■YU YU HAKUSHO(幽☆遊☆白書) □概要(wiki) 39回（平成5年度）小学館漫画賞受賞。全175話。単行本の累計発行部数は4700万部を超える。また、2004年8月4日より毎月2巻ずつ、連載時のカラーページが再現された全15巻の完全版が発行された。カバーは冨樫義博本人の描き下ろし。初の公式ガイドブック『霊界紳士録』、未発表も含めたカラーイラストを余すことなく収録した『幽☆遊☆白書画集』も発売された。海外でも『YU YU HAKUSHO』として、人気を誇っている。当初はオカルトの要素を取り入れたコメディとしてスタートしたが、やがて挌闘物に路線変更する。魔界統一トーナメント編にて「幽助対黄泉戦」以降、大幅に内容を省略してエピソードが終了。その後初期のオカルトコメディ路線に戻り、数回の掲載を経て連載が終了。 YuYu Hakusho (幽☆遊☆白書 Yū Yū Hakusho, lit. "Ghost Files" or "Poltergeist Report"[1]) is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yoshihiro Togashi. The name of the series is spelled YuYu Hakusho in the Viz Media manga and Yu Yu Hakusho in other English distributions of the franchise. The series tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a teenage delinquent who is struck and killed by a car while attempting to save a child's life. After a number of tests presented to him by Koenma, the son of the ruler of the afterlife Underworld, Yusuke is revived and appointed the title of Underworld Detective, with which he must investigate various cases involving demons and apparitions in the human world. Based on his interests in the occult and horror films, Togashi began creating YuYu Hakusho around November 1990. The manga was originally serialized in Shueisha's Weekly Shōnen Jump from 1990 to 1994. The series consists of 175 chapters collected in 19 tankōbon volumes. In North America, the manga ran completely in Viz's Shonen Jump from January 2003 to January 2010. An anime adaptation consisting of 112 television episodes was directed by Noriyuki Abe and co-produced by Fuji Television, Yomiko Advertising, and Studio Pierrot. The television series originally aired on Japan's Fuji Television network from October 10, 1992 to January 7, 1995. It was later licensed in North America by Funimation Entertainment in 2001, where it aired on popular Cartoon Network blocks including Adult Swim and Toonami. The television series has also been broadcast in various countries around the world. It is currently being aired across Japan, other parts of Asia, and Eastern Europe by the anime satellite television network Animax. The YuYu Hakusho franchise has spawned two animated films, a series of original video animations (OVAs), audio albums, video games, and other merchandise. YuYu Hakusho has been well received since its debut, with the manga selling over 44,000,000 copies in Japan alone and winning the prestigious Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen manga in 1993. The animated series won the Animage Anime Grand Prix prize for best anime in 1994 and 1995. YuYu Hakusho has been watched by a large number of television viewers worldwide. The anime has been given mostly positive reviews by critics in the United States, which compliment its writing, characters, and amount of action. Some reviewers have judged the series as being too repetitive.
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