Hanyō no Yashahime

Funimation

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Hanyō no Yashahime: Sengoku Otogizoushi (半妖の夜叉姫 -戦国御伽草子-, "Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, A Feudal Fairy Tale") is the Japanese anime-only spin-off to InuYasha produced by Sunrise. It is a sequel to the anime series Inuyasha, based on the original manga of Rumiko Takahashi. It is the story of Sesshōmaru's and Rin's twin daughters, Towa and Setsuna, as well as Inuyasha's 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.

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

Summary

A flashback narrative six months after the events of The Final Act finale. InuYasha and Kagome fight Ne no Kubi that Kikyō sealed away right before meeting InuYasha, over 50 years 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 present-day Japan in the year 2009, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi's younger brother, Sōta, and his family.

Ten years later, the tunnel that connects the two eras has reopened, allowing Towa to be reunited with Setsuna, who is now a hard-hearted warrior and demon slayer working for Kohaku. But to Towa's shock, Setsuna appears to have lost all memories of her and her childhood.

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

Episodes 

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-Kotsu Goten no Waka Hone Maru)
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. The Two Evil Traps (二凶の罠, Ni Kyō no Wana)
18. Sesshōmaru and Kirinmaru (殺生丸と麒麟丸, Sesshōmaru to Kirinmaru)
19. TBD
20. TBD
21. TBD
22. TBD
23. TBD
24. TBD

Cast

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
• Maaya Sakamoto as Zero
• Tarako as Kirara

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
• Chō as Jaken
• Mamiko Noto as Rin
• Aya Gomazuru and Hitomi Ueda as Kin'u and Gyokuto
• Junya Enoki as Sōta Higurashi
• Haruka Terui as Mei Higurashi
• Eriko Matsui as Moe Higurashi
• Toa Yukinari as Kyūki (3 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 (Episode 14)
• Ryoko Shiraishi as Yawaragi (Episode 16)

Themes 

Opening Themes

• NEW ERA by SixTONES (Episodes 1-13)
• BURN by NEWS (Episodes 14-TBD)

Ending Themes

• Break by Uru (Episodes 1-13)
• Kesshō by Ryokuōshoku Shakai (Episodes 14-TBD)

Trivia

• The series is directed by Teruo Sato with main character designs by Inuyasha original creator Rumiko Takahashi.
• It started airing on the same day InuYasha The Final Act started airing in 2009.
• As the Modern Era is the Heisei Era, it puts the year in 2005. It also puts the current Past Era at c.1505 (going by Moroha's, Towa's and Setsuna's birth year).^{[citation needed]}
  • It goes right by Setsuna and Towa were separated in the forest fire as Towa went near the Sacred Tree to open the portal in the year 1509, the time portal will goes forward 500 years, as she came to the modern era: Heisei Era in the year 2009 which she had a first met her uncle-in-law Sōta Higurashi. Ten years later, Towa returned from Reiwa Era in 2019 to the Feudal Era in 1519.
• 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 and final 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.

Gallery

First Art by Rumiko Takahashi

Anime Poster

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Anime poster (textless)

Animage Magazine 2020

Animage Magazine 2020

Newtype magazine - October 2020