High school student Kagome Higurashi finds herself being dragged through the old well of her family’s Shinto shrine and into the Sengoku period of Japan, five centuries in the past, by an evil demon bent on recovering the Shinkon jewel, a wish-granting relic that has manifested itself inside Kagome. After escaping following the jewel’s shattering amidst the chaos of the battle, Kagome comes across the half-demon named Inuyasha. Together, they discover new friends and foes and venture across ancient Japan to recover the shards of the Jewel and prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Chise Hatori is a fifteen-year-old girl who has been neglected her whole life, alienating herself due to her odd behaviour and talent to see fey spirits, which others cannot see. Spiralling down deeper into a depression, she auctioned herself off into slavery. Chise is acquired for a large sum by a mysterious gentleman who brings her to the English countryside, to his cottage. There he reveals himself to be the ancient magus. Chise learns she is a part of a larger hidden world of magic and monsters than she could have dreamed. And so, begins the new life of Chise the apprentice and bride.