Yusuke Urameshi (Japanese: 浦飯幽助, Hepburn: Urameshi Yūsuke) is a fictional character and the main protagonist in the manga series YuYu Hakusho, created by Yoshihiro Togashi. Yusuke is a junior high school delinquent who dies while saving a child from a car accident. After seeing the grief his friends suffer following his death, Yusuke's soul works for the Underworld's detective of paranormal events in the Human World, eventually reviving in the process. He begins his work in the Human World but ends up traveling to the Underworld and then eventually to the Demon World. In each case he undertakes, Yusuke meets several new enemies and allies. He forms multiple alliances across his journey while developing supernatural abilities due to harnessing their Reiki, one's own aura or life energy.
Yusuke was created by Togashi under the concept of a complex individual who goes from slice-of-life stories to action scenes. For the latter, Yusuke was given new allies, which both Togashi and the editors from the manga magazine noted helped to improve the series's popularity. He has been voiced by Nozomu Sasaki in Japanese. In the English dubs, Justin Cook, Jonathan Fahn, and Rik Nagel voice the character. He is called Eugene in the Philippine version of the anime.[3] When adapting to anime, director Noriyuki Abe drew parallels with his design to both yankī delinquents and tokusatsu figures, due to the multiple colors the leads have. Takumi Kitamura portrayed him in the live-action mini-series, aiming to give him a more modern take, finding delinquent figures dated.
Critical response to Yusuke's character has been positive due to his character arc from a delinquent to a more caring figure, with praise also being given to how he handles enemies. Special attention was given to his arc in the series's finale. The character's popularity led him to appear in polls of both the series and anime in general. The performances of both Cook and Kitamura were also the subject of praise by the media
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