Post by account_disabled on Feb 18, 2024 5:10:57 GMT -5
When Netflix released One Piece to generally favorable reviews and fan enthusiasm, it gave me hope that the same quality and care put into it would be applied to its other adaptation of a seminal work of shonen anime: Yu Yu Hakusho . With the program finally available, my hope was woefully misplaced. Netflix took one of the best examples of an action anime series, removed its best, most emotional and thrilling moments, and poorly coupled them with surprisingly decent fight choreography into a criminally short five-episode series. This piece contains spoilers for yu yu Hakusho below. yu yu Hakusho is the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a misunderstood teenage delinquent with a heart of gold and fists of iron.
One day, he dies protecting a child from being hit by Europe Mobile Number List a truck. Since no one expected a useless man like Yusuke to sacrifice himself for a child, the lord of hell gives him a second chance at life. In exchange, Yusuke and a motley crew of human and demon allies work as spiritual detectives to keep the human world safe from the criminals of the demon world. Some of the spiritual detective style seems a bit amateurish. Photo: Netflix Although the anime spends a lot of time with Yusuke and his allies solving crimes as spirit detectives, the live-action series abandons most of the necessary plot and character building to focus on a very loose adaptation of the events of the Dark Tournament. The first episode of YAH started very strong.
No, I don't mean it started with an updated rendition of “Smile Bomb,” although the iconic opening theme did appear, which I know will satisfy anime fans. Yusuke (Takumi Kitamura) is already dead, and the episode spent the rest of its running time making us understand the tragedy of this young man's death. Kitamura plays a fantastic Yusuke. I know American anime fans will compare him to Justin Cook, Yusuke's voice actor in the anime. And while Kitamura isn't as abrasive or sarcastic as Cook, he still has Yusuke's apathetic, dirty "modern-day Robin Hood" air that really nails the character. Yusuke's rival, Kazuma Kuwabara (Shûhei Uesugi), also surprised me.