Yu Yu Hakusho (Anime)

## Yu Yu Hakusho

**Yu Yu Hakusho** (幽☆遊☆白書, *Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho*?, lit. *Poltergeist Report*) is the anime adaptation of the original Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi.

## Production

The Yu Yu Hakusho anime was directed by Noriyuki Abe and produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising and Studio Pierrot. The anime series adapts the YuYu Hakusho manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi, incorporating nineteen volumes of the source material over one hundred and twelve episodes. The anime differed from its manga source material by containing different levels of violence and profanity, as well as minor variations in art style from one to the other.

It aired from October 10, 1992, to January 7, 1995, on Fuji Television. In Japan, three separate multidisc DVD box sets were released, as well as 28 DVDs totaling all 112 episodes of the series.

### Funimation Version

In early 2001, the Yu Yu Hakusho anime was acquired by Funimation Entertainment for North American distribution as **Yu Yu Hakusho: Ghost Files**.

The North American version aired from February 23, 2002, to April 1, 2006, on Cartoon Network's Toonami block. Initially, the series was shown on the channel's Adult Swim programming block from February 2002 to April 2003 but was later moved to Toonami until the series finished its run in 2005.

## Staff

### Original Japanese

**Production**

* Yuji Fukawa (Pierrot)

**Director**

* Noriyuki Abe

**Planning**

* Minoru Ohno (Yomiko Advertising)

**Producers**

* Ken Hagino (Studio Pierrot)
* Kenji Shimizu (Fuji TV)
* Koji Kaneda (Fuji TV)
* Kyotaro Kimura (Yomiko Advertising)

**Scriptwriter**

* Shinkichi Ohashi

**Character Design**

* Minoru Yamazawa

**Opening Animation**

* Masaya Onishi

**Ending Animation**

* Yoshiyuki Kishi

**Art Director**

* Yuji Ikeda

**Film Director**

* Toshiyuki Fukushima

**Writer**

* Yukiyoshi Ōhashi

**Animation Studio**

* Pierrot

**Composer**

* Yusuke Honma

**Sound Director**

* Kan Fukushima

## Synopsis

From cutting classes to brawling in the streets, Yusuke Urameshi is not your typical role model. In fact, this kid’s nothing more than a fourteen-year-old delinquent with a talent for trouble. But in a single selfless act Yusuke dies while saving another. For such noble sacrifice, he is given a second chance at life, but it’s to be a life far different than the one left behind.

Now a Spirit Detective, the young man must track down demons and humans alike who desire to rule over the three realms of reality. Granted with amazing new powers to be used in the cause of good versus evil, Yusuke sets out on his first assignment.

He will gather together those who will fight alongside him: Kuwabara, Yusuke’s intellectually challenged formal rival from high school; Kurama, an infamous thief from the Demon World who inhabits a human body; and Hiei, a hot-headed demon skilled with both the sword and the third eye. Together, these four set forth to do battle with monsters, beasts and men.

## Seasons & Episodes

*Main Article*: Episodes
**Notice**: The four seasons of Yu Yu Hakusho that make up the following list correspond to the box sets released in North America by Funimation. However, these "seasons" are only consistent with the four sagas, and not to the pattern in which the show actually aired in either Japan or North America.

 4 | **Three Kings Saga** | *18* (85 - 112) | **Japanese**: August 20 – December 17, 1994**English**: December 3, 2005 - April 1, 2006

## Music

**Opening Theme:**

* 「Smile Bomb」

**Closing Themes:**

1. 「Homework Never Ends」
2. 「Goodbye ByeBye」
3. 「Daydream Generation」
4. 「Give Me An Unbalanced Kiss」
5. 「When The Sun Shines Again」