Yoshihiro Togashi
"YuYu Hakusho" has sold more than 50 million copies in Japan alone, making it one of "Weekly Shonen Jump"'s best-selling manga series. Patricia Duffield, a columnist for "Animerica Extra", acknowledged the manga as "one of the kings of popularity in the mid-1990s" in the region where it saw mass availability from large bookstore chains to small train station kiosks. "YuYu Hakusho" earned Yoshihiro Togashi the Shogakukan Manga Award for "shōnen" in 1993. Towards the end of the series' run, Togashi was publicly criticized for not meeting chapter deadlines and for lower quality art. On TV Asahi's Manga Sōsenkyo 2021 poll, in which 150.000 people voted for their top 100 manga series, "YuYu Hakusho" ranked #17.