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Live-Action Yu Yu Hakusho Series Debuts at #1 on Netflix's Global Non-English TV Rankings
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The show ranked in the top 10 in 76 countries, and it ranked #1 in seven of them. It ranked #5 in the U.S.
The series debuted worldwide on December 14.
Ryō Sakaguchi (The Lord of the Rings, X-Men) was the VFX supervisor.
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.
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.
A adapted the "Two Shot" bonus chapter from the manga's seventh volume, as well as the manga's penultimate chapter "All or Nothing."
The manga inspired a stage play that ran in Japan from August to September 2019.
Sources: Mainichi Shimbun's Mantan Web, Netflix (link 2)
