Yu Yu Hakusho (review and recap... i guess? dunno)
First thing first, i want to thank my brain for trashing away the memories of 100+ hours of Jump Ultimate Star gameplay where i've used/encountered Yusuke preventing me to spoilering his final form, this is for you buddy.
Let me start from after the Toguro bros arc since it's where i left before my last reading session.
So Yusuke is kidnapped yadda yadda other characters that have no background whatsoever but this time is ok because by the plot (no jutsu) they are supposed to be worthless and in the end it turns out it was Genkai to test Yusuke again, cool. New boss and new worthless characters (one of them sticks with the good gang until the end of the arc for no reason) boring fights everywhere up until the boss.
Sensui is an interesting character at least but again everything is built on the fly "yeah i saw this tape about people doing bad things so now i'm bad" "btw he has 7 personalities" "oh and we'll show you only 2-3 because fuck that i'm Togashi." "lol whatever he was dying anyway".
Also the Deus Ex Machina factor in this manga is so great that Adam Jensen and JC Denton together look like ants.
So ok beaten the final boss there's 20 chapter left... a very long ending? unexpected but appreciated! Oh no my bad he wants to search the thing that possessed him... oh? so he's not going to search for it? Atypical but hey it's not like he can start a new arc with 20 chapter left... right?
NOPE not only one arc but kinda two arcs which in those are condensed more than 1.5 years.
welp.
This is where happens the miracle and the shame of this series where it seriously could be condensed in the phrase "Togashi gonna Togashi":
Everything in the demon world arc is set up to be great and incredibly interesting but since i'm an omniscient reader i know that it's going to be a clusterfuck because of the numbers of chapter left. The characters are very interesting and in the end you'll even end up having a little of backstory. You can say that it already feels more like HxH than something else, yes some things totally feels like endgame stuff (3 years then i'll return and we'll get married) but it really seems like the thing is going to be at least another 100 chapters long, in the end we have things like
this this and
this to shorten up everything and kill most of the hype, even the previously given 3 years of time ended up being half of that before everything was settled up for the ending... of course you remain with a sour taste in the mouth because theoretically you are supposed to know what the hell happens at the end of the first tournament and you should even see the second tournament but (always because Togashi gonna Togashi) it's been decided to end everything before that.
In the end you could say the whole thing ended the same time it got good.
Now i assumed it was the author's well known laziness the reason of those last 20 chapters but from what i know it could've been Shueisha that decided to close everything and if it's their fault then it's a goddamn shame.
The ending was quite sweet if you ask me (i'm a sucker for this type of endings) and it's probably the thing i liked the most, i revalued both the characters of Keiko and Yusuke thanks to the final arc.
Too Freaking Long; No Way In Hell I'm Going To Read That
First 85% of the manga is amateur hour in every way possible, the last 15% is a mix of awesome hype and disappointment for how the things are handled with terrible pacing.
N.B.
English is not my first language so it'll probably read like shit, i'm sorry.