This book includes cell art and paintings from the anime series. Showcasing the excellent artwork and beautiful characters of the immensely popular time-traveling horror/action series, this book offers fans page after page of full-color designs, plus character profiles, watercolors from the manga covers, character profiles and 66 pages of colored manga pages.

Inu Yasha Visual Manga, Volume 1 covers the events of the first three exciting episodes of the TV and video series, using actual, full-color film frames to narrate the story.

Sly monk Miroku's attempt at chivalry goes wrong in more ways than one: the damsel in distress turns out to be a demon in disguise, and Miroku's powerful wind tunnel weapon begins to unravel, threatening to consume him!

Kagome sense something of Inuyasha's struggle in the plight of another half-demon, the gentle giant Jinenji, who is unfairly accused of terrorizing his village... but can she convince Inuyasha to help? Later, what a poisonous fog spreads across the land, Inuyasha and the others are sure that the evil Naraku must be behind it.

Inuyasha meets an old demon named Totosai who turns out to be the swordsmith who forged the mighty Tetsusaiga for Inuyasha's father. Totosai offers to teach Inuyasha how to harness the full power of the fearsome weapon in exchange for protection from Inuyasha's evil half-brother Sesshomaru, who has threatened to kill Totosai if he refuses to craft a new sword just for him!

Kagome's ability to sense the presence of sacred jewel shards has now put her in danger, because it's for this talent that Koga kidnaps her! Thrust into the middle of a war and unwillingly betrothed to Koga, Kagome waits for Inuyasha and the others to rescue her. And to make matters worse, Naraku returns to pit Inuyasha against Koga... in a duel to the death!