Netflix Japan and production house, ROBOT, are reportedly teamimg up to bring Yu Yu Hakusho to life in a live-action format, according to several reports running online. Kazutaka Sakamoto (Aggretsuko, Devilman Crybaby) and Teru Morii are serving as exec producer and producer, respectively, on the series.
Mangaka Yoshihiro Togashi birthed the Shueisha publication in 1990 for Weekly Shonen Jump’s Jump Comics before landing an anime series launch in 1992 from Pierrot. It centers on Yusuke Urameshi, a tough high school delinqent whose life culminates into a world of dark adventure, action and self-discovery when he’s resurrected from a fatal accident and revived to become a spirit detective following a series of introspective trials. Over the course of the story, Urameshi will band together with school rival Kawamura, humanoid Fox Demon and former thief, and dark, demonic warrior and Evil Eye-bearer Hieh, to take on numerous trials to save the world, whilst learning how to harness spirit energy in order to battle an underworld of enemies who lie in wait.
The current anime is now available wherever it’s sold or streamed. Further casting and crew info remains pending.
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I’m personally thrilled about this considering having only seen the anime a few years ago, and it’s one of my proud favorite shows. To say the least, I was also hoping for a Netflix treatment via live-action, to which a handful of people stood vocally against it, completely lambasting the idea. A fan page for the anime and manga even commented on my personal post writing “Not on our watch!”
Considering the marvels that have been made in live-action in recent memory with Blade Of The Immortal, Fullmetal Alchemist, Bleach, Kingdom and so many others, I would have considered a live-action Yu Yu Hakusho to be a project that generated optimism. Even Cowboy Bebop is burgeoning at Netflix to some avail with actor favorite John Cho in the lead, and even a Yu Yu Hakusho stage play was such a success that it’s getting a second run in Japan this month!
Huh. What a difference two years makes.
By the way, I’d also say yes to a Kill-La-Kill series or film in live-action as well. It’s doable. I believe it.
Mawatari-chan… drop that ‘smile bomb’!
