History Manga / Inuyasha

* WarringNatures: Inuyasha and every other hanyou. He originally plans to use the Shikon Jewel to become a full-fledged demon, but never quite gets around to it.
* WarriorTherapist: Shishinki plays the role of the evil version of this trope.
* WeaponTombstone: The demon slayers' graves are marked like this.
%%* WeaponsThatSuck: Miroku's Wind Tunnel.
* WeaponWieldsYou: Sesshomaru takes the fangs of one of BigBad Naraku's previous incarnations to the swordsmith Kaijinbo, and commissions him to make a sword from it. He complies, but Tokijin, the resulting sword, takes over the will of anyone trying to wield it. In a display of how powerful Sesshomaru is, when he finally grips its hilt, it tries to work its mojo on him, and he {{No Sell}}s it with barely a glance.
* 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.
* WhatAPieceOfJunk: Tessaiga when not transformed. Bonus points for Inuyasha saying this trope word for word in the sixth and seventh episodes.
* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: In the chapter/episode with the possessed Noh mask animated by a Shikon shard, Kagome theorizes that other shards may have survived into the present day, setting up potential repeat performances. This prospect is never brought up again.

** This is the lesson Sesshomaru's entire journey through the manga leads him to learn.

** Everyone kills demons without batting an eye, but they always try not to kill humans no matter how evil or despicable they are. Case in point: in Episode 51, Inuyasha succumbs to his SuperpoweredEvilSide and personally hunts down and slaughters Gatenmaru's henchmen; despite the fact that they were knowingly serving a demon and that they had personally fed innocent villagers to their demon boss ForTheEvulz while [[ForcedToWatch making him watch]], he undergoes a complete MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment as soon as he snaps out of it.
** Furthermore, the anime will edit the more graphic deaths of humans from the manga while leaving gory demon deaths intact. One example of this is Bankotsu, who is ultimately defeated when Inuyasha [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe cuts him in half]], but the anime creates a backstory for Bankotsu's BFS that gave it demonic powers when it had slain 1000 humans and 1000 demons... just so Inuyasha could [[HoistByHisOwnPetard send back his attack with the Bakuryuuha]], something Inuyasha in the manga had realized in frustration that he ''couldn't'' do because Bankotsu was a human with no demonic aura. Bankotsu loses the same amount of his body, but the attack allows for an explosion to conceal the damage with rubble, something which can't be achieved with bifurcation.
* 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.
* WhenItAllBegan: Everything started 50 years ago. Or roughly 550, for Kagome.
* WhereAreTheyNowEpilogue: The manga epilogue explains what everyone is doing 3 years after the FinalBattle. The anime expands it even more.
* WhereItAllBegan: [[spoiler:Naraku and the Shikon Jewel are destroyed]] at the Well that brought Kagome to the past at the beginning.
%%* WhipSword: Jakotsu's sword.
* WhiteHairBlackHeart: Hakudoushi. Sesshomaru starts off as an example, but his character development eventually subverts it.
%%* WillTheyOrWontThey: Inuyasha/Kagome and, in a lesser extent, Miroku/Sango.
* WiseTree: Bokuseno, a two thousand years old magnolia tree. The sheaths of Tessaiga and Tenseiga come from him.
* {{Wishplosion}}: Kagome basically wishes [[spoiler:[[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/inuyasha/c557/18.html for the Shikon Jewel to]] [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/inuyasha/c557/19.html disappear]]]]. It's granted.
* 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.

* 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 Koga 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.

** 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, Sesshomaru didn't give a damn when Tokijin broke.
** Honouring a promise to Inuyasha, Sesshomaru [[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. Sesshomaru can't get rid of this blade even when he tries.]]

* {{Yandere}}: Onigumo was a bandit who was so severly burned and injured that he couldn't move at all. Kikyo took care of him, and her beauty and kindness fomented a possessive desire in Onigumo. This desire is what led Onigumo to giving over his soul and body to a horde of youkai, giving birth to the half-youkai Naraku. Onigumo's feelings for Kikyo carried over into Naraku, who despises them and goes to great lengths to get rid of them.

* YouCanBarelyStand: Regardless of how many wounds he takes, Inuyasha still forces himself back up in order to defeat his oppenant(s). The same goes for Miroku; even when his blood is laced with saimiyosho vemon, he'll use his Wind Tunnel should the need arise.

* {{Youkai}}: The Sengoku period is- almost litterally- crawling with youkai everywhere, and many of them want the jewel to make themselves unbeatable. In half-youkai Inuyasha's case, he wants the jewel to turn himself into a full youkai.

* YourSoulIsMine: Kanna's mirror can steal the souls of whoever's reflected in the mirror. Depending on the strength of the individual, it's possible for the person to still move even after their soul is stolen.
* YourUniverseOrMine: Kagome was born and raised in 90s Japan while Inuyasha was born and raised in the Sengoku era. This temporal difference doesn't stop them from slowly fallling in love with one another, and the question of how they'll stay together eventually rears its head. [[spoiler:Ultimately, Kagome decides to stay with Inuyasha in the Sengoku era.]]

* YamatoNadeshiko: Sango looks and acts the part... and that doesn't stop her from being an effective ActionGirl, since her family's tradition is ''youkai slaying''. Also, Kikyo was quite the YamatoNadeshiko before her death, and after mellowing out and losing her anger at the world, she develops back into a mix of one and the DarkMagicalGirl she has become.
* {{Yandere}}: Naraku/Onigumo, the original evil spirit of the Shikon Jewel, 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]], only Kaede continues to use it to an extent all through the dub, which is particularly jarring in episodes where Kikyo also appears, since she speaks perfectly normal English.
* 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.

* 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]].
%%* YouCanBarelyStand:

For much of her existence, Kagome Higurashi's life has been rather tranquil. Living in a residential Shinto shrine alongside her mother and younger brother, Kagome has gotten accustomed to her grandfather's seemingly bottomless tales of demons, an ancient well, and a sacred, wish granting jewel. So used to them, in fact, that she's managed to tune them out completely.

Perhaps she should've paid better attention, for on her fifteenth birthday, Kagome is dragged down her home's ancient well by a centipede demon woman who demands Kagome hand over the Shikon Jewel, a sacred gem that can grant tremendous power to any who possess it. While the jewel can be used for good, it's more often used for evil deeds. As such, it's a common target for greedy demons who crave power. While Kagome manages to temporarily fend off the centipede demon, it's a reawakened Inuyasha--a half-human, half-demon boy--that finishes it off.

Once the dust from this encouter has settled, Kagome learns that she's the reincarnation of Kikyo, a powerful priestess that died with the jewel in her grasp and believing that Inuyasha betrayed her. Inuyasha himself believes that Kikyo betrayed him, and this misunderstanding is what led his first love to use an enchanted arrow to pin him to a tree for fifty years. Kikyo had hoped to take the Shikon Jewel into the afterlife with her, but somehow both Kikyo and the jewel have been reborn as and into Kagome.

Following the jewel's reappearance comes demons of all shapes and sizes vying for ownership. This will be easier than expected when Kagome accidentally shatters the jewel into thousands of tiny shards. With demons becoming more powerful left and right, Kagome and Inuyasha set out on a journey to collect them all. During their travels, they pick up the fox demon child Shippo, the handsy monk Miroku, the demon exterminator Sango, and her nekomata companion, Kirara.

Kagome and her newfound friends aren't the only ones on a quest: a malevolent entity called Naraku also wants to complete the jewel for his own nefarious purposes. In addition to this compition, most of these travelers have personal scores they want to settle with the manipulative demon. While finding the shards begins their journey, the only way it'll end is once Naraku is dead and the jewel gone for good.

* AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin: Kagome shoots an arrow at a demonic crow carrying the Shikon Jewel, but the arrow hits the jewel itself. This shatters the jewel into many, many tiny peices, each peice scattering all over the surrounding area. The primary myth arc of the manga then becomes a quest to find all the shards to make the jewel whole again (at least up until Naraku's introduction).
* ActionDad: [[spoiler:Becoming a father doesn't stop Miroku from demon hunting. If anything, it just motivates him more, since he now has a family to provide for.]]
* ActionMom: [[spoiler:Sango is a mother of three and still works as a demon exterminator whenever her friends need a helping hand.]]

* 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, Kikyo was quite the YamatoNadeshiko before her death, and after mellowing out and losing her anger at the world, she develops back into a mix of one and the DarkMagicalGirl she has become.

%%* YouCanBarelyStand
* YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness: Naraku does this all the time, or at least tries, [[spoiler:especially to his detachments]]:

* {{Youkai}}: Running around ''everywhere''. Inuyasha himself is half dog youkai. Though the English translation of the manga and the English dub of the anime refer to youkai as "demons", this isn't an entirely accurate translation.
%%* YourDaysAreNumbered: Miroku, unless he kills Naraku first.
* 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: The past or the present? [[spoiler:Kagome chooses to stay in the past with Inuyasha.]]

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Perhaps she should've paid better attention, for on her fifteenth birthday, Kagome is dragged down her home's ancient well by a centipede demon woman who demands Kagome hand over the Shikon Jewel, a sacred gem that can grant tremendous power to any who possess it. While the jewel can be used for good, it's more often used for evil deeds. As such, it's a common target for greedy demons who crave power. While Kagome manages to temporarily fend off the centipede demon, it's a reawakened Inuyasha- a half-human, half-demon boy- that finishes it off.

!! This series provides examples of:

Tucked away in Tokyo, there is a residential shrine that Kagome Higurashi calls home. Along with her mother, younger brother, and grandfather, Kagome's life has been rather tranquil. Sure, she could do without her grandfather's constant tales of demons, an ancient well, and a sacred jewel, but she's learned to tune them out over the years.

Perhaps she should've paid better attention: on her fifteenth birthday, Kagome is dragged into Japan's ancient past by a centipede demon who craves the Shikon Jewel, a sacred gem that can grant tremendous power to any who possess it. While it can be used for good- such as healing and life-giving- it's more often used for evil deeds. As such, it's a common target for greedy demons seeking to strengthen themselves the easy way. While Kagome manages to temporarily fend off the centipede demon, it's Inuyasha- a half-human, half-demon boy- that finishes it off.

Much to Inuyasha's confusion, Kagome looks exactly like Kikyo, the priestess he fell in love with and who sealed him to a tree for fifty years. Kikyo's younger sister, Kaede, informs them both that Kikyo died on the same day she put Inuyasha into a deep slumber. Kikyo had hoped to take the Shikon Jewel into the afterlife with her, but somehow both Kikyo and the jewel have been reborn as and into Kagome.

With the jewel now extracted from Kagome's side, word of the jewel's reappearance has spread and demons all over Japan are vying for ownership. This will be easier than expected when Kagome accidentally shatters the jewel into thousands of tiny shards. As demons become more powerful right and left, Kagome and Inuyasha set out on a journey to collect all the shards and make the jewel whole again. During their travels, they pick up Shippo, a fox demon child; Miroku, a handsy monk; Sango, a demon exterminator, and Sango's nekomata companion, Kirara.

Kagome and her newfound friends aren't the only ones on a quest: a malevolent entity called Naraku also wants to complete the jewel for his own nefarious purposes. That's not the only reason Kagome and the gang want him dead, for some of them have personal scores they want to settle. While finding the shards begins their journey, the only way it'll end is once Naraku is dead and the jewel gone for good.

In 2000, an anime adaptation of the same name and produced by Creator/{{Sunrise}} began airing on October 16th. It's initial run stopped at 167 episodes on September 13th, 2004, since it had caught up with the manga at the time. Five years later, a continuation titled ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' began airing on October 4th, 2009. ''Final Act'' ran for 26 episodes and adapted the rest of the manga.

* ZeroPercentApprovalRating: Naraku, he's so terrible, that his own minions, most of whom are made of his own flesh, despise him and several actively seek to overthrow him. That's right, he's so bad that his own body parts hate him.
* TwoDVisualsThreeDEffects: Pops up rarely, though the worst case is a scene in ''The Final Act'' where the grass was computer animated, and not lighted the same way as the hand-drawn parts.
* TwentyFourHourArmor: Sesshomaru and Koga 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. Sango also keeps hers on hand everywhere she goes, whether or not she's actually wearing it.
* AccidentalPervert: Inuyasha. Just how many times has he seen Kagome naked?
* AccidentallyBrokeTheMacGuffin: Near the beginning of the series Kagome shoots an arrow at a bird carrying the Shikon Jewel, but the arrow hits the Shikon Jewel itself, spreading shards of the Jewel over Warring States Era Japan and setting our heroes on a quest to gather the shards before they land in the hands of evil.
%%* ActionDad [=/=] [[ActionMom Mom]]: [[spoiler:Miroku and Sango]] in the special chapter ''Since Then''.

* ActuallyADoombot: Naraku has the ability to make "puppets" of himself powered by a strand of his hair wrapped around a wooden figure. He eventually tapers off of using them, but in the earliest stages of the series, basically any time someone fights Naraku there are high odds it will turn out to be one of these.
* AdaptationExpansion:
** The manga gives very little information on Inuyasha and Kikyo's backstory other than briefly implying that they had fallen in love once. Some of Kikyo's comments also suggests that she hadn't been able to soften Inuyasha's heart and they had never kissed (until she did so in present-time). The anime episode "The Tragic Love Song of Destiny" expands greatly on their story to show how the falling in love happened with Inuyasha becoming kinder around her and culminating in them sharing a kiss, the opposite of what the manga suggested.
** The original season of the anime added some comedic episodes that were not in the manga.

* AdorablyPrecociousChild: Shippo, though on the road to becoming more like Inuyasha.
* AdventureTowns: All of the towns that Inuyasha's group visit.
* AerosolFlamethrower: Kagome uses one to attack a toad demon in episode 8.

Kagome and her newfound friends aren't the only ones on a quest: a malevolent entity called Naraku also wants to complete the jewel for his own nefarious purposes. While finding the shards begins their journey, the only way it'll end is once Naraku is dead and the jewel gone for good.

''Inuyasha'' (犬夜叉) is a fantasy-adventure shounen manga by Creator/RumikoTakahashi. It was serialized in ''Weekly Shōnen Sunday'' from November 1996 to June 2008, finishing with a total of 558 chapters compiled into 56 volumes. Creator/VizMedia holds the license to translate and print the series in America. The format of the English release has changed a couple times, with it currently being available as a collection of 18 omnibus volumes. Volumes one to 16 contain three volumes each and volumes 17 and 18 contain four.

A bonus chapter titled "Since Then" was published in February 2013 as part of the ''Heroes Come Back'' anthology to help support the reconstruction efforts after the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_T%C5%8Dhoku_earthquake_and_tsunami 2011 Tohoku earthquake and tsunami]]. "Since Then" takes place six months after the end of the series and is mainly a stand-alone story.

For information on other ''Inuyasha'' based media (such as its sequel series, ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon''), visit the series' [[Franchise/{{Inuyasha}} franchise page]].

''Inuyasha'' is an enormously popular manga and anime series by Creator/RumikoTakahashi. The manga was serialized from 1996 to 2008 in Magazine/ShonenSunday, while the anime ran for 167 episodes on Creator/NipponTV from 2000 to 2004. Creator/AdultSwim aired the final episode of a very decent English-language dub in October 2006 and continued to air it in the very early Sunday morning slot almost continuously (the only other show to have run longer on [as] is ''Anime/CowboyBebop'') until 2014. In Canada, the dub aired on Creator/{{YTV}} where it was one of the channel's most popular anime shows. Inuyasha and several other supporting characters from the show appear in the MassiveMultiplayerCrossover game ''VideoGame/SundayVSMagazineShuuketsuChoujouDaikessen''.

Japanese [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Middle School Student]] Kagome Higurashi, 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]]; this sounds cool until you learn that {{Youkai}}, goblins, vengeful ghosts, malevolent wizard-priests, short-tempered twelve-foot-tall ogres, and all manner of other monsters are everywhere and you can barely swing your arms without hitting one of them. Significantly, this is one of the few Japanese fantasy anime that ''isn't'' set in a pseudo-MedievalEuropeanFantasy world; just about ''everything'' in it is based on Japanese myths and legends. 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, instead of other HairColors.

On her first trip through the well, Kagome meets [[{{Bishonen}} Inuyasha]], an obnoxious, abrasive, arrogant [[HalfHumanHybrid half-youkai]] teenage boy with [[LongHairedPrettyBoy long flowing]] white hair and super-cute [[UnusualEars doggy ears]] on top of his head. (His father, a dog youkai of some kind, had [[MarsNeedsWomen a taste for human women]].) Inuyasha, needless to say, actually has [[JerkWithAHeartOfGold a heart of gold]], though he requires Kagome's insistence to do good deeds. You all knew that was coming, didn't you? Right? Right.

Kagome happens to be the {{reincarnation}} of Kikyo, the {{miko}} that Inuyasha once loved fifty years in his past, who just happened to be the one who fired a sacred arrow which sealed him to a sacred tree and essentially killed him. Kagome's arrival in the past is pivotal in that she is the one who releases Inuyasha from this "death" by pulling the arrow from his chest; her connection with Kikyo allows her to perform this otherwise impossible feat.

The small-scale structure of the story is episodic, with many a MonsterOfTheWeek (usually literally a monster). However, in addition to the romance angle between Inuyasha and Kagome, there is an overarching plot about the pair and their adventuring companions -- Shippo, an orphaned, mischievous and immature kitsune; Miroku, a cunning Buddhist monk with wandering hands [[FuelMeterOfPower and a ticking time bomb in his right hand in particular]]; Sango, the latest (plus unfortunately and very recently the ''last)'' of a renowned clan of demon slayers, whose signature weapon is a ''gigantic boomerang made of demon bones;'' and Kirara, Sango's nekomata companion, who can change from an adorable two tailed kitten to an enormous flying sabretooth at the drop of a hat -- wandering pseudo-medieval-Japan in order to [[GottaCatchEmAll collect the pieces]] of the shattered [[MineralMacguffin Shikon no Tama/Jewel of Four Souls]]. This quest eventually turns into a struggle against the BigBad -- the evil incarnate that is Naraku, a human-turned-youkai that seeks the Shikon Jewel in order to taint it and become a full-fledged youkai with powers far beyond anything any youkai has ever known, and whose plotting turns out to be behind just about all of the miseries that have befallen every main character.

And, just to throw some family drama into the mix, on occasion the heroes also have to deal with Inuyasha's elder half-brother Sesshomaru: a full blooded youkai who [[AloofOlderBrother already looks down on his younger brother for his human blood,]] and outright ''despises'' him when it turns out their long dead father left one of his [[CoolSword cool swords,]] Tessaiga, to his hanyō son rather than his 'rightful heir'. Sesshomaru instead inherited the blade known as Tenseiga, which he regards as a gross insult since the sword can't even hurt a living creature, instead being able to restore the dead to life. While at first he's determined to take Tessaiga for himself and kill Inuyasha should he get in his way, Sesshomaru later seeks a weapon to prove he is equal to, or even greater than, his father...and eventually, as the brothers repeatedly clash with each other, battle the enemies their father left in his wake and amass both power and crucial character development from the hard lessons he prepared for them, Sesshomaru and his entourage ''also'' get drawn into the end goal of taking down Naraku.

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. Forcing Inuyasha to gain a new power as well just to ward off Naraku's attacks. Rise, rinse, and repeat till its conclusion.

The original manga eventually reaches a resolution, but it takes its sweet time to do so (fifty-six books when the main plot would really need only, say, twenty), and the first anime was CutShort with no proper ending due in large part to actually catching up with the production of the manga and running out of episodal stories to do. The 26-episode anime series ''Inuyasha: The Final Act'' picks up where the original anime left off and covers the remaining chapters of the manga through to the story's conclusion.

You can find dubbed and subtitled versions of both ''[[http://www.hulu.com/inuyasha Inuyasha]]'' and ''[[http://www.hulu.com/inuyasha-the-final-act The Final Act]]'' on Creator/{{Hulu}} and the first two seasons of the original series on Netflix. The show (in dubbed form) aired from 2002-2014 (over a decade!) on Creator/AdultSwim (and, later, the revived Creator/{{Toonami}} block, which aired ''The Final Act'' from 2014-2015), becoming one of the first big hits for the block, and the series is now considered a classic gateway anime series for many in the US. In 2020, the first 54 episodes and four movies became available on Funimation.

In 2011, a loose Chinese LiveActionAdaptation called ''The Holy Pearl'' was made.

In May 2020 it was announced the series would be getting an anime sequel titled ''Anime/YashahimePrincessHalfDemon'' with the main characters being half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna, the daughters of Sesshomaru, alongside Moroha, the daughter of Inuyasha and Kagome.

For spinoff series and video games, see ''Franchise/{{Inuyasha}}''.

!!''Inuyasha'' provides examples of:

* HurtingHero: Kikyo, Sango, Miroku is the [[BrokenHero cheerful]] kind, [[TheAtoner Kohaku]] after he regains his memories and Inuyasha after some CharacterDevelopment.

%%* {{Bishounen}}: Inuyasha, Sesshomaru, Naraku.

* ScrubbingOutTheTrauma:

* BarefootPoverty: The story is primarily set during the Warring States era, where almost everyone save for lords went barefoot at all times. A couple of characters like Kagura, Rin and Inuyasha himself ''do'' cross into DoesNotLikeShoes territory however, but this too was largely the result of the times and simply being used to them. The entire setting was really the perfect barrel for Takahashi to indulge in [[AuthorAppeal some of her preferences.]]

%%* DoesNotLikeShoes: It'd be faster to list the characters who '''''do''''' wear shoes or sandals in this. Creator/RumikoTakahashi is pretty well known for her [[AuthorAppeal foot fetish]], meaning you'll see plenty of her characters barefoot, and plenty of close-ups...

Japanese [[OrdinaryHighSchoolStudent Ordinary Middle School Student]] Kagome Higurashi, 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]]; this sounds cool until you learn that {{Youkai}}, goblins, vengeful ghosts, malevolent wizard-priests, short-tempered twelve-foot-tall ogres, and all manner of other monsters are everywhere and you can barely swing your arms without hitting one of them. 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. 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, instead of other HairColors.

* TheResolutionWillNotBeTelevised: The original anime ran for 167 episodes before it was taken off the air. The manga however kept going along, making the anime an example of this trope. However, years later, after the manga had ended, the anime was revived and given 26 episode to pick up where it left off and adapt the manga rest of the manga, which it did, finally wrapping up all the major plot points and giving an ending.

%%* SwirlingDust

* OfficialCouple: Miroku and Sango become pretty much official in the middle of the story, [[spoiler:Inuyasha and Kagome stay not-quite official until the very last second]], that said [[spoiler:Kagome refers to him as her boyfriend]] about mid-way through the story and there are no objections.

* OutDamnedSpot: Inuyasha, having brutally slaughtered a gang of bandits while berserk (including some who attempted to surrender, and all in front of his shocked companions and some traumatized villagers), attempts to wash the blood from his claws, only to lament that with his hyper-sensitive nose, there's nothing he can do about the ''smell''.
** Suikotsu when in his good persona will oftentimes be overcome by the desire to obsessively wash his hands for hours on end. It's implied to be a manifistation of his disgust at his evil side and the inner conflict he's going through.

* AssholeVictim / KickTheSonOfABitch:

* TheyDo: [[spoiler:In the GrandFinale, Inuyasha and Kagome eventually become the OfficialCouple and share a TrueLovesKiss - although the kiss only occurs in the anime]].

* UnresolvedSexualTension: Sango and Miroku with the whole blush-grope-slap routine, at least until [[TheyDo they agreed to marry.]]

** The entire series was kicked off when Onigumo, a crippled bandit, voluntarily sacrificed his humanity to yokai to become Naraku, the BigBad, all to acquire the Shikon Jewel and sate his lust for Kikyo. Even before he became Naraku, Onigumo was far from a NiceGuy; the actions of Muso, Naraku's sixth detachment and first attempt to purge purge Onigumo from himself, reveal that he was a [[TheHedonist hedonistic]] [[AxCrazy psychopath]] who killed whoever and whenever he wanted.

* MistreatmentInducedBetrayal: Naraku kept Kagura's heart in his possession at all times as insurance against betrayal. Kagura got so sick of Naraku treating her like a slave she actively colluded with the good guys anyway. Probably remembering the end that [[spoiler:Kagura]] came to, Kanna gave Naraku the metaphorical finger by [[spoiler:dying of suicide as ordered, but without taking Inuyasha and his TrueCompanions with her. [[DeathEqualsRedemption She even gives Kagome advice on Naraku's weakness]] [[SubvertedTrope when one shard]] hits her eye]].

%%* LoveTriangle: Kagome/Inuyasha/Kikyo

* TriangRelations: The Inuyasha/Kagome/Kikyo Triangle is closest to a Type 7 situation, where "Alice" is Inuyasha, and "Bob" and "Charlie" are Kagome and Kikyo who are rivals rather than having no interaction. Inuyasha was effectively engaged to Kikyo when she died and his relationship with Kagome was already well under way when Kikyo came back from the dead (shortly after Koga'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). It doesn't help that Kagome is Kikyo reincarnated.

%%* NamedWeapons: Everybody's got one.

%%* BandagedFace: Onigumo.

%%* BarrierMaiden: Poor little Shiori...

%%* FaceFault: Justified via phlebotinum: "SIT, BOY!".
%%* FaceStealer: Muso.

%%** Later Suikotsu (the good one).

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Kagome, and not only on Inuyasha. Sango, mostly on Miroku.

* KissOfLife: Miroku tries this on Sango. [[ArmorPiercingSlap Guess what.]]

%%* OutDamnedSpot: Inuyasha, and later Suikotsu (the good one).

%%* DarkSkinnedBlond: Shiori.