Netflix’s Yu Yu Hakusho live action to premiere soon
Netflix Japan announced today, Oct. 12, 2023, that the Yu Yu Hakusho live-action is coming worldwide on December 14 with the addition of a special screening event a day before release.
Yu Yu Hakusho is based on the manga by Yoshihiro Togashi who is behind Hunter x Hunter. It inspired a 112-episode TV anime of the same name and aired from Oct. 10, 1992, to Dec. 17, 1994, on Fuji Television.
The staff behind Netflix’s Yu Yu Hakusho live-action
Netflix Japan/ Yu Yu Hakusho
Sho Tsukikawa (Let Me Eat Your Pancreas) is directing the series with Tatsurō Mishima as a scriptwriter, Ryō Sakaguchi (The Lord of the Rings, X-Men) as VFX supervisor, and Takumi Kitamura as the main protagonist, Yusuke Urameshi.
Yu Yu Hakusho tells the story of a 14-year-old delinquent Yusuke Urameshi, who dies after saving a child from a car accident and is offered a second life by the spirit world to come back as a “spirit detective” and defeat evil demons.
Netflix signed a multi-year contract with Japan’s TOHO Studios to lease two of their studios in 2021 with Yu Yu Hakusho being the first live-action to be produced there.
We hope Netflix treats Togashi and Toei Animation’s work with the respect it deserves just like Oda’s One Piece live-action, as both the anime and manga are beloved by Shonen fans around the world!
The trailer didn’t show much except for the release date of the series:
This is not the first time Togashi’s Yu Yu Hakusho has inspired a live-action since the manga received a two-hour stage play in Japan Directed by Chûji Mikasano which ran from August to September 2019.
