Hanyō no Yashahime

"Towa and Setsuna. Between us half-demon twins, two different worlds exist at the same time: Human and demon, feudal era and present day., peace and war, joy and sorrow, dreams and reality.,now and forever, and finally, love and hate. A Feudal Fairytale, Yashahime. We'll keep moving forward, overcoming the hurdles of destiny!"

- Towa in the intro, starting at Episode 7

is the Japanese anime-only spin-off to InuYasha produced by Sunrise. It is a sequel to the anime series Inuyasha and The Final Act, based on the original manga of Rumiko Takahashi. It is the story of Sesshōmaru and Rin's twin daughters, Towa and Setsuna, as well as Inuyasha and Kagome's daughter, Moroha. Katsuyuki Sumisawa will be the episode writer while Rumiko Takahashi writes the storyboard for the series. Viz Media has licensed the series for North and Latin American territories, while Medialink has licensed it for Southeast Asian territories. The series began to air on October 3, 2020 on Yomiuri TV and Nippon TV. The English dub of the series began broadcast on Adult Swim's Toonami programming block beginning on June 26, 2021.

In English, it is translated as Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon or simply Princess Half-Demon.

A second season, titled "The Second Act", was confirmed on the nineteenth of March. It premiered on October 2, 2021 with the next twelve being uploaded online every Saturday until the three-month long hiatus for the rest of the episodes to air in early Winter of 2022.

A manga adaption of this series, written by Takashi Shiina launched on September 25, 2021. One week before the Second Act's premiere in Japan.

Summary

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Season 1
A flashback narrative six months after the events of The Final Act finale. Inuyasha and Kagome fight Root Head that Kikyō sealed away right before meeting Inuyasha, over half a century ago.

Over a decade later, the fourteen-year-old daughters of Sesshōmaru and Inuyasha set out on a journey transcending time itself. In Feudal Japan, fraternal half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire at the age of four. While desperately searching for her twin, Towa is sucked into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into the Modern era, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi's younger brother, Sōta, and his family.

One decade later, the Sacred Tree of Ages' time-traveling portal that connects the two five-century timelines reopens, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a hardhearted warrior and demon slayer working under the adult Kohaku. But to Towa's shock, Setsuna had lost all memories of their strong and close sisterly love and girlhood in the forest.

Joined by their first cousin Moroha, the only quarter-demon child of Inuyasha and Kagome Higurashi, the three travel between the two five century-long eras on an epic adventure to regain their missing past and resolve the apocalyptic crisis that is far more dangerous than either Naraku and the Shikon Jewel ever were.


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Season Two: The Second Act
The destiny inherited from their lineage. The counterattack of the daughters, who have gotten new powers. The Princesses' mission is revealed!

Towa, daughter of Sesshōmaru, who grew up in the modern era, returned to the feudal era and looked for the Dream Butterfly to get her twin sister Setsuna's memories. Zero, elder sister of the sacred Beast King Kirinmaru, who is thought to be linked to the butterfly, sees half demons with hostility due to a prophecy about her brother being defeated by a half demon, and she plans to defeat Towa and the others. Towa and Setsuna have the great demon Sesshōmaru as their father and the human Rin as their mother. Their ally Moroha, is a quarter demon born between a half-demon and a human. Inuyasha and Kagome.

Right after being born, Zero aims at their lives, however, Towa is sent to the modern era, Setsuna starts living in the half-demon village and Moroha goes into the protection of the Wolf Demon Tribe and the three of them survive.

14 years ago, Inuyasha and Kagome were involved in the battle against Kirinmaru and were sent to the tomb of the Great Dog Demon, Sesshōmaru and Inuyasha's father, which was hidden inside the Black Pearl.

Despite being half-demons, Towa, Setsuna and Moroha give an excellent performance and Kirinmaru gets serious. At this battle, Setsuna is dispatched by Kirinmaru. Sesshōmaru appears in front of Towa, who is deeply lamenting on what happened, offers her the Tenseiga and asks her "Will you give it a try?". However, Tenseiga's blade, which is known as a healing sword that can save 100 lives in a single stroke, is shattered.

What will the broken Tenseiga do? Will Setsuna's lost life be called back by it? What will be the answer that Towa finds in the middle of the rain?

Episodes

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Episodes 1-24 (2020-2021)

 * 1) Inuyasha: Since Then (あれからの犬夜叉, Are Kara no Inuyasha)
 * 2) The Three Princesses (三匹の姫, Sanbiki no Hime)
 * 3) The Dream Butterfly (夢の胡蝶, Yume no Kochō)
 * 4) The Gateway to the Past (過去への扉, Kako e no Tobira)
 * 5) Jakotsumaru of the Red Bone Palace (赤骨御殿の若骨丸, Aka Hone Goten no Jakotsumaru)
 * 6) The Cat Juan of the Old Temple (古寺の猫寿庵, Koji no Neko Juan)
 * 7) Meeting through an Apple (林檎の出会い, Ringo no Deai)
 * 8) The Dream Gazing Trap (夢ひらきの罠, Yume Hiraki no Wana)
 * 9) Meifuku the Meiōjū (冥王獣の冥福, Meiōjū no Meifuku)
 * 10) The Gold and Silver Rainbow Pearls (金と銀の虹色真珠, Kin to Gin no Nijiiro Shinju)
 * 11) Curse of the Man-Eating Pond (人喰い沼の呪い, Hito kui-numa no noroi)
 * 12) Night of the New Moon and the Black-Haired Towa (朔の夜、黒髪のとわ, Saku no Yoru, Kurokami no Towa)
 * 13) The Delicious Feudal Monks (戦国おいしい法師, Sengoku Oishii Hōshi)
 * 14) The One Behind the Forest Fire (森を焼いた黒幕, Mori o Yaita Kuromaku)
 * 15) Farewell Under the Lunar Eclipse (月食の下での別れ, Gesshoku No Shita De No Wakare)
 * 16) Double-Edged Moroha (もろはの刃, Moroha no Yaiba)
 * 17) Trap of the Two Perils (二凶の罠, Ni Kyō no Wana)
 * 18) Sesshōmaru and Kirinmaru (殺生丸と麒麟丸, Sesshōmaru to Kirinmaru)
 * 19) Princess Aiya's Beniyasha Hunting (愛矢姫の紅夜叉退治, Aiya Hime no Beniyasha Taiji)
 * 20) The Hidden Village for Half-Demons (半妖の隠れ里, Hanyō no kakurezato)
 * 21) Secret of the Rainbow Pearls (虹色真珠の秘密, Nijiiro shinju no himitsu)
 * 22) The Stolen Seal (奪われた封印, Ubawareta Fūin)
 * 23) The Three Princesses Strike Back (三姫の逆襲, Sanhime no Gyakushū)
 * 24) Sesshōmaru's Daughter (殺生丸の娘であるということ, Sesshōmaru no Musume de Aru to Iu Koto)


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Episodes 25-TBD (2021-2022)

 * 1) Wielding the Tenseiga (天生牙を持つということ, Tenseiga o Motsu to Iu Koto)
 * 2) Demon Spirit of the Sea (海の妖霊, Umi no Yōrei)
 * 3) The Silver Scale's Curse (銀鱗の呪い, Ginrin no Noroi)
 * 4) The Barrier of Mount Musubi (産霊山の結界, Musubi Yama no Kekkai)
 * 5) The Girl Named Rion (りおんという名の少女, Rion to Iu Na no Shōjo)
 * 6) Hisui the Demon-Slayer (退治屋翡翠, Taijiya Hisui)
 * 7) TBA
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Main

 * Sara Matsumoto as Towa Higurashi
 * Mikako Komatsu as Setsuna
 * Azusa Tadokoro as Moroha

Recurring

 * Ryōhei Kimura as Kohaku
 * Takehiro Urao as Hisui
 * Hisako Kyōda as Kaede
 * Kenichi Ogata as Myōga
 * Tsuyoshi Koyama as Jyūbei
 * Ai Fairouz as Takechiyo
 * Jun Fukuyama as Riku
 * Yoshimasa Hosoya as Kirinmaru and Osamu Kirin
 * Tarako as Kirara
 * Maaya Sakamoto as Zero

Supporting

 * Kappei Yamaguchi as Inuyasha
 * Satsuki Yukino as Kagome Higurashi
 * Ken Narita as Sesshōmaru
 * Hōko Kuwashima as Sango
 * Makoto Yasumura as Miroku
 * Kumiko Watanabe as Shippō
 * Noriko Hidaka as Spirit of the Tree of Ages
 * Chō as Jaken
 * Mamiko Noto as Rin
 * Aya Gomazuru as Kin'u
 * Hitomi Ueda as Gyokuto
 * Junya Enoki as Sōta Higurashi
 * Haruka Terui as Mei Higurashi
 * Eriko Matsui as Moe Higurashi
 * Asako Dodo as Ms. Higurashi
 * Katsumi Suzuki as Grandpa Higurashi
 * Toa Yukinari as Kyūki (4 episodes)
 * Takumi Yamazaki as Yotsume (4 episodes)
 * Hiroki Yasumoto as Konton
 * Hiroshi Shirokuma as Tōtetsu
 * Inori Minase as Tamano (Episode 14)
 * Kōsuke Gotō as Homura (Episodes 14 & 15)
 * Ryoko Shiraishi as Yawaragi (Episodes 15 & 16)
 * Kaori Mizuhashi as Shiori (Episode 20)
 * Yoshiko Sakakibara as Sesshōmaru's mother
 * Tomohisa Asō as Mimisenri (Episode 26)
 * TBA as Akuru
 * Saki Fujita as Rion
 * Takaya Hashi as Bokusenō (Episode 27)
 * Naoki Tatsuta as Tōtōsai

Opening Themes

 * NEW ERA by (Episodes 1-13)
 * BURN by (Episodes 14-24)
 * Reborn by NEWS (Episodes 25-)

Ending Themes

 * Break by Uru (Episodes 1-13)
 * Kesshō by Ryokuōshoku Shakai (Episodes 14-24)
 * Transparent World by (Episodes 25-)

Manga

 * Volume 1 (Summer 2022)

Trivia

 * The series is directed by Teruo Sato with main character designs by Inuyasha's original creator Rumiko Takahashi.
 * It started airing on the same day InuYasha The Final Act started airing in 2009.
 * Towa and Setsuna are the second set of half-demon twins in the InuYasha franchise; the first were the identical twin brothers Dai and Roku in the 4th film.
 * The anime uses demons from the manga that were ignored in the making of The Final Act.
 * So far they are mostly from the part of the story that took place between Episode 168 and Episode 174.
 * This is the final animated media to feature Miroku's original English voice actor, Kirby Morrow, who passed away after recording for the anime premiere.
 * Towa announces the episode titles, similarly to how Inuyasha did in the original series and The Final Act.
 * She also announces the upcoming episode titles during the previews similarly to what Kagome did in the original series.
 * The episodes are dubbed in English and aired within a period of 5-7 weeks after the original Japanese air date.
 * In Animage's 43rd Anime Grand Prix, Hanyō no Yashahime was ranked 9th for "Best Title."