A delinquent's gotta do what he's gotta do...in the afterlife. Yusuke Urameshi was a tough teen delinquent until one selfless act changed his life...by ending it. When he died saving a little kid from a speeding car, the afterlife didn't know what to do with him, so it gave him a second chance at life. Now, Yusuke is a ghost with a mission, performing good deeds at the behest of Botan, the ferrywoman of the River Styx, and Koenma, the pacifier-sucking judge of the dead. After Yusuke Urameshi grounds a "flighty" Jin for good, Team Urameshi should be one step closer to victory. But thanks (more like no thanks) to a pervading conspiracy among the organizers of the Dark Tournament, Team Urameshi's plate is wiped clean of soldiers left to fight in the twisted event. Meanwhile, Genkai formally reveals herself to Yusuke and gives him the final test to be the sole heir to her formidable technique--a concentrated ball of aura! But due to the conditions surrounding his "second life," Yusuke must be ready and able to inherit the technique...or he dies!
Yoshihiro Togashi, Yuyu Hakusho: The Huge Ordeal (ViZ, 1992) The Dark Tournament continues into the semifinals as Team Urameshi takes on the Fractured Fairy Tales. Yusuke and Mask, though, have something more important than fighting to do, leaving the other three to handle the FFT. Not that that bothers Hiei, who's ready to take on the whole team single-handedly... the Dark Tournament plotline is really starting to get a bit long in the tooth, mostly because there's no real development in this volume; it's the first time I've felt that the Dark Tournament plot was simply fighting for fighting's sake. While it's still fun stuff, I've come to expect a good deal more from Yuyu Hakusho. Not one of the better volumes. *** ½
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