Yu Yu Hakusho's live-action has great action scenes.
They feel like action movies with Jackie Chan: creative, stylish, visceral.
It has the feeling of anime-styled exaggeration but keeps it pretty realistic.
The team behind the live-action has a lot of experience in that field.
Action in Yu Yu Hakusho feels better than the one in One Piece and Marvel.
The live-action version of Yu Yu Hakusho was recently released on Netflix, and people are amazed by the action scenes. The anime itself is pretty action-packed and focused on fights, but the live-action translates it into this medium pretty well. The fights are creative, with clever use of environment, and they capture this balance between believability and stylish exaggeration so well that you can't help but watch them in awe.
Stunts are good!
One thing that they reminded us of is the old-school Hong Kong movies, the ones from the 70s - 90s. It fits: the manga itself was created in 1990, and the media landscape at that time was filled with action-packed B-movies, incredibly stylish and creative in terms of fights.
Granted, the live-action adaptation took some liberties and swayed away from the original story quite drastically, with some important arcs either omitted fully or adapted just partially and with some events and characters appearing earlier than in the original story. But in this article we're not going to dunk on the changed continuity: we're here to be amazed by the fight choreography.
Just watch this clip of a fight between a yokai and Yusuke. There's a reason why it feels swift and visceral: the framing also elevates the dynamics, the camera movement adds a sense of speed, and the shaking makes the impact tangible. And don't get us started on the destruction and how this scene combines a fully CGI character with a human without losing much believability.
A perfect blend of realism and fun
It does feel like an anime fight translated into live action: if you saw the YouTube channels with stunt performers reenacting fights from the anime, you'll feel the resemblance. There are theatrics in it, sure, but still, there are a lot of grounding moments that make this fight exciting and realistic. The team behind Yu Yu Hakusho live-action is the same one that worked on the HIGH&LOW — a franchise known for its explosive and visceral action, and that experience was transferred to this show.
People are praising this adaptation for its action sequences and comparing it to One Piece LA and recent Marvel movies — and Yu Yu Hakusho wins the comparison in terms of fighting. Good for them! Because some of the plot changes may ruin the show for you. But that's the topic for another article.
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Summary:
Yu Yu Hakusho's live-action has great action scenes.
They feel like action movies with Jackie Chan: creative, stylish, visceral.
It has the feeling of anime-styled exaggeration but keeps it pretty realistic.
The team behind the live-action has a lot of experience in that field.
Action in Yu Yu Hakusho feels better than the one in One Piece and Marvel.
The live-action version of Yu Yu Hakusho was recently released on Netflix, and people are amazed by the action scenes. The anime itself is pretty action-packed and focused on fights, but the live-action translates it into this medium pretty well. The fights are creative, with clever use of environment, and they capture this balance between believability and stylish exaggeration so well that you can't help but watch them in awe.
Stunts are good!
One thing that they reminded us of is the old-school Hong Kong movies, the ones from the 70s - 90s. It fits: the manga itself was created in 1990, and the media landscape at that time was filled with action-packed B-movies, incredibly stylish and creative in terms of fights.
Granted, the live-action adaptation took some liberties and swayed away from the original story quite drastically, with some important arcs either omitted fully or adapted just partially and with some events and characters appearing earlier than in the original story. But in this article we're not going to dunk on the changed continuity: we're here to be amazed by the fight choreography.
Just watch this clip of a fight between a yokai and Yusuke. There's a reason why it feels swift and visceral: the framing also elevates the dynamics, the camera movement adds a sense of speed, and the shaking makes the impact tangible. And don't get us started on the destruction and how this scene combines a fully CGI character with a human without losing much believability.
A perfect blend of realism and fun
It does feel like an anime fight translated into live action: if you saw the YouTube channels with stunt performers reenacting fights from the anime, you'll feel the resemblance. There are theatrics in it, sure, but still, there are a lot of grounding moments that make this fight exciting and realistic. The team behind Yu Yu Hakusho live-action is the same one that worked on the HIGH&LOW — a franchise known for its explosive and visceral action, and that experience was transferred to this show.
People are praising this adaptation for its action sequences and comparing it to One Piece LA and recent Marvel movies — and Yu Yu Hakusho wins the comparison in terms of fighting. Good for them! Because some of the plot changes may ruin the show for you. But that's the topic for another article.
