Board 8 > Official Yu Yu Hakusho Topic (because this board was lacking one)

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Discuss all things Yu Yu Hakusho related. Characters, story, battles, manga stuff, Comparisons (between characters or with other shows), personal stories about the show, whatever you want as long as it has something to do with Yu Yu Hakusho!

Personal story from me: Ever since I showed it in the Anime Club I host on Fridays it has become really, really popular at my school to the point that even normal people who don't watch Anime know and potentially like it! So a lot of people! See here in Canada it never aired on tv and because of this, only one or two people really knew anything about it. But because of the Anime Club, it is now really well known and enjoyed around my school. Hurray Me! Hurry Anime Club! Hurray Yu Yu Hakusho!

Now how about you guys. Have any personal stories about Yu Yu? Maybe like your first time watching or how you got introduced? Maybe are friends of someone because of it? Anything that you can think of!

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Watched it on Toonami growing up down here in the States. Pretty standard-issue story, there, but I certainly remember loving it.

Also, inb4 ShadowHalo!

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I actually was a huge fan of Hunter X Hunter, the next major series written by the author, Yoshihiro Togashi.

My friend was watching YYH and recommended it, so that and being the previous work of one of my most favorite manga authors, I started picking up the volumes of YYH.

After finally reading it (and loving it) I decided to give the anime a spin, and it was probably the best example of how to adapt a manga into anime form I've ever seen.

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I should watch Hunter x Hunter.

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Everyone should!

There's some messiness involved with having an original incomplete series and a recent reboot, and the fact that the original series got off to a rocky start with some filler and.... a questionable target audience.

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Best anime series.

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Yu Yu Bump.

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Yu Yu Bump 2.

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Oh, I'm watching through this for the first time. 19 episodes in, great so far.

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Yu Yu Hakusho is so great. I wouldn't mind if Togashi went back and added more to the series when he finishes HxH.

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Should I watch Castle Black or whatever the arc after the Dark Tourney is?

I loved Dark Tourney and have watched through it multiple times but I'm not sure I have ever watched all of the last arc (if I did it was back when it first aired on Toonami). I used to not hear good things about it all the time so I thought I was right to end on the tourney, but lately I've heard really good things as well.

Should I watch the rest or keep watching other things?

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Oh man this is so good.

Yu Yu Hakusho is the best anime and it's for two reasons:

1.A mulberry is a tree, and Kuwabara is a Man. That guy has more Man Mode Moments than anyone in the history of ever. I wish I could find his speech to the Water Kid because that thing was large.

2.Sensui best villian of all time. I remember that arc being the first and only time an anime has made me go "whoa". First it was his former spirit detective status and then his traumatic moment leading him to lose his ideals and sense of self. Then splitting himself into 7 different people, falling in love with a gay demon, and then trying to open a portal into the lower levels of Demon World not to end humanity, but so that he could find someone strong enough to make him pay for his sins. just absolutely fantastic as a villain.

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YYH easily best anime ever

I haven't watched it since it was on Toonami, though, so I should do a full run sometime

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But on the other hand, isn't Kenshin the best though? For this cat anyway. YYH is pretty cool though.

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Kenshin is a better manga but YYH is a better anime.

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Does that mean Kenshin is a better anime exactly 2/3 of the time?

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Well, Kenshin Season 3, if we count it, pretty much destroys the Kenshin anime in general. However, the Kyoto Arc is quite properly implemented and rocks for the most part. The Tokyo Arc is hit-or-miss, but in its second half it has some great episodes.

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Kuwabara Man Mode

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TheConductorSix posted...

Kuwabara Man Mode

"kuwabara's a man my ass he's barely 15"

best comment

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I love this show, I should talk about it more.

But Yusuke # 1

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From: Achromatic | #022
I love this show, I should talk about it more.

But Yusuke # 1
Of course.

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Funny this has started, this is one of the two manga series that I'm hunting for to buy completely.

Obviously having watched the show itself, the second book makes me disturbed at Koenma.

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YYH is pretty friggin' awesome. I haven't seen much of anything past the Dark Tournament, though- the group I was watching with had some major drama going on so after a certain point we just all kinda started watching separately. I also kinda associate it with that sorta going through the motions mode you get into when something really bad happens- my friend marathoned it in like a week when stuff came up for him, and I watched a few eps myself the next time stuff came up with me.

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Botan is the best obvs, all flying and sassy and s***.

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From: Psycho_Kenshin | #026
Botan is the bet obvs, all flying and sassy and s***.
Botan is second best behind Yusuke, but she is so good.

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I am not even sure I can pick out a best. They're all great.

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Own the entire series for less than $80. Well worth the money.

From: muddersmilk | #013

Should I watch Castle Black or whatever the arc after the Dark Tourney is?

Yes you should. Season 1 is the only slightly low point of the series. Seasons 2-4 are all amazing.

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This is a topic I should post in.

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ShadowHalo17 posted...

This is a topic I should post in.

Indeed it is...

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From: TheConductorSix | #014

2.Sensui best villian of all time. I remember that arc being the first and only time an anime has made me go "whoa". First it was his former spirit detective status and then his traumatic moment leading him to lose his ideals and sense of self. Then splitting himself into 7 different people, falling in love with a gay demon, and then trying to open a portal into the lower levels of Demon World not to end humanity, but so that he could find someone strong enough to make him pay for his sins. just absolutely fantastic as a villain.

The rest of the post was good too, but

^this

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Yusuke vs Toguro was really disappointing compared to the other fights in the final.

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Is HunterXHunter any good?

Hmmmmm

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From: pjbasis | #005

After finally reading it (and loving it) I decided to give the anime a spin, and it was probably the best example of how to adapt a manga into anime form I've ever seen.

I agree with this post, but I wonder, you watch the sub or the dub?


The anime is rpobably the best example of how to adapt a manga into anime, but the dub is the absolute best example of how to localize a series and still retain what's good about it and simultaneously improve it for the target audience.


Dub > Sub > Manga

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I watch subs every time, but I did see large portions of the dub and it was pretty good, owing to a good script and fantastic VA by Yusuke.

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Dub Yusuke is still one of my favorites and imo best examples of how to dub a character.

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This is actually one of the few shoes where the badass dark and moody character ( hiei) is now constantly ranked as the best!

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Dub > Sub when it comes to yyh for the sole reason that Kurama is voiced by a woman in the sub. Also, Botan sounds like a little girl in the sub (I think she sounded even younger than Keiko!).

edit: also, apparently the filipino dubbers thought that kurama was a woman at first and had to change the plot so that kurama was a man disguised as a woman.

edit 2: characters (big four only):

Kurama > Kuwabara = Yusuke > Hiei

I don't hate Hiei, but I didn't like how his character didn't develop much until the end of the series.

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HxH is pretty great imo, not as good as YYH but whatever.

I own most of the series of those ripoff dvds...like 4 episodes that retailed for 20 dollars or so. So expensive, until they released all of it in box sets >_>

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Also, when it comes to seasons:

2 >= 1 > 4 > 3

If the Sensui fight wasn't as dragged out I would have liked season 3 more.

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GenTwilight got me to watch it with him over the past two months and I'm very happy he showed it to me.

Of course, it's got some ridiculousness (like repeating minutes of footage practically every episode), but it doesn't detract from it!

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funny that people mentioned Kenshin, since Kenshin is #2 of all time

YYH > Kenshin > who even cares you can never best YYH or Kenshin anyway

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funny that people mentioned Kenshin, since Kenshin is #2 of all time

YYH > Kenshin > who even cares you can never best YYH or Kenshin anyway

Kenshin is only really awesome during the Kyoto Arc. The other two arcs are pretty meh.

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This is easily my favorite anime in terms of voice acting. And Christ is Kurama cool.

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I was going to acquire the series recently because I had stopped watching part-way through.

But holy crap that was a long series.

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finally continued watching, I watched Ep 1 and 2 awhile ago

Ep 3 was pretty cool, KuwaBROa

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From: Rad Link 5 | #047
I was going to acquire the series recently because I had stopped watching part-way through.

But holy crap that was a long series.
I think it's actually kinda short for a shonen series.

Yu Gi Oh as a whole has over 600 episodes, Dragonball is similar.

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From: shadosneko | #049
Yu Gi Oh as a whole has over 600 episodes
Who would ever watch GX or Zexal?

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