He’s hated by almost everyone around him and he knows it. Yusuke Urameshi is a hardass teen delinquent that loves skipping classes, smoking cigarettes, disrespecting authority and throwing hands with the toughest gangs in the halls and on the streets. One of my big reading goals for the new year is to read a bunch of my childhood favorite manga for the first time in nearly 20 years to relive the nostalgia and see how they hold up. For someone who started out as a thug, while only thinking of himself, in that moment it showed how big his heart was, so many shades of gold.Īs I've said countless of times, this is a story that has every kind of feeling, every kind of hope, that pulls you in, and gets you feeling for every character, no matter what side they fall on. Yusuke felt this, as he watched Sensui die. To me, that is something powerful, to write such a story with so many variables and emotions so that by the end, you feel for the antagonist, and wish there something more that could have been done, is fascinating. Even though I don't condone what he did, no matter what the reason. When Sensui died, I was sad for him, for what he couldn't fix. Just reading anything on our wars or what use to be " punishment", will give anyone chills and that feeling of disgust.īut like most of us, we see the gray, as well as the black and white. Let’s face it we don't have the greats of histories. So he immersed himself in the darkness and obsessed over how evil and vile humans can be. He saw the darkest of gray, and simply couldn't take it. Being so black and white, with no room for gray, made him snap. Why? Because of how the " bad guys" are portrayed.Īs evil and twisted as some of them are, it was different with Sensui. This volume, though more packed with action then the rest, isn't as fulfilling as you would think. When I first read this manga, I was pretty peeved that this arc was setting up another big tournament that kind of just fizzled out, but now that I know what to expect I can enjoy it more for what it is, essentially an extended epilogue. I found this volume oddly "comfy" after Sensui's defeat and into the very beginnings of the Three Kings Arc, with Yusuke meeting the first Reikai Tantei, discussing Raizen and the impending war with Raizen's underlings, Kurama and Hiei being scouted to fight respectively for Yomi and Mukuro, and the "mundane" side of life with what Keiko and Kuwabara are up to. The way the Yukina/Tarukane Arc leads into the first battle against the Toguro brothers, to set up the Ankoku Bujutsukai and expand Sakyo's role a bit, to set up the opening of the rift between the Ningenkai and Makai by Sensui and Itsuki, leading into the Three Kings Arc, is all "tighter" in my current opinion, versus how I initially viewed the manga as being a series of tenuously-linked stories, not unlike how Dragon Ball sometimes went. Yusuke is becoming more like Toguro, and Sensui is becoming more like Yusuke/Toguro, in passion for battle. Now that we're a little further away from mentioning wack shit like Sensui's multiple personality disorder, the fight between him and Yusuke has gotten a lot cooler. Am I just going to give the rest of the series five stars? Probably!
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