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The martial arts genre is one of the broadest genres in media history. In the same way that the combat sports definition of martial arts encompasses hundreds of different fighting styles, the martial arts genre contains many stories, from grand historical epics covering the rise and fall of kingdoms to gritty modern-day dramas focusing on personal tales of violence and revenge.

The anime medium is no different, as many series have featured martial arts. However, these series are often nothing alike, covering many genres, tones, and styles. Because of this, finding the best martial arts anime movie can be tricky, as no two films use martial arts exactly the same way.

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March has been fun for Netflix and will end with some fine additions. But be prepared. April is going to see a lot of changes. In other words, get ready to watch a lot of stuff quickly.

41 movies alone will be leaving Netflix at the beginning of next month. If you love such franchises as Rush Hour, you might want to binge-watch the first three films over the next week. Those will be leaving your favorite streamer on the first day of April.

The first three Karate Kid movies will be moving on as well. This is bad timing, as there will be a "new" Karate Kid flick coming to theaters in May. That one will star Ralph Macchio (of course) and Jackie Chan and is titled Karate Kids: Legends. The best scenario would be to see the previous films on Netflix before there is a theatrical release of a new addition to the series.

Move over South Korea, there’s a new player in the international arena. Japan’s famously risk-averse broadcasters and studios have woken up to the world outside Japan and are making a bold move on the U.S. and other international markets.

In part inspired by the global success of Korean content, but also aware that their huge domestic market is shrinking as Japan’s population declines, major players such as Toho, Tokyo Broadcasting System (TBS) and Fuji Television realize they need to find a source of revenue elsewhere in order to grow. And with deep libraries of anime, manga, movies, formats and games, they’ve also realized that they’re sitting on huge reservoirs of valuable IP.

Toho was among the first Japanese studios to make international moves, under forward-thinking president and CEO Hiro Matsuoka, taking back some rights to its Godzilla franchise and getting involved in merchandising in the U.

Spy x Family has its fair share of action and comedy, along with heartwarming moments of clarity and wisdom in the series. The production for Spy x Family Season 3 is officially underway, and fans are eagerly anticipating its release.

Although the special event’s announcement confirmed no release date for the next installment, fans are still hyped about the return of their beloved characters. At the heart of its success lies the lovable family trio – Loid, Yor, and Anya – whose antics have stolen the hearts of fans worldwide.

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Although Spy x Family became an instant success and a global sensation, many fans aren’t aware of the mangaka’s major creative hurdles behind the scenes. Tatsuya Endo, the creator of Spy X Family, faced several creative challenges, including uncertainty over the title, but Hunter X Hunter helped solve this surprising issue for the mangaka.

Some anime characters experience fates worse than death, enduring eternal and unorthodox punishments. Rika Furude in Higurashi: When They Cry lives through parallel worlds and tragic deaths, triggering disasters. Squealer in From the New World is sentenced to "Eternal Hell," living as an unrecognizable lump of meat.

Whether deserved or otherwise, it is not uncommon for anime characters to experience tragic events or suffer cruel deaths, either as a form of retribution or simply to establish their backstories. However, in a medium as creative as this, the worst possible punishment is seldom limited to simply dying. Instead, the anime characters who suffer a fate worse than death have to experience more unorthodox and horrific situations.

While death is seldom desired, its one redeeming aspect is that it's quick and definitive, which is exactly what separates it from these fates. Rather than being granted a proper ending, these characters are typically forced to experience repeated,...

Viz Media has compiled the entire Yu Yu Hakusho manga collection and put it online for fans to read.

Yyk's animation adaptation recently celebrated its 30th anniversary, but despite the franchise's popularity, the manga has been hard to find, especially in the digital sense. Physical editions can be found online, but their prices are rather high. However, Viz Media has corrected this issue by uploading every chapter, which is 175 total, to their Shonen Jump service. The first three chapters are free to read, while the rest can be unlocked by signing up for their monthly service. Readers can do so for under $3.

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90 Day Fiancé: Before the 90 Days couple Ella Johnson and Johnny Chao are reportedly back together, and it's not a great idea for several reasons. 29-year-old Ella was dating 34-year-old single dad Johnny for a year. Ella loves Asian culture, including anime. Kurama, a character from the Japanese anime YuYu Hakusho, was one of her crushes. Regardless, Johnny was supposed to meet Ella in the U.S., something that didn’t happen, so she broke up with him.

In China, Johnny had to face some of the strictest regulations regarding quarantine and overseas travel during the pandemic. Johnny voiced his concern about traveling which irritated Ella to no extent. By September 2022, Ella announced her split with Johnny. It was evident that Ella and Johnny stayed in touch, even after the breakup. It was also when Ella started revealing her weight loss. She's lost over 58 pounds and seemingly did it...

Winry Rockbell, Edward Elric's skilled automail engineer, comes to life in an accurate Fullmetal Alchemist cosplay.

Made and uploaded on Reddit by lizzie!!, an up-and-coming cosplayer from the South, the outfit near-perfectly recreates the talented mechanic's work attire, including her green bandana, jumpsuit and black strapless top. The skilled costume-maker has also fabricated impressive cosplays for other iconic anime characters, like Mima Kirigoe from Perfect Blue and Nezuko from Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba.

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[Self] Winry from Full Metal Alchemist by u/Fuzzy_Chicken9227 in cosplay Fullmetal Alchemist Characters Inspire Amazing Cosplays

Winry isn't the only fan-favorite character from Fullmetal Alchemist to inspire fan-made content recently. Notably, Lust serves as one of the fandom's most common inspirations; for example, Dhalia Cosplay showed off her stunning take on the homunculus that captures her sultry attitude and artist Aleriia_V reimagined Lust as a sexy pinup model.

As part of the press tour for his new film "Creed III" -- whose fight scenes bring the franchise into anime territory -- Michael B. Jordan listed his five favorite anime series on BBC Radio 1: "'One Piece,'" "Dragon Ball," "Naruto," "Bleach," and "Hunter x Hunter." These are all worthy picks, even though it "would take the average person over 957 hours ... to complete Jordan's top five anime recommendations," as Isaiah Colbert said at Kotaku. "One Piece" has lasted for over a thousand episodes. "Dragon Ball" remains one of the most popular anime ever. "Naruto" featured some of the wildest fight scenes in anime history, while "Bleach" at its best was just cool. "Hunter x Hunter" is messier, spanning two adaptations and a source comic that has yet to finish. But its creator Yoshiharu Togashi has over 3 million followers on Twitter, and his dedicated fans haven't given up on him yet.

The climax of "Creed III" brings a whole new visual language to the series. As Adonis (Michael B. Jordan) and Damian Anderson (Jonathan Majors) box for the title of world champion, we enter their shared headspace. The crowd disappears and the sounds of their cheering drop out, leaving just the two former friends to confront each other. The imagery becomes surreal: the borders of the ring become prison bars, reflecting Damian's bitterness about how much of his life was wasted in a cell. Throughout the fight, whenever one boxer lands a blow, the scene goes into slow motion emphasizing specific strikes.

The influence for this type of filmmaking is anime action scenes. Jordan, the star of this franchise and now its director too, is the king of the weebs. In an interview with Polygon, Jordan cited his favorite anime, "Naruto Shippuden," as the primary inspiration for the climax of "Creed III." After all,...

Many anime series come and go without leaving a lasting mark on the industry. Since it premiered in 1992, however, Yu Yu Hakusho remains one of the most talked about battle shonen shows more than 30 years later. Accordingly, it’s quite fitting that a robust Blu-ray box set is being released to celebrate the anime’s legacy on its 30th anniversary.

Yu Yu Hakusho chronicles Yusuke Urameshi’s earnest evolution from a juvenile delinquent to a courageous warrior who becomes humanity’s greatest defense against the spirit world. Yu Yu Hakusho ran for 112 episodes, became a flagship program for Funimation after the company started to branch out and dub series beyond Dragon Ball, as well as a reliable program in Cartoon Network’s Toonami anime block for four years. Yu Yu Hakusho’s two supplemental Ova installments from 2018, “Two Shot” and “All or Nothing,” will finally be dubbed for the first...

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Crunchyroll is releasing a special Blu-ray Limited Edition box set to celebrate the anniversary of the iconic anime series YuYu Hakusho, based on the manga created by Yoshihiro Togashi. YuYu Hakusho tells the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a good-hearted high school delinquent who dies trying to save a kid from a car accident and is then resurrected as a Spirit Detective, charged by the Underworld with investigating supernatural activity within the Human World. The series soon turns into a supernatural-themed battle shonen, and it's credited with inspiring many works that followed, including Togashi's own Hunter X Hunter. The manga inspired, besides the 112 episodes-long anime, two animated movies, a series of Ova's, videogames, merchandise, and most recently a Netflix live-action series

The YuYu Hakusho anime was licensed for North America in 2001 by Funimation, now Crunchyroll, and it aired on two popular Cartoon Network blocks, Adult Swim and Toonami.

Anime industry pioneer, Yuji Nunokawa, who founded the highly influential powerhouse animation production house Studio Pierrot of Naruto and Bleach fame passed away on Sunday, December 25, 2022, in Japan. He was 75 years old. The official cause of death has not yet been announced.

In a December 26, 2022, Twitter post, Studio Pierrot confirmed that Nunokawa had passed away the day before, as well as voicing its sadness at his passing and adding that his "leadership, commitment and passion" to the company in general, and anime, in particular, would be "sorely missed." The post went on to announce that Nunokawa's family were planning a private memorial service and hoped that the public would honor their privacy during this time of loss, but that the studio itself was preparing its own "farewell" activity at a later date.

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Despite the fiasco that was Netflix's "Cowboy Bebop" live-action series and the atrocity that was their previous "Death Note" live-action movie, it seems the streaming service is determined to keep making live-action anime adaptations until something sticks. Indeed, they currently have several live-action anime re-imaginings in some stage of development, including projects based on "My Hero Academia," "One Piece," and "Yu Yu Hakusho."

To be fair, these are all sensible choices for live-action adaptations; each of these properties are incredibly popular and play into character archetypes, themes, and stories that resonate across the globe. "My Hero Academia" is literally about superheroes (and superheroes are very hot right now), while the other two are action-adventure stories with supernatural elements and tons of fights and comedic moments alike -- not to mention, they also feature characters with superpowers.

While the fantastical adventure elements are part of what makes these franchises popular,...

The upcoming "Yu Yu Hakusho" live action TV series based on the Japanese 'manga' comics by Yoshihiro Togashi, stars Takumi Kitamura, Jun Shison, Kanata Hongo and Shuhei Uesugi, streaming worldwide in 2023 on Netflix:

"...'Yusuke Urameshi', a junior high school student spends his days getting into fights and dies in an accident while trying to protect a young child. 

"As he grapples with the fact that he is looking down on his dead body, a woman named 'Botan', who calls herself a guide to the spirit world, relays to him the shocking truth: no one expected a delinquent like Yusuke to die performing an act of goodness, and there was no place for him in either heaven or hell. 

"Yusuke is given a chance to be revived, and after passing his trial, he becomes an 'Underworld Detective'. 

"From there, Yusuke becomes entwined in a mystery that envelopes the human,...

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In another boost to its growing Japanese content slate, Netflix has greenlit a live-action movie adaptation of the classic Japanese manga City Hunter. Japanese leading man Ryohei Suzuki (Tokyo Mer, Segodon) has signed on to star in the iconic role of Ryo Saeba, with filmmaker Yuichi Sato (Kisaragi, Strawberry Nights and The End of the Tiny World) onboard to direct.

Created by manga artist Tsukasa Hojo, City Hunter was a staple of Japanese pop culture throughout the 1980s, selling over 50 million copies around the world. The franchise spawned a popular anime series and numerous feature-length adaptations, including movies made in Hong Kong (one starring Jackie Chan), France and mainland China, but this will be there first time the property is adapted as a live-action film in its native Japan.

Netflix describes the project as “a modern-day updated version of the manga, set in the bustling streets of Shinjuku.

"My Hero Academia" is one of the most popular manga and anime around often thought of as a successor to the "Big Three" of manga. The manga is consistently on top sales lists, and the anime remains as popular as ever even after six seasons.

It is easy to see why. The story, originally created by Kōhei Horikoshi, brings the best tropes of a shonen action manga into the world of comic book superheroes, taking inspiration from classic Marvel comics, especially "Spider-Man" ones. "My Hero Academia" takes place in a world where 80 population has some kind of superpower, or "quirk." We focus on Midoriya Izuku, a kid born without powers, but who yearns more than anything to follow in the footsteps of Japan's greatest hero, All Might (essentially the show's answer to Superman and Captain America). When he is accepted into a prestigious academy for superheroes, he decides to become the number one hero,...

The 1990s were a great time for anime, loaded with classics like Dragon Ball Z, Yu Yu Hakusho, and Cowboy Bebop. Each is important in its own way, but one series from that era stands out due to how different it is even from today's action series: Trigun.

Trigun is a space western series that got its start in the doomed manga magazine Monthly Shonen Captain, which went bust while the story was still ongoing in 1997. Fortunately, when creator Yasuhiro Nightow was approached to create a new series for the seinen (young men) magazine Young King Ours, Nightow was allowed to continue Trigun under the name Trigun Maximum, where it then ran for 10 more years. A 26-episode anime adaptation was released in 1998, which then came across to US shores and aired on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim block in 2003, where it was cemented as a classic of the era.

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If you regularly follow anime at all, you've almost certainly seen something about "Chainsaw Man." Whether it's the 18 million copies of the manga in circulation, cosplayers in simple black suits, or viral art of cute chainsaw dogs, the series has been a runaway train of popularity since it debuted in December 2018.

"Chainsaw Man" follows Denji, a young man saddled with debt whose only friend is a tiny chainsaw-faced devil named Pochita. When Denji is marked more profitable dead than alive by his debtors, Pochita willingly becomes his new heart, and Denji is reborn as the human-devil hybrid Chainsaw Man. That makes him a valuable asset to the Public Safety Devil Hunters, who give Denji a choice: join them and help keep the populace safe from devils or be put down like one.

Now that the anime is finally here, new audiences are getting a chance to find out what all the hype's about.

The bizarre anime series known as Flcl (read as "Fooly Cooly") made a splash in the US when it first appeared on Adult Swim in 2003. The reason why is a simple one: despite the series' madcap insanity, it has one of the best localizations of all time.

Localizing anime is more than just translating the script. Localizers have to consider cultural differences and how things will be regarded by their new foreign audience. In the past, that meant changing the names of characters to more familiar English ones (Like Sailor Moon's Usagi Tsukino being changed to Serena in the Dic dub of that series) and even censoring concepts like Buddhist prayer beads or shrines. Some series are harder to do this to than others, though, and anime purists have always hated these kinds of changes, as they're seen as patronizing to foreign audiences.

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TBS Holdings-owned company signs five-year pact with streaming giant.

Netflix has struck a strategic partnership deal with Japanese outfit The Seven, which will produce original live-action titles for the streaming giant over the next five years.

Features and series produced through the partnership will be made available exclusively to Netflix subscribers across 190 countries

The Seven is a production company that was launched by leading Japanese media firm TBS Holdings at the end of 2021. Its creatives have previously worked with Netflix such as Akira Morii, who is head of development and production at The Seven and producer of hit series Alice in Borderland,...

TBS Holdings-owned company signs five-year pact with streaming giant.

Netflix has struck a strategic partnership deal with Japanese outfit The Seven, which will produce original live-action titles for the streaming giant over the next five years.

Features and series produced through the partnership will be made available exclusively to Netflix subscribers across 190 countries

The Seven is a production company that was launched by leading Japanese media firm TBS Holdings at the end of 2021. Its creatives have previously worked with Netflix such as Akira Morii, who is head of development and production at The Seven and producer of hit series Alice in Borderland,...

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In a boost to its Japanese content ambitions, Netflix has signed a five-year strategic partnership with The Seven, a production company subsidiary of Tokyo Broadcasting System Holdings (TBS Holdings). Under the agreement, The Seven’s creative team “will produce multiple original live-action titles that will be exclusively available to Netflix,” the two partners said Tuesday. Financial terms were not disclosed.

The new agreement builds on prior work Netflix has done both with TBS and The Seven’s key creative team. Akira Morii, who leads development and production at The Seven, recently collaborated closely with the streamer as the driving producer behind its breakout Japanese original Alice in Borderland, which is set to return for a second season next month. Netflix has also picked up several TBS shows for its service, including Japan Sinks: People of Hope, The Future Diary, and Let’s Get Divorced.

Exclusive: Netflix is entering into a strategic partnership with Japanese production company The Seven, owned by leading broadcaster TBS Holdings, which will produce multiple original live-action titles for the streamer over the next five years.

TBS launched The Seven, headed by TBS Holdings board director Tatsuo Sugai, with investment of Yen30BN (US205M) at the end of 2021 as part of its global expansion strategy. The partnership with Netflix will see the company develop and produce live-action shows that will premiere exclusively on the streamer across 190 countries.

Netflix has previously worked with The Seven’s head of development and production, Akira Morii, who was a producer on the streamer’s hit dystopian drama Alice In Borderland, as well as the company’s visual effects producer Tomofumi Akahane.

Morii is also working with Netflix on live-action originals Zom 100: Bucket List Of The Dead and Yu Yu Hakusho. Akahane is also...

"Bleach" began its run in the popular comics magazine Shonen Jump in August 2001. It was adapted into an anime three years later in October 2004, and quickly became one of the most popular anime and manga in its age bracket. Fans would refer to "Bleach" and its two Jump peers, "Naruto" and "One Piece," as the Big Three. 

"Bleach" always boasted the lowest sales numbers of the three, especially in Japan where "One Piece" was king. But "Bleach" made up for this by being the most stylish comic of its day. Its character designs, fight sequences and paneling had a certain je ne sais quoi that kept it relevant against heavier hitting opponents in the magazine. The fact that its hero, Ichigo, was a jaded teenager from the beginning, rather than a rambunctious child like Naruto or Luffy, appealed to a fanbase that was going through its own adolescence.

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Netflix has found their Yusuke Urameshi for their live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series.

Tokyo Revengers’ actor Takumi Kitamura will star. The project was announced by the streamer last year but details and new photos are just dropping.

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While there is an anime version out, the series will draw directly from the 1990 manga. The story follows a teenage delinquent named Yasuke who dies while committing an act of goodness. Heaven and Hell have no place for him so in an effort to reunite his soul with his body, he becomes an underworld detective.

The exclusive was initially reported by IGN who were able to get a quote from the actor and director of the series.

“The original work is a universal and unique masterpiece and a reason why Japan is so proud of...

One of the most exciting aspects of the Jump Force crossover fighting game is the large collection of various manga characters to choose from. Playable characters in the game include protagonists and antagonists from 16 different manga series, including Black Clover, Bleach, Boruto, City Hunter, Dragon Ball, Dragon Quest, Fist of the North Star, Hunter x Hunter, Jojo's Bizarre Adventure, My Hero Academia, Naruto, One Piece, Samurai X, Saint Seiya, Yu-Gi-Oh!,  and Yu Yu Hakusho.

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Characters are divided into class tiers, which are determined by overall ability, attack, and health. In descending order, the tiers include S, A, B, C, D, E, and F classes.

Netflix is to lease two sound stages at Toho Studios in order to help the streaming platform expand its production of original Japanese content.

The move was announced Thursday (local time) in a blog post by Ozawa Teiji, Netflix’s manager for production management and live action in Japan.

The streamer will have access to both Stage 7 and Stage 10, and several in-studio facilities within Toho Studios, which is located in central suburban Setagaya Ward in Tokyo. The facilities have previously been home to Kurosawa Akira’s “Seven Samurai,” and the Godzilla film series.

The deal kicks off from April and was described as running across “several years.” Upcoming shows “Yu Yu Hakusho,” a live action series derived from a manga about a teenager and an underground detective, and “Sanctuary,” a gritty look into the underbelly of professional sumo, will be the first to occupy the studios.

Netflix has previously signed...

Netflix has struck a multi-year deal to lease two soundstages at iconic Japanese film studio Toho.

The agreement begins in April 2021 and will commence with two of Netflix’s upcoming Japanese projects, Yu Yu Hakusho and Sanctuary, which will both film this year.

The streamer says it will release more than 25 live-action and anime titles from Japan this year, including films Ride or Die, We Couldn’t Become Adults and Asakusa Kid, series such as The Naked Director Season 2, and unscripted formats such as Creator’s File: Gold. Last year, Netflix also unveiled upcoming Japanese anime content including deals with producers Naz, Science Saru, and Mappa.

Toho Studio is Japan’s largest movie studio and is famed for hosting classic Japanese pictures including Akira Kurosawa’s Seven Samurai and the Godzilla film series.

“As someone who built their career working on Japanese films and series, Toho Studio has always been...

Japanese-language projects, Yu Yu Hakusho and Sanctuary, will be the first Netflix productions to film at the facility this year.

Netflix has leased two sound stages from leading Japanese studio Toho, located in Setagaya Ward in the Tokyo suburbs, for a multi-year period.

From April 2021, Netflix will have access to both Stage 7 and Stage 10 at the Toho Studio complex, as well as several in-studio facilities. Two upcoming Japanese-language projects, Yu Yu Hakusho and Sanctuary, will be the first Netflix productions to film at the facility this year.

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The past decade has seen anime’s popularity increase in dramatic ways, whether through a much broader spectrum of series receiving dubs, the growing success of anime feature films in theaters, or the sudden prominence of streaming services. There’s never been a better time to be an anime fan and the medium has become more accessible than ever. There’s a lot of anime out there, but the wealth of new series can often blend together or not be given a fair chance. Additionally, there are definitely certain types of anime that are more prominently showcased outside of Japan.

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For the uninitiated it’s easy to assume that anime consists of giant robots, monsters that battle, and strong fighters and magical girls that transform,...

Yoshihiro Togashi is considered by many to be one of the greatest mangakas of all time, with his work on Hunter x Hunter being the stuff of legends for all the right reasons. That being said, one has to admit that the brilliance of this particular manga could never have come to be had it not been for Togashi's previous series, Yu Yu Hakusho.

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The journey of the protagonist along with other similarly colorful characters is a truly entertaining one and goes to show how a cast of amazing characters can carry forward a plot that might not have aged well for many viewers. A big part of what makes these characters memorable is their personal story arcs, and this list will take a look at each of these character arcs in detail while ranking them on the basis of their overall quality.

Since children often go to sleep on the earlier side, channels targeting them needed to find something else to air late at night. Nickelodeon had Nick at Nite and Disney had Vault Disney which aired both adult content and vintage programming. In 2001, competing children’s channel, Cartoon Network, decided to enter into the late-night programming game with Adult Swim, which kicked-off each night saying “All kids out of the pool”. However, unlike its competitors, Adult Swim aired mostly original shows and like its home-network, only offered animated series. Many of their shows were parodies based on the 1960s Hanna-Barbera cartoon, Space Ghost including Space Ghost Coast to Coast, The Brak Show, and Harvey Birdman, Attorney at Law, all of which are currently available for streaming on HBOMax.

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There’s been a growing trend of some of the most popular anime from the ’90s and early 2000s returning with legacy sequels and modern reboots. It’s an exciting time for anime and this approach has brought back audiences who may have wandered away but are curious to get continuations to some of the favorite series from their youth. InuYasha, an anime that aired nearly 200 episodes since its debut during the height of the anime invasion of America, is the latest series to get such a treatment. InuYasha concluded back in 2010, but Rumiko Takahashi, the creator of the series has just announced, Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon, a sequel series that will center around the children of the characters from the original InuYasha.

Yashahime: Princess Half-Demon is set decades after the conclusion of the original series and follows the daughters of Inuyasha and his half-brother, Sesshomaru. Sesshomaru now has two half-demon twins,...

We’ve now seen a couple of instances of filmmakers wanting to take an anime show and turn it into a live-action movie, and every time it has been a flop. The obvious examples are of course The Last Airbender and Dragonball Evolution. However, what if people did these adaptations right? We picked some of our favorite anime shows that could potentially pull off the live-action treatment.

Supernatural GenreYu Yu Hakusho

The Story: Yu Yu Hakusho is an anime from the '90s about Spirit Detective Yusuke Urameshi. Yusuke goes around with his friends fighting off demons to save the world. This could be adapted really well into a live-action movie using the Saint Beast story arc. We’d start off with Yusuke, already having his powers, receiving the call to Maze Castle, where the four Saint Beasts reside. Yusuke and supporting characters Kuwabara, Hiei, and Kurama would, of course,...