Everything You Need To Know About The New Yu Yu Hakusho OVA

Yu Yu Hakusho celebrates its 25th anniversary in a big and extravagant way. Apart from the re-release of its anime series in Blu Ray, the Japanese anime franchise will also debut a new OVA in October 26, 2018 bundled with the revamped anime.

The Yu Yu Hakusho 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray Box Collection contains four parts and have different schedules of release:

First part would be the Spirit Detective arc (episodes 1-26) with the first two movies. This will ship on July 27, making it the first Blu Ray release for the second movie. The second part includes the Dark Tournament arc with 40 episodes, scheduled for shipping on August 28. The Sensui (Chapter Black) arc will be shipped on September 26. Finally, the last set contains the Demon World arc and the two OVAs which will ship on October 26.

You can get Blu-Ray copies of all four seasons here:

Yu Yu Hakusho Ghost Files Complete Seasons 1-4

Fans of Hiei can also get his extremely rare action figure here:

Rare Hiei Action Figure

Details about the new OVA have been very rare until now. Revealed on 23rd issue of Shueisha's Weekly Shonen Jump, it turns out that the Yu Yu Hakusho 25th anniversary bundle includes two new OVA stories:

Two Shots

The bonus chapter of Volume 7 (Chapter 9), Two Shots tell the story of how Hiei and Kurama first met.

Check some parts of Two Shots manga in color.

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All Or Nothing

The penultimate chapter of Yu Yu Hakusho manga reunites the main characters of the series to resolve a hostage crisis. A religious sect tries to destroy the human world with a special cannon that can destroy dimensions. Yusuke, Hiei, Kurama and Kuwabara were sent back to the spirit world to stop the group holding the world at hostage and deactivate the cannon.

Yu Yu Hakusho Voice Actors Reunion

Original Japanese seiyuus of the main four, Nozumu Sasaki (Yusuke Urameshi), Shigeru Chiba (Kuwabara) Nobuyuki Hiyama (Hiei) and Megumi Hinata (Kurama) reprised their role for this dub. The anime will bring back an old staff including Noriyuki Abe, director and storyboarder at studio Pierrot.

Hunter x Hunter creator Yoshihiro Togashi, who is still in-charge of the illustrations, published Yu Yu Hakusho original manga from 1990 to 1994. Viz Media began publishing the original manga in English edition of Shonen Jump in 1992. The story follows Yusuke Urameshi, a troublesome teenager and student who dies in a car accident after saving a kid. He was hired offered to come back to life in exchange of a job as a Spirit Detective tasked to hunt down demons.

Apart from the Blu-Ray Collection, the 25th anniversary of Yu Yu Hakusho is expected to give birth to a new smartphone game, Yu Yu Hakusho 100% Maji Battle (translated: 100% Serious Battle). The game is set to be launched this year by Klab Games. Sources also say that Mobcast and eitarasoft are currently developing a new game for the Yu Yu Hakusho franchise.

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