50 Fun Facts About Yu Yu Hakusho

Who wrote and illustrated the YuYu Hakusho manga?

He later created Hunter x Hunter and is married to Sailor Moon author Naoko Takeuchi.

In which magazine was YuYu Hakusho serialized from 1990 to 1994?

Its 175 chapters were collected into 19 tankōbon volumes.

How does Yusuke Urameshi die at the start of the story?

He pushes a young boy out of the way, an act so out of character that the afterlife had no place prepared for him.

What title is Yusuke given after he is revived?

The English dub calls the job 'Spirit Detective'; he investigates demon cases in the Human World.

How many episodes did the YuYu Hakusho anime run?

It aired on Fuji Television from October 1992 to January 1995.

Which company animated YuYu Hakusho?

Noriyuki Abe directed, with Fuji Television and Yomiko Advertising as co-producers.

Who ferries Yusuke's ghost to the Underworld after his death?

She later becomes his assistant, teaching him the detective tools and relaying Koenma's orders.

Koenma, who offers Yusuke a second chance, is the son of which ruler?

Though at least 700 years old, Koenma usually appears as a toddler with a pacifier.

What is the name of Yusuke's signature finger-fired attack?

It fires a shot of Reiki, or Spirit Energy, from his index finger and is the 'Spirit Gun' in the dub.

Which aged martial arts master trains Yusuke after a tournament for her successor?

Yusuke enters her contest as cover to hunt Rando, a demon who steals masters' techniques.

Which demon in the successor tournament steals the techniques of martial arts masters?

He had killed 99 masters and disguised himself as a monk called Shaolin.

Which two former thieves join Yusuke against the Four Beasts at Labyrinth Castle?

They had stolen three Underworld treasures with Goki in Yusuke's first case before becoming his allies.

Who invites Yusuke to the Dark Tournament to test his strength?

Run by corrupt rich humans, it lets the winning team claim any wish they desire.

Who is the disguised fifth member of Team Urameshi at the Dark Tournament?

She fights as the Masked Fighter; Togashi's heroes reach the final and defeat Team Toguro.

Who owns the team Yusuke faces in the Dark Tournament final?

After losing his bet, Sakyo destroys the tournament arena and dies in the collapse.

Who held Yusuke's detective post before him?

He went mad after finding humans torturing demons and resolved to judge the human race.

Which ancestor takes control of Yusuke's body to finish the fight against Sensui?

Yusuke is reborn as a partial demon after Sensui kills him, revealing a recessive demon gene.

Which two rulers share power in the Demon Plane with Yusuke's ancestor?

They summon Hiei and Kurama respectively to prepare for war before Yusuke proposes a tournament instead.

Who eliminates Yusuke in the Demon Plane tournament's second round?

Yusuke hopes a similar contest will be held every few years to pick the realm's ruler.

Where does the story end, with Yusuke and his friends reuniting?

Genkai has died and left her estate to the main characters.

What working title did Togashi use while pitching the manga to editors?

He then proposed 'YuYu-Ki' as a play on SaiYu-Ki, but a similar title existed, so 'Hakusho' (Report) won out.

Kuwabara's name combines the names of two professionals from which sport?

Togashi blended Masumi Kuwata and Kazuhiro Kiyohara; it also puns on a phrase frightened people mutter.

Which comedy-turned-action manga inspired Togashi's plan to shift genres partway through?

His editor, nervous about the slow start, suggested moving to battles after about 30 chapters.

Which voice actor's Kuwabara did Togashi say understood the character better than he did?

Shigeru Chiba's performance impressed the author, who otherwise stayed out of the anime's production.

Which company published the English manga in North America?

It debuted in the very first issue of the American Shonen Jump magazine in January 2003.

Roughly how many copies of the manga are in circulation worldwide?

It took the 39th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1993.

What is the English title of the second animated film, released in Japan in 1994?

Its plot pits Yusuke's team against a fourth plane of existence called the Netherworld.

What is the first 1993 film's villains after, having kidnapped Koenma?

The stamp is used to finalize the sentencing of souls in the afterlife.

What was the series of post-finale OVAs released on VHS from 1994 to 1996 called?

The name means 'Image Report'; a new OVA adapting 'Two Shot' and 'All or Nothing' followed in 2018.

Which publisher released the three North American YuYu Hakusho video games in 2003?

They were Spirit Detective and Tournament Tactics on Game Boy Advance, and Dark Tournament on PlayStation 2.

Which three YuYu Hakusho characters are playable in both J-Stars Victory VS and Jump Force?

Both are Weekly Shōnen Jump crossover fighting games.

Which service streamed the 2023 live-action YuYu Hakusho series?

Takumi Kitamura starred as Yusuke; it premiered on December 14, 2023.

Who played Yusuke in the live-action adaptation?

Shison played Kurama, Hongō played Hiei and Uesugi played Kuwabara.

Where did YuYu Hakusho rank in TV Asahi's 2021 Manga Sōsenkyo poll of 150,000 voters?

The poll ranked the top 100 manga series of all time.

A 2004 US complaint about the manga mistook a Buddhist manji for what symbol?

About 18,000 of 120,000 Shonen Jump copies were returned from Scholastic Book Fairs over the complaint.

Who voices Yusuke in Japanese?

He was already a fan of the manga and wanted the lead because of how Togashi drew him.

Which voice actor both directed Funimation's English dub and voiced Yusuke?

Funimation acquired the show in early 2001 and released it as Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files.

On which US channel did the English dub air from 2002 to 2006?

It began on Adult Swim before moving to Toonami, with violence and coarse language edited for broadcast.

What was the series titled in its Philippine Tagalog dub?

That dub renamed Yusuke 'Eugene' and initially treated Kurama as a girl called Denise.

What is the name of Yusuke's junior high school?

Both it and rival Kasanegafuchi are named after haunted mansions from famous Japanese ghost stories.

Kuwabara forms which weapon out of his aura?

He first makes the Aura Sword during the contest to become Genkai's pupil and later wields two at once.

What is Kurama's human name?

He is a fox demon reborn as a human, first seen stealing a mirror to save his sick mother.

Which actress, in her first voice role, voiced Kurama in Japanese?

Producers wanted a voice like a 17-year-old boy crossed with a Takarazuka Revue performer.

Hiei kidnaps which character and cuts her with the Conjuring Blade?

The blade turns anyone it cuts into a demon, forcing Yusuke to defeat him with help from Kurama and Botan.

What is implanted in Hiei's forehead?

Called the Jagan Eye in the dub, it grants clairvoyance and control over lesser demons with a glance.

What does the English dub call the technique Hiei debuts at the Dark Tournament?

He later masters it by consuming the flames, which greatly boosts his power.

Hiei was born to a race of what?

They reproduce every 100 years and bear only daughters, so his birth as a male led to his being cast out.

Which character from Patalliro! inspired Hiei's design?

Togashi borrowed the look from Mineo Maya's manga; Hiei's lead role came by popular demand.

What kind of creature hatches from Yusuke's Spirit Beast egg during the Dark Tournament?

Pu, with big floppy ears for flying, later transforms into a phoenix-like bird when Yusuke revives as a demon.

Which Sailor Moon creator is Togashi married to?

They married on January 6, 1999, after being introduced at a party in 1997.