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Popverse Jump: A love letter to the Yu Yu Hakusho English dub - the first great dub Funimation made
With a cast that includes Laura Bailey, Christopher Sabat, and Linda Young, Yu Yu Hakusho remains one of the best dubs in anime history and certainly an early example of how good anime voice acting could be.
Anime dubbing can be a hot topic among fans, but it shouldn’t be. The quality of the dubs we get today is staggering when compared to what we saw in the 90s. As someone who has been following anime for a very long time, I can remember watching some truly terrible dubs, both professional ones and fan-made. I can also remember the first time I noticed that a dub wasn’t just passable – it was good. Yu Yu Hakusho’s English dub was so good it became a turning point in the anime community and I didn’t realize it until years later.
That’s right; before it was a tragically rushed live-action Netflix series, Yu Yu Hakusho was a hit anime that radically changed my mind about English dubs. When it started airing on the Toonami block of Cartoon Network in 2003, I was immediately sucked
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