This sort of fake-out prank on the reader does YYH no favors whatsoever.įor a "fighting manga" the fights are seriously half-baked, and they're mostly dialogue. Oh, but don't worry - Yuusuke's friends never actually die, no serious consequences are ever actually faced. I would've preferred to see some struggle or panic. They toy with Yuusuke and kill his friends in front of him to make him madder, and when he finally manages to summon the willpower to punch them really hard, they just thank him for kicking their asses so impressively and sort of keel over dead. It's justified in that they're not on the material plane, but why would you use such an excuse to make your fights less visceral and tense?Īnnoyingly, the toughest opponents aren't beaten in satisfying ways. Nobody reacts to losing limbs and getting cut in half. The problem is, everyone's a damn ghost! Swords impact people as painlessly as laser pointers. These boring punch-outs never stop happening, but at least other attacks start coming in. When new attacks finally start appearing, it's generic shapeless ki blasts shot out of people's hands - in other words, the author took DB's least creative move, and made it even less exciting.
It's the dumbest possible interpretation of fighting. They just eat the hit and then punch the other guy. Nobody kicks, grabs, guards, blocks, dodges, flees, or changes posture.
For the first few chapters, nobody does anything but punch each other full in the face. When he runs out, he switches to stolen Dragon Ball Z ideas. (Nine out of ten characters in this series can be described as a jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold, or just a jerk.) The author doles out glurgy, second-hand story beats.
Every plot point is both bog-standard and heavily foreshadowed - the crotchety old man will warm up when confronted with innocence, the arrogant snob will get a knuckle sandwich, the freakishly ugly guys will be evil and get humiliated, the extremely pretty guys will be even more evil, the tough young men will never give up. The art is typical of a contemporary shounen - competent, but not daring, and lacking in distinctive features. It's a cheap and tepid story with paper-thin characters. Yu Yu Hakusho has been watched by a large number of television viewers in Japan.Yu Yu Hakusho opens with the main character flipping up a child's skirt and commenting on the shitstains on her underwear. The animated series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for best anime in 19. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 1993. The manga sold over fifty million copies in Japan. It also has produced a series of original video animations (OVAs), audio albums, video games and other merchandise. The Yu Yu Hakusho franchise has produced two animated films. The television series has also been broadcast in various other countries around the world. There it aired on popular Cartoon Network blocks including Adult Swim and later Toonami. It was later licensed in North America by Funimation in 2001.
At first, the television series aired on Japan's Fuji TV network from Octoto December 17, 1994. It was directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot.
There is an anime based on this manga with 112 television episodes.
In North America, the manga ran completely in Viz's Shonen Jump from January 2003 to January 2010. The series has 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. The manga was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 1990 to July 1994. Togashi began creating the series in November 1990. Later manga becomes more focused on martial arts battles and tournaments. He then becomes "Underworld Detective" and investigate many cases involving demons and ghosts in the human world. After those tests, Yusuke is brought back to life. Yusuke goes through tests presented by Koenma, the son of the ruler of the afterlife Underworld. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi. Yu Yu Hakusho ( Japanese: 幽☆遊☆白書, Hepburn: Yū Yū Hakusho) is a Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi.