#BUY YU YU HAKUSHO COMPLETE SERIES SERIES#
Yu Yu Hakusho Complete Season 1 as a Blu-Ray package is a great example of doing an older cel animated TV series justice. Combined with late-80s J-Pop music and a great slightly washed out colour palette, this is a great example of doing TV action anime in the 90s and doing it very well. It’s something that arguably can’t be replicated very well in contemporary digital animation and I have a real soft spot for it. There’s some nice choreography and some of the raw ink work adds a sense of grit that really contributes to the shounen manga feel of the whole thing. The production values are also impressive considering the massive length of the series and typical restrictions on visual flair for an anime TV series of the early 90s. Yes there’s plenty of shounen tropes, but Yusuke’s delightfully pig headed, Hiei’s aloofness is amusing, Kurama’s voiced by Megumi Ogata which instantly makes him rad and Kuwabara genuinely makes me smile with the contrast between ultra-masochistic tough guy and super-genuine spiritual guy. Where it gets things spot on is the characters. There are some broader conspiracy groups at play at this stage but nothing terribly revelatory yet. Big Bad Guy should be undefeatable, but through sheer grit, determination or the power of manly friendship Yusuke and his fellow Spirit World Detectives save the day. There’s a Big Bad Guy, some underlings and some slice of life often mixed in. Straddling the two formulas means we’re not subject to their pitfalls, but it doesn’t save it from feeling a little predictable. Instead it sits a little in the middle, with this set covering a handful of small story arcs before finishing abruptly part-way through a prototypical shounen battle tournament arc. The opening arc around Yusuke’s redemption was not what I was initially expecting and helped setup a stack of interesting variables before it seemed to hint at a monster of the week structure once Yusuke takes up the mantle of being a Spirit World Detective.īut the story gets juggled up again here as we find that it doesn’t fit the typical monster of the week formula (like Sailor Moon or Ruroni Kenshin) nor does it adhere to the unnecessarily long winded shounen battle formula ( Dragon Ball Z). The structure and pacing in Yu Yu Hakusho Complete Season 1 is interesting. This act of selflessness grants Yusuke an opportunity to have another go at life and kicks off a journey that will see him pool together fellow delinquent (and number 1 rival) Kazuma Kuwabara along with other members of the underworld, Kurama and Hiei, as part of a group of Spirit World Detectives whose mission is to keep the underworld from interfering with the human world.
A broken home, poor grades and a penchant for getting into fights creates a sense of aimlessness until he invariably undoes his poor life choices and saves a child’s life by sacrificing his own from an out of control car. Yu Yu Hakusho is all about Yusuke Urameshi, the prototypical delinquent high school student flunking his way through life. Yu Yu Hakusho feels like one of those instances, so I was understandably very excited when Madman announced Yu Yu Hakusho Complete Season 1 as the first in a series of Blu-Ray releases hitting the Australian market. Despite one’s best weeb intentions, sometimes iconic series’ fall through the cracks.
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