SERIES DESCRIPTION: A juvenile delinquent dies in the process of saving a child's life and is "rewarded" by being given a second lease on life protecting the young daemon prince. He is aided by a former enemy, a witch, and a few daemons. The group fights evil from the netherworld in it's various forms- a comedy/sci-fi/horror/high school drama at it's best.
CHARACTER DESCRIPTION:
Hiei's mother was an ice daemon, his father a fire daemon. When the self-reproducing ice princess gave birth to a male fire daemon (as well as the expected female ice daemon), the baby was considered evil and named "the Forbidden Child", and later thrown off their floating ice island to a supposed death. But Fire Daemons don't die easily, and small Hiei continued on his quest to find his long lost twin sister, and achieved Class A daemon status by age 5. Along the way, he recieves third eye (called a jagan) and meets our hero and main character Yuusuke, as well as the love of his life, fox spirit Kurama (although he refuses to admit it, damn him!).
INSIGHTS: This boy really has some issues. The main thing I don't like in the series is his unwillingness to admit his affections for Kurama. They play the "best friends" game very nicely, I have to admit, but I can see past all that. Kurama is the only person- well, something like that- in the world whom Hiei would risk or give up his life for, and Kurama would do the same for him. The gentle fox boy can look beyond Hiei's badass image to see the good in him, and I think the other Yuu Yuu characters have trouble with that.
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IMAGES: Sorry, I don't have any really big images of Hiei that are not already all over the image or that exude his legendary gothness, but I will try to find one or two (or three, if you're lucky) and add them as soon as I can. Thank you for your appreciation and cooperation. Please drive through and stop at the next window.
And sometimes I wonder if Hiei was really on a quest to find his long lost sister- of whom he's never met in his life and the same girl who abandoned him as a baby- at all. This sounds cheesy, but it was probably in the anime tradition of spending years and years on some hopeless journey of finding yourself. Can we really have a Japanese Animation title without that? I don't see how.
1.) I don't know if this is true or not, but the third "Yuu Yuu Hakusho" movie is scheduled to release next year. Again, I'm not sure, so I don't want my mountain of e-mails (yeah right) to be cluttered with fans asking the almighty for information. No, I'm serious.
2.) I also heard that the manga was to be translated for American readers. Once again, if you have any doubts about my sources and my extreme knowledge, please refer to the lower half of #1, the part about my mountain of e-mail.
