InuYasha - Season 1

In Japan's Warring States period, a half-demon boy named Inuyasha is sealed by the priestess Kikyo. Centuries later, Kagome, a modern-day schoolgirl, is transported back in time and accidentally breaks the seal, awakening Inuyasha. Just then, a centipede demon attacks and tears into Kagome's side—revealing the Sacred Jewel, the Shikon no Tama. The demon swallows it, but Inuyasha swiftly defeats it with a single blow.

Kagome is revealed to be the reincarnation of Kikyo, the priestess who once protected the Sacred Jewel. When the demon Yura of the Hair kidnaps her to obtain the jewel, Inuyasha rushes to her rescue. Although he tears the demon apart, it regenerates after having swallowed the jewel. When Kagome fires an arrow at the demon, the Sacred Jewel shatters into countless fragments, scattering them across the land.

With Kagome's ability to detect jewel shards and Inuyasha's power to fight demons, they're forced to team up to retrieve the scattered fragments. However, they quarrel, and Kagome returns to her time through the Bone-Eater's Well. Meanwhile, the demon Yura uses villagers to ambush Inuyasha. Injured but determined, he follows Kagome back to the modern world.

While Kagome relaxes at home, Inuyasha comes through the well to retrieve her—unaware that a strand of Yura's demon hair clings to his shoulder. To stop her from attacking the modern world, Kagome returns to the past with Inuyasha. They face Yura in battle, but she traps them in flames from her demonic comb.

Kagome learns that Inuyasha is a half-demon, born of a human mother and a powerful dog-demon father. His older half-brother, Sesshomaru, searches for their father's grave and even summons Inuyasha's deceased mother from the afterlife. But the one who appears is a demon in disguise. Inuyasha is nearly consumed by her illusion.

Sesshomaru forces the truth from the demon and extracts a black pearl from Inuyasha's eye—revealing their father's grave. He enters it in search of the legendary sword, Tetsusaiga. Kagome and Inuyasha follow. Though the sword is meant for Inuyasha, it's Kagome who first draws it from its resting place.

Sesshomaru tries to kill Kagome for drawing the sword. Enraged, Inuyasha defends her, unlocking the sword's true form: a massive fang-shaped blade. Revealing his monstrous form, Sesshomaru battles Inuyasha—but is ultimately forced to retreat after losing an arm.

In the province of Kai, a bumbling young samurai named Nobunaga learns that a demon has possessed his childhood friend's new husband, a feudal lord. With Kagome's clever help, the toad demon Tsukumo no Gama is driven out—though not without a struggle.

Shippo, a young fox-demon, seeks revenge after the Thunder Brothers, Hiten and Manten, kill his father. Hoping to use the Sacred Jewel for power, Shippo steals a shard from Kagome. But when Manten kidnaps her to make hair tonic from her remains, Inuyasha must act quickly.

Inuyasha rescues Kagome by tricking Hiten and using the Tetsusaiga to defeat Manten. Hiten absorbs Manten's shard and gains immense power, attacking with lightning strikes. Inuyasha fends him off using only the sword's scabbard—until the blade itself responds and unleashes its true strength.

While Kagome returns home to study, a cursed Noh mask stored at the Higurashi Shrine awakens, seeking the Sacred Jewel's power. When it attacks, her younger brother Sota desperately summons Inuyasha to save her.

Kagome sees a Soul Piper, a spirit guide for children, and meets the ghost of a girl named Mayu on the verge of turning into an evil spirit. As Kagome tries to help her pass on, the Soul Piper's eyes begin to glow—signaling Mayu's descent into darkness unless she's saved in time.

During the night of the new moon, Inuyasha becomes fully human. While staying at a mountainside temple, the group is tricked by a spider demon who steals the Sacred Jewel. Poisoned and weakened, Inuyasha must rely on Kagome's support to survive.

The demon Urasue digs up the remains of Kikyo, the priestess who sealed Inuyasha. Using her ashes and grave soil, she revives Kikyo's body—but without a soul, it's just an empty shell. Then Urasue spots Kagome and realizes she holds Kikyo's reincarnated soul.

Kagome's soul is absorbed into the revived Kikyo, who immediately tries to kill Inuyasha. But Kagome reclaims her soul just in time. As Kikyo falls into a ravine, we learn the tragic truth: she and Inuyasha were tricked into betraying each other. But who orchestrated it all?

The flirtatious monk Miroku steals a shard of the Sacred Jewel from Kagome. When Inuyasha pursues him, Miroku unleashes his Wind Tunnel curse—a void in his hand that sucks in everything. With Kagome's help, they seal it. Miroku then reveals that his true enemy is the demon Naraku—who is also Kikyo's betrayer.

A painter named Kōdachi uses ink laced with Sacred Jewel fragments to create demons from his artwork. When Miroku and the others visit his manor, they are attacked. Miroku absorbs a demon, but is nearly consumed by its evil. Inuyasha battles to destroy the cursed ink without killing the misguided artist.

Naraku appears before Sesshomaru and offers him a human arm embedded with a Sacred Jewel shard. Armed with this, Sesshomaru attacks Inuyasha and takes Tetsusaiga, unleashing its full power to slay a hundred demons at once. As Miroku's Wind Tunnel is sealed by poison insects, Kagome fires a sacred arrow that restores the sword to Inuyasha.

Inuyasha battles Sesshomaru and regains Tetsusaiga by slicing off the arm with the embedded jewel shard. Learning of Naraku's involvement, Inuyasha fears Kagome's life is in danger and sends her back to her time—taking away the Sacred Jewel shards to keep her safe.

Back in the modern world, Kagome finds herself unable to return to the past. Inuyasha had destroyed the well to keep her out of harm's way. Meanwhile, the group investigates Naraku's past and learns of a bandit named Onigumo—who may hold the key to the mystery connecting Naraku and Kikyo.

Thanks to Kagome's return to the Sengoku era guided by the Shikon Jewel's presence, Inuyasha grows stronger and defeats a demon, the wolf youkai Yōkan. Watching from the shadows, Naraku finally reveals himself to the group...

After surviving her fall into a ravine, Kikyo lives quietly in a village. But when a priest realizes she's the walking dead and tries to put her soul to rest, he's killed. Inuyasha intervenes to save the priest's apprentice...

Kikyo immobilizes Kagome and confronts Inuyasha. Gathering soul collectors, she unleashes her pent-up bitterness, but Inuyasha confesses he's never forgotten her. Touched, Kikyo kisses him—and tries to drag him to the underworld. But Kagome's voice breaks through, pulling him back to reality...

Sango, a skilled demon slayer, is summoned to Hitosumi Castle along with her father and younger brother, Kohaku. But it's a trap—Kohaku, manipulated by the enemy, slaughters his family. Meanwhile, their village is wiped out by a youkai raid, and Naraku seizes the Shikon shards. Barely surviving, Sango is told Inuyasha is behind it all...

Believing Inuyasha is her brother's killer, Sango fights him, unaware it's a ploy by Naraku using the Shikon Jewel to keep her fighting to the death. With Kagome's help, the truth is revealed. Sango joins Inuyasha to face Naraku—but it's just a puppet. Unfazed, Naraku sets his next plan in motion...

Sango reveals the origin of the Shikon Jewel: the priestess Midoriko, in a deadly battle against countless demons, expelled her soul—merged with theirs—to form the jewel. Purified under Kikyo's care, it nevertheless brought tragedy. Inuyasha vows to break the jewel's curse once and for all...

Meeting Tarōmaru, the village headman's son, Inuyasha and friends storm the Water God's shrine where children are sacrificed. They discover the true deity, a goddess, is imprisoned—replaced by a serpent spirit. Fired up by the mention of a beautiful goddess, Miroku springs into action...