Hey friends! I hope you enjoyed the facts about Inuyasha TV show that I shared with you last time. And as promised I am back with some more unknown facts about our favorite animated series Inuyasha. So what are we waiting for? Let’s get the ball rolling!

Well, I am not sure how many of you Inuyasha fans know that Kirara, who is Sango’s youkai escort, actually has a great resemblance to the nekomata, a Japanese mythological creature. However, Kirara does not exhibit the traditional behavior of the nekomata and abstains from carrion-eating and necromancy.

“Kirara,” as the name appears in Inuyasha, is a word which when pronounced imitates the sound of the sparkling of a stone, predominantly mica. In addition, the meaning of the word Shippou in the Japanese language is Seven Treasures. Moreover, “Miroku”, when translated into Japanese means Maitreya, who according to Buddhist tradition is the forthcoming joyful Buddha.

An episodes of the Inuyasha TV show, titled Chokyuukai and the Plundered Brides, features three creatures from a famous work of Chinese literature, named Journey to the West. This work tells the tale of a Buddhist monk’s pilgrimage to India and has also been made into an animated series.

Have you ever wondered why Inuyasha is attired as he is? Well, that is because his unique red dress is made from the fur of the fire rat. This is one of the treasures sought in Taketori Monogatari, a well-liked 10th century folktale of Japan.

Now let’s come to the Staff of Heads, which is referred to as the nintoujou in Inuyasha TV Show and is carried by Jaken, who is Sesshoumaru’s retainer. It is an actual work of art that is put on show at Japan’s Kamakura Museum.

Even though the manga series of Inuyasha contained a fair amount of nudity, the animated series cut down the same to a great extent and never featured anything revealing.

Well, those were the little known facts about Inuyasha. Click here if you want to watch Inuyasha episodes online or even download them!

Hey all the Inuyasha buffs out there. It’s been a long time since Inuyasha ended and I found this nice thing to fill in your entertainment time, between the reruns of the show, and these are Inuyasha movies that too came a long time back.
All the four films have a totally different time span than the TV series, and all have been made and created in Japan, with an English subtitle and dubbed version released in the States by Viz Media.
On 16th January, 2001, In Japan was released the film: InuYasha the Movie: Affections Touching Across Time. This movie sees Inuyasha battle a demonic rival, Menomaru, along with Shippo, Kagome, Sango and Miroku, and this evil has been bestowed life upon by some jewel shard, while the gang continues to look for the Jewel shards of Shikon. Sounds interesting, doesn’t it?

Getting on to the second movie, which was released around two years after the first one that is on 21st December 2002, and was named InuYasha the Movie: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass. Here Inuyasha and his gang routs down Naraku and hope to lead a routine life but soon are involved in a confrontation with Kaguya, their latest adversary.
InuYasha the Movie: Swords of an Honorable Ruler, is the third movie and was released a year later on 20th December, 2003. The movie that did a spectacular business, revolved around Inuyasha’s father’s sword number three, So’unga being revived from the seal that is hundreds of years old, and now the sword is hell bent to demolish the world. Sesshomaru and Inuyasha have to team up to halt this mission.
Ok, now the turn of InuYasha the Movie: Fire on the Mystic Island, which is the fourth film, launched on 23rd December, 2004. The plot of this movie revolves around Inuysasha’s gang trying to save some children who are stuck on a strange and unknown Houraijima Island due to rage of the Shitoushin, the four Gods.

You can download these movies if you want to see them, from this site and if you have already seen them, do write in your views and reviews.