Forum - View topicNEWS: Live-Action Yu Yu Hakusho Series Debuts at #1 on Netflix's Global Non-English TV Rankings
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Thespacemaster
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As someone who has not seen the original animated series or read the manga.
How do you guys feel about it so far? Cause i have no idea or clue to compare in terms of adaption unlike the one piece anime. |
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light turner
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I'd say it's about similar to One Piece in it's condensing the beginning arcs together and overall isn't bad but is still no substitute for the actual anime let alone the original manga.
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Matros
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You're being a bit disingenuous. OP is much more faithful compared to this. This one constantly feels like they pressed the forward button, they speedrun 2 arcs into 5 episodes. There's absolutely no time to develop some prominent side characters. The best aspect about the show is definitely the action. |
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HueyLion
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Uuh I don't mean to be petty or anything...but you should REALLLY read the original manga or watch the anime (which pretty covers the whole manga with some minor changes). Its really great and a start before HxH came into the picture |
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Vercinto
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Not interested in live action series, but I hope it is successful enough, so that anime remake may happen.
I watched 90s series back in 2009, liked it, but it is kinda ancient now. |
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tintor2
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The effects were kinda weird most notably whatever Kurama uses to switch to his Inuyasha form. I couldn't take that seriously since there was little context about it and the make up they used was kinda cheap. Also, Yusuke is kinda a jobber in this version and his relationship with Genkai is quite forced even if they altered their personalities to make them more likable.
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Beatdigga
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I think the series works pretty well, but if anything, Yu Yu would benefit from a "The One Piece" style remake more than One Piece would, because this series takes the core elements and streamlines them down substantially. It's actually rather good as a standalone TV show and the fight scenes are great. However, people who liked that original manga and expected a 1:1 will have legitimate complaints. I mean, I liked it, the streamlining wasn't a Bebop-style hatchet job from people who claimed they were improving the anime, but I completely get the critiques.
Still, two successful manga adaptations in a 5-month timespan. If Netflix keeps this up, people might actually not immediately wince when they hear "live-action anime adaptation." |
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ceccobeppe
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Effectively the live action adapts the first two sagas which amount to about 60+ episodes (more than half of the anime) in a span of 5 episodes. Rushed is an understatement. Effectively skips the entire dark tournament saga. A crucial character like genkai effectively appears on one and a half episode. To me this looks like there was no confidence in the longevity of the project. They should have given this 8 episodes at least. Then you can do the (mini) arc where Yusuke actually earns his powerup from Genkai. And you finish the season with the gang rescuing Yukina and Toguro inviting Yusuke to the Dark Tournament. |
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MrPuzzles
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I had high hopes for this, but it turned out into just another speedrun that was borderline terrible at times.
 But at least the fights looked cool...
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residentgrigo
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The first ep combines things in a good way and works, the second ep stumbles a bit due to too many new characters showing up at once with neither Yusuke nor Kuwabara settled in. Ep 3 to 5 are the rushed mess I expected the full show to be and will make the costliest arc (Dark Tournament) impossible to accomplish if a sequel is made. S1 ends on volume 13, chapter 112 in a 19-volume series! The whole show is budget-cut central and the lack of demonic realms or even spaces isn´t what one should expect from a series titled "Poltergeist Report". If I wasn´t familiar with the source material then I might have dropped the show. Yusuke and elder Toguro worked best. The barely developed Hiei (Japan´s favorite) worked the least. The wire and TV budget CG heavy action scenes sit somewhere in the middle and are badly edited. Some work, some don´t. I would love to know what can be done with the infamously unfinished and compromised final arc of the manga (the anime did its best) but that is a S3 problem and I likely don't have a second one in me. 5/10
PS: It´s nearly irrelevant if a new show charts in the top 10 or even 3 on debut week, unless it fails to perform out of the gate. Audience retention is more important to Netflix. See Resident Evil and dozens more. We´ll see but the first hurdle is cleared. Muted audience response notwithstanding. |
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db999
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I went in and checked and while technically it’s adapting the first 66 episodes, in reality, it’s only adapting 26 episodes of the anime, and half of those are just the final battle of the Dark Tournament, which takes up 13 episodes. While I think they did a good job of condensing those fights down to a reasonable runtime, I wasn’t a fan of adding those fights in here. I thought the first episode was fantastic, episode 2 was great, and episode 3 was pretty good, but episodes 4 and 5 were pretty disappointing because it was a mistake to add the final round Dark Tournament fights into the Yukina rescue.
Especially because I think the Dark Tournament Arc would’ve been perfect for an 8 episode season. spoiler[You could do 1 episode for the setup, and the boat ride to the island, Episode 2 could be the first round, episode 3 could be the round against Jin’s team, episode 4 could be them fighting the team with Shishi Wakamaru and the Beautiful Suzuka. Episode 5 could be The Death of Genkai with a bigger flashback to her and Toguro’s past, episode 6 could be Kurama vs Karasu and Hiei vs Bui, episode 7 could be Kawabara vs Older Toguro, and the beginning of Yusuke vs Younger Togurou, and then episode 8 could finish that fight and finish off the Dark Tournament arc.] However I think it’s clear that if we do get a second season they won’t do the Dark Tournament and season 2 will be the Chapter Black arc, and then season 3 would be the final arc if we get that far. |
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BadNewsBlues
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So he went from scrappy underdog to jobber. |
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everydaygamer
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Not great but the action was awesome.
I think they did a good job considering how difficult this series is to adapt to live action. Especially since so much of the series is centered around tournament battles. |
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tintor2
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I can see potential for a Sensui arc but I honestly dislike the way they barely developed the cast to the point Botan was barely important, and Keiko another damsel in distress even when she wasn't meant to be in the source material. Kurama is so emotionless that we don't really get to see his sense of justice when interacting Hiei that much. The whole "boys are back in the town" thing is cool like Final Fantasy XV but there is little chemistry. Also kinda boring is that Yusuke and Kuwabara are always wearing school uniforms when the mangaka came up with new outfits to fit the fighting themes
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MFrontier
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I guess I'm glad it's doing well and it's better than other live-action anime adaptions, even if it's not without flaws.
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