Quite the memorable crew.Īnother great thing about the series that may seem odd to point out is the beautifully drawn 80’s inspired fashion. Then there’s the sassy, beautiful and hilarious Botan who acts as the grim reaper and leading lady. Kurama is pure class and elegance, his wits and tongue are as sharp as his looks. Hiei is the classic edgy antihero that softens up and becomes gradually more sympathetic as you learn more about his tough upbringing. Kuwabara is a lovable goofball who tries to mimic the tough guy antics of Yusuke while constantly revealing himself to be a huge softy with a heart bigger than his fake ego. The hilarious banter between Yusuke and his band of badass bros is the forefront of the series. Yu Yu Hakusho is extremely nostalgic and has a lot of appealing factors. While performing good deeds to save the living and the dead, Yusuke also finds the chance to put his supernaturally-enhanced martial arts abilities to use by fighting powerful paranormal foes from underworld societies. He’s soon wrapped up in a world of cutthroat demons, evil spirits and other dark beings that have a bone to pick with him. The spirit world is more complex than Yusuke realizes, however. He must prove himself that he’s worthy of being brought back to life by becoming a spirit detective, saving the lost souls of sorrowful ghosts one good deed at a time. When he’s killed after pushing a child out of the way of an oncoming car, he’s surprised to find from the afterlife that he has more people that love him than he ever realized after attending his own funeral as a ghost.Īgainst all odds, Yusuke makes a deal with the angel of death to turn his deviant behavior around in exchange for giving him another chance at life with his friends. He’s hated by almost everyone around him and he knows it. Yusuke Urameshi is a hardass teen delinquent that loves skipping classes, smoking cigarettes, disrespecting authority and throwing hands with the toughest gangs in the halls and on the streets. One of my big reading goals for the new year is to read a bunch of my childhood favorite manga for the first time in nearly 20 years to relive the nostalgia and see how they hold up. And I highly recommend it to anyone who loves a great story that is full of fighting, character development, strong world building and most of all, a story that will pull your heart strings on every page, and in some cases, break your heart all together. In saying all that, and with a halfassed ending, I still loved this series. I've always like Koenma and in the anime they made him out to be, well, a pansy. In the anime that is left out, balls on their part. We get to see him step up and face his father. More about what happened in the sprite world( after the fact) is explained, and Koenma plays a bigger role. In all, though I'm left with a, meh, feeling, I am happy about this volume. ( Mainly because Yusuke and Keiko finally kiss!) The anime did a better job of putting the series to an end. In truth, even though there are more stories left in the mange that are not shown in the anime. Though everything does get tied up in a nice little bow, I'm still left feeling unsatisfied. Lets just get this over with, so I can move on to something else. It's rushed, even in the anime the last arc is rushed, almost like the writer/Author is saying. This volume is more of a tie up, like an epilogue. I'm shocked that they didn't add a romantic kissing scene at the end but this series isn't about love or affection, it's a coming of age and being with the people you love who is your family and I truly admired that about YuYu Hakusho.Ĭongrats Yoshihiro Togashi for this wonderful series and I feel as though I have given another farewell to another adventurous friend and my childhood. Overall I am pleased with the ending and didn't care much for the random adventures post Three Kings Tournament but I've realize that he wanted to showcased that Urameshi lives a normal life even though he is still a ghost detective. Because of this year long waiting process, I had forgotten a lot of the major drama of the book and had to recap myself on what happen. I'm mad that they don't have volume 19 and left me hanging desperately to find out what happens in the end. I dislike that it took me a year of convincing myself to buy it on the Kindle because I don't like to pay for mangas especially since I've read the 18 volumes of this series from the library. From the beginning I got instantly hooked and so thankful that I have reached the conclusion. Then I never saw the ending and decided that I needed to read more mangas in my life thanks to Goodreads and reread the first volume that I bought years ago. I remember when I was elementary school, I would come home and watch Cartoon Network just to get my YuYu Hakusho. This was by far one of the greatest mangas I've encountered in my life besides Sailor Moon.
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