![]() ![]() They come across like stupid versions of a Stand battle from JJBA. Some of the fights are less punchy and more puzzly. "No, I win because of my flower attack!" "Ah ha, no, I win, because I can blow up that attack!" "No, I win because I transformed and wrapped you up! This fight is over!" "Ah, but it's not over, because I can blow up that attack! And now I'll transform too!!" Christ, give it a rest! Some of the battles are nothing but continuous reversals, like a parody of Dragon Ball. The series is 100% building up wimpy fights that are simultaneously dragged out too long _and_ conclude too abruptly. The things that you want to spend time on, like important fights and explanations for the silly bullshit like a giant laser that comes out of nowhere at the very end, Togashi just waves his hand and skips over them in favor of drawing characters standing around talking. Whole chapters consist of nothing but characters brooding over how a fight is totally gonna happen soon and it's gonna be amazing. This sort of fake-out prank on the reader does YYH no favors whatsoever.įor a "fighting manga" the fights are seriously half-baked, and they're mostly dialogue. ![]() Oh, but don't worry - Yuusuke's friends never actually die, no serious consequences are ever actually faced. I would've preferred to see some struggle or panic. They toy with Yuusuke and kill his friends in front of him to make him madder, and when he finally manages to summon the willpower to punch them really hard, they just thank him for kicking their asses so impressively and sort of keel over dead. It's justified in that they're not on the material plane, but why would you use such an excuse to make your fights less visceral and tense?Īnnoyingly, the toughest opponents aren't beaten in satisfying ways. Nobody reacts to losing limbs and getting cut in half. The problem is, everyone's a damn ghost! Swords impact people as painlessly as laser pointers. These boring punch-outs never stop happening, but at least other attacks start coming in. When new attacks finally start appearing, it's generic shapeless ki blasts shot out of people's hands - in other words, the author took DB's least creative move, and made it even less exciting. It's the dumbest possible interpretation of fighting. They just eat the hit and then punch the other guy. ![]() Nobody kicks, grabs, guards, blocks, dodges, flees, or changes posture. For the first few chapters, nobody does anything but punch each other full in the face. When he runs out, he switches to stolen Dragon Ball Z ideas. ![]() (Nine out of ten characters in this series can be described as a jerk-with-a-heart-of-gold, or just a jerk.) The author doles out glurgy, second-hand story beats. Every plot point is both bog-standard and heavily foreshadowed - the crotchety old man will warm up when confronted with innocence, the arrogant snob will get a knuckle sandwich, the freakishly ugly guys will be evil and get humiliated, the extremely pretty guys will be even more evil, the tough young men will never give up. The art is typical of a contemporary shounen - competent, but not daring, and lacking in distinctive features. It's a cheap and tepid story with paper-thin characters. Yu Yu Hakusho opens with the main character flipping up a child's skirt and commenting on the shitstains on her underwear. ![]()
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