Netflix‘s “Geeked Week” isn’t done yet dropping exciting news and teasers: the streaming service debuted a first look at the upcoming “Yu Yu Hakusho” live-action series, promising supernatural action fun based on the popular manga series.
The live-action adaptation will debut exclusively on Netflix on December 14.
The series “revolves around Yusuke Urameshi, who spends his days getting into fights and dies in an accident while trying to protect a young child. As he grapples with the fact that he is looking down on his dead body, a woman named Botan who calls herself a guide to the spirit world relays to him the shocking truth: no one expected a delinquent like Yusuke to die performing an act of goodness, and there was no place for him in either heaven or hell. Thus, Yusuke is given a chance to be revived, and after passing his trial, he becomes an Underworld Detective. From there, Yusuke becomes entwined in a mystery that envelopes the human, demon and spirit worlds.”
“Yu Yu Hakusho” is based on the legendary manga by Yoshihiro Togashi originally serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump for four years from 1990 and published by Shueisha.
The series is directed by Sho Tsukikawa and written by Tatsuro Mishima.
In addition to cast members Takumi Kitamura, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo, and Shuhei Uesugi, the rest of the cast includes:
- Sei Shiraishi as Keiko Yukimura, Yusuke’s childhood friend;
- Kotone Furukawa as Botan, the guide who leads Yusuke to the spirit world after his accidental death;
- Ai Mikami as Yukina, a “Korime” (Ice Apparition) who searches for her estranged brother;
- Hiroya Shimizu as Karasu, the dominant “yokai” (spirit) who poses a formidable obstacle to Team Yusuke;
- Keita Machida as Koenma, the spirit world detective who commands Yusuke
- Meiko Kaji as Genkai, mentor to Yusuke and Kuwabara;
- Kenichi Takito as Elder Toguro, a human turned yokai;
- Goro Inagaki as Sakyo, a mysterious figure who employs the Toguro Brothers and controls the underworld;
- Go Ayano as Younger Toguro, the most powerful adversary standing in Team Yusuke’s path.
Get a feel for the supernatural war brewing in “Yu Yu Hakusho” ahead of its December debut below.
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