Inuyasha - Half-Human, Half-Demon, Inuyasha desires the Shikon jewel for his own questionable purposes. Too bad Kagome can control him with magic.So he is not able to steal it from her.
Kagome - Kagome is a modern-day 15-year-old girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. She is also the unknowing possesor of a magical jewel.She is a loving girl but sometimes she has a bad temper.
Shippo - Shippo is a young Fox-demon with shape-shifting abilities. He Likes Inuyasha and is fiercely loyal to Kagome.
Sango - Sango the demon hunter lost her whole village to Naraku's forces. Her preferred weapon is a giant boomerang.
Sesshomaru - Sesshomaru is Inuyasha's older, pure-demon brother. He seeks the magic sword that his father gave to Inuyasha.Inuyasha and Sesshomaru cannot pull out the sword that there father gave to Inuyasha.
Miroku - A Buddhist monk, who due to a curse from Naraku, has an air void (it's like a black hole)in his right hand. He is also quite the pervert.
Naraku - Naraku is the Evil guy of the series. His name translates to "hell" afterall. He was born through the wild thief Onigumo's desire for Kikyou, which called dozens of youkai in to devour him. He has the ablilty to change his form into anything he wants, which he did to trick Inuyasha and Kikyou into hating each other. He has used Inuyasha's brother Sesshoumaru to try and get rid of Inuyasha, but to no avail. He also has an 'army' of bug-type creatures called 'saimyousho'. Naraku is also a half demon like Inuyasha, but born in a different way. Naraku can choose the time of month to return to his 'original' form. He uses this time to re-arrange his body into a stronger and more powerful form. Naraku also gains the ablilty to make offspring later. Only two of them (Kagura and Kanna) have lasted more than one fight though.
Kouga - Kouga is the son of a leader of the wolf youkai tribe. He has 2 Shikon shards in his legs (one in each) which gives him 'super speed'. Kouga refers to Inuyasha as 'Dog-turd' (inukkoro) because he says he doesn't like the smell of dog youkai. He first comes into the story by attacking the village from which Rin was from (and hated -_-;). He also says that he is in love with Kagome which makes Inuyasha quite annoyed. Kouga wants Naraku dead because he created Kagura who killed alot of his friends from his tribe. -Contributor: ADJA