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anime: YuYu Hakusho episodes 1-42
Oct. 1st, 2009 02:16 amThese episodes cover the eight volumes of the manga that I’ve read, and at least a bit into volume nine, as there were only a couple episodes left on the disc when I caught up. The anime is following the manga pretty faithfully so far, and is entertaining, but I’m hoping it branches off soon, as I’m told it eventually becomes a totally different and possibly even more outrageous series then.
Surprisingly, there weren’t any filler episodes that I noticed, and they even took out a couple filler chapters earlier in the series. The phallic imagery is actually less phallic than in the manga (so far, at least) though I suspect that’s difficult to believe if you haven’t read the manga. The demon brothers where the tiny, creepy brother turns into a “We get that swords are phallic imagery, already!” sword used by the huge, musclebound brother? Totally not as much so as in the manga.
On the flipside, Kurama’s vines may be even kinkier in the anime.
Of course, the anime makes the same amount of story take over twice as long to consume as the manga, so it tends to stand out more when we go long periods without the main female characters showing up as the male leads do their heroic bonding thing (and such snarky, grumpy bonding it is at times, too) though the anime seems to be trying to add small bits with them (especially Botan, I think) to compensate. Speaking of snarky, I tend to switch back and forth between dubs and subs with anime, depending on mood and if I’m doing anything else while I’m watching (not to mention whatever the disc defaults to, though I think most default to dubs, these days) and Hiei and Kurama have marvelously snarky dubbed VAs.
Incidentally, fond of Hiei as I am (my favorite after Botan) I still want to smack him upside the head regarding Yukina.
The animation is pretty good, and it isn’t as fond of extended freeze frames as some more recent action anime are. Actually, I think that both the anime and the manga proceed at a fairly brisk pace. You can also spot “totally going to be a buddy later if even 5 people like him” more easily than you can in the manga.
I’ve been watching the latest licensed release of the series, which is four sets of 28 episodes each, and you can seemingly get them from rightstuf.com for $17-$20 a set at any point in time. (In the U.S. at least.) Or at least, they’ve been sale items since I started reading the manga earlier this year.
ETA: Click the tag for my manga posts if you're not familiar with the plot and curious about it. I just didn't feel like repeating myself.
Surprisingly, there weren’t any filler episodes that I noticed, and they even took out a couple filler chapters earlier in the series. The phallic imagery is actually less phallic than in the manga (so far, at least) though I suspect that’s difficult to believe if you haven’t read the manga. The demon brothers where the tiny, creepy brother turns into a “We get that swords are phallic imagery, already!” sword used by the huge, musclebound brother? Totally not as much so as in the manga.
On the flipside, Kurama’s vines may be even kinkier in the anime.
Of course, the anime makes the same amount of story take over twice as long to consume as the manga, so it tends to stand out more when we go long periods without the main female characters showing up as the male leads do their heroic bonding thing (and such snarky, grumpy bonding it is at times, too) though the anime seems to be trying to add small bits with them (especially Botan, I think) to compensate. Speaking of snarky, I tend to switch back and forth between dubs and subs with anime, depending on mood and if I’m doing anything else while I’m watching (not to mention whatever the disc defaults to, though I think most default to dubs, these days) and Hiei and Kurama have marvelously snarky dubbed VAs.
Incidentally, fond of Hiei as I am (my favorite after Botan) I still want to smack him upside the head regarding Yukina.
The animation is pretty good, and it isn’t as fond of extended freeze frames as some more recent action anime are. Actually, I think that both the anime and the manga proceed at a fairly brisk pace. You can also spot “totally going to be a buddy later if even 5 people like him” more easily than you can in the manga.
I’ve been watching the latest licensed release of the series, which is four sets of 28 episodes each, and you can seemingly get them from rightstuf.com for $17-$20 a set at any point in time. (In the U.S. at least.) Or at least, they’ve been sale items since I started reading the manga earlier this year.
ETA: Click the tag for my manga posts if you're not familiar with the plot and curious about it. I just didn't feel like repeating myself.