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YuYu Hakusho

幽☆遊☆白書(Yū Yū Hakusho)
Genre
Martial arts, Bangsian fantasy
Manga
Author
Yoshihiro Togashi
Publisher
Shueisha
English publisher
Viz Media
[show]Other publishers:
Ivrea Editora JBC Kana Star Comics Comics House Glénat Chuang Yi Tongli Publishing
Demographic
Shōnen
Magazine
Weekly Shōnen Jump
Original run
1990 – 1994
Volumes
19 (List of volumes)
TV anime
Director
Noriyuki Abe
Studio
Studio Pierrot
Licensor
Funimation Madman Entertainment MVM
Network
Fuji Television, Animax
English network
Cartoon Network, Colours TV
[show]Other networks:
Cartoon Network
Rede Manchete, Play TV, Cartoon Network K3 A+ Animax Arutz Hayladim MTV Italia, La7 IBC 13, GMA 7, Animax La Sexta Modernine TV, Animax
Original run
October 10, 1992 – January 7, 1995
Episodes
112 (List of episodes)
Anime and Manga Portal
YuYu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書, Yū Yū Hakusho?, or "YYH", lit. "Ghost Files" or "Poltergeist Report"[1]) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi with an anime adaptation. The name of the series is spelled YuYu Hakusho in Funimation's distribution of the anime and in the Viz manga.
The manga was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump. The series consists of 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes, and won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1994.[2] In North America, the manga currently runs in Viz's Shonen Jump.
The anime, directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot, consists of 112 television episodes and two movies: The Golden Seal and Bonds of Fire. The anime series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize in 1993 and 1994. The TV series originally aired on Japan's Fuji Television network from October 10, 1992 to January 7, 1995, and was later licensed in North America by Funimation in 2001. The show first aired on US TV on February 2002 on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block. Around March 2003, the show moved to Cartoon Network's Toonami block due to higher ratings. YuYu Hakusho was taken off Toonami around March 2005 and moved to an early Saturday morning time slot at 5:30 a.m. Eastern time where the series finished its run. It also aired as part of the Funimation programming block on Colours TV.
A series of YuYu Hakusho OVAs were released only in Japan. It has also been broadcast across Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and the Indian subcontinent by the anime satellite television network Animax.
Contents[hide]
1 Plot
2 Characters
3 Production
4 Media
4.1 Manga
4.2 Anime
4.2.1 Music
4.2.2 OVAs
4.3 Other media
5 Reception
6 References
7 External links
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[edit] Plot
Yusuke Urameshi is a street-brawling delinquent with a tough guy approach to everything. Yusuke's mother Atsuko, an alcoholic, had him at the age of 14 and took a backseat in raising her son. He has a reserved seat in the guidance counselor's office, and numerous other delinquents in the city are constantly trying to take him on. Yusuke is pretty fed up with his life.
However, no one expects a sudden act of heroism on his part: he dies trying to save a little boy from a speeding car. When he arrives in the afterlife, he is informed that the child would have miraculously survived, and had it not been for him the child would have one less scratch on his right arm. His act of heroism, therefore, was "completely pointless". Yusuke's premature death was unexpected and unnecessary, and the afterlife was not prepared for his arrival.
After numerous tests to gauge his worth, Yusuke is eventually revived, and is assigned to work for the Spirit World as a detective investigating demon cases in the human world. He comes into spiritual abilities of his own, and enlists the help of numerous friends from Reikai (spirit world), Makai (demon world, translated in the English manga as the Demon Plane) and Ningenkai (Human World) to aid him in his cases as they fight off demons and humans seeking to rule over all three worlds.

[edit] Characters
Main article: List of YuYu Hakusho characters
Yusuke Urameshi (浦飯幽助, Urameshi Yūsuke?) - Yusuke is the toughest kid in Sarayashiki Junior High School and has a typical tough guy approach to everything. He becomes a spirit detective after he dies and is revived by Keiko's kiss. His main attack is the Rei Gun (Spirit Gun in the English anime) where he can manipulate his Reiki (spiritual energy) and fire it into a projectile. He learns many techniques and abilities from Genkai. He mainly grows in strength from all of his different battles, because he responds to danger by unleashing his full strength.
Kazuma Kuwabara (桑原和真, Kuwabara Kazuma?) - Kuwabara is the second toughest kid in the school, and resents Yusuke for it. Originally rivals, Yusuke and Kuwabara start a grudging friendship that only strengthens throughout the series. Although human, Kuwabara has high Reiki sensitivity; he is able to manifest a Rei Ken (Spirit Sword in the English dubbing); a type of Reiki that normally takes on the shape of a glowing sword. After the Dark Saga, Kuwabara is believed to be the strongest human alive.
Kurama (蔵馬, Kurama?), also known as Shuichi Minamino (南野秀一, Minamino Shūichi?) in his human form - Kurama is a demon with the ability to summon and control plants. He was originally the powerful and infamous yōkai, kitsune thief, Fox Demon Kurama or Yoko Kurama (妖狐蔵馬, Yōko Kurama?) until he was wounded by a hunter. Managing to escape by inhabiting the body of an unborn human baby, he grew up as the human child Shuichi, and planned on abandoning his "family" once his demonic power returned at the age of ten, but grew to love his human mother, Shiori Minamino. Kurama has a wide variety of techniques, because of his ability to control a wide variety of plants, including the often seen Rose Whip.
Hiei (飛影, Hiei?) - A hi yōkai (hi yōkai, lit. "fire demon") who was born of a ice maiden (Korime (氷女, Kōrime?, 氷女) lit. "Ice Woman").[3] He specializes in the Jagan (邪眼術, lit. "Evil Eye"?) skills, as well as swordsmanship, and can move at superhuman speeds. His sister, Yukina, is unaware of their relationship, and Hiei has gone as far as to threaten harm to others to prevent Yukina from realizing that he is actually her brother.
Genkai (幻海, Genkai?) - The aged Reiki fighter who rigorously trains Yusuke in the Spirit Light Wave Fist (霊光波動拳, Reikō Hadō Ken?, Spirit Wave in the English anime). Though her manner is often gruff, she cares for Yusuke and the others, and constantly tries to help them grow stronger. In the past, she was feared as one of the most powerful human fighters in both Ningenkai and Makai.

[edit] Production
Togashi said that he began working on YuYu Hakusho during a period of time around November 1990; Togashi said that he forgot the exact time.[4]
When first creating the series, Togashi did not have a clear idea of what he wanted to call it. When presenting rough drafts to his editors he used the tentative title "How to be a Ghost". Once given the go-ahead to begin publication, Togashi proposed "YuYu-Ki (Poltergeist Chronicles)" for the title, as there would be battles with demons and it would be a play on SaiYu-Ki. Because a series with a similar name (Chin-Yu-Ki) had already begun publication, Togashi quickly created an alternative: "YuYu Hakusho". He comments that he could have used "Den (Legend)" or "Monogatari (Story)", but "Hakusho (Report)" was the first thing that came to his mind.[5]

[edit] Media

[edit] Manga
Main article: List of YuYu Hakusho chapters
The YuYu Hakusho manga series was written and drawn by Togashi and published originally by Shueisha in the Japanese-language magazine Weekly Shōnen Jump.[6] The manga consists on ninenteen collected volumes with the first one being released on April 10, 1991, and the last one released on December 12, 1994.[7][8] In August 2004, the Japanese publishers of YuYu Hakusho released the kanzenban edition. Each kanzenban volume features a new cover. The kanzenban 15 volumes long (as opposed to the original 19 tankōbon, each book contains more chapters than the basic editions), with two released monthly.[9][10]
The YuYu Hakusho manga is serialized in North America by Viz Media in the American Shonen Jump magazine.[6] The first volume was released on May 13, 2003, and currently fifteen volumes have been released.[11] The 16th volume was released on December 2, 2008.[12]

[edit] Anime
Main article: List of YuYu Hakusho episodes
The anime, directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot, consists of 112 television episodes and two movies: The Golden Seal and Bonds of Fire. The series aired from October 10, 1992, to January 7, 1995, on Fuji Television in Japan.[13] In North America, the episodes aired from February 23, 2002, to April 1, 2006, on Cartoon Network.[13] Initially, the episodes were shown on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim programming block from February 2002 to April 2003, and switched to Cartoon Network's Toonami programming block for the remaining episodes.[14][15]
The four seasons that compose the series are each their own story arc, and referred to as "sagas" by Funimation.[16] Thirty-two DVD compilations have been released by Funimation for the four sagas, with the first released on April 16, 2002, and the thirty-second on July 19, 2005.[17][18] In addition, DVD collection boxes have been released for each saga,[19][20][21] containing all the episodes of every saga, with the exception of the Dark Tournament Saga, which had two collection boxes.[22][23] Funimation will be releasing season box sets of the anime starting with season 1 which was released on July 8, 2008 and season 2, which was released on September 23, 2008. The third season was released on November 11, 2008, and the fourth season was released on January 13, 2009.[24] Each set contains 4 DVDs which will have a quarter of the whole series (about 28 episodes).[25]

[edit] Music
The music for the YuYu Hakusho anime series was composed by Yusuke Honma, who would later score other series such as Ninku and Flame of Recca. The series has one opening theme, "Hohoemi no Bakudan" by Matsuko Mawatari, as well as five closing themes: "Homework ga Owaranai," "Sayonara bye bye," and "Daydream Generation" by Mawatari, and "Unbalance na Kiss wo Shite" and "Taiyou ga Mata Kagayaku Toki" by Hiro Takahashi.[13] A number of soundtracks have been released in Japan.[26]

[edit] OVAs
A series of YuYu Hakusho OVAs were released only in Japan. It has also been broadcast across Japan, East Asia, Southeast Asia, and India by the anime satellite television network Animax.
Eizō Hakusho: Ankoku Bujutsukai (2 Volumes)[26][27]
Eizō Hakusho II: Yusuke Volume[26][28]
Eizō Hakusho II: Kurama Volume[26][28]
Eizō Hakusho II: Hiei Volume[26][28]
Eizō Hakusho II: Kuwabara Volume[26][28]
Opening Ending Encyclopedia[26]
Recap Guide Complete Advance Set (3 Volumes)

[edit] Other media
Main article: List of YuYu Hakusho video games
A number of video games have been released that tie to the YuYu Hakusho series, notably: YuYu Hakusho: Spirit Detective, YuYu Hakusho: Tournament Tactics for the Game Boy Advance, YuYu Hakusho: Dark Tournament for the PlayStation 2, and YuYu Hakusho Final for the SNES.
A few action figures have been released, as well as other collectibles. YuYu Hakusho also has a series of drama soundtracks sung by the Japanese voice actors.

[edit] Reception

This section requires expansion.

Logo of the translated YuYu Hakusho manga by Viz Media
As of June 2007, YuYu Hakusho had sold more than 44,000,000 copies in Japan alone.[29] It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1994.[2]
The anime was voted the best anime of the year in the Animage Grand Prix in 1994 and the second best in 1993 (after Sailor Moon).[30][31] Additionally, the magazine declared the series number 53 on its top 100 anime listing in 2001.[32] In a 2006 web poll conducted in Japan by the network TV Asahi, YuYu Hakusho was voted as the 15th best anime of all time.[33]

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^ "Amazon.com: Yu Yu Hakusho - Spirit Detective - Yusuke Lost, Yusuke Found (Vol. 1): DVD". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Yu-Hakusho-Spirit-Detective-Yusuke/dp/B00005T30G/ref=sr_1_6/103-3991382-5456658?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1194325422&sr=8-6. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
^ "Amazon.com: Yu Yu Hakusho - Yusuke Rediscover (Vol. 32) - Uncut: DVD: Yu Yu Hakusho". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Yu-Hakusho-Yusuke-Rediscover-Uncut/dp/B0009CTTQK/ref=sr_1_12?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1195176924&sr=1-12. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
^ "Amazon.com: Yu Yu Hakusho: The Spirit Detective Saga: DVD". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Yu-Hakusho-Spirit-Detective-Saga/dp/B00008977T/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/103-3991382-5456658?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1194325422&sr=8-1. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
^ "Amazon.com: Yu Yu Hakusho - Chapter Black Saga Set: DVD: Yu Yu Hakusho Chapter Black Saga Set". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Yu-Hakusho-Chapter-Black-Saga/dp/B000AARKT4/ref=sr_1_1/103-3991382-5456658?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1194596043&sr=1-1. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
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^ "Amazon.com: Yu Yu Hakusho - Dark Tournament Saga Gift Set (Vola. 1-6): DVD: Yu Yu Hakusho". Amazon.com. http://www.amazon.com/Yu-Hakusho-Dark-Tournament-Vola/dp/B00026L8J4/ref=sr_1_2/103-3991382-5456658?ie=UTF8&s=dvd&qid=1194417178&sr=1-2. Retrieved on 2008-05-21.
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[edit] External links

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Bleach (ブリーチ, Burīchi?, romanized as BLEACH in Japan) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Tite Kubo. Bleach follows the adventures of Ichigo Kurosaki after he accidentally obtains the power of a shinigami Which Literally means Death God, it is—a Japanese death personification similar to the Grim Reaper—from Rukia Kuchiki. Gaining these abilities forces him to take on the duties of defending humans from evil spirits and guiding departed souls to the afterlife.
Bleach has been continuously serialized in the Japanese manga anthology Weekly Shōnen Jump since August 2001 and has been collected in 39 tankōbon volumes as of June 2009. Since its publication, Bleach has spawned a substantial media franchise. The manga has been adapted into an animated television series produced by Studio Pierrot which is still ongoing in Japan as it adapts the story from the manga. The series has also spawned two original video animations (OVAs), three animated feature films, seven rock musicals, and numerous video games, as well as prompted the release of many types of Bleach-related merchandise.
Viz Media licensed the manga for English-language publication in the United States and Canada and has released 26 volumes as of April 2009. In addition, it has been publishing the chapters in Shonen Jump since November 2007. On March 15, 2006, Viz obtained foreign television and home video distribution rights to the Bleach anime. Cartoon Network began airing Bleach as part of its Adult Swim block on September 9, 2006 in the United States. The first film, Bleach: Memories of Nobody was released in North America on Region 1 DVD by Viz on October 14, 2008.
Compilation volumes of the manga have sold over 50 million copies in Japan and reached the top of manga sales charts in the United States. The anime adaptation has been similarly received, rating as the 7th most popular anime television series in Japan in 2006, and in the top ten anime for America from 2006 to 2008. The series received the Shogakukan Manga Award for the shōnen demographic in 2005, and is among the best-selling manga properties in both Japan and America.
==Plot== SPOILER WARNING
See also: List of Bleach characters
The story opens with the sudden appearance of Soul Reaper Rukia Kuchiki in Ichigo Kurosaki's bedroom. She is surprised at his ability to see her, but their conversation is interrupted by the appearance of a "hollow", an evil spirit. After Rukia is severely wounded while trying to protect Ichigo, she attempts to transfer half her powers to Ichigo in order to let him face the hollow on equal footing. Ichigo unintentionally absorbs almost all her energy, allowing him to defeat the hollow with ease. The next day Rukia appears in Ichigo's classroom as a seemingly normal human, and informs Ichigo that his absorption of her powers has left her stranded in the human world until she recovers her strength. In the meantime Ichigo shelters Rukia in his home and takes over her job as a Soul Reaper, battling hollows and guiding lost souls to the afterlife realm known as Soul Society.
After a few months of this arrangement, in the sixth volume of the series, Rukia's Soul Reaper superiors find out about her giving her powers away (which is illegal in Soul Society) and send a detachment to arrest her, and sentence her to death. Ichigo is unable to stop Rukia's capture, but with the help of several of his classmates who also possess spiritual abilities and ex-Soul Reaper Captain Kisuke Urahara, he sets off for the Soul Reaper base, located in Soul Society. Once there, Ichigo and company battle against the elites of the Soul Reaper military, and are ultimately successful in halting Rukia's execution.
It is then revealed that Rukia's execution and Ichigo's rescue attempt were both manipulated by Sōsuke Aizen, a high ranking Soul Reaper previously believed to be murdered, as part of a far-reaching plot to take control of Soul Society. Aizen betrays his fellow Soul Reapers and allies himself with the hollows, becoming the main antagonist of the series, and Ichigo teams up with his former enemies in Soul Society after learning that the next step in Aizen's plan involves the destruction of his hometown. At this point, Bleach chronicles the war between Aizen and the Soul Society, a plotline which has not yet been resolved. According to Tite Kubo, the ending of the series is not yet planned out or written.[1]

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Himura Kenshin (緋村剣心, Himura Kenshin?), known as Kenshin Himura in the English-language dub, is a fictional character from the Rurouni Kenshin universe created by Nobuhiro Watsuki. He is the main protagonist of the manga and anime series, as well as the related media in the franchise. When creating Kenshin, Watsuki designed him to be the physical opposite of Hiko Seijūrō, a character that appears in Watsuki's first one-shot manga, Crescent Moon in the Warring States, and later in Rurouni Kenshin as his swordsmanship teacher.
Set in a fictional version of Japan, during the pre-Meiji period, Kenshin is a former legendary assassin known as "Hitokiri Battōsai" (人斬り抜刀斎?).[5] At the end of the Bakumatsu, he becomes a wandering samurai, now wielding a sakabatō (逆刃刀?, lit. "reverse-blade sword"), a katana that has the cutting edge on the inwardly curved side of the sword, thus being nearly incapable of killing. Kenshin wanders the countryside of Japan offering protection and aid to those in need, as atonement for the murders he once committed as an assassin. In Tokyo, he meets a young woman named Kamiya Kaoru, who invites him to live in her dojo despite learning about Kenshin's past. Throughout the series, Kenshin begins to establish lifelong relationships with many people, including ex-enemies, while dealing with his fair share of enemies, new and old. Through these encounters and relationships, Kenshin begins to find true atonement for his past enabling him to fully conquer his "Battōsai" nature.
Kenshin's character was well received by fans, with his holding the top spot in all reader popularity polls for the series. Critics of the series praised his personality, though some complained about his development during the original video animation (OVA) series, which differs from the manga. A variety of collectibles based around Kenshin have been created, including figurines, key chains, plushies, and replicas of his sakabatō sword.

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well every shift was so wonderful , i've met some
friends, "cool friends" what i mean. some of them
are drinkers, religious , wacky, it is just like everything that you
wanted to meet. even though i face a lot of problems
in my life, i can easily forget what it is, that will be because of them,
making my life complete.

well lets go back on my topic
well in a call center , you will learn how to be professional, especially when it comes to
communication, you will meet a lot of people as well. You will learn how to be a team player,
and how to cooperate with youre team mate.

Being a team member, you must know your duties and responsibilty to be able to
work with your team.

You must cooperate and listen on what your team leader says, you must obey the
rules and regulation so you could be a good agent as well.

well thats for today..........