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YYH Matching Icons💚💙

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Yukina icons ❄️ °•° YYH °•°

I love this lil girl ❄️

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Yu Yu Hakusho icons

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#i like it when dubs just have fun#the yyh dub in general? iconic#saiyuki? there's some serious spiritual shit going down. amazing#sk8? bitches bros and nonbinary hoes? showstopping#more dubs should have fun

speak that shit

The Pokemon English Dub is good and here is my evidence

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YYH live action reaction - characters!!

yusuke: pitch perfect. he strutted. he had an edge. he's dangerous. he's complicated. he wants to do good but doesn't want to be bossed around or explain himself. he's tired and over it. him realizing he has friends. he cares about people. and he's loved. and he loves them back and wants to protect them and he can. takumi kitamura nails how complex yusuke is and is damn cool about it.

kuwabara: amazing. perfect. goofy and with the biggest heart and brought the comedy in a way the show seriously needed. i loved that he inspired yusuke to try harder with genkai's training. him falling in love with yukina was perfectly played out. loud and rambunctious and the moral backbone of the show. shuhei uesegi made me cry and i don't care that his hair is not the iconic pompadour - he's kuwabara. (also let's talk about the chains on his school uniform buttons?? the lining???? the fauxhawk his hair turns into when it's free of that gel)

hiei: he's serious. he's snarky. he's angry. he will stand twelve feet away from anyone else. he's awkward with his long lost sister. kanata hongo was perfect. the only downside to his character was when he zooms around, the sound effect is - cartoony. which, would have been fine in an anime, but in live action was a little Much. but! that has nothing to do with kanata hongo's acting - in which he was perfect. solemn and annoyed and on a mission. hiei is my favorite character, so i was a little skeptical about the changes they made to him, but i fucking loved every second he was on screen. the choice to have him use the shadow sword to attain a jagan eye was brilliant, it really tied in the yukina storyline with the artifacts of darkness storyline in a way that the og series couldn't (considering hiei was meant to be a one off character). though im sad this would eliminate his past with shigure. loved seeing hiei jump around and run fucking fast, him leaping off the tower to cut a car in half was so cool, dayum. i wish we had more scene with him.

kurama: babygirl. the prettiest. aloof and deadly. did i mention the ponytail he wears for his school uniform? (speaking of - if the blazer and tie was his school uniform, what is the gold lined magenta uniform for? if thats just what kurama wears in general - he's insane. i love it). jun shison brought it. he captured the mysterious side to kurama, the sharp and deadly side, while still managing to show how much heart kurama has. and lets not forget youko kurama <- absolute badass. meaner. faster. his bushy tail and ears will live with me forever. he made kurama's whip look terrifying and his plants even scarier (and sexier?). his big doe eyes were so disarming, he stole every scene.

overall - every actor (not just the main four) nailed it perfectly. i'm crossing my fingers for a season two at the very least.

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HXH vol 5-6 notes

As my sister insisted, Hisoka is a lot better in the manga compared to 2011. More like a sinister walking doll (goes will with Illumi) than a fleshly perv

The level and absurdity of gore/death with the bouncy tone ^-^

Hisoka uses only ♥️ when talking with Machi

Machi’s hand pincushion is still the coolest thing

Zushi and Wing are pretty weak among HXH side characters, I do wish we knew more of their deal. Does Zushi have parents?? Is he aiming for a Hunter license? Why is he enrolled in an extracurricular that can kill him? In a world as weird as HXH there are so many reasons but all they give is ‘after school activity’ basically

The art starts slipping in this arc, the weekly schedule that will disable Togashi a few years after this volume is really starting to take its toll. It’s a little morbid to watch an artist injure or even kill themselves (in the case of Berserk) in real time between this/DGM/so many other manga

The comments on Kurapika’s popularity poll…I want him to be a girl so bad. We already have one girl in this manga who has transitioned so why not add another one! Togashi why are you, as a male mangaka who actually understands women to be people, making your main cast all male

Speaking of which, it’s always fun to read multiple ‘different’ works by an iconic author. Killua is just baby Hiei. Kurapika is just Kurama with less chill. Leorio is of course Kuwabara if he didn’t have an older sister and Gon has some elements of a baby Yusuke. Obvs they are distinct and memorable characters, but the DNA of the YYH foursome is there

The simple hand-drawn backgrounds are the aspect of the manga that has left the biggest impression on me. With a minimalist, geometrical setting, the action of the characters becomes more uncanny. It’s as if the whole story takes place in a dream-world

The creepy Killua face is always funny when it comes on. Go little guy! You can do it

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tbh, i've forgotten most of yyh -- i liked it a lot, when i watched it, but it's not especially memorable to me. kurama's the fave tho, by a long shot, tho i think yusuke/kuwabara should be otp bc keiko sadly was a nothing character even tho that ending is iconic.

but my fave thing is just that all the high school students (yusuke, kurama, kuwabara) have different uniforms, and i like that they're different colours

also. it makes a lot of sense that they just make koenma not a baby in the live action. like he does have that form -- an older form -- in the anime, but it's funnier to see him as a toddler, but like. they cast such an attractive actor for him. he was great in alice in borderland as well.

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finished the LA!!!

Pros

I do find yyh's early mini-arcs to be pretty slow, so I don't mind skipping them. and for a shortened series, combining several arcs and ramping up the pacing made for a faster viewing experience and definitely streamlined hiei joining the group

making them 17 was a good change

the production value was high enough that a lot of the aspects genuinely fucking ruled

GREAT music. fantastic battle scenes. incredibly smooth cgi resulting in effective body horror and thrilling monster fights. final fight scene with the sparks looked incredible

the spirit gun, spirit sword, rose whip, and dragon of darkness flame all looked SO good. it was really cool to see them in a live-action format

I didn't dislike the wigs! I thought they were charming and stylistically perfect

I have a lot more to say about the plot below, but I will offer this praise: it could have tried to do a lot of things and it didn't. it may not have been completely faithful, but it avoided being a bad adaptation in other ways

I really liked the hiei and kuwabara. kuwabara initially disappointed me, but his earnestness and passion grew on me and I ended up really enjoying him. and hiei's actor just nailed him in every way - mannerisms, line delivery, body language, attitude

kurama was fine! there was a lot there they could have delved into but didn't. important thing is, he was a mama's boy who fights with plants.

yukina and keiko being immediate besties was really sweet! I wish they'd adapted more yukina moments but there wasn't a lot to work with anyway

keiko being more fighty was a really fun change

elder toguro RULED. younger toguro was really good too (in looks voice and body language) and so was sakyo but elder toguro stole the show. sakyo is a very stylish character who I always associate with smoking, but despite the changes I liked the LA version. but elder toguro. FREAK OF THE WEEK!!!!

some moments of genuine emotional resonance: kuwabara manifesting his spirit sword after days of hitting rocks with sticks. keiko inspiring yukina to escape by telling her she should try for the person who saved her last time. and hiei and yukina's last conversation where hiei looked like he was about to cry

it was SO well acted. and yukina looked so happy!! I think she knows. I also liked yukina and kuwabara's first encounter and kuwabara's convo with her after she heals him. it was very genuine. depsite not being into yukina/kuwabara or love at first sight, it was a sweet and well-crafted moment

the kuwameshi scraps...I heard yusuke say he wanted to eat ramen with kuwabara and then tell keiko 'it's not like that' and went 👀

ummmm what else. atsuko's first appearance was fine. in general everything in eps 1 and 2 were things I disliked and plenty in 3-5 were fun

the car crash was INTENSE

I was happy to hear smile bomb

the ending credits are cool and I like the music choices. the songs fit the vibe of the show, but the actual character writing doesn't

Cons

there was a time in my life (a few days ago) where I simply would have put 'everything else' but I'm in a different place now

but not TOO different. this show cannot stand on its own! it cut out MANY many iconic lines and character traits and jokes, even when it would have been easy to include. it's got the trappings of SOME things related to yyh, but lacks the actual soul

iconic character moments such as yusuke realizing how much people care about him and genkai falling to toguro's attack simply fail to impact the viewer in the same way because while they're incredible in concept, the execution is utterly rushed, nothing has ANY time to sink in. I don't even know what the themes of this show are, besides....protect your friends, I guess?

trying to crush everything up to three kings arc into 5 hours was ambitious, but not necessarily doomed. but they fucked it. they fucked the pacing and they fucked the characters and it feels gutless and boring and lazy. everyone seems like they've known each other for like, a day. at most. that genkai episode?!

it was cool that hiei's true motivations were secret for a little while. until the casual sibling reveal

a deeply beloved part of yyh is the core four dynamic. but these people BARELY know each other! kuwabara and yusuke are friends I guess, but they met kurama like twice and they don't even know hiei. genkai was killed TWENTY MINUTES after her introduction. who signed off on this?!

no botan oar, no jorge, koenma is a TEENAGER with a PACIFIER

and wtf was going on with yusuke!!!! his actor managed to convery anger, disgust, and boredom, and that was about it. he smiled maybe once? he almost cried in ep5 and that was HUGE to see. ugh he was robbed of his dynamism and life and passion and sense of humor as a character. I miss anime/manga yusuke so much. he was a goofy boy!!! he made that little kid smile!!! he jokes around and laughs really big and loves his friends!!!

they also failed to adapt botan. her actor was either poorly directed as I assume yusuke's was, or she's just an awkward performer. she's just a timid blue-haired cheerleader for yusuke who cows when he's mad I guess, not the fun, competent, confident, ball-busting older girl we all love. and her STYLE!!! let her dress up!!! it's 1991!!!

well, they have smartphones so I guess not 😔

I thought a lot of eps 1 and 2 were really boring...the fight scenes were way too long and not very good and I had no emotional stake

so this adaptation was too scared to really do its own thing but it also failed at recreating the true magic of yyh - the characters and their love for each other. the scene at the end was nice, but it didn't capture half of their chemistry by the DT arc

I really missed the tournament....and the character moments. atsuko screaming at yusuke and throwing things at his body!!! drunk and sobbing!!! a WRECK!!! I wanted THAT Atsuko. she was so collected and comforting to keiko, too. since when has atsuko been a responsible parent or adult?

whyyyy was his revival so easy!!! NO PUU!!!!!???? no proving himself, no emotional journey??!!

especially grieved to lose yukina crying because of her friends the birds being killed and not bc of being physically hurt. and I really wanted keiko to be more of a hero and save yusuke's body!! while giving keiko more of a character, the writing still let them down; they were relegated to Girls Needing Saving again at the end

it wasn't funny which is a crying shame given how hysterical the manga and anime dub both are (often for different reasons)

character arcs just got aborted. there was no way to explore hiei's past or his complicated feelings about his family. no way for kurama to reconcile the ancient demon and the 15 yr old boy he simultaneously is. no way for yusuke to truly overcome his anger and mature into a young man who's happy to be alive and is okay just chilling with a ramen shop. and um. well kuwabara got a spirit sword and that was pretty sick

also yoko kurama looked very silly and I didn't get his 'ancient powerful yokai' vibes ALSO it wasn't a surprise borne from kurama being poisoned to regress to himself of 20 years ago so that was a shame

I liked hiei's actor a lot but he SHOULD be 4'9!!!!

why did they spend more time on bullied kid than on the ACTUAL characters if they were so strapped for screentime?

ep1 was so bad. it was so bad guys. it was boring and not fun and I'm including the fight scene

no sensui or itsuki 😔 no shizuru, no puu, no jorge

overall the show tried to change both too much and not enough. if it only had 5 episodes, there are much more efficient ways of making the plot move forward and bonding the characters, and it doesn't requite sacrificing beloved character details. or hell, this is a new show! put IN some content, don't just take stuff away and mash other things together!

as another person on here said....it's a bit gutless

Final verdict: lots of style over substance with some good scenes and performances but ultimately a hollow shell of what it aspires to be. 6/10 will not rewatch but do not regret it

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Happy birthday Kuwabara💥⚔️ 02/27

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Yu Yu Hakusho – Kuwabara x Yukina

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Ok so here me out...°°

I might ship Kurama x Shizuru🌹🦋

Hey! Don't judge me!😭💖 I respect all ships... all you Hiei x Kurama shippers just let me have this!💮

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His iconic pompadour is amazing, and I also miss it, but the style holds cultural significance in Japan that was fairly specific to the time period in which the YYH manga was set.

The liveaction YYH is set in a more modern time period, as far as I can tell. At the very least it is intended for modern audiences. If Kuwabara had shown up with a full pompadour, he wouldn't have looked like a modern street punk. He would have looked like a street punk unaware of current street fashion. He would have looked a little silly and outdated to Japanese viewers as a result.

They also DID incorporate some pompadour elements into his hair (best observed from the back). But IMO, it's not a bad thing they didn't go full pompadour for this project.

That style would have also been very hard to maintain during fight sequences/stunts, potentially endangering the actors if it interfered with their movements.

Just some food for thought.

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