History Characters / YuYuHakushoTeamUrameshi

->'''Species:''' Fire Demon-[[spoiler: YukiOnna]] hybrid\\

* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Sort of. Both of his parents and a good number of his ancestors are human, but 40+ generations back are Raizen, the demon world's most powerful demon and one of the Three Kings. However, his demon side never manifests until he is killed in battle by Sensui.]]

* {{Otaku}}: Of Combat Sports. Botan baited him to go on the case of tracking down Rando with front row seat tickets in the Tokyo Dome.

* CarnivoreConfusion: [[spoiler:After dealing with Sensui and becoming a demon, Yusuke doesn't see a problem with demons eating humans for sustenance, and now can hold civil if not outright ''casual'' conversations with man-eating demons about their dietary habits. It's an interesting meditation on meat-eating -- Raizen, who is designed to eat humans, has spent over 500 years slowly dying of hunger because of a promise he made to a deceased woman he loved. There's no right answer to the ethical practice of Raizen's dietary needs, and Yusuke's offering to kidnap humans, and quote-unquote the original Japanese script, ''"Stuff them down your throat myself!"'' in order to restore Raizen's strength and get a decent fight out of him just makes the whole dilemma even murkier.]]

* CarnivoreConfusion: [[spoiler:After dealing with Sensui and becoming a demon, Yusuke doesn't see a problem with demons eating humans for sustenance, and now can hold civil if not outright ''casual'' conversations with man-eating demons about their dietary habits. It's an interesting meditation on meat-eating -- Raizen, who is designed to eat humans, has spent over 500 years slowly dying of hunger because of a promise he made to a deceased woman he loved. There's no right answer to the ethical practice of Raizen's dietary needs, and Yusuke's offering to kidnap humans, and quote-unquote the original Japanese script, ''"Stuff them down your throat myself!"'' to restore Raizen's strength just to get a decent fight out of him, makes the whole dilemma even murkier.]]

* CarnivoreConfusion: [[spoiler:After dealing with Sensui and becoming a demon, Yusuke doesn't see a problem with demons eating humans for sustenance, and now can hold civil if not outright ''casual'' conversations with man-eating demons about their dietary habits. It's an interesting meditation on meat-eating -- Raizen, who is designed to eat humans, has spent over 500 years slowly dying of hunger because of a promise he made to a deceased woman he loved. There's no right answer to the ethical practice of Raizen's dietary needs, and Yusuke's offering to kidnap morally corrupt humans for Raizen just makes the whole dilemma even murkier.]]

* CarnivoreConfusion: [[spoiler:After dealing with Sensui and becoming a demon, Yusuke doesn't see a problem with demons eating humans for sustenance, and now can hold open conversations with man-eating demons about their dietary habits. It's an interesting meditation on meat-eating -- Raizen, who is designed to eat humans, has spent over 500 years slowly dying of hunger because of a promise he made to a deceased woman he loved. There's no right answer to the ethical practice of Raizen's dietary needs, and Yusuke's offering to kidnap morally corrupt humans for Raizen just makes the whole dilemma even murkier.]]

* CarnivoreConfusion: [[spoiler:After dealing with Sensui and becoming a demon, Yusuke doesn't see a problem with demons eating bad humans, and now can hold open conversations with man-eating demons about their dietary habits. It's an interesting meditation on meat-eating -- Raizen, who is designed to eat humans, has spent over 500 years slowly dying of hunger because of a promise he made to a deceased woman he loved. There's no right answer to the ethical practice of Raizen's dietary needs, and Yusuke's offering to kidnap morally corrupt humans for Raizen just makes the whole dilemma even murkier.]]

* BerserkButton:
** Being forced to take an innocent life.
** He dislikes [[DudeLooksLikeALady being mistaken for a girl]], mostly in the manga. He nearly ''snapped'' at Yusuke and Keiko when they pushed this button a little too far.
** Threatening his mother or stepbrother is not a threat that he'll take lightly.

* BerserkButton: Hiei does not take too kindly to YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness especially coming from the enemy. Seiryu found out the [[CurbStompBattle HARD]] way. And so help him if Yukina is out in danger...

* TheSpock: When not playing the SmugSuper though not as much or as clearly as [[TheSmartGuy Kurama]] but he has shades of this. While Kurama is the most logical and cerebral of the group, Hiei is the most pragmatic and goal-oriented. He doesn't like humans or earth but he doesn't (anymore) carry any ill will towards them either so any WhatTheHellHero solutions he might propose are made dispassionately and full of straightforward pragmatism.

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Played with. Kuwabara is not the strongest fighter blow for blow, but he has the most unique ''array'' of powers among the four,[[note]]Kurama might beat him on diversity of applications. His ability starts bordering on SwissArmySuperpowers once he starts using plants to playback voices[[/note]] even if some of those powers have limited combat potential. Despite being tremendously overshadowed by his three fighting partners, Kuwabara manages to stay in the game through his bullheadedness, psychic powers, and Spirit Sword in all its varieties. His strong sixth sense allows him to ''dodge'' threats that would otherwise stop him from reaching the actual mission objective, such as when he used it to navigate Maze Castle. Particularly blatant in the Chapter Black arc, where his power is a major factor in Sensui's plan and is implied to be unblockable as Sensui never took it head-on (a sword that can cut through space/time and dimensions would probably cut through anything, even S-Class fighters). [[spoiler:By the Three Kings arc, Kuwabara had decided to get himself into a good school rather than keep fighting with his friends, having made peace with the fact that he will never be as strong as Yusuke or the others]].

* OvershadowedByAwesome: Played with. Kuwabara is not the strongest fighter blow for blow, but he has the most unique ''array'' of powers among the four,[[note]]Kurama might beat him on diversity of applications. He ability starts bordering on GreenLanternRing once he starts using plants to playback voices[[/note]] even if some of those powers have limited combat potential. Despite being tremendously overshadowed by his three fighting partners, Kuwabara manages to stay in the game through his bullheadedness, psychic powers, and Spirit Sword in all its varieties. His strong sixth sense allows him to ''dodge'' threats that would otherwise stop him from reaching the actual mission objective, such as when he used it to navigate Maze Castle. Particularly blatant in the Chapter Black arc, where his power is a major factor in Sensui's plan and is implied to be unblockable as Sensui never took it head-on (a sword that can cut through space/time and dimensions would probably cut through anything, even S-Class fighters). [[spoiler:By the Three Kings arc, Kuwabara had decided to get himself into a good school rather than keep fighting with his friends, having made peace with the fact that he will never be as strong as Yusuke or the others]].

->'''Species:''' Fire/Ice Demon hybrid\\

* DisguisedInDrag: In the manga, [[http://www.mangahere.com/manga/yu_yu_hakusho/v19/c171/8.html Yusuke pulls this off pretty well and looks like quite a convincing girl, believe it or not.]]

Yusuke's rival-turned-best-friend, Kuwabara is slightly jerky himself, but still easily the nicest of the four main characters. Kuwabara has a very powerful sixth sense, which he doesn't seem to enjoy, and is able to manifest his reiki (spirit energy) like a sword. Definitely something of a comic relief character, he falls in love with the ice demon, Yukina, and is utterly devoted to her. [[spoiler: Kuwabara is the only full-blooded human of the main four.]]

!!!'''Voiced by (English):'''Creator/JohnBurgmeier (Creator/{{Funimation}}), Candice Moore (Animax Asia TV series dub), Creator/DavidHayter (EN-Creator/MediaBlasters dub of ''The Golden Seal''/The Movie), Chris Orbach (As "Hideo Seaver") (EN-Creator/CentralParkMedia dub of ''Bonds of Fire''/Poltergeist Report)

Kurama is an over-1000-years-old fox demon and former thief shot to near the brink of death by a demon hunter. Unwilling to die, he forced his soul out to swim into the human world and merged with the fetus owned by the nearest pregnant woman he could spot, Shiori Minamino, and reborn as her son, Shuichi Minamino.

* HalfBreedDiscrimination: [[AvertedTrope Averted]]. In the Three Kings arc, he [[spoiler:becomes the leader of his own country and garners full respect from his subordinates. In the Demon World Tournament, there were even demon spectators cheering him on during his fight with Yomi despite his being the underdog and a HalfHumanHybrid.]]
* HalfHumanHybrid: [[spoiler: Sort of. Both of his parents and a good number of his ancestors are human, but 40+ generations back is Raizen, the demon world's most powerful demon and one of the Three Kings. However, his demon side never manifests until he is killed in battle by Sensui.]]

* BookDumb: Due to shirking school like Yusuke, he can be pretty dumb at times. He's still less so than Yusuke. [[spoiler: And he subverts it by the end of the series, as he spends the Three Kings Arc trying to study and get into a good high school]].

* StockShonenHero: He's HotBlooded, loves to fight, doesn't think things through, and is a {{Determinator}} to boot. Not to mention the easily turns his enemies into his friends and he's empowered by his wish to protect them.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Averted for [[BlackSheep obvious reasons]], but it's also notable that Hiei never expresses a dislike of Kuwabara's crush on Yukina even besides that, considering how much smack they talk about each other.

* MySisterIsOffLimits: Averted for [[BlackSheep obvious reasons]], but it's also notable that Hiei never once expresses a dislike of Kuwabara's crush on Yukina even besides that, considering how much smack they talk about each other.

* MysteriousPast: Up until the final season we don't know much about his past. Then we learn everything in WholeEpisodeFlashback.

* SomethingAboutARose: His WeaponOfChoice is a whip created from a single rose. The fact that he's better looking than many of the women in the show also helped up his sex appeal. He and his whip even provide the trope image.

* ProgressivelyPrettier: He started out as and was constantly called ugly, due to him lacking the reat of the cast's {{bishonen}} look. By the end of the story (at least in the anime), he looks less ugly and more [[{{hunk}} rugged]] which is complimented by his burly physique.

** His battle with Seiryuu only lasts several minutes in the anime, and a single page in the manga.