Requirements For Lovers is the fourth episode of season 1 of YuYu Hakusho. It aired on October 31, 1992 in Japan and March 16, 2002 in the United States.
Short Summary[]
Yusuke's house was set on fire while his mother was gone and Yusuke has to decide between saving Keiko or having any chance of returning to life. Yusuke chooses to throw his spirit egg into the fire to save Keiko, and by doing so, earns the right to return to life.
Detailed Summary[]
Koenma sends an investigator named Sayaka to check up on how Yusuke is doing. Yusuke asks her what she is going to investigate, but tells him that it's a secret. Then she asks Botan about Yusuke's "girlfriend", to which Yusuke replies that he doesn't have a girlfriend at all. Then she clarifies her question and asks which of the girls is Keiko, and Yusuke denies this and tells her that Keiko is just a friend — probably his only true friend to this point. Botan points to Keiko, then Sayaka started talking about how odd it is that a girl like Keiko would really have some interest in someone like Yusuke. Sayaka then concludes that the nature of the relationship between Yusuke and Keiko doesn't seem clear, so she disappears and begins to investigate Keiko. After investigating for a while, she comments that the attraction between Yusuke and Keiko must be one sided. However, back at Sarayashiki Junior High school, Keiko rejects the advances of a handsome boy. Botan began teasing Yusuke that he was so lucky that Keiko chose him over a handsome boy.
Keiko pays a visit to Yusuke's house, which is covered with garbage that time. As she was approaching his body, she slipped over a bottle and the impact caused a pile of books to topple over his face. She ran into his room and removed all the books and wiped his face. She leans forward, and when she was about to kiss him, an alarm for the city passes by, warning the citizens of a pyromaniac who has been setting fires. Keiko snaps out of it, and leaves his house when she remembered that her mother wanted her to go shopping after school that day. Just right after she left Yusuke's house, the pyromaniac sets Yusuke's house in fire.
Yusuke begins to panic, and Botan leaves to find Kuwabara who is on the other side of the town. Keiko hears two men yelling that there's a fire on the fourth avenue, and remembers that Yusuke lives on the same avenue, so she decided to go there. Botan finally reaches Kuwabara, and with the help of his spiritual awareness he somehow got her message even though he doesn't really see nor hear her. Keiko arrives in front of Yusuke's house, and remembering what he said, she runs inside the house and puts herself in danger.
Keiko managed to reach Yusuke's body, but before she could even get to the bedroom, a piece of falling debris that was in flames blocked her way, leaving her completely trapped. Sayaka informs Yusuke of a way that could save her, and that is by throwing the Spirit Beast he had been carrying into the fire, however by doing that he would lose the chance of coming back to life. After a quick decision, Yusuke tosses the Spirit Beast into the flames. It glowed, then cleared a path for Keiko. Kuwabara arrives and helps her in carrying Yusuke's body. After they managed to come out of the house, he asks her what is inside the blanket she has been carrying, and when he saw that it was Yusuke's body he got shocked, but she told him that she'll explain everything to him after they get him to a safe place. With that, Kuwabara takes Keiko along with Yusuke's body and tries to find a safe place.
Botan informs Yusuke that he could no longer stay in Human World, and she would have to take him back to the Spirit World. Yusuke gets upset and floats away, and when he came to see his house again that evening he saw Keiko, his mother and Kuwabara, all still expecting that he would come back after that incident, and seeing this made him even more upset. He finally tells Botan to take him to wherever he should be taken to, but suddenly a voice interrupts him. Koenma enters the scene, and informs Yusuke that he would give him another chance, and it was a good thing that he threw the golden egg into the fire because if he would have let it hatch it would have consumed him completely because he was constantly emitting negative energy due to his attitude.
Finally, Koenma explains that Yusuke proved him more wrong than he actually thought, stating that he turned out to be more than just a decent human being, as he threw the egg in the fire without hesitation, putting Keiko's life before his own. It's a special quality few people actually have, and his out of body experience may actually make the young man useful in the future (predicting his future role in the series). Yusuke cheers up after he realizes that after saving Keiko's life he would still be able to come back to life after all. Botan hugs Yusuke for his great fortune, and they keep on celebrating.
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Anime Notes[]
- This episode marks the first and last appearance of Sayaka.
- Sayaka is one of the few characters in the series to have different roles in the anime than in the manga. In the anime she is a spirit inspector, (a role different from spirit detective), and she determines whether Yusuke is worthy of resurrection.
- Changes from the manga:
- In the anime, Kuwabara still thinks that Yusuke is dead. He is shown training with and beating up a dummy he calls Yusuke, angry that the latter died. Botan goes to him for help when Yusuke's house catches fire. He gets freaked out when he finds Yusuke's body. In the manga, Kuwabara finds out that Yusuke is alive in Chapter 9 when he sees Yusuke, himself, with Yusuke explaining his circumstances.
- In the anime, Sayaka tells Yusuke that he has to throw his spirit egg into the fire to save Keiko. In the manga, Koenma appears and saves Keiko. In return, Yusuke's virtue resets and Keiko's hair is "taken" from her as payment.
- In the anime, Atsuko returns and sees her son after the fire. In the manga, this does not happen. Instead, Keiko goes to Kuwabara's house where she meets his sister, Shizuru, who cuts her hair.
- In the anime, after Yusuke throws his egg into the fire, he thinks that he's good as dead since he believes that he failed his test. However, through this incident, Koenma determines that Yusuke is a worthy human being and decides to bring him back to life. In the manga, his "virtue" is reset so he still has to prove that he is worthy.
Trivia[]
- Sayaka has minor physical similarities to Rika Furude from Higurashi When They Cry.
Gallery[]
- Main article: Gallery
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