Yusuke Urameshi

## Yusuke Urameshi Images

**Yusuke Urameshi** (浦飯 幽助, *Urameshi Yūsuke*?) is the main protagonist of the Yu Yu Hakusho series.

Yusuke is the infamously known worst student of Sarayashiki Junior High. In contrast to what everyone believed about him, Yusuke sacrificed his life to save a little boy from a car accident. With the help of Botan, Yusuke was able to earn his way back to life and became a Spirit Detective under Koenma. As an agent of the Spirit World, Yusuke is tasked with protecting the Living World from the threat of demons.

## Character Profile

### Appearance

Yusuke is a relatively tall young man with a peach-tan complication. He is relatively tall, with a slim frame packed with a muscular build. He has brown eyes and black hair, usually slicked back with gel. Yusuke's hair usually has a green tint to it as well. Sometimes Yusuke will appear without gelling his hair, giving it a much messier appearance.

Yusuke normally wears his signature green jumpsuit with gold pins whether he's attending school or not. It'snot the Sarayashiki colors and is a symbol of Yusuke's rebellious attitude. During his downtime or outside of school hours, Yusuke appears in various different outfits.

### Personality

Yusuke is known as the worst student of Sarayashiki Junior High because he skips class, has terrible grades, and little respect for authority. Yusuke has a reputation for being the toughest kid in town. But despite his killer rep, Yusuke is misunderstood. His home life is troubled. His mother his never around and Yusuke is always left to his own devices. As such, Yusuke is generally miserable, making him impulsive and ill-tempered.

Everyone else around Yusuke treats him like a thug because of his reputation. Teachers like Iwamoto constantly try to get Yusuke thrown out of school and Kuwabara always wants to fight for supremacy. Only a few people like Keiko and Principal Takanaka understood the truth about Yusuke's nature.

Against what everyone believed, Yusuke proved his selflessness by giving his life to save another person. Not even the representatives of Spirit World were prepared for Yusuke's sacrifice and thus gave him a chance to return to life. Yusuke initially refused because he felt like everyone's lives would be better without him. However, during his wake, Yusuke discovered that he had touched the lives of many people who were mourning him. This included Yusuke's mother, Keiko, Mr. Takanaka, and even Kuwabara. Realizing what he meant to the people around him, Yusuke decided to accept the ordeal from Spirit World.

During his ordeal, Yusuke had to prove he was pure of heart by nurturing a Spirit Beast with the power of his emotions. He did his best to do good deeds that included helping and befriending his longtime rival Kuwabara. Yusuke proved he was pure of heart by sacrificing his only chance at life to protect Keiko. Due to his good heart, Yusuke was given his life back.

However, only after being assigned the job of Spirit Detective does Yusuke truly begin to find his place in life. He feels a small sense of duty to earn his keep back in the Living World and fights to protect it. He stops Kurama, a known demon, from sacrificing his life and leaving his mother in this world without him. Despite coming off as rude and abrupt most of the time, time and time again, Yusuke proves his heart is in the right place.

After training under Genkai, Yusuke grew in confidence in his abilities. He achieved more power than he ever thought possible but still wasn't sure what it means to use them for the right purpose. Further guidance from Genkai helped Yusuke realize what he was fighting for. As the first real figure of authority that Yusuke had to respect, Genkai made him realize that in order to grow he must commit to something and give it his all. This helped Yusuke go beyond the limits so he could protect those closest to him.

Due to his troubled upbringing, Yusuke still has trouble dealing with emotions. This translates to how he deals with relationships with others. He obviously has feelings for Keiko but plays it off by saying she just likes to berate him or by acting like a pervert. Initially, Yusuke is annoyed by Kuwabara but quickly learns what kind of man he really is. They befriend each other and quickly form a strong bond, even though Yusuke still refuses to admit it.

Yusuke also seems to understand troubled people like himself best. His trouble with authority brings him to blows with Koenma and Genkai often. When it comes to troubled souls like Hiei and Kurama, Yusuke treats them as allies and with respect for the most part. He was quick to trust Kurama and noticed that he didn't quite belong in Hiei's gang. Despite Hiei kidnapping Keiko, Yusuke was willing to give Hiei another chance and even trusted him to unlock to Gate of Betrayal alone.

## Abilities & Powers

**C-Class Psychic**: Despite being a great fighter, without the use of Spirit Energy, Yusuke could not best a fully revealed demon. He managed to hurt Gouki while still disguised as a human, but Yusuke was quickly defeated by Gouki's full demon form. With aid from Botan and Koenma, Yusuke learned the preliminary stages of controlling his Spirit Energy. Using the Spirit Gun, Yusuke was able to fend off demons early in his career as a Spirit Detective. In its weakest form, Yusuke's Spirit Gun was enough to defeat Gouki thanks to a direct hit to the demon's vital spot. Yusuke even managed to defeat Hiei by reflecting the only Spirit Gun shot he could use off of the Forlorn Hope.

Trials from the Genkai Tournament allowed Yusuke to begin applying his Spirit Energy more often. Armed with only a few Spirit Gun shots, Yusuke had to use cleverness and ingenuity to advance through the bracket. By the time he had faced Rando, Yusuke's spiritual power had grown significantly. His control over his Spirit Energy was further honed while training under Genkai.

Armed with new abilities like Shotgun and an amplified Spirit Gun, Yusuke was able to combat notable demons. Finer control over his Spiritual Energy allowed Yusuke to protect himself from Suzaku's raw power, but he was still initially beaten by Suzaku's superior technique. When Suzaku seemed impossible to overcome, Yusuke's spirit exploded beyond its limits as a reaction to his emotional growth. Genkai's training not only gave Yusuke more abilities but helped him realize how best to use them for others.

Victories over Rando and the Suzaku garnered Yusuke a bit of a reputation in the underworld. He and Kuwabara were being recognized as Demon Slayers for their feats. Toguro admitted that the members of the Apparation Gang were no match for the boys during their raid on Tarukane's compound. Yusuke proved this by easily overcoming every demon fighter the Apparition Gang presented him with, including the members of the infamous Triad.

**Master Hand to Hand Combatant**: Yusuke is an exceptional fighter, especially for being only fourteen. He holds the reputation for the badest kid in town because he can defeat ordinary humans with ease, even grown men. Kuwabara, the person who's most often on the receiving end of one of Yusuke's beatings has said on numerous occasions that Yusuke hits much harder than anyone else.

Yusuke enjoys a good brawl and extensively employs unarmed combat against every enemy he comes across. His style is brutal and very direct, often using combinations of devastating punches, kicks, and bodyslams.

* **High Fight Intellect**: Yusuke competes with opponents beyond the levels of his strength by surveying his surroundings as well as his opponent's movements. He is highly intuitive fighting with innate combat sense and can often come up with strategies on the fly.

**Enhanced Strength**: Yusuke has incredible physical strength for a human teenager. He's known for being the hardest-hitting thug in his home town. Yusuke can easily break down doors and knock out grown men cold with a single hit. He's also physically strong enough to injure low-class demons without the use of Spirit Energy.

**Enhanced Speed & Reflexes**: Yusuke has impressive agility for a human. He was able to save a young boy from a speeding car within a split second. In combat, Yusuke was able to keep up with Hiei, who's known for his immense speed.

**Enhanced Endurance**: Yusuke's incredible strength is only matched by his ability to take a beating. Yusuke's body is incredibly resilient. He's taken many demon attacks that would otherwise crush or completely annihilate the average human body. He was able to survive two grueling fights in a row during the Genkai Tournament where his opponents essentially landed strikes on him throughout the entire fight. During his battle with Suzaku in Maze Castle, Yusuke was able to remain conscious despite having millions of volts running through his body. Not only was he able to resist Suzaku's torture, but he managed to defeat the Demon despite all the abuse.

**Accelerated Growth Rate**: Yusuke has immense potential as a Psychic. He was chosen as Spirit Detective due to his natural aptitude for detecting the supernatural as well as his advanced fighting abilities. Genkai noted Yusuke's incredible potential upon meeting him and agreed to teach him her unique abilities after the boy was able to win her tournament. As Yusuke fights stronger opponents and continues to train, his power only continues to grow at an exceptional rate.

**High Spiritual Power**: Prior to becoming a Spirit Detective Yusuke possessed little to no spiritual power at all. However, Koenma taught Yusuke the basics of utilizing his Spirit Energy. His spiritual power over time through various experiences including fighting demons and other spiritually aware humans. Under Genkai's training, Yusuke learned the basics of the Spirit Wave Motion, greatly expanding his spiritual power as well as his ability to utilize it. The demons Yusuke has encountered during his cases have noted that Yusuke possesses exceptionally high Spirit Energy for a human.

* **Average Spirit Awareness**: Yusuke didn't possess the ability to see Spirits before he died. Only after coming back to life was Yusuke able to notice Demons in the Living Realm. Yusuke could always tell when a Demon is hiding in human form, but his awareness was not one of his strengths during the Genkai Tournament. In his battle in the dark against Kibano, Yusuke was unable to use any advanced form of preception to find his opponent and was completely helpless in the dark.

* **High Spirit Strength**: Yusuke's Spirit Energy has a naturally high level of destructive power. One of Genkai's arcade machines tested Yusuke's Spirit Strength and proved that his raw potential is far above average. Yusuke's attacks reinforced by Spirit Energy are especially dangerous. After learning to harness his strength after training with Genkai, Yusuke learned to maximize his strength by employing Spirit Energy among all his blows. Strikes with his amount of power usually make short work of low-level demons.

* **High Spirit Capacity**: Initially after becoming a Spirit Detective, Yusuke had a very low reserve of Spirit Energy. A single Spirit Gun was enough to exhaust is energy completely. Even so, as Yusuke grew in strength, Genkai noticed that Yusuke had the potential to grow his Spiritual Capacity exponentially. Under her guidance, Yusuke learned to better manage his Spirit Energy and has access to a much greater amount of power as a result.

* **High Spirit Adaptability**: All of Yusuke's demon opponents have noted Yusuke's Spirit Energy has a tendency to grow in response to danger. This allows Yusuke's Spiritual Power to swell in order to match opponents who were originally stronger than he was.

## Battles & Event

**Yusuke Lost, Yusuke Found**

* Yusuke's Ordeal

**Artifacts of Darkness**

* Yusuke vs. Gouki
* Yusuke vs. Gouki: Rematch
* Kurama's Wish
* Yusuke vs. Hiei

**A New Apprentice**

* Genkai Tournament
	+ Yusuke vs. Kibano
	+ Yusuke vs. Kazemaru
	+ Yusuke vs. Shorin
	+ Yusuke vs. Rando

**The Beasts of Maze Castle**

* Yusuke vs. Suzaku

**Rescue Yukina**

* Yusuke & Kuwabara vs. Hirue
* Yusuke & Kuwabara vs. The Apparition Gang
* Yusuke vs. Miyuki
* Yusuke & Kuwabara vs. Inmaki
* Yusuke & Kuwabara vs. Gokumonki
* Yusuke & Kuwabara vs. The Toguro Brothers