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In the episode when Koga first appears, his wolves attack a human village and
kill Rin. Were those regular wolves or full demons like Ginta and Hakkaku, and
simply preferred their wolf form?


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Koga's wolves - demons or just regular wolves?


In my opinion they were regular wolves.

Firstly, because they look like regular wolves. Since, Koga never transformed,
I cannot be sure about what a wolf demon's transformation would look like. But
taking the example of Sesshomaru, Inu no Taisho and even Naraku, we can say
that a demon's transformation looks much different from the actual form of the
being. I mean, they definitely don't look like a normal dog or a normal
spider. So, a wolf demon probably couldn't transform into such a normal
looking wolf. This point counters the argument that they were wolf demons
transformed into their wolf form.

Secondly, as far as I can recall, there have not been any appearances of
demons that look like normal beings. Here I do not include the demons that
were in disguise. The weaker demons that InuYasha's group encountered in those
random villages never looked like normal beings. They were bigger and looked
more fierce. It wouldn't be very wise to think that those 'wolf demons' were
always in disguise as normal wolves. So, they couldn't even be wolf demons
that do not have the power to transform into a human-like form. This point
even counters the argument that they were demons.

Thus by this reasoning, I conclude that they were just normal wolves. But
then, this is just my opinion. I guess it's only Rumiko Takahashi who knows
the correct answer.


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