 Alternative TitlesSynonyms: Yuu Yuu Hakusho, YuYu Hakusho, Two Shots Japanese: 幽☆遊☆白書 More titlesInformationType: Manga
Volumes: 19
Chapters: 176
Status: Finished
Published: Nov 20, 1990 to Jul 12, 1994
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Shounen
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Shounen Jump (Weekly) Authors:
Togashi, Yoshihiro (Story & Art) Statistics Ranked: #4392 2 based on the top manga page. Please note that 'R18+' titles are excluded. Popularity: #217
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Sep 20, 2009
The opening volumes, where they try and put Yusuke’s personality on track, was what started to pull me in. He reminds me a lot of Onizuka, another character I loved, in that he’s so wonderfully flawed. You don’t see Goku having some sudden epiphany and becoming a better person because he’s already sitting in the Lawful Good alignment to start with; there’s not a whole lot of room there for progression. By contrast, the delinquent is a great character to make the protagonist because he can’t be perfect and he has to grow at some point. Starting the series off dead
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Jan 13, 2008
The story is about a 14 year old boy named Yusuke Urameshi. He dies in a car accident after trying to save a little boy. He ends up being a Spirit Detective (someone who hunts down demons in the human world and solves cases). So we get to see him solve some cases and kick some ass. The story gets more interesting in the Dark Tournament Arc where you see some of the nicest moves the show has to offer (Dragon of the Darkness Flame anyone?). The third arc is Chapter Black Arc, which talks about some psycho trying to
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Dec 12, 2014
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Today we look at a comic with some serious flaws, but I love it anyways. Many people remember seeing Yu Yu Hakusho on Cartoon Network both on Adult Swim and a butchered kid friendly edit for Toonami. It never gained the popularity of DBZ, but older Otaku still remember the series fondly. That is why it is interesting that so few people outside Japan have read the original manga. Of course when you open the manga and look at it, you will figure out why that is. This brings me to the first flaw in Hakusho. The first minor blemish on this otherwise good title ... 
Aug 19, 2015
Urameshi Yusuke and his friends "Yu Yu Hakusho" marked a generation with action packed adventures, very charismatic characters and a much more compelling story that many knights in armor of the period.
The first volume of "Yu Yu Hakusho" too little account of what you should expect from the series. Yusuke Urameshi is a troublemaker who avoids the death of a child, but ends up himself to the land of standing by. As his death was unexpected, they give you the alternative to make the resurrection of the test, and now he needs to show that it is a good person. The first volume is basically ... 
Nov 16, 2020
I love Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho. Growing up surrounded by Shonen anime akin to the likes of One piece and Hunter x Hunter 1999, Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho alongside these famous series became a fan favourite amongst my friend group and family. I like to think that I don't review anime with rose tinted glasses of nostalgia, but with Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho I find it hard to critically review the Manga as its become such a cult classic/childhood classic to me. Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho Is the predecessor to Yoshihiro Togashi's other notable shonen Manga of the decade being Hunter x Hunter. The Manga was serialised in Shonen Jump from December of 1990 to July of
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Mar 28, 2021
Togashi at his best. I could say he evolved as a story writter, and world building in HunterxHunter, but he was already a master at everything else by YYK. This story man, it's just so simple, but so well told. It's the DB effect imo, something that seems obvious now, with so many shows and series doing it similar, but this was what influenced them all.
A must read if you're a fan of action and the supernatural. While obviouslly flawed, it does with so much charisma is hard to hold it against it. I trully can't forget the amazing Dark Tournament, that together with ...
Dec 15, 2016
Reading this manga is an interesting experience if you're familiar with Hunter x Hunter, the other fighting shounen from Yoshihiro Togashi. Several powers, plot points and characters archetypes from this series are recycled into Hunter x Hunter but with more nuance and exploration.
Don't expect too much action in the opening chapters because the first twenty chapters or so are the main character Yuuske playing ghost detective and solving their problems so they can move on. Most of these stories were actually pretty sad and hit me in the feels department so I found them harder to get through than any other part of the ... 
Apr 4, 2022
The ability of Yoshiro Togashi to tell an emotional story and express character beats is second to none. This is by far the single most stand out quality in Yu Yu Hakusho. Hairs can be split about the later pacing in the manga, but at the end of the day this stands among a pantheon of legends as one of, if not the best shonen coming of age.
There is little I can say in a review that wouldn't have been better said, or more well thought out, by people before me. However, something often overlooked is what Togashi was attempting to accomplish in this ... 
Jul 10, 2016
Yu Yu Hakusho is one of the most influential and important Shounen Manga of all time. Sadly, many younger viewers/readers now see this as the other series made by the same guy as Hunter X Hunter.
Yu Yu Hakusho has 47 million total volume sales and it is only 19 volumes long. That's a ratio of 2.47 million copies of each volume. That is one of the highest sales per volume of all time! Now, lets move on to the actual review. I'll also do some anime comparisons and talk about the Viz release. Story: Yu Yu Hakusho centers around a Jr. High delinquent named ... 
Feb 14, 2020
Yuu Yuu Hakusho.
The creator from HxH is also the the creator from this series. Therefore, you know or at least you could have a major idea of what to expect from this series. Yu Yu Hakusho has a good story overall. The typical Shounen Tournament Arc (They might have invented that since this manga is over 30 years old) Yusuke Urameshi is one the most easily recognized Shounen MC, the guy has a rather unique personality, adding that a very good supporting cast in other memorable characters. Now regarding the ending of the manga. I believe (Also a lot of people or maybe the vast majority of the fans ... 
Jun 2, 2023
Over all Yu Yu Hakusho is pretty good for what it is, a 90s shonen. Alot of the stories beats found in Yu Yu Hakusho are generic but not to an insulting degree as found in more recent animanga in which they make that generic concept into the driving force of the narrative. Instead Yu Yu Hakusho takes the self loafing concepts of humanity such as "Would anybody care if I died" and "Humanity deserves to die" and transforms them into fighting motifs for the protagonist and makes it feel that these were silly concepts to even think of.
Each character also feels interesting especially ... 
Mar 31, 2013
YuYu Hakusho is one of those manga series that got overshadowed when it was getting released due to it going against the juggernaut of a shonen series, Dragon Ball. Years after it's release it remains practically forgotten but the anime apparently remains the milestone of shonen battle series. But how exactly does the manga stand on it's own two feet? By this point you should have some kind of idea of the story. It starts with the hero Yusuke Urameshi getting killed by a car while trying to save a kid. He then meets Botan a messenger of the underworld who explains to him that
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Jul 19, 2017
The 80s and 90s was a special time for manga. It was a time when Shonen manga was at its peak popularity. Everyone knew titles like Dragon Ball, Fist of the North Star, and Full Metal Alchemist, while the likes of Naruto, One Piece, and Bleach were only just beginning. Among all of these other, action packed series, stands a true gem, and that gem is Yu Yu Hakusho.
Before I begin to talk about the story, I would have to recommend that you read the first chapter of the series yourself before continuing with reading this review, as I believe it is the greatest first ...
Apr 21, 2023
As much as it pains me to give the manga a 7/10. Having seen the anime first, I just wasn't impressed. The anime adaptation is my all time favorite anime, but the manga has some issues.
Let's start with the negatives. 1. The English translation is kind of weird. Luckily I'm a 90s kid, so I understood it, but younger people reading it for the first time today might be off put by the language used. Nothing offensive, just dated. 2. The beginning meanders too much with other ghost's stories. It's 2 whole volumes until he's back in his body of this shounen fighting series! I wonder ... 
Jul 31, 2017
YYH is one of the more popular 'old school' 90's mangas. It might not be the deepest/complex shonen of its time, but it doesn't need to be - it has fitting artwork and an intriguing (if basic) premise that is followed up on with easy-to-love characters.
[Story - 6] The story has two parts to it, really - a supernatural detective part and a typical battle-royale part. We start with the former: Our protagonist, rowdy middle schooler Yuusuke Urameshi, dies in a freak accident and promptly journeys to rejoin the living. Along the way, he becomes a 'Spirit Detective', and thus investigates cases of that sort. This ... 
Jan 25, 2022
THIS IS A SPOILER-FREE REVIEW
Yoshihiro Togashi´s "Hunter x Hunter" became one of my favorite manga and my favorite fighting-shounen after i finished it. So i decided to give his earlier work "Yuu Yuu Hakusho" a try. This is my review of this classic shounen adventure! Story - 8/10 Right of the bat i have to say that this is definitely a shounen to the core. Everything about it is shounen. You have entrance exam arcs ,training arcs, a group of protagonists, multiple different villains per arc and multiple tournament arcs. I also like how the world of the manga gets expanded arc by arc. I do however ... 
Aug 18, 2022
Yuyu Hakusho: an exact definition of a masterpiece
Story: 9/10 The story follows a high school punk named Yusuke Urameshi after he dies trying to save a boy. this might not sound as good, but it goes crazier than that, it goes deep down into the world of the manga. characters: 9.5/10 one of the best main casts I've ever seen in anime and manga, The protagonist Yusuke Is extremely likable. The deuteragonist (sort of) Hiei is another fascinating character in his own way. The female lead Kurama is a better version of every shounen manga failed female lead Yusuke's rival Kuwabara is a bit of an "I'm just there" in a ... |
