Netflix Contracts Toho Studio Facilities in Tokyo for Live-Action Yu Yu Hakusho Series
1st production in multi-year contract for Toho's facilities
TOHO Studios announced last Thursday that Netflix has signed a multi-year contract to lease two of its stage facilities in Tokyo starting on April 1.
Netflix's first production there will be the live-action series based on Yoshihiro Togashi's Yū Yū Hakusho manga.
The manga follows 14-year-old delinquent Yusuke Urameshi, who dies after saving a child in a car accident. The Spirit World is surprised by his death and offers him a chance to come back as a "spirit detective" who is tasked with defeating demons.
Togashi (Hunter X Hunter) published the original Yū Yū Hakusho manga from 1990 to 1994. Viz Media began publishing the manga in its English edition of Shonen Jump in 2002, and it also released all 19 volumes in print.
A television anime adaptation ran from 1992 to 1995, and spawned two films and two original video anime (OVA) releases.
Funimation released the television series and OVAs on home video in North America. Media Blasters and later Funimation released the first film, and Central Park Media released the second film.
The television series ran on Adult Swim and later Toonami.
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seems it's being produced by TOHO (Japanese studio)
can they save Yu Yu Hakusho from the curse of "a netflix adaption"?
semi ot but the author (Togashi) wrote both Hunter x Hunter and Yu Yu Hakusho
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netflix producing yuyu hakusho?? interesting 
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