Yusuke Urameshi the best dubbed shonen protagonist ever

Yusuke and Shulk and Ichigo and Nero are some of my favorites MCs. He isn’t just some basic generic MC who is clueless and just.. friendly. He’s a punk with a good heart. And I FRICKING LOVE HIM as a character.

Did you just say yuskue is not a complex character? A big part of his character is that he has many layers to his personality and that his not straight forward with himself or others.

I feel,that the second verse of Smile Bomb can be about him wanting a second chance. But also not knowing how to and/or accept help from other. Last line show how he is starting to grow thanks to the knowledge that others care for him.

The fight against heie doesn’t just show that he’s a lucky fighter, but he has learned heie’s fighting style enough to know which way he would dodge his spirit gun and aim for the mirror in such a way to deflect it in the right direction. Yes it’s lucky he didn’t just bust the mirror, but everything else there was extremely impressive.

nice to see someone give yusuke his flowers . i just finished my annual rewatch of yyh and i definitely felt that smile bomb is told from yusuke’s perspective

The danny phantom reference at the end killed me 💀

Really appreciate this video. I just finished watching YYH fully and this story and characters just feel so organic and real and its weird with all the anime ive watched this one felt different i cant explain it

10:56 No, the best line in anime history comes from Dragon Ball Super Random pleb: tries to shoot Goku with a missile Future Trunks: Hold your fire! This man isn't Black! No you don't get context.

Yusuke and Edward Elric top my list of favorite shonen protags.

Biggest and sweetest anime punk asshole. Truly translates so well feeling the most real / human of any main character with all his flaw and internal barriers. "You can't end a good party without someone on the floor." - Yusuke Urameshi

Yusuke is such a great character he the best mc in shonen

I think you explained Yusuke's character in Yu Yu Hakusho completely well! You get 9.5/10 points! To be honest, I do think there are a lot of main and supporting characters that are misunderstood and underrated but there are qualities that make them special and important. At least, that is my opinion!

You could have just summed it with maturing. Yusuke was 14 when the series started and had few life experiences and by the series conclusion he lived a life worth living. Character analysis was very convoluted.

“I want to stop and grow up again” isn’t a stretch though. Watch it till the end and you’ll see during the last couple episodes that the whole show was supposed to be us watching the already recorded Spirit World Files on Yusuke’s life. The Ogre George is the Narrator, and the whole show is footage of the story of Yusuke’s life so you’re watching him growing up (which already happened) and at the end it says “Thank You for Waking Me Up.” Because it was due to that second chance that he got to live the adventure and story they are telling to you. The whole show is a masterpiece and beautifully done. No other anime compares to this one to me.

Loved the vid bro. Recently finished yyh for the first time and it's become one of my all time favs already, and i've been consuming content like this about yyh a lot lately. I know it came after, but I watched bleach first, and yyh and bleach (ichigo and yusuke) actually got a decent amount of parallels between them The danny phantom parallel is also real lmao

I liked Yusuke a lot pretty early on. It was easy to like him. The only other main characters that I found that interesting are Edward Elric and Gintoki Sagata (yes, both very different from each other and Yusuke but they all represent different character traits I just enjoy seeing)

U had to much fun writing this script…smile bomb unapologetically the best song from anime

I'll fully admit to being a sap when it comes to music... always have been, probably always will be, and thats probably why I became a musician. But I'm somebody found It difficult to cry at my own Grandfathers funeral (somebody I was pretty close to at that), yet EVERY TIME I hear Smile Bomb, I can't help but tear up with this rush of emotion. I cannot rationally explain why. Perhaps its because this show has a deep connection to my childhood? But this song has always had this effect on me. You were absolutely killing me when you went through and played each segment. Every time you'd pause, I'd compose myself like "I'm not crying... Ok I'm good" while you dissect the segment. Then you'd start playing it again and it would happen. Never fails, lmao.

So I think you missed what really makes yusuke the PERFECT protagonists. basically everything in the world of yu yu hakusho is made for yusuke. genkai had the exact personality yusuke needed in a mentor togoro was exactly the type of enemy he needed keiko is the type of girl he needed. Basically the writer made a really relatable character and said ok I will make my story around the character instead of having a story im plopping a generic protagonist into.

Yusuke's mom in the manga is a bit more explained tbh. She has ties with the yakuza and she exploited that to get him back in school. I enjoy Atsuko.

Yusuke is the original Ichigo Kurosaki

2 of his Villains Toguro and Sensui wanted themselves killed. If they went all out from the very beginning Yusuke would be dead as fried chicken. His fists are rated E for everyone though so that kinda makes it up and he truly has a good heart.

Lol thats funny. I actually almost always HATE main characters.. And always have.. Usually drawn more to the like Hiei and Kurama types of character(s). Yusuke is really the only one I can think of off the top of my head that I legit like/love. Like for example Naruto, Dragon Ball, and etc., I hate the main character(s) - Naruto, Goku, etc.

The guy who made Yusuke Best is Justin Coock

Dude. What an awesome breakdown

I fell in love with this show as a kid and never knew how much it would help me in my adult life lol

Definitely loved this analysis 🧐🙃 keep up the great work man ❤😎

Favorite Yusuke Line: “hey, earth to Todler B***h!!!”

Happy birthday to you Yusuke!🎉🎂🎁🎊

yusuke is on of the best protagonist in shonen we just dont get main characters like him anymore

“If I had to guess Yuske is worried about his friend, and he didn’t really go to that arcade” “You OBVIOUSLY don’t know Yuske” *cuts to Yuske in the arcade*

I love this dude

My favorite anime character ever

This video was really well done! you deserve way more subs! good luck!

For me the two best shonen protagonists are Yusuke and Jotaro from Part 3. Both of which are pretty similar and both have great character arcs.

Yusuke is fr top 3 protagonists for me Yusuke Kenshiro Ichigo

Yusuke has a lot of depth if you look deep enough

Just has so much charisma

I really enjoyed your analysis particularly at the 11:00 comparing urameshi and kuwabara. Can you do more character analysis and maybe even arc analysis? Like the "entertainment arc" from demon slayer. Maybe you can do character analysis arc by arc?

The pinnacle of Yusuke being an idiot and being rewarded for it is when he offers his life to the mirror. His stated reason is that it's because he's seen what happens when a mother mourns over their dead son. Amazingly, he doesn't think about how forfeiting his life will cause his mother to mourn over him *again*! And then the show does a cop out and doesn't take Yusuke's life because he was so selfless.

The OP song is great...i kept humming it after dropping it 4 months ago

Great video and very well said. Although there have been a lot of good animes in recent years most of them lack this very thing as you say, the protagonist sucks cause there's barely any actual showcasing/development due to plot driving priority. Yusuke is always best and YYH still remains king of anime for me!

I usually dislike a lot of Main Characters, esp Shonen MCs, but YYH is one of the few I can think of that I really love the MC (and pretty much all the main cast)

KZfaq fucked up and didn't notify me of this upload... But great video, dude! I haven't watched ir read Yu Yu Hakusho, however, i still love watchin video essays on series, characters, etc that people love, that love makes me even more interested in the video and therefore series! Have ya watched and/or read Hunter x Hunter? I'm guessin ya saw that Togashi is back with new hxh chapters? I'd love to see videos on Hunter x Hunter if ya up to that? Btw the editin is much better than ya aot video! Ya've already grown so much!

calling botan bulma was outta pocket 🥲

Love your videos, would also love to see a remake of your One Villainous Scene video now that you have more editing and experience under your belt, especially with more of the last arc now animated

You should have focus on Yusuke saying what am i even fighting for very important speech

If the first verse of smile bomb is about and by yusuke the 2nd verse sounds like it's supposed to be Keiko

If the first half of the song is Yusuke, the second verse is Keiko. The last might be both of them.

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art just got progressively better and than sunk down to shit during the eggintofire episode

Honestly hes the standard anime protagonist. Overall a good caring person who defends the weak and helpless but at the same time is something of a dumb selfish pr!ck. Seriously Goku, Naruto, Luffy, Ed Elric, Ichigo, etc..

Best Dub of all time. Only closely rivaled by bebop n brotherhood

Imo yusuke and ichigo are the best protagonists ever

Yuskue is no doubt S-Tier among Shonen main protagonist plus kickstarted a genre which was new at the time and is common today

forgot about atsuko and takenaka

Please make a Hiei character analysis video

I vote Denji as the perfect MC Lol

wtf this is the first time hearing that opening song in English lmao

Way better than Luffy

Yusuke, Joe Yabuki, Denji and Amuro Ray>>> generic trash mcs like deku, that brat from demon slayer and most shounen nowadays

Never is he a perfect protagonist