I know that Kagome is 15 and Sango is 16 but does anybody know IY and Miroku's exact age? I know IY was sealed for 50 years but i think that shouldnt be counted into his age becouse he didnt age or do anything at all during that time. The only hint at their age ive seen is when Kagome was talking to her friends and said they were older guys. But i dont think they have ever formally said what their exact age was ever, unless i missed it somewhere.

Rumiko takahashi once said
that IY is in the shape of a 17 year old boy.

And I think Miroku is 21.
He just looks like it, that's what.
Yeah... Miroku must be 21.
But also like a 22 year old guy...

I always ignore ages -- characters always look far too much older than their supposed age.

Hmmm, I look on a lot of sites and they say Miroku is 18.

Isn't he suppose to die by about his 24th birthday?

I'm thinking that movie to will reveal his age more specifically.

I always pegged him at about 18-21 age bracket though.

When did they ever say Sango was 16??? As far as I know they only ever say Souta and Kagome's ages to be exact. Inuyasha is over 500 years old..when he is in Kagome's time ^-^ and who knows how old he is when he is in his time..as for Miroku hes prolly 18-23ish he just acts oldest. Sango is just a lil bit older then Kagome i'd say..but we are forgetting poor Shippou..

Well i gurantee Sesshoumaru is over 100 years old since he looked the same as he does now when IY was sealed in the battle against those cats. IY is likely not too much younger than Sesshoumaru, personally id guess they are both a couple hundred years old.

Yeah, but it the Fire Cats episode, it's mentioned that Shippou was still alive 50 years earlier. Of course the plot's a little loopy during that arc and I'm basing it off of a fansub translation, so who knows.

Yeah, even if they say he's 50 (kinda),
we shouldn't take the filler episodes as a part of the story.
I think only the manga counts.

And when DID they say Sango was 16?
She looks older than Kikyou (who was 17).
I allways thought of her as 18 or even 19.

I really doubt Sango is only 16 and i dont ever remember anyone saying that.

If she is she is quite well developed for her age.

Of course nowdays thats not so rare, you guys gotta make them show the ID these days before they you do anything or you might get yourself into some deep shit.

i heard he is 19... Uhm, is it true, that he will die?

Miroku is 19 according to some official profile somewhere. (The same age as me! ) I can't remember what the source of the profile was (some artbook or trading card or something, perhaps?), but I'm pretty sure it was official. According to the same source, Sango is 16 and Kikyou is 17. Inuyasha and Shippou's official ages have never been mentioned (drat).

I don't think there's any official information as to how long Miroku is estimated to have to live, but a lot of people seem to think he won't make it past his mid-20s or so. Personally, even though he's my favorite, I hope it's even less. I think it'd add a ton of suspense to the storyline if the group found out they only had a couple of months left to kill Naraku before the kazaana swallowed Miroku up. Race against time, and all that. >=D

Hm... I really thought Miroku was older.
But there you go, it was the same with Chichiri.
I think I read an interview with Takahashi-sensei,
and there's where she said IY and Kikyou was 17.
She didn't exactly say Inyasha's true age,
but that he was in the shape of an 17 year old boy.
And oh my, Sango looks a LOT older than 16!

In some episode or other, Miroku is accused of lying about his age, which would seem to me that he's a bit older- perhaps in his later twenties trying to appear younger. But maybe that was a translation thing or I misread it or something-

heh all of the girls look ALOT older than they are meant to be. for Kagome bein 15 and sango being 16, there has been quite a few scenes where their bodys look very well developed for their age.

i saw sangos age on some official little card thing too but i didnt see miroku's card.

kind of makes you wonder what kagome and sango will look like when they hit 18

I just figured this out a little. *lol* (this may sound stupid...)
Are we referring to what we see in the anime or the manga?
In the manga the whole gang looks a lot younger,
and in the anime they get a little more grown up look.
Even Kikyou and Inuyasha looks childish in the manga,
but in the anime they get this serious adult look (at times...).
Have you guys ever seen the Ranma½ OAV's...?
Well, let's just say that the girls (and deffinetly Ranma)
looked a lot more grown up... if you know what I mean.
At times you couldn't even see Ranma's face... *ahem*

Well, when you compare Sango to, say, the Sailor Senshi (some of whom are supposed to fourteen if I remember correctly??), I'd say she could pass for a sixteen-year-old. She's a little well-developed, but it's nothing outrageous.

And I think Miroku can easily pass for 19... I've met a bunch of guys in college who I would have sworn were in their early twenties at the least, but turned out to still be 18 or 19. And even though Miroku tends to act older than he really is, those few times we actually get to see him more open and unguarded, it's obvious he's still pretty young.



Maybe he was lying to appear older? I doubt many village headmen would be that willing to accept the help of a monk not even out of his teens. I wish I could recall which episode that was, though.

Doesn't Miroku say in episode 101 that his encounter with that snow woman happened about seven years ago? And he looks around 12 or so in those flashbacks, at least to me.



That's a good point. The anime tends to give all the characters a more mature look, which makes it even harder to judge their age. And it's really hard to tell by their voices, too. In the dub, Inuyasha sounds older and Miroku sounds younger. It's the opposite in the Japanese version. It can get pretty confusing.

huh, i just asked that "Miroku dies?" because, i heard some infos, that Miroku and Sango will have a kid, Kikyo dies, after that Miroku dies too..
i think it just a crappy info, and i hope it's not true

Of course, you guys are right- he was lying to say he's older...I'm so old I'd forgotten people do that, especially guys in their late teens. I remmber at least two I went out with who first said they were several years older, who weren't. Geez its been a long time... now I 'm pretty sure my oldest isn't quite honest with the girls he dates- at least one I'm sure was two or threeyears older and wouldn't have appreciated knwoing he was only 17.

Inuyasha was 17 when he was sealed, so now hes 67. and miroku is 19... isn't he cute?

yeah IY voice does sound a bit older in the dub. i like it though. it sounds more arrogant and commanding than the original. richard cox does an awesome job!

the only voice i have a problem with in the dub is Koga's. by the way does anybody know his age???

Yeah, Kouga's english voice gets on my nerves. I like Inuyasha's english voice a whooooole lot, though...Miroku's too.

::sneaks online at a friend's house to post:: >=D



Well yeah, if you count the fifty years when he was sealed (I don't). Also, though we know he has the mind of a 17-year-old, like Takahashi said, we don't know for sure if he was actually 17 when he was sealed, since youkai don't age like humans. I think he probably was, though.

And Miroku is cute.

I don't really like Scott McNeil as Kouga right now either, but McNeil is still one of my favorite VAs. It's not the voice that really bothers me, it's just that I don't think it really fits Kouga. I'll probably get used to it when we they finally start to show more of the English dub.

Unfortunately, I don't think Kouga's age has been revealed either. He seems in his early to mid-twenties, though, I'd say...