Enter Sango the Demon Slayer!
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| “Enter Sango the Demon Slayer” | |
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| Episode no. | Season - Episode 24 |
| Written by | Ai Ota, Akinori Endo, Katsuhiko Chiba, Katsuyuki Sumisawa, Masashi Ikeda, Takashi Yamada, Tetsuko Takahashi |
| Directed by | Masashi Ikeda |
| Production no. | IY024 |
| Original airdate | 2001-04-04 |
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Enter Sango the Demon Slayer (妖怪退治屋珊瑚登場！ Youkaitaijiya, Sango Toujou!) is the twenty-fourth episode of the anime series InuYasha. It first aired in Japan on April 4, 2001.
A young woman defeats a large demon terrorizing a village with ease and recovers a shard of the Shikon Jewel. Accepting it as payment for her services, she reveals that her village is the very place where the Shikon Jewel was born.
Meanwhile, Inuyasha and his friends hear of the village where the Shikon Jewel was created and decide to head in that direction in hopes of discovering more about it.
The young woman, Sango, returns home and gives the jewel shard to her father, the chief demon slayer of the village. They hope to find a priestess to purify the shards, but until then, they decide to leave the shards at their altar under the protection of the village. Sango's father informs her that the lord of a castle has hired them to defeat a powerful demon and the lord wants the very best. He has decided to include Sango, but also her younger brother Kohaku, whom he believes needs to acquire real experience as a demon slayer now that he is coming of age. Kohaku, while capable enough as a slayer, is apprehensive about being brought along on the mission.
The demon slayers leave that night for the lord's castle and destroy the demon. Just as Kohaku is about to join them, he finds that he is unable to control his body. The boy ends up killing all the demons slayers, including his father. Sango survives long enough to discover the lord has been possessed and is controlling Kohaku. The two end up being shot to death by the arrows of the lord's guards, but the lord is soon killed by his son, Kagewaki Hitomi. Kagewaki reveals that his father was possessed by the real demon and asks the guards to give the demon slayers honourable burials on the estate grounds.
Meanwhile, the demon slayer village is attacked by hordes of demons and everyone is killed. Naraku, who lead the charge, steals the shards left at the altar and leaves. When Inuyasha, Kagome, and the others arrive, they are alarmed to discover the entire village has been destroyed. There are no survivors, save Kirara, Sango's faithful two-tailed cat demon. Kirara, initially hostile, calms down with help from Myoga. The group decide to give all the villagers proper burials.
At the castle, Sango climbs out of her grave. Kagewaki brings her into his home and has a doctor treat her. He reveals that she is sole survivor of the demon slayers' village now because, with her father and the best demon slayers at the castle, her village was left defenceless and vulnerable to the attacks of multiple demons. He offers his home as her own, but she silently refuses.
Kagewaki leaves her alone and is greeted on the verandah by Naraku, who has apparently been advising the young Kagewaki. He confirms that there are no survivors from the demon village and goes to say that a demon called Inuyasha was responsible. Sango rises from her bed and demands for Kagewaki to return her weapons and armour - she intends to seek revenge for the slaughter of her kinsman and kill Inuyasha.
