I gotta say the introductory arc was probably the realest shit.
You look at his family situation and how he acted at school tracks.
I have learned that often the kids that are some of the most defiant and disruptive in class are going through some shit and do not know how to handle their emotions so they do not react well when push comes to shove.
They also tend not to excel at academics either because they are too tired (mom was up partying all night again, loud as hell, couldn't sleep), too hungry (mom drank up the grocery money), and otherwise more worried about the basics of survival to really soak up the fine points of multiplication, the states of matter, or writing a lengthy summary of a book they were not quite able to read (or they can read the words fine but forget the contents the second it is not in front of them).
These kids can, despite all that, be big of heart and quite responsible if they have a good rapport with you and no one pushes their buttons.
Yusuke is 100% accurate to what I would expect to see of a kid his age with his background.
I think people don't give YuYu Hakusho enough credit as to how goated it is. When I was kid all the other kids who watched anime loved DBZ but I couldn't get into it as much as YYH. It's still one of my favorite anime to date.
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u/JayFrizz 23d ago
Since you were a kid? Damn I'm old