Genbu, the Stone Beast is the fifteenth episode of season 1 of YuYu Hakusho. It aired on January 23, 1993 in Japan and June 8, 2002 in the United States.
Short Summary[]
Kurama faces off against Genbu, the first of the four Saint Beasts and a master of stone-based abilities. Using his plant abilities and intuition, Kurama identifies Genbu's weakness and defeats him.
Detailed Summary[]
Yusuke and the gang are trapped beneath the ceiling and it is about to crush them, as the flying monster watches in awe. Yusuke then convinces Hiei that he must be the one to sneak out and pull the lever that brought the ceiling falling down since he is the fastest of the four, much to Kuwabara's chagrin. So Hiei speeds out and Yusuke doubles his power to compensate for Hiei's disappearance but the ceiling continues to fall down, and is about to crush them in seconds. Hiei reaches the lever and is about to pull it down, but is seemingly tempted by the flying eye monster to leave his comrades behind and conquer the Human World with the sacred demons. The eye monster reveals that the lever was trapped, which causes Hiei to react.
In the blink of an eye, Hiei flies up and slashes the flying eye monster with his sword, and pulls the lever up. He acted like he was persuaded in order to learn of the trap. The four continue on deep within the premises of the castle. The surroundings were extremely quiet, and it was extremely dark. Just then, something beeps. Botan's communicator pops up (giving Kuwabara a shock) and Botan tells Yusuke that so far she has taken care of the insect invasion in the human world and tells them to go on and find the flute to stop this mess.
The four enter a very dark room. Just then someone creeps in, and a rock demon appears right in front of the gang. It turns out to be Genbu, one of the sacred demons that lived in the castle. He challenges everyone and swears to crush them to bits. Kurama steps forward and decides he will face the monster by himself. But unknown to him the rock demon can hide part of his rock body beneath and attack his opponents from behind, and this sneak attack surprises Kurama. However, Kurama has something up his sleeve (or his hair) and unleashes a rose. But then the rose turns into Kurama's patented weapon, the Kagon Retsuzanshi (Rose Whip) and with this it chops Genbu into pieces and down he goes.
Kurama thinks he won the battle but then Genbu's separated body parts start to stick back together and Genbu reforms his body, but this time he's got a new attack, and he hurls his body at Kurama making a rock storm attack, injuring Kurama, but while this attack was unleashed, Kurama sees an odd looking rock from the storm and desperately grabs it while absorbing much of the storm's shock. Kurama goes down, and Genbu starts to reform again for his finishing blow, but then something happens. His body does not reform the way it should. Now his rock parts are all messed up, and Kurama explains that he found his source of energy, the odd looking rock he had grabbed. Then he throws up the odd looking rock and with his rose whip slashes it to pieces, and Genbu disintegrates. With Genbu defeated, Yusuke and the gang proceed further into the castle.
Characters in Order of Appearance[]
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Relevant Techniques[]
- Swordsmanship (by Hiei)
- Rose Whip (by Kurama)
Anime Notes[]
- From this episode onwards (in the English version), the next time previews were changed around to occur before the ending credits instead of after them. The Blu-ray did fix the inconsistency by switching the previews back to before the closing theme.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Gallery
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