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, full title InuYasha, a Feudal Fairy Tale , Sengoku Otogizōshi InuYasha, lit. "Warring-States
Fairy-Tale Book: InuYasha"), is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by
Rumiko Takahashi. It premiered in Weekly Shōnen Sunday on November 13, 1996 and concluded on June 18, 2008. The series follows a time-traveling high school student, a half-demon, a lecherous monk, a fox demon, a demon slayer, and a nekomata during the Sengoku period as they seek to find all the fragments of the Jewel of Four Souls
and to keep them out of the hands of evildoers, especially Naraku. The manga was adapted into a 167 episode anime series produced by Sunrise. Masashi Ikeda directed the first forty-four episodes, while
Yasunao Aoki directed the remainder of the series. InuYasha premiered on Yomiuri TV in Japan on October 16, 2000 and ran until September 13, 2004.
The television run of the anime ceased without a conclusion to the story. In 2002, the manga won the Shogakukan Manga
Award for best shōnen title of the year. In the ranking published by TV Asahi of the 100 best anime series of 2006 (based on an online survey
in the country), InuYasha obtained the post twenty.