![]() Now, these flashes alone have a fair bit to unpack. YYH eases us into things by first breaking the normality of an everyday afternoon: there’s a screech of tires, quick shots of a man pushing a child out of the way of an oncoming car, and then his back is hitting the windshield. This is our normality and, like in every genre story, you need to break that normality at some point so that the protagonists can go on their fantastical/supernatural/science fiction journey. We see lots of traffic, people going about their business, and a pedestrian crossing sign that, crucially, turns red. Our very first episode “Surprised to be Dead” opens on a crowded street. That’s enough of the boring chit-chat though. ![]() YYH’s dubbing is in a class all its own and to this day there are very few shows that compare to it. But it’s what I grew up on and, honestly, I think it’s superior to the sub. As these massive paragraphs attest, I tend to be both detailed and verbose, so we’ll be covering every major plot pointįinally, I’m working from the dub. Third, I obviously recommend that you watch the show yourself (you can find it on YouTube!), but you don’t have to know the series to follow along. If you’ve read my RWBY Recaps, this will function precisely the same way, with the only difference being I’m engaging with a finished text as opposed to an ongoing one, so there’s a lot less, “Maybe _ will happen” theorizing going on. I’m here for the story as the story is presented to the viewer. I’m not arguing an overarching thesis, and I’ve never been someone who focuses on the author/production/trivia of a series. Something that will come up at least once in this episode ![]() I’m not conducting research on the cultural history here I summarize and extrapolate, focusing primarily on plot and dialogue (but with the occasional cinematography aspect tossed in). Second, but very much connected to the first point, is that these are pretty casual recaps. How can it not? So that’s just something to keep in mind as I work through a series that, like any having hit its 30th birthday, has its outdated, flawed, and other questionable aspects. I bring this up simply as a way of demonstrating that there’s more than a bit of nostalgia attached to YYH for me and that will inevitably cloud my reading of it. So to say I love the series is… a little bit of an understatement. I used to keep a Hiei bookmark in everything I was reading, the spirit gun made it into our witch-wolf-space adventures on the playground (middle school was wild), and there was a long period of my life where I tried very hard to teach myself to stand with my hands behind my back, precisely as Genkai does. Written by Yoshihiro Togashi in the early 1990s and later adapted for an American audience by Funimation, I had the pleasure of experiencing this story five different ways: as a serialized tale in Shonen Jump, a binge read when I had the money to buy the manga, tiny snippets of the anime on Adult Swim late at nightĪs an after-school treat on Toonami, and then years later as a re-watch when I introduced it to a friend (who, in turn, blessed me by having us watch Fullmetal Alchemist next). With the RWBY hiatus underway, it seemed like the perfect time to fulfill both desires.īefore we begin though, I’d like to touch on a few things that are going to influence this project.įirst, YYH is near and dear to my heart. Iffy life choices aside, someone mentioned a few weeks back that they’d love for me to recap a show I have more positive things to say about than negative (RIP RWBY) and ever since Netflix announced that their live-action adaptation of Yu Yu Hakusho is in the works, I’ve been itching for a re-watch of the anime. Hello, all you hypothetical readers! It’s a beautiful spring day and I have a free afternoon ahead of me, so what better time to start another massive project while I guilty stuff my other WIPs deep into the depths of my hard drive? Yeah.
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