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YuYu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書, YūYū Hakusho?, literally Spirits Wander White Book, meaning "Ghost Files" / "Poltergeist Report", romanized as YuYu HAKUSHO) is a Japanese manga series created by Yoshihiro Togashi with an anime adaptation. The name of the series is spelled YuYu Hakusho in FUNimation's distribution of the anime and in the Viz manga.

The manga was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump. The series consists of 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes, and won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1994. In North America, the manga currently runs in Viz' Shonen Jump.

The anime, directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising and Studio Pierrot, consists of 112 television episodes and two movies: "The Golden Seal" (YuYu Hakusho: The Movie) and "Bonds of Fire" (YuYu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report). The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1993 and 1994. The TV series originally aired on Japan's Fuji Television network from October 10, 1992, to January 7, 1995,[1] and was later licensed in North America by FUNimation in 2001. The show first aired on US TV on February 2002 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. Around March 2003, the show moved to Cartoon Network's Toonami block due to higher ratings. Then YuYu Hakusho was taken off Toonami around March 2005 and moved to an early Saturday morning timeslot at 5:30 A.M. where the series finished its run. It currently airs as part of the FUNimation programming block on CoLours TV.

A series of YuYu Hakusho Autentic Animated Videos were released only in
Japan:

Eizō Hakusho: Ankoku Bujutsukai (2 Volumes)
Eizō Hakusho II: Yusuke Volume
Eizō Hakusho II: Kurama Volume
Eizō Hakusho II: Hiei Volume
Eizō Hakusho II: Kuwabara Volume
Opening Ending Encyclopedia
Recap Guide Complete Advance Set (3 Volumes)
It has also been broadcast across Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent by the anime satellite television network Animax.

Yusuke Urameshi is a street-brawling delinquent with a tough guy approach to everything. Yusuke's mother Atsuko, an alcoholic, had him at the age of 15 and shows little interest in raising her son. He has a reserved seat in the guidance counselor's office, and numerous other delinquents in the city are trying to take him on. Yusuke is pretty fed up with life.

However, no one expects a sudden act of heroism on his part: he dies trying to save a little boy from a speeding car. In fact, when he arrives in the afterlife, he is informed that no one was expecting him to die that way, and were not prepared for his arrival.

After numerous tests to gauge his worth, Yusuke is eventually revived, and is assigned to work for the Spirit Realm as a detective investigating demonic cases in the human world. He comes into spiritual abilities of his own, and enlists the help of numerous friends from Reikai (spirit world), Makai (demon world, translated in the English manga as the Demon Plane) and Ningenkai (human world) to aid him in his cases as they fight off demons and humans seeking to rule over all three worlds.

[edit] Story arcs
Spirit Detective Saga
Dark Tournament Saga
Chapter Negru Saga
Saga of the Three Kings

[edit] Terms
Reikai Tantei (literally Spirit Realm Detective) / Spirit Detective - "Spirit Detective" is the name given to those who defend the human world (Ningenkai) from interference from demons, beasts, and apparitions known as yōkai hailing from the Demon World (Makai). Reikai Tantei are usually picked by Koenma, the prince of Spirit World (Reikai), the realm of the dead or disembodied.

Ningenkai The human world (or Earth).

Reikai The world of spirits, and the afterlife for both demons and humans. A loose analogue for Heaven.

Makai The world where demons reside.

Meikai The Netherworld. An analogy for Hell. Once the afterlife for demons, but was sealed away after its ruler tried to conquer the other realms.

Reiki Spirit energy possessed by humans.

Seikouki Sacred energy possessed by Shinobu Sensui and some inhabitants of Reikai.

Youki Energy possessed by yōkai (demons). Also known as demon energy.

[edit] Classes
The ranking of demons and apparitions is done by grade letters. E-class is the weakest class of demons, only slightly stronger than ordinary humans. Meanwhile, the S-class is the strongest demon classification. Each class also has sub-divisions of lower (or -), middle, and upper (or +). For example, the B class has three subclasses: B-, B, and B+. The E rank consists of demons that are generally stronger than regular humans, but can be matched by strong humans like Yusuke and Kuwabara. The D rank consists of weaker but dangerous demons, like Gouki. The C rank consists of very formidable demons, like the Saint Beasts. The B rank is an extremely high rank, where demons like the Toguro brothers are just barely weak enough to pass into human world. The A rank consists of demons that are too strong for human world to handle, like Hiei and Youko Kurama before they first passed into human world. The S rank consists of demons that not even Spirit World can control, like Raizen, Yomi, and Mukuro. There is also a device that gauges a person's energy level that is used by Yomi's subordinates.

Interestingly, Yusuke and his friends' power levels climbed very fast throughout the series. At the beginning of the series, Yusuke and Kuwabara had only E class power levels. By the beginning of the Saga of the Three Kings, Kuwabara possesses low A class power and Yusuke possesses low S class power. It took Sensui six years (a split between 7 personalities) to develop low S class power where as Yusuke went from E to high S class in a little less than two years (albeit due to extreme circumstances and experiences). By the time of the Saga of the Three Kings, all of Yusuke's friends and allies that fought were stronger than the Toguro brothers, including the dark tournament qualifiers.

also, it should be noted that the class system ceases to truly apply upon reaching the S-class. the S -class ranking indicates any demon that is beyond spirit world's ability to combat.

as a result of this, even creatures sharing the S ranking can be vastly different in terms of power. it was stated by kurama, when asked by kuwabara how there could be people far stronger then sensui and yusuke(both being S-class at the time), that "the S-class comprises anything from lower level grunts, to beings with nearly god-like power".

Merchandise
YuYu Hakusho has released many DVDs and videos, including three video games in North America known as Yu Yu Hakusho: Dark Tournament, Yu Yu Hakusho: Tournament Tactics and Yu Yu Hakusho Final. It also released a few action figures.
The YuYu Hakusho TV series in its original DVD form was released in sets of three to four episodes, with a global of thirty-two DVD and VHS volumes.
YuYu Hakusho also has DVDs of both of the movies that are currently available, which have been licensed and released by Media Blasters and Central Park Media.
FUNimation is currently re-releasing the YuYu Hakusho series on DVD sets made up of fourteen episodes each.
YuYu Hakusho also has a series of drama CDs sung by the Japanese voice actors.
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