#references to Yu Yu Hakusho

[deersweets]

Techwear Youko Kurama…save me…

Techwear Youko kurama

[spkyart]

MUKURO

((Aka the love of my life ))

[jilted-love]

Can you imagine if Kurama can control fungi too aside from plants and he pulls out cordyceps like "here are parasitic fungi that turn their hosts into zombies, I control them". Fox boy can destroy the world (but he already has parasitic plants that aren't fungi so who knows)

[emeraldoodles]

I almost had this done last week and commented "Wow, Hiei is really easy to draw." SO ofc the file got corrupted and I had to redraw it all. What a jerk.

[setteidreams]

✿ Yu Yu Hakusho ┊ 162 sheets ✿

… a 1992 series with character designs by Mari Kitayama, Masaya Onishi & Minoru Yamazawa is now available over here.

[jadebrightwind]

HOLD YOUR BREATH IT GETS BETTER I was possessed, I am possessed, if you saw the influences yes you did clever you, I will be coloring and shading this properly later but it needed to break out of my skull first wHY IS HE SO CUTE

[skrunksthatwunk]

nobody's doing it like itsuki yyh. i've been thinking about him and sensui a lot today but like. ok get this. imagine being a demon and this cute human guy (you are gay btw green hair and pronounsed and everything) shows up and tries to kill you and almost succeeds. you survive because you lament that you're gonna miss the finale of a show you watch/see a niche pop artist on tv (depending on adaptation, but either way these are your last words and it airs the next night), and he says he's into it too. you become partners. this man, shinobu sensui, is a spirit detective who's been haunted by demons his whole life, has been killing them with the complete, unwavering belief that he's right for it, since he was in pre-k. you being a demon does not seem to change how he thinks about this. it doesn't change your feelings either, since he fascinates you. you help him kill demons.

one day, your human is confronted with one of the worst sights imaginable, one that shatters his worldview completely. he sees demons being tortured and slaughtered hedonistically by a group of humans. he can't process it. he splits. your shinobu is now one of seven within his body. you love each of them. you love him. you watch as he pivots into a deep hatred of humanity, and of himself for slaughtering so many demons, and of his own inescapable humanity. you love it. you can't get enough of it. watching someone so pure and self-assured become confused, disillusioned, twisted, evil, broken, it thrills and captivates you. it's beautiful, and you egg it on. you make it worse, obsessively. you make him worse. you only want what he wants, really. but you want him to want it worse. sensui is spiraling and you don't steady him, you accelerate it and accelerate it, until he's deciding that before he dies (which will be sooner than you'd like, sooner than you know what to do with), he's going to end humanity. he's going to unleash demonkind on them and secure his redemption, his doom, his punishment. it's a baptism by fire. what a way to go. a very sensui way to go, and you love it like the rest of him: poisonously. you don't need a word of convincing, no argument (as desperate as sensui is to argue his case for this), not a second of that tape, to follow him. you watch as sensui breaks the fragile people he encounters, wrenches them into misanthropic weapons. he's amazing at it. minoru is amazing at it. he brings together his crew of heart-bleeding, self-loathing pawns, and in your downtime you and sensui watch human tv, share your love for animals, plants, the human world. you cherish, distract yourself with, and celebrate these together. they're what brought you together in the first place, and you will destroy them together. you wonder if he knows that these things he loves will surely die when the demons come. you expect he views them as necessary casualties in ridding the world of human evil. how deliciously cruel he can be. you savor it. you have to savor it. you don't like thinking about the end. that sensui will barely be alive to enjoy his victory. is he so convinced of humanity's foulness that he would never bend, never doubt his genocide at all? or would he come to regret it? would he hate himself even more than he does now? once the greater evil, humanity, is eliminated, would he turn his sights on himself? he may see himself as one of the "enlightened" humans who know mankind's evil, but he is still a human with plenty of demon blood on his hands. you want to know. you're desperate for it. you don't ask him what he thinks he will become. you want to watch it unfold naturally, for as long as he is around. let the ink bleed over the page. don't blow. don't wave the paper, don't even touch it. be patient.

your sensui is killed spectacularly at the finish line. he was struck down by a human reborn as a demon. how fitting. it's what sensui wanted, and you are happy for him, as much as you can be. it's bittersweet. you knew it would end soon. you both did. you talked about it all the time. and now it's... over. the portal is being resealed. demons will not wipe out mankind. humanity will go on, unaffected. your sensui's lonely war against his own kind is already being forgotten by the few who knew of it. such a beautiful moment, swept away by time, your sensui. and now his enemies want to claim his soul. his body. to bring him to the afterlife, for whatever judgement awaits him. and you fulfill your final obligation to him. you take him away. sensui did not want any part of that, and neither do you, not particularly. it sounds rather painful, all considered. you lift him and slip away to where no one can reach you. your own little dimension, your own little pocket of existence, just the two of you. no one can touch him now. you, either, not that you care. you hold him like you have for years, and think of your future together. here, where no one can reach him. no one will touch him or stain him or rip him or tear him ever again, not even you. but you will always be closest, and that's enough. cut off from humankind and demonkind completely. it's only you. and it's only him. you wonder how long you will live, like this. a long time. it makes no difference. sensui has broken completely, and you hold the shards of him. every piece remaining is yours, is in your arms, will be yours forever. you wonder if this should be enough for you. if you should be satisfied. you are. as someone whose last regret was missing a late night program, you don't see much point in leaving. what is there for itsuki without sensui? what is there in the world worthwhile? demons, humans, the rest of it. none of it would ever compare. not even to the shards.

you wonder, and it is far from the first or the last time, how sensui will change now, in your arms. white to black, skin to bone to dust. and when you die your soul will dissipate like his, and in a little unreality you and he will linger forever, where no one can know or recall. you will die a secret of the world, a potential wasted, a close call, a scream that is swallowed last-minute. and you will be together. it's all that's mattered for a long time. you wonder if you'll ever change. you don't expect to.

[immolatiism]

Yu Yu Hakusho — Volume 19 Chapter 169: The Emotions of Round One

[anime-chick]

i love the fact that koenma's pacifier is never addressed.

[hellboundhimbo]

kurama i doodled during state testing. oh, the awkward glances exchanged between the proctor and i….

[squeebii]

This sketch from a year ago (almost exactly) is finally seeing the light of day so I want you all to appreciate this hand I drew. My creative talent has now been used up for the month.

[luckystarchild]

Rereading some Lucky Child chapters as I work on the next one (yes, really), and I forgot about this bit of foreshadowing from Cleo:

She was 100% hinting about the dream powers LMFAOOOOOO

[spkyart]

I had this image stuck in my brain so

[jilted-love]

I hate YYH English dub so much. Not because I don't respect the voice actors, I think they are good. But English removed how emotional Hiei and Kurama were while they watched Yusuke die in Chapter Black arc. Kuwabara was obviously emotional either way. But JP ver talked about Yusuke more urgently.

Hiei in Japanese: "If I'm going to die anyway, I'll fight and die. With him." (not specified with whom but considering the context, "aitsu" referred to Yusuke.)

Hiei in English: "If we're going to die, let us die in war. Against Sensui."

Kurama in Japanese: "I couldn't stand it if any of us four weren't here."

Kurama: "We've gone far passed the stage of fighting for our honor."

Hiei's dialogue in English is at least in character. The only confusing part is whether he's saying he wanted to fight "with him" or "against him" because depending on word choice, the "him" can be either Yusuke or Sensui and the English dub chose to mention Sensui. It didn't mention a name in Japanese and it makes more sense to wish to die with Yusuke if they can't save him. All of them were suicidal after Yusuke died. Their fight against Sensui wasn't survivable.

But Kurama! His English dialogue is just ugly. Fucking hell, it's so out of character that he is thinking about "honor" while Yusuke was being killed in front of them. No, Kurama was thinking that if even one of them four was dead, whether it was Yusuke or Kuwabara, he will be devastated. Kurama cannot afford to lose anyone of them. He was that desperate to protect everyone.

Yusuke's death scene in Chapter Black was so so important because the heightened emotions of his friends were the reason they reached A class power. Emotions run high in YYH and sometimes those emotions are desperate and ugly and not at all heroic or epic. Kurama most especially is not someone who cares about honor or poise while Yusuke was dying. He will sooner plan a kamikaze attack if it meant saving Yusuke that's why Itsuki didn't let them go.

I swear to Yusuke if you only watch this show in English or if you only watch at all without reading the manga and catching everything the anime changed, you're missing out! 😩

[four-white-trees]

Hiei really is demon4demon

[theheightofdishonor]

that transphobic bit made me so sick to my stomach, ughh the stuff you've gotta deal with in older media