Hiraikotsu
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Hiraikotsu (飛来骨, lit: "fly", "come" and "bone" respectively. Sometimes translated to mean "The bone that flies back") is the favoured weapon of Sango the demon slayer from the popular anime and manga InuYasha.
The Hiraikotsu is a giant boomerang made from the bones of demons. The weapon can slice through many demons and comes in handy when InuYasha and his friends were at Mt. Hakurei. The Hiraikotsu is actually quite heavy and requires a great deal of strength to throw. It can also be used defensively as a shield or a deflector of attacks.
Because the weapon is made from the bones of demons, it is usually unbreakable, though in Kaijinbo's Evil Sword, the weapon was cut in half by the possessed Kaijinbo using Tokijin. Though powerful enough to even withstand the brunt of the Kaze no Kizu/Wind Scar (or rather a portion of it) upon being reforged at the hands of Totosai, the Hiraikotsu can and has been reflected back at her by Kanna, Kagura and Princess Kaguya. Due to the weight of the weapon, it usually ends up knocking her out.
In the manga, Sango destroys the Hiraikotsu to save Miroku and herself from a bone-devouring demon by spreading a highly corrosive poison on the weapon and throwing it at the demon. As the demon dissolves from the poison, so does the Hiraikotsu and Sango ruefully apologizes for sacrificing her most trusted weapon.
In order to repair the weapon, Totosai and Myōga advise Sango and her friends to visit Yakurou Dokusen, a sage of medicines and poisons. While initially reluctant, Yakurou Dokusen offers Sango a method to fix Hiraikotsu. In order to do so, she must defeat several powerful demons with her own strength and transform the poison that Yakurou Dokusen has submerged the Hiraikotsu in into medicine before the poison completely dissolves her weapon.
[edit] Other Abilities
Besides being able to cut through demons, the Hiraikotsu can sometimes be combined with other weapons (usually holy). Sango uses Miroku's staff in combination with the Hiraikotsu in InuYasha the Movie 2: The Castle Beyond the Looking Glass to deal serious damage to Naraku, and uses Miroku's sutras on the weapon to increase its power on Mount Hakurei (occurs only in the anime). She also uses these attacks in the game InuYasha: The Secret of the Cursed Mask.
In an anime only episode, it is revealed that the Hiraikotsu was also used by her grandfather when he found the Shikon no Tama inside the body of a demon.
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