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YuYu Hakusho Live-Action Series on Netflix: Images reveal Takumi Kitamura as Yusuke Urameshi

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Netflix series "YuYu Hakusho," which will be exclusively distributed from December 2023, revealed a new poster showing Takumi Kitamura (Let Me Eat Your Pancreas, Tokyo Revengers) as the main character, Yusuke Urameshi. Netflix's poster showed the green school uniform unique to Yusuke, and his regent hair which is irresistible to fans of the original. Takumi Kitamura as Yusuke Urameshi It is said that the Netflix adaptation will follow the original story from the the hit manga "YuYu Hakusho" (published by Jump Comics) serialized in Weekly Shonen Jump (Shueisha) for four years from 1990. In the manga, the main character, Yusuke Urameshi, a high school student, spends all his time in fights and is feared as a bad boy at school.  One day, Yusuke is killed in a car accident while trying to protect a child. However, since it was unexpected for the spirit world that "a bad Yusuke helps a child and dies," there was no place for him in either heaven or hell.  Y...

Shinzo Abe's shooter Tetsuya Yamagami believed ex-PM associated with religious group

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Ex-Japanese PM Shinzo Abe was assassinated on Friday while speaking at a political rally in the western city of Nara.  An unemployed 41-year old man has said he carried out the killing using a homemade gun. Back at the junction where the small rally is taking place, a 41-year-old man named by police as Tetsuya Yamagami is standing just meters away.  In his bag a homemade shotgun. Shinzo Abe has been speaking for about a minute when he's approached from behind.  Two shots ring out.  Mr. Abe was hit in the neck.  His security rush at the gunman who dropped his weapon on the ground behind him.  Police later confirmed that it's some sort of improvised homemade weapon.   Mr. Abe is taken by ambulance to a park where he is transferred to a waiting helicopter. Five hours later Shinzo Abe was declared dead.  The hospital made efforts to revive Mr. Abe but unfortunately he passed away at 5:03pm.  There were two bullet wounds in his neck.  H...