Analysing Yu Yu Hakusho: A Sombre Beginning & The Weight of Male Depression and Suicide

How YYH's opening episode was beyond prescient

In the 90s there were few anime more adult, and darker or better put together than Yu Yu Hakusho, it follows the story of Yusuke Urameshi, a discontented youth who falls into fighting with gangs, never showing up for school and otherwise causing mayhem throughout the locality.

But underneath this, is a story of a lost boy, depressed and rejected by the w…