Chapter Black Saga

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YuYu Hakusho

Yu Yu Hakusho

"Chapter Black" is a saga in the animated super natural series Yu Yu Hakusho. It is the third of four sagas.

Summary

"Chapter Black" is the story of the ex-spirit detective Sensui and his humans psychics with Yokai powers. The Reikai Tantei, which is comprised of; Kuwabara, Kurama, Yusuke and the others, must fight through the five human psychics. Sensui and his gang are trying to open a portal to the Makai Realm.

The seven members on Sensui's team are (in the order they appear): Black Angel (Sensui Shinobu, human), Sniper (Hagiri Kaname, human), Doctor (Kamiya Minoru, human), Gate Keeper (Itsuki the Yaminade, demon), Seaman (Mitarai Kiyoshi, human), Game Master (Amanuma Yoshihito, human), Gourmet (Makihara Sadao, human). Yusuke later confronts Sensui head-on in the fight of the Spirit detectives to stop Sensui's plans of breaking the barrier and unleashing destruction upon the Human world. Yusuke learns there is no other way to beat Sensui and the charges head on at the fallen Spirit detective planning to get killed to bring out the limits of his friends, who are held as hostages by Itsuki in an alernate dimension to let Sensui and Yusuke fight it out without interruption. They break out of Itsuki's space just in time to see Yusuke smile at them as Sensui punches a hole through Yusuke's heart.

Enma (King Yama) tells Botan how Yusuke is distantly related to a powerful demon, resulting in a deleberate resesive gene with the effect of causing a strong enough decendant of this demon to become a demon upon his death, and has sent his spirit defense force to make sure the latent demon blood can never revive him. But at that exact moment, Yusuke starts to glow, and out comes an unusually long haired Yusuke (a hanyou). Yusuke and Koenma travel to Makai to help his friends. But at that same moment Yusuke is taken over by his "Father" Raizen (雷禅), the war god of the Makai.

Raizen tells Yusuke that he is too weak and Raizen shows Yusuke his own potential. The possessed Yusuke fires a barrage of attacks on Sensui and ends of with a spirit gun. Yusuke regains his consciousness right before he fires his spirit gun and yell, "Sensui, get the hell out of the way!", but Sensui gets hit anyway. When Yusuke finds Sensui, Sensui tells him that this was his dream. Sensui says, "After all the demons I killed, I wanted to travel and die in Makai, after seeing how horrible humans are to Yokai." Yusuke starts yelling at Sensui to live so they can continue their fight, but Sensui dies because of his wounds as well as a pre-existing terminal illness. Itsuki then takes Sensui into limbo where they can be alone together forever. Yusuke has a choice to either stay in Makai or go back to human world. He decides to go back.

Episodes

• 67: Returning to Living World
• 68: Setting the Trap
• 69: The Power of Taboo
• 70: Genkai's Ruse
• 71: The Tunnel
• 72: The Reader
• 73: The Doctor's Disease
• 74: Sleep, Doctor, Sleep
• 75: Caught in the Rain
• 76: Kuwabara: Awakening
• 77: Sensui's Fall
• 78: Divide and Conquer
• 79: The Human Race
• 80: Moving Target
• 81: Let the Games Begin
• 82: If You Could Play Forever
• 83: Game Over
• 84: Kurama's Anger, Gourmet's Guest
• 85: Spirit Detective Showdown
• 86: The Difference Maker
• 87: Power Between the Teeth
• 88: The True Face of Sensui
• 89: Death of a Spirit Detective
• 90: Attempting Revenge
• 91: Waking the Lost
• 92: The Proof
• 93: Sensui's End
• 94: Topside

Characters

Shinobu Sensui, also known as Black Angel (仙水忍): Shinobu Sensui was Earth's Spirit Detective before Yusuke Urameshi. Appointed by Koenma, he was gifted with amazing spirit awareness, strength, and a strong moral sense of right and wrong.

Sensui was very clear-cut and adamant about his moral codes. Humans were victims, so he had to protect them. Demons were evil; he had to kill them. After meeting Itsuki, he realized that demons weren't all evil, but his attitude towards humanity didn't change until one fateful night.

Koenma had ordered Sensui to seal a tunnel connecting Demon World and Human World. This portal was being maintained by the Black Black Club, for use in luring demons through; kidnapping them, and then selling them as bodyguards. Sensui was able to catch the club by surprise, but he saw a horrifying sight while on his mission. He saw something known as the Feast of Human Vices, where demons were cruelly tortured by humans, for no prpose other then a sense of twisted enjoyment. In a rage, Sensui slaughtered the humans there, and began to question the sanctity of the human race.

He became obsessed with the Chapter Black video tape, which documented the worst cruelty of the human race. The tape and Sensui eventually disappeared.

After 10 years, Sensui decided to punish humanity for their sins by opening a stable tunnel to Demon World. Using the power of his partner Itsuki, and recruiting other psychically gifted humans to their side, using the Chapter Black tape to turn them against their own kind, he wanted to purge the human world of the human scourge. He was waiting for Koenma to recruit a new Spirit Detective so that humanity could have a chance to defend itself.

Sensui has seven personalities within him, created by his own mind to cope with the atroicities he had seen and committed: Shinobu is the main and original personality, pure-hearted and innocent; Kazuya is the cruelest of the personalities, with a gun for an arm; Minoru is the most charismatic and manipulative; Jooji is in charge of weapons; Makoto is in charge of miscellaneous things, like cooking, cleaning, and sweeping; Hitoshi looks after non-human living beings like plants and animals; and Naru is a female personality, very childish and in charge of emotions, capable of the most beautiful poetry ever heard. Of these, we only see Kazuya, Minoru, and Shinobu in the series.

Sensui is a master of fighting: combining both spirit energy and maritial arts into an elegant form of fighting. He has also mastered the use of Sacred Energy, a powerful force that not even Genkai could master in all her years of seclusion.

Sensui battles against Yusuke Urameshi. He ends up killing Yusuke again, then going to Demon World for a battle against Kurama, Hiei, and Kazuma Kuwabara. Yusuke comes back to life and battles with Sensui, killing him in the end. However, Sensui would have died later anyway, from an unknown disease. Sensui does get the death he wanted in the end. Sensui's birthdate is June 6th, his bloodtype is A, and he is 26 years old.

Itsuki (闇撫の樹): The main psychic and partner of Sensui, Itsuki's codename is the Gatekeeper. Itsuki was a demon attracted to Sensui, for his power and his purity. At first, Itsuki merely watched Sensui from a distance, although later on, Itsuki became akin to a guardian angel, fending off demons after Sensui secretly. However, when they met face-to-face, Itsuki was just another demon to judge in Sensui's eyes. The Detective won in their fight, and Itsuki asked for one last favor: to let him live one more day, so he could see the finale of his favorite television show. This made Sensui laugh, and he allowed Itsuki to live.

Itsuki taught Sensui about demons, how they were not all evil. He was amazed that Sensui was so pure and judgmental, but open to new ideas at the same time. The two became partners, and Itsuki helped Sensui on various missions. Koenma recongnized Itsuki's power and allowed it.

After Sensui set his plan to purge humanity in action, Itsuki is in charge of opening the portal itself. He spent most of his time in the boat under the psuedo-space distortion, apparently, not even needing to sleep. The tunnel grew faster then he expected, and Itsuki comments that it seemed to have a life of it's own.

Itsuki has tamed a demon, Ura-Otoko, that fed on human trash and lived in the bowels of the Earth. He was able to use this beast to separate Kazuma Kuwabara, Hiei, Sea Man (Kiyoshi Matari), and Kurama from Yusuke, allowing hte battle between Spirit Detectives to be uniterrupted.

After Sensui's death, he takes the man's body to Limbo, where they can stay in silence for eternity.

Itsuki is openly affectionate to Sensui, and has stated, in both anime and manga, that he wished Sensui to become his lover. Itsuki recongnizes the different facets of Sensui's psyche, and likes Shinobu the most, followed by Naru.

Kaname Hagiri (刃霧要): One of the humans who gained pyschic powers, Hagiri, codenamed Sniper, Sniper was an extremely strong psychic. His specialty is long-ranged attacks with often non-leathal forms of ammunition, favoring dice and marbles, coated in his own energy to make them deadly. Sniper can make the item as strong as he chooses (such as enough to break the skin, but not hard enough to fracture the skull), and can fire with deadly accuracy from as far away as 500 feet. Sniper has a special talent known as the Death Print Bulls-eye, which allows him to never need to aim at his target, as long as the target is within his territory. Sniper trails Yusuke and marks him, nearly killing the Spirit Detective. Hiei comes to Yusuke's rescue and pierces Sniper with his sword. Amazingly, Sniper does not die from this; Hiei's wound was just a few inches from the heart, only enough to stun him. He's saved by Doctor. After high school, he disappears. Sniper is 17 years old, born on December 3rd, and has a bloodtype of O. He lives with his older sister, brother, and mother. He is also a direct tribute to the Akira character Shotaro Kaneda, wearing similar cloths and driving a bike practically identical to the one seen in the manga and anime.

Minoru Kamiya (神谷実): Dr. Kaimya is a human gifted with amazing psychic talents by the opening Makai door, and was recruited by Sensui. Codenamed Doctor, Kamiya has four distinct powers related to his medical knowledge. The first is to manipulate his energy and make his hands able to cut human flesh like a scalpel. The second is to alter his body chemistry to make him stronger and impurvious to pain. The third is to infect anyone in his territory (which extends at least 8 floors straight up, and can cover the ground of a hospital) with a pyschic disease spread by altered demon parasites. This disease causes most of those afflicted to pass out, and they die within a half hour of infection. The last of Kamiya's powers allows him to heal any cuts or injuries, even reattaching limbs, simply by touching them.

We first meet Doctor at the hospital where Murota, an ally of Yusuke's group, is being treated after being struck by one of Sniper's projectiles. When Yanagisawa and Murota are bitten by the Doctor's disease carriers, Kido (after splitting up from Yusuke and Genkai) in attempting to find the one responsible. Kido finds him, but is paralyzed when the doctor attacks his spine and paralyzes him. Kido is able to get this information to Yusuke through his own psychic powers, and Yusuke fights the crazed Doctor, who, after seeing Chapter Black and watching countless people die in the hospital, believes humanity is a disease. 

The Doctor provokes Yusuke into killing him several times, but the Doctor himself is slightly afraid of death. The Doctor tries to decieve Yusuke into saving him, but Murota's mind-reading and Yana copying a nurse, who can get close enough to the Doctor without realizing it's Yusuke's ally, and splashing him with acid, allows Yusuke to brutally attack him. However, he is saved by Genkai, who doesn't want death to be on Yusuke's conscience.

The Doctor is arrested, but he escapes from prison. He alters his appearence using his powers as a cosmetic surgeon, and starts a clinic known as the "House of Miracle Hands", where he cures people using his various powers.

Kiyoshi Mitarai (御手洗清志): A young, extremely gifted psychic, Mitarai was a kid constantly bullied and ridiculed as an outsider by all of the others. He was recruited by Sensui to take revenge on all of those who hurt him. Codenamed Sea Man, Master of the Floods, Mitarai's territory is actually a separate dimension composed entirely of water. The physical conduits of that realm are monsters Sea Man creates by mixing his blood with water. The more blood Sea Man uses and the more moisture in the air, the bigger the monster becomes, thus, Sea Man's powers work best in the rain.

Sea Man is sent to take out Kuwabara after he and his friends go out for a night on the town, leaving the safety of the group. There, Sea Man ambushes Kuwabara and his friends, and holds Kuwabara's three friends captive while the two men argue their convinctions. Despite his hatred of humanity due to being villified and seeing the entirety of Chapter Black, Sea Man's ideals are not as strong as Kuwabara, and Sea Man becomes defensive whenever he is attacked. He takes his anger out on Kuwabara's friends, stabbing one in the leg, and then encasing them in his monster, effectively drowning them. Kuwabara tries to save them, but gets caught. But Kuwabara's powers awaken and slice through the monster, knocking out Sea Man and rescuing his friends.

Sea Man thinks he's going to be killed, but Kuwabara can't do that. Kuwabara believes that Sea Man is a scared little boy, confused and hurt, calling out for help. He picks up the barely-conscious psychic and his three unconscious friends and hauls them all back. There, he is treated and interrogated. Sniper interrupts and draws the crew outside, leaving Sea Man and the girls away, and that's when Sensui attacks them with a ball of energy. Sea Man is nearly crushed, but saved by Botan, who shoves him out of the way and is crushed in his place. Horribly confused by the kindness of humans, when Chapter Black showed him nothing but atrocities. Kurama responds that Chapter Black is a one-sided argument, and not meant to be viewed by itself. He becomes resolute, and changes his ways, hoping to help Kuwabara, kidnapped by Sensui because of his powers.

Sea Man proves himself against his former comrades. Both Game Master and Gourmet try to make him waiver by pointing out that Yusuke's crew would never trust a traitor, and that Kuwabara could be killed simply to punish Sea Man for betraying. But Sea Man becomes resolute, and leads Yusuke's crew right to Sensui. He even defends Yusuke from the Spirit World Special Forces. After the conflict is over, Mitarai is accepted into the city's finest high school. He remains close friends with Kuwabara.

He is aged 14, born on February 10th, and has a bloodtype of A.

Tsukihito Amanuma (天沼月人): Amanuma is the youngest of the seven, and codenamed "Game Master". His power allows any video game to come to life in his territory, and all who enter, including the Game Master himself, are bound by the rules of the game. He is amazingly good at games, having no one else to turn to, since kids picked on him for being weird, and his parents spend their time working and fighting with each other.

Only Sensui has beaten him at a game, and he joins Sensui's team because he's the only one who ever cared for him.

Unlike crazed psychics like the Doctor or Sniper, Game Master is cheerful, bright, and pleasant. He can be a bit smarmy and competitive, but he doesn't plan on killing Yusuke's crew himself. Game Master plans to trap Yusuke's team in his territory by playing games, specifically chosing Goblin City, until Sensui opens the tunnel. After this, Game Master will throw the match and let Yusuke out. Until then, even if Yusuke's team loses all the time, Game Master will allow them to start again if they want to.

However, Sensui betrays the innocent boy. The game Goblin City depicts the death of the Goblin King (the part Game Master plays, being the villian) if the heroes win. Thus, if Game Master throws the game or loses, he will die. Kurama figures out this plan and reveals it to Game Master. Torn and confused between the only person who was kind to him and the realization that Kurama was right, Game Master is distracted and cannot beat Kurama at a Tetris-esque game. Kurama wins, and Game Master perishes. Kaito takes the boy's body out of the cave, only to pass Koenma on the way out, where Koenma uses his pacificer to return the boy's soul, feeling guilty that Sensui, the man the Prince of Spirit World created, caused the death of an innocent, yet foolish child.

After the conflict is over, Game Master makes a lot of new friends and goes to a private school. He is aged 12, born on November 7th, and has a bloodtype of B.

Sadao Makihara (巻原定男): The psychic known as Gourmet for his uncanny ability to eat anything he wants and gain it's powers, Gourmet is the catalyst behind Sensui's plan to cut the Kekkai Barrier, along with Kuwabara. Since Kuwabara would never willingly do such a thing, Sensui will have Gourmet eat Kuwabara and gain his powers. However, Gourmet consumes the Elder Toguro, whose existence proves to be too strong, and takes over his body, effectively killing the psychic, but still retaining his body and his power. However, Kurama is able to destroy the heinous ex-human by condemning him for eternity in the arms of the Sinning Tree, a plant that makes it's victim experience a horrible fear while draining them of life. But since Elder Toguro is immortal, he will be cursed for eternity.

Asato Kido (木戸亜沙斗): Kido is a human with psychic powers. He appears early in the saga in a plot arranged by Genkai to let Yusuke see what he will be encountering with Sensui and the others. Kido's power is with shadows. By stepping on someone's shadow, he paralyzes them and renders them immobile. Kido can also move his shadow independently from his body and affect the natural world, such as writing a name in blood while otherwise paralyzed. He is friends with Yana and Kaitou, who all reside in Mushiyori City.

Mitsunari Yanagisawa (柳沢みつなり): Yanagisawa (known to all as simply Yana) is in league with Kido and Kaitou in Genkai's plot. His power is the Copy Technique. With it, he is able to fully become another person, copying everything about them including their physical appearance, memories, and even their energy imprint, which reders Botan's Megiru Seals incapable of determing the difference.

Yuu Kaitou (海藤優): Kaitou is a human with the ability to steal souls. In his territory, he sets a taboo word. If anyone in the territory says the taboo word, their soul will be taken. Kaitou is also Kurama's rival at school. He is very jealous of the ever-studious Kurama and is tired of always coming in second to him. Even though he is only supposed to be playing along with Genkai's trap, he really does try his hardest to defeat Kurama, but ends up losing. Kaitou does come out on top in the Three Kings Saga, with Kurama coming in second for once. Kaitou is the only one of the three (Kido, Yana, and himself) to appear after the Chapter Black Saga.

Shigeru Murota (室田繁): Murota is a human with the ability to read minds. He starts a fight with Yusuke in a restaurant, thinking he can defeat him. Even with his powers, Murota is still defeated in the brawl. He is later injured by Sniper, and taken to the hospital where Doctor is and is poisoned by a Makai Insect. Shortly after helping Yusuke in defeating Doctor, Murota is attacked and consumed by Gourmet.

External links

• Official Yu Yu Hakusho website