The series has a total of 7.7 million views, with 32.1 million viewing hours
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Netflix announced on Thursday that the live-action series based on Yoshihiro Togashi’s Yu Yu Hakusho manga ranked No. 1 on Netflix’s non-English-language global chart in its first week. The series had a total of 7.7 million views, with 32.1 million viewing hours and an average duration of 4:11 hours between December 11 and 17.
The film ranked in the top 10 in 76 countries and ranked #1 in seven of them. It ranked 5th in the United States
The film opens worldwide on December 14.
Sho Tsukikawa (live-action Let Me Eat Your Pancreas) directed the film and Tatsurō Mishima wrote the script. Ryō Sakaguchi (Lord of the Rings, X-Men) is the VFX supervisor.
The manga tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a 14-year-old criminal who died after saving a child in a car accident. The Spirit World was surprised by his death and offered him the chance to return as a “soul detective” who was tasked with defeating demons.
TOHO Studios and Netflix have signed a multi-year deal to lease two of TOHO’s Theatrical Facilities in Tokyo starting April 2021. Netflix’s first production there is the live-action series Yu Yu Hakusho.
Togashi (Hunter printed all 19 volumes.
An anime television series was adapted from 1992 to 1995, and spawned two films and two original video animation (OVA) releases. Funimation released the television series and OVAs on home video in North America. Media Blasters and later Funimation released the first film and Central Park Media released the second film. The television series aired on Adult Swim and later on Toonami.
A new OVA premiered at a screening event in October 2018 and was later released with the fourth part of the anime’s 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Box collection at the same time. month. The new anime adapts the bonus chapter “Two Shot” from the manga’s seventh volume, as well as the manga’s penultimate chapter “All or Nothing”.
The manga is inspired by a stage play performed in Japan from August to September 2019.
Source: Mantan Web, Netflix (link 2)