Inuyasha is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Rumiko Takahashi. It was serialized in Shogakukan's sh?nen manga magazine Weekly Sh?nen Sunday from November 1996 to June 2008, with its chapters collected in 56 tank?bon volumes. The series begins with Kagome Higurashi, a fifteen-year-old middle school girl from modern-day Tokyo who is transported to the Sengoku period after falling into a well in her family shrine.