History Manga / YuYuHakusho

* WhipItGood:
** Kurama's Rose Whip.
** Miyuki's got one too.

* AuthorityEqualsAsskicking: The three leaders of the Demon World are all S+ Class demons.

* OffModel: Some scenes in the anime have this. For instance, there's a tendency for Sensui to have a really weird, long neck.

* OddFriendship: Kuwabara and Hiei. Hiei constantly belittles how much of a [[WhatAnIdiot dumbass]] Kuwabara is while Kuwabara keeps up with the [[TheNapoleon short]] jokes. Kurama even jokes about how one day they might even become [[LoveObstructingParents in-laws]].

The above mentioned initial marketing strategy also made ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' one of the only few titles to achieve successful [[LongRunners continuous]] tie-ins and [[{{Crossover}} crossover]] campaigns '''post''' initial animation airing well over 25 years and counting; targeting its demographic sharply as fan base ages.

But Koenma has other plans for Yusuke, as both his fighting ability and newfound spirit awareness makes him a prime candidate to be a Spirit Detective, an agent of the spirit world hunting down renegade demons who threaten peace on Earth. With much reluctance, Yusuke takes on the job, and finds himself facing all manner of supernatural baddies. Lucky for him, he has the help of Botan as a liaison and tactical support. Early on in his career they send him to the OldMaster Genkai, a short, crotchety old woman who nevertheless is a highly capable spiritual guru and martial artist.

* TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening: ** During the climactic final battle of the Dark Tournament arc, Toguro reasons if he kills one of Yusuke's friends, it'll create one for Yusuke. [[spoiler: He ends up being right, although his attack is non-lethal and Kuwabara actually fakes his death]].

* {{Transflormation}}: The FateWorseThanDeath that Hiei inflicts on Mukuro's [[AbusiveParents abusive father]].

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The entire series starts with one such moment; Yusuke is a selfish delinquent who doesn't give two hoots about how his actions affect others, only to make the ultimate act of selflessness and sacrifice his life to save a boy from being hit by a car. His peers and family still living are gobsmacked by this -- as well as the afterlife's powers that be, who have no choice but to offer Yusuke a chance to go back to life because even they never expected him to die by doing this kind of thing, and, as such, there's no place for him there.

* OOCIsSeriousBusiness: The entire series starts with one such moment; Yusuke is a selfish delinquent who doesn't give two hoots about how his actions affect others, only to make the ultimate act of selflessness and sacrifice his life to save a boy from being hit by a car. Both his peers and family still living and the powers that be in the afterlife are gobsmacked by this!

* AsskickingEqualsAuthority: Invoked by Yusuke and played straight by the entire demon world during the ''Demon World Unification Tournament'' arc.

Serialized from 1990 to 1994 in ''Magazine/ShonenJump'', ''Yu Yu Hakusho'' became an instant phenomenon throughout Japanese culture and set many standards for Creator/StudioPierrot in setting the bar to a new height in animation, cinematography, and fight choreography for the Japanese animation industry. Togashi’s liberal approach to Studio Pierrot’s adaption practice also led to the solid fruition, and “industrial boom” of multimedia tie-ins by being one of the industry’s first examples of producing “standardize long discographies” of soundtracks, character [[Main/ImageSong image songs]], national tours of voice actor stage performances, [[OriginalVideoAnimation OVAs]], and video games.

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* MeddlingParents: Raizen [[spoiler:when he possesses Yusuke during his final fight with Sensui]].

* SempaiKohai: Yusuke was being sarcastic when he called post-FaceHeelTurn Sensui 'sempai', but he's notably more respectful to happily retired Kuroko Sanada than he is to ''anyone, ever''.

* ArmorPiercingSlap: Keiko's usual punishment for Yusuke acting up. You would think Keiko was the most powerful force on Earth with how often the guy gets beat on by her.

* SurprisinglyRealisticOutcome: During the climactic final battle of the Dark Tournament arc, Toguro reasons if he kills one of Yusuke's friends, it'll create a TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening for Yusuke. [[spoiler: He ends up being right]]. An arc later, Yusuke, unable to defeat Shinobu Sensui, thinks that if he dies fighting Sensui, Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama will also have a TraumaticSuperpowerAwakening that will give them the edge to defeat him. [[spoiler: When Yusuke does die, all three do indeed awaken some form of a power-up and attack Sensui. They all promptly are defeated anyway, because the simple fact is he is still leagues stronger than them; a simple power-up from ThePowerOfFriendship won't just automatically make you stronger than the enemy.]]

* WouldHitAGirl: Unlike Kuwabara, Yusuke has no problem hitting women who challenge him in a fight. Yusuke fights against Miyuki, [[spoiler:who, ironically, in the manga and uncensored anime, [[ShesAManInJapan wasn't a girl]]]], much to Yusuke's horror and disgust.

* InvisibleParents: All of the young characters seem to suffer this fate.
** Kuwabara's parents are never mentioned in the show; it's suggested he is raised by his older sister who is in her early 20s in the anime and 18 in the manga. In the manga their father does appear in one chapter toward the very end but was never mentioned before that.
** At first it seems that Yusuke's mom completely averts this trope in the beginning, only making it follow DisappearedDad because we don't see his father at all. However, after the 14th episode his mother doesn't have a speaking part and after Episode 27 we never see her again. She's only mentioned once before Yusuke leaves for demon world later.

** Also, Risho of Team Masho, who takes particular glee in the potential of taking victory over Team Urameshi, even though it would mostly be by technicality (Genkai and Hiei were kept at bay with a trap from outside the ring and Yusuke by a bogus call from the Tournament Committee; Kurama didn't actually lose -- he won both of his fights, and Butahiri just fixed it so Bakken got to beat on his unconscious body). Then comes Kuwabara, who -- despite suffering from crippling injuries -- [[spoiler:[[ThePowerOfLove easily wipes the floor with Risho]] once he realizes Yukina is watching the fight]].

* AdaptationDistillation: The anime cuts out ''a lot'' from the manga to make for tighter pacing.

* WhatHappenedToTheMouse: It's never explained who set Yusuke's house on fire.

* ArbitrarilyLargeBankAccount: The members of the Black Book Club bet billions like it's nothing, with Sakyo betting (depending on the adaptation) either Japan's annual GDP or more money than exists on earth, stating said amount was Tarukane's net worth.