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50 free Yu Yu Hakusho trivia questions with answers — entertainment quiz, new questions added Aug 2026.
Yu Yu Hakusho opens with its hero already dead: Yusuke Urameshi, 14-year-old delinquent, hit by a car saving a child, so unexpectedly decent that the afterlife has no paperwork for him. What follows is Yoshihiro Togashi's 175-chapter run through Spirit Detective cases, the Dark Tournament, the Sensui saga and the Demon Plane, plus a 112-episode anime and a dub that made Toonami kids fluent in 'Spirit Gun'. These 50 questions cover the manga and the anime: Botan and Koenma, Genkai's tournament and Rando, the three stolen treasures, Team Urameshi versus Team Toguro, Sakyo's wager, Raizen, Mukuro and Yomi, the films and OVAs, the Atari games, the Tagalog 'Ghost Fighter' dub, the 2023 Netflix live-action series and the production stories behind Togashi's names and his working title 'How to be a Ghost'. Every answer is cited to a page we checked. Play it solo or print it for an anime night.
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Q 01Who wrote and illustrated the YuYu Hakusho manga?
Yoshihiro Togashi
He later created Hunter x Hunter and is married to Sailor Moon author Naoko Takeuchi.
Q 02In which magazine was YuYu Hakusho serialized from 1990 to 1994?
Weekly Shōnen Jump
Its 175 chapters were collected into 19 tankōbon volumes.
Q 03How does Yusuke Urameshi die at the start of the story?
Being struck by a car
He pushes a young boy out of the way, an act so out of character that the afterlife had no place prepared for him.
Q 04What title is Yusuke given after he is revived?
Underworld Detective
The English dub calls the job 'Spirit Detective'; he investigates demon cases in the Human World.
Q 05How many episodes did the YuYu Hakusho anime run?
112
It aired on Fuji Television from October 1992 to January 1995.
Q 06Which company animated YuYu Hakusho?
Studio Pierrot
Noriyuki Abe directed, with Fuji Television and Yomiko Advertising as co-producers.
Q 07Who ferries Yusuke's ghost to the Underworld after his death?
Botan
She later becomes his assistant, teaching him the detective tools and relaying Koenma's orders.
Q 08Koenma, who offers Yusuke a second chance, is the son of which ruler?
King Enma
Though at least 700 years old, Koenma usually appears as a toddler with a pacifier.
Q 09What is the name of Yusuke's signature finger-fired attack?
Rei Gun
It fires a shot of Reiki, or Spirit Energy, from his index finger and is the 'Spirit Gun' in the dub.
Q 10Which aged martial arts master trains Yusuke after a tournament for her successor?
Genkai
Yusuke enters her contest as cover to hunt Rando, a demon who steals masters' techniques.
Q 11Which demon in the successor tournament steals the techniques of martial arts masters?
Rando
He had killed 99 masters and disguised himself as a monk called Shaolin.
Q 12Which two former thieves join Yusuke against the Four Beasts at Labyrinth Castle?
Kurama and Hiei
They had stolen three Underworld treasures with Goki in Yusuke's first case before becoming his allies.
Q 13Who invites Yusuke to the Dark Tournament to test his strength?
Toguro
Run by corrupt rich humans, it lets the winning team claim any wish they desire.
Who is the disguised fifth member of Team Urameshi at the Dark Tournament?
Q 21What working title did Togashi use while pitching the manga to editors?
How to be a Ghost
He then proposed 'YuYu-Ki' as a play on SaiYu-Ki, but a similar title existed, so 'Hakusho' (Report) won out.
Q 22Kuwabara's name combines the names of two professionals from which sport?
Baseball
Togashi blended Masumi Kuwata and Kazuhiro Kiyohara; it also puns on a phrase frightened people mutter.
Q 23Which comedy-turned-action manga inspired Togashi's plan to shift genres partway through?
Kinnikuman
His editor, nervous about the slow start, suggested moving to battles after about 30 chapters.
Genkai
She fights as the Masked Fighter; Togashi's heroes reach the final and defeat Team Toguro.
Q 15Who owns the team Yusuke faces in the Dark Tournament final?
Sakyo
After losing his bet, Sakyo destroys the tournament arena and dies in the collapse.
Q 16Who held Yusuke's detective post before him?
Shinobu Sensui
He went mad after finding humans torturing demons and resolved to judge the human race.
Q 17Which ancestor takes control of Yusuke's body to finish the fight against Sensui?
Raizen
Yusuke is reborn as a partial demon after Sensui kills him, revealing a recessive demon gene.
Q 18Which two rulers share power in the Demon Plane with Yusuke's ancestor?
Mukuro and Yomi
They summon Hiei and Kurama respectively to prepare for war before Yusuke proposes a tournament instead.
Q 19Who eliminates Yusuke in the Demon Plane tournament's second round?
Yomi
Yusuke hopes a similar contest will be held every few years to pick the realm's ruler.
Q 20Where does the story end, with Yusuke and his friends reuniting?
On a beach
Genkai has died and left her estate to the main characters.
Q 24Which voice actor's Kuwabara did Togashi say understood the character better than he did?
Shigeru Chiba
Shigeru Chiba's performance impressed the author, who otherwise stayed out of the anime's production.
Q 25Which company published the English manga in North America?
Viz Media
It debuted in the very first issue of the American Shonen Jump magazine in January 2003.
Q 26Roughly how many copies of the manga are in circulation worldwide?
Over 50 million
It took the 39th Shogakukan Manga Award for shōnen in 1993.
Q 27What is the English title of the second animated film, released in Japan in 1994?
Poltergeist Report
Its plot pits Yusuke's team against a fourth plane of existence called the Netherworld.
Q 28What is the first 1993 film's villains after, having kidnapped Koenma?
The Golden Seal
The stamp is used to finalize the sentencing of souls in the afterlife.
Q 29What was the series of post-finale OVAs released on VHS from 1994 to 1996 called?
Eizou Hakusho
The name means 'Image Report'; a new OVA adapting 'Two Shot' and 'All or Nothing' followed in 2018.
Q 30Which publisher released the three North American YuYu Hakusho video games in 2003?
Atari
They were Spirit Detective and Tournament Tactics on Game Boy Advance, and Dark Tournament on PlayStation 2.