Kagome Higurashi is the modern-day reincarnation of the feudal era miko, Kikyo, and the main female protagonist of the series. She was unknowingly born with the legendary Shikon no Tama inside her body until the day of her 15th birthday, when a yokai pulled her into her family's sacred well, taking her roughly five hundred years back in time, and later extracted the newly reborn gem from her. After she accidentally shattered the jewel into hundreds of fragments that disperse all throughout Japan. Kagome, along with the hanyo Inuyasha, had to recover all the shards of the Jewel before they fall into the evil influence of the evil mastermind Naraku, meeting several allies and enemies in the process.
Kagome is the firstborn child and only daughter of Mr. Higurashi and Mrs. Higurashi. She was named after the sparkling light her mother saw when she was born.
When Kagome was five years old, Mr. Higurashi was killed in a car accident which had left his daughter and wife, who was already pregnant with Kagome's brother, without any support. So, Kagome's mother moved her family to the Higurashi Shrine, where Grandpa Higurashi lived.
She is voiced by Kira Tozer in the English dub and Satsuki Yukino in the Japanese dub.