Izumo



Gyu-oh was a half-human, half-bull demon born of his human father Izumo and his mother who was an unnamed bull demon. He is voiced in the original Japanese version by Hiroshi Matsumoto and in the English version by Lee Tockar.

While traveling the lands in order to find a way to become a full-fledged human, he learned of the Shikon no Tama, a jewel that had the rumored power to grant any demon's desire. But the Jewel was shattered into many shards and it would take a lifetime to search for them. But he made an alliance with a number of demons desiring its power. He made imitation Jewels, that couldn't temporarily empower demons but is poisonous to humans. But Izumo found a way to create a true Shikon Jewel, which required souls of courage, knowledge, love and friendship, which he found in Inuyasha, Miroku, Sango and Shippo respectively. He captured Kagome, to use her spiritual powers to create the new Jewel. But as Gyu-oh, he tried to defeat Inuyasha by swallowing a number of imitation Jewels, but the sun rose and he turned back to human, dying of his own poisoned creations.

Gyu-oh was a unique half-demon in that he was human during the day time and a demon at night.