Spoilers Ahead for YuYu Hakusho!
So I finished the first 25 episodes of YYH and found out that the first 25 episodes entail the first season, named Spirit Detective Saga. I thought I'd post a thread about it. I watched the English dub of the anime. I got a dual audio collection, and when I switched between the English and Japanese version, I found the Japanese version to be bland, and Yusuke's voice itself was inferior compared to the dub, which was a lot sharper, and made everyone sound more badass. Plus when I scoured the internet I found that majority of the fans preferred the dub, and I'm happy I chose it.
The first episode is one of the best I've seen in any anime, Samurai Champloo's pilot is the only one I like more probably. It did a great job of making me empathise with everyone, especially Yusuke, even though I didn't know any of them. And the comedy in the anime is on-point, especially in the first arc(that is the ordeal of Yusuke coming back alive). It's probably due to the dub, but this is probably the funniest battle shonen anime I've seen apart from One Piece(pre-time-skip at least).
The second arc is sort of a mini-tournament arc, and it's also good, though the constant fights one after the other started to become a bit tiring, but the way each one opponent was defeated by Yusuke and Kuwabara was a bit clever. I only wish they left a bit of a break between this and the Maze Castle arc, it felt like nothing but fighting. However, the Maze castle arc was my favourite arc, with it being a ticking time bomb. Both the events happening on the castle, as well as Botan and Keiko being chased on Earth were exciting. My favourite fight from the arc is probably Kurama vs Genbu, it wasn't too long or too short, and it was suitably entertaining. My least favourite arc is the Yukina Rescue arc, it was anti-climactic all the way through, with each fight being unexciting, including the final one vs Togura. And honestly Kuwabara's crush on Yukina was creepy. I don't have any opinion on the Artifact arc, other than that it fortunately didn't drag too long and finished everything quickly, and was pretty entertaining.
The OP and ED are good, but nothing special. The animation in the OP is great, and the animation throughout these 25 episodes held up incredibly well, especially for a 25 year old anime. Fight scenes don't use still frames unlike recent anime and are animated well. This honestly looks far better than the recent trash anime that is Black Clover Studio Perriot put out recently.
Anyway, what do you think of this first saga?
So I finished the first 25 episodes of YYH and found out that the first 25 episodes entail the first season, named Spirit Detective Saga. I thought I'd post a thread about it. I watched the English dub of the anime. I got a dual audio collection, and when I switched between the English and Japanese version, I found the Japanese version to be bland, and Yusuke's voice itself was inferior compared to the dub, which was a lot sharper, and made everyone sound more badass. Plus when I scoured the internet I found that majority of the fans preferred the dub, and I'm happy I chose it.
The first episode is one of the best I've seen in any anime, Samurai Champloo's pilot is the only one I like more probably. It did a great job of making me empathise with everyone, especially Yusuke, even though I didn't know any of them. And the comedy in the anime is on-point, especially in the first arc(that is the ordeal of Yusuke coming back alive). It's probably due to the dub, but this is probably the funniest battle shonen anime I've seen apart from One Piece(pre-time-skip at least).
The second arc is sort of a mini-tournament arc, and it's also good, though the constant fights one after the other started to become a bit tiring, but the way each one opponent was defeated by Yusuke and Kuwabara was a bit clever. I only wish they left a bit of a break between this and the Maze Castle arc, it felt like nothing but fighting. However, the Maze castle arc was my favourite arc, with it being a ticking time bomb. Both the events happening on the castle, as well as Botan and Keiko being chased on Earth were exciting. My favourite fight from the arc is probably Kurama vs Genbu, it wasn't too long or too short, and it was suitably entertaining. My least favourite arc is the Yukina Rescue arc, it was anti-climactic all the way through, with each fight being unexciting, including the final one vs Togura. And honestly Kuwabara's crush on Yukina was creepy. I don't have any opinion on the Artifact arc, other than that it fortunately didn't drag too long and finished everything quickly, and was pretty entertaining.
The OP and ED are good, but nothing special. The animation in the OP is great, and the animation throughout these 25 episodes held up incredibly well, especially for a 25 year old anime. Fight scenes don't use still frames unlike recent anime and are animated well. This honestly looks far better than the recent trash anime that is Black Clover Studio Perriot put out recently.
Anyway, what do you think of this first saga?
