Netflix Japan revealed on Wednesday that Yoshihiro Togashi's Yuu☆Yuu☆Hakusho (Yu Yu Hakusho) manga will receive a live-action series. Kazutaka Sakamoto (A.I.C.O. Incarnation) is serving as the executive producer and Akira Morii (Imawa no Kuni no Alice) is producing the series at production company Robot. Netflix will stream the series worldwide.

Synopsis
One fateful day, Yuusuke Urameshi, a 14-year-old delinquent with a dim future, gets a miraculous chance to turn it all around when he throws himself in front of a moving car to save a young boy. His ultimate sacrifice is so out of character that the authorities of the spirit realm are not yet prepared to let him pass on. Koenma, heir to the throne of the spirit realm, offers Yuusuke an opportunity to regain his life through completion of a series of tasks. With the guidance of the death god Botan, he is to thwart evil presences on Earth as a Spirit Detective.

To help him on his venture, Yuusuke enlists ex-rival Kazuma Kuwabara, and two demons, Hiei and Kurama, who have criminal pasts. Together, they train and battle against enemies who would threaten humanity's very existence. [Written by MAL Rewrite]

Togashi serialized the supernatural shounen manga in Weekly Shounen Jump between November 1990 and July 1994. The manga won in the Shounen category at the 39th Shogakukan Manga Award in 1993.

Studio Pierrot adapted the manga into a 112-episode anime series that aired from October 1992 to January 1995, as well as two anime films, and multiple original video animations. A two-episode special included in the 25th anniversary Blu-ray box was released in October 2018.

VIZ Media licensed the manga in English and serialized it in their Shounen Jump magazine between January 2003 and January 2010. The publisher released all 19 volumes from 2003 to 2010 and re-released them digitally on their website between 2013 and 2014.

Funimation licensed the television anime series in 2001 and released English dubbed episodes on Cartoon Network between 2002 and 2006. The company is streaming the anime with both subtitles and dub.

Source: Cinematoday