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Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#23476: Aug 20th 2015 at 7:50:27 PM

[up][up][up] Off the top of my head, Himura Kenshin and Haru Glory.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#23477: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:05:41 PM

Anyone else really like King Yemma? I dunno why, but he's the kind of Death I'd like there to be.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#23478: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:07:02 PM

He seems like a chill dude all in all.

Yeah, Yenma ain't bad.

Too bad he's irrelevant like so many other characters in DBZ.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#23479: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:08:26 PM

I have a headcanon that he has a strong as he needs to be clause stapled onto his God Job. Like, he can corral Cell if Cell's being unruly, but not Farmer-with-a-shotgun if he isn't.

PushoverMediaCritic I'm sorry Tien, but I must go all out. from the Italy of America Since: Jul, 2015 Relationship Status: watch?v=dQw4w9WgXcQ
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#23480: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:17:22 PM

What if Farmer doesn't have his Shotgun? King Yemma always seemed a little uptight and overworked to me.

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#23481: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:25:04 PM

'Cept Cell didn't keep his body.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#23482: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:26:17 PM

If Farmer doesn't have his Shotgun, then he isn't Farmer with Shotgun.

It definitely went to the afterlife with him.

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HamburgerTime Since: Apr, 2010
#23483: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:28:39 PM

[up][up] Presumably neither did Raditz, and he apparently put up a fight.

HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#23484: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:43:56 PM

No. Raditz was just a wispy cloud apparently. That's why Yenma was able to whoop him.

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Ssj3Gojira Arashi Shigehito from The Event Horizon Since: May, 2011 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#23485: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:55:52 PM

Also, I don't think Buu would have really caused that much of a change in Yenma's workload; the dude basically deals with the souls of the people who die, throughout the entire universe, the guy is possibly dealing with trillions upon trillions of souls every day.

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
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#23486: Aug 20th 2015 at 8:57:31 PM

Does he really deal with death across the universe?

I mean, it makes sense, but I thought he was just in charge of people who died on Earth.

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Anomalocaris20 from Sagittarius A* Since: Sep, 2010 Relationship Status: Love blinded me (with science!)
#23487: Aug 20th 2015 at 9:21:29 PM

Why do Namekians have teeth?

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HandsomeRob Leader of the Holey Brotherhood from The land of broken records Since: Jan, 2015
Leader of the Holey Brotherhood
#23488: Aug 20th 2015 at 9:26:16 PM

So they can give toothy grins.

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LOLypop1224 ...what am I even DOING here? Since: Jan, 2012 Relationship Status: Non-Canon
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#23489: Aug 20th 2015 at 9:36:55 PM

Resurrection F implied that Earth has its own hell, so I'm presuming Yenma doesn't judge every single dead person in the entire universe.

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MyssaRei Since: Feb, 2010
#23490: Aug 20th 2015 at 10:05:33 PM

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Yep, Freeza kept going on and on about Earth's hell, which is probably a different realm altogether than the place Dabura is from, for example.

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#23491: Aug 20th 2015 at 10:23:20 PM

[up] Dabura is from the Demon Realm, not Hell. Those are two completely different places. Also, how does Freeza know that it's Earth's Hell?

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#23492: Aug 21st 2015 at 1:16:44 AM

Yusuke develops from a guy who, despite being a delinquent, stands up against demons who eat humans to offering to capture humans and feed them to a demon just so that demon will be around to fight him later.

What a great character arc.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#23494: Aug 21st 2015 at 1:20:22 AM

The conversations from the previous pages. I miss long periods of conversation due to being in a different timezone and full-time work, but I watch everything.

Unless you mean more specifically, in which case that's exactly what Yusuke does with Raizen. Offers to capture some humans and feed them to him, so that Raizen will survive long enough for Yusuke to beat him.

The English dub tries to salvage this by saying he'll get some really bad humans to use for food but he doesn't discriminate in the original. Not like that would redeem it anyway.

Togashi's stories often suffer when he starts crying about how much misanthropy he has.

edited 21st Aug '15 1:23:01 AM by Saiga

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#23495: Aug 21st 2015 at 2:16:40 AM

The Pope confirmed for Big Brother.

So long as he hates everyone equally, I suppose it's relatively okay.

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Nikkolas from Texas Since: Dec, 2009 Relationship Status: Anime is my true love
#23496: Aug 21st 2015 at 2:19:54 AM

Of course there's always the chance Yusuke was full of shit which is a trait he carries throughout the entire series. He says a ton of things he doesn't mean because he's a stupid teenager and stupid teenagers say a lot of stupid things. I know I did.

I don't remember the exact scene you're referring to because I don't like Three Kings much and haven't watched it all in about 7 years but it seems highly unlikely the scene is as serious as you are making it out to be. Was this was when Raizen was about to die? I would imagine Yuske was panicking.

Plus, this is ashounen battle manga and the surest way to express your feelings is with violence. Or card games, in Yugioh's case. Yuske saying he wnats to fight Raizen is like I love you, which he clearly did. Raizen is the closest thing to afather he ever had.

Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#23497: Aug 21st 2015 at 2:47:02 AM

He was not panicking. He was angry, because he felt he was being screwed out of a fight, but still calm.

And there's no indication that he was talking shit throughout the whole exchange. He even goes as far as to say he can't see any reason not to eat humans.

And it's simply consistent with his behavior as the series goes on. He does literally become less human, through his atavism. Even at the start of the arc, he doesn't actually have a problem with Hokuten and friends eating humans as long as they're honest about it. It's why Kuroko kicked him out of her house and told him to go to Demon World, because his lack of care about it really scared her.

Also saying Yusuke loved Raizen because he wanted to fight him is completely ridiculous. Did he love Toguro? Sensui? No, he wanted to beat Raizen up for both interfering in his fight with Sensui and for humiliating him when he arrived at Demon World. Yusuke has never shown any more affection for him than any other opponent he had so trying to read subtext is really more just making shit up.

edited 21st Aug '15 2:49:49 AM by Saiga

Zelenal The Cat Knows Where It's At from Purrgatory Since: Jul, 2009 Relationship Status: Maxing my social links
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#23498: Aug 21st 2015 at 2:58:45 AM

Remind me to never read or watch YuYu Hakusho.

I'd probably like it better when it was called "Dragon Ball Z" anyway.

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Saiga Since: Feb, 2011 Relationship Status: Getting away with murder
#23499: Aug 21st 2015 at 3:04:47 AM

I will definitely say don't read it. But the (dubbed) anime is a heavily flawed but enjoyable watch.

Also, Yusuke turning into a total jackass isn't necessarily a bad thing. It makes sense in the story, I was just pointing out that the idea of him maturing is pretty flawed because he really doesn't get any better as the series goes. He's at his most moral point in the first story arc.

Also Dragon Ball and Yu Yu Hakusho were published simultaneously for much of YYH's run. So it's not exactly fair to suggest it's just Dragon Ball rehashed, despite some things being extremely similar it's unlikely Yu Yu Hakusho was always ripping off Dragon Ball. For example, Gohan vs Cell and Yusuke vs 100% Toguro have almost the exact same beginning - hero has untapped potential, but won't fight back, villain is disappointed because they want a good fight so they try and draw it out by first torturing the hero and then going after others - but they were published around the same time and authors have to create their chapters ~2 chapters in advance without seeing each others' works so it's unlikely either deliberately took the idea from the other.

Which means some of the striking similarities in other parts could simply be coincidences as well. That, or management pushing a specific agenda on its authors.

The YYH anime is also filler free, but has Adaptation Expansion on the manga events. It's very well paced, even better paced than the manga. The sheer quality of adaptation is almost enough reason to watch it on its own, even if the source material is weak.

edited 21st Aug '15 3:13:03 AM by Saiga

IAmNotCreativeEnough himitsu keisatsu from asa kara ban made omae o miru Since: Dec, 2010 Relationship Status: GAR for Archer
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#23500: Aug 21st 2015 at 3:23:38 AM

I will say, Saiga is being too caustic with it.

While it does have problems, it's still enjoyable enough that it's not wasted time. It's not like you're reading shitty fanfic. Like I do.

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