Name: Urameshi Yusuke
A.k.a.: Rei kai tantei (Rei kai detective), Eugene
Place of origin: Ningenkai
Age: 14 (16 at the end of the series)
Eye color: brown
Hair color: black
School: Sarasaki High
Voice Actor: Nozumu Sasaki
Family and background:
Yusuke is a bad highschool student and a delinquent feared by many in the
neighborhood. He lives with his mother Atsuko who is a alcoholic and not
a let's say very usual housewife... It's unknown who the father is. Keiko
grew up with this bad boy and they form a very sweet couple, although they
don't really admit it till the end of the series. After his unexpected death,
Yusuke (in his spirit form) must do good deeds to return to the human world
and to get another chance to live. During the separation of body and spirit
Yusuke learns more about his mother, his rival Kuwabara and himself. At
last Yusuke succeeds to revive and becomes the Rei kai detective, which
he doesn't tell Keiko, afraid to involve her in his dangerous missions.
He meets the youkai thieves Kurama and Hiei in one of his missions and becomes
friends with these enemies. Soon he becomes the pupil of the infamous Genkai
(with much luck though) who teaches him more than just martial art. After
the Ankoku Bujutsukai (Dark Tournament of Martial Arts) he has to save Ningenkai
from the plans of former Rei kai detective Sensui, but Yusuke dies in this
mission. This time he resurrects by himself, the surprising factor is: Yusuke
has demonic blood streaming in his body! After he killed Sensui he decides
to go to Makai to meet the youkai who gave him the demonic blood, his 'father':
War God Raizen.
Special abilities: Click here to read more
Genkai taught him Rei Kou Hadou Ken (Spirit Light
Wave Fist Fighting Technique). His most powerful technique is the Rei Gan
(Rei Gun), he concentrates his ki from his whole body to his finger and
fires it as a gun. Other powerful special techniques are Rei Kou Dan (Spirit
Light Bullet), Rei Kou Ha (Spirit Light Wave aka Shotgun). But Yusuke is
a very talented fighter and has an average score in every category of abilities.
Special features:
His tough-as-rock head. His hair cut, Yusuke mostly uses gel in his hair.
Yusuke also has a quite handsome face and beautiful big brown eyes. When
he transforms to his demonic form he'll get long hair and several demonic
tattoos/tints over his body.
Personality:
Yusuke is a energic, talkative, funny and happy-go-lucky guy. He loves to
fight strong opponents. Even his enemies have respect for this Rei kai detective
for his tolerant and cool attitude. He definitely isn't the role model of
school boy, but he is a very nice guy who will do anything to protect his
loved ones and his friends. Can be very funny but also deadly serious at
times.
Anime Analyze's opinion:
Rukie: You can say that Yusuke is a standard
character with a cliché personality: energetic, not the smartest of all,
strong and respect gaining from his opponents. But I have to admit that
his attitude is very chilling. He knows that he doesn't have brains like
Kurama, so he never tries to pretend to be smart, he just follows his instincts.
In Makai he endangered the whole Ningenkai by starting that Makai Tournament,
but he isn't a strategist and didn't know a better way, so he chose the
way he knew most about: fighting.
Vincent: Yep, the most ancient rule, survival
of the fittest. Like the way you said it, strong but not smart. Well, I
should say not the smartest. Cause he is just not the smartest, and not
dumb or something. Yusuke is not a standard hero, he will just do what he
wants. Even if it means it will have catastrophic consequences.
Rukie: The unexpected twist in the Yu Yu Hakusho
story must be the second time Yusuke resurrects. Who had thought that the
main character & Rei kai detective is a youkai?! Which also implies that
humans can't be that strong, it's always the youkai who rule and humans
are just pathetic beings believing that they are superior. I think that's
a really nice thought: humans are not alone in this world, they may even
know, but refuse to believe that.
Vince: Another example of a very good plot!
I think that there is a lot of philosophical issues in the plot, which makes
it very interesting to think about. Like, if Puu is the personification
of Yusuke what kind of personality did Yusuke have before he changed into
a youkai? :P
Anime Analyze's memorable scenes:
Rukie: The second time he dies. His friends
got so angry that their powers increased incredibly. It reflects how important
their friendship was, they are all relative cool guys who won't talk about
such topics, but actually they care a lot about each other. Anyway, the
special force was sent to kill him and that leads us to a very funny scene:
Yusuke resurrects and pretends to be evil, frightens the special force and
when they run away, he makes SO damn funny faces to show that he is still
the Yusuke of always.
Vince: When Puu came out of it's egg and sat on Yusuke's head. Yusuke expected a terrible monster, but then he saw Puu on his head, the face he made is soooo funny. :P
Rukie & Vince: Also very memorable
is the scene he develops a ki that is neither reiki nor youki, and not even
Saint Light ki Sensui used, it's a combination of his reiki and youki. He
thinks about all his friends and loved ones he fights for. The thing that
makes this scene so special is also the bgm.
Another one is when his teacher Genkai is killed by Toguro, his sadness
made him wanna give up, but at last he gained his powers to fight Toguro
in the finals. Before the finals, he fired a huge Rei Gun in the sky hoping
it will reach his teacher in Rei kai.
Anime Analyze's favorite line:
Rukie: "You think you can predict what my next
move is?! Look at this, I dare to swear you didn't expect this one coming:
men's 100m swimming freestyle!!"
Rukie & Vince: "GIVE IT ALL YOU"VE GOT!!!!! REIGUN!!!!"
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