This is what a fighting anime should be!

Written by mikeocheskey on August 18, 2012 at 10:40 PM

Yu Yu Hakusho is without a doubt one of the best fighting anime's I've ever watched. It has everything needed to make a good story: action, drama, and a little comedy spashed here and there. This anime has everything that Bleach and Naruto lack which is why I stopped watching Bleach around episode 50 and Naruto long before Shippuden ever aired. What makes Yu Yu Hakusho an anime worth watching is that it isn't about fighting, the fighting is merely a means to show the deeper story elements. The emotional dialogue, music, and story had me laughing hysterically at times and choking back tears at others. I've never seen another fighting anime that could make me get emotional. Most of them are just a pointless waist of time with no substance and only violence.

My only gripe with Yu Yu Hakusho is that toward some of the later episodes the animators used either different artists or a different art studio that had substandard animation. There were only a few episodes that had this poor animation, however. It just appears like the animators had no choice but to contract a different company for a few episodes and then went back to the original with much better quality.