Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

About Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon

In feudal Japan, half-demon twins Towa and Setsuna are separated from each other during a forest fire. While desperately searching for her younger sister, Towa wanders into a mysterious tunnel that sends her into present-day Japan, where she is found and raised by Kagome Higurashi’s brother, Sota, and his family.

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon is an action-adventure and animation series made for STV and Chukyo TV. It ran for one season of 48 episodes between October 2020 and March 2022.

Sara Matsumoto leads the cast as Towa Higurashi (voice), Mikako Komatsu as Setsuna (voice), Azusa Tadokoro as Moroha (voice), and Ryohei Kimura as Kohaku (voice). Production companies include Shogakukan and SUNRISE.

Shelv files it under awestruck, youkai, dementia, and supernatural. In the United States it streams on Amazon Prime Video, Amazon Prime Video with Ads, and Crunchyroll.

InuYasha, Dororo, and Black Butler make useful companions to Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, all filed under demon, historical, and shounen. It scores 8.3 out of 10 from 171 TMDB voters and it carries a TV-14 rating.