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Inuyasha Characters: Carrion Crow

Name: Carrion Crow Means: AKA: Age: Race: Crow Demon Weapons: Claws First Appearance: Manga: Volume 1, Chapter 3 Anime: Episode 2 Seiyuu: English: Japanese:

The Carrion Crow was the second demon that Inuyasha and Kagome faced, and is the catalyst for the Shikon Jewel being shattered. To be perfectly honest, the Carrion Crow is pretty underwhelming. In its natural state, it's no bigger than a normal crow. The only real difference between it and a normal crow is that it has three red, slitted eyes and a boney reptilian tail. It does have one special power that makes it a little dangerous; it's able to burrow into corpses and control them. In episode two, that's exactly what this particular Carrion Crow does. It shows up at Kaede's village after being attracted to the Shikon Jewel. Inuyasha drives it away along with a flock of regular crows, but apparently it went and found a large bandit leader to kill and inhabit. Later when Kagome is headed to the Bone-Eater's well she's jumped and kidnapped by the bandits. They take her back to their lair and present her to the bandit leader. The bandit leader promptly goes berserk and attacks everyone, his own bandits included. To distract the leader and buy time, Kagome throws the Shikon Jewel outside the hideout. Shortly after that Inuyasha arrives and drives the Carrion Crow out of the bandit leader's corpse, which promptly turns into a skeleton. The Carrion Crow escapes however and makes off with the Shikon Jewel. It swallows the jewel and grows quite a bit, but still manages to be very unimpressive. Kagome and Inuyasha continue to pursue it and Inuyasha slices it into little chunks after it picks up a young boy and carries him off. The Shikon Jewel causes the Carrion Crow to regenerate though and mostly whole it starts to fly away again. Kagome comes up with a plan to make a 'homing' arrow by taking the Crow's foot that was still clutching the boy and tying it to one of her arrows. Since part of the Carrion Crow is attached to it, the arrow is pulled straight to the Shikon Jewel inside the fleeing Crow. Unfortunately, the arrow strikes the Shikon Jewel dead on, shattering it and spreading the shards all over the countryside. The upside to all that is the Carrion Crow was destroyed.