Episode 11

## Episode 11 Screenshots

**Hard Fights for Yusuke** (幽助苦戦! 傷だらけの反撃!!, *Yūsuke Kurusen! Kizudarake Hangeki*?, lit. **Yusuke's Hard Battle! A Bruised and Bloody Counterattack**) is the eleventh episode of the Yu Yu Hakusho anime and the Spirit Detective Saga.

## Summary

In his first match of the tournament, Yusuke faces an impossible disadvantage. He can’t see a thing in the pitch-black arena, but a hi-tech helmet allows Kibano to follow Yusuke’s every move. Even if the battle-worn detective can survive Kibano, he’ll have to fight his second match immediately—against a lethal ninja!

## Plot Details

Kibano has Yusuke on the edge of defeat and says he'll spare his life if the young opponent submits. Yusuke gets up and refuses to lose. Kibano believes Yusuke's Spirit Energy has lessened, but Genkai claims that Yusuke's energy responds to danger by growing in strength. She believes that Yusuke could win the fight if he could see.

Yusuke allows himself to get hit and grabs Kibano's arm, threatening to break it. Kibano uses his superior grappling skills to throw Yusuke using his Banzai Missile move. Botan and Kuwabara are concerned Yusuke can't win in the dark unless he uses his Spirit Gun. Kibano gives Yusuke one last warning but the brash young man refuses to quit.

Kibano circles Yusuke and prepares to finish him off with one last move. Yusuke charges his Spirit Gun and suddenly blasts Kibano's mask clean off, defeating him. Kibano doesn't understand what happened and Yusuke reveals that he attached Genkai's cigarette to the former's belt in order to track him in the dark. Yusuke is deemed the winner and Kuwabara asks about Yusuke's Spirit Gun. Botan explains it for him and Genkai moves the tournament onto the semi-final round.

Yusuke is set to fight Kazemaru next, upsetting him since he just got done fighting. Genkai tells him that's how he drew the lot and escorts the group to the next area. The semi-finals are set to take place on an old battlefield where soldiers were overcome by madness and slaughtered each other. Their souls haunt the area and Spirit Energy overtakes the human body. While Kazemaru can feel the power swelling within him, Yusuke can't even manage another Spirit Gun.

In Spirit World, Koenma is still ignoring all his paperwork to watch Yusuke's fight. His father calls to discipline him and Koenma misses the start of the fight. Yusuke gets pummeled by Kazemaru and can't gain proper footing to defend himself. He focuses all his strength into one attack but just barely misses Kazemaru with an uppercut. However, Kazemaru's cheek is cut and he realizes that getting close to Yusuke could be dangerous. He changes his offense to long-range and arms himself with shuriken to attack with.

Yusuke appears to avoid the shuriken at first, but they lock onto his Spirit Energy and chase him around. He manages to get some of caught in a nearby tree and they suddenly detonate upon impact, injuring Yusuke. Kuwabara and Botan once again worry that Yusuke may not make it out of this fight alive and Koenma believes that Kazemaru might even be the demon Rando.

As more explosive shurikens chase Yusuke, he tells Kuwabara he'll have to win the tournament. He rushes Kazemaru and appears to be trying to sacrifice himself while taking out his opponent with him. Kazemaru prepares to counter with his spirit firing technique, but Yusuke suddenly disappears and he's defeated by an explosion of his own creation.

Afterward, Kuwabara and Botan wonder what happened until they happen upon Yusuke in the hidden in the mud. Yusuke admits that he slipped and Genkai reveals that the shuriken were attracted to Kazemaru because he was gathering Spirit Energy. Yusuke's win was a total fluke but Genkai accepts it at the expense of Kazemaru.

Now that Kazemaru has been eliminated, Botan tells Yusuke that Shorin must be the criminal Rando. Kuwabara is set to face him in the next round of the tournament.

## Credits

* Cast
* Staff