Has your life been suffering a lack of fictional characters punching one another in the face lately? How about those with amazing spiritual powers? Punks with ridiculous hairstyles and mom jeans for miles?
Sounds like you need to watch Yu Yu Hakusho again!
Come join us starting April 4th for a fandom-wide rewatch of this influential anime from the 90′s!
Why? The Yu Yu Hakusho fandom is like the ocean—wide, vast, and old (and also sometimes filled with frightening things). However, for as old as it is, there hasn’t been many activities to draw us together for our common love of a great series! And what better way to do so than to re-experience the show that we fell in love with in the first place? It will be a great way to explore new things about it and find other fans who are equally as enthused about it!
But what if I’ve never seen it before? That’s no problem! As well as being a fandom rekindler, this is also an excellent opportunity for new fans to join into the fray as well! We’d love to have some fresh eyes experience the series to provide more of a perspective of it C:
When do I watch it? Yu Yu Hakusho is a 112 episode anime, so trying to pace it out with one or two viewings a week would be extremely tedious! So how it’s going to work instead is that the series will be split into one arcper month, spread across the next four months!
Spirit Detective Saga (1-28) – April 4th to May 1st
Dark Tournament (29-56) – May 2nd to May 29th
Chapter Black (57-84) – May 30th to June 26th
Three Kings (85-112) – June 27th to July 25th
That boils it down to 28 episodes per month, 7 episodes a week, which could be easily boiled down to 1 episode per day!
As a bonus, at the end of each arc cycle, we’ll be doing a special screening of a non-series related YYH media that fits with the saga! Like the first YYH movie after the Spirit Detective arc, the second YYH movie after the Dark Tournament, and etc.!
But what if I can’t watch one per day? What if I’m too busy or want to get to one of my favorite moments sooner? That’s okay! We know all too well that life can get in the way of things, and that’s why the watching cycles are defined by months! It’s totally up to you over how quickly (or slowly) you want to watch it—you can spread the experience over the full month, watch everything right away, or cram it at the very end—it’s totally up to you! We want this to be a super chill and enjoyable experience for all involved C:
Where can I watch it? For the time being, we are going to attempt to useGoogle Drive (more detailed explanation here) to let you either 1.) Watch the episodes in Google Drive (which may not work or may be laggy if that’s what too many people do), or 2.) (My recommendation) download the episodes well ahead a time, a few at a time, from Google Drive, and watch them on your computer using the open-source media player VLC. All episodes are dual-encoded, and have both the Japanese audio, the English audio, and subtitles for both the Japanese version and the English (intended for those who are hearing impaired). However, only by downloading will you be able to watch the Japanese version, and use subtitles! Google drive plays the first track of the file, and that’s the English dub in this case. If you own your own version of the series (and they came out with a remastered dub in dvd and bluray recently), consider sparing the drive and watching that if possible. I’m a little worried about the lag, or exceeding bandwidth and my drive being shut down.
We are currently not considering Livestreaming, but we ARE considering ways for people to chat about what they’re watching, including an official skype chat and a google hangout. If you have any suggestions, let us know.
Does it have to be a particular version, like the dub or the sub? Heck no! If you’re only familiar with the dub and want to try the Japanese version, or if you’re curious about how the dub differs from the original, or if you want to just indulge in your favorite iteration series without all of the overthinking— that’s all cool! Hell, you can even watch the Filipino version with the hilarious renames if you can find it if that’s what will make it something good for you.
So how will this work? Is there a blog and/or tag involved? There is! The tag will be #YuYuRewatch and the blog is YuYuRewatch! Each week, we’ll be letting people know which episodes correspond with that particular one (like 1-7 for the first one, 8-14 for the second, 15-21 for the third, etc.), and we’ll queue up any submissions and/or posts regarding those episodes during that time to be reblogged during the week after! (like posts about 1-7 will be running while we collect posts for 8-14) We’ll also be reblogging things from the tag, as well as host Fan Fridays each week (showcasing recommended fic, doujin and other fanworks), and an optional Manga Mondays for those who wish to reread the original manga!
But what should we post about? Anything you like! Headcanons you got from the episodes, new things you noticed after watching it again, fics inspired by certain scenes, fanart, gifs, screenshots— all up to you! If you want something more routine or significant, you can can also fill out this form (lifted from sailorfailures own amazing Sailor Moon Rewatch from a while ago) for each episode!
Before watching this episode, on a scale of 1-10, how much are you looking forward to seeing it again? (A rank of “0” means you don’t remember the episode at all, so you can’t say.)
Favourite Screencap (Making your entry a Photo Post would be most efficient!)
Favourite Moment:
Least Favorite Moment:
What’s one thing you noticed/realized about this episode that you hadn’t before?
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the episode?
Just remember to keep any NSFW content tagged and under a cut and have the opinions be friendly! (That means no ship hate or character hate— we are an old fandom, okay, we need to be classy)
Hope to see you guys there! BANG!
Oh man, I started in December. I feel chronologically challenged. >:|
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