“In my list of Yu Yu Hakusho books, I gave priority to search results that actually *have* a cover, even if it's in Japanese. I mean, seriously, Shelfari, improve that damn search engine. It sucks. Besides, we want to be able to edit the books availble. It's ugly to have a lot of books which are not on our language *and* do not have even a cover.
Well, anyway, I really liked Yu Yu Hakusho and wonder why I'd waited for so long to read it. It's plain awesome. The characters are better constructed than in many novels, and this is a shonen manga we're talking about. The stories are technique-centered instead of power-centered, which only adds to the attractiveness of the battles. And the end, which is the concern of this volume, is great. It's well developed and interesting. The characters have endings just the way they should have. Now, I haven't watched the anime, but if it's half as good, it's already great.
It is said that Yoshihiro Togashi was pressured to make another story arc after the defeat of Toguro, and it's also said that the following saga is much worse than the previous, displaying overrall laziness, etc. But I couldn't detect any of that. Perhaps because of the style of the manga, I couldn't see any signs of laziness. Actually, the series appeared to me as surprisingly well drawn and written, even towards the end. That's odd in a manga of this type, because as the series gets longer, it tends to contradict itself. But here, the story doesn't have any (at least blatant) contradictions, and it's rather well closed.
Five stars for sure.”
jack frost wrote this review Thursday, July 31 2008.
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