Mujina

A male Tanuki demon in disguise as a female child who used Shippo, attempting to get the power of Tessaiga, so that he could take over the world. He used his sword Dakki in order to do this, but the blade was so weak that Inuyasha shattered it with one swing of Tessaiga. Dakki eventually led the InuYasha gang to Toshu.



Mujina appeared both in the anime (Final Act) and in the manga chapter 383-385. Initially, he was in the form of a pretty girl. His first act was to take Shippo hostage and take him to his den. His goal was to make his sword Dakki stronger by absorbing the youkai powers; prior to Inuyasha's group's arrival, he had been drawing out the energy of increasingly powerful forest youkai and driving them out of their home. As Tessaiga's youkai power was too much for Dakki to absorb, he thought to use Shippo as a shield. Inuyasha's rash act of destroying the den while Shippo and Mujina were still within, however, caused Shippo to decide to help Mujina take Inuyasha's power. Mujina's claim that h e intended to use this power to avenge the death of his father, who he claimed was killed by an evil youkai, only made Shippo sympathize with him even more.

Once he had taken enough power into his sword, however, he attempted to kill Inuyasha and revealed that his actual goal was world domination. When Inuyasha showed up alive, he again attempted to play on the group's sympathy; when Shippo fell for his tricks and tried to defend him, he quickly took Shippo hostage again. Inuyasha soon forced him out of his disguise and revealed him to be a big male tanuki. When Shippo found out Mujina wasn't actually a girl, he looked horrified and embarrassed; it was implied that he may have had feelings for 'her,' or possibly he was just ashamed for falling for Mujina's trick. Inuyasha easily broke Dakki, which caused the stolen youkai powers to return to Tessaiga, and kicked Mujina away.

Mujina is a name for Japanese raccoon dog.

Species: Demon