***MAIN CHARACTERS*** This would be the section for our main characters:
~~Urameshi Yuusuke~~
Yuusuke is the fifteen year old, self declared, "Super Number 1 Delinquent of Sarayashiki Jr. High School". Yuusuke has a young mother who stays at home a lot drinking. We don't know much about his father until much later in the show. Yuusuke spends little time in school and a lot of time fighting. When he dies, he meets Botan and Ko-Enma. Botan explains that Yuusuke wasn't supposed to die, and Ko-Enma offers him a chance to come back to life, called the "Trial of Resurrection".
When Yuusuke finally makes it back to life. (With the help of Botan, Keiko and Kuwabara) He has to make up a debt to Ko-Enma. So he becomes a detective for the Spirit World. We find out that Yuusuke has spiritual powers that allow him to shoot ReiKi (spiritual energy) out of his body. Some of his techniques are:
--Rei Gun - Like a revolver, shooting one blast of energy at the opponent. --Shotgun - As it says, basically triple the power of the ReiGun and can kill more than one person. --Double Barrel Shotgun - This sends out multiple shots, covering a large area. --A number of Rei Kou Hadou Ken (Spiritual Light Wave Ken) Techniques taught to him by Genkai. --Renshya - double shot, sending one reigun immeddiately after the first. --Rei Kou Dan Clean Hit - Shooting the spirit energy out in an arc rather than as a ball so it covers more ground in the counter attack. --Jyu Rei Jyou Ante - (Luminescent Spirit Ante) This is more of a showing off than an attack. Yuusuke let's his Ki go unchecked. --Reigeki Ring - Using the spirit power enhancing ring to create one huge blast of the rei gun.
Kuwabara is also a self declared, "Number 1 Delinquent of Sarayashiki Jr. High School". Of course, it's the same school that Yuusuke attends. ^^;; Kuwabara used to fight with Yuusuke every day. He lost over 156 times in a row to Yuusuke. He is probably the second strongest student of the school. He becomes a part of the group when he goes to speak with Genkai about his ESP. They both compete to learn her Spirit Wave techniques and during the match, Kuwabara meets Botan. He immediately asks her if she will "go out with him on the premise that they will someday marry" which sort of freaks Botan out.
Later on in the contest, Kuwabara learns how to form his Rei power into a sword which he calls Rei Ken (spirit sword). He insists on helping Yuusuke out once he discovers what kind of work Yuusuke has to do for the spirit world. He also, later, falls in love with Yukina, the pretty ice demon who was kidnapped and held hostage by Toguro and Tarukane.
Kuwabara is loud and rambunctious but a nice guy with a soft spot for a pretty girl, or a kitty. ^.^ Kuwabara's techniques:
--Rei Ken he can form a sword using spiritual energy. --Rei Ken Nobiro Spiritual sword extend he can extend the sword -He can connect the sword to its'self -He is very creative -He also has an extremely high level of Rei Kan (ESP) -Using this he can also sense Rei Ki and You (demon or evil) Ki --Tameshi no Ken Using the hilt Suzuki gave him, Kuwabara can triple his ken's abilities (shaping it as he pleases) and double the power behind it. --Jigen Tou An upgraded form of the Rei Ken. It is much more powerful than its former version, and can actually slice through dimensional walls.
~~Shuichi Minamino / Youko Kurama~~ Kurama is a very old demon fox named Ryouko, with nine tails. He was one of the best known theives of the Maikai (demon world). At one point, he was caught and shot by a hunter and so, severly wounded he came to the human world to be re-born.
When Kurama was re-born in the human world, as Shuichi Minamino, he learned the meaning of love and compassion from his human mother. He risked his life to save hers at one point. This has earned him Yuusuke's respect. He became a Spirit World Detective and helps Yuusuke with his missions. His human body is 15-18 years old depending on where you are in the show. While his demonic form is over 1000, and even this varies, I haven't reached an explanation in the manga yet but of course I can't read straight Japanese as well as I wish I did. He's pretty old, and I would assume at some point one would loose track of one's own age anyway. Some of his techniques are:
--Rose Whip - A whip with thorns that can slice through stone like butter and through steel. --Fuuka Enbu Jin -He can also create a torrent of razor sharp rose petals to rain down around him. -Youko Kurama has perfect control over all Maikai plants (this includes the nasty blood sucking kind) -Shuichi can control human world plants. --Shimaneki - demon world grass, Kurama can plant the seed on an opponent and it will grow in the unknowing host untill it binds their action. Upon Kurama's request it will bloom, bursting the blood vessels of the opponent, killing them. --Tsukeyaki Blade Kurama turns a blade of grass into a sword. --Katate de Ichigeki (One handed blow) Simple move used against Roto in the Ankoku Bujutsukai.
Hiei is a fire demon with a cold demanour. He was born into an ice demon clan as a child, and because they discovered that he was a fire demon, they gave him the boot. Hiei spent much of his time being a youkai delinquent and looking for his lost sister, Yukina the pretty blue-haired, demure, ice demon (see Koorime).
Hiei and Kurama are old friends and both came to the human world after stealing objects from the Spirit World. Kurama stole the mirror of utter dark and Hiei, a sword, "The Ghost Slayer", with a poisious blade that could turn any human into a demonic minion. Hiei had a Jagan (demon eye) implanted on his forhead so this is why he often wears a headband. He is also an expert swordsman. Some of his techniques are:
--Speed - Hiei is quicker than the human eye. It appears that he's phasing but he's simply moving so quickly that you can only catch a residual picture here and there. --Jagan - Hiei's third eye gives him the power to see great distances as well as control people. --Fire - obviously he can do some pretty tricks with fire being a fire demon. Including the following:
--The Jaou Ensatsu Rengoku Shou (Swift Demon Purgatory wound -geh, my translation is weird!) is his multiple-hit Ki punch attack Hiei uses, with fire forming around his fists, he proceeds to pummel his opponent rapidly. --The Jaou Ensatsu Ken - Hiei summons black fire in the form of a sword around his right fist. He dosn't like to use this though, because it looks like Kuwabara's Rei Ken and of course, he thinks that anything relating to Kuwabara is obnoxious and clumsy. --The Jaou Ensatsu Koku Ryu Ha is the most powerful of Hiei's attacks. Literally, The Flying Black Dragon Wave of Destruction, The Koku Ryu Ha, when dormant, is a black dragon tattoo on Hiei's right forearm. When he calls on it, it manifests its'self from the same arm as dragon of black fire, that destroys everything in its path.. Only Mukuro, and Bui, were able to stand up against this attack. Because they did so, the Kokuryuhaa came back at Hiei and he was possessed by it.
Genkai is an old woman who lives in a dojo in Yuusuke's city. She used to be a Spirit World Tantei but upon the completion of one tournament and the loss of her partner (not death, just loss) she is no longer a Tantei. She passes her amazing techniques down to Yuusuke when he wins her tournament and defeats Rando.
Genkai was very beautiful as a young girl and she is still very spry, she could beat most of the punks that show up in the show. She's very smart but she's also very rough with people. Some of her techniques are:
--Forms of Rei Kou Hadou Ken (Heavenly spiritual strength dicipline) such as the ability to kill an opponent leaving no traces of him. --Rei Handou (Spirit Wave)which can cure spiritual impidements or knock people out. --Rei Kou Kyou Han Shyo - Sending the ki back at it's weilder. She uses this to beat Shishiwakamaru. --Supine Kick Kougeki (Supine Kick Strike) Used on minor demons. More martial art than spirit power attack.
Ko-Enma is the Junior Lord of the Spirit World. When we first meet him, he is in the form of a toddler and he gives Yuusuke an egg as the Test of Resurrection, to see if Yuusuke is worthy of being brought back to life. He is very busy, always stamping papers and worrying over problems in the three worlds. We don't see his father very often, only once or twice such as when a very scared Ko-Enma goes to ask him a favor and later in the Sensui arc in which Botan spends the better part of two episodes in his office.
Ko-Enma also has a Teenage form, which is very bishounen. He uses this when he visits the Makai for the tournament with the Toguro brothers. In his Teenage form, the Jr. imprinted on his toddler hat, is replaced with a Jr. tattoo on his forehead. Obviously symbolizing that he is the Jr. Lord of the Spirit World. Ko-enma's waza:
--The pacifier - Ko-Enma holds and builds his ReiKi up in his pacifier. It's not just for show. Of course, you've never seen cute till you see a sixteen year old boy sucking on a pacifier like nothing is abnormal. ^.^; --Mafuu Kan - Well I finally got to see it! I was basically correct before. All of KoEnma's stored up powers are released from the pacifier. It has the power to seal a demon away permanently (basically kill the demon physically and destroy his soul, when it's effective >< we won't get into that.) Anyway, he doesn't use it in the tournament. The first person he ever uses it on in the series is Sensui. That is all I will say about that one, I know you don't want me to spoil it for you. --Delegation - Ko-Enma is a good delegator. Just look at George (Jorju) the Oni, Botan, and all the Reikai Tantei. --Buka ni Atari Basically this one means bossing people around. He succesfully cows subordinates. ^^;; (Taken from a powerlevel card)
Botan is from Buddist traditional beliefs, she is the navigator of the Sanza no Kawa (a river in the spirit world). She leads the spirits of dead humans to Enma to be judged before they go on. In western culture, the closest approximation would be the ferryman of the dead in greek mythology. Basically Botan is Death. She isn't the grim kind you always think of, dressed in black and carrying a scythe, typical skeleton. Botan is a cheerful, blue haired spirit girl who rides an oar (don't mix that up with a paddle and don't call her a witch. :P ) and works directly under KoEnma.
Botan has a book that she keeps with her, called The Book of Enma. Enma is the lord of the dead and thus this is like a profile of all the people in the world and when they are supposed to die, how, their whole life, etc.
Botan actually becomes an assistant to the Reikai Tantei and is the bearer of KoEnma's words. She also brings the boys spirit devices to improve their fighting skills. She sometimes, though, forgets how to use some of them. She is slightly bubble brained but I think she's probably very smart. Just also very enthusiastic. Some of her techniques are:
--The Oar - Botan's oar is a creation of her Ki, that she uses to ride from and to the Spirit World. She can also use it to hit people which she does indeed do on occasion. --The Bat - Botan has a metal baseball bat which she fondly likes to use in order to knock out some of the less talented youkai. *ping* Itai... --Spirit World Insecticide - For the use of killing spirit world insects. Basically Spirit World Raid. ^.^ --Healing Wave - Botan has the ability to heal using her Rei Ki. Of course this should be used with accompyaning medicine or she drains her own soul of it's energy. It can be used with out medication, however, and still be successful. --Her fist - Though not as effective as Keiko's slap, Botan can throw a mean left hook and apparently it dosn't feel nice.
Keiko is a childhood friend of Yuusuke's. When we start out the story she is one of the few people willing to stand up to him. They are very close, and it becomes obvious after the first few episodes that the relationship between Keiko and Yuusuke is a bit more warm than friendship.
Keiko is responsible for bringing Yuusuke back to life (even though she was almost too late to breath him back to life) She is also close friends with Botan. Keiko doesn't really have "techniques" per say however:
-She has a slap that can knock Yuusuke flat so it must have some serious power behind it. -She has done her fair shair of kicking bad guy butt. -She can scream like the dickens. -She's immensley smart. Top of her class, class president, you get the idea.
Yukina is Hiei's twin sister. When Hiei was discharged from the floating city, Yukina was spared. However she has spent much of her life mourning the loss of her brother and looking for him. She has no idea that he is near her all the time. Usually watching over her.
Yukina is sweet tempered and loves animals. She is very kind and easily confused. She doesn't seem to understand Kuwabara's advances toward her, but obviously likes him. During Yukina's search for her brother, she was captured by Tarukane. Tarukane forced her to cry in order to get her teargems. However, it comes to the attention of ReiKai that Tarukane is doing this (and capturing demons just for resale among other things. The Reikai Tantei are dispatched and Hiei finally discovers the wherabouts of his sister. Yukina is an ice-demon and thusly has powers:
-Temperature - She can lower the temperature of the air around her creating a barrier of biting cold, freezing anything in the vicinity. -Healing - Like most fighting Anime's the girls with powers tend to be healers. Yukina has this ability, much like Botan does. --Pearls of Heaven: Her ice powers form a crystal-like cloud and rains darts of sharp ice that doesn't injure but freezes their target. (Thanks to Hiei's friend for this information; this is from the third movie an unofficial release approved by Togashi but not created by him.)
Shizuru is Kuwabara's older sister, yet she looks nothing like him. She beats up her brother whenever he acts or does something stupid. Despite this, she wants Kuwabara to get an education and come home safe from battles so she takes it upon herself to make sure he studies, eats well and stays out of trouble much like a mother would. She's a chain smoker. She has psychic abilities like her brother, and as a result can sense demons. Don't piss her off and don't even think of taking her cigarette from her mouth. She's the sister of Kuwabara Kazuma and has no problem beating the stuffing out of people that irritate her. In the Anime series she has an emotional connection to Sakuyo and the results of the Ankoku Bujutsukai leave her quite shaken.
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