The release of Netflix’s new live-action Yu Yu Hakusho trailer has widely impressed anime fans, who have compared the upcoming adaptation to One Piece’s own live-action series favorably.
In recent weeks, Netflix has been slowly teasing Yu Yu Hakusho fans with character posters and short trailers before releasing the full official trailer on December 5, 2023. With the special effects, monster depictions, and high-octane fight sequences, the trailer was a huge hit with typically cautious fans on social media. Robot Communications, which was responsible for the special effects, was praised in the trailer’s description: “Enjoy this top-notch Asian combat action series, with visual effects cutting edge, world class and presented by a cast and staff who are at the pinnacle of Japanese entertainment!”
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Fans may be even more excited to know that Robot Communications also created the special effects seen in Alice in Borderland and the new Godzilla Minus One with Toho. Godzilla Minus One is considered one of the best entries in the franchise, leaving fans confused as to how such a blockbuster adaptation was produced on a shoestring budget. With fan love and the names to go with it, led by Tokyo Revengers live-action fame Takumi Kitamura, Netflix has every chance of success following the overwhelming fan acclaim for with One Piece and Alice in Borderland.
Netflix’s live-action adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho will be adapted from the manga of the same name by Yoshihiro Togashi (Hunter x Hunter). The series was first published in Shueisha’s Weekly Shonen Jump from December 1990 to July 1994 and is described by English publisher VIZ Media as follows: “Yusuke Urameshi is a hardened teenage delinquent until when a selfless act changed his life…by ending it. When he died saving a child from a speeding car, the afterlife, not knowing what to do with the boy, gave him a second chance at life. Now, Yusuke is a ghost with a mission to perform good deeds as ordered by Botan, the guide to the souls of the dead, and Koenma, her pacifier-sucking boss from the ‘other side’. But what strange things await him at the boundary between life and death?”
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Yu Yu Hakusho joins the growing group of manga and anime franchises to receive live-action. Fans continue to wait for One Piece Season 2, while the live-action film Naruto and Akira also recently received updates. Additionally, despite being based on a game, the live-action Legend of Zelda promised to use the magic of Studio Ghibli — an iconic studio name among anime fans.
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