Anime & Manga
- Assassination Classroom: Chapter 117-118: During the annual School Festival, Class E manages to attract not only characters that had interacted with them before, but also celebrities such as the Toguro Brothers.
- Carnival Phantasm: The way Lancer averts his death by car in Season 3 is by saving a kid who was playing ball too close to the street. Basically, a reversal of the first chapter/episode of YuYu Hakusho.
- Gintama:
- In the anime, one scene of the Mother Arc is a Pastel-Chalked Freeze Frame with Gintoki's Finger Gun gesture shining brightly... just like how Yusuke is occasionally depicted in the YuYu Hakusho anime.
- There's an exchange where Gintoki has cornered a villain that is a hysterical parody of the flashback where YuYu Hakusho's Sensui and Itsuki meet:Gintoki: Do you have anything to say before you die?
Villain: If you'd let me live for one more day, I'd like to watch my favorite TV show.
Gintoki: That! Won't! WORK!!! [proceeds to kick bad guy's ass]
- Good Luck Girl!: After the abrupt ending to the fight between Ichiko and Ranmaru, one students complains that the fight should have at least been long as the Yusuke/Yomi fight from YuYu Hakusho.
- Love, Chunibyo & Other Delusions!: Yuuta Togashi's family name is a reference to the family name of Yoshihiro Togashi, the creator of YuYu Hakusho. Yuuta's alter ego, the sword-wielding "Dark Flame Master" and his ability to summon a black dragon made of dark fire (The Ankokuryu) is also a reference to YuYu Hakusho's Jaganshi Hiei, a sword-wielding fire demon who can summon the Jaou-En-Satsu Kokuryuha, which is also a black dragon made of dark fire.
- Pop Team Epic: From the second half of Episode 4: SWGP 2018: "Popuko, let's combine! CHANGE!" and "FULL POWER!" reference Tessho Genda's role as Younger Toguro and how he combines forces with his older brother.
- Sket Dance: Bossun/Yusuke's father Ryosuke died while saving a child (who was playing with a ball near the streets) from getting crushed by a car is similar to what happened to YuYu Hakusho's Yusuke.
Tabletop Games
- New World of Darkness: The rulebook Skinchangers has fox-shifters possessed by spirits. The sample character is a gentle, long-haired Japanese boy named Shuichi Kurama, who made a deal with a fox spirit named Yoko.
Video Games
- Cuphead: Cuphead and Mugman fire blue energy bullets from their fingertips, and can even fire a bigger, more powerful shot for more damage. That sounds familiar.
- Disgaea: The Dragon gets a double reference with its Dragon Assassinator, first releasing a dragon of fire it uses to batter its enemy before absorbing it for a power boost like Hiei, then proceeds to punch a hole through the victim in a fashion very reminiscent of Goku's finishing strike against King Piccolo.
- Fate/Grand Order: Many of Berserker Jeanne Alter's attacks seem to include references to YuYu Hakusho, with her Finger Gun invoking a resemblance to Yusuke's "Spirit Gun" and her Noble Phantasm basically being Hiei's "Dragon of the Darkness Flame" technique.
- Guilty Gear: Faust's history of suffering a mental breakdown and turning into a crazed killer, then regaining his sanity and becoming a gentle healer once more may be a nod towards Minoru Kamiya, aka "Doctor" of The Sensui Seven.
- The King of Fighters: Robert's new Ryugekiken is similar to how Shinobu Sensui kicks his fireballs when performing his "Resshū Kō Kyū Ha" move.
- Neptunia: Monobear mentions Kuwabara, who looks very similar to Mondo Owada from Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc.
- Skullgirls: Anime Peacock says "Quest Class!" in reference to Karasu, the living bomb maker.
Web Original
- Chuggaaconroy: His first opponent in the Pre-Gym in Pokémon Colosseum episode 3 is named Botan. He then references the character Botan from YuYu Hakusho.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
- "No." "Don't be rude, Nappa." Made all the more appropriate by the fact that Vegeta is voiced by Lanipator, creator of Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged.
- In The Stinger to Episode 37, Nail and Piccolo continue to discuss new attack names with references to various other series, one of them being "Spirit Gun!"
Western Animation
- OK K.O.! Let's Be Heroes: Rad's special attack, the Power Poke, involves pointing his finger like a gun before firing energy, just like Yusuke's Spirit Gun.
- SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Karate Island" Sandy's and Udon's muscle growth seems to be based on Toguro's 100% muscle growth.
