Not many details were given out at the time of the announcement, aside from the fact that it’s being developed by the same studio that worked on the amazing Alice in Borderland Netflix Original that just came out last Friday.
Yoshihiro Togashi’s legendary manga Yu Yu Hakusho will be a live action series on Netflix! /K4t5eNta9d When Yusuke dies saving another’s life, he’ll embark on a journey across the world of humans, spirits, and demons to return to the land of the living. So you could imagine how elated I was once I woke up this morning and found out that Netflix was making a live-action version of Yu Yu Hakusho as a Netflix Original. I have since watched the series, and it has become one of my favorite anime series of all time. The only reason I knew of Yu Yu Hakusho was that one of my good friends at the time had the Yu Yu Hakusho game for Super Famicom and we played that non-stop. Back in the days of Japanimation, the series that I was aware of were Sailor Moon, Dragon Ball, and Yu Yu Hakusho.
Admittedly, I didn’t watch too much anime when I was growing up in the 90s, but there were always a couple of anime series that I knew about back then.