![]() ![]() These stories are almost always non-canon to the actual story. The formula is that a new villain shows up out of nowhere, the heroes beat him, and this is NEVER mentioned again. Shonen action movies have never really changed since the Dragonball Z movies of the early 1990s and late 1980s. A close friend of Youko Kurama! His name is Kuronue and you'll see him in the movie much, don't worry. ![]() This movie also leads way to an interesting character development. It's always a good movie for you action junkies. ![]() You do not need to know precisely who everyone is or their back story. So if you're new to the YYH verse than pick up this movie. However the Japanese voice cast as always has the original voices we love. ![]() The english dubbing is passable, however for those of us used to the Funimation dub it's a hit or miss. Everything is very fluid and scenes vibrant when need be. I wil wager to say this movie might take place after the Dark Tournament.Īs far as the art and animation goes it's tops! The characters look their best at all times, as do the backgrounds. So as always Yusuke and the gang have to stop this baddie. (Spirit World) and Ningenkai (Human World). Yakumo the evil lord of Meikai (Netherworld) has come to take Reikai Curious I nabbed it and brought it home hoping it would be better than the first.and I was right! Meikai Shitou Hen is a very good movie, with a sense of action gripping you from the start. I wrote it off as crap and went about my life. During which time I was rather new to the series, but even so I deemed that movie unfit in the line of YYH media. I've decided that I need to watch the series again, it's been too long my friends.Ī few years back I had watched the first Yu Yu Hakusho movie. In the movie the leap was sudden and inexplicable, a plot 'device' that can ruin any good movie for me.Įnjoyment: Despite the previous statement this was a joy to watch, mostly because I was happy enough simply seeing one of my favorite cast of characters again. In the series Yusuke develops at a reasonable, believable pace after much training, blood, sweat, and tears. Godlike characters bug me as they are completely unbelievable, one of the reasons I never got into series such as Dragonball is because of this. If he really had that much energy, I would expect that we would have seen it before the critical moment. Yusuke went from being nearly helpless against the King of the Netherworld to suddenly being powerful enough to change the energy-format of the Power Sphere, something King Enma couldn't do. This was where the movie failed, while these were the characters I know and love it was utterly unbelievable that they were able to emerge from this scenario alive. I would have liked to see and know more about the antagonists in this movie as they could have made for some interesting characters, but nearly all of them were given five minutes of screen time before sudden, unbelievable defeat. Why they chose a different cast for the movie escapes me, but it was the wrong decision.Ĭharacter: Another unfortunate aspect of this script being turned into a movie rather than a series arc is that there were many chances at character development, and even movie-exclusive characters weren't fully exploited or handled briefly before being thrown to the wayside. I was wondering what was off about the voices because I didn't remember the series being this badly dubbed, but now it all makes sense. Hardly any emotion put into the acting and I considered a few times switching over to the Japanese track. The dub for this movie, with the exception of Yusuke, was just poorly done. Sound: Because it's been a few years since I've watched the television series I didn't realize that the voice actors weren't the same until I looked it up just now. It's animation style is very versatile, able to transfer between lighter and more melancholy scenes with ease. If prolonged throughout a season of the series then it would have done rather well.Īrt: Never lacking in Yu Yu Hakusho, old-school anime style with it's own sense of personality about it. lacking in this movie, rather it felt extremely rushed. Ironically, this can also be the case with series that deal with huge story arcs trying to condense what would at least be a 20-some episode arc into about ninety minutes. Story: When transferring a television series into a movie one expects series with a very short run time (ATHF for example) to be especially problematic in this area as the writers/characters are not used to a prolonged storyline. It's been at least three years since I finished watching Yu Yu Hakusho and I was more than happy to once again pick up a title from one of my most beloved series. ![]()
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