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YuYu Hakusho (幽★遊★白書 YūYū Hakusho, literally "The Playful Ghost White Paper," meaning "Ghost Files"/"Poltergeist Report") is a manga in Shonen Jump magazine and an anime series by Yoshihiro Togashi. The anime consists of 112 TV episodes and two movies. One movie is a 30 minute special episode and the other is a feature length film titled Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report.

In Japan, the series ran in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump. In North America, the manga currently runs in Viz's Shonen Jump.

The name of the series is spelled Yu Yu Hakusho in FUNimation's distribution of the anime that airs on Cartoon Network while the series's name is spelled YuYu Hakusho in Viz manga. The anime is distributed by 20th Television.

Background

In the beginning of the manga, Yusuke Urameshi is nothing more than a street-brawling deliquent who only goes to school about every ten days. His teachers hate him and he has few friends. Yusuke also has an alcoholic mother who is too drunk to direct him on the right path. Since every single punk in the city is trying to take him on, Yusuke is pretty fed up with life.

However, no one could forsee his most famous deed: he dies trying to save a little boy from a speeding car. When he arrives in the afterlife, the people in the afterlife inform him that, since no one expected him to die in that way, they are not prepared for his arrival. Eventually, Yusuke gets his life back and discovers a new power, he can see beings from the spirit world (yōkai). This is when the series really kicks off. He is enlisted as a spirit realm detective (Reikai Tantei), to help control the actions of spirits in the real world. His first assignment is to round up three demon prisoners (Goki (Gōki, spelled Gouki in the anime), Kurama, and Hiei) who escaped and stole three terribly powerful artifacts. His second is to participate in a contest to choose the next disciple of an aged fighter (Psychic in the English Dub) named Genkai, and to defeat a demon, Rando (Randō), who is posing as a contestant so he can win Genkai's powers. Yusuke's next assignment is to kill the four Saint Beasts, Genbu, Byakko, Seiryu (Seiryū), and Suzaku. In that mission, he is assisted by Kazuma Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei. The next mission involves the Kōrime, Yukina, who has been kidnapped by the evil Gonzo Tarukane (Tarukane Gonzō). Yusuke then fights the Toguro brothers, who in the end fake their deaths. After Toguro threatens to hunt their loved ones down now Yusuke, Kazuma, Kurama, and Hiei are forced to fight in the Dark Tournament. They encounter the Jolly Devil Six a.k.a. Team Rokoyukai (Rinku, Chu (Chuu), Roto, Zeru, Ichikia, and Gouta), Team Ichigaki (Dr. Ichigaki, M1, M2, M3 (see below) ), Team Masho (Gama, Touya, Bakken, Jin, and Risho), and Team Uratogi (Kuro Momotaro, Ura Urashima, Shishi Wakumaru, Zuzuka, and Makintaro). after Sakyo makes a bet and risks his life on Yusuke and Toguro's fight, he sets the stadium to blow up within ten minutes, they barely make it out alive. Genkai is revived as the wish of Yusuke for winning the tournament. Next is the Black Chapter Saga, which ishe story of Sensui and his humans with Yokai powers. Kuwabara, and Yusuke must fight through seven humans who were tricked by Sensui, due to their hatred of the human race. Yusuke later confronts Sensui head-on in the fight of the Spirit detectives to stop Sensui's plans of breaking the barrier and unleashing havoc upon the Human world.

Yusuke learns there is no other way to beat Sensui and the charges head on at the fallen Sprit detective planning to get killed to bring out the limits of his friend, who get out ot itsuki's creature just in time to see Yusuke smile at them as Sensui punchs a hole through Yuskes heart. Enma (King Yama) tells Botan how Yusuke is related to a evil demon clan, and has sent his sprit guards to make sure Yusuke can never revive. But at that exact moment, Yusuke starts to glow, and out comes an unusally long haired Yusuke. Yusuke and Koenma travel to Makai to help his friends. But at that same moment Yusuke is taken over by his "Father" Raizen, the war god of Makai. This makes Yusuke shoot a Reigun at him. Yusuke regains his consious just in time to yell, "Sensui, dodge it!" , but Sensui gets hit anyways. When Yusuke finds Sensui, Sensui tells Yusuke that this was his dream. Sensui says, "After all the demons I killed, I wanted to travel and die in Makai, after seeing how horrible Humans are to Yokai. Yuske starts yelling at Sensui to live so they can continue their fight, but lightning comes down and kills Sensui as it strikes him.

Characters

Yusuke Urameshi

Names are in Western order, with the surname after the given name. The English anime name is to the right of the Japanese name if it applies.

• Yusuke Urameshi (浦飯幽助 Urameshi Yūsuke) - Yusuke is the toughest kid in Sarayashiki Junior High School and has a typical tough guy approach to everything. He becomes a spirit detective after he had died and was revived by Keiko's kiss. His main attack is the Rei Gun (Spirit Gun in the Dub) where he can manipulate his Reiki into a projectile.

• Kazuma Kuwabara (桑原和真) - Kuwabara (Which is what most people call him) is the second toughest kid in the school and was always trying to get Yusuke's spot. He leads a gang consisting of himself and three other people. As the show progress, Yusuke and Kuwabara cease being rivals and become great friends. His main powers are his high Reiki sensitivity and his Rei Ken (Spirit Sword in the Dub), Reiki he has manipulated into the shape of a sword.

• Keiko Yukimura (雪村螢子 Yukimura Keiko) / Kayko Yukimura - Although Yusuke vehemently denies it, Keiko is his girlfriend. Her personality is almost the exact opposite of his and she keeps up with her schoolwork much better than Yusuke.

• Koenma (コエンマ) - Looks like an infant, but he is the ruler and general manager of spirit realm (Reikai). He hires Yusuke on as spirit detective after he helps him come back to life. His father is King Enma (Enma is named King Yama, the Hindu name, in the English anime).

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• Botan (ぼたん) - The ferrywoman of the Sanzu River (River Styx in Western Mythology). Originally assigned by Koenma to be Yusuke's spirit guide after the fatal car accident, she becomes his case manager when he becomes spirit detective and supplies him with equipment and information.

• Hiei (飛影) a.k.a. Hiei of the Evil Eye (Jaganshi Hiei) - Hiei is a fire/Kōrime demon (yōkai) who specializes in speed, swordsmanship and Black Dragon Technique (Jaou Ensatsu Kokoryuha). He possesses an Evil Eye, or Jagan, which amplifies his power and enables him to summon the fires of Makai (Demon Realm). Originally, he was the leader of an underworld crime ring and was one of the three demons Yusuke fought on his first case. Hiei became a valuable ally afterwards. His twin sister is Yukina.

• Kurama (蔵馬), also known as Shuichi Minamino (南野秀一 Minamino Shū'ichi) - Kurama is a demon who has the power to use plants as lethal weapons. He was one of the three demons Yusuke faced on his first case, but he did not fight Yusuke, for he was trying to use the artifact to save his human mother. He was originally the kitsune, Yoko Kurama (Yōko Kurama) until he was trapped and only barely escaped into a human baby. He grew up as the human child Shuichi, and regrets the grief he has given his human mother. The "pretty boy" of the group, he is also the cleverest and wisest member.

• Genkai (幻海) - The aged fighter who held a tournament to decide who would be her successor. Yusuke wins and defeats the demon, Rando. She trains Yusuke in the Spirit Light Wave Fist (Reikō Hadō Ken) and coaches him to the extreme.

• Yukina - She is an ice yōkai (apparition) who was captured by a mobster, Tarukane, who wanted to use her tears to produce jewels. Yusuke, Botan, and Kuwabara rescue her from the compound. She returns later during the Dark Tournament (Ankoku Būtsukai) looking for her brother (she isn't aware that Hiei is her brother). She is also naïve of Kuwabara's affection towards her.

• Hinageshi - Hinageshi is the guide to the spirit world. She gets around by flying on an oar, just like Botan does. Hinageshi is an expert on information about the nether world.

• Atsuko Urameshi - Atsuko is Yusuke's alcoholic mother. She tries to raise him into a respectable citizen despite her questionable private life.

• The teachers (Mr. Akashi, Mr. Iwamoto, Mr. Takenaka) - Yusuke doesn't get along too well with his teachers at school. Mr. Akashi and Mr. Iwamoto hate him and his friends. They try every trick in the book to expel them. Mr. Takenaka (Spelled Takanaka in the English anime) believes that Yusuke is a truly good person, and only scolds him when needed. During the Four Beasts saga, Mr. Iwamoto is infested with a roundworm monster/makai insect. Since Suzaku commanded all of the infested people to kill Keiko Yukimura, Iwamoto stalks Keiko around Sarayashiki Junior High School before Yusuke destroys the whistle, which causes the insect inside him to die; he returns to normal after the whistle is destroyed.

• Shizuru Kuwabara - Kazuma Kuwabara's tough older sister. Like her younger brother she also has a high level of Reiki sensitivity. She wants Kazuma to grow up and get a education so he can make something of himself. Is also a chain smoker and the biggest part she plays in the series is during the Ankoku Būtsukai (Dark Tournament) where she falls in love with Sakyo, the owner of Team Urameshi's rival team, Team Toguro. He saves her life twice, but she is unaware of his true identity until the end. She also knows Yukina's connection to Hiei because she saw a videotape that provided the details for the mission that Yusuke and Kuwabara had to rescue Yukina from Tarukane (only she, Botan, and Yusuke saw the details that Yukina is Hiei's sister).

• The Jolly Devil Six, known as the Rokoyukai Team in the anime and the original manga, is composed of six members.
  • Rinku - Rinku is a child-demon who uses a Yo-Yo. He defeats Kuwabara, because Kuwabara couldn't get back in the ring on time.
  • Roto - Roto is a dishonorable fighter. Roto faces Kurama in the Second round of the Dark Tournament. Kurama has the upper hand as Roto try's to punch him, but throughout the fight Roto calls Kurama by his human name " Shuichi Minamano". Just as Kurama was about to finish him, Roto say's he hold's Kurama's mother's life in his hand. Thus brings out the evil in Kurama killing Roto by a Death Seed.
  • Zeru - The "Captain" Of Team Rokoyukia. Not much to say about him but His power is based around fire, his only attacks he uses are Fire Aurora, and a fire blast attack. He seemingly punches Hiei throught the stomach, then shoots a fire blast at him, yet again seemingly killing him. Then Hiei appears behind Zeru, Zeru is stunned not known a fire demons attack won't work on other fire demons. Thus he is killed by the infamous Dragon of the Darkness flame.
  • Chu (Chuu in the English anime) - Chu is the true captain of the Jolly Devil Six. He kills two teammates, Imajin and Gao, for being cowards and trying to run away after seeing Zeru killed. One of his types of fighting styles is the drunken fist. He fuses his sprit energy with the alcohol to form his Sui Ken which is a ball of energy he throws at his opponent. The other form of fighting he uses is favorite type an knife edge Death Match, he put his knifes into the ground, they each take off a shoe and put their feet to the knife, the one to slip his foot off the knife he looses, and the winner kill the loser. He later falls in love with a Demon girl named Natsume, in the Makai Butsukai and surrenders automatically when fighting in the preliminaries.

• Dr.Ichigaki - He is a demon scientist who took advantage of three Martial art students by poising their master. He then turns them into M1(En), M2(Ryo), and M3(Kai) (I think in that order), when they said that they would help Dr. Ichigaki, if they'd heal their master. So then Dr. Ichigaki turned them into Makai minions ( I guess, their usally called M1,M2, M3, or Dr. Ichigaki's minions. He uses them as a team in the Dark Tournament, later during the fight says that his team has a 99.5% of winning. His team is later turned back into humans by the Sprit Wave used by the Mask Fighter. Next is Dr. Ichigaki (in a giant form) V.S. Yuske. Ichigaki is killed by Yusukes various punches and kicks.

• M1, M2, M3 - En, Ryo, Kai, they gave their freedom up to get Ichigaki to heal their master. Later used as a Team in the Dark Tournament (Team Ichigaki).

• Gama - He is a demon who knows the "Secret art" of paint, his two attack are Make-up of chains (Gokujono Sho), Make-up of the Seal(Nembaku Fuji no sho), he fights Kurama in the opening team match, his Make-up of Chains, freezes his oppnenet where ever he gets the paint. Kuramas only choice because of of the Gokujo no sho, is to use his Rose whip and ends up killing Gama, then Gama uses his blood to create make-up of the seal, which seals Kuramas yoki (sprit energy) inside of him.

• Touya - Touya is somewhat a honarable fighter. He fights Kurama right after Gama is killed, seeing how the Goku no sho is still on him. Kurama was unable to leave the ring and was officialy the next fighter. Touya uses his shards of winter to try to kill kurama. But loses after trying his ice sword on Kurama whom countered by placing a Death Seed in his body.

• Bakken: The third fighter on Team Masho (Team Mashotsukai in the Japanese Version). Thanks to the Team Masho's owner, Bakken was able to fight against Kurama who is uncouncious from the previous round. Yususke was ready to break the rules to save Kurama, luckily Risho ordered Bakken to stop. Bakken then faced Yusuke next but it didn't take long for Yusuke to defeat him.
• Jin - The most honarable player on Team Masho, he fights Yusuke after Yusuke beat Bakken. Jin starts off by dodging Yusuke's punch and starts flying and seemingly teleporting (Guess since he is a wind Shinobi, he super fast) and trying to attack Yusuke. He later saves himself and Yusuke after getting his windfist ready, Yusuke shoots a sprit gun at point blank, so Jin use's his wind to kind of back away instead of letting sprit energy go head on head so close. The match offically ended in a draw. Because the Tournaments sponsers are on the payroll of Team Mashos owner.

• Risho - He is the dishonarable fighter of Team Masho. his attacks are based around earth, aromor of clay ( a defence and offence raise), and Spiked aromor of clay (another boost), he has another where he controls earth to come up underneath his opponent (Kuwabara) in a spike kind of way. He embareslingly loses to a badly injuried Kuwabara.

• Kuro Momantaro - He uses one of the many strange items from team Uraotogi. (Everybogy has one.) His item('s) the Steming Sphere's. First he cuts himself with hiei's sword and uses one of three different spheres (Hieis sword are useless now), turning him into a beast or called Beast Armor of the ape, (Buju Soko: Maen No So), Next is Beast Aromor: Armor of the Phoenix (Buju Soko: Machi No So) (Now Hiei's Fist of the Mortal Flame (Jaou Ensatsu Ren Goku Shou) is now useless, then his last is Beast Armor: armor of the Wolf, (Buju Soko: Maken No So), Just to show off his power he transforms into this Armor. Later being forced to use his attack Hiei focuses his Dragon into his sword therefor creating the "Sword of Darkness Flame" (Jaou Ensatsu Ken), and getting sliced in half.

• Ura Urashima - he is truly a Makai bug in human form. He fights Kurama in the Semi-Final. He tricks Kurama into believing that he's fighting for his sick grandmother, and using the Idunn Box. Unleashing Yoko Kurama. The Idunn Box Turn's you into your baby form (sends you back to you childhood), not knowing that Kurama would turn back that far. He's killed by ShiShi Wakumaru, right before he could tell Kurama the secret behind Team Uraotogi.

• ShiShi Wakumaru - He first fights Kuwabara and uses his own attack called the Cape of No Return (It sends whoever to anywhere, even a different demension), then fight's Genkia. He then starts stealing people's souls and using his Banshee Sword, and the attack called Chourus of a 1,000 screams (Bakuto Doku Shoku Sou). Next uses his attack called the cage of hell (Onko Shou Baku Heki), a cage forms around them trapping them within it, making it easier to get a direct attack on his oppenet. But is defeated after genkia used her Reihado-ken, and steals some of his power, and uses her Sprit Reflection Blast (Rei Kou Kyou Han Shyo).

• Akarenjya- Akarenjya is the leader of Team Gorenjya. They don't play an important role role in the series, they only appear in the semi's of the Dark Tournament against team Toguro. He faced elder toguro, he didn't last long though, Elder told Akarenjya that if he begged for his life maybe he'd live. But instead Akarenjya said he'd only come back if not killed. After that Elder stabs Akarenjya throught the head with his finger.

• Midorenjya - Like all of the members of team Gorenjya, he didn't last long. Karasu uses a Ki bomb and Implants it into Midorenjya and then touchs him to activate the bombs.

• Kirenjya - Kirenjya was unluckily up against Bui. He got sliced in half after Bui brought out his axe. He tought Bui wouldn't be able to handle it steadily, and was wrong.

• Momorenjya - She fights Elder and gets stabbed throught the head by Elders finger.

• Karasu - Fight Kurama in the first round of the finals. most of his attacks are bomb like things that surround their oppnent and gather in on him on command. He is Defeated by Kurama/(Yoko Kurama's powers) using The Bloodsucking Plant (Kyuuketsu Shokubutsu).

• Bui- He is the one that fight hiei.At first he wears his armor which contains some of his energy, so he's powered down a little. At fist he only uses his Axe. After getting kicked around for a while he tells hiei to use his full power. Then takes off his armor saying "I swore to take this off only to him.", then his Sprit Class is moved from B- to B. Later he's killed after taking a direct hit from the Dragon of the Darkness falme." (Jaou Ensatsu Koku Ryuu Ha).

• Elder Toguro - The Eldest of the Two Toguro Brother, he has the power to manipulate his hand and body into any wepon, plus he can move around his internal organs. He fights Kuwabara during the second to the final match. After taking the expremental sword, he was seemingly dead after Kuwabara unleashed his Sprit sword Shard (Rei Shuriken), but just reformed. Later he was seemingly killed again when Kuwabara got the Sword back changed into the Giant Energy Staff (Kyodai Reiki Bou). Only to come out of the floor during the begining of the final match.

• Younger Toguro - Toguro was once human but won one the last Dark Tournament, and wished for a demon (Youki) body, seeing how he was scared to become weak (He was scared to not be able to protect his friends). But turned int a Youki in every way. He faked his death against Yuske and Kuwabara when they first fought. later during the intermission before the finals Toguro fought and killed Genkia. 100 and 120% were the two strenght increase's he used during their fight. He killed Kuwabara after genkia possed Puu (Yuske's Sprit Beast) and told Toguro the only way to bring Yuske to full power was to kill one of his friends. He was killed by Yuske after Yuske Shot a Full powered Sprit Gun at Toguro.

• Shinobu Sensui - He is the next Sakyo, trying to break the Kikia barrier to unleash yokais of all classes to destroy all of the people on earth, but as of Saykio sensui has a different motive. Being the previous Sprit Detective, he killed alotta yuoki's. But Koema sent Sensui to a mission where he came face to face with the BBC (Black Book Club), where he witnessed, them toutoring a Youki, after that Sensui went insane, creating Seven Personality's, two are known Kazuya, and Ichiya. He recruit seven people who inherited Sprit Powerfrom the Kikia Barrier opening up a bit, he made them watch a tape called Chapter Black That has all kind of things on it showing that humans are just as bad as demons. As pawns in his plan he recruited, Tsukihito Amanema, The Game Master, the youngest of them all, Hagari Kaname, The Sniper, Itsuki, The Gate Keeper, Minoru Kamiya, The Doctor, Sadao Makihara, The Gourmet, Kiyoshi Mitarai, The Sea Man, and last was Sensui himself, Black angle

• Tsukihito Amanema A.K.A. The Game Master - Is Seven years old he is part of Sensuis seven, he has the power to make any game he want and turn it into real life, he is unaware of sensuis true plans, and how Sensui ahd made it so Kurama had no choice but to kill Amanema. A little bit after dieing Koema stupidly fall for Sensui trap, and uses his Pacifier which has 700 years of power, which he uses to try to seal sensui in the Kikia Barrier.

• Kaname Hagari, The Sniper - He's 17 years old, he has the power to (A).Make any object in his Territory to a bullet-like object and then flick it at his target.

(b). Put a Bullseye-sign curse on a person's body. Objects from all around the person fly at the cursed person. Hagari is killed by Hiei who slices him with the Sixteen Slash Jagan.

• Itsuki, The Gate Keeper - Itsuki is a demon who was once "Stalking Sensui", for Itsuki liked the way he fought. One day he was caught, Itsuki asked Sensui if he'd kill him tomorrow, he was wanting to watch the finale of his favorite T.V. show, Sensui laughed and decided not to kill him. He loves the girl personality of Sensui. He also controls a Shadow-like creature.

• Minoru Kamiya, The Doctor - Kamiya is the oldest human in Sensui's seven. He is able to produce poisinous Makai bug that kill the people they bite if Kamiya isn't beaten or killed within ten minutes. He's able to use his fingers as a scalple, can reattach part of his body, and is has lost all sense of pain.

• Sadao Makihara, The Gourmet - When we first meet sensui we saw Elder Toguros head in a fish tank. Later he was eaten by Makihara. Later Toguro overpowered Makihara and took control of his body and mind.

• Kiyoshi Mitarai, The Sea Man - Mitarai was always teased in school, causing him to hate his own race. Sensui is easily able to get the human to join his side. Mitarai later battles Kuwabara, who severly injures him after Kuwabara forms the Demension Blade and cut's Mitarai and his territory.

• Yomi - He was one of Yoko's companions along with Kuronue. One time when Yomi was raiding a castle a Demon Assassin, who killed all of Yomi's men. He was unable to kill Yomi so he blindede him instead. Yomi grew Four new ears to overcome the weakness he had of being blind. But Despite that Yomi achived a S class rank and became a Makai ruler along side Mukuro, and Raizen. He captured the assassin to tourture him for a while, but when Kurama had come to see Yomi, the assassin said that Yoko had hired him to kill Yomi. Infuriated Yomi killed the assassin by a single punch. Tora is one of Yomi's generals, he was killed when attacking Kurama unaware that Kurama could change into Yoko at will.

• Mukuro - A Makai ruler. When Mukuro was younger she enslaved by an obese demon who mistreated her severly. She poured acid over the left side of her body to escape him, she later traind with her chains still on and a deformed body. She reached S class then became a Makai ruler. She appears with Shigure the demon surgeon who implanted Hiei's Jagan.Mukuro forces Hiei to fight Shigure. Hiei defeats but does no kill him. hiei is forced to be the sponser/adviser for Mukuro.

• Raizen - He is Yusuke's "Father". Raizen is the demon who took over Yusuke's body during his fight with Sensui. Raizen explains how hundreds of years ago when raiding a village he was injured. A woman nursed him back to health. As he was about to eat her, she said, "Feast on other humans better than me." Then he vowed never to eat human flesh again, thus setting himself up for his death. He trains Yusuke expecting Yusuke to take his place as a Makai ruler. After Raizen dies, Yusuke learns that if Raizen had eaten human flesh all those years he would've been the most powerful demon in all of Makai. During the last episode of the anime, Raizen's ghost makes an appearance.

• Enki - One of Raizens old friends. He is one of the many competetors in the Makai Tournament. You don't see a lot of him but after the fight of Yuske and Yomi, (Yomi wins) Yomi must fight Enki right after he beats Yusuke. He makes the law that no demon is allowed to go into the human world to terrorize it.

Classes

In YuYu Hakusho the ranking of demons and apparitions is done by grade letters. E-class is the weakest class of demons. Meanwhile, S, which indicates "Super A-class", is the strongest demon classification. Each class also has sub-divisions of upper (or +), middle, and lower (or -). For example, A has three subclasses: A-, A, and A+.

Terminology

• Evil Eye, or Jagan- The Sprit item possesed by Hiei and Raigo. Not only does it give Hiei the Dragon of the Darkness flame, but it also can see over miles away. But as everything ithas a downfall, Hiei's Sprit energy was greatly decreased. However Raigo's Evil Eye is able and supposed to go deep into a persons body and then bring it out in them when used on Hiei it brings out the evil in him.

• Sprit cuffs - This is one section of Yusukes final test. When the cuffs are put on a user, he or she cannot move until his/or her spirit energy is mastered. Yusuke uses the cuffs in his fight against Toguro. The user's spirit energy increases when he or she removed the cuffs.

• Spirit Wave Orb - The sprit wave orb (Rei Ko Gyoku) was the final test for Yuske. The sprit wave orb is all of Genkias power into an orb shaped enrgy ball. Yuske later gets the orb into his body after a couple of hours.

• Trial Sword - The Trial Sword (Tameshi no Ken) is one of the two items Suzuka gives to team Urameshi. The user's Rei (Ki, or Sprit energy) determines the way the Trial sword looks. Seeing how ShiShi Wakumaru was part Banshee it was the Banshee Shreik. For kuwabra it just greatly powered up his Sprit Sword, and also turned into the Giant Energy Staff.

Theme songs

• Opening
  • "Hohoemi no Bakudan" (Smile Bomb) by Matsuko Mawatari
    • English version is dubbed.
• Ending
  1. "Homework ga Owaranai" (Neverending Homework) by Matsuko Mawatari
     • English version is dubbed.
  2. "Sayonara Byebye" by Matsuko Mawatari - Used for the Cartoon Network version starting with the Finals of the Dark Tournament storyline.
  3. "Anbaransu na Kisu wo Shite" (Unbalanced Kiss) by Hiro Takahashi Used for the Cartoon Network Version starting with the beginning of the Chapter Black Storyline but with the English lyrics and music from Ending #4
  4. "Taiyō ga Mata Kagayaku Toki" (The Sun is Shining Again) by Hiro Takahashi
  5. "Daydream Generation" by Matsuko Mawatari
  • Note: Endings 4 (Mainly the Images) and 5 are not heard in the Cartoon Network version as yet.

Video games

Several video games, released in Japan and North America, were based off of Yu Yu Hakusho.

Released in English

Game Boy Advance

• Yu Yu Hakusho: Spirit Detective

PlayStation 2

• Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament

Not released in English

3DO

• Yu Yu Hakusho

Famicom

• Yu Yu Hakusho

Game Boy

• Yu Yu Hakusho
• Yu Yu Hakusho Dai-Ni-Tama
• Yu Yu Hakusho Dai-San-Tama
• Yu Yu Hakusho Dai-Shi-Tama

Sega Mega Drive

• Yu Yu Hakusho Gaiden
• Yu Yu Hakusho: Makyo Toitsusen

Game Gear

• Yu Yu Hakusho
• Yu Yu Hakusho II

Super Famicom

• Yu Yu Hakusho
• Yu Yu Hakusho 2
• Yu Yu Hakusho Final
• Yu Yu Hakusho Special
• Yu Yu Hakusho: Tokubetsuhen

Turbo CD

• Yu Yu Hakusho Yamishōbu

See also

• Yu Yu Hakusho Trading Card Game

External links

• English Yu Yu Hakusho website (http://www.yuyuhakusho.com)
• Studio Pierrot Yu Yu Hakusho website (http://pierrot.jp/title/yuyu/index.html)
• Maze Castle (fan site) (http://www.maze-castle.com/mc.php?mc=index2.htm)