🐱 ‘They Didn’t Learn From Cowboy Bebop’: Netflix Confirms Yu Yu Hakusho Getting Live-Action Adaption

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The Netflix live-action adaptation of the Japanese anime series Yu Yu Hakusho was announced last year and has been in the works for quite some time now. It was no secret either, as set pictures were making the rounds on Instagram.

However, the latest announcement of Yu Yu Hakusho officially returning along with the first live-action poster on Twitter does amount to something and it has the internet abuzz. So far, one casting choice has been announced and it is for the main character, Yusuke Urameshi, who will be played by Tokyo Revengers‘ Takumi Kitamura, as revealed by IGN.

A surprise from the underworld.
The legendary manga is returning as a live action series. The main roles for Yu Yu Hakusho will be revealed soon… pic.twitter.com/bUp2Q6FV2l
— IGN (@IGN) July 16, 2022

The legacy of Yu Yu Hakusho​

Yu Yu Hakusho is an anime classic; its manga first came in 1990 and was an instant hit worldwide. The plot entailed a high school student losing his life while saving a young child from a traffic accident but being given a chance to get resurrected. He rises from the grave to become a spirit detective. The Anime adaptation was a masterpiece as well, with over a hundred episodes and what is often believed to be one of the best Shonen arcs of all time. The manga and series have a hefty and huge legacy. A live-action adaptation, and that too by Netflix is a big blank question mark.

Netflix has a taste for sloppy live-actions​

Netflix’s disaster diary (may we call it a “Cancel NOTE”…) had another recent utterly failed attempt – the Cowboy Bebop live-action adaptation. The show, much like Yu Yu Hakusho, holds a great legacy but the live-action was a bland and over-ambitious project. The anime series had archetype characters that the creator tried to evolve into fully-rounded beings– haphazardly recasting two characters as queer and black, respectively; a deliberate and forced attempt at LGBTQ+ and POC representation. The creator is entitled to their own revised representation and no absolute fidelity is owed to the original work, but it is the unsatisfactory product that has nothing redeeming to it. The humor is dry and the writing is sloppy. In conclusion, a big flop and nothing else, the fans are testaments to the fact.

The announcement of One Piece’s live-action Netflix adaptation too has garnered mixed reactions so far. Still in the making, we have time before we can say anything concrete about it.

Not content with ruining Cowboy Bebop, netflix announces live action Yu Yu Hakusho
— Quentin Tarantado (@cautiontvpe) July 16, 2022

What Netflix actually has, is the AUDACITY​

What is the most surprising fact is the perseverance and audacity with which Netflix is AT IT. We mean the pretty unhealthy obsession with creating live-action remakes, especially considering how extremely terrible they’ve been turning out so far. Mistakes make people grow but Netflix refuses to take note and learn from their previous mistakes. Or maybe, (a big “what if?!”) Netflix is actually banking on hate-watchers now? Because the fans have had anything but a positive reaction since the live-action was announced.

I’ve watched half of Yu Yu Hakusho to actually believe it’s doable to make it a life adaptation without the need of horrendous CGI to accommodate for super unrealistic effects
Still, all the live actions that have happened thus far are disappointing so my expectations are low
— Devon Izzo (@ShinobiFPS) July 16, 2022

Yu Yu Hakusho is getting a live action remake! Wake me up from this nightmare. I don’t need to see my favorite anime get remade into live action. pic.twitter.com/rLbT2xT1VK
— Robbay (@Robbay100) July 16, 2022

Netflix is really out here creating incredible shows that people love only to cancel them after one season to save money to make
*checks notes*
live action Yu Yu Hakusho

— TheGinachu (@TheGinachu) July 16, 2022

For some fans, it’s not so much the fact that the anime is getting adapted into a live-action project but it is Netflix holding the reigns that’s the deal-breaker for them.

"Yu Yu Hakusho is coming back!" oh shit oh fuck u real!
"….assssssss a netflix live action!" FUCK
— 2% Baja Bilk (@BajamothBlast) July 16, 2022

Yu Yu Hakusho live-action is one thing, but a Netflix adaptation? Darn it! Anything they touch is bound to be ruined… at least, that was the case with the series I love.
I guess my prejudice against whatever that company produces is never going away.
— non (@icedd_latte) July 16, 2022

For some, the adaptation is the deliberate desecration of something holy. Our sincere condolences.

Netflix making a live action Yu Yu Hakusho now. Why? Is nothing sacred? Have any of the live action anime remakes been good or well-received?
— Fatemaker Felix (@LetsGo_Felix) July 16, 2022

Even the people who haven’t watched the anime are dead sure of live-action being a shit show.

I haven’t seen Yu Yu Hakusho. And I can still tell you that just making a live action Netflix Adaptation is a terrible idea. https://t.co/x56twvCeMC
— Snelldor (@Snelldor) July 16, 2022

With no hopes in our hearts and expectations lower than the sea level during a low tide, let’s see in what ways Netflix massacres our boy.

 

[Titos]

Heh, I'm glad never watched this one and I have zero emotional attachment to this franchise.

But I agree, Netflix wont' ever learn their lessons. I'm gonna wait for when they decide to adapt some mecha, any mecha, and the actual robot is played by that black troon in a wheelchair.

Wasn't Netflix behind that godawful FLCL "season 2"? They'll get to Gundam or Macross soon enough.

 

[XYZpdq]

All this bullshit and we still never got to see Del Toro adapt Monster.

at first blush I'd assume it would suck ass just due to time constraints, but 20th Century Boys managed to compress pretty well into only three movies, so who knows what miracles Del Totoro could have done

 

[Tanner Glass]

I am surprised they consider Yuyu Hakusho a worthwhile series to invest in, even within shonen it's middle of the pack at best and mostly forgotten in favor of HxH by now. Can't wait to see netflix waste their time adapting shows literally no one knows about like Zenki or Birdie the Mighty because after a while that's the only kind of licenses they will be able to get

It's pretty good, but it's also really old and the license was probably not that expensive, comparatively. Way cheaper than trying to license a 'current' show (like HxH, MHA, OPM, whatever) but still with a fanbase.

Netflix will always get licenses (if they want) because they have money. They'll only likely avoid franchises that already have had some measure of Live Action success (Rurouni Kenshin) or failure (Dragonball).

 

[derpherp2]

Hey literally everything I care about from before is dead so what's one more?
Wonder how they'll fuck this one up?

Personally I think theyll upgrade the tranny angle and turn red hair guy into a full blown hermaphordite.

 

[Haramburger]

It's a shame, Cowboy Bebop had potential. I don't think Yu Yu Hakusho is a good candidate for the live action treatment AT ALL. And that's if it was in real fans hands; Netflix is going to absolutely butcher it.

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

Anyone else hear a weird sound when you scroll page 1 of this thread

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

They're also doing Knights of the Zodiac....

 

[Tasty Tatty]

They're also doing Knights of the Zodiac....

Heh, I'm glad never watched this one and I have zero emotional attachment to this franchise.

emotional attachment to this franchise

That's what I get for being smug.

Unless you mean the one they already did and it was already a disaster, although it was CGI, not LA.

Why was a disaster, kiwis might ask...? there is this character called Shun who starts as a pussy when he was a kid. His brother had to always protect him from bullies and from life, pretty much. When they got selected to their place of training, he gets to go to the worst possible place, and his brother sacrifices himself and goes instead. Shun goes to a better place and comes back pretty strong, although he's still a pacifist who doesn't like violence. The lesson here is that you can be delicate and still being a man.

So, Netflix made him a girl.

 

[CatParty]

Rudy Ray Moore would have made a better Cowboy Bebop series.

this sounds very interesting. I’d watch it

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

It looks to be exclusively Japanese since Toho and Netflix are collaborating on it.

So I guess people overreacted?

 

[namelesstacotruck]

Sounds like they casted a japanese guy as Yusuke. So is this just japanese live action with netflix paying for it then?

 

[Return of the Freaker]

Calling it now the Toguro brothers main motivation will be misoginy/terminally online inceldom for younger/older and they'll turn Sakyo into Drumpf. I fucking hate Netflix

 

[m1ddl3m4rch]

Anyone else hear a weird sound when you scroll page 1 of this thread

@CatParty there's seriously an interference-y sound on page 1 of this thread. You have to scroll up and down but it's there. It happens nowhere else for me.

 

[PS1gamenwatch]

It looks to be exclusively Japanese since Toho and Netflix are collaborating on it.

So I guess people overreacted?

Sounds like they casted a japanese guy as Yusuke. So is this just japanese live action with netflix paying for it then?

Well that’s too bad. I was thinking it might have been another joint production from the Philippine team making the Voltes V live action series since that too is iconic to Filipinos. Voltes V in the 80s, YYH/Ghost Fighter as it is known there in the 90s.

 

[Dysnomia]

It looks to be exclusively Japanese since Toho and Netflix are collaborating on it.

So I guess people overreacted?

Well if that is the case maybe it won't be a trainwreck. They won't troon and black it up. i hope.

 

[Scarlett Johansson]

https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2022-07-11/live-action-knights-of-the-zodiac-film-gets-first-look-at-comic-con-intl-in-san-diego/.187550

Jean Grey and Boromir what the fuck y'all doing

 

[LurkTrawl]

It's one of those shows I forget existed until I see or hear it mentioned, then immediately forget it exists again, so I have no problems with Netflix burning it to ashes in the hopes of a quick cash-grab that they'll fuck up with IdPol bullshit.

 

[Honka Honka Burning Love]

One things for certain, they will not show you this in the live action version of YYH:

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I fucking forgot that happened.

"The Family Jewels have not been stolen" YYH is the greatest dub ever.

 

[Doppelmonger]

"Duelo a muerte con cuchillospuñales"

This will be a trainwreck.

 

[Elite Miko]

Pretty subpar trailer tbh. I think a lot of people are going say it's good because it isn't godawful but comes across as an average Tokusatsu show.