Inuyasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass

Half-dreed Inuyasha, [Kappei Yamaguchi], schoolgirl Kagome, [Satsuki Yukino], monk Miroku, [Koji Tsujitani], demon slayer Sango, [Houko Kuwashima], and fox demon Shippo [Kumiko Watanabe] join forces to confront and defeat their arch-enemy Naraku. In the wake of the battle, Miroku’s Wind Tunnel—the curse that haunted his family—vanishes from his hand, and Sango’s ally Kohaku is freed from Naraku’s control as a human puppet. With Naraku seemingly beaten, Inuyasha, Kagome, and Shippo part ways with Miroku and Sango as they press on to recover the shards of the Shikon Jewel. Miroku returns to his master Mushin, while Sango heads back to her village and finds the amnesiac Kohaku waiting there. Mushin entrusts Miroku with a mission to pass down to the surviving heir of his clan: destroy a yōkai who threatens to plunge the world into eternal night.

Kagura and Kanna, two of Naraku’s incarnations, stumble upon a mirror in a hidden shrine and awaken a maiden who proclaims herself Kaguya, Princess of the Heavens. In exchange for her freedom, Kaguya promises Kagura her true heart’s desire—freedom itself. Kagura and Kanna set out to recover five items that will free Kaguya from her mirror completely. Inuyasha travels to the modern era in search of Kagome, accompanied by her brother Sota. In town, Kagome hides Inuyasha from the public in a photo booth, while Sota cheekily snaps photos of the two as they argue. Back in the Feudal era, Kagome extracts their faces from one of the photos and places them on a heart-shaped necklace locket she offers to Inuyasha, who initially seems to reject it.

Later, they encounter Kagura, Kanna, and Kaguya, the former tearing off a sleeve of Inuyasha’s Robe of the Fire-Rat, one of the five required items. Kagome senses a strange aura surrounding her era, hinting that something is not as it seems. Meanwhile, Miroku and his tanuki servant Hachi learn that his grandfather once defeated Kaguya, leaving the celestial robe in the care of the Hōjō family. With Kaguya and Kanna locating the remaining items, Kaguya seeks the robe alone and traps Inuyasha, restraining him to a tree. Kagome sacrifices herself to shield him from a sacred arrow deflected by Kaguya, and Kaguya takes Kagome captive, offering freedom to Kagome only if Inuyasha becomes her servant.

Kaguya has begun to freeze time into eternal night. Kagura suspects Kaguya isn’t who she claims to be and tries to strike, but Kaguya teleports Kagura and Kanna away. After his escape, Inuyasha, Hojo, and Shippo join Miroku, Hachi, Sango, Kohaku, and Sango’s nekomata Kirara to infiltrate Kaguya’s mountain castle on Lake Motosu. Excluding Hachi and Hojo, they rely on items from Kagome’s first-aid kit from the modern era to survive the time freeze, while Inuyasha remains unaffected by wearing Kagome’s locket. They clash with Kaguya to no avail, and she even transforms Inuyasha into a full demon. A restrained Kagome pleads with him to stop, but Shippo frees her, and she shares a kiss with Inuyasha to revert him to his half-demon form; he vows to remain half-demon longer for her sake.

Kaguya reveals that she is a demon who absorbed the real Kaguya, and Naraku reappears, having concealed himself in Kohaku’s back to wait for Kaguya to emerge and absorb her power to gain immortality. The heroes defeat Kaguya just in time; Naraku is defeated when Miroku’s Wind Tunnel is restored and used to end Kaguya’s threat. They flee the collapsing castle through Kanna’s mirror, and Naraku escapes with Kohaku. The group returns to safety as time resets to normal. Inuyasha, Kagome, Miroku, Sango, Shippo, and Kirara resume the quest for Shikon Jewel shards, while Hojo discards the celestial robe at Mount Fuji.

Last Updated: October 09, 2025 at 16:49