Main Characters

 

 


Yusuke
- A spiritual detective assigned to guard the Human World from Demons of the Demon World.  In the beginning of the story, he started as a 14 year old delinquent. He was killed when he tried to save a boy from an approaching car.  The Spirit world said that his death was unexpected. 

Botan appeared to Yusuke and brought him to see Lord Koemna for judgment.  He was given another chance to live but he has to carry an egg with him.  Yusuke must do good deed in order for the creature living inside the to be good.  If not, the creature will be a monster and devour his spirit.  He was reluctant to come back because he thought that nobody cared about him.  When he saw his funeral, he saw the principal of his school mourning for him.  The most surprising part was when Kuwabara appeared on his funeral and mourned for him too.  With that scene, he wanted to be revive.  His body began breathing so he can come back.  He also helped Kuwabara to review for his exam through his dreams.  When Yusuke's house was set on fire, Keiko and Kuwabara rushed to the scene to retrieve his body.  Keiko got trapped in the inferno.  He used the power of the egg to save her but in return, he could not go back to the land of the living.  However, Koenma was grateful to him because the creature would have devoured him anyway, no matter how many good deeds he did.  The last stage of his revival was someone with life-force must kiss him within 24 hours or his spirit will have to wait for another 50 years.  He tried Keiko but she was tending her ill mother.  Botan and Yusuke even tried to let Kuwabara kiss him through his dreams in order to revive Yusuke.  Kuwabara woke up from that dream screaming.  As time almost ran out, Botan used the body of Keiko's mother to convey her message to revive Yusuke.  Keiko immediately rushed to Yusuke and kissed him.  She was overjoyed that Yusuke woke up.  That day, he was assigned the job as a spiritual detective.  

 

 
Kuwabara
- Former rival of Yusuke in school.  He challenged him 156 times and lost to him 156 times. 

Kuwabara helped Yusuke in his demonic travels.  He was not an official spiritual detective though.  When Yusuke died, he went to the funeral and cried that their score hasn't been settled yet. Kuwabara was a teenager who loves to fight but has a tender heart when it comes to his cat Eikichi.  He was a person who keeps his words.  When his evil teacher threatened to cut his friend's part-time job, he agreed to not to fight for one week.  This was also the teacher's way of expelling him if he didn't keep his promise but he did.  Many gangsters challenged him and came home beaten to a pulp.  He also kept his words when the teacher gave him a test and pass.  With Yusuke's help he passed the test.  He also helped his friend to keep his part-time job.

During one his missions, Koenma gave the gang a mission to save an ice maiden (Yukina) from an evil merchant.  Upon laying his eyes upon the tape, he instantly fell for her.  His desire for her, he completed the mission.  Unfortunately, being naive in all, he doesn't have a clue that she was Hiei's sister.  Hiei and Kuwabara don't get along with each other.  

 


Kurama (aka Shuichi Minamino)
- Half-demon, half-human.  He was a perfect student.  Number 1 of his class, talented, well-behaved and has charming good looks.  The girls loved to be with him and school clubs loved to have him so it could attract girls and other students to their clubs.  Despite this qualities, he becomes cold and unmerciful when someone pushed him to the edge.

Long ago, he was hunted by an unknown entity called the "Hunter" and was forced to go to the Human World.  He took over a fetus of a expecting mother.  He planned to leave his "adopted" family by the age of 15 but because of his human mother's love for him, he stayed and became loyal to her.  Years later, his mother became ill and cannot be cured.  Desperate for a cure, he joined a small group of thieves from Makai and stole the 3 most important artifact of Reikai.  He stole the mirror that grants the holder their wish but takes their lives in exchange.    After explaining his situation to Yusuke, he understood Kurama's intentions.  Being a good hearted kid, he offered his life to the mirror instead of Kurama because he cannot bear seeing a mother suffering..  When the mirror saw this deed, it did not take the life of Yusuke and granted Kurama's wish.  As for punishment for his crimes, he joined the Spiritual detectives and helped Yusuke with his journeys.

 


Jaganshi Hiei - Fire demon from the land of Koorime, the icy parts of the Demon World.  He maybe small but he is a formidable fighter.  He'll challenge everyone who stands in his way, even enemies stronger than him.  A demon with a dark past.  His strongest attack is the Black Dragon Wave.  The dragon tattooed on his arm comes alive and burn everything on its path.  He also have a third eye called a Jagan.

Hiei's story was a sad one.  In a village in Koorime, one female ice demon was giving birth to twins (note: Only female demons lived in the village and they reproduce by themselves with twins), in horror, she gave birth to male fire demon followed by a female ice demon.  With this incident, the female ice demon, named Hina, exposed her relationship with an unknown fire demon.  The elders were outraged by this, they ordered Hina to exile the baby and let it die on the outskirts of Koorime.  Hina refused to do such a thing but she was overpowered.  As a last gift to her son, she shed two tears that turned into pearls.  One for Hiei and one his sister.  She tucked one pearl  inside Hiei's bandages.  The elders ordered Ruri, Hina's friend, to drop the baby on the cliff.  Before she did it, she said to Hiei that when he grows up strong, take his vengeance upon her.  With that words, she dropped the baby to the cliff. Hiei survived the fall and was adopted by a group of thieves. He grew strong but his lust for killing disgusted the thieves guild and left him on his own.  He became a hired assassin to support himself.  Unfortunately, during one his fight with a demon, he lost his pearl and it fell on a cliff and washed through the river below.  His mission in life was to find the pearl and Koorime.