#chapter black is a Good Arc and yoshihiro togashi is a good writer send tweet

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Watching Yu Yu Hakusho as a 14 year old, Game Master's arc made me cry.

As an adult watching it, this is TERRIFYING.

Sensui is shown explicitly grooming Amanuma and manipulating him to die. Amanuma was a ten-year-old latch-key kid with no supervision, obsessed with arcades, and Sensui paid attention to him. Made him feel special. Counted on him not to fully understand the consequences of his actions if he helped destroy the world. Amanuma was so relieved that an adult was interested in the same things as him and so excited by the idea of "no school, no parents" that he genuinely didn't comprehend what he was involved in until Kurama basically read him his death sentence. And even then, Amanuma kept trying to rationalize:

"Mr. Sensui is the only one who really cares about him."

"He said he'd keep me safe, so I should trust him. He cares about what I have to say!"

Sensui made a game of pushing Team Urameshi's moral limits, and counted on Amanuma dying and making them feel bad. And Kurama DOES feel bad for letting Amanuma die - but Kurama is a lot older than Yusuke or even Genkai, and is by FAR the most ruthless member of the team. It's shocking for the audience that Kurama is wiling to murder a child and say that he has no regrets afterwards - but Kurama also recognizes that the blame for this situation lies solely with Sensui for putting Amanuma in this situation on purpose.

It's one of those things in the series that show Sensui as a special kind of evil.