InuYasha Yōkai List

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This article pertains to the anime and manga series InuYasha and is a list of yōkai (demons) who appear in the series.

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Abi-hime (Princess Abi) - Species: Bird yōkai. Group: None. A very proud bird princess in the form of a human. She is the master of blood-sucking featherless birds and her mother is a giant seagull. Naraku uses Abi-hime and her mother to open the gate to the boundary of the Living World and the Dead. Abi becomes suspicious of Naraku when she runs into one trouble after another after encountering Naraku, but she is easily disposed when she challenges him.
Ah-Un - Species: ryu (dragon) Group: Sesshomaru's group. Ah-Un is a flying, two-headed pet dragon that follows Sesshōmaru. After Rin joins them, she often accompanies Ah-Un. The right head is Ah and the left head is Un.
Akago - Species: Human shaped yōkai Group: Naraku's group. This baby yōkai can read minds and has no yōki presence (due to the Fyōheki stone). He is Naraku's heart. Later cut in half by a monk named Master Shinen.
Ayame - Species: okuri-ookami (wolf youkai). Group: Wolf's tribe. Ayame is an anime only character. Koga promised to marry her when she was little in order to reassure her, but as he currently loves Kagome he has denied recalling his promise.

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Bird of Paradise - Species: Bird yōkai Group: Birds of paradise group. These yōkai where in war with the wolf yōkai. Their leader was using a shikon fragment into his mouth, and was bigger than the regular birds. The entire group was killed by InuYasha's and Koga's group. The Birds would best be described as Harpies.

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Mistress Centipede (Mukade Jōrō) - Species: Omukade. Group: None. The first yōkai that appears in the series, she comes through the bone-eater's well and drags Kagome Higurashi into the Sengoku era for the first time. Before she is killed by Inuyasha, she bites Kagome, revealing the Shikon Jewel within Kagome's body.
Chokyukai - Species: ???. Group: None. A pig demon who travels through a tornado and captures females to be his brides. He captured Kagome and battled InuYasha before being hit by one of Kagome's arrows. He eventually got away. He had two lackeys: Son Goku, a monkey demon, and Sa Gojyo, a kappa. This is somewhat a tribute to (or a parody of) Journey to the West.

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Entei - Species: Horse yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. A demonic yōkai who only obeys the strongest yōkai, in this case, Hakudoshi. He was killed by InuYasha when trapped in a cave.

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Ginta - Species: okuri-ookami (wolf youkai). Group: Koga's group. Ginta is one of the last survivors of the yōkai wolf tribe.
Goshinki - Species: oni. Group: Naraku's group. Goshinki has the ability of read minds, and could prevent every movement of InuYasha. When he broke Tessaiga, InuYasha turned into a full demon for the first time. He was killed by the transformed InuYasha, and his teeth were used to forge Sesshoumaru's sword Tokijin.

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Hachi (Hachiemōn) - Species: tanuki. Group: InuYasha's group. Hachi is Miroku's old friend. Like Shippo, he can use leafs to transform into the shape of a variety of objects, including humans. His most commonly seen transformation is that of a giant yellow floating pillow, used for travelling over great distances.
Hakkaku - Species: okuri-ookami (wolf youkai). Group: Kōga's group. Hakakku is one of the last survivors of the yōkai wolf tribe.
Hakudoshi (Hakudōshi) - Species: Human shape yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. Hakudoshi was born from Akago's half body. He is older than his other half but they have the same abilities. He tamed Entei by killing his old master. Follow link for further information.
Hari - Species: Human Shape yōkai. Group: Menomaru's Group. Exclusive to the first movie, wields two scimitar swords. Using her special symbol she was able to control Kirara and later under Menomaru's order with the help of a Sacred Jewel fragment placed Kagome under their control as well. In the end Sango got through to Kirara and together with Kirara, Sango was able to use her Hiraikotsu to kill Hari.
Hiten - Species: Thunder yōkai. Group: Thunder Clan. Hiten killed Shippō's father, and InuYasha killed him to get the fragments he had on his forehead. Handsome and ruthless, his existence is linked to the pike he uses in battle; destroying the weapon will destroy him as well. His brother is Manten.
Hosenki (Hōsenki) - Species: Oyster taiyōkai. Group: None. Hōsenki created InuYasha's black pearl (kuroshinju), which can be used only once to travel to the boundary between this world and the next to reach his father's grave. When he died and InuYasha's group meets him in the other world, he was corrupted by a dark fragment due to Naraku's influence on the rest of the Shikon Jewel. When it was removed, he taught InuYasha a new attack with the Tessaiga: the Kongōsōha.

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Inu no Taisho (no name has officially been given; "Inu no Taisho" is the title by which characters such as Myoga and Totosai refer to him) - Species: Akita inu daiyoukai. Group: None. InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father. He was one of the most powerful yōkai that ever lived and had a caring heart for humans. He was mortally wounded in a duel with Ryukotsusei, and subsequently carried his injuries to save InuYasha's mother Izayoi and baby InuYasha who was just born. He died after a battle with Setsuna no Takemaru, the young general of a castle where Izayoi was dwelling, in a fire 200 years before InuYasha and Co's search for the Shikon shards.
InuYasha - Species: Inugami (possibly) Akita inu hanyō. Group: InuYasha's group. He is the main character.

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Jaken - Species: kappa. Group: Sesshomaru's group. This comical imp yōkai follows Sesshomaru wherever he goes, as a repayment of Sesshomaru "saving" his life a long time ago. He tries to please Sesshomaru as much as he can but usually is disregarded by the dispassionate Sesshomaru. Jaken is very intelligent and knowledgeable about demons as he was a leader of his own kappa group before he met Sesshomaru.
Jinenji - Species: Horse hanyō. Group: None. Jinenji was abused by the villagers. He defeated a big yōkai and proved his value to the people who hated him. He takes care of a vegetable garden with medicinal plants. He also lives with his heavily protective mother, who was abused with him.
Juromaru (Jurōmaru) - Species: Human shape yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. One of Naraku's detachments who was hard to control even for Naraku. Slain after the encounter with Koga and InuYasha.

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Kagura - Species: Wind yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. Naraku created Kagura from the wind and a part of him, and holds her heart in his hand, in case she betrays him. When she found out that Naraku is only using her as a tool to achieve his plans she secretly plotted to kill him. She may have developed feelings for Sesshomaru and believed that he's the one that could free her from Naraku. Eventually she was tricked by Naraku and died of his poision, not even the Tenseiga can save her.
Kaguya (Princess Kaguya) - Species: Human-Shape yōkai. Group: None. Based on the classic Japanese folk tale, Kaguya-hime no Monogatari. Exclusive to the second movie. Like Naraku she absorbs yōkai and absorbed the real Kaguya to gain immortality. Kaguya's mirror was found by Kagura and Kanna who gathered the items to break the seal and then she took back her Celestial Robe from Hojo Akitoki. She was long ago defeated and sealed in her mirror by Miroku's grandfather, but did not suck her up with his Kazaana due to his perverted habits because she was beautiful. Kaguya's plan was to freeze time was thwarted because Kagome or any thing from modern times (such as bandages or band-aids) that were brought by Kagome are immune to the effects. Naraku faked his death by hiding in Kohaku's body so he could claim Kaguya's power for himself. Kaguya's power is so immense that she could reflect Inuyasha's Bakuryuha. In the end Kagome used Miroku's staff as an arrow which broke her mirror allowing the Bakuryuha to kill Kaguya's physical body and then her spirit was sucked in by Miroku's Kazaana.
Kageromaru (Kagerōmaru) - Species: kamaitachi. Group: Naraku's group. Kageromaru, the "master" of Juromau, can move freely underground and move lightning fast. However Koga was faster. They were no match for the combined strength of InuYasha and Koga as he and Juromaru was both eliminated by Tessaiga's Wind Scar attack.
Kaijinbo (Kaijinbō) - Species: Swordsmith yōkai. Group: None. He was Totosai's student, and makes evil swords. He forged Sesshomaru's sword, Tōkijin.
Kanna - Species: Mirror/Void yōkai Group: Naraku's group. This yōkai whose appearance is that of a little girl dressed all in white with no facial expressions at all. She has a mirror which can deflect most yōki attacks, stealing the souls of humans, and can act like a crystal ball in seeing events that are happening afar. She is very loyal to Naraku even though she knows that Naraku is using them in doing his dirty work.
Kirara - Species: Nekomata. Group: InuYasha's group. Sango was present with Kirara by her father when she was little. Kirara has two forms: a little cat and a big, flying, fiery cat. She transports Sango and Miroku while Kagome and Shippo usually travel on InuYasha's shoulders. It is hinted in the anime that she is was once the companion of the legendary miko Midoriko.
Kumo Gashira - Species: Oogumo. Group: None. Terrorized a mountain village in an attempt to draw out InuYasha and Kagome and steal their jewel shards. Despite an untimely transformation into human form by InuYasha, this yōkai was ultimately slain after InuYasha regained his yōkai power.
Kuroro - Species: Nekomata. Group: None. Kuroro, who looks identical to Kirara and can also transform into a larger form. She and her cubs were saved by InuYasha's group.
Koga (Kōga) - Species: okuri-ookami (wolf youkai). Group: Kōga's group. Koga is the prince of the yōkai wolf tribe. He used Kagome to defeat the birds of paradise. He has a fragment on each leg, but Kagome doesn't let InuYasha take them, because Koga has fallen in love with her. On a fight against Kagura, all his friends died, and now he seeks revenge by trying to kill Naraku.

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Manten - Species: Thunder yōkai. Group: Thunder Clan. Manten is Hiten's younger brother. Unlike Hiten, he is homely (and very conscious of it) and believes he can become handsome drinking a potion which includes Kagome as one of the ingredients. He used Shippou's father's fur as a belt. InuYasha killed him while Manten was trying to kill Kagome.
Medicine vendor - Species: Insect yōkai. Group: None. This strange mosquito yōkai appeared on a manga filler. He was cursed to take the form of a handsome man and to attract cute girls and thus suck their blood. When he hypnotised Sango and was almost "kissing" her, Miroku appears and beats him up. The yōkai only wanted to suck her blood so Sango let him do it and he returned to his mosquito form.
Menomaru - Species: Moth yōkai. Group: Menomaru's group. Exclusive to and the main villain from the first movie. Came from the continent with his father Hyoga over 200 years ago, but his father was sealed away by Inuyasha's father. Used Kagome to trick InuYasha into breaking the seal, so he could merge with his father's remains and become the new Hyoga. He even went as far as contolling Kagome to try to kill Inuyasha with the symbol Hari placed on Kagome. But in the end Menomaru was slain by a combination attack of Inuyasha's Bakuryuha and Kagome's Hama no Ya.
MoMo (MōMō) - Species: Cow yōkai. Group: Totosai group. This bizarre three eyed, flying cow is Totosai's transport.
Myoga (Myōga) - Species: Flea yōkai. Group: InuYasha's group. He was the servant of InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father, and now helps InuYasha from time to time when crucial information. However, he's nowhere to be found when any sort of danger approaches.
Moryomaru (Moryōmaru) - Species: Huge monster yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. Naraku's heart, and actually his strongest minion (and his heart).
Muonna - Species: noppera-bō. Group: None. She is a yōkai made up of the souls of all the mothers who lost their children to war. Her name means "nothing woman," and is translated to "unmother" in the English dub. Sesshomaru ordered her to take Izayoi's form to look into InuYasha's heart to find information on the location of their father's grave, but her instinct to protect children caused her to sacrifice herself protecting InuYasha.
Muotoko - Species: noppera-bō. Group: None. The "nothing man," like the muonna, is a yōkai made up of the men who lost their farms and homes in war. Jaken commanded him to steal the Tetsusaiga from InuYasha, but the slow-witted muotoko picked the pockets of the group instead. When he did finally attempt to take the Tetsusaiga, he was repelled by its barrier and scolded by InuYasha and friends, who let him go his own way after he promised not to steal any more.

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Naraku - Species: Human shape hanyō. Group: Naraku's group. He is the main villain. He killed Kikyou (Kikyō), Sango's demon slayer kin, and Koga's wolf tribe. In addition, he cursed Miroku's grandfather and his progeny with the wind tunnel, committing endless other nefarious acts. He has also crossed Sesshomaru more than once in bids to gain his demon power or otherwise manipulate him. Hence, all groups of characters currently wish him destroyed. Follow link for further information.
Naraku's low-level yōkai - Species: General yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. Naraku can release infinite lesser yōkai from his body. Even Shippo can beat them, but they often appear in huge numbers and very bothersome to deal with.
Noh Mask - Species: Noh mask. Group: None. This yōkai appeared in Kagome's time. It is a Noh mask which was carved from the wood of a tree in which a Shikon fragment was embedded; the power of the jewel fragment turned the mask into a yōkai which craved a body of its own. It attached to the faces of living humans, but their bodies quickly decomposed, causing the mask to absorb more and more people into a growing blob of decomposing matter. InuYasha broke the mask and retrieved its shard after it attacked Kagome.

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Ruri - Species: Human Shape yōkai. Group: Menomaru's group. Exclusive to the first movie, she wields a snake that has taken the form a halberd spear. She was able to use her special power to copy Miroku's kazaana, but her fatal mistake was in her battle against Miroku, she expanded her Kazaana to try to overpower Miroku. As a result it became too wide which caused Ruri to get sucked in.
Ryukotsusei (Ryukōssei) - Species: Ryu (dragon) Taiyōkai. Group: None. Ryukossei fought InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father, causing the injuries that, according to Myoga, lead to their father's death before the yōkai was sealed by one of his claws. Later, he was awakened by Naraku and killed by InuYasha.

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Saimyoushou (Samiyōshō) - Species: Wasp yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. These bugs have the special ability of covering all the plot holes. When Miroku is about to use his Kazaana, these bugs appear from nowhere and poison him. Without Miroku's kazaana, a more interesting battle can begin. They're also Naraku's eyes outside his castle. What they see is shown to Naraku through Kanna's mirror.
Sesshoumaru (Sesshōmaru) - Species: Inugami Taiyōkai. Group: Sesshoumaru's group. He is a taiyōkai, or demon lord who wanted to walk the path of Conquest, a lineage he inherited from his father who ruled over the western lands. He is InuYasha's half brother who despises InuYasha from the inside out, however signs of his attitudes have changed toward the people who are not enemies are constantly showing after he meets Kagome and subsequently Rin.
Shibugarasu - Species: Crow yōkai. Group: None. This crow swallowed the Jewel of Four Souls (Shikon no Tama) a.k.a. Shikon Jewel at the beginning of the series. Kagome destroyed it with her purifying arrow, but in the process the Shikon Jewel was shattered and scattered across the land of Japan.
Shiori - Species: Ogre-bat hanyō. Group: None. This half human, half ogre-bat hanyō is a little kid who has the power of creating strong barriers. She gave InuYasha an orb that once Tessaiga has absorbed the essence of the orb, it gains the power to break most barriers (red tessaiga).
Shinidamachu (Shinidamachū) - Species: Bug yōkai. Group: Kikyo's group. These long yōkai where used by Kikyo to gather the souls of the dead to support her, who was brought back to "life" and needed souls to survive.
Shippo (Shippō) - Species: kitsune. Group: InuYasha's group. His father was killed by the Thunder Brothers, InuYasha and Kagome avenged him and now he now tags along the group. Shippo is a very weak demon as he is a fox demon that specializes in the use of tricks and creating false illusions.
Shoga (Shōga) - Species: Flea Yōkai. Group: None. A female flea yōkai who is engaged to Myoga. She appears in the filler episode which is made just for laughs.
Soten (Sōten) - Species: Thunder yōkai. Group: Thunder Clan. This filler episode character is Hiten's and Manten's younger sister. She kidnaps Shippo to fight him for revenge (or so he thinks at first), but the battle ends in a tie. When Shippo discovers she is only a girl he was greatly depressed that he wasted so much time on a nevertheless very funny encounter with another yōkai kid. In addition to receiving the crayons Shippo and she fought over (he gives them to her), the little demon girl develops a crush on Shippo and draws an older version of him. Many fans of the series support this couple but from the looks of it, Shippo only likes human girls like Satsuki, Koume, and Mizuki.

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Tatarimokke - Species: Big monster yōkai. Group: None. This Soul Piper yōkai plays with the souls of dead children while they linger in this world, playing music for them on its flute. If a child's soul becomes hateful and malicious, the tatarimokke's eyes open and the soul is dragged to hell. Aside from the unnatural Noh Mask, the tatarimokke is the only yōkai to appear in the present without traveling through the well.
Tekkei - Species: Bird yōkai. Group: None. The mother of the demonic Princess Abi, Tekkei is an enormous bird demon from Hell. Because she is ill, Abi accepts the assistance of Naraku to gather blood for Tekkei's recovery. While overconfidant and powerful, Tekkei is more perceptive and less rash than her daughter. She meets her downfall when she swallows Naraku to defeat him, only for Naraku to destroy her from within and use her body in order to enter the Netherworld to find the final Shikon Jewel shard.
Toran - Species: Panther demon yōkai. Group: Panther demon tribe. Toran is the leader of the panther demon tribe, who fought previously against Sesshomaru's and InuYasha's father in a fierce battle for territory. They return, seeking to resurrect their master, (a huge cat demon yōkai defeated in that battle) and fight the "sons of the dog demon". The panther tribe each possess an elemental power of some sort -- Toran's is that of ice (freezing water, producing snowblinds). She also has a particular affinity for personally challenging Sesshomaru.
Totosai (Tōtōsai) - Species: Swordsmith yōkai. Group: Totosai's group. Totosai is a swordsmith, he crafted both Tessaiga and Tenseiga from the fangs of InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father. He is a strong but cowardly yōkai.
Tsukumo no Gama (Toad of Tsukumo) a.k.a. the Toad Demon - Species: Toad yōkai. Group: None. Known as the Toad Demon in the English anime. Possessed a young lord, captured young girls to use their souls to strengthen his power. Kagome using her hairspray with a candle was able to drive Tsukumo no Gama's sprit from the young lords body since toads don't like heat. InuYasha then finished his spirit off with the Tessaiga.

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Urasue - Species: ogress (oni). Group: None. Urasue resurrected Kikyo using her flesh and bones. Was killed by her just after the priestess recovered her soul from Kagome.

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Yura of the Hair - Species: Hair comb yōkai. Group: None. It was InuYasha's first strong opponent in the series. She controlled the villagers with her hair, and caused lots of trouble to InuYasha and Kagome, even sending her hair to follow Kagome to the modern times through the bone-eaters well. Yura appeared completely invulnerable - no matter what InuYasha did to her, like tear her heart out (and her breasts along with it), she wasn't affected. The reason for this turned out to be that she had hidden her soul into a comb, and the comb in turn into a red skull. Unfortunately, her hands were connected to the comb by hair strands, allowing Kagome to locate and break the comb, resulting in Yura turning to dust. It is interesting to note that Yura resembles Nabiki (from the series Ranma ½ from the same author) more than little. Yura also makes an appearance in the (porn) dōjinshi "Shio 10".

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Zushi nezumi - Species: Rat yōkai. Group: Naraku's group. These yōkai were controlled by Naraku to destroy every village in order to drag Kikyo out from her hiding place. InuYasha destroyed the magical box where the rats were coming out it with Tessaiga, and all the rats vanished.

Glossary

Hanyō: The child of a yōkai and a human is a hanyō. They are generally despised by both yōkai and humans and usually have a specific Time Period each month when they revert entirely to human form until the period is over.

Taiyōkai (Daiyoukai): An especially strong and powerful yōkai. Literally "great yōkai".

Yōkai: Fantastic creatures that inhabit the world of the series InuYasha. They can have a human-like form, beast form, or both.

'This is only a list of yōkai. To find out more about the InuYasha series and characters, please refer to the main InuYasha article. For more information on youkai in general, visit the Wikipedia article.