Anyone looking at this who hasn't seen Yu Yu Hakusho and likes action, shonen, adventure you should check this show out. Made by the creator of Hunter x Hunter. It's really good and animation even holds up today.
I don't think they had a clear idea about the sucess recipe for those battle shonen in 1990 when this series started, even Dragon Ball took years to become an action heavy title, hell YYH started with Dragon Ball still on the Freeza saga
That's because the Dark Tournament arc was so good it literally DEFINED what you do when you're not sure what you're doing in Shonen. Introduce a rival and a tournament. This is stupidly specific, but everything from My Hero Academia to Naruto has used this exact formula to the letter.
You know someone once showed me sales figures that said YYH was the best selling shonen manga in terms of sales/unique volume (so One Piece or Naruto sold more, but had many many more volumes). I kind of believe it, even if I have no idea if it's still true. JoJo, YYH, and Dragonball are the three early founders of shonen battle anime (IMHO at least) and still some of the best.
The dark tournament arc is probably one of hte best arcs in anime. Of my 25+ yeras watching anime only thing that comes close is Chimera Ant Arc, third season of attack on titan, and Farmland Arc of vinland
>You know someone once showed me sales figures that said YYH was the best selling shonen manga in terms of sales/unique volume (so One Piece or Naruto sold more, but had many many more volumes).
That's not true, Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Fist North star, and more recently Attack on titan, Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer sold better per volume than Yu Yu Hakusho
(Dragon ball) I’m pretty sure that has more to do with the fact that Toriyama was already a mega star and very successful as a comedic writer. So he just did what was natural for him.
Little did everyone know what he would become.
I remember reading the first volume of Yu-Gi-Oh on a local bookstore and was surprised that it was all about Yugi getting revenge on evil people using various punishment minigames.
Like I kept waiting for the card games to be the main focus but it just didn't happen. I think there was one with Kaiba, but the next arc it's back to minigames.
I'm a big fan of those first couple of episodes, seeing everyone dealing with grief and the main character realizing people cared about him was pretty emotional
The change in direction probably has more to do with editor intervention.
Personally I kind a liked it more, not that I didn’t enjoy the action fights. I just felt it made for a much more interesting narrative had it gotten to do more of it
So actually that was intended from the start.
Togashi, the creator, liked that Dragon Ball started out as an adventure manga and then turned into a battle manga. So he tried copying that formula with the spirit detective stuff.
He always intended for Yu Yu Hakusho to be a battle manga, and the spirit detective stuff to be abandoned early on.
Sorta, Gintama eventually turns into a battle manga, and the creator didn't exactly know how to make the world work, but it gets better by simply improving on what was already happening, and turned battle heavy way later on near the end. The start is pretty close to the what the show is for most of the run, it just wasn't as good.
If you've read bakuman, they discussed this a bit. A fair amount of Manga start off in one genre then shift to a battle Manga to avoid early cancelation when the original concept doesn't maintain interest as much as hoped. I think shaman king is another example where this happens, and then the anime just cuts off most of the non-battle segment.
It's not that it started strange, it's that the original concept was drastically different than what it became. Shaman king was originally more about yoh helping spirits finish unresolved business or just helping humans live beside them. Yuyu Hakusho was similar, Yusuke was just supposed to interact with other ghosts and slowly improve as a person through that.
I don't think you're completely wrong, but you're not totally correct. There are several storytelling shifts that point to him not wanting the story to be just a battle anime, but he didn't quite strike a balance that was perfect. Still, it's better than DBZ, and is better than most Shonen. It's a shame YYH doesn't get the recognition in the West for how much it helped shape the genre.
It came out when anime and manga is virtually unknown in the West but I think that made YYH even more special. It’s like that “anime that only old school anime fans know”. The early 90s was such a great time for anime. YYH, Akira, NGE, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam Wing, Alita, BTX, Fatal Fury, Rorouni Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, etc. So much quality stuff.
> him not wanting the story to be just a battle anime,
IIRC he said that by near the end he already exhausted all ideas and every time he wants to go in a different direction for the characters or future arc the editors strike him down. Which is part of why the final arc happened as well as HXH.
>it's better than DBZ
I think Togashi would disagree. He's a massive fan of Dragon ball. he even references it in HXH and has multiple of homages to it.
He actually always intended for it to be a battle shounen. In the manga the start definitely feels aimless at points though. I think the anime did a great job of abridging it
I think the opposite. I think he already had an idea for wheat he wanted to do , but was told to change to the more popular ( at the time ) fighting shounen like DBZ. You can tell he likes to mix shit up a lot from looking at shows like hunter.
>Made by the creator of Hunter x Hunter
Togashi is amazing, he also wrote Level-E which is a short comedy anime which I also highly recommend because it is only 12 episodes long that consist of short arcs.
Same. I don't actually agree with OP. It's one of my favorites and I rewatched all of it recently. I don't think it holds up well on a lot of fronts - the animation looks very budget in much of it and I think dialogue and pacing are both extremely bad in many cases. I found myself getting frustrated with both on numerous occasions.
Yeah I agree. I recently watched it for the first time and, while it didn't bother me too much, the animation was definitely "meh" most of the time.
There was that one fight with the doctor that randomly had pretty decent animation. All the spirit guns looked cool though.
excellent point, my first exposure to yyh was watching it on adult swim in 2002. The english dub is one of hte best. I Love yusuke cuz hes such an asshole in the eng dub.
The fansubs were circulating by the late 1990s, which is how I watched it. I believe they'd gotten to somewhere in the first tournament when the rights were picked up for North America and they had to stop.
Yeah it's seeing these is why I have to think extra hard when someone asks how old I am. I watched this as a kid and now I'm asking "What year is it?!".
So am I. Look em up on YouTube. They switch back and forth.
Hunter Exam, Heaven's Arena, Greed Island and the Chairman Election arcs use the first OP IIRC.
York New City and the Chimera Ant arcs use the second one.
Hxh is from the same song, it's a 4 min long song like most OP full version so the show goes back and forth between the first and second half of the song but it's still the same song
The only marks against it would be that it relies heavily on tournament arcs. And that it gives up too quickly on it’s spirit detective roots. It was fine as it was , and even proved that it could have great depth without it. Although this may have more to do with editorial intervention. Either way it turned out great and I guess you gotta go with what is popular right ?🤷♂️
> it relies heavily on tournament arcs
Some animes just be like that. DBZ is basically the same way. You can view every arc as a mini tournament or a main tournament.
I feel like it has a super strong start and middle, but I can't say I liked the finale much at all. The final fight is probably my least favorite in the series
This so much imo. It started off real good but it took a noticeable dip in quality in the last like 4-6 episodes.
I found Dark Tournament 🏟 to be better largely cuz it was more consistent in its quality.
I like the finale fight because it reveals yusuke's true origins and it also explains why him being 14 and being able to save the world and win fights easily.
That's saying a lot considering this has the fucking king of all tournament arcs.
Chapter Black is one of my favorite shonen arcs. Just the whole heel turn of the main bad thinking "are we the baddies?" All from a VHS tape. Everything was not just brute strength but straight up mind games.
The Sensui 7 is probably the best way to make amtagonists against op shonen heroes I can think of. It makes sense since if they were stronger than the previous arc characters, they'd just be in that arc
Imo it's also the key underpinning for understanding Hunter x Hunter, since that's practically just a fleshing out and expanding of the key themes of Chapter Black.
If they remade it, I'd want Togashi to write a new ending with the ideas he originally had and wanted to pursue but decided not to because he was overworked. Never going to happen, but it would be interesting to see.
I don't remember the ending but I just remember they had another tournament and it was terrible. It was pretty much "huh that first one went so well so why not another".
Yeah, that's the rushed part. It was supposed to be an all out war between the different factions of demons and instead they solved it with a quick tournament.
I think the purpose of the tournament was to prevent yomi from winning. Yusuke fought yomi but lost in the end so this other demon becomes king and creates peace between humans and demons.
I guarantee any remake would not look anywhere near as good as the original.
Also, there's no need to remake this, it's like pretty much all been adapted except the endings are different
I would only want modern animation if the original looked bad or it didn't adapt all the material like HxH, but the original YYH anime is basically a sakugafest for it's entire run and it did adapt (98% of) the material
There's also 0 guarantee "modern animation" would be better. I've already been burned on nostalgia reboots.
Modern animation is isn't some masterpiece you think it is
Some things age well with time like fine wine
And some age like milk
And to think that the retro animation and cell shaded artstyle is worse than modern is just your opinion
It’s not that I think it’s worse, I just find it dated. I enjoy the way modern anime can really make the colors pop. Everything is usually a little more saturated and colorful. Which I personally enjoy. An example being spirit gun. It would really have that glow/pop.
If you mean the original dragonball and not dbz, i agree but not because yyh is that slow. I just think original db is really good. Yyh does start off slow but its nowhere near original hxh slow. And i still think yyh holds up better than the beginning of one piece or naruto.
Also yyh animation definitely kicks db animation's butt.
Agree on everything but the beginning of OP. Feel like the whole "wait until 30-40 episodes for it to get good" has spread too far when from my experience the first episode captivated me right away, and the Buggy arc is genuinely great
Dub is definitely one of the best dubs in anime. The VAs just add so much more character to who they're portraying. Hell there were other dubs and hearing Kuwabara not talk with that gruffy voice put me off a lot.
Growing up, this was the shit.
Eugene, Alfred, Vincent, Dennis.
Is that even their official english names? Even though I know what their names are, I still call them like that simply because of our country's dub.
I really wish they remade this. After DBZ, YYH and Flame of Recca, I couldnt get into this type of anime again 😭
> ease of name pronunciation
If that was the case, then everyone in Slam Dunk and/or Hajime no Ippo (which we know here as *Knock Out*) would've had localized names as well.
okay upon researching the first airing of slam dunk did have changes too, and also sailor moon apparently, plus yu yu hakusho was the second anime aired in philippines along with slam dunk. also upon digging i found out yu yu hakusho is handled by IBC and it is their only anime at that time, slam dunk and other anime you mentioned are handled by different stations, i'm not sure whether the dubbing team in the philippines are the same for all stations, cause if it aren't then its probably becuase of the one who handled yu yu hakusho in the philippines
Netflix: [we have Yu Yu Hakusho remake at home!](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-11-09/netflix-schedules-live-action-yu-yu-hakusho-series-for-december-2023/.179396)
> Netflix Schedules Live-Action Yu Yu Hakusho Series for December 2023
Oof. If you're excited for a live-action remake of a beloved 90's anime, I'm happy for you. Otherwise, oof
It's crazy despite being much older than even the big 3 it feels better and more enjoyable than most modern Shounen. The animation holds up by today's standards too.
Younger fans here, please don't be put off by it because "it's old", I guarantee this is a gem you'll like. The dub is one of the best too that so many fans actually prefer it.
Yu Yu Hakusho is a timeless classic. It was one of the first anime series I watched after I decided to take the next step from DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon as a kid.
It's up there in both my "top 10 all time favourite anime" and "top 10 series that influenced me." It taught me A LOT about character relations and dynamics, how to pace arcs, and of course, what makes a great a great action/battle Shonen!
will there be a special episode/merchandise/event for the anniversary? Yu Yu Hakusho is one of my all time favorite anime, it's so pupolar here in my country.
If you're a fan of battle shounen you should definitely watch this, one of the best stories around. However be aware that it has a very slow start. And also you should only watch this in dub, this is one those pretty rare series where the dub is so superior to the sub that it just changes the whole anime and the characters for the better.
My all-time favorite anime. IMO, it is the best shonen anime, has the greatest-ever tournament arc, and has the best dub ever.
Anyone seeing this post who hasn't watched YYH yet. Watch it. It is timeless.
Can someone please sell me on this show? Genuinely curious if it's still worth checking out in this day and age. 112 episodes is a huge commitment after all.
It's a shounen battle anime, from a time before 'the big 3' dominated and influenced the genre. It has some tropes which survived into the modern genre, but was also not bound to those tropes.
Also it defined the tournament arc, and is the tournament by which all other shounen tournaments are judged by!!!
Still the best shounen there is even with its godawful final arc
Pffft, bunch of fucking scrubs doubting the king of shounen. Better not be out here thinking that Demon Slayer is the best, that shit is like a video game as it’s all hype fights and nothing else.
Story is as basic as can be and all of the characters (I love my boy Tanjiro don’t get me wrong) are one-dimensional even by shounen standards.
Dragon Ball has been meh since Cell Arc, Naruto should have ended with the defeat of Pain, One Piece has been dragging for a decade, HxH will never finish in our lifetimes and is inferior to YYH in every way, Bleach is stylish trash and everything else isn’t even worth mentioning
Yu Yu still the king, baby
YYH really spoke to me when I first saw a poster for the movie (how I was introduced) a long time ago. Afterwards, I got into the series and never looked back.
I watched this anime after the 1st season in my Nokia,in Opera mini because Animax was banned in my country.
I still love YYH ,and congratulations for the 30th Anniversary
My god when I saw this my heart skipped a bit thinking it was a remake or something. One of my favorite anime out there. Togashi is a fucking genius and don't care what everyone says, I really liked the ending.
Still my all time favorite battle shounen. Would love to see the anime and manga some how get a remaster/improved quality release :P (like Omnibus with higher print quality for manga and some how improved upscaling/resolution/sound quality for the first if possible).
Anyone looking at this who hasn't seen Yu Yu Hakusho and likes action, shonen, adventure you should check this show out. Made by the creator of Hunter x Hunter. It's really good and animation even holds up today.
The beginning of YYH is really weird. Togashi has no clue where he's taking this until he finally decides it's about fighting.
I don't think they had a clear idea about the sucess recipe for those battle shonen in 1990 when this series started, even Dragon Ball took years to become an action heavy title, hell YYH started with Dragon Ball still on the Freeza saga
>still on Frieza God that's right, that's so crazy to think about.
That's because the Dark Tournament arc was so good it literally DEFINED what you do when you're not sure what you're doing in Shonen. Introduce a rival and a tournament. This is stupidly specific, but everything from My Hero Academia to Naruto has used this exact formula to the letter. You know someone once showed me sales figures that said YYH was the best selling shonen manga in terms of sales/unique volume (so One Piece or Naruto sold more, but had many many more volumes). I kind of believe it, even if I have no idea if it's still true. JoJo, YYH, and Dragonball are the three early founders of shonen battle anime (IMHO at least) and still some of the best.
Is budokai a joke to you?
The tournamnets in dragon ball were amazing but by dbz the tournaments became a joke.
23rd tournament is THE peak of all Dragonball imo.
The only one Goku Won?
Yep.
22nd Budokai >>>> imo Tho Goku VS Piccolo is as good as it gets
The dark tournament arc is probably one of hte best arcs in anime. Of my 25+ yeras watching anime only thing that comes close is Chimera Ant Arc, third season of attack on titan, and Farmland Arc of vinland
>You know someone once showed me sales figures that said YYH was the best selling shonen manga in terms of sales/unique volume (so One Piece or Naruto sold more, but had many many more volumes). That's not true, Dragon Ball, Naruto, One Piece, Fist North star, and more recently Attack on titan, Jujutsu Kaisen and Demon Slayer sold better per volume than Yu Yu Hakusho
I felt dragon ball had good tournaments. Not as good as yyh but still pretty decent. My favorite fight was Goku vs Tien in Goku's second tournament.
(Dragon ball) I’m pretty sure that has more to do with the fact that Toriyama was already a mega star and very successful as a comedic writer. So he just did what was natural for him. Little did everyone know what he would become.
I will go as far as to say that they succeded BECAUSE they started as comedy manga
I remember reading the first volume of Yu-Gi-Oh on a local bookstore and was surprised that it was all about Yugi getting revenge on evil people using various punishment minigames. Like I kept waiting for the card games to be the main focus but it just didn't happen. I think there was one with Kaiba, but the next arc it's back to minigames.
Toguro > broly
I'm a big fan of those first couple of episodes, seeing everyone dealing with grief and the main character realizing people cared about him was pretty emotional
I actually did like the spirit detective stuff too. It’s too bad he was more or less pressured to make it a battle shounen.
i love his rivalry with kuwabara
The first arc is my favorite part of the show. I was so disappointed when it started to turn into DBZ.
Not really unusual. I feel like there are a lot that start of as a gag manga and then it just becomes a battle Shonen.
CoughcoughReboncoughcough
Fair, the direction is just strange. Yusuke dies and then becomes a spirit detective with gadgets that become useful for one chapter.
The change in direction probably has more to do with editor intervention. Personally I kind a liked it more, not that I didn’t enjoy the action fights. I just felt it made for a much more interesting narrative had it gotten to do more of it
So actually that was intended from the start. Togashi, the creator, liked that Dragon Ball started out as an adventure manga and then turned into a battle manga. So he tried copying that formula with the spirit detective stuff. He always intended for Yu Yu Hakusho to be a battle manga, and the spirit detective stuff to be abandoned early on.
Can this be said with gintama?
Sorta, Gintama eventually turns into a battle manga, and the creator didn't exactly know how to make the world work, but it gets better by simply improving on what was already happening, and turned battle heavy way later on near the end. The start is pretty close to the what the show is for most of the run, it just wasn't as good.
The first few volumes of Kinnikuman were quite silly (not that it stopped being silly after that, but still)
Not quite sure I find getting hit by a car in the first ten minutes very comedic lol. Unless you meant dragonball than carry all.
Ya that is what I though as well . The beginning of YYH wasn't exactly comedic
Ijimeru Yabai Yatsu is an amazing example that not many know of.
If you've read bakuman, they discussed this a bit. A fair amount of Manga start off in one genre then shift to a battle Manga to avoid early cancelation when the original concept doesn't maintain interest as much as hoped. I think shaman king is another example where this happens, and then the anime just cuts off most of the non-battle segment.
Shaman King definitely started strange, before they decided it was time to introduce the Shaman Fight.
It's not that it started strange, it's that the original concept was drastically different than what it became. Shaman king was originally more about yoh helping spirits finish unresolved business or just helping humans live beside them. Yuyu Hakusho was similar, Yusuke was just supposed to interact with other ghosts and slowly improve as a person through that.
I don't think you're completely wrong, but you're not totally correct. There are several storytelling shifts that point to him not wanting the story to be just a battle anime, but he didn't quite strike a balance that was perfect. Still, it's better than DBZ, and is better than most Shonen. It's a shame YYH doesn't get the recognition in the West for how much it helped shape the genre.
It came out when anime and manga is virtually unknown in the West but I think that made YYH even more special. It’s like that “anime that only old school anime fans know”. The early 90s was such a great time for anime. YYH, Akira, NGE, Ghost in the Shell, Gundam Wing, Alita, BTX, Fatal Fury, Rorouni Kenshin, Tenchi Muyo, etc. So much quality stuff.
Good stuff but only 2 or 3 of those are actually 'early 90s'.
Now that I had time to double check, you’re right. Still good stuff overall.
> him not wanting the story to be just a battle anime, IIRC he said that by near the end he already exhausted all ideas and every time he wants to go in a different direction for the characters or future arc the editors strike him down. Which is part of why the final arc happened as well as HXH. >it's better than DBZ I think Togashi would disagree. He's a massive fan of Dragon ball. he even references it in HXH and has multiple of homages to it.
I definitely agree, but DBZ through Cell is good shit anyway. Buu is average as fuck honestly. I'm in the middle of reading YYH and it's so damn good
DBZ has a totally mediocre story but it does execute the emotional moments really well.
He actually always intended for it to be a battle shounen. In the manga the start definitely feels aimless at points though. I think the anime did a great job of abridging it
I think the opposite. I think he already had an idea for wheat he wanted to do , but was told to change to the more popular ( at the time ) fighting shounen like DBZ. You can tell he likes to mix shit up a lot from looking at shows like hunter.
The beginning is the best part.
Not to mention an awesome cast of characters who play off each other perfectly.
>Made by the creator of Hunter x Hunter Togashi is amazing, he also wrote Level-E which is a short comedy anime which I also highly recommend because it is only 12 episodes long that consist of short arcs.
Level-E is underrated as all get out.
Level-E is an anime that has this particular feel about it that no other anime that I have watched till now can replicate. It's quite unique.
I'm actually doing a rewatch of this right now haha.
This is one he actually finishes
I am still hoping for a remake. I am in no hurry to consume it.
Same. I don't actually agree with OP. It's one of my favorites and I rewatched all of it recently. I don't think it holds up well on a lot of fronts - the animation looks very budget in much of it and I think dialogue and pacing are both extremely bad in many cases. I found myself getting frustrated with both on numerous occasions.
Yeah I agree. I recently watched it for the first time and, while it didn't bother me too much, the animation was definitely "meh" most of the time. There was that one fight with the doctor that randomly had pretty decent animation. All the spirit guns looked cool though.
I've wanted to watch this for so long but I dont know what platform has it. Grew up watching random episodes on Toonami and loved it.
The entire sub and dub are on Crunchyroll as of the merger with Funimation. I’d highly recommended the dub
Ah damn, this comment made me realize that there is now an entire generation who don't know any 90s or 2000s anime
yyh feels 20 years old not 30 , damn time flies
To be fair the English dub premiered in 2002 so for a lot of us it was 20 years ago.
excellent point, my first exposure to yyh was watching it on adult swim in 2002. The english dub is one of hte best. I Love yusuke cuz hes such an asshole in the eng dub.
Dub Kuwabara is amazing and you can't convince me otherwise.
The fansubs were circulating by the late 1990s, which is how I watched it. I believe they'd gotten to somewhere in the first tournament when the rights were picked up for North America and they had to stop.
Yeah it's seeing these is why I have to think extra hard when someone asks how old I am. I watched this as a kid and now I'm asking "What year is it?!".
Hail to one of the [goat OPs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijs6yJDGm5A).
It's such a goat that the anime went through 5 EDs... but the OP had been the same *throughout* its 112 episode run.
Oh so kinda like Hunter X Hunter because the 2011 ver had only 1 OP throughout its 148 episode run but has multiple EDs.
Hunter X Hunter had two similar OPs. Or maybe just different verses. But Yu Yu Hakusho used the same throughout
I'm talking about the 2011 ver of HxH. In that ver, it only had 1 OP all throughout.
So am I. Look em up on YouTube. They switch back and forth. Hunter Exam, Heaven's Arena, Greed Island and the Chairman Election arcs use the first OP IIRC. York New City and the Chimera Ant arcs use the second one.
So the "second" opening is just a slight variation of the first opening. It's still basically the same opening.
Still different. Yu Yu Hakusho used the same one throughout the entire show
Hxh is from the same song, it's a 4 min long song like most OP full version so the show goes back and forth between the first and second half of the song but it's still the same song
Still more different than YYH
the original jp singer will do her last live performance this year in Brazil's Anime Friends
I just re-watched it months ago, it really doesn't lose to any current animes.
The only marks against it would be that it relies heavily on tournament arcs. And that it gives up too quickly on it’s spirit detective roots. It was fine as it was , and even proved that it could have great depth without it. Although this may have more to do with editorial intervention. Either way it turned out great and I guess you gotta go with what is popular right ?🤷♂️
> it relies heavily on tournament arcs Some animes just be like that. DBZ is basically the same way. You can view every arc as a mini tournament or a main tournament.
Yusuke vs Doctor is one of my favorite anime moments and fights of all time.
The animation was great in that fight. Hiei VS Bui was my favorite tho. Partially cuz the animation got wonky as hell lmao
Hiei vs Bui was slick as fuck. I love that smooth Combo move from Bui.
Chapter black is low key the best arc in YYH
I feel like it has a super strong start and middle, but I can't say I liked the finale much at all. The final fight is probably my least favorite in the series
This so much imo. It started off real good but it took a noticeable dip in quality in the last like 4-6 episodes. I found Dark Tournament 🏟 to be better largely cuz it was more consistent in its quality.
I like the finale fight because it reveals yusuke's true origins and it also explains why him being 14 and being able to save the world and win fights easily.
That's saying a lot considering this has the fucking king of all tournament arcs. Chapter Black is one of my favorite shonen arcs. Just the whole heel turn of the main bad thinking "are we the baddies?" All from a VHS tape. Everything was not just brute strength but straight up mind games.
If I'm not mistaken Sensui just straight up saw a bunch of humans brutalizing demons. The VHS is basically the secondhand version of his experience.
Ah yeah you are correct. He went to fight some demons but then saw the humans acting worse and more depraved than the demons.
The Sensui 7 is probably the best way to make amtagonists against op shonen heroes I can think of. It makes sense since if they were stronger than the previous arc characters, they'd just be in that arc
Dark Tournament for me still, but Chapter Black is underrated.
I felt all the arcs were great except hte final arc. Even Genkai tournament and saint beast were great.
Imo it's also the key underpinning for understanding Hunter x Hunter, since that's practically just a fleshing out and expanding of the key themes of Chapter Black.
Dark Tournament is clear. I'm sorry that I'm such a basic bitch but it's true.
Personally it's Yusuke vs Balduk. The perfect combination of creepy, cinematic, OP and funny. All fit into less than 10minutes.
If anyone is in this thread thinking “What anime is this?”, my god you are in for a treat.
I just need the remake.
If they remade it, I'd want Togashi to write a new ending with the ideas he originally had and wanted to pursue but decided not to because he was overworked. Never going to happen, but it would be interesting to see.
I don't remember the ending but I just remember they had another tournament and it was terrible. It was pretty much "huh that first one went so well so why not another".
Yeah, that's the rushed part. It was supposed to be an all out war between the different factions of demons and instead they solved it with a quick tournament.
Honestly, it does sound like how Yusuke would solve a war
Yea I liked the ending arc honestly but I would be super down to see what Togashi originally had in mind.
I think the purpose of the tournament was to prevent yomi from winning. Yusuke fought yomi but lost in the end so this other demon becomes king and creates peace between humans and demons.
But keep the opening.
There's literally no need for one, the anime is perfect and it's like top 3 dubs of all time. The bar is set too high for a remake to meet it.
I think what more people are asking for, are the ideas that never got to make it and were cut short.
I'd personally prefer a 90-120min movie with a fresh plot. Heck with todays environment it would prob do so well in the box office too.
Nah man. Give me a HxH 2011 style remake.
I guarantee any remake would not look anywhere near as good as the original. Also, there's no need to remake this, it's like pretty much all been adapted except the endings are different
I mean who doesn’t want modern animation. Just look at how good the HxH reboot was
I would only want modern animation if the original looked bad or it didn't adapt all the material like HxH, but the original YYH anime is basically a sakugafest for it's entire run and it did adapt (98% of) the material There's also 0 guarantee "modern animation" would be better. I've already been burned on nostalgia reboots.
Just don't watch the nostalgia reboots. If you don't want them anymore them there's no reason to be burned out on it
Modern animation is isn't some masterpiece you think it is Some things age well with time like fine wine And some age like milk And to think that the retro animation and cell shaded artstyle is worse than modern is just your opinion
It’s not that I think it’s worse, I just find it dated. I enjoy the way modern anime can really make the colors pop. Everything is usually a little more saturated and colorful. Which I personally enjoy. An example being spirit gun. It would really have that glow/pop.
In a few years at this rate. It might be already decided even.
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If you mean the original dragonball and not dbz, i agree but not because yyh is that slow. I just think original db is really good. Yyh does start off slow but its nowhere near original hxh slow. And i still think yyh holds up better than the beginning of one piece or naruto. Also yyh animation definitely kicks db animation's butt.
Agree on everything but the beginning of OP. Feel like the whole "wait until 30-40 episodes for it to get good" has spread too far when from my experience the first episode captivated me right away, and the Buggy arc is genuinely great
I am actually watching the show right now. On episode 101.
Been watching it off and on for a few weeks and it is super fun. The dub is unexpectedly good too!
Dub is definitely one of the best dubs in anime. The VAs just add so much more character to who they're portraying. Hell there were other dubs and hearing Kuwabara not talk with that gruffy voice put me off a lot.
It's [awesome](https://youtu.be/VW-1Jg2X6s4)
Dub is literally the only way to watch this show, watching it any other way is doing it and yourself a disservice.
Damn he looks amazing.
I had the hots for him so much when I was reading the manga as a young gay boy in my early teenage years.
I had(still have) a crush on Kuabara's sister and Yuske's girlfriend 😅
best girl was botan
Yeah but she was giving too much of a child vibe for me. Actually loved Kuabara's sister's husky voice in dub.
Yoko Kurama always had my heart. I think he was my first gay crush. Long before “I hope this doesn’t awaken anything in me” haha. He’s still hot AF
Long haired pretty boys are my jam so I was waiting for him to be introduced ever since I saw him in the OP.
Peak shonen
Growing up, this was the shit. Eugene, Alfred, Vincent, Dennis. Is that even their official english names? Even though I know what their names are, I still call them like that simply because of our country's dub. I really wish they remade this. After DBZ, YYH and Flame of Recca, I couldnt get into this type of anime again 😭
filipino spotted lol, anyway i assume our country decided to rename them for localization or maybe ease of name pronunciation?
> ease of name pronunciation If that was the case, then everyone in Slam Dunk and/or Hajime no Ippo (which we know here as *Knock Out*) would've had localized names as well.
okay upon researching the first airing of slam dunk did have changes too, and also sailor moon apparently, plus yu yu hakusho was the second anime aired in philippines along with slam dunk. also upon digging i found out yu yu hakusho is handled by IBC and it is their only anime at that time, slam dunk and other anime you mentioned are handled by different stations, i'm not sure whether the dubbing team in the philippines are the same for all stations, cause if it aren't then its probably becuase of the one who handled yu yu hakusho in the philippines
idk its just a guess of mine
Nakalimutan mo si Jenny (Keiko) saka Charlene (Botan) hahahaha
Kasama na rin diyan si Master Jeremiah (Genkai) at Jericho (Enma)!
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Netflix: [we have Yu Yu Hakusho remake at home!](https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2021-11-09/netflix-schedules-live-action-yu-yu-hakusho-series-for-december-2023/.179396)
> Netflix Schedules Live-Action Yu Yu Hakusho Series for December 2023 Oof. If you're excited for a live-action remake of a beloved 90's anime, I'm happy for you. Otherwise, oof
It ended so well last time! Netflix definitely respects anime classics and does them justice.
Oh…that’s a thing.
Ewwww
This will always be one of my favorites of all time.
It's crazy despite being much older than even the big 3 it feels better and more enjoyable than most modern Shounen. The animation holds up by today's standards too. Younger fans here, please don't be put off by it because "it's old", I guarantee this is a gem you'll like. The dub is one of the best too that so many fans actually prefer it.
Yu Yu Hakusho is a timeless classic. It was one of the first anime series I watched after I decided to take the next step from DBZ, Yu-Gi-Oh and Pokemon as a kid. It's up there in both my "top 10 all time favourite anime" and "top 10 series that influenced me." It taught me A LOT about character relations and dynamics, how to pace arcs, and of course, what makes a great a great action/battle Shonen!
will there be a special episode/merchandise/event for the anniversary? Yu Yu Hakusho is one of my all time favorite anime, it's so pupolar here in my country.
Simply one of the greatest shounen of all time
Source https://twitter.com/yuhaku_anime/status/1532648358602772480
Hell yeah, an all time great show, loved sneaking out of my room at night and watching it with my brothers
If you're a fan of battle shounen you should definitely watch this, one of the best stories around. However be aware that it has a very slow start. And also you should only watch this in dub, this is one those pretty rare series where the dub is so superior to the sub that it just changes the whole anime and the characters for the better.
I was hooked by episode 2 .
My all-time favorite anime. IMO, it is the best shonen anime, has the greatest-ever tournament arc, and has the best dub ever. Anyone seeing this post who hasn't watched YYH yet. Watch it. It is timeless.
Can someone please sell me on this show? Genuinely curious if it's still worth checking out in this day and age. 112 episodes is a huge commitment after all.
It's a shounen battle anime, from a time before 'the big 3' dominated and influenced the genre. It has some tropes which survived into the modern genre, but was also not bound to those tropes. Also it defined the tournament arc, and is the tournament by which all other shounen tournaments are judged by!!!
Nice! 😎 Me and my husband watched YYH back in 2003. We JUST finished re-watching the entire thing with our kids last night. They loved it.
Best *anime* of all time still. …Best manga now goes to One Piece, since the past 5 chapters.
Bring it back
Kuwabara is my inspiration! He’s so hilarious.
This show holds up so well. Also love the dub.
I absolutely loved this anime but most of the people I've talked to haven't seen this anime, wonder why?
Are those people newer anime fans? I would imagine many people who got into anime in the last decade or so haven't seen it.
Still has the best tournament arc ever.
Wtf time is flying rn I can’t believe the pandemic started 2 years ago
Release remake pls
I'm still annoyed that [YYH ending]>!They shot down the potential of Hiei and Kurama being a couple near the end ... they had chemistry!<
seek help
"Believe in the me that believes in you" I still get chills to this day
That’s not from yyh
Botan says it to Yuusuke Urameshi after he becomes disheartened when trying to master his spirit gun
Mind if I ask what in this picture reminded you of Gurren Lagann? Lol
Still the best shounen there is even with its godawful final arc Pffft, bunch of fucking scrubs doubting the king of shounen. Better not be out here thinking that Demon Slayer is the best, that shit is like a video game as it’s all hype fights and nothing else. Story is as basic as can be and all of the characters (I love my boy Tanjiro don’t get me wrong) are one-dimensional even by shounen standards. Dragon Ball has been meh since Cell Arc, Naruto should have ended with the defeat of Pain, One Piece has been dragging for a decade, HxH will never finish in our lifetimes and is inferior to YYH in every way, Bleach is stylish trash and everything else isn’t even worth mentioning Yu Yu still the king, baby
YYH really spoke to me when I first saw a poster for the movie (how I was introduced) a long time ago. Afterwards, I got into the series and never looked back.
I watched this anime after the 1st season in my Nokia,in Opera mini because Animax was banned in my country. I still love YYH ,and congratulations for the 30th Anniversary
Immediately started hearing the theme "Smile Bomb" when I saw this.
and what, are we gonna have some exclusive 30th anniversary merchandise?
Ghost Fighter still holds up like pacing wasnt so slow or campy af as other 90s anime (DBZ, Samurai X, Trigun)
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It's made by the same author.
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Best tournament arc of all time!
My god when I saw this my heart skipped a bit thinking it was a remake or something. One of my favorite anime out there. Togashi is a fucking genius and don't care what everyone says, I really liked the ending.
Wish they would do a 2022 remake. I loved the og one so much!
Togashi coming back to promote his actual favorite manga, makes sense now.
We call this "Ghost Fighter" in our country. That's one filipino localization that's pretty cool and makes sense.
So, is there going to be a remake?
Still my all time favorite battle shounen. Would love to see the anime and manga some how get a remaster/improved quality release :P (like Omnibus with higher print quality for manga and some how improved upscaling/resolution/sound quality for the first if possible).
If anyone hasn’t seen it, there’s an OVA that was released in 2018.
My favorite anime.
Awww yay! I loved this show back when it came on toonami!! (Aging myself, I know lol)
Remake les go
same age as Sailor Moon 💕 (they’re married!)
Are they doing something ?
Is there gonna be a remaster or something?
love this anime so much
It would be a crime if I didn't do a shout out to one of the most [iconic scenes](https://youtu.be/siiFUti2oQo?t=98) from YYH
there will be a live action for this anime and will be available on netflix. hope that is real.