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Yokai

Yokai here are listed alphabetical order

• Abi-hime - Species: Bird yokai. Group: None. Naraku entrusted Abi an trident made with parts of his body to protect her from InuYasha's attacks. She was killed by Naraku.
• Ah-Un - Species: Horse/dragon yokai Group: Sesshomaru's group. Ah-Un is a flying, two-headed horse/dragon which Sesshomaru uses to travel. The one who cares for him is Rin, who also named him (one head is Ah, other head is Un).
• Akago - Species: Human shape yokai Group: Naraku's group. This baby yokai can read minds and has no yoki presence (due to the Fyoheki stone). He is Naraku's heart.
• Ayame - Species: Wolf yokai. Group: Wolf's tribe. Ayame is an anime only character. Koga promised to marry her when she was little, but now he loves Kagome and completely forgot about his promise.
• Bird of Paradise - Species: Bird yokai Group: Birds of paradise group. These yokai where in war with the wolf yokai. 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.
• Mistress Centipede (Mudake Joro) - Species: Centipede yokai. Group: None. The first yokai that appears in the series, she attacked Kagome Higurashi forcing her to remove InuYasha's seal. She was easily killed by InuYasha.
• Entei - Species: Fire horse yokai. Group: Naraku's group. A demonic yokai who only obeys the strongest yokai, in this case, Hakudoshi. He was killed by InuYasha when trapped in a cave.
• Faceless woman - Species: Human shape yokai. Group: None. Sesshomaru ordered her to take Izayoi's form to look into InuYasha's heart, and find where the black pearl was. Kagome saved InuYasha from having his soul eaten. She was killed by Sesshomaru. In Japanese she is known as "mu onna" (nothing woman).
• Ginta - Species: Wolf yokai. Group: Kouga's group. Ginta is one of the last survivors of the yokai wolf tribe.
• Goshinki - Species: Monster yokai. Group: Naraku's group. Goshinki has the ability of read minds, and could prevent every movement of InuYasha. When he broke Tetsusaiga (correctly romanized as "Tessaiga"), InuYasha turned into a full demon for the first time. He was killed by full demon InuYasha.
• Hakkaku - Species: Wolf yokai. Group: Koga's group. Hakakku is one of the last survivors of the yokai wolf tribe.
• Hakudoshi (Hakudoshi) - Species: Human shape yokai. 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.
• Hiten - Species: Thunder yokai. Group: Thunder brothers group. Hiten killed Shippo's father, and InuYasha killed him to get the fragments he had on his forehead.
• Hosenki (Hosenki) - Species: Diamond taiyokai. Group: None. Hosenki created InuYasha's black pearl (kuroshinju), that guided him to the boundary between this world and the next in order to get Tessaiga. When he died and InuYasha's group met them in the other world, he was corrupted by a dark fragment. When it was removed, he taught InuYasha a new attack: Kongosoha. He was killed by InuYasha.
• InuYasha and Sesshomaru's Father (no name has officially been given) - Species: Dog taiyokai. Group: None. InuYasha's and Sesshomaru father. He was one of the most powerful yokai ever. Myoga told InuYasha he was killed by Ryukotsusei, although the 3rd movie shows he died in a fire while saving Izayoi, InuYasha's mother, and baby InuYasha.
• InuYasha - Species: Dog hanyo. Group: InuYasha's group. He is the main character. For more information check link.
• Jaken - Species: Toad yokai. Group: Sesshomaru's group. This repulsive yokai follows Sesshomaru wherever he goes. He seems to dislike like anything but Sesshomaru. He hates Rin, Ah-Un, his own life, and everything else. Follow link for further information.
• Jinenji - Species: Horse hanyo. Group: None. Jinenji was abused by the villagers. He defeated a big yokai and proved his value to the people who hated him. He takes care of a vegetable garden with medicinal plants.
• Juromaru (Juromaru]]) - Species: Human shape yokai. Group: Naraku's group. One of Naraku's minion. He was killed by InuYasha and Koga. Follow link for further information.
• Kagura - Species: Wind yokai. Group: Naraku's group. Kagura is one of the most mysterious character on the series. She betrayed Naraku, and now she wants to kill him. Looks like there's something happening between her and Sesshomaru. She got her heart back but was killed by Naraku right after, on chapter 374. Follow link for further information.
• KageromaruKageromaru is a fictional character in the anime and manga InuYasha. Kageromaru is the full demon older brother of Juromaru. Kageromaru, like his brother, is an incarnation of Naraku. He resided in Juromaru's stomach before the fight with InuYasha, in whi (Kageromaru) - Species: Little monster yokai. Group: Naraku's group. Kageromaru can dig the ground and attack and attack from bellow. Was a hard opponent, but it was killed by Koga and InuYasha.
• KaijinboKaijinbo ( Kaijinbo , sometimes also romanized as Kaijin-bo Kijin-bo or other closely related romanizations, is a character in the anime and manga series InuYasha''. He is an evil swordsmith and rival of Totosai Totosai . He is called upon by Sesshomaru S (Kaijinbo) - Species: Swordsmith yokai. Group: None. He was Totosai's student, and makes evil swords. He forged Sesshomaru's sword, Tokijin.
• KannaKanna is a character in the anime and manga series InuYasha''. She is Naraku's first detachment and Kagura's older sister despite her younger looks and first appearance in both the manga and anime after Kagura. Her looks are that of a young girl with expr - Species: Mirror/Void yokai Group: Naraku's group. This cute yokai hides on her mirror a powerful armor that can suck people souls. Naraku uses her mirror to see what's going on with InuYasha's group and his minions, including her betrayer, Kagura.
• KiraraKirara (, alternatively romanized as Kilala in the English dubbed anime) is a character in the anime and manga series InuYasha''. Kirara is the cat-like yokai companion of Sango, the yokai exterminator (, taijiya that hails from a mountain village of othe (Kilala in the English anime) - Species: Fire cat yokai. 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, firey 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 mikoMiko are the Shinto shrine maidens of Japan beginning in the Feudal era of Japan. Miko can be both singular or plural. In ancient times, women who went into trances and conveyed the words of a god were called miko, not unlike the Oracle at Delphi of ancie MidorikoMidoriko was a great miko (Shrine Maiden) from the past in the anime series InuYasha. During a battle between herself and yokai, the battle was sealed into the Jewel of the Four Souls (, Shikon no Tama a. the Shikon Jewel. She was able to seize the souls.
• Kumo Gashira - Species: Spider yokai. 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 yokai was ultimately slain after InuYasha regained his yokai power.
• Kuroro - Species: Fire cat yokai. Group: None. Kuroro appeared on an anime filler episode. She gave birth to little kitten yokai.
• Koga (Koga]]) - Species: Wolf yokai. Group: Koga's group. Koga is the prince of the wolves yokai. 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.
• Manten - Species: Thunder yokai. Group: Thunder brothers group. Manten is Hiten's younger brother. He used Shippo's father fur as a belt. InuYasha killed him while Manten was trying to kill Kagome.
• Mask of Noh - Species: Mask yokai. Group: None. This yokai attacked on Kagome's time, and had a Shikon fragment in its body. InuYasha killed him after a hard fight.
• Medicine vendor - Species: Mosquito yokai. Group: None. This strange yokai appeared on a manga filler. He was cursed on a handsome man form an was using this to abuse cute girls. When he hypnotised Sango and was almost "kissing" her, Miroku appeared and beat him up, but the yokai only wanted to suck her blood. Sango let him do it and he returned to his mosquito form.
• MoMo (MoMo) - Species: Cow yokai. Group: Totosai group. This bizarre three eyed, flying cow is Totosai's transport.
• Myoga (Myoga) - Species: Flea yokai. Group: InuYasha's group. He was the servant of InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father, and now helps InuYasha with his not-so-useful hints. Nevertheless, he is a coward and usually runs when there is danger.
• Moryomaru (Moryomaru) - Species: Huge monster yokai. Group: Naraku's group. Naraku's heart, and actually his strongest minion (and his heart). Follow link for detailed information.
• Naraku - Species: Human shape hanyo. Group: Naraku's group. He is the main villain. He killed Kikyo (Kikyo), Sango's family and friends, and Koga's tribe. In addition, he cursed Miroku's grandfather, kidnapped Rin, and committed various other nefarious acts. Now every single group of characters hate him and want him dead. Follow link for further information.
• Naraku's low-level yokai - Species: Miscellaneous yokai. Group: Naraku's groups. Naraku can release infinite low-level yokai from its body. Even Shippo can beat them, but they attack in huge groups, generally lead by Kagura.
• Ryukotsusei (Ryukossei]]) - Species: Dragon Taiyokai. Group: None. Ryukossei fought InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father, causing the injuries that, according to Myoga, lead to their father's death before the yokai was sealed by one of his claws. Later, he was awakened by Naraku and killed by InuYasha.
• Saimyosho (Samiyosho) - Species: Wasp yokai. Group: Naraku's group. These bugs have the special hability 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.
• Sesshomaru (Sesshomaru]]) - Species: Dog (tai)yokai. Group: Sesshomaru's group. He is a taiyokai, or demon lord, a lineage he inherited from his father who ruled over the eastern lands. He is InuYasha's half brother, and fight him everytime they met. He desires the power of InuYasha's Tessaiga, since he was entrusted by his father the Tenseiga sword, wich can't kill, only ressurect.
• Shibugarasu - Species: Crow yokai. 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 shot an arrow at him, and destroyed not only the bird, but also shattered the Shikon Jewel.
• Shiori - Species: Bat hanyo. Group: None. This half human, half bat hanyo is a little kid who has the power of creating strong barriers. She gave InuYasha an orb that gave Tetsusaiga the power of breaking barriers (red tessaiga)
• Shinidamachu (Shinidamachu) - Species: Bug yokai. Group: Kikyo's group. These long yokai where used by Kikyo to gather dead people souls. They were actually replaced by the two shikigami kids, Kocho (Kocho) and Asuka, wich are not yokai.
• Shippo (Shippo]]) - Species: Fox yokai. Group: InuYasha's group. His father was killed by the thunder brothers, InuYasha and Kagome avenged him and now he follows the couple because he has nowhere else to go. Shippo has no great power at all, but can kill weak yokai with his fox fire and create illusions.
• Shoga (Shoga) - Species: Flea Yokai. Group: None. Is a anime character only who only appears in a filler episode where she takes control of Sango, Miroku, and InuYasha. Her target is actually Myoga to whom she wants to marry although Myoga prefers to remain to remain a bachelor. She has been chasing him for years and the group forces Myoga to marry her because he was mainly responsibe for the recent trouble. However during the wedding that is placed for them Myoga switches places with a real flea and runs off.
• Soten (Soten) - Species: Thunder yokai. Group: Thunder brother's group. This filler episode character is Hiten's and Manten's younger sister. She kidnapped Shippo to fight him, and the battle tied when Shippo noticed she was a girl and she had fallen in love with him.
• Tanuki - Species: Raccoon yokai. Group: InuYasha's group. Tanuki is Miroku's friend. Like Shippo, he can use leafs to transform into diferent things. His most famous transformation is a big yellow thing (remembers a baseball bat) wich he uses to transport InuYasha and co.. Actually lives with Miroku's master Mr. Mushin.
• Tatarimokke - Species: Big monster yokai. Group: None. This yokai guides the dead children souls to heaven or hell playing his flute.
• Totosai (Totosai) - Species: Swordsmith yokai. Group: Totosai's group. Totosai made both Tetsusaiga (Tessaiga) and Tenseiga from the fangs of InuYasha and Sesshomaru's father. He is a strong but cowardly yokai.
• Tsukumo no Gama (Toad of Tsukumo) a.k.a. the Toad Demon - Species: Toad yokai. Group: None. Known as the Toad Demon in the English anime. Possesed 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 Tetsusaiga.
• Urasue - Species: Witch yokai. Group: None. Urasue ressurected Kikyo using her flesh and bones. Was killed by her just after the priestess recovered her soul from Kagome.
• Yura of the Hair - Species: Hair comb yokai. 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 (even tore her heart out), 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) dojinshi "Shio 10".
• Zushi nezumi - Species: Rat yokai. Group: Naraku's group. These yokai 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 Tetsusaiga, and all the rats vanished.

Glossary:

Hanyo: The child of a yokai and a human is a hanyo. They are despised by both yokai and humans. They usually have human form and have a Time Period each month where they transform into that human form until the period is over.

Taiyokai: A really strong and powerful yokai. Literally great yokai.

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

Remember this list is for yokai only. To find out more about the InuYasha series and characters, please refer to the main InuYasha article.