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Netflix Announces 'Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho' Live-Action Series

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Dec 15, 2020 9:34 PM
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Netflix Japan revealed on Wednesday that Yoshihiro Togashi's Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho (Yu Yu Hakusho) manga will receive a live-action series. Kazutaka Sakamoto (A.I.C.O. Incarnation) is serving as the executive producer and Akira Morii (Imawa no Kuni no Alice) is producing the series at production company Robot. Netflix will stream the series worldwide.

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One fateful day, Yuusuke Urameshi, a 14-year-old delinquent with a dim future, gets a miraculous chance to turn it all around when he throws himself in front of a moving car to save a young boy. His ultimate sacrifice is so out of character that the authorities of the spirit realm are not yet prepared to let him pass on. Koenma, heir to the throne of the spirit realm, offers Yuusuke an opportunity to regain his life through completion of a series of tasks. With the guidance of the death god Botan, he is to thwart evil presences on Earth as a Spirit Detective.

To help him on his venture, Yuusuke enlists ex-rival Kazuma Kuwabara, and two demons, Hiei and Kurama, who have criminal pasts. Together, they train and battle against enemies who would threaten humanity's very existence. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Togashi serialized the supernatural shounen manga in Weekly Shounen Jump between November 1990 and July 1994. The manga won in the Shounen category at the 39th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1993.

Studio Pierrot adapted the manga into a 112-episode anime series that aired from October 1992 to January 1995, as well as two anime films, and multiple original video animations. A two-episode special included in the 25th anniversary Blu-ray box was released in October 2018.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English and serialized it in their Shounen Jump magazine between January 2003 and January 2010. The publisher released all 19 volumes from 2003 to 2010 and re-released them digitally on their website between 2013 and 2014.

Funimation licensed the television anime series in 2001 and released English dubbed episodes on Cartoon Network between 2002 and 2006. The company is streaming the anime with both subtitles and dub.

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DatRandomDudeDec 15, 2020 9:37 PM
Dec 15, 2020 9:44 PM
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Lol here we go again.
Dec 15, 2020 10:10 PM
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Netflix will never learn
Dec 15, 2020 10:59 PM
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Well at least a Japanese production company seems to be in charge of it, but who knows how Netflix will interfere. Still like a 98% chance this sucks
Dec 15, 2020 11:01 PM
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welp good luck i guess
Dec 15, 2020 11:02 PM
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Hmm so netflix are gonna destroy every anime we love?

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Please Netflix just staaaawp!
Dec 16, 2020 12:38 AM
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How long until Netflix does Boku no Pico

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Dec 16, 2020 12:39 AM
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How long until Netflix does Boku no Pico

I second this.If Netflix did Cuties why not Boku no pico?

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I sincerely hope that one day these people will knock it off and realize they need to stop with these live-action anime adaptations. Plus, they're always picking the ones that are way over the top/supernatural that would be the most difficult to adapt to live-action (that reminds me, any updates on that live-action One Piece series, or that live-action Naruto movie?). If it's an adaptation of an anime that's more grounded in reality, then go ahead and take a stab at it, but stuff like YYH, One Piece, or anything else that's outlandish needs to be left alone as animation imo.
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Dec 16, 2020 5:31 AM

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Just do Monster. Even with Netflix level mutilation, it still would be a way better pick than YYH.
Dec 16, 2020 5:42 AM

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Vsegda7 said:
Just do Monster. Even with Netflix level mutilation, it still would be a way better pick than YYH.

Yeah any Urasawa manga would be awesome as a live action
Dec 16, 2020 6:50 AM

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Togashi getting more royalties out of nowhere so he can laze around even more and not continue HxH
Dec 16, 2020 12:04 PM
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Yusuke is probably gonna be black
Dec 17, 2020 12:55 AM
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EcchiGodMamster said:
Yusuke is probably gonna be black


and it will probably take place in Wisconsin or Texas.
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Dec 17, 2020 2:47 AM

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Netflix enough with the live action adaptations. Just let it end.
Dec 17, 2020 2:48 AM

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Why Netflix...STOP RUINING SHOWS

Dec 17, 2020 2:51 AM
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First mob psycho,then FMA,then death note,then ghost in the shell and now Yuu Yuu Hakusho...
Netflix really never learns do they...
Dec 17, 2020 5:29 AM
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ChartTopper60 said:
EcchiGodMamster said:
Yusuke is probably gonna be black


and it will probably take place in Wisconsin or Texas.


Then again, this is made in Japan.
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I sincerely hope that one day these people will knock it off and realize they need to stop with these live-action anime adaptations. Plus, they're always picking the ones that are way over the top/supernatural that would be the most difficult to adapt to live-action (that reminds me, any updates on that live-action One Piece series, or that live-action Naruto movie?). If it's an adaptation of an anime that's more grounded in reality, then go ahead and take a stab at it, but stuff like YYH, One Piece, or anything else that's outlandish needs to be left alone as animation imo.


This. Like I can see some level of potential in certain adaptations (GitS, Alita, Bebop) despite them being handled by terrible directors. But this I see no way possible if being good or even necessarily achieving anything the original did for that reason.
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STOOOOOPPPPPPPPP!!!!!
NOOOOOOO!!!!!!!

NETFLIX PLEASE!!! LEAVE THIS ANIME ALONE AND PRESERVE ITS AUTHENTICITY.
running out of ideas Netflix?
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The world is cruel, ugly and pitiful. Let's watch anime and make it colorful
Dec 17, 2020 9:21 AM

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reminds me of this thing, people just want their live action anime

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I'm side-eyeing some of these comments but yeah, even done by Japan, I have never liked one live action adaptation.
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gaaahhh...Netflix will ruin the masterpiece.. Not all popular anime need a live action adapatation, they are masterpiece because of what they are right now,uff..
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ChartTopper60 said:
EcchiGodMamster said:
Yusuke is probably gonna be black


and it will probably take place in Wisconsin or Texas.


i just lol'd irl

and it will probably have some woke messaging in it
Dec 17, 2020 7:58 PM

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absolutely disgusting, again
Dec 18, 2020 10:24 AM

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Yeah, these things never work out correctly. If they would give this to a director who could make it more faithful and use correct cgi, music, actors etc it would be slightly better and I mean slightly.
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Dec 19, 2020 6:03 AM
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I don't know what happen with one of best manga if get adaptation into Netflix, is that anime will has same result with Death Note LA or even worse than before, or maybe it get better than before,

Let's hope for Netflix to fix anything if they won't disappointed us, again
Dec 19, 2020 9:34 PM
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Why must Netflix come and ruin great work of art by needless interference ...
wasn't death note and beastars enough!!?
Dec 20, 2020 12:10 PM

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Why though? What will this gain from becoming live action?
Dec 23, 2020 10:04 PM

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after watching gintama and rorouni kenshin's Live Action, i knew this would be shitty. LMAO but maybeeee?? a little pinch of hope? ka ka. but let's not get our hopes up..............
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Netflix will never learn
so far i dont think their "alice in borderland" is that bad. well nothing can get worse than their death note in my book
im trash

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