Shippou

Shippou is one of the main characters from the InuYasha series.
== Charactah Account ==
Shippou is a young fox youkai who joins Kagome and Inuyasha following the death of his father. Since he is still a child, he is not very strong in battle, but can change his shape and has a repertoire of trickery that occasionally comes in handy. His youth and immaturity bring him into frequent conflict with Inuyasha; it is not clear exactly how old he really is, given that youkai age more slowly than humans.
Shippou has a small body but a strong spirit. Although Shippou is a youkai, his pure spirit knows no corruption. He has only recently opened his eyes to love, but with his knowledge and bravery, his feelings for his comrades are first and foremost. His spirit is still growing so its overall size is small.
Shippou has a strong will to follow through on things once he makes a decision. For example, he fought the Thunder Brothers, Manten and Hiten, even though he knew their powers were far greater than his own. He would sometimes go into battle, shaking with fear, but pushing himself to stay and fight. Kagome and Inuyasha helped Shippou exact revenge for his father's death and, touched by their gentleness and bravery, a dauntless strength and spirit began to grow inside of him. Despite being an innocent child, he has a strong will for revenge if anyone close to him is hurt. 
== Appearance ==
=== Anime ===
* InuYasha
* InuYasha Movie: Affections Touching Across Time
* InuYasha Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass
* InuYasha Movie 3: Swords of an Honorable Ruler
* InuYasha Movie 4: Fire on the Mystic Island
* InuYasha: The Final Act
* Ranma ½: Nightmare! Incense of Spring Sleep
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon - The Second Act
=== Manga ===
* Heroes Come Back
* InuYasha
=== Video Games ===
* InuYasha
* InuYasha: A Feudal Fairy Tale
* InuYasha: Feudal Combat
* InuYasha: Kagome no Sengoku Nikki
* InuYasha: Kagome no Yume Nikki
* InuYasha: Secret of the Divine Jewel
* InuYasha: The Secret of the Cursed Mask
== Trivia ==
* The seven treasures referred to by Shippou's name are the following: gold, silver, pearls, agate, crystal, coral and lapis lazuli.
** ouCoincidentally, the common English rendering of Shippō's name ("Shippo") bears a resemblance to the Japanese word for tail. Given the fact that Shippou is a kitsune with a single tail, this means that he is very young for a kitsune and is not as powerful as others, with more powerful ones having up to nine tails.
* Shippou makes a cameo as a plush in the first episode of Rumiko Takahashi's anthology series Rumic Theater. It would be seen again in a pile of trash in its 10th episode.
* Shippou, along with Inuyasha, Miroku, and Kagome make a cameo appearance in Ranma ½ OVA Episode 13. During one of Akane's nightmares, Shippou's dead body is seen on top of Inuyasha's dead body located to Akane's left. He also has a lump on his head, which is usually inflicted by Inuyasha smacking Shippou on the head.
* Shippou's love interests were mostly humans: Satsuki, Koume and Mizuki.
** However, there are two exceptions:
*** In the 4th movie Shippou met the young hanyou girl Ai and it was implied that Shippou fell in love with her.
*** Later on in the main story, as Shippou met Mujina who was disguised as a female back then, he also fell in love for the badger youkai's fake-female shape.
* Shippou never changes clothes, and he is always seen barefoot.
* Shippou's actual age is never stated in the series as Rumiko has avoided giving a specific true age for demon characters in general. She has only addressed this, in an interview, by stating that 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.
* Besides Toutousai and Inuyasha and Sesshoumaru's father, Shippou is the only full demon to be seen holding the Tessaiga with no negative consequences.
* Shippou's seiyuu also voiced Yuusaku Godai as a child from Maison Ikkoku and Ritsuko Hirooka from the short story House of Garbage as part of the Rumiko Takahashi's anthology series Rumic Theater.
* Kumiko Watanabe was married to Miroku's Japanese seiyuu Koji Tsujitani from 2012, until his death in 2018.
* A major character from Rumiko Takahashi's first major manga series, Urusei Yatsura, is a shape-shifting Kitsune like Shippou.
* The bamboo copter Shippou uses in Episode 164 highly resembles Take-copter from the series Doraemon.
== Gallery ==
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== External Links ==
* Shippō at InuYasha
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