Battle Against the Dried-Up Demons at the Cultural Festival

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“Battle Against the Dried-Up Demons at the Cultural Festival”
InuYasha episode
Episode no.	Season - Episode 128
Written by	Ai Ota, Akinori Endo, Katsuhiko Chiba, Katsuyuki Sumisawa, Masashi Ikeda, Takashi Yamada, Tetsuko Takahashi
Production no.	IY128
Original airdate	October 13, 2003
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Battle Against the Dried-Up Demons at the Cultural Festival (Japanese: - 干物妖怪と激闘文化祭 - Himono Youkai to Gekitou Bunkasai) is the 128th episode of the anime series InuYasha. It was first broadcasted in Japan on October 13, 2003.

[edit] Summary

Kagome decides to return home for awhile because there is a Cultural Festival at school she needs to help set up. She takes along some dehydrated food before returning to the modern era.

On the festival day, she and her friends are shocked to discover all the food they cooked and left in the recreation room has been destroyed and the room wrecked. The girls rush to a convenience store to get ingredients to replace the food, with Kagome unaware that it is her fault that their food was destroyed in the first place. It turns out the dehydrated food were actually dried up demons and when Kagome boiled them in a pot of water, they came to life.

Inuyasha appears in the modern age to inform Kagome about the demons, only to find it is too late to bring them back to the past. Since Kagome keeps getting dragged off by her friends for other events, Inuyasha and her family decided to search for them without her.

Unfortunately, everything Kagome is involved in barely avoids becoming a disaster. Ayumi needs Kagome to sing the solo part in their choral number, but she can't concentrate with more dried up demons running around. Yuka and Eri intimidate Kagome with their need for her role in the school play, the Princess, to be perfect. It doesn't help that she has to perform a romantic scene with Hojo and Inuyasha becomes jealous and challenges the unwitting Hojo to a duel. Before they can fight, the last of the food demons (a giant watermelon) breaks through the floor and tries to attack the audience. Improvising the rest of the play (much to Eri's horror), Kagome and Inuyasha finish off the demon and leave the stage.

[edit] Trivia

It is interesting to note that in this episode numerous anime characters from different series appeared in this episode, such as Shin'ichi Kudo (Jimmy Kudo) and Ran Mori (Rachel Moore) from Case Closed and Shampoo and Mu-Mu chan from Ranma ½, this is officialy the first crossover in the series and the second time the Inuyasha series makes any type of connection to another Rumiko Takahashi series. The first being in the second movie.
- For more information see Special Appearances.