Yu Yu Hakusho
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50 free Yu Yu Hakusho trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Yu Yu Hakusho opens with its hero already dead: Yusuke Urameshi, 14-year-old delinquent, hit by a car saving a child, so unexpectedly decent that the afterlife has no paperwork for him. What follows is Yoshihiro Togashi's 175-chapter run through Spirit Detective cases, the Dark Tournament, the Sensui saga and the Demon Plane, plus a 112-episode anime and a dub that made Toonami kids fluent in 'Spirit Gun'. These 50 questions cover the manga and the anime: Botan and Koenma, Genkai's tournament and Rando, the three stolen treasures, Team Urameshi versus Team Toguro, Sakyo's wager, Raizen, Mukuro and Yomi, the films and OVAs, the Atari games, the Tagalog 'Ghost Fighter' dub, the 2023 Netflix live-action series and the production stories behind Togashi's names and his working title 'How to be a Ghost'. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for an anime night.
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Q 01Which hit manga did Yoshihiro Togashi launch four years after ending YuYu Hakusho?
Hunter × Hunter
Hunter × Hunter. It began in 1998, and Togashi's poor health has since forced breaks in its run that lasted years.
Q 02Which song opens every episode of the 1990s YuYu Hakusho anime?
Smile Bomb
Smile Bomb, 'Hohoemi no Bakudan' in Japanese. Matsuko Mawatari's song opened all 112 episodes, and an English-language version was recorded for the dub.
Q 03How does Yusuke Urameshi die at the start of the story?
Being struck by a car
Being struck by a car. He had shoved a small boy out of its path, only to learn afterwards that the boy would have survived with barely a scratch anyway.
Q 04Which toys does the young demon Rinku fight with at the Dark Tournament?
Yo-yos
Yo-yos, which he steers by sending demon energy down their strings. Togashi named him after a video game hero: Link, of The Legend of Zelda.
Q 05Which company dubbed YuYu Hakusho's TV anime for North America?
Funimation
Funimation. It bought the rights in early 2001 and split the 112 episodes into four 'sagas', one for each story arc.
Q 06Which company animated YuYu Hakusho?
Studio Pierrot
Studio Pierrot. Its director on the series, Noriyuki Abe, went on to lead the studio's Bleach anime a decade later.
Q 07Which guide to the afterlife greets Yusuke's ghost right after his death?
Botan
Botan, who swoops in riding an oar. She stays on as Yusuke's assistant, passing on his orders and teaching him to use the tools for his cases.
Q 08Koenma, the centuries-old boss who hands Yusuke his cases, usually appears in what form?
A toddler with a pacifier
A toddler with a pacifier. The pacifier is no comfort toy: Koenma has spent centuries filling it with his own energy so that it can one day raise a protective barrier.
Q 09Yusuke fires his signature Spirit Gun, the manga's Rei Gun, from where?
His index finger
His index finger. He points his hand like a pistol and pulls the trigger in his mind, and early on he can manage only one shot a day.
Q 10Kurama turns which flower into his signature whip?
A rose
A rose. Kurama can command any plant by feeding it his demon energy, and the whip he grows from it is sharp enough to cut through steel.
Q 11Which demon does Yusuke hunt at a tournament held to choose an old martial arts master's successor?
Rando
Rando, who steals the techniques of the masters he kills and hid among the entrants as a small monk. He lost when a stolen shrinking spell backfired on him.
Q 12Which lightning-wielding demon leads the Four Beasts of Labyrinth Castle?
Suzaku
Suzaku. His gang looses a swarm of parasitic insects on the Human World, and in the fight to stop him Yusuke finds that Suzaku can split into seven copies of himself.
Q 13Who invites Yusuke to the Dark Tournament to test his strength?
Toguro
Toguro. Once a human martial artist, he had himself made a demon so that age would never sap his strength, and he wants an opponent worth using all of it on.
Q 21Togashi's proposed title YuYu-Ki punned on which classic novel's Japanese name?
Journey to the West
Journey to the West, known in Japan as Saiyūki. A manga called Chin-Yu-Ki had just started, so Togashi dropped the pun and took 'Hakusho', the first word that came to mind.
Q 22Kuwabara's name combines the names of two professionals from which sport?
Baseball
Baseball. Togashi said he combined two pro players' names, thought to be Masumi Kuwata and Kazuhiro Kiyohara; 'kuwabara kuwabara' is also what the superstitious mutter when frightened.
Q 23Which Dark Tournament fighter grows stronger the drunker he gets?
Chu
Chu. With both of them out of energy, he and Yusuke finish their bout as a knife-edge death match, trading blows with their heels pinned against two blades in the floor.
Q 14Who is the disguised fifth member of Team Urameshi at the Dark Tournament?
Genkai
Genkai, fighting as the Masked Fighter. At full power her body briefly returns to its prime, so when the mask is torn off in one bout it shows a young woman's face and the secret holds.
Q 15Who owns the team Yusuke faces in the Dark Tournament final?
Sakyo
After losing his bet, Sakyo destroys the tournament arena and dies in the collapse.
Q 16Who held Yusuke's detective post before him?
Shinobu Sensui
Shinobu Sensui. On one case he walked in on rich humans torturing demons for fun, and the shock turned him against the human race he had sworn to protect.
Q 17Which ancestor takes control of Yusuke's body to finish a fight in the Demon Plane?
Raizen
Raizen, a demon king who long ago fell in love with a human woman. He swore off eating humans for her sake, and by the time he meets his descendant he is starving to death.
Q 18Which two rulers share power in the Demon Plane with a dying third king?
Mukuro and Yomi
Mukuro and Yomi. Each calls one of Yusuke's friends to their side for the war they expect, until Yusuke talks them into settling the matter in the ring instead.
Q 19Who eliminates Yusuke from the Demon Plane tournament?
Yomi
Yomi, blinded long ago by an assassin his old partner Kurama had sent. The win cost him dearly: worn out by the long fight, he was beaten soon afterwards.
Q 20Where does YuYu Hakusho end, with Yusuke and his friends reuniting?
On a beach
On a beach. By the manga's end Koenma has exposed his own father for manufacturing the demon threat, and has taken over the running of the Underworld himself.
Q 24Tough-guy delinquent Kuwabara has a well-known soft spot for which animals?
Kittens
Kittens. The school's second-toughest brawler dotes on his own cat, Eikichi, and lives by a code of honour that rules out stealing or shaking anyone down.
Q 25Which company published the English manga in North America?
Viz Media
It debuted in the very first issue of the American Shonen Jump magazine in January 2003.
Q 26Which YuYu Hakusho character is Hiei's twin sister, although she has no idea they are related?
Yukina
Yukina. She left her homeland to search for the brother she has never met, and asks his own teammates for help finding him while he stands by and says nothing.
Q 27What is the English title of the second YuYu Hakusho animated film, released in Japan in 1994?
Poltergeist Report
Poltergeist Report, which is simply one way of translating 'Yū Yū Hakusho' itself. In the film, Yusuke's team defends the Human World against the king of a fourth realm, the Netherworld.
Q 28In the 1993 YuYu Hakusho film, what do Koenma's kidnappers demand as ransom?
The Golden Seal
The Golden Seal, the stamp that finalizes the sentence of every soul in the afterlife. In the wrong hands it could topple King Enma himself, so Yusuke and Kuwabara race to rescue Koenma.
Q 29Kurama first appears in YuYu Hakusho stealing a wish-granting mirror to save whom?
His human mother
His human mother, who was gravely ill. The mirror takes the user's life as its price, so Yusuke offers up some of his own and both of them survive the wish.
Q 30Which publisher released the first YuYu Hakusho video games sold in North America?
Atari
Atari. It took the licence in 2003, once the dubbed anime had caught on with American viewers; until then almost every YuYu Hakusho game had been sold only in Japan.