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Yu Yu Hakusho japanese drama review
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Yu Yu Hakusho
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by Kannadin
Jul 28, 2024
5 of 5 episodes seen
Completed
Overall 7.0
Story 6.5
Acting/Cast 10.0
Music 8.0
Rewatch Value 3.0

Wants to tell a grand story and butchers it in 5 episodes.

Amazing Action scenes.

But that's it.

I only knew the manga by name but not its story... But this show tries to tell too much in 5 episodes... and among these 5 episodes, 2 episodes are for the grand final... meaning we have basically 3 episodes to introduce all the main characters, get the brunk of the main story, get attached to the characters... somehow... and be hyped for the fights... While it's visually a great live action and I feel the actors were acting manga-like... - I've read in some comments that some viewers felt the acting was bad... but I beg to differ. They're faithful to what you would get in most shounen anime. It's just that it can't work because you have to get "in the moment" and it's impossible because again they PACKED TOO MUCH in 5 episodes!

Anyway It just made me feel... nothing. Also don't get me started on the blue haired girl who literally spends her time crying when she could have helped them fight. Seriously girl? You can heal people WHAT ARE YOU DOING? But this is a shounen... and girls in shounens are only here to cry and be saved. Completely useless.

Final rating 7. It's short and bingeable... But this series is from a 19 volumes manga whose author was so tired of his editor stressing him out to add more volumes given the series success that he decided to butcher its end.
It deserved at the very least 12 episodes to develop what it tried to tell properly. It deserved better. We deserved better. But so be it.

Won't recommend this live action to anyone but if you are like me and sometimes you don't want to watch something too engaging because you just finished something very heavy, this one might do the trick in-between more engaging dramas.
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