Kagome Higurashi

Kagome Higurashi is the main female protagonist from the InuYasha series.
== Charactah Account ==
Kagome is a girl from the present era who finds herself in Japan's Sengoku era after falling down an old well in her family's Shinto shrine. She proves to be Kikyou's reincarnation, and discovers that she possesses strong spiritual powers resembling that of a miko. After she accidentally shatters the Shikon Jewel, she joins up with Inuyasha to find and reassemble the broken pieces.
Kagome's heart is pure and kind, always rich and sometimes uncontrollable, which is strangely similar to Inuyasha's lack of self-control. Because of her empathetic nature, she never hesitates to help those in need of it, treating all with warmth and respect. Even if she doesn't say a word, her feelings are easy to read due to her honest expressions, which cause those around her to soften in tough situations and be honest as well. The only dark part that Kagome ever had was her secret jealousy over Inuyasha's feelings towards her past life, but she eventually learns to be at peace with it and let go. Even with this, she wasn't without her flawed, quirky and immature side, which is typical of her age.
Kagome was never afraid to voice her mind about what is "right" and what is "wrong," making her somewhat opinionated and stubborn. She eventually learnt to not see the world in black or white, becoming the one others turn to when they need emotional support or advice as she can be direct and make hard but valid points, even to a friend. Still, Kagome is unforgiving of anyone who opposes her sense of justice until they stop, even when there was large difference in power. This was shown when she nearly killed Naraku out of her disgust and fury towards his evil, manipulative nature and had wanted him destroyed as much as her companions since then.
== 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: Black Tessaiga
* InuYasha: The Final Act
* It's a Rumic World: 50th Anniversary Weekly★Shounen Sunday
* Urusei Yatsura: The Obstacle Course Swim Meet
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon - The Second Act
=== Manga ===
* Heroes Come Back
* InuYasha
* Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon
=== 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
* Sunday & Magazine: White Comic
* Unison League
== Trivia ==
* While Kagome's given name is only written in hiragana based off the stated meaning presented in the series, it is almost certainly derived from the kanji "basket eye" which refers to a "kagome lattice" (an arrangement of interlaced lath triangles whereat each point two laths cross has four neighboring points) and a kind of lattice-style woven basket used as a birdcage, a nod to the children's game, "kagome kagome", similar to Blind man's buff, which refers to a 'bird' trapped in a cage. This a metaphor for the fact that for most of her life, the full extent of Kagome's spiritual powers were sealed away at birth by Magatsuhi, the evil incarnation within the Shikon Jewel, and her future capacity to know where her "target" is.
** According to the anime, Kagome's mother named her "Kagome" as in a 'kagome mon', a Star of David-like crest that appears at the intersection of patterns throughout a kagome lattice.
** Her full name, which uses the characters for "evening" and a star shape, could plausibly be interpreted as "Evening Star", i.e. the planet Venus.
* In the beginning of the Manga, in 1997, the franchise's Mangaka, Rumiko Takahashi, originally drew Kagome wearing socks from the Japanese school fashion fad, "Kogal", but shortly into the series, Kagome's socks became normal. By the events of end of the Manga, in 2008, Kagome was shown with a flip-phone cellphone model from 2008--yet the events of the Manga occur within the better part of a years (Kagome's near the beginning of her final year of Junior-High-School and gets into High-School by the end, just prior to the 3-year Time-Skip, AND InuYasha's 'period of vulnerability' occurs at-least 6/7 times).
* In the Latin American Spanish dub and the European and Brazilian Portuguese dubs, Kagome's name was changed to Aome and Agome, respectively, due to Kagome sounding too similar to the expletive verb "cagar," which means "to defecate" in both languages, though her name was left unchanged in the Castilian (European) Spanish and Catalan dubs.
* In the Filipino Dub, the subjugation chant or spell "Sit!" is called "Dapa!" meaning "Flounder!"
* According to Rumiko Takahashi, in the end, Kagome's spiritual power was stronger than Kikyō's; albeit, most of Kagome's powers are currently undeveloped. Why, however, is never elaborated-upon; given the fact they're supposed to be incarnations of the same soul, their spiritual powers should be the same. Possibly, this could be due to the fact Kagome held the majority of their shared soul, and Kikyō thus suffered from a soul deficiency, weakening the effects of her spiritual powers.
* Kagome has a weakness for anything cute, whether a demon or otherwise, which has been shown in both the anime and manga.
* Despite having stated in Movie 3 that she hates to fight, she would never leave Inuyasha to fight alone.
* Both Kagome's and Kikyō's looks are based on a previous character of Takahashi's, Mana, from Mermaid Saga.
* Slight differences are present between Kagome's physical appearance in the manga as opposed to the anime. Namely, Kagome physically resembled Kikyō more so in the manga than in the anime. Also her eyes are normally colored blue-grey in the manga, while in the anime they are brown.
* She often wore her high school uniform. In the guidebook book for the InuYasha series - InuYasha: Zusetsutaizan Ōgikaiden, Rumiko Takahashi explains that Kagome wore her high school uniform because she enjoyed the latest style. Apart from that, her high school uniform was easy to wash.
* The Final Act's first ending theme song shows Inuyasha and Kagome with the red thread of fate attached to their pinky since they are destined to meet. In the Japanese culture, it is thought to be tied around the little finger/pinky finger.
* She makes a cameo together with Inuyasha in the last episode of Rumiko Takahashi's anthology series Rumic Theater, The Executive's Dog.
* In the latest and newest OVA, during Summer Festival Lum and Ataru Moroboshi appear to enjoy the fireworks. Soon, Ataru starts behaving flirtatiously towards young ladies who also participate the Summer Festival. Kagome is the one of them, wearing her yukata and keeping her distance from Ataru.
* In the series of The Holy Pearl, a character for which Kagome serves as inspiration is named Ding Yao.
* Her Japanese voice actor, Satsuki Yukino, would voice other characters of other anime adaptations of Rumiko Takahashi's works.
** Various characters in Rumiko Takahashi's anthology series Rumic Theater (Yukari from The Merchant of Romance, Emiri from Middle Aged Teen, Koizumi from One Hundred Years of Love and Kobato from In Lieu of Thanks).
** Rinne Rokudō's grandmother Tamako from Rin-ne.
* In the Live Action Play where she was portrayed by Erika Mabuchi, she had short hair and wore a yellow school uniform.
* Nanoka Kiba from Rumiko Takahashi's current work Mao shares some similar traits: both are time travelers and accompany the male protagonist who have a vengeance motive.
* She also have similarities to Claire Beecheum-Randal of the book and television series Outlander, as both end up centuries in the ancient past, fall in love with a man from that era and marries him, and becomes mother to a daughter whose father is from another time.
* In episode 16, when Miroku asks Kagome to bear his child, Kagome responds with a perplexed "Heke?", a phrase most often used in Hamtaro when a character is confused or surprised. One of the characters, Laura Haruna, share the same voice actress in the English dub (Monica Stori).
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== External Links ==
* Kagome Higurashi at InuYasha
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