![]() ![]() Entire groups of miscreants shy away from him, despite the numerical advantage. Yusuke Urameshi ( Nozomu Sasaki / Justin Cook ) – Yusuke is known around town as a thugish school kid not to be messed with. ![]() Yusuke, Kuwabra and Botan look serious and yet somehow not that bothered at the same time… At first, Yusuke initially refuses the proposal, but ultimately accepts after seeing the people he thought did not care for him, including his childhood friend Keiko Yukimura, his mother Atsuko, and his rival Kazuma Kuwabara grieving for him at his wake. The conditions of his return to life would be anything but simple, however… For this reason, he is then offered the chance to be revived by the mysterious Botan, Guardian of the river Styx. He soon learns that the child would have lived anyway, and that the Spirit World was not expecting him to die. So… let’s look at it, retrospectively!Ī 14-year-old narcissistic, street-fighting slacker Yusuke Urameshi dies an unlikely hero, after he is hit by a car after saving a young child who was playing with a ball in the street. Much like other titles on and off this list, the first bunch of episodes doesn’t really represent what the story would become down the line, which makes it a fascinating watch, retrospectively. Botan also possesses healing powers, to the extent that she could stop or pause demonic transformations.We kick the Shonen Jump! 50 th Anniversary Debut Arc Top 5 with Yu Yu Hakusho, an influential series for sure (none more evident than in another series later on in the list…), that probably would have been an even bigger hit had it not been published / anime adapted during the peak of Dragon Ball popularity in Japan and, ironically, localised in the US on the back of Dragon Ball Z’s popularity, meaning it also fell in its shadow too! So the debut arc, known as the Spirit Detective arc (or Saga, because that early FUNimation buzzword!) really goes all the way to Episode 25, but its clearly split in half by a “lead protagonist returns after a length of time training” break, so I’m classing the first 13 episodes as the debut “arc” here. Botan tends to use human weapons, or something heavy around, to fight while in the human world. In one scene during the episode "Setting the Trap," Botan was planning to use the Concentration Ring to blow up walls, which suggests she might have spirit powers like Yusuke, but they are undisclosed. In her human form, Botan can use any of Yusuke's detective items. She has no spirit powers like Yusuke's Rei Gun or Kuwabara's Spirit Sword, but she possesses heightened spirit awareness and spiritual energy (as can be determined by her ability to use the detective tools, which require spirit energy in order to work.) Typically, when Botan fights, she tends to favor blunt instruments like her oar, a metal bat, or, if all else fails, her fists. Botan works hard, cares deeply for others, and tries not to let her friends know when she's down.īotan is not a fighter like those around her, but she has fought several times, often to help Keiko Yukimura to get her out of trouble. Although her initial purpose is to help Yusuke cross over to the Spirit World, or Reikai, Botan eventually becomes a sort of guardian angel to Yusuke, helping him in his efforts to return to his body, and when Yusuke becomes a Spirit Detective, being the liaison between Yusuke and friends, and Koenma in Reikai. Botan is cheerful, sometimes sarcastic, and a completely atypical version of Death (something the main character Yusuke Urameshi points out almost immediately after meeting her). ![]() Botan (ぼたん)Botan is the guide for the dead across the Sanzu River (the River Styx), Botan is hardly typical of what one would expect from the shinigami, or death god clad in a bright pink kimono, with her blue hair in a ponytail.
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