'YuYu Hakusho' review: Breaking bad at a breakneck pace

Koenma always found that his pacifier helped him with focusing his hadouken. Photos: Handout

Hold on to your hats, people, as well as your copies of the well-regarded 1990s manga on which YuYu Hakusho is based.

Why? Because this is one accelerated adaptation. Not just that it flies by at a lightning pace, and is just a meagre five episodes in total; but also because it jumps so far forward in the story, and so quickly, that anyone expecting a "regular" adaptation might get whiplash.