Kaede (InuYasha)
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| Kaede 楓 |
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| Age | about 60 |
| Race | Human |
| Weapons | Bow and Arrow, Spiritual Powers |
| First Appearance (Anime) | The Girl Who Overcame Time...and the Boy Who Was Just Overcome |
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Kaede (楓) is a miko in the manga and anime series InuYasha.
Although contrary to her appearance, Kaede is the younger sister of Kikyō. She became the village miko after Kikyo's death and became the respected elder in the village .
Kaede suffered a major injury which cost her right eye while fighting alongside Kikyō and InuYasha (Kikyō failed to protect her because she was in love with InuYasha and her powers had been weakened by a curse laid by Tsubaki. This is not in the manga, but takes place in a special episode of the anime.). The manga never mentions explicitly how Kaede lost her eye, though it is heavily implied it actually occured during Inuyasha's attack on the village to steal the Shikon Jewel. She wears a tsuba (sword guard) over her missing eye.
After her sister's demise, she defends the village against yōkai until Kagome, her sister's reincarnation appears 50 years later. She is the first to identify Kagome as the reincarnation of Kikyō and placed Kikyō's kotodama no nenju (a holy rosary that gives power to the spoken word of whomever creates it) on InuYasha when Kagome first let him go, so Kagome could control him.
She later helps them defeat the oni Urasue, who stole the bones of her sister Kikyō and created a clay body for her (attempting to use her as a slave to recover the Shikon no Tama (Jewel of the Four Souls)).
She also provides moral support (such when InuYasha was jealous over Kagome's helping Kōga) and sometimes uses her miko powers to help, for example when InuYasha was injured, she and Miroku kept a barrier that hid them from Royōkan, who was being controlled by Naraku with a Shikon shard. Additionally, she is a source of helpful knowledge regarding Kikyō's past, most notably her brief time with Onigumo, and the era (this knowledge is of most help to Kagome and the viewers).
As the series progresses the story focuses less and less on her until she rarely appears. She seems to have loved Kikyo very much when she was alive but loathes to see her as a zombie made of clay and wishes for her to return to death. In Viz's English dubbed version, Kaede speaks in a very archaic tone (using "ye").
[edit] Kaede (Young)
The younger Kaede appears primarily in flashbacks. She is seen unblinded when apprehensively treating a badly burned Onigumo when asked to by Kikyo. Her young, unblinded eyes also appear in episodes 2, 147, and 148.
As a child, Kaede appeared to have accompanied Kikyo nearly everywhere, helping her sister with various tasks such as gathering herbs or holding quiver of arrows. Fifty years after Kikyo's death, Inuyasha, when freed by Kagome, recalls Kaede as "the brat" who followed Kikyo around.
[edit] Name
Her name means maple tree.
[edit] Voice Actor
- Japanese: Hisako Kyouda
- English: Pam Hyatt / Young Kaede is done by Jillian Michaels
- Hungarian: Kassai Ilona
