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Live-Action Yu Yu Hakusho Series Casts Takumi Kitamura (Updated)
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Entertainment news magazine Variety reported on Friday that DISH//, will portray the role of Yusuke Urameshi in the series.
The series will debut in December 2023. It will stream on Netflix simultaneously worldwide.
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Ryō Sakaguchi is the VFX supervisor.
Sakamoto noted that he grew up with the original manga, and he still vividly re its excitement and impact. He added that it now has fans throughout Asia and the rest of the world. He said that Netflix is assembling a team of the best talent from Japan and abroad.
The manga follows 14-year-old delinquent Yusuke Urameshi, who dies after saving a child in a car accident. The Spirit World is surprised by his death and offers him a chance to come back as a "spirit detective" who is tasked with defeating demons.
signed a multi-year contract to lease two of TOHO's stage facilities in Tokyo starting in April 2021. Netflix's first production there is the live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series.
Netflix is leasing two of TOHO Studios' 10 sound stages, Stage 7 and Stage 10, in addition to two acting centers and a production center, for its original programming.
Togashi (Shonen Jump in 2002, and it also released all 19 volumes in print.
A television anime adaptation ran from 1992 to 1995, and spawned two films and two original video anime (Toonami.
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The manga inspired a stage play (pictured left) that ran in Japan from August to September 2019.
Update: Added in character image and more staff . Source: Comic Natalie
Source: Variety (Mark Schilling)
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