1 and produced 2020's hit Netflix thriller Alice in Borderland. The show's producer, Akira Morii, handled location management for Quentin Tarantino's Kill Bill: Vol. Netflix announced on Monday that Shhei Uesugi (live-action My Boyfriend in Orange) will play Kazuma Kuwabara in the upcoming live-action series based on Yoshihiro Togashi 's Yu Yu Hakusho manga. Already announced in the cast are Takumi Kitamura (Yusuke Urameshi), Kanata Hongō (Hiei) and Jun Shison, who'll play an unannounced role (online speculation points to Youko Kurama.) The adaptation is being helmed by director Shô Tsukikawa (You Shine in the Moonlight, My Teacher, My Love) with a screenplay written by Tatsuro Mishima. The adaptation will present a new version of the 1990 manga in which a teenage boy, Yusuke, dies and begins a new afterlife as an underworld detective. The manga is considered a fan favorite ( we called its anime adaptation one of the best of all time) and has sold over 50 million copies in Japan alone. The series is based on the legendary Japanese manga of the same name, initially serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump (published by Shueisha as Jump Comics) starting in 1990. I am confident that the series will be enjoyed by people no matter where they live and I hope fans will get a chance to check it out." When talking about the announcement, he shared his excitement with IGN: "I’m so excited that the live-action adaptation of YuYu Hakusho, a series loved by people all over the world, will be available on Netflix where fans everywhere can discover it. Kazuma Kuwabara from the classic anime series Yu Yu Hakusho joins the Nendoroid team from Good Smile Company He comes with three interchangeable face. Unlike Yusuke Urameshi, his chosen rival, he doesn’t maintain an air of aloofness. Uesugi is best-known for playing Kannonzaki in Netflix's 2018 teenage crime drama River's Edge. When Yu Yu Hakusho begins, Kazuma Kuwabara is a loud, boisterous delinquent. Shuhei Uesugi will play Kazumi Kuwabara in the live-action Yu Yu Hakusho. Close friends with Urameshi, Kuwabara is the second-toughest kid and self-proclaimed punk at Sarayashiki Junior High School - always trying to usurp Yusuke Urameshi's position as the toughest but always falling short. He is the younger brother of Shizuru Kuwabara, and he seeks to become Yukina's (Hiei's twin sister's) lover. Known by his last name as Kuwabara, Kazuma is one of the series' main protagonists - along with Yusuke Urameshi, Kurama, and Hiei. During the events in Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report, Kuwabara uses an attack in which he summons all his Spirit Energy to form a giant sword resembling a large column of Spirit Energy which he then strikes his opponent with.
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