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Joe Mello
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IIRC the problem with Botan is that the field of memorable female characters grows to a half-dozen pretty quickly and several of them become higher priority.
Also fwiw, I only just now internalized than Japan Yusuke's thing was called a Rei Gun, and that is doing untold amounts of psychic damage to me. |
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SaitoHajime101
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Yu Yu Hakusho is a personal favorite. I'm in the same age group (almost 39 here), but fortunate enough to have seen this on Toonami. Toonami is where I fell in love with this show and even recorded a few episodes on VHS back in the day so I can rewatch some favorite episodes.
There're numerous reasons why this show has the following that it does. I will specifically call out the focused story. In a time where filler episodes were common in anime, Yu Yu Hakusho has surprisingly little which helped make the transition from arc to arc and (ultimately) the length of the series feel better paced than its contemporaries. HONORARY MENTION: Dub voice acting was actually damn good. Loved every moment of it. Younger Toguro's voice actor owned it in the Dark Tournament Arc. I hope you're able to finish it. The Dark Tournament arc, while a little awkward in places by today's standard, is still a solid run and has the best fights in anime for its time. Last edited by SaitoHajime101 on Fri Feb 28, 2025 8:22 pm; edited 2 times in total |
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malvarez1
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To this day, I genuinely consider YYH to be one of the best Shonen Jump anime adaptations period. The animation has aged better than many of its peers, the pacing is brisk compared to many other long runners, and they even do their best to fix the manga ending, IMO. It does the manga justice.
And yes, Botan is best girl. |
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Wyvern
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In fact, it's so eager to get to the yokai fighting that it skips past most of the first two volumes of manga and modifies a few characters' stories in the process. The early YYH manga was a comedy series where Yuske got into wacky episodic hijinks as a ghost; almost all this stuff is skipped in the anime to get to the point where it evolved into a battle series. I don't knock the anime adaptation for that, because by the time the anime premiered the manga was firmly established in the action genre so that's what viewers were tuning in to see. Nontheless I feel like this factoid gives insight into the way the anime team approached this series. I don't think you'd be able to do it that way today: modern production committees usually want to adapt the manga as faithfully as possible and not skip anything, to avoid upsetting fans or overtaking the manga. In fact, if a YYH remake ever happens, I expect they'll adapt every one of the skipped chapters simply because they've never been animated before. YYH really feels like an anime from another time (I mean that in a good way) and is also one of the few shonen adaptations of its era to adapt the manga right to the end. |
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FanGamer24
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Having checked it out recently I lost interest after about 30 episodes. Maybe I'll return at some point but it might be a little too dated at this point for me to enjoy. I probably would have loved it as a kid if it aired in Canada (if it did I was never aware of it).
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Top Gun
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I only got around to watching Yu Yu Hakusho a couple of years ago, but I had an absolute blast with it. It's an all-time classic battle shonen with a great central cast, snappy action, and fantastic design work. It's beyond the scope of this article, but the Dark Tournament more than lives up to the hype as THE shonen tournament arc. I don't think it was mentioned, but the dub is a vintage Funimation effort that plays everything fast and loose in the best possible way.
And yes, Botan is the undisputed Best Girl. Accept no substitutes. |
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levonr
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I remember when it first aired on Adult Swim in 2002 and I didn't care for it, thought it was just some cheap DBZ clone so I skipped it. But I eventually gave it another try and now its one of my favorite anime. Also the English dub is a big part of it, it has so much attitude & energy behind it that it really adds to the entertainment of the show.
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An Unchosen One
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If it weren't for Fullmetal Alchemist, this would probably be my favorite shounen series. Great characters, great fights, just all around great energy.
It's a shame the original manga kinda lost steam at the end, but both it and the anime really do stand out compared to both classic and modern hits.
I remember being struck by how inconsistent it was back when I watched Funimation's DVD releases of it. The main cast and other major characters were acted pretty well, even excellently as the series went on, but at least one character in each arc sounded kinda bad, with both Seaman and the gaming kid from the Sensui arc being especially awful. It's kind of astonishing how it has some of the best acting for its time but also performances that would sound bad even in a Manga Entertainment dub. |
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metroid24
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teruie88943
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That is just literally and objectively wrong in every way and by every metric. Yeah I will NEVER take seriously, the opinion, of anyone who has that to say, least of all about this. |
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FireballDragon
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One little thing I'll point out regarding the first episode: In the manga, when Kuwabara crashes Yusuke's wake, demanding to fight him, it played out far more comedically than how the anime adapted it. While the manga version is technically the "canon" one (Considering it's the source material), I greatly prefer how the anime handled the scene in a more intense and emotional way. Fits the context of the situation better. Course, I might be a little biased because I saw the anime version first, but I'm sure I'm not the only one who agrees.
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