List of minor InuYasha characters

Below is a list of the minor anime and manga characters from the series InuYasha. Like many other works by the creator Rumiko Takahashi, InuYasha has a very large cast of characters. The list is in alphabetical order.

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 * Daija (Japanese Seiyū: Ryunnosuke Obayashi, English Voice Actor: Colin Murdock) 

A water sprite who sealed up the water goddess Suijin, he then stole Trident of Amakoi from her. He demands sacrifices from the villagers or he will bring a great flood to destroy the village. When a white arrow landed on a house, the son of the household was to be the next sacrifice. Inuyasha and company help the village after Taroumaru hires them to save his friend Suikichi who has been sent in his place as the next sacrifice.

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Much like the priestess Kikyo, Enju was also resurrected by Urasue after she had died from an unknown cause. In life, Enju was a simple potter but was forced to make thousands of clay soldiers for Kawaramaru, another person who died and was resurrected by Urasue. She runs away from him since she is tired of making the clay men and meets Kikyo. Enju wishes for death but eventually decides to enjoy her second chance at life while Kikyo provides her with souls. She goes back to do what she loves and finally realizes the good in her second chance at a life. Enju only appears in the InuYasha anime. 
 * Enju (Japanese Seiyū: Fumiko Orikasa, English Voice Actor: Rebecca Shoicet) 

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A young boy who lives in the hermit Yoreitaisei's village. When Yoreitaisei's powers are stolen, Gennosuke remains one of the only people not affected when reality becomes warped throughout the village.
 * Gennosuke 

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When Jinenji's mother was young, she met a horse yōkai after she had fallen and twisted her ankle. They fell in love and together had a hanyō son named Jinenji. Now very old, Jinenji's mother is left to raise Jinenji alone for reasons unknown. His father left a field of medicinal plants to Jinenji and his mother.
 * Jinenji's Mother and Father

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Kai and Shinta are part of the northern Wolf Demon Tribe and witness their slaughter by a vicious badger demon under the command of Byakuya. Shinta, Kai's younger brother, is kidnapped by Byakuya who tells Kai to murder Kouga and bring back his shards in exchange for Shinta's life.
 * Kai and Shinta


 * Karan (Japanese Seiyū: Yoko Teppozuka English Voice Actor: Maggie Blue O'Hara) 

Karan is one of four panther demon siblings trying to resurrect their dead leader. She is the youngest sister and has the ability to manipulate flame attacks. Karan means summer. She and her siblings only appear in the anime.

A young girl who lost her family to war and works every hard for Aburachouja-sama, who had found her. She meets Miroku, who had been called to the village for an exorcism, and falls in love with him after he asks if she would bear his child. He leaves the village shortly after with a promise to come back for her. Three years later, when she is fourteen, she meets him again after running away when Aburachouja-sama's son tried to force himself on her the night before. She begs Miroku to take her with him, but it is not possible. Miroku convinces the village leader to take care of her. When her soul is stolen by Kanna, Koharu is used to hold Kagome while Kanna tries to steal Kagome's soul as well. When Miroku comes to rescue Kagome, Sango, and Koharu, Koharu tries to kill herself out of shame for doing terrible things to his friends. She holds up a sickle to her neck and when Miroku rushes to stop her, she attacks him. Miroku knocks her out and once she awakens she finds Miroku and the others gone.
 * Koharu (Japanese Seiyū: Rie Iwatsubo, English Voice Actor: Brittney Irvin)

A small boy who was kidnapped by a crow demon after it had stolen the Jewel of Four Souls. Kagome shoots the demon with an arrow causing the Jewel to shatter into tiny pieces.
 * Kokichi (Japanese Seiyū: Nami Okamoto, English Voice Actor: Cathy Weseluck) 

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A young girl who burned to death when the apartment where she lived with her mother and her brother Satoru caught fire. Her brother had a fever and Mayu was furious with her mother for missing parent participation day at school and stormed out of the apartment. When her mother goes to the store and returns to find her apartment on fire, she does not know Mayu is hiding in the closet; therefore, she only saves Satoru. Her ghost believes that her mother intentionally left her to die in their apartment, though her mother did not even know Mayu was in the apartment. She detests her younger brother Satoru, who has been in a coma for six months due to the fire, thinking her mother only cared about saving him and not her from the fire that killed her. Tatarimokke(the Soul Piper) follows Mayu around until it finally fully opens its eyes. Because Mayu's soul was not at peace, Tatarimokke attempts the drag Mayu to Hell. Kagome was able to stop Mayu from falling into Hell and tells Mayu the truth about her mother, and Mayu's soul is finally at peace. Satoru then awakens, and tells his mother that Mayu is hiding in the closet. His mother then goes to the burnt apartment, and speaks to Mayu's ghost, who tells her mother that she is sorry, and then vanishes. She later visits Kagome, saying that she thought that she should say bye before she left.
 * Mayu (Japanese Seiyū: Ayaka Saito, English Voice Actor: Chantal Strand)

Momiji and Botan are priestesses-in-training. Tsubaki tricked them into stalling InuYasha and gang while Tsubaki prepared to fight them. They can both create giant paper dolls and only appear in the anime.
 * Momiji and Botan (Japanese Seiyū: Shiho Kikuchi, Chiami Nishimura English Voice Actor: Alexandra Carter, Nicole Bouma, respectively)

At first glance, Mujina appears to be a young woman with a tragic past. She tells Shippo that her father was slain by a powerful demon and she hopes to use her sword Datsuki to gain enough power to avenge him. Her true self is revealed to be a fat, old male racoon.
 * Mujina

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 * Nazuna (Japanese Seiyū: Fumiko Orikasa, English Voice Actor: Tabitha St. Germain) 

Nazuna's parents where killed by the spider-head demons and because of this she has a strong hatred for all demons. Nazuna was being raised by a priest when InuYasha saves her after being chased of a cliff by the spider-head demons. At first she is thankful until she sees InuYasha is half demon. Eventually Nazuna finds out the raised by a priest is the leader of the spider-heads and he was responsibile for her parents' death. InuYasha kills the spider-head leader and after seeing him help her, Nazuna realizes not all demons are bad.

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A young warrior wandering the land, hoping to rescue Princess Tsuyu, the beautiful daughter of his retainer, when discovers that her husband has been acting strangely. Goodhearted but clumsy, he helps Inuyasha and Kagome defeat the frog demon stealing women's souls and had been possessing Tsuyu's husband. Despite being in love with Tsuyu since childhood, he nobly concedes her affections to her husband. Oda Nobunaga was said to be ruthless warlord, so his gentle demeanor in InuYasha is somewhat of a contridiction, much to Kagome's surprise. In the English dub, when Kagome asks for his autograph, she is shocked to discover the young man is named Omari Nobunaga and not the more famous historical figure (whom Omari Nobunaga has a low opinion of).
 * Oda Nobunaga (Brad Swaile)

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Sara is a young princess from a village. She was formerly a nun, and the day she was about to die, demons offered her life in exchange for a body to harbour them, in order for her to tell Sesshomaru her feelings. She had fallen in love with Sesshomaru, when he had saved her father's castle from an attacking army. Though she was rejected, she still loves him. When the demon inside her, took over her body, and was defeated, she turned into ashes.
 *  Sara 

Satoru is Mayu's younger brother who has been in a coma for 6 months after a fire destroyed the apartment he was living in. When Satoru becomes very sick one day, his mother stays home to care for him. Mayu becomes jealous of Satoru and storms out the house but returns after her mother goes to the store. She hangs her scarf over a steaming kettle dispite Satoru's warning. To maker he mom worry, she hides in the closet while the scarf sets the apartment aflame. When their mother returns to find her apartment on fire, she does not know Mayu is hiding in the closet and only saves Satoru causing Mayu's ghost to believe that her mother intentionally left her to die in their apartment. Kagome helps put Mayu's soul to rest and shortly after Satoru comes out of his coma saying "Mayu's in the closet..."
 * Satoru

Satsuki is Shippo's first love. She lives alone waiting for her older brother to return home, but she doesn't yet know he died in war. Satsuki has a stone she believes is a jewel shard.
 * Satsuki</b>


 * Sayo</b>

Sayo is a young girl from a village that Kikyo is in shortly after she has been revived. Sayo wants her to stay in her village forever however, one night she sees Kikyou and decides to follow her. Kikyou kills Seikai, a monk, as Sayo looks on with fear and horror from her hiding place in the brush. When Kikyou comes close to her, Sayo is afraid and Kikyou decides to leave her and her village forever.

A monk who runs into Kikyo shortly after she has been revived, he is certain there is something wrong with her. Later, he and his apprentice watch Kikyou receiving souls from her shinidamachuu. That is when Seikai realizes she is a just dead human and he tries to send her back to the world of the dead and save her soul, but Kikyou ends up killing him.
 * Seikai</b>

Serina and Suzana are a pair of sisters from a village of Ninjas. After their village is destroyed by demons, they seek out Sango so they can become her apprentices. Serina and Suzuna only appear in the anime.
 * Serina and Suzuna</b>

The beautiful daughter of a man who Miroku helped cure from a sickness with over-priced herbal medicine. She happens to be one of the many young women Miroku asks to bear his children and when Miroku returns to her village two years later, she still remembers this promise well. So well, that she and her parents want him to marry her immediately so she does not have to marry a catfish demon who Shima's father mistakenly allowed Shima to be bethrothed to when he prayed to when retrieving the water needed to boil her medicine. Shima ends up driving a wedge between Miroku and Sango when she tries to lie to the demon that her virginity has been lost to Miroku. In the end, after the demon is defeated, she realizes that Miroku loves Sango and reveals the truth so that they two will reconcile.
 * Shima</b>

Shinnosuke is Wakana's husband. She left her village after she believed he had died in battle, but became possessed by a salamander demon.
 * Shinnosuke</b>


 * Shizu - (Japanese Seiyū: Yuriko Yamaguchi English Voice Actor:]]) Shizu is the mother of Shiori, a half demon. She fell in love with a bat demon named Tsukuyōmaru who died shortly after Shiori's brith. Because of her love for a demon she has been persecuted in her village. They are also blamed when the bat demon's attack and kill the village people.

Shunran is part of four panther demon siblings trying to resurrect the panther demon leader. She has the ability to make illusion using magic. Shunran means spring. She and her siblings only appear in the anime.
 * Shunran - (Japanese Seiyū: Yuki Masuda English Voice Actor: Jocelyne Lowen)</b>


 * Shuran (Japanese Seiyū: Masaya Takatsuka English Voice Actor: Scott Logie)</b>

Shuran (which means autumn) is part of four panther demon siblings trying to ressurect the panther demon leader; he is the youngest. Shuran has great strength and the ability to manipulate lightning. He and his siblings only appear in the anime.

Souten in the younger sister of Hiten and Maten. She mistakenly believes that Shippo killed her brothers and decides to seek revenge on him. Souten only appears in the anime series.
 * Souten (Japanese Seiyū: Yuko Mizutani English Voice Actor: Rebecca Shoicet)</b>

Suijin is the peaceful water goddess at a local temple. She was attacked by Daija, a simple water sprite who had served the water goddess, and was shrunk down and sealed inside a tiny rock cave. Unlike Suijin, Daija demanded sacrifices from the village and if they refused he sent massive waves to destroy the village. While InuYasha and Kagome do battle with him, Miroku and Sango discover where she is and free her, although before they do Miroku ponders how he can do anything with her in such a small state. She soon regains her power (and returns to her normal size) after the Trident of Amakoi is returned to her.
 * Suijin (Japanese Seiyū: Masaki Katsuki English Voice Actor: Sylvia Zaradic)</b>

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The leader of the bat demon tribe, father of Tsukuyōmaru, and grandfather of Shiori. Ruthless and bloodthirsty, he and the other bat demons constantly attacked a nearby human village. His son Tsukuyōmaru was his opposite and never attacked the village. Because Tsukuyōmaru refused to bear the bat clan barrier any longer if the attacks on the village did not stop, he was killed by his father Taigokumaru, and later demanded custody of his half demon shild Shiori. He was killed by InuYasha, and his blood was absorbed into his clan's barrier-creating orb which allowed InuYasha's Tessaiga to gain the ability to penetrate lesser barriers.
 * Taigokumaru (Japanese Seiyū: unknown English Voice Actor: Scott McNeil)</b>

Two boys are from a village that has been taken over by an evil (and fake) water god. The water god demanded that whenever a white arrow landed on the roof of a house, the son of the household was to be the next sacrifice. When the arrow lands on Taromaru's house, his father (being the village leader) has another boy secretly take Taromaru's place as the sacrifice. This boy was Suikichi, Taroumaru's best friend. Taroumaru, however, hires InuYasha and gang to help save him.
 * Taromaru and Suikichi</b>

A swordsmith that forged the sword Dakki (Datsuki), a blade that could absorb yōki, by tricking a ryujin ("Dragon-Man") into giving him one of his scales. Toshu befriends InuYasha and his group, tricking them into killing the ryujin so he could achieve his goal of empowering the sword and keeping it for himself. Toshu proceeds to "test" his blade on InuYasha's Tessaiga, nearly shattering it and absorbing much of its yōki. During the course of the battle, the Datsuki overcomes Toshu, weakening him and transforming him into something resembling a ryujin. Datsuki eventually breaks, causing Toshu to turn to dust and the yōki within the sword to be absorbed by Tessaiga.
 * Toshu (Japanese Seiyū: none English Voice Actor: none)</b>


 * Toran(Japanese Seiyū: Yumi Tomaa English Voice Actor: Alison Matthew)</b>

Toran is the oldest in a group of four panther demon siblings trying to resurrect their dead leader. She is the unoffical leader of the group and uses ice attacks. Toran means winter. She and her siblings only appear in the anime.

A member of the bat demon tribe of which his father Taigokumaru was the leader. The other bat demons were ruthless and attacked and killed the people in a nearby human village, but Tsukuyōmaru did not. Instead, Tsukuyōmaru fell in love with a human woman from the village named Shizu and together they had Shiori, a hanyou child. Once his daughter was born, he convinced the other demons to leave the villagers alone, which they did. Tsukuyōmaru refused his position as the protector of the barrier if that could not be done. Taigokumaru, his own father, killed him for this, something both Shiori and her mother did not know until Taigokumaru eventually reveals it.
 * Tsukuyōmaru (Japanese Seiyū: Takuma Suzuki English Voice Actor: unknown)</b>

Princess Tsuyu is a childhood friend of Nobunaga who has a secret crush in her. She is married to a lord who becomes possessed by Tsukomo. The giant frog demon has been kidnapping women and Nobunaga wants to rescue her from that fate.
 * Tsuyu</b>

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Wakana, like the other women in her village, injested a salamander's egg which forces her to kill any men that came into the area. Her husband, Shinnosuke almost suffers this same fate.
 * Wakana</b>