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New super tiny hiei just dropped

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Remember the 90s shonen anime that was basically official fanart where the ensemble cast are a band?

Best example of this I can think of is YuYu Hakusho. The top left is the actual show, while the top right is the official band AU for advertising.

More American anime should play around with spoofing their own material to encourage engagement.

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You ever think about how much respect and care for Yusuke Hiei has and cry?

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Nothing like checking out yu yu hakusho tag because your sister is rewatching the episodes on Netflix and tripping over the cliff you didn't see and falling for Yusuhi and Kuwama

Please. I want to cry about them now

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thank you for 30 wonderful years 💜✨

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Some old locker art I found on a recent visit to another Canadian high school

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yu yu hakusho really wanted me to believe this woman isn't a lesbian huh

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I still want do train drawing a couple guys from time to time and Hiei felt like a good pick to me! I never drew anything for YYH while I was reading the manga, so it's really nice to finaly make something from it.

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Little Yusuke and Hiei piece back from last March! And a little drabble under the cut too :3c 💕

Yusuke’s calloused thumb rubbed away the blood from his cheek, another precious token of their latest spar.

The gentleness of the gesture made Hiei dizzy and he couldn’t help but stare at the closeness of Yusuke’s face, stitching in his wide grin, hair disheveled and damp with sweat. Laughter cackled out of him like thunder, spilling into the short distance between them as Hiei felt Yusuke’s fingers start to tangle into his hair. It made his chest heave and his breath suddenly became impossible to find. The feeling was…odd. Disturbing was what he first called it. Frustrating following soon after. But now it was…?

Hiei felt Yusuke’s fingers gently hold onto his other arm. The subtle dig of his index made the demon feel like he was losing grip. Yusuke was talking to him? Still half-laughing. What was he saying?

Hiei couldn’t parse any of the words, his brain too full of memorizing the Detective’s face and the steady awareness that his ears felt like they were burning from the thumb against them. His grip on Yusuke’s shirt tightened and his head felt heavy, slowly stooping forward. Hiei tried to gather some modicum of thought as another inch shrank between their noses, but any chance was cast away the moment Yusuke’s face rose to meet his.

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I’m struggling to articulate it but I’ve been rewatching Yu Yu Hakusho and that scene where Yusuke is on the brink of death in the cave and Pu starts trying to bring him water just hits so hard now after having battled feelings of worthlessness and self hatred since I last saw the show.

The idea that he’s about to give up and die before this goofy little animal representing his soul starts trying to take care of him. Despite the fact that it’s suffering just as much as he is, it can’t bear to see him in pain. And the fact that what finally forces Yusuke to power through the trial is his unwillingness to let Pu die because of him. In the end what gives Yusuke the resolve to live isn’t the usual trope of the power of friendship, but instead it’s his body and his soul both doing their best to be kind and take care of each other.

It’s a bit on the nose, sure, but it really did feel like a profound statement about the importance self-love, especially knowing now that Yoshihiro Togashi has had to battle his own feelings of inadequacy due to his health.

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I know it's not actually this deep and is mostly just a case of a shonen battle manga being allergic to consequences, but I find it poignant that the heroic sacrifices in Yu Yu Hakusho never stick and rarely even work. That every character who tries to die for a noble cause end up living on and do far more good later in their life than if they had died there.

It's just nice for a show so deeply rooted in death to consistently assert that dying for something isn't the answer.