I cannot explain the noise that came out of me when you used the Yu Yu Hakusho Abridged clip. It was like a squeal and a choke. A squoke. I love this vid by the way!

Absolutely fantastic video!! I can't believe I haven't seen this sooner! I just got my Mom and little brother into the show 😁 They're both finishing up the tournament Arc. My brother sent me a message saying he loves yusuke but feel he's generic. So I started looking for a video essay explaining the opposite when I found your video 😍😍 I would love to see any new content of yours! And I'm watching your MHA video on Bakugo now! But... I was wondering if you could make something highlighting yusuke's qualities. There are character analysis out there but nothing as masterful or clear appreciation for the characters as this! I really can't explain how yusuke's so relatable without being generic... Thank you so much for the content! I really hope to see more soon!

I really love the video, I hope we can see more YYH character analysis later on in the future.

Hey just letting you know that it’s perfectly understandable that with year It’s been the Kuwabara video hasn’t came out. But thanks for making This amazing analysis video for one of the best written characters in anime history.

YYH is a masterpiece of anime. As far as I'm concerned you did the world an amazing creative service :)

Thats true

considering Kurama is literally supposed to be a fox spirit and YYH bases it's entire mythology around Shintoism, the Kurama's "mother" wasn't a demon at all. But a normal Fox. animal spirits like Kurama come as a result of the animal living such an impossibly long life that their spirit evolves to a higher-level of being, i.e. a yokai.

@@honeyham6788 imagine your mom being an entirely different and less intelligent species then you after a while

@@squaddegenerate5000 Kurama's mother would have died long before he became a kitsune, that or she lived long enough to also be a kitsune

I always wondered about Kurama's demon family, foxes in the real world are isolated and prefer to be in small families or alone. They don't travel in packs like wolves.

Not all. He's not even IN some of them.

Also, I would love to hear the analysis behind why Kurama and Hiei are your favorite anime couple.

Heie and Kurama aren’t gay though

@@iangallegos170 Many people don't care about canon. Many people do. But I think the 'don't' camp is bigger. It's more of a 'what if...' when it comes to shipping

He had to end the demon world tournament arc coz he was pressured to do so. If he was given time he wouldn't have rushed it.

I agree, it would have been so interesting to see a fight between Kurama and Yomi. Also, between Kurama and Hiei (I'm certain it wouldn't break the strong bond between them, if anything it would make it stronger)

In the sudo space*

When they're traveling to the Demon World through the tunnel? Yeah, Kurama does say something like that before Kuwabara cuts through the Kekai. I didn't mention it because it's one of those lines that I'm not entirely sure how I feel about it, since one one hand, this implies that Kurama is using Yoko as much as the former is, and on the other hand, the show has been treating their mutual existence as more parasitic and mutualistic, since Yusuke being avenged isn't really something Yoko would care about and every other time Yoko's body is seen, it's the 2000+ year old demon fox, not Kurama, in control. So I kind of treat this one fight a lot like how I treat Hiei in that green multi-eyed body, it looks cool in the moment but when you think about it for too long, it doesn't really make sense with the rest of the world the show has built up. TL;DR: Yes he does. I didn't bring it up because it didn't fit in with the essay's themes.

@@StudentCleric Now that I have gone back rewatched that scene from that episode I see on how very minor it is, and why you did not bring that up. Not to mention his fight with Shigure makes it crystal clear on what Togashi wants Kurama to be. Thank you very much for the reply I am gonna go binge watch Yu Yu Hakusho from the beginning how I wish my Dad was here so I can watch it with him, but that'll have to wait until christmas. Btw Happy Thanks Giving, and God Bless to everyone. Yu Yu Hakuhso is truly one of the best animes around. Ever thought of doing a video on Jin?

@@StudentCleric I took it as he got more and more of yoko's power like kurama's realization at the end of karisu's fight. So when he only takes on the appearance it's because they become more as one cognitively as he gains more of yoko's power in the human body.

family guy and yu yu hakusho aqua teen hunger force and dbz all at the same time in 2007--2008 saved me from suicide but thats a different story

Agreed did you ever think that Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho kind of feels similar to Griffith from Berserk

I kind of felt like he always reminded me of Griffith from berserk

i loved his line logic is panics prey...

I always felt like there were similarities to him the anime character Griffith from berserk

@@higurashianduminekoconnect1702 fuck griffith lol

These are interesting points. I guess a more literal way of wording the point of this essay would have been, "Three Identities, One Body," because there aren't literally three lives within this one form, more like three distinct identities. I didn't watch the sub, I really don't like Megumi Ogata as Kurama, so I can't speak for it, but in the dub all three are giving distinct names; Shuichi is only used by Shiori, his step family and Kaito, people who know him primarily from his human life, Kurama is used by all of the main cast (Koenma introduces Yusuke to Kurama as Kurama, not Shuichi, so he doesn't use his human name since he doesn't know him as a human, but as this neither human nor demon being), and Yoko is the only title the demon is given, he is called Yoko Kurama, but the short hand in english is just to refer to him as Yoko.Because of the way the three are addressed in the series, each of the three has a title assigned only to them, making the identities of all three distinct and separate from each other. You've got the "good" Shuichi, the "bad" Yoko and the middle man Kurama, who is both and yet neither. Or at least that's how I see it. This is of course 100% subjective and for all I know, Togashi would disagree with everything I said, haha.

Kurama wasn't forced to kill Roto. He had disabled Roto's arm, he was powerless against Kurama by that point. K even makes a point of lecturing Roto on the folly of betting it all on one threat. Kurama killed him because he dared to threaten his mother. If anything, it was the 1st display of Kurama's darker side- his cold fury and penchant for vengeance. He's not the forgiving type. The only time he was really forced to kill is when he had to win against Gamemaster. His rage at having to kill a child is part of the reason why he deals with Elder Toguro as gruesomely as he does.

@@jeangentry6656 I mean, if we're going to be this pedantic, really, Kurama wasn't forced to kill anyone. We'll just call being a botanically empowered killing machine a lifestyle choice. (Massive spoiler warning: The above is sarcasm.) I'm fairly sure the alternative to killing Roto was allowing him to continue pulling his scheme on other people--something Kurama's morals would not permit. Ergo, he was forced to kill Roto, by his own (appropriately) merciless sense of justice. Good riddance.

@@jeangentry6656 Also fairly sure that Kurama damned Elder Toguro to eternal torment out of a sense of justice--Elder Toguro being a conniving scheming body snatcher who enjoys driving people like the Gorenjas to murderous betrayal for kicks. Pretty convinced that had something to do with imprisoning the little tentacular shit in a perpetual illusion of trying to kill Kurama--because of Toguro's depravity. Otherwise he'd not be living out that particular fantasy in vain forever, right? Anger at Toguro? Toguro is beneath Kurama, in the same sense that Roto is. They're both just plant food. Now, definitely, Kurama is angry at Sensui over Amanuma--and I'm going to guess it's because what Sensui did is tactically reminiscent of what Yoko would have done, and moreover, Kurama is also angry at Sensui because of Yusuke's death. But I wouldn't call being impelled by your own values being "forced", I would call valueless wicked little shits like Roto and Toguro engineering a life or death scenario "forcing" Kurama's hand. The case with Amanuma was more a matter of Sensui deliberately using Amanuma as a human shield and trying to use the sensibilities of his foes against them, and Kurama simply seeing past that to the greater need not to have Hell on Earth from the Makai portal opening, and being the only one of the group ruthless enough to be able to kill a child soldier. In essence, Sensui 'forced' the killing of Amanuma, a naive human child suckered into serving Sensui's agenda, in the effort to use his opponents values against them--and Kurama was forced to step in, I will concur with this sentiment--because he reasoned that nobody else would be stone cold enough to kill the kid. But that priority, even took a backseat, to avenging Yusuke by chasing down Sensui AFTER the portal had opened. Because yay, moral complexity. Kurama is not at all a simple character.

@@jeangentry6656 The distinction being that people are impelled and uplifted by their own values, created through personal experience? But some people have the acquired value of trying to cynically corrupt others' values, and they take that beyond skepticism, into the realm of coercion, torture, and murder. Those latter category are people trying to "force" something. And those people get to go to Hell, as far as I'm concerned. Which is where we draw the line between someone like Kurama and someone like Roto. Alternatively you can just say Kurama is the better schemer, but it's my personal belief that there's a proper scheme and one that falls apart. The Mandate of Heaven, if you like. Happy to philosophize with you. *tips hat*

@@GoldieTamamo I never claimed Kurama was a simple character, I very much enjoy his complexity. Kurama was enraged when he fought Elder Toguro (ET). Yusuke's dialogue makes that clear. Elder Toguro and even Kurama himself note that he was so angry that his mind couldn't be read. That wasn't out of righteous anger or a sense of Justice. He was pissed he had been forced to kill a kid and decided to use his next fight to vent. He could have killed ET, yet he sentences him to an eternity of suffering and pain. A "Just" person doesn't do that. We see just how cruel and vengeful he can be when greatly angered. Kurama doesn't have the same sense of Honor that the other three do. Even Hiei is capable of mercy. Kurama is not.

yeah its somehow not "hiei's voice" well whatever I came for the analysis anyway haha...

Me too! I want to be a character in YYH just to meet Kurama! 😁

That's me your talking about

SAME!❤️🤍🦊(ok except for the the seeing eye dog emoji there's really no good dog emojis to depict sesshomaru) but like I said same!

Both instances were because he had his weaknesses targeted.