Netflix may have hit a snag when it comes to canceling its live show in the world Cowboy Bebop, with The Bounty Hunters story wrapping up after its first season, but that doesn’t stop the streaming service from moving forward in full force with other adaptations. With Netflix’s One Piece and The Last Airbender Avatar Currently, the star of the streaming service has been chosen over the world of spiritual investigators Yo Yo Hakusho Yusuke Yurameshi has found.
According to Varietythe main spiritual investigator in the series will be played by Takumi Kitamura and will hit Netflix in the winter of 2023. This wouldn’t be the first live-action anime character portrayed by the actor, as Kitamura also played Hanagaki Takemichi in an adaptation Tokyo Avengers. Kazutaka Sakamoto will be executive producer on the series, with Akira Mori taking the role of producer and Shu Tsukikawa about to direct.
The original Yu Yu Hakusho manga arrived in 1990 and achieved worldwide success with its follow-up to the story of a high school student who loses his life saving a young boy from a traffic accident, but gets a chance to rise from his grave. Become a spirit investigator. With an anime adaptation giving fans over a hundred episodes and having what’s billed as one of the best shounen arcs of all time with Dark Tournament starring, anticipation and expectations high, the series will be high.
Kitamura playing the role of Yusuke Urameshi has been an open secret, with constant images bouncing around social media for some time although this is an official confirmation of the actor’s acceptance of the role.
Yo Yo Hakusho Created by Yoshihiro Togashi, the same mangaka in charge of the world of Hunters in Hunter X Hunter. As Togashi prepares to return to the story of Gon and his feisty comrades with new chapters of the manga, there’s no word that he’s ready to bring Yusuke and his cohorts back anytime soon, as the Shonen series ends in the ’90s.
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