Genkai was a badass old lady and, she was there for Yusuke when he needed her. She was powerful for spirit techniques, and even taught Yusuke her famous “Spirit Bomb” technique. She’s important to Yusuke because she was the mother figure he never had. She’s kind of like Yoda, if he smoked, played video games, and gambled.
She teaches the crew how to better use their abilities. The first time Yusuke meets her she almost gets assassinated by a demon. She’s a wise-cracking old lady with psychic powers. Genkai (left), like Keiko, loves Yusuke, but more like a mother. That moment, I think, best displays of her character.
Because she loved him, she proved to Koenma that somebody on earth cared for him, which was part of how Yusuke got live again. Keiko (right) is Yusuke’s love interest and has been friends with him for a long time. Both of them keep Yusuke on the right track. The last two characters I want to mention are Keiko and Genkai, the two most important people to Yusuke.
Both Hiei and Kurama have something they want to protect and they, like Yusuke, would do anything to do so. He sought ways to give himself more power and worked to protect the ones he loves. Hiei, on the other hand, has a fiery personality. He is soft speaking and calm, and always provides a lot of wisdom. He is a demon born human with an affinity for plants and humans. Hiei and Kurama are polar opposites as far as personalities and beliefs go. However, after Yusuke foiled their plans, these two joined him on his cases. They were antagonists on the show, at first. Hiei and Kurama (left) were more or less the first set of demons Yusuke had to fight. He gains powers and helps Yusuke win some battles with some pretty power demons like Hiei and Kurama. Later on in the show, Kuwabara’s character develops a lot. He was a rival to Yusuke in the school, but becomes his friend after Yusuke saves Kuwabara’s pet kitten from a gang. Just like Yusuke, Kuwabara is a troubled youth. My all-time favorite character is the hilarious badass known as Kazuma Kuwabara (right). With a few tools under his belt Yusuke greatly changes his ways and returns from the dead making new and powerful friends. Koenma tells Yusuke about the powers he has as a detective, and teaches him the iconic Spirit Gun, a technique which fires a beam of energy from the fingertips. Really his dad, King Yama, actually runs everything. He is extremely powerful, as one would imagine, but ironically he needs a lot of help running the spirit world. Over the course of the show Koenma gives him the brief on his assignments. He is Yusuke’s boss in the show, and he gives Yusuke the offer to go back to the living as a Spirit Detective, but only if he passes some trials. Koenma (left) is a childlike authority of the spirit world. However, she tells him since he died saving a child, and by performing a selfless deed, he has an opportunity to go back to the living as a detective for the spirit world. She informs him that he’ll basically go to hell for being a bad kid and acting like this. Despite how cheery she seems, Yusuke still acts like a punk when he meets her for the first time. She gives Yusuke the most advice at the beginning of the show. Dead, he journeys to the spirit world with the aid of one of my favorite characters Botan, a cheery, happy-go-lucky grim reaper (right). Events spiral out when he saves a kid from an oncoming car, and he dies. The pilot episode introduces Yusuke, and his struggles at school and at home. He’s basically your typical high school punk. The main character of the show is teenage boy named Yusuke Urameshi (see left). There are so many different elements about the show that I liked: the action, the animation, and the music– pretty much all of it! So let’s get to it… Here’s the Yu Yu Hakusho English Opening.Įxplaining why I think the show inspires me though is pretty challenging for me. It was catchy, and energetic and I liked it and the animation.
After all the characters get shown together in the opening the song ends quickly and the show would go straight to the struggle Yusuke and the gang would face. “Smile Bomb,” the opening song, would start showing Botan, a psychopomp in the show, Yusuke, the main protagonist, and the title of the show. It would air just as I would get back from school every day of the week at about 3:30. Like many kids growing up in the early 2000’s, I watched it on Cartoon Network and their Toonami block. Growing up wanting to be an actor, a writer, and an artist, I watched Yu Yu Hakusho.