After Netflix revealed who will be playing the lead character in the streamer’s live-action Yu Yu Hakusho series yesterday, the Netflix Anime Twitter account announced that Jun Shison will be joining the cast as the demon fox Kurama. A character visual for Kurama was also released showing Shison sporting the iconic red hair.

 

 

Kurama will be played by Jun Shison #yuyuhakusho pic.twitter.com/8l3QriYHjP

— Netflix Anime (@NetflixAnime) July 17, 2022

 

 

 

Directing the Netflix Yu Yu Hakusho live-action series will be Sho Tsukikawa (Hibiki), with Tatsuro Mishima writing the scripts. The series will be produced at Robot Communications with Kazutaka Sakamoto, Director of Content Acquisition at Netflix, serving as executive producer and Teru Morii as producer (Alice in Borderland). 

 

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Yu Yu Hakusho is set to launch on Netflix all at once in December 2023. The originally adapted anime version of Yu Yu Hakusho is streaming here on Crunchyroll.

 

Source: Netflix Anime

 

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Daryl Harding is a Japan Correspondent for Crunchyroll News. He also runs a YouTube channel about Japan stuff called TheDoctorDazza, tweets at @DoctorDazza, and posts photos of his travels on Instagram.