![]() ![]() Before you jump to conclusion, I admit that there isn’t exactly THAT much strategy in battles in the longrun. But again, it’s not as if pacing means anything for the target audience as long as it is not constantly building up in action and frustration. Most of the battles are short and dense in action, plus they usually have some strategy that makes them far more interesting than simply stating “My battle power is bigger than yours”. On the other hand the pacing of YYH is to the most part extremely well done, without spending entire episodes just powering up while staring at each other screaming. There is not a drop of sympathy for the losers. These here are demons you are meant to hate them and see them dying miserably. Or in Dragonball, where the bad guys kill innocents by the hundreds. It is hardly the same thing like, let’s say, in Hokuto no Ken where everybody was human. The entire show hardly shows normal people dying but demons are there to be ripped to shreds on every corner. Yet even then, when the level of violence is ten times more, you still don’t get the same feeling of excitement than in DBZ for the simplest reason. The good fights start around episode 30, when the opponents are literally torn to pieces and everybody is now using energy blasts and lightning fast movements. For the impatient battle-lovers that would seem boring and since the target audience is young teens it is very hard to find appreciation in patience. YYH takes a much slower route by having each character building up from a simple street punk to a guy who uses a generic special attack and gradually improves it to be more devastating. I mean, even in the first series of DB in just a few episodes you had people breaking rocks with a punch and blowing up mountains with an energy blast or turning to huge monsters that wreck entire fortresses. To be frank, it takes a lot of time for epic-level battles to appear and that is probably why the anime never got the fame DBZ did. He thereafter protects his city from various demons who want to harm it and this is where the action part begins. After that, the lead becomes a “spirit detective” as his spirit power (this anime’s version of power level or chi or whatever) got a boost thanks to his journey to the spirit world. ![]() That was a wonderful way to be introduced dynamically to the story and to be bonded with them in just four episodes. All this time we have almost zero action (some street punks are having a brawling but it’s nothing much) and the entire plot is centered on getting to know the main characters and how they feel and act. That is a far more sophisticated approach than just gathering seven orange spheres and making a wish. In order to do that, he needs to get the approval by the lord of the dead (well, his son actually), convince his loved ones and even his rival that he can do that in order for them to preserve his body, and even use their life force as part of the procedure of resurrection. The lead character dies and is floating around as a ghost, trying to return back in his body. It tries.Let’s take the first episodes for example. And that is what makes it better than most shonens. To be honest, it is not THAT different in its actual plot but at least it tried to be a bit smarter. ![]() It aired at the same time Dragonball Z was at its peak and its explosions were not as big as there, so many pushed it aside as a watered down DBZ. Yu Yu Hakusho (YYH) is one of the lesser known fighting shonen of the 90’s and life went harsh on it. ( I have watched it 9 times, and I rewatch it nearly every year, without getting tired of it.) If you feel like you want some exciting time, wants to laugh, wants to smile, just watch this one, and I am sure you won't regret. It really reminds me of my childhood, because from that time it has been my only real favourite. I have always loved action animes, with some comedy, and the same time with real story. The development of a boy, who became a man at the end of his path. But its cost to be a spirit detective, who has to fight the monsters of the city.Īnd his adventures just began! It shows us a new world, with humans, monsters, and spirits, shows us friendship, makes us laugh and then cry. Or so he didn't.īecause of his childhood friend, Keiko, his own mother, and his rival, Kuwabara, he decided to try to get back to life. But in process, he died, and now he thinks its better this way, and has no though of wanting to live again. Even the spirit world is surprised, that he literally saved the life of a little boy, who was nearly hit by a car. Yusuke Uremeshi is actually a total jerk (well at first someone would think). The story about an average high school boy. ![]()
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