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This japanese
manga
series written and illustrated by
Yoshihiro Togashi with an
anime
adaptation. Yu Yu Hakusho is all about
Yusuke
Urameshi, he 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
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