Inuyasha: The Manga Gallery
All 56 covers across two Japanese programs. Pictured: volume 1, Kagome above and Inuyasha below, the feudal fairy tale’s first frame.
The original program is 56 tankobon under the Shonen Sunday Comics imprint, released from April 18, 1997 to February 18, 2009, a book on shelves within five months of the first chapter, and a final volume eight months after the last. It remains the only complete single-volume-format Japanese edition.
THE FIRST VOLUME
Shogakukan · 1997
Volume 1 · Shogakukan · April 18, 1997
Kagome in her school uniform against a night sky, Inuyasha in red below: the two worlds of the series stacked on one cover, and the start of a 56-volume run.
THE JAPANESE PROGRAMS
Tankobon and widebanTankobon · 56 Volumes · 1997–2009
The serialization’s own edition: 558 chapters at roughly ten per volume, across the full eleven-year run and beyond it.
Wideban · 30 Volumes · 2013–15
The deluxe reissue of January 18, 2013 to June 18, 2015: fewer, larger books, and the only edition whose final volume collects the epilogue chapter “Since Then.”
The Epilogue’s Address
A reader who wants every Inuyasha chapter in Japanese book form needs the tankobon for the run and wideban volume 30 for the ending after the ending.