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Netflix Premieres Live-Action Yu Yu Hakusho Series on December 14
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Netflix Japan announced on Thursday that the live-action series based on Yoshihiro Togashi's Yu Yu Hakusho manga will debut worldwide on December 14. Guests to be announced later will attend a special screening event on the evening of December 13.
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— Netflix Japan | ネットフリックス (@NetflixJP) October 11, 2023
世界配信日は2023年12月14日(木)に決定💥
制作期間5年、「週刊少年ジャンプ」の伝説的大ヒット漫画がついに世界初実写化！
◆浦飯幽助 #北村匠海
◆蔵馬 #志尊淳
◆飛影 #本郷奏多
◆桑原和真 #上杉柊平
さらに、配信開始前夜のスペシャルイベント「12.13決戦前夜祭… pic.twitter.com/pjyXqpvP5s
Sho Tsukikawa (live-action Let Me Eat Your Pancreas) is directing the series, and Tatsurō Mishima is writing the script. Ryō Sakaguch (The Lord of the Rings, X-Men)i is the VFX supervisor. Takumi Kitamura (live-action Tokyo Revengers, Let Me Eat Your Pancreas) will portray the role of Yusuke Urameshi in the series.
The manga follows 14-year-old delinquent Yusuke Urameshi, who dies after saving a child in a car accident. The Spirit World is surprised by his death and offers him a chance to come back as a "spirit detective" who is tasked with defeating demons.
Togashi (Hunter X Hunter) published the original Yu Yu Hakusho manga from 1990 to 1994. Viz Media began publishing the manga in its English edition of Shonen Jump in 2002, and it also released all 19 volumes in print.
A television anime adaptation ran from 1992 to 1995, and spawned two films and two original video anime (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 ran on Adult Swim and later Toonami.
A new OVA debuted at a screening event in October 2018, and later shipped with the fourth part of the anime's 25th Anniversary Blu-ray Box collection in the same month. The new anime adapted the "Two Shot" bonus chapter from the manga's seventh volume, as well as the manga's penultimate chapter "All or Nothing."
The manga inspired a stage play that ran in Japan from August to September 2019.
Sources: Netflix Japan's Twitter account, Cinema Today
