InuYasha mouse pads for the desk

Padrift's InuYasha mouse pads and desk mats are our own designs inspired by Rumiko Takahashi's story of a half-demon and a schoolgirl in feudal Japan. Every one is printed edge to edge on 3 mm neoprene with a fabric top, a non-slip base and stitched edges. A mouse-only pad measures 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm), a full-desk mat 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm), and six more sizes fill the gap; we print each pad only after it has been ordered.

Takahashi's manga ran in Shogakukan's Weekly Shōnen Sunday from 1996 to 2008. Sunrise's anime ran from 2000 to 2004, reached American television on Adult Swim, and returned to finish the story as The Final Act in 2009 and 2010. A sequel about the next generation, Yashahime, followed in 2020.

Homework in two eras

Kagome Higurashi may be the most overworked student in anime. She falls through the well at her family's shrine into the Warring States period, hunts jewel shards with a short-tempered half-demon, and then climbs back to modern Tokyo to sit her exams. Her grandfather keeps the school off her back by inventing ever stranger illnesses to explain her absences, and her friends are convinced she is very sick.

That makes InuYasha a surprisingly good fit for a study desk. A design with Kagome in her green-and-white school uniform, her huge yellow backpack beside her, suits anyone juggling coursework with too much else. It also explains why an InuYasha pad should be calm enough to study on: much of the series is about trying to keep an ordinary life going while everything else is chaos.

Fire-Rat red on a dark desk

InuYasha's robe is made from the fur of the fire-rat, a deep red that protects him from flames and blades. With his long silver-white hair and gold eyes, it gives him a color scheme you can recognize from across a room: red, white and very little else.

On a desk, that red works as a strong accent against black. An InuYasha design on a dark ground, with the robe as the only saturated color, pairs well with a black keyboard and one red detail, a red mouse, red keycaps on the arrow cluster or a red cable. Warm white lighting keeps the robe true; red RGB pushes the whole mat warmer and makes his white hair glow pink, which looks good if you like it but changes the character.

The night of the new moon

Once a month, on the night of the new moon, InuYasha loses his demon powers and becomes fully human. His hair turns black, his dog ears disappear and he is suddenly as vulnerable as anyone else, a secret he guards carefully from his enemies. Those nights make for some tense, intimate episodes.

New-moon art is the darkest InuYasha palette: black hair, a dim red robe and a night sky with no moon. It suits a dark-mode desk, a black setup under low blue light or a late-night study session where a bright design would be distracting. For fans, it is also a quietly knowing choice, one that people outside the fandom simply read as a samurai-era figure at night.

Tessaiga across the top edge

InuYasha's sword, Tessaiga, was forged from his father's fang. Sheathed, it looks like a battered, rusty blade; drawn in defense of humans, it transforms into a massive fang-shaped sword with a fur collar at the hilt. Its first great technique, the Wind Scar, tears through enemies in a single sweep.

A sword is a long horizontal shape, so Tessaiga is made for a long mat. On an L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), or an XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm), the transformed blade can run along the top edge with the hilt at the end away from the mouse. A Wind Scar design with the blade at one end and the energy sweeping across the mat looks dramatic under a keyboard, because the abstract streaks don't mind being covered.

Kagome's arrows

Kagome is the reincarnation of the priestess Kikyo. She can sense jewel shards that no one else can see, and her sacred arrows glow with a purifying light that destroys demons. In art, the shot is usually drawn with a pink or violet glow trailing behind the arrow.

A single glowing arrow is one of the cleanest InuYasha symbols for a small pad. Placed diagonally across the upper part of the 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm) pad, it reads clearly above your hand. On a long mat, the arrow can fly from one end toward the other, with its trail of light passing behind the keyboard, and pink or purple lighting turns the glow up.

Sesshomaru in white and magenta

Sesshomaru, InuYasha's full-demon older half-brother, is the opposite of InuYasha in every way: calm where he is hot-tempered, elegant where he is scruffy and dressed in white instead of red. He has long silver hair, magenta markings on his cheeks, a blue crescent moon on his forehead and a great white pelt draped over one shoulder.

Sesshomaru is the natural InuYasha choice for a white desk. His art is mostly white and silver with small, precise accents of magenta, gold and blue, so it sits beautifully next to white peripherals and a light wooden top. A design with him standing at one end, the pelt trailing behind him, suits an XL; for a small pad, the crescent moon alone is enough.

Miroku and Sango

Miroku is a monk with a cursed Wind Tunnel in his right hand, a void that pulls in everything in front of it and that will one day swallow him too. He keeps it sealed with prayer beads. Sango is a demon slayer who fights with Hiraikotsu, a huge boomerang made of demon bone, and travels with Kirara, a two-tailed cat demon who can grow into a fierce flying mount.

Their slow romance runs through the whole series, and the two of them make a neat pair of pads for two desks side by side. Miroku's robes in black and purple suit a dark desk; Sango's demon-slayer suit in black and pink, with the curved Hiraikotsu, suits a long mat where the boomerang can arc across the top edge.

Koga and the speed of the wolves

Koga, leader of a wolf-demon tribe, runs faster than anyone in the series thanks to Sacred Jewel shards embedded in his legs. He is also InuYasha's loud rival for Kagome's attention, which makes for some of the funniest scenes in the anime.

For a gaming desk where the mouse moves fast, a Koga design with motion streaks and a whirlwind of dust fits the mood. Brown fur, armor and blue-gray wolves suit a wooden desk or a dark gray setup, and the motion runs naturally across a long mat.

Naraku and the dark mat

Naraku is the main villain, a half-demon schemer who often appears in a white baboon pelt and carries a spider-shaped scar on his back. He surrounds himself with purple miasma and endless deception, and he is behind most of the misery in the story.

Naraku designs are the most menacing InuYasha art: deep purple, black and the pale white of his pelt. They belong on a dark gaming desk with purple RGB, and they look best when the spider scar or the miasma fills the far end of the mat while the near side stays dark and plain.

Ramen and other modern wonders

InuYasha is fascinated by the things Kagome brings back from the present: snacks, her bicycle and above all instant ramen, which he treats like a delicacy. It is one of the series' gentlest running jokes, and it puts a very modern object in the hands of a feudal-era hero.

A comedic design, InuYasha clutching a cup of noodles with his ears up, is a light-hearted choice for a desk that also serves as a lunch table. Just keep the real ramen off the mat: neoprene and fabric can be cleaned, but broth is a test of anyone's patience.

Feudal landscapes behind the keyboard

Between battles, InuYasha's world is quiet countryside: misty mountains, rice paddies, forests, rivers and small villages under wide skies. Those scenes are calm and painterly, and they work as a backdrop for a work or study desk where a battle would feel too busy.

A landscape design on an XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm), puts mountains and sky in the upper half and fields in the lower half, where the keyboard and wrists rest. Soft greens and blues suit daylight, a light wooden desk and a few plants.

Sizes for an InuYasha desk

Sizes are set design by design, so the product page is where to confirm what's available. As a starting point, here is how InuYasha art fits common setups.

Setup	Size	Good for
Mouse only	S, 11.8″ × 15.7″ (30 × 40 cm)	A glowing arrow or a crescent moon
Laptop desk	TCG Mat, 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm)	Kagome with her yellow backpack
Compact keyboard	M, 11.8″ × 27.6″ (30 × 70 cm)	Hiraikotsu arcing over the keys
Keyboard and mouse	XL, 15.7″ × 35.4″ (40 × 90 cm)	Tessaiga along the top edge
Deep desk	XXL, 23.6″ × 35.4″ (60 × 90 cm)	Misty mountains above the keyboard
The whole desk	4XL, 23.6″ × 47.2″ (60 × 120 cm)	The two brothers at opposite ends

If your desk is wide but shallow, an L, 11.8″ × 31.5″ (30 × 80 cm), lets the transformed Tessaiga stretch out completely, and a 3XL, 19.7″ × 39.4″ (50 × 100 cm), adds sky above a feudal landscape.

Gifts for an InuYasha fan

An InuYasha pad suits someone who watched it late at night on Adult Swim, a fan who came back for Yashahime or a student who sympathizes with Kagome's exam schedule. Pick by character: InuYasha for a red-and-black desk, Sesshomaru for a white one, Kagome for a study corner. If the desk is unknown, a 14″ × 24″ (35.5 × 61 cm) pad sits comfortably next to any keyboard.

From the day you order, allow 1–3 business days for printing and finishing. The pad then travels from Turkey, and a US parcel usually turns up 2–5 business days after it leaves; for a birthday, two weeks of lead time is comfortable.

Caring for white hair and red robes

InuYasha designs mix deep reds with large white areas, and the white of his hair or Sesshomaru's robes is where wrist marks show first. Go over those areas with a damp cloth weekly. When the pad needs more, give it a hand wash in a sink of lukewarm water with a little mild soap, rinse out all the suds, fold it into a towel and press to lift the moisture, then leave it lying flat to dry. Never machine wash it, never put it in the dryer and keep the iron well away.

A note on names

InuYasha and the names of its characters, weapons and places are used only to describe what our designs are inspired by. Padrift is not affiliated with, sponsored or endorsed by Shogakukan, Sunrise, Viz Media or Rumiko Takahashi.