Inuyasha (いぬやしゃ) is a comic book by the famous Japanese manga artist Rumiko Takahashi, which began serializing in 1996 and has been running for 12 years. The manga tells the story of the Warring States period, human-demon hybrid - half-demon Inuyasha traveled 500 years ago to the junior girl Higurashi Gowei looking for the "four souls of the Jade" fragment.