Netflix is looking to expand its Japanese offerings on its service by adding more anime as well as live-action shows. One of them will be a live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series that will arrive in 2023.
Yu Yu Hakusho is a manga by Yoshihiro Togashi and the anime series was created by Studio Pierrot. It follows a young kid named Yusuke Urameshi who dies when he gets hit by a car trying to save a child. As a delinquent, this sudden act of kindness grants him a chance at revival. After passing a few tests in the Afterlife, Yusuke then becomes a spirit detective, investigating paranormal activities back on Earth.
In Japan, Netflix Japan Festival 2021 has already started, and the company has announced some more brand new live-action titles coming to the streaming service. They include:
The newly announced live-action titles are:
- Love Like The Falling Petals film (March 23, 2022)
- Love is Blind: Japan (February 2022)
- Last One Standing (unscripted series, March 2022)
- Toma Ikuta documentary (Spring 2022)
- Alice in Borderland Season 2 (2022)
- First Love series (2022)
- Yu Yu Hakusho series (2023)
- Once Upon a Crime film (no date)
- Gundam film (no date)
Some newly announced anime series are coming too:
- JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure Stone Ocean (December 1, 2021)
- Aggretsuko Season 4 (December 16, 2021)
- The Orbital Children (January 28, 2022)
- Tiger & Bunny 2 (April 2022)
- Kakegurui Twin (August 2022)
- The Seven Deadly Sins: Grudge of Edinburgh (2022)
- Kotaro Lives Alone (2022)
- Vampire in the Garden (2022)
- Ultraman Season 2 (2022)
- Rilakkuma’s Theme Park Adventure (2022)
- Detective Conan: The Culprit Hanazawa and Detective Conan: Zero’s Tea Time (no date)
We already got to see an image of Netflix’s live-action Mobile Suit Gundam movie, which features the RX-78-2 model in flames. In terms of the anime announcements, Tiger & Bunny first got its anime debut in 2011, so it’s exciting to see it pop up again a decade later. Ultraman’s legacy goes all the way back to the 1960s, and it got an anime series on Netflix in 2019.
George Yang is a freelance writer for IGN. You can follow him on Twitter @yinyangfooey
Source: https://www.ign.com/articles/netflix-anime-yu-yu-hakusho
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