Yu yu hakusho

Yu Yu Hakusho
[[1]] Main cast
Original Manga	Yu Yu Hakusho
Director/Artist	Akiyuki Arafusa Noriyuki Abe
Format	Anime (Series and Movies)
Made By	Studio Pierrot
Episode Length
# of Eps/Volumes	112/5
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Genre

Martial Arts Fantasy

Sum it up in a Sentence:

A young street hood named Yusuke Urameshi is killed in an accident, but is given another chance at life by agreeing to become a Spirit Detective.

If You Liked This, You Might Like...

• Dragon Ball Z - Both shows have famously long power up sequences and training montages that take place mostly off screen. That and DBZ is kinda the seminal work of Shonen.
• Naruto - Besides both being shonen, these shows can bond over having tournaments in lieu of plot.
• One Piece - One Piece feels a lot like what Yu Yu Hakusho could have been if it had continued to have a plot. If you watched the first bit of Hakusho and really liked it, One Piece is for you.

Personal Opinions

Linall

Shonen straight to the core, I think the only reason I even remember Yu Yu Hakusho is that it eventually abandons any pretense of having a plot and rolls with back to back tournaments until it was canceled. Which is a shame, because what I suppose you could call the training arc was actually fairly watchable. I remember actually being fairly concerned the first time Yusuke missed with his one hit wonder and for being a cliché given form Kuwabara was surprisingly funny. The problem was that the first tournament ended and then like two episodes later the cast was gearing up for a second one and I didn't even know why.

Keyboard Kid

Yu Yu Hakusho is standard shonen fare. I have not actually finished the show, and probably will not very soon, so I'm writing this as I've seen everything up to the final tournament arc.

YYH has an outstanding beginning. The fights soon after are shallow and rely on incredible deus ex machinas, but that's fine since the show isn't just about that. After a bit of time passes (let's just say, the Dark Tournament) the only real things that happen are that our characters gain a few powers and use them once for significant effect. Most battles come and go in a sort of 'here's my new power lol you're dead' way. There are some creative elements to the show--mostly outside the battles--and there are great ideas. The few main characters are a great cast. I love the atmosphere of the show, but I can't truly recommend it unless you seriously need a shonen fix. The animation quality is astoundingly low once it gets moving (they literally reanimate previous episode clips for the 'last time' segment and are using stock footage and serious budget savers by the end of each episode). One thing I liked about the show is how they never truly gave out numbers, just loose rankings (which were never seriously considered), but then they went ahead and fucked that up in the final season.

All in all, the fights are dull, the tournament arcs are way too long, the animation is poor, but there's a certain charm to the series. It's not really good, and most people recognize it, but you'll probably enjoy it a bit if you were a fan of it ten years ago. There's no way I could straight up recommend this over something like One Piece, Kenshin, or Dragon Ball.

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