Introduction
Millennia ago, a war was fought between the Netherworld and the Spirit World. Ultimately, the Netherworld was destroyed and Lord Yakumo, the King of the Netherworld, was banished to the depths of space. Now, five defenders from the Spirit World must team-up against Yakumo's Demon-Gods for possession of five, mystical sites. But Lord Yakumo is dangerously close to reclaiming the Power Sphere—the source of the Netherworld's energy—and once it is again in his possession, our world will become the new Netherworld.
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Audience reviews
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LancelotSB
Started strong but ended horribly. Horrible pacing and writing. The weakest villains of the franchise. Huge fan of the main series, but this movie was just awful. Took place around or after season 2 but non-canon.
The animation and audio quality were amazing. Great scores and original song but the mood setup was horrible. Love the voice casts as always. This movie ended abruptly without showing the aftermath of the battle. Meanwhile, the action or battle scenes were mediocre. The main series was way better. Horrible power sets and designs on the villains.
The new character was indeed useless and not required for the plot. Wish I could see more of Botan. Skippable and had no revisit value, just watch the main series instead.
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Overview:
Shonen action movies have never really changed since the Dragonball Z movies of the early 1990s and late 1980s. The formula is that a new villain shows up out of nowhere, the heroes beat him, and this is NEVER mentioned again. These stories are almost always non-canon to the actual story. American comics have a phrase to describe these kinds of stories: "elseworlds". What is important is that the action is good and we the audience are entertained. Yu Yu Hakusho the movie delivers some decent action scenes, but also has an unfortunate amount of shoddy exposition on a story that we don't care about.
Action: 6/10
The action scenes in this movie when they FINALLY happen are pretty good. Hiei, Kurama, and Yusuke have predictably awesome fights, while even Kuwabara has a pretty amus…
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This movie does not tie in with the TV series. It has all the main characters but different villians. One thing that I didn't like about this movie is that they don't use the voice actors from the TV series. But you can't have everything, right?!
The movie has a simple plot...easy to follow. Demons are trying to take over the world and Yusuke & friends must prevent that from happening! Everyone (Yusuke, Kuwabara,Hiei, and Kurama) fight individual battles against a team of demons. Movie does however, give you a peek of Kurama's background before he teams up with Yusuke, but not the whole background. (You have to watch the TV series in order to find out about the rest of Kurama's past). It might help to watch the beginning of the Toguro Saga (i.e. "Rescue Yukina") to find out who Yukina is.…
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This is only an average movie based on the dub of the movie.
Story 5: If you are like most your probably watched the series before the movie and obviously noticed a few things. the characters had different voices, there reactions to things were almost out of character and the story is about as cliche as can be. Following most movies they input something not ever mentioned in the series in this case the netherworld. There isn't anything wrong with it as this is what most movies do its how they enter them into the series that makes no sense. With little to no back story of it just makes you not even care and when they try to bring in something to make you care it doesn't even make sense within its own back story making you either confused, annoyed, or you just don't care. Half of the actio…
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One of the classics again! Well, one of MY classics, at least... I always have fun whenever I revisit the Spirit World with Yusuke and the gang...
Main Characters: Yusuke Urameshi, Kuwabara Kazuma, Kurama, Hiei
Story: 7/10 - not much of a plot since once you've seen 1 arc of YYH, you've practically seen them all... this time Yusuke and the gang needs to defend against a Demon King named Yakumo... what I usually look forward to are the action scenes and it did not disappoint... though it was kinda anti-climactic since the villain kept on talking/taunting and i was like - shut up & get your a** kicked already! *tee-hee*
Art: 7/10 - sharp and somewhat hastily drawn, that's how I would describe the art in the movie... not bad for a 90s anime and i still like it...
Sound: 7/10 - BG music ca…
Read at the sourceAyria
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.
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. 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. The story wasn't lacking in this movie, rather it felt extremely rushed. If prolonged throughout a season of the series then it would have done rather well.
Art: Never lacking in Yu Yu Hakusho, old-school anime style with it's own s…
Read at the sourceJin_Kaze_Tsukai
A few years back I had watched the first Yu Yu Hakusho movie. 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 wrote it off as crap and went about my life. Some time later the second one pops up. 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. Yakumo the evil lord of Meikai (Netherworld) has come to take Reikai (Spirit World) and Ningenkai (Human World). So as always Yusuke and the gang have to stop this baddie. I wil wager to say this movie might take place after the Dark Tournament.
As far as the art and animation goes it's tops! The characters look their best at all times, as…
Read at the sourceLilaJean247
This movie is great for those who have watched the series there isnt any problem for the art, animation or even the plot of the film, but for the voices however is a BIG problem. I mean Kurahawa?! and they're arent even from the original english voice cast from Funimation it's oh so horrible I rather watch it in it's originial dub with the subs. Since it's been done it's still enjoyable to watch if you can tolerate the bad voice actors in it or not.
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