KiriNara

KiriNara is the term used to refer to the romantic relationship between Kirinmaru and Naraku.

## Trivia

* Kirinmaru's personality, actions, and skills heavily contrast with that of the previous main antagonist Naraku:
	+ Kirinmaru is a full-demon while Naraku was a hanyō.
	+ Naraku saw himself as superior to all beings, human and demon alike, and especially despised hanyōs while Kirinmaru is at best apathetic to most beings. While he does hates humans and hanyōs, he still acknowledges the ones who gain his respect, such as the likes of Inuyasha, Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha.
	+ Naraku was cowardly and preferred to trick and manipulate others to fight his battles for him whereas Kirinmaru would openly face his opponents in combat.
	+ Whereas Naraku is a sadist who enjoys inflicting emotional pain on others, Kirinmaru seems to prefer granting swift and quick deaths to his enemies. The emotional pain that Kirinmaru causes others comes more out of a failure to account for collateral damage or consider the emotional well-being of those around him in his drive to fight the strongest foes he can.
	+ Naraku would often take advantage when his enemies were weakened whereas Kirinmaru was insulted by this notion, preferring his enemies be at their strongest when he fights them as seen when he orders Riku to take medicinal herbs to his arch-rival Tōga.
	+ Whereas Naraku sought the Shikon Jewel and its power for himself Kirinmaru gave the Rainbow Pearls he had to his lieutenants and seemingly had no desire to retrieve the ones that were taken or the ones in possession of Towa, Setsuna, and Moroha.
	+ Naraku would often bring the fight to Inuyasha and his friends through allies, people he had tricked, or his incarnations, whereas Kirinmaru only acted when provoked such as when he was told the prophecy of his death or when the hanyō Princesses were close to his ship. His lieutenants battled against the hanyō Princesses on their own initiative, not under orders to kill them from above.
	+ Those under Naraku’s command were often incarnations whose hearts he removed and threatened with death to ensure their obedience while the demons under Kirinmaru’s command are completely loyal to him with the exception of Kyūki. While Naraku never cared about the lives of his incarnations and was willing to threaten and abuse them and would kill them if they failed or tried to betray him, Kirinmaru is apathetic towards his subordinates but he does at least acknowledge that anyone who serves under him must be a powerful warrior and while not above disciplining them himself, he was never shown to outright abuse his followers.
	+ Naraku would seldom resort to physical combat, relying on his barrier to protect him and his miasma to kill his foes. Kirinmaru not only fights directly in combat but lives to give his all against worthy foes.
	+ While Naraku would flee from battle if the tables were turned Kirinmaru would stand, fight and fall even when fighting opponents stronger than himself, like Tōga and Sesshōmaru.
* Kirinmaru is the only other being so far besides Naraku that seems to be capable of creating incarnations--demons spawned from the flesh or body parts of other demons or hanyōs. However, while Naraku produced a number of incarnations to help him with his goals, Kirinmaru only produced two known incarnations, Riku and Osamu Kirin, from the body parts he had lost during his duel with Tōga.