving her brother plus having just betrayed her new companions, Sango tries to leave the group but the others don't let her telling her that being alone is not a solution and it's best if they all stay together.
-->'''Sango''': "I was really scared... I was scared that I'd be alone"
* YouAreWorthHell: Sango prefers to stay and die with a poisoned Miroku than save herself while being chased and cornered by youkai. [[spoiler: And in the final battle when the Wind Tunnel is about to consume him, she asks him to take her with him]].
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Naraku does this all the time, or at least tries, [[spoiler: especially to his detachments.]]
* YouMustBeCold: Inuyasha gives his fire-rat haori to Kagome several times throughout the series, most times because it's resistant to fire, poison and [[InformedAbility sharp things]], but a few times because she's actually cold or to [[PleasePutSomeClothesOn protect her modesty]].
* {{Youkai}}: Running around ''everywhere'' including the titular character.
* YourDaysAreNumbered: Miroku, unless he kills Naraku first.
* YourDefeatMeansIObtainYourPowers: Tessaiga works like this. Any time Tessaiga slays a powerful demon it acquires a new ability.
* YourPrincessIsInAnotherCastle: Just ''how many times'' do the heroes kill Naraku only to find that it wasn't enough to kill him for good or that the Naraku they killed was a puppet?
* YourSoulIsMine: Kanna's mirror.
* YourUniverseOrMine: [[spoiler: Kagome chooses to stay in the past with Inuyasha.]]
* ZigzagPaperTassel: The ''goshinboku'' tree has a ''shimenawa'' around it in the present, but not in the past. Also, one chapter features some monkeys who trick Inuyasha into touching a small stone with a ''shimenawa'' around it, which sticks to his hand and becomes a huge boulder.
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