Live-action drama “Yu Yu Hakusho” trailer released with Takito Kenichi and Ayano Go playing the Toguro brothers and Inagaki Goro playing the role of Sakyo

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Nine additional cast members for the live-action drama “Yu Yu Hakusho” (official abbreviation: Yu Haku, which will be distributed worldwide exclusively on Netflix starting December 14th) have been announced. Ayano Go, Inagaki Goro, Shiraishi Sei, Furukawa Kotone, Migami Ai, Shimizu Hiroya, Machida Keita, Kaji Meiko and Takito Kenichi will appear.

“Yu Yu Hakusho” is one of the most popular Japanese manga series as it has sold over 40 million copies in Japan and also a winner of the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award in 1993, also earning the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for 1994 and 1995. In 1993, it came second place to the immensely popular “Sailor Moon” series. Even a decade after its anime debut, in 2001, “Yu Yu Hakusho” was still listed as #53 in Animage’s top 100 anime listing of 2001 and for TV Asahi’s web poll in 2006, was voted #15 as “Best Anime of All time” and the series would eventually become popular in several countries.

“Yu Yu Hakusho” focuses on the character Yusuke Urameshi. Yusuke is literally your street punk. He has an alcoholic mother, no father and beats up other gang members, as well as missing school often. But despite his brash attitude, deep inside, Yusuke is a good guy. And people who believe in him is his childhood friend and classmate, Keiko Yukimura, who wants him to focus on his education and also wants to help him because she likes him. The other person who wants to help him is Kazuma Kuwabara, also a street punk who has set a goal to one day beat Yusuke but usually, Kazuma is the person who ends up getting beaten up.

But one day, as Yusuke leaves his high school, he sees a kid playing with a ball near the street. Yusuke tells him to not play that ball because it’s dangerous and that he can end up getting killed if he plays ball in busy traffic. And as the boy thinks that Yusuke is just wanting to play with him, the boy doesn’t listen to Yusuke’s warning and ends up kicking the ball towards the street and tries to get the ball during incoming traffic.

Seeing this, Yusuke saves the boy but ends up being hit by the car and getting killed. Next thing you know, Yusuke is in the spirit world, floating around and watching people and seeing how they react to his dead body, but also getting to see people who actually, genuinely miss him.

Yusuke is suddenly approached by the grim reaper, Botan who is shocked that Yusuke is in the spirit world because his death was not supposed to happen. So, there were no current plans to have him in Heaven or Hell. But Koenma, the son of the spirit realm ruler King Enma tells Yusuke that because he was not destined to go to either Heaven or Hell, he has a chance to earn the right to be revived and return back home. In fact, back on Earth, both Yusuke’s mother and Keiko realize that something is surprising in the fact that Yusuke is warm and not showing signs that he is actually dead, which gives the two hope that Yusuke may be alive.

But Yusuke learns that with good decisions that are used to help people, he may get a chance at life once again.

But also, being recognized by Koenma that perhaps Yusuke has a special purpose that is to be a spirit detective who can investigate supernatural phenomena in the human world and capture criminals dealing in underworld crime.

And through his adventures as a spirit detective, he will meet friends but also many foes.