This 5-Episode Netflix Series Has Some Of The Coolest Live-Action Anime Fights You’ll Ever See
Matching the intensity and the style of anime fights in live-action is incredibly difficult, not to say impossible, but Netflix’s Yu Yu Hakusho show came close to it. While One Piece season 1 dominated the conversation in 2023 when it came to live-action anime adaptations, a different Netflix production delivered a solid take on another beloved shonen. Yu Yu Hakusho, one of the most influential anime series of the 1990s, finally received a live-action adaptation in the form of a five-episode Netflix series produced in Japan. While the show had problems, its fight scenes were spectacular.✕ Remove AdsYu Yu Hakuho's live-action show only having five episodes was surprising and played against the adaptation. The show felt like two feature-length movies split into five chapters, which resulted in very fast pacing but led to some big changes to the source material. That said, it’s impossible to look at a Yu Yu Hakusho adaptation without discussing the fight scenes, and the Netflix series did...