The BEST episodes of InuYasha season 1
Every episode of InuYasha season 1, ranked from best to worst by thousands of votes from fans of the show. The best episodes of InuYasha season 1!
Kagome Higurashi is a modern day young girl who lives with her family by the old Higure shrine. Unbeknownst to Kagome, she is the reincarnation of priestess Kikyo and possesses the "Jewel of Four Souls" The Shikon Jewel. One ill-fated day, Kagome locates an ancient well near her home and is abruptly transported through the well and into a feudal Japan, inhabited by demons. There, she encounters Inuyasha, son of a powerful demon father and a human mother, who is pinned to a tree by an enchanted arrow.
#2 - Naraku and Sesshomaru Join Forces
Season 1 - Episode 18 - Aired 3/5/2001
The one-armed Sesshomaru receives a Shikon-enhanced arm with which to wield Tetsusaiga from a mysterious man, wearing a baboon cloak, named Naraku. This leads Sesshomaru to go after Inuyasha, once more.
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#6 - Mystical Hand of the Amorous Monk, Miroku
Season 1 - Episode 16 - Aired 2/19/2001
Inuyasha, Kagome and Shippo cross paths with Miroku, a lecherous monk with a "black hole" in his right hand. Miroku explains that his black hole (Wind Tunnel) came from the evil Naraku, an extremely evil shapeshifter who cursed his grandfather and his descendents with the Wind Tunnel. Inuyasha also learns something new about what happened to him and Kikyo, long ago.
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#8 - Go Home to Your Own Time, Kagome!
Season 1 - Episode 19 - Aired 3/12/2001
After a badly beaten Inuyasha gets ahold of Tetsusaiga once more, Sesshomaru backs off. Convinced that Kagome doesn't belong in the past, Inuyasha takes her to the well, hugs her close, takes her shards, and pushes her back through, to the present time.
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#9 - The Mystery of the New Moon and the Black-haired Inuyasha
Season 1 - Episode 13 - Aired 1/29/2001
Inuyasha, Kagome and Shippo are looking for more jewel shards, when they help out a girl running from a demon. Kagome wants to stay the night at the temple she lives in, but Inuyasha wants to keep moving. In the end, they agree to stay. Later that night, demons surround the temple, and Inuyasha prepares to fight them.
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#10 - Return of the Tragic Priestess, Kikyo
Season 1 - Episode 15 - Aired 2/12/2001
Now that Urasue has kidnapped Kagome, she prepares for the soul transfer, which Inuyasha unknowingly activates. Once the soul is transferred, Kikyo attacks Inuyasha. Inuyasha learns of his supposed betrayal of Kikyo, 50 years ago. Kagome soon reclaims her soul and Kikyo runs off to retain at least part of it Inuyasha chases after and thinks back to when Kikyo convinced him to use the Shikon no Tama, to become Human!
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#12 - Seekers of the Sacred Jewel
Season 1 - Episode 2 - Aired 10/23/2000
Inuyasha attacks Kagome to get the Shikon no Tama. Kaede puts a rosary on Inuyasha which causes him to drop to the ground that whenever Kagome utters the word "sit". When trying to get the Shikon no Tama back from a demon that steals it, Kagome accidentally shatters it into hundreds of pieces that are scattered all over Japan!
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#16 - Enter Shippo...Plus, the Amazing Thunder Brothers!
Season 1 - Episode 9 - Aired 12/11/2000
Inuyasha and Kagome meet a fox demon named Shippo. The young fox explains that he is looking for jewel shards so he can become strong enough to fight the Thunder Brothers, Hiten and Manten. Inuyasha soon goes to face off against the brothers for the jewel shards that they possess.
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#17 - Kikyo's Stolen Ashes
Season 1 - Episode 14 - Aired 2/5/2001
Kikyo's ashes are stolen from her grave by the demon Urasue. As Kaede, Inuyasha, Kagome and Shippo go to retrieve them, Kagome realizes that Inuyasha and Kikyo were once in love! Meanwhile, with Kikyo's ashes, Urasue manages to resurrect Kikyo. However, she finds that Kikyo cannot move without her soul: the very soul that is inside of Kagome!
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#19 - The Girl Who Overcame Time… and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome
Season 1 - Episode 1 - Aired 10/16/2000
Kagome Higurashi has been told many stories by her grandfather, such as the one about the Shikon no Tama (The Jewel of Four Souls) and never believed them until her fifteenth birthday, when she is pulled down a dry well at her shrine by a centipede demon. She emerges from the well to discover she's not in Tokyo any more, but instead, she's in in Feudal Japan.Kagome discovers a weird boy with dog ears pinned to a tree in a forest and is captured by strange villagers. The high priestess of the village, Kaede, realizes that Kagome looks just like her sister who died 50 years ago.
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