Sesshoumaru

Sesshoumaru, also known as Destruction of Life and Beast King, is a character from the InuYasha series.
== Charactah Account ==
Inuyasha's older half-brother. Unlike Inuyasha, Sesshoumaru is a full-blooded dog-demon and is contemptuous of InuYasha for being a half-demon and for consorting with humans. He is a very powerful demon who seems to have no true equal when it comes to raw power; although given the chance in volume twenty-three, he could not defeat Naraku. Although fandom refers to him as the Lord of the Western Lands, this title appears at no point in the manga. Takahashi also stated that Sesshoumaru has no permanent home. Unlike almost every other demon in the world of InuYasha, he has no interest in possessing even one shard of the Shikon Jewel.
Sesshoumaru first appears in search of the sword called Tessaiga, created from their father Inu-no-Taisho's fang, which has the power to kill a hundred yōkai with one swing; however, Inu-no-Taisho left Tessaiga to Inuyasha, and Sesshoumaru instead inherited the Tenseiga, a sword which cannot harm the living, but can bring the dead back to life. Inu-no-Taisho did this in the hopes that Sesshoumaru would learn compassion. Considering Tenseiga useless to him, Sesshoumaru battles Inuyasha several times for possession of Tessaiga, and when Tessaiga is broken by a bite from Naraku's incarnation Goshinki, Sesshoumaru has Goshinki's fangs forged into the evil blade Tokijin, which only he is powerful enough to control. Initially, Sesshoumaru is ruthless and cruel in his pursuit of Tessaiga and his dealings with his brother.
Despite having a hatred for humans, he seems to care for Rin, a little human girl who was orphaned after her village was destroyed by demons. Rin found Sesshomaru in the woods by the village she lived in, and noticed that he was injured (due to a previous fight with Inuyasha) and she tried to help him. Sesshomaru refused her help, but after finding her body nearly devoured by Koga's wolves later on, he used Tenseiga to bring her back to life. Now Rin follows Sesshomaru around and thinks of herself as one of his servants.
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* InuYasha
* InuYasha Movie: Affections Touching Across Time
* InuYasha Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler
* InuYasha Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island
* InuYasha: Black Tessaiga
* InuYasha: The Final Act
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon - The Second Act
=== Manga ===
* Heroes Come Back
* InuYasha
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
=== Video Games ===
* InuYasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale
* InuYasha: Feudal Combat
* InuYasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel
* Unison League
== Trivia ==
* According to Rumiko Takahashi, Sesshōmaru's name means "Killing Perfection," though it can also be translated as "The Perfect Killer/Assassin," "Circle of Destruction" or "Complete Destruction of Life".
* Sesshoumaru makes an appearance as a concept art in the front pages of Chapter 9, before he was introduced as a character.
* Like the other demon characters in the Inuyasha guidebook, his true age isn't given - only his age in terms of human years. While unofficial sources list him as either 200+, 500+, or 900+, Rumiko has avoided giving a specific age and has only mentioned in an interview that he, and other demons, are able to live for dozen's or hundreds of years and that she wants the fans to make up their own guesses on his actual age based on his appearance.
* Sesshoumaru's first handful of appearances in the manga have a somewhat childish illustration, and he is shown smiling and mocking his enemies frequently. This part of his personality starts to fade little by little after he has his arm severed by Inuyasha. His clothes and armor also change as the manga progresses. In the anime however, he is cold and rarely shows emotion from his very first appearance.
* His mokomoko-sama grows considerably over the course of the manga, going from a relatively small band of fur to a massive bunch of fur that drags behind him as he walks.
* The energy whip of light is exclusive to the anime. In most of the scenes where Sesshoumaru uses the whip of light in the anime, in the manga he instead used his Mokomoko.
* Sesshoumaru only transforms into his true appearance three times in the series:
** When fighting Inuyasha over the Tessaiga for the first time.
** When greeting his mother.
** When fighting Magatsuhi.
* It is stated in Episode 162, Sesshoumaru doesn't know when Inuyasha loses his powers as a hanyou and becomes a human.
* The pattern on his kimono is based on the emblem of real life Azai samurai clan from the Sengoku period.
* In The Holy Pearl, a Chinese live action loosely based on InuYasha, Sesshōmaru is paralleled by a character named Wu Dao.
* In Zusetsutaizan Oogikaiden, Sesshoumaru is described as, "Beautifully chilling. The strongest demon in the Warring States era."
* Sesshoumaru seiyuu, Ken Narita, narrates a 20 second CM in character, promoting the release of the fifth volume of Rumiko Takahashi's newest series MAO.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Sesshōmaru at InuYasha Wiki
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