Episode 38 (Hanyō no Yashahime)

Kirinmaru of the Dawn is the thirty-eighth episode of Hanyō no Yashahime, and the fourteenth episode of the second season titled "The Second Act." It is set to air on January 8, 2022.

Summary
Moroha is stuck with a painful choice: Give Akuru's pinwheel to Kirinmaru or she will never see her parents again!

With their family finally reunited, half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna arrive to help Moroha in retrieving the only hope she has in ever seeing her parents again. Sesshōmaru again stands up to his father's rival and the two beast kings of the East and West engage in yet another fierce earth/heaven-shattering battle as the Half-Demon Princesses, Jaken, Tackechiyo and Rin all look on. But with the Degenerate Age drawing ever nearer, will they be able to save all of time from Kirinmaru and preserve all that exists?

Trivia

 * This is the first episode to air in 2022.
 * Starting from this episode, Resonance will be replacing ReBorn as the opening theme.
 * The episode's title refers to Kirinmaru's additional title from his battle against demonic Towa and Moroha.
 * Towa meets her birth mother for the first time after her release from the silver-scale curse.
 * Moroha evolves into Beniyasha again since "Nanahoshi's Mini Galaxy" and "Mayonaka the Visitor".
 * Moroha fires two sacred arrows for the very first time; something that neither Kagome nor Kikyō ever even attempted.
 * Sesshōmaru and Kirinmaru battle since Episode 18, causing the very earth and heavens to resound once again as Bakusaiga and Bakuseiken clash yet again.
 * Setsuna uses a brand-new attack from her Yukari no Tachikiri, in addition to her signature Cyclone Burst and Scourge of Swallows attacks; a fire-based one in which a barrage of fiery birds are emitted from it.
 * Moroha encounters her parents, whom she assumed dead, and has her very first conversation with them; bawling with happiness and sorrow in her half-demon father Inuyasha's arms.
 * Towa's iphone from "The One Behind the Forest Fire" has returned to show possibly Towa's half-aunt Kagome and half-uncle Inuyasha the pictures of what she, her twin sister, and her half-cousin went through the modern era, even revealing to Kagome that her younger brother had gotten married and is fathering a six-year-old daughter named Mei.
 * Osaumi Kirin is seen again since the end of "The Barrier at Mount Musubi."
 * Inuyasha and Kagome Higurashi see their daughter's lonely and troubled girlhood when she was growing up at the Wolf Demon Tribe.
 * The rock Guardians of the gateway to the Netherworld and the Realm of Fire return since the original anime's Episode 144 and Episode 145.