InuYasha Characters

In order from least important to most important, based on my personal assessment of course. Also I'm only including protagonists, and only the main group.

Shippo is definitely the least important. He's there to fulfill the typical role of "the kid" which I never really understood the point of. I guess they're often intended to provide comic relief, but they rarely succeed. Shippo's not as bad as some others but I still find him kind of pointless.

Even though the series is named after InuYasha, we are told that it's all about Kagome. This is incorrect. She has a few brief "action girl" moments, but most of the time she just hangs around so InuYasha has someone to protect and fawn over.

 

Certain aspects of Miroku's personality do annoy me, but he's much more successful at comedy than Shippo, and much more useful in a fight than Kagome. I might have found him much less bearable if Sango hadn't shown up to smack him around.

Kirara is a fluffy little two-tailed kitten that turns into a giant flying firecat that the entire group rides through the air, and she amazing. You mess with her bitches, she will fuck you up.

Sango is a mortal girl who also happens to be a professional demon hunter. Which is pretty badass on its own, but on top of that she is friends with Kirara. She possess an enormous boomerang capable of chopping demons to bits, despite the fact that it's made out of wood and metal weapons are shown repeatedly to be useless. And she does it all while wearing pink. She's everything Kagome should have been. 

InuYasha is some sort of dog-eared sex god. But he doesn't just get first place because I find him sexy... and cute... and want to give him lots of hugs. Or even because the entire series is named after him. He gets first place because he kicks ass. He gets shit done. He pretty much pulls the weight of the entire team (before Sango and Kirara show up of course) and he does it quite well. He still gets his ass kicked on a semi-regular basis, but he usually comes out as a victorious bloody pulp one way or another.