| | |  | ACTION / ADVENTURE | Home » » » YuYu Hakusho, Vol. 18 | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | Former delinquent Yusuke is now a ghost with a mission! R to L (Japanese Style). Tournament of Kings!After the epic struggle to close the tunnel to the demon plane, Yusuke and the gang take some hard-earned time off. It's still a busy year, and Hiei and Kurama both spend time training and taking care of some loose ends from their pasts. Meanwhile, Yusuke trains with Raizen and ends up in charge of the old demon's domain!The other kings of the underworld won't stand for this state of affairs for long, so Yusuke proposes a new tournament, and the winner will be king of the demon plane! Yusuke Urameshi was a tough teen delinquent until one selfless act changed his life...by ending it. When he died saving a little kid from a speeding car, the afterlife didn't know what to do with him, so it gave him a second chance at life. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Yoshihiro Togashi | | Paperback:
| 192 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| October 06, 2009 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 142152449X | | Product Length:
| 7.46 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.08 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.63 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.28 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.5 inches | | Package Width:
| 5.0 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.55 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
|  based on 2 reviews |
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 Past and presentOct 04, 2009
By E. A Solinas
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Yoshihiro Togashi's "Yu Yu Hakusho" is clearly winding down in its eighteenth volume, but there are still stories to be told -- and the histories of both Kurama and Hiei catch up to them to reshape their futures. Even as Togashi wraps up some of the characters' plot threads, he also starts revving up for one last tournament in the Demon World.
During the last year of Raizen's life, Hiei is trying out for the masked Mukuro's personal guard -- he fights countless minor grunts, and finally is pitted against a powerful figure from his past. But after a talk with Yukina, Hiei remembers the terrible past that turned him into a bloodthirsty bandit -- and in his present fight, he is willing to go beyond his own limits one last time.
Meanwhile, Kurama is called in by a former partner-in-crime, the blind Yomi. Kurama wants to stay out of this impending demonic civil war, but Yomi is determined to have Kurama as his right-hand man -- and he's not afraid to hold Kurama's loved ones hostage.
But as Raizen's hunger drives him insane, he tells Yusuke the true reason that he stopped eating human beings -- and a bit more about their shared family history. And with his ancestor dead, Yusuke sets out to meet Yomi -- and present him with a very bizarre new idea about who will rule the Demon realm...
"Yu Yu Hakusho Volume 18" is evenly split between the old and the new. On one hand, you've got new characters, new sides, and a new form of government in the Demon Realm; on the other, we see some pleasantly familiar demons return, even as the pasts of Kurama and Hiei catch up to them. And Togashi sketches out the story of how Yusuke got that demon blood, although it's kind of gross (ritual cannibalism is involved).
It also starts off on a pretty bleak note -- dismemberment, torture, splatters of blood, head-squishing. Not to mention Hiei's horrendous infanthood or Kurama's icy cruelty during his bandit days. But things start perking up, ironically, with the death of Raizen, and Yusuke's bizarrely jovial, casual attitude brings a lighter tone to the proceedings -- which is only amplified by the arrival of Kurama's little band (who talk with signs around the blind Yomi) and some of Raizen's old buddies.
In fact, those two are explored the most in this volume -- Hiei struggles to find a reason to continue with his life, and Kurama tries to protect his newly expanded family even as he struggles with his inner fox. And there are some intriguing new demons -- Yomi turns out to be a Machievellian dictator who dreams of further conquest. And on the darker spectrum, Mukuro seems like a soulmate of sorts to Hiei -- rough, scarred and with a past that makes his look like a Sunday school session.
"Yu Yu Hakusho Volume 18" is a long steady wind-up to yet another tournament, exploring classic characters and introducing new ones. And it's pretty clearly almost over.
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 The penultimate, and there's a reaosn for that.Jan 16, 2010
By Robert P. Beveridge
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Yoshihiro Togashi, Yuyu Hakusho v.18: The Demon Plane Unification Tournament (ViZ, 1994)
The penultimate volume of the long-running series gives us a pretty good indication of why the series folded; didn't we just get out of a big tournament storyline? Perhaps Togashi already knew of the series' demise and had to come up with a quick ending, but if not, man, what a letdown. He'd come up with a really interesting hook, and then he has Yusuke propose another tournament to decide the ruler of the demon plane? Repetition is in the air once again. It's enjoyable, as all the volumes in the series are, but it's more of the same. ***
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