
Lucky for him, he has the help of Botan as a liaison and tactical support. With much reluctance, Yusuke takes on the job, and finds himself facing all manner of supernatural baddies. With the help of Botan (a perky female shinigami "Angel of Death" or essentially " Grim Reaper") and the approval of Koenma (the snarky son of King Enma, the judge of the dead in the Buddhist belief system, and the part-time stand-in for his father) Yusuke returns to the living world.īut Koenma has other plans for Yusuke, as both his fighting ability and newfound spirit awareness makes him a prime candidate to be a Spirit Detective, an agent of the spirit world hunting down renegade demons who threaten peace on Earth. Because of this surprising ( if ultimately useless) Heroic Sacrifice, they offer Yusuke a chance to return from the dead. He discovers that the forces of the Spirit World were expecting the boy to miraculously survive the accident but did not expect Yusuke to even be a part of it. One particularly bad day gets worse for Yusuke after he dies saving the life of a small boy from a car accident.

he's dead."Ī Shonen Fighting manga authored by Yoshihiro Togashi, and adapted into animation by Studio Pierrot, YuYu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書, also romanized as Yuu Yuu Hakusho) tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a bitter, beleaguered, junior high punk - and legendary street fighter. He's 14-years-old, and is supposed to be the hero of this story, but oddly enough.
