Description When delinquent Yusuke dies saving someone else, he gets a second shot at life as a Spirit Detective. With his former rival, Kuwabara, and demons Kurama and Hiei, Yusuke takes on the monsters and humans who desire to rule the three realms of reality.
Yu Yu Hakusho | |
幽☆遊☆白書 (Yū Yū Hakusho) | |
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Genre | Adventure, comedy,[1]supernatural[2] |
Manga | |
Written by | Yoshihiro Togashi |
Published by | Shueisha |
English publisher | |
Demographic | Shōnen |
Magazine | Weekly Shōnen Jump |
English magazine | |
Original run | December 3, 1990 – July 25, 1994 |
Volumes | 19 (List of volumes) |
Anime television series | |
Directed by | Noriyuki Abe |
Produced by | Ken Hagino (Studio Pierrot) Kenji Shimizu (Fuji TV) Koji Kaneda (Fuji TV) Kyotaro Kimura (Yomiko Advertising) |
Written by | Yukiyoshi Ōhashi |
Music by | Yusuke Honma |
Studio | Pierrot |
Licensed by | |
Original network | Fuji TV |
English network | Adult Swim, Cartoon Network (Toonami), Funimation Channel |
Original run | October 10, 1992 – December 17, 1994 |
Episodes | 112 (List of episodes) |
Original video animation | |
Eizou Hakusho | |
Directed by | Noriyuki Abe |
Written by | Shigeru Chiba |
Music by | Yusuke Honma |
Studio | Pierrot |
Licensed by | Funimation |
Released | September 21, 1994 – February 7, 1996 |
Episodes | 6 |
Original video animation | |
Two Shot & All or Nothing | |
Directed by | Noriyuki Abe |
Studio | Pierrot |
Released | October 26, 2018 |
Runtime | 15 minutes each |
Episodes | 2 |
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Yu Yu Hakusho (Japanese: 幽☆遊☆白書, Hepburn: Yū Yū Hakusho) is a Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi. He died saving a child from a car. Yusuke goes through tests presented by Koenma, the son of the ruler of the afterlifeUnderworld. After those tests, Yusuke is brought back to life. He then becomes 'Underworld Detective' and investigate many cases involving demons and ghosts in the human world. Later manga becomes more focused on martial artsbattles and tournaments. Togashi began creating the series in November 1990.
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The manga was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 1990 to July 1994. The series has 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga ran completely in Viz's Shonen Jump from January 2003 to January 2010. There is an anime based on this manga with 112 television episodes. It was directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot. At first, the television series aired on Japan's Fuji TV network from October 10, 1992 to December 17, 1994. It was later licensed in North America by Funimation in 2001. There it aired on popular Cartoon Network blocks including Adult Swim and later Toonami. The television series has also been broadcast in various other countries around the world. The Yu Yu Hakusho franchise has produced two animated films. It also has produced a series of original video animations (OVAs), audio albums, video games and other merchandise. The manga sold over fifty million copies in Japan. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 1993. The animated series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for best anime in 1994 and 1995. Yu Yu Hakusho has been watched by a large number of television viewers in Japan.
References[change | change source]
- ↑'YuYu Hakusho Vol. 1'. ComiXology. Archived from the original on August 12, 2014. Retrieved June 18, 2018.
- ↑'The Official Website for YuYu Hakusho'. Viz Media. Retrieved October 28, 2017.