Yu Yu Hakusho

Yu Yu Hakusho
幽☆遊☆白書 (Yū Yū Hakusho)
Genre	Adventure, comedy, supernatural
Manga
Written by	Yoshihiro Togashi
Published by	Shueisha
English publisher	NA Viz Media
Demographic	Shōnen
Magazine	Weekly Shōnen Jump
English magazine	NA Shonen Jump
Original run	December 3, 1990 – July 25, 1994
Volumes	19
Anime television series
Directed by	Noriyuki Abe
Produced by	Ken Hagino (Studio Pierrot) Kenji Shimizu (Fuji TV) Koji Kaneda (Fuji TV) Kyotaro Kimura (Yomiko Advertising)
Written by	Yukiyoshi Ōhashi
Music by	Yusuke Honma
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed by	AUS Madman Entertainment NA Funimation
Original network	Fuji TV
English network	SEA Animax Asia US Adult Swim, Cartoon Network (Toonami), Funimation Channel
Original run	October 10, 1992 – December 17, 1994
Episodes	112
Original video animation
Eizou Hakusho
Directed by	Noriyuki Abe
Written by	Shigeru Chiba
Music by	Yusuke Honma
Studio	Pierrot
Licensed by	NA Funimation
Released	September 21, 1994 – February 7, 1996
Episodes	6
Original video animation
Two Shot & All or Nothing
Directed by	Noriyuki Abe
Studio	Pierrot
Released	October 26, 2018
Runtime	15 minutes each
Episodes	2
Related
List of Yu Yu Hakusho films

Yu Yu Hakusho (Japanese: 幽☆遊☆白書, Hepburn: Yū Yū Hakusho) is a Japanese manga series by Yoshihiro Togashi. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi. He died saving a child from a car. Yusuke goes through tests presented by Koenma, the son of the ruler of the afterlife Underworld. After those tests, Yusuke is brought back to life. He then becomes "Underworld Detective" and investigate many cases involving demons and ghosts in the human world. Later manga becomes more focused on martial arts battles and tournaments. Togashi began creating the series in November 1990.

The manga was originally published in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from December 1990 to July 1994. The series has 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga ran completely in Viz's Shonen Jump from January 2003 to January 2010. There is an anime based on this manga with 112 television episodes. It was directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot. At first, the television series aired on Japan's Fuji TV network from October 10, 1992 to December 17, 1994. It was later licensed in North America by Funimation in 2001. There it aired on popular Cartoon Network blocks including Adult Swim and later Toonami. The television series has also been broadcast in various other countries around the world. The Yu Yu Hakusho franchise has produced two animated films. It also has produced a series of original video animations (OVAs), audio albums, video games and other merchandise. The manga sold over fifty million copies in Japan. It won the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 1993. The animated series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for best anime in 1994 and 1995. Yu Yu Hakusho has been watched by a large number of television viewers in Japan.