Kira Yamato
Inuyasha has been popular within Japanese fans. In the "Newtype" magazine from August 2001, he was voted as the second best male character losing to Spike Spiegel from "Cowboy Bebop". In 2002, Inuyasha won the "Animage" Anime Grand Prix for Best Male Character. In the next year, he was third behind Kira Yamato and Athrun Zala both from "Mobile Suit Gundam SEED". He was sixth in the following poll. A 2019 NHK poll of 210,061 people saw Inuyasha voted the favorite character from all of Rumiko Takahashi's works.