DBZ got me addicted to anime first. But YuYu Hakusho raised me, and since that night where it finally aired on Toonami and I saw Yusuke dive in front of that car to save that kid, to that random night at 2am where I cried during Shigure and Kurama's fight... It earned the spot as my #1.

Every summer, I rewatch Yu Yu Hakusho. Legally obviously.

Part of the reason why Yu Yu is so great, is because it has the courage to do what most anime don’t. Which is to end. There wasn’t a bunch of episodes where the main character had different transformations., there wasn’t a bunch of wack filler episodes. This show will always be top 10 for me.

Yuyu is the best shonen ever made

It was one of the only anime/ manga series and extended box sets that I completed and owned every season on DVD, had the movies and manga of when I was in HS!
I passed it along to a younger friend who was starting to like anime/ manga, and I wanted to get them started right, especially when it was so hard to come by the books and available anime at the time. Because honestly, my first anime/manga almost turned me off of anime/manga altogether. My first series was InuYasha, which I loved, but the way that it dragged on and it was recycling similar stories each issue and there seemingly never being a conclusion drove me up the wall!
When I found Yu Yu Hakusho, it lit me up so much! I fell in love with characters, arcs, and developments! I still recommend it every chance I get, this one and Eyeshield 21 are in my top favorites! ❤✨👌

I Love yu yu, i don't watch it every year or anything but i have seen the whole series at least 10 times at random intervals since i first seen it as a kid

It’s one of my favorites. It was taken off crunchyroll yesterday but is back, I was so sad cuz it’s my comfort show but glad it’s back!

Still watch everyday lol. My bedtime show. Something great to fall asleep to. Something great to wake up to.

Way before knowing what Yu Yu Hakusho was even about, I wrote a fantasy story that was much like this story, and named mine "Demon's Gate". The protagonist, Galedrin, was a normal human who trained as a swordsman and combat fighter, (so not really like Yu Yu Hakusho in the beginning,) but ends up in a battle of survival against powerful demons from another dimension (so not the underworld, exactly,) only to find out, (just like the protagonist of this anime,) he is also a demon, but only the physical form that was split from the big bad creating all the chaos in the entire story and must unite with the evil to stop the chaos from escalating any further, only realising that he will end up being forced to say goodbye to everyone he met along the way if he follows through, but will be forced to witness the world's extinction if he doesn't. So, definitely not an anime for kids. More like the original manga of Yu-Gi-Oh!, opposed to the much more sanitised anime the US ended up with.

Yuyuhakoshu is my ultimate favorite anime of all time... The soundtrack is pure gold. ❤️👏

You may not read this or agree but I still cry at the end of a dragon ball gt rewatch  (blue water dub always) it always gets me. It feels so final and real.  I could go on about gt cause it and dragon ball, and z are my childhood. Great video dude!

I’ve been watching yu yu hakusho like every year for the past 10 years. Not a single bad episode, and the Netflix live action was good. Just wish they did the dark tournament arc

Edit: also read somewhere that the toguros are based on the terminators from the movie: terminator 2. After the younger Toguro’s chapter was closed, the show got sorta less entertaining after that.

I'm sorry but Dragon Ball doesn't even have a third of the depth Yu Yu Hakusho has. It's a story about humanity, growth, finding your own place in the world, learning from your past mistakes to become someone better it explores both good and evil, showing that it's not always black and white, sometimes there can be shades of grey in between. It tells us that no one is an island, and that relationships you create with other people are fundamental in making you move forward. It's more than just a Shonen anime, it's a journey from adolescence to adulthood.

That's why i love it so much and why it still means so much to me after all these years.

Yu Yu Hakusho just hits different.
What’s the ONE moment or arc that made you fall in love with this show?

“Sensui is not some maniac trying to destroy the world.”

Except Sensui IS some maniac trying to destroy the world.

Solid dude! The DBZ to yuyu pipeline is alive and well.

I caught the hiei fight on adult swim as a 10 or 11yo. Wanted to be cool in front of older cousins like I knew what it was but watching it was immediately hooked from there on to this day.

Wel said. This was a show I seen at 15 on adult swim early or late as hell (5am) and it had such profound differences from anything else I’d ever seen due to its higher maturity showing. Iconic things like genkai’s cigarette, to cussing and brutality. It had it all. And that was the best thing as a kid. Dbz is and was amazing as hell also and like yu yu hakusho, I revisit them often. Specific episodes usually but sometimes the full arcs. I’ve never found anything like it and wish more and more each rewatch, that it wasn’t over. Excellent job going over the show and your reasonings and I agree totally.

Whaaat didnt know you were a YYH fan too man. Thats where the “Mazoku” in my handle comes from tbh. Rediscovering YYH in my adulthood really changed my perspective as a whole on life as a young adult. I couldn’t agree with everything u said in this video more!

Great video.

I think Kuwabara may be my favorite character. Also, a re-adaptation would be a good way to fix the Three Kings arc.