Inuyasha is an anime series by Rumiko Takahashi. It is during modern Japan in Tokyo during the year of 1997. It is on the day of Kagome Higurashi's fifteenth birthday is pulled into her families ancient well at their shrine. She is pulled back in time to the Feudal Age (about 500 years back) when demons were in search of the powerful Shikon no Tama (Shikon Jewel). The jewel gave power many times more than the possessor normally would have.

Kagome finds herself in the Forest of Inuyasha. There in front of her is Inuyasha, the great half demon sealed by a sacred arrow against a tree..