Post by Ryua on Jan 17, 2007 3:31:12 GMT -4
Since Zookie-chan said I can, I shall RP Kurama. XD
Name: Suichi Minamino
Age: 15
Weight: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Hair: Red hair (which is probably the main reason why he's mistaken for a female)
Eyes: Green
Armor: Prefers loose clothing; Often seen is chinese-like clothes.
Weapon:
* Rose Whip- With this weapon, Kurama uses his yōki to grow a rose from its seed state to its flowering state and then into a long thorny whip. With Kurama's skill the Rose Whip is truly a deadly weapon. The Rose Whip is so deadly it can cut even through steel. This weapon can be used in 2 (or 3, if you include the English one) different attacks. This is Kurama's most common weapon.
* Fuuka Enbu Jin- Fuuka Enbu Jin is a defensive attack that make uses of sharp rose petals. These rose petals forms a circle surrounding Kurama when summoned. And when commanded to do so, these petals would fly to the opponent and cut him into pieces. These petals can penetrate through almost everything, including very strong shields.
* Shimaneki Sou- A single Shimaneki seed, if entered to an opponent's body by Kurama, would cause him to get paralyzed and turn into one of the most beautiful elaborate flower arrangement you'll probably see in your whole life (Shimaneki-sou). This seed is also responsible for the plant-sword he used once against an opponent in the Black Tournament. In the Japanese version, someone needs to utter a certain word before it takes root: "Shine", meaning "die".
* Kyūketsu Shokubutsu- A blood sucking Demon Realm plant that also was used against Karasu in the Team Toguro Match. When Yoko Kurama reverted back to Kurama and with his yōki running low, Kurama deliberately placed a Shimaneki seed on Karasu's chest knowing that he would find it so it would expose his blood. Kurama intented to sacrifice himself in this kamikaze attack to kill Karasu who thought that Kurama could only control Human Realm plants. Kurama was narrowly able to survive by using this technique.
* Janenju- A product of Kurama's ingenious furious mind-set after having to end a child's life to save the human race from apocalypse (Gamemaster). An attack he used by first tricking Toguro Ani into getting lost within a thick cloud of fog. Kurama managed to grow this tree to imprison Toguro Ani's mind and body. Hallucinations of him fighting Kurama is all he sees. The tree will never stop inducing such thoughts until its prison tire out and died from it. The tree would send its victim their worst fears until they die, but since Elder Toguro was incapable of dying, it would prey on him forever.
* Okunenju Root (Sakura blossoms in the Japanese version) - Used during Kurama's battle against Shigure in the Three Kings Saga to show that using Yoko Kurama was not his ace card. Kurama is able to grow this tree in order to surround the fighting arena and the roots were able to render Shigure's ring sword useless.
Special Abilities: being able to manipulate plants
Appearance:
Background: (prepare yourself for a long one)
Kurama was a notorious thief in the Makai. One day, he was trapped and almost killed by a bounty hunter contracted by Spirit World. He just barely escaped, in the form of his soul, and fled to Human World, whereupon hiding in the embryo of a human baby he was born to a human woman, Shiori Minamino. Shiori then renamed him Shuichi Minamino.
Kurama then met Hiei while he was attending Middle School. Hiei had mistaken Kurama for one of Yatsude's servants (a demon who had been terrorizing the town). The two battled, but when Kurama realized Hiei's mistake, he stopped the fight. However, Hiei was injured. Kurama took Hiei back to his home and treated him.
Maya was a classmate of Kurama's during middle school. She openly admitted to being in love with him. Maya was kidnapped by the demon Yatsude (aka Eight Hands in the English version) and almost devoured, but Kurama and Hiei defeated Yatsude and rescued her. Later, Kurama erased her memory of the horrible events. After that, Hiei developed respect for Kurama and the two became friends for a while before teaming up with Gouki and stealing the three Spirit World artifacts.
He then becomes one of the three members in Hiei's Underworld crime ring, and steals the Mirror of Forlorn Hope. Yusuke Urameshi faces Kurama on his first case, which is to recollect the stolen Spirit World artifacts. However, Kurama does not fight Yusuke, for he is trying to use The Mirror of Forlon Hope to save his human mother, Shiori Minamino, from dying.
Kurama's original plan, upon becoming human, had been to leave his mother and return to Demon World after he got strong enough(roughly about ten years old. He retained his Yoko consciousness during his second babyhood.) However, something happened that made him change his plans. One day, Kurama was reaching up on a high shelf when he slipped. He knocked some plates off the shelf, and they crashed to the floor and broke. He fell off the stool he was standing on and would have injured himself on the broken plates had it not been for his mother. She put her arm under his head just in time to save him. However, her arms were badly cut and she was scared. From then on, Kurama felt very guilty about all the pain he had caused her and vowed to protect her and stay with her.
When Kurama tried to use the spirit artifact he had stolen, Yusuke interfered and told the mirror to take his life instead, so that Kurama would not die, but the mirror decided to take neither life and still heal Shiori After that, Kurama along with Hiei are forced to join Yusuke and Kuwabara on Yusuke's third case and Team Urameshi is formed.
During the Dark Tournament saga, Kurama first faced Roto, from Team Rokuyukai, who threatened to end the life of his human mother if Kurama attacked. To defeat this opponent Kurama planted a Death Seed on Roto's body without him noticing and killed him with it. Kurama then faced Gama and Touya, of Team Masho. Gama magically chained Kurama's arms and legs, making him unable to move and then attacked him, but at the last moment Kurama was able to use his Rose Whip to finish Gama. Before dying, Gama sealed Kurama's yōki (demon energy) within his body. Then Kurama fought Touya and because Gama's spells were still in effect, Kurama was forced to plant a Death Seed into his own body and use it to defeat his opponent. After that Kurama became completely unconscious but since he had fainted while he was still standing , he had to face a third opponent named Bakken. Bakken inflicted heavy blows on Kurama and was about to kill him, but then two things happened, Yusuke got ready to kill Bakken with a spirit gun, and his boss ordered him to stop, pointing out that if he continued Yusuke would kill him. So he knocked Kurama out of arena and prepared himself for a fight with a very infuriated Yusuke.
Later in the tournament, Kurama was turned into his fox form when fighting Uraurashima with The Idun Box. Originally it was supposed to turn Kurama into a baby, but instead transformed him into Yoko Kurama.
The last person Kurama faced in this tournament was Karasu. Karasu had a strange crush on Kurama, and because of that, he wanted to kill Kurama. (He says that taking away the things he likes gives him a thrill like pondering unanswerable questions.) Kurama then becomes desperate to know what caused his transformation into Yoko Kurama during his fight with Uraurashima because he knows that he cannot defeat Karasu while in his human form.
Suzuki then gives Kurama a potion that he used to make the Idun Box, telling him he is unsure of its effects in this concentrated form. After testing it, Kurama finds out that it will make him transform into Yoko, but only for fifteen minutes. Kurama takes some of the potion before his battle with Karasu, but its effect does not take place right away, and Kurama is badly injured. Finally, just before Karasu inflicts a lethal blow on Kurama, the transformation happens. Yoko is able to trap Karasu in his Ojigi Plant, and believes to have defeated him. But Karasu is still alive. Unfortunately for Kurama, the effects of the potion wear off before the fifteen minutes are up. After being almost blown to bits, Kurama decides to sacrifice himself to kill Karasu. As he releases a blood sucking plant on Karasu, he gives the last of his life energy and therefore intends to die. However, Kurama does not die. Much to his own surprise, he realizes that each time he takes the potion, the effect does not last as long because he gains some of his demon strength back, enabling him to survive. After this fight Kurama only needs to feel extreme emotions such as hatred or anger to revert back to Yoko Kurama.
During the Chapter Black saga, after Yusuke was kidnapped, Kurama fought against Yuu Kaito, a fellow student from the same private school that he attended in a word game. After Kurama's suspicions confirmed that Genkai was behind the kidnapping, Kaito revealed that although he agreed to Genkai's plan, he went after Kurama seriously to prove that just once he could beat Kurama at his own game. Kurama then fought against Shinobu Sensui "Dark Angel" and his six companions alongside Yusuke, Hiei, Kazuma Kuwabara, Genkai, and his other friends. First he encountered Tsukihito Amanuma "Game Master" and was forced to kill him during a video game competition, which left him angry afterwards. After that, he fought Sadao Makihara "Gourmet," cut his head off and confirmed that Elder Toguro was controlling his body.
Shiori Minamino is later re-married to Hatanaka (He's the president at a company where Shiori works) after the events of the Chapter Black Saga. Kurama also gains a new stepbrother, coincidentally named Shuichi (whose name was changed to Kokota in the English Dub, possibly to avoid confusion).
During the Three Kings saga, Kurama is forced to re-live his past as he's called to Yomi's side. Yomi is Yoko Kurama's old partner-in-crime. A thousand years ago, Yomi was sent on a raid, but it was a set-up. Yoko had arranged for an assassin to kill Yomi. "Life is greater than the reward" was what the assassin said after slashing Yomi across the eyes, taking away his vision, and then fleeing the scene after Yomi injured him while flinging his sword about (for by now he could not see). After a thousand years, Yomi and Kurama face each other again. Kurama is forced to become a member of Yomi's advisory when Yomi threatens to kill Kurama's human mother and stepfather, who are on their honeymoon. Kurama suggests that all three demon lords must replace their second in commands (Mukuro and Raizen have done this already by appointing Hiei and Yusuke). Kurama then goes back to the Human World and calls for a group of old friends and former opponents from the Dark Tournament; Rinku, Chu, Jin, Touya, Shishiwakamaru and Suzuki. They train under Genkai in her temple and turn into a very strong team, even stronger than Yomi's entire army. Kurama then brings his new team to Yomi. Yomi is so impressed that he removes his second in command and appoints Kurama instead. Enraged by this, he attacks Kurama and tries to kill him but Kurama turns into Yoko and kills the former general with ease.
After the death of Raizen, Yusuke comes to Yomi's territory with a proposition; a new tournament which will determine the ruler of whole Makai. Yomi accepts and the tournament begins. Kurama's team qualify easily in the preliminary round but after that they face stronger opponents and are defeated one by one. Then, Kurama fights Shigure "The Demon Surgeon." During a fierce battle he manages to defeat Shigure and destroy his Ring Sword. Unable to accept this, Shigure commits suicide. Kurama is qualified to the next round but he could not fight more due to severe injuries.
Kurama's internal struggles become more apparent during this part of the series. He holds three personalities: Kurama (with Yusuke and the others), Yoko Kurama, and Shuichi Minamino. He is now forced to choose which one he will remain as. After his fight with Shigure, he decides to give up his Yoko side and live as Shuichi Minamino from now on. With loyalty to his human mother and support of his friends, he is able to make the choice to stop living a lie. After the end of the Demon Tournament, Kurama goes back to the Human World and gets a job at his stepfather's company. He lives like a normal human being from now on alongside Yusuke, Kuwabara and his other friends.
In Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report, it is revealed that during Kurama's previous life as Yoko Kurama, he had an old friend and partner named Kuronue. Kuronue had sacrificed his life during a robbery when he attempted to recover a pendant that was precious to him and then ordered Yoko to flee. One of the Netherworld Gods impersonated Kuronue and accused Kurama that he had betrayed him. During their second encounter, Kurama, knowing that this Kuronue was a fake because the fake did some things that the real Kuronue never did was able to use part of a bamboo plant to kill the fake Kuronue in the same way his friend had died.
Name: Youko Kurama
Age: About 1000
Weight: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Hair: silver/white
Eyes: Hazel/gold
Armor: Some kind of white clothing. Material highly similar to Sensui's defensive armor.
Weapon:
* Shoku Yō Shokubutsu- This plant contains a saliva that can dissolve you in minutes, although the pain make it seemed like it was for hours. These plants has branches that, when commanded by Kurama, would eat his opponent.
*Makai Ojigi Sō- This plant is highly sensitive that it attacks anything that moves in front of it. The flowers/leaves of this plant is able to kill an opponent by eating it. This deadly plant is a Makai version of the original from South America where it responds to movements or flammables by closing its leaves around its prey and crushes it to death.
Special Abilities: being able to manipulate plants,shape-shifting, casting illusions, and breaking seals and codes.
Apperance:
Background: (prepare yourself for a long one)
Kurama was a notorious thief in the Makai. One day, he was trapped and almost killed by a bounty hunter contracted by Spirit World. He just barely escaped, in the form of his soul, and fled to Human World, whereupon hiding in the embryo of a human baby he was born to a human woman, Shiori Minamino. Shiori then renamed him Shuichi Minamino.
Kurama then met Hiei while he was attending Middle School. Hiei had mistaken Kurama for one of Yatsude's servants (a demon who had been terrorizing the town). The two battled, but when Kurama realized Hiei's mistake, he stopped the fight. However, Hiei was injured. Kurama took Hiei back to his home and treated him.
Maya was a classmate of Kurama's during middle school. She openly admitted to being in love with him. Maya was kidnapped by the demon Yatsude (aka Eight Hands in the English version) and almost devoured, but Kurama and Hiei defeated Yatsude and rescued her. Later, Kurama erased her memory of the horrible events. After that, Hiei developed respect for Kurama and the two became friends for a while before teaming up with Gouki and stealing the three Spirit World artifacts.
He then becomes one of the three members in Hiei's Underworld crime ring, and steals the Mirror of Forlorn Hope. Yusuke Urameshi faces Kurama on his first case, which is to recollect the stolen Spirit World artifacts. However, Kurama does not fight Yusuke, for he is trying to use The Mirror of Forlon Hope to save his human mother, Shiori Minamino, from dying.
Kurama's original plan, upon becoming human, had been to leave his mother and return to Demon World after he got strong enough(roughly about ten years old. He retained his Yoko consciousness during his second babyhood.) However, something happened that made him change his plans. One day, Kurama was reaching up on a high shelf when he slipped. He knocked some plates off the shelf, and they crashed to the floor and broke. He fell off the stool he was standing on and would have injured himself on the broken plates had it not been for his mother. She put her arm under his head just in time to save him. However, her arms were badly cut and she was scared. From then on, Kurama felt very guilty about all the pain he had caused her and vowed to protect her and stay with her.
When Kurama tried to use the spirit artifact he had stolen, Yusuke interfered and told the mirror to take his life instead, so that Kurama would not die, but the mirror decided to take neither life and still heal Shiori After that, Kurama along with Hiei are forced to join Yusuke and Kuwabara on Yusuke's third case and Team Urameshi is formed.
During the Dark Tournament saga, Kurama first faced Roto, from Team Rokuyukai, who threatened to end the life of his human mother if Kurama attacked. To defeat this opponent Kurama planted a Death Seed on Roto's body without him noticing and killed him with it. Kurama then faced Gama and Touya, of Team Masho. Gama magically chained Kurama's arms and legs, making him unable to move and then attacked him, but at the last moment Kurama was able to use his Rose Whip to finish Gama. Before dying, Gama sealed Kurama's yōki (demon energy) within his body. Then Kurama fought Touya and because Gama's spells were still in effect, Kurama was forced to plant a Death Seed into his own body and use it to defeat his opponent. After that Kurama became completely unconscious but since he had fainted while he was still standing , he had to face a third opponent named Bakken. Bakken inflicted heavy blows on Kurama and was about to kill him, but then two things happened, Yusuke got ready to kill Bakken with a spirit gun, and his boss ordered him to stop, pointing out that if he continued Yusuke would kill him. So he knocked Kurama out of arena and prepared himself for a fight with a very infuriated Yusuke.
Later in the tournament, Kurama was turned into his fox form when fighting Uraurashima with The Idun Box. Originally it was supposed to turn Kurama into a baby, but instead transformed him into Yoko Kurama.
The last person Kurama faced in this tournament was Karasu. Karasu had a strange crush on Kurama, and because of that, he wanted to kill Kurama. (He says that taking away the things he likes gives him a thrill like pondering unanswerable questions.) Kurama then becomes desperate to know what caused his transformation into Yoko Kurama during his fight with Uraurashima because he knows that he cannot defeat Karasu while in his human form.
Suzuki then gives Kurama a potion that he used to make the Idun Box, telling him he is unsure of its effects in this concentrated form. After testing it, Kurama finds out that it will make him transform into Yoko, but only for fifteen minutes. Kurama takes some of the potion before his battle with Karasu, but its effect does not take place right away, and Kurama is badly injured. Finally, just before Karasu inflicts a lethal blow on Kurama, the transformation happens. Yoko is able to trap Karasu in his Ojigi Plant, and believes to have defeated him. But Karasu is still alive. Unfortunately for Kurama, the effects of the potion wear off before the fifteen minutes are up. After being almost blown to bits, Kurama decides to sacrifice himself to kill Karasu. As he releases a blood sucking plant on Karasu, he gives the last of his life energy and therefore intends to die. However, Kurama does not die. Much to his own surprise, he realizes that each time he takes the potion, the effect does not last as long because he gains some of his demon strength back, enabling him to survive. After this fight Kurama only needs to feel extreme emotions such as hatred or anger to revert back to Yoko Kurama.
During the Chapter Black saga, after Yusuke was kidnapped, Kurama fought against Yuu Kaito, a fellow student from the same private school that he attended in a word game. After Kurama's suspicions confirmed that Genkai was behind the kidnapping, Kaito revealed that although he agreed to Genkai's plan, he went after Kurama seriously to prove that just once he could beat Kurama at his own game. Kurama then fought against Shinobu Sensui "Dark Angel" and his six companions alongside Yusuke, Hiei, Kazuma Kuwabara, Genkai, and his other friends. First he encountered Tsukihito Amanuma "Game Master" and was forced to kill him during a video game competition, which left him angry afterwards. After that, he fought Sadao Makihara "Gourmet," cut his head off and confirmed that Elder Toguro was controlling his body.
Shiori Minamino is later re-married to Hatanaka (He's the president at a company where Shiori works) after the events of the Chapter Black Saga. Kurama also gains a new stepbrother, coincidentally named Shuichi (whose name was changed to Kokota in the English Dub, possibly to avoid confusion).
During the Three Kings saga, Kurama is forced to re-live his past as he's called to Yomi's side. Yomi is Yoko Kurama's old partner-in-crime. A thousand years ago, Yomi was sent on a raid, but it was a set-up. Yoko had arranged for an assassin to kill Yomi. "Life is greater than the reward" was what the assassin said after slashing Yomi across the eyes, taking away his vision, and then fleeing the scene after Yomi injured him while flinging his sword about (for by now he could not see). After a thousand years, Yomi and Kurama face each other again. Kurama is forced to become a member of Yomi's advisory when Yomi threatens to kill Kurama's human mother and stepfather, who are on their honeymoon. Kurama suggests that all three demon lords must replace their second in commands (Mukuro and Raizen have done this already by appointing Hiei and Yusuke). Kurama then goes back to the Human World and calls for a group of old friends and former opponents from the Dark Tournament; Rinku, Chu, Jin, Touya, Shishiwakamaru and Suzuki. They train under Genkai in her temple and turn into a very strong team, even stronger than Yomi's entire army. Kurama then brings his new team to Yomi. Yomi is so impressed that he removes his second in command and appoints Kurama instead. Enraged by this, he attacks Kurama and tries to kill him but Kurama turns into Yoko and kills the former general with ease.
After the death of Raizen, Yusuke comes to Yomi's territory with a proposition; a new tournament which will determine the ruler of whole Makai. Yomi accepts and the tournament begins. Kurama's team qualify easily in the preliminary round but after that they face stronger opponents and are defeated one by one. Then, Kurama fights Shigure "The Demon Surgeon." During a fierce battle he manages to defeat Shigure and destroy his Ring Sword. Unable to accept this, Shigure commits suicide. Kurama is qualified to the next round but he could not fight more due to severe injuries.
Kurama's internal struggles become more apparent during this part of the series. He holds three personalities: Kurama (with Yusuke and the others), Yoko Kurama, and Shuichi Minamino. He is now forced to choose which one he will remain as. After his fight with Shigure, he decides to give up his Yoko side and live as Shuichi Minamino from now on. With loyalty to his human mother and support of his friends, he is able to make the choice to stop living a lie. After the end of the Demon Tournament, Kurama goes back to the Human World and gets a job at his stepfather's company. He lives like a normal human being from now on alongside Yusuke, Kuwabara and his other friends.
In Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report, it is revealed that during Kurama's previous life as Yoko Kurama, he had an old friend and partner named Kuronue. Kuronue had sacrificed his life during a robbery when he attempted to recover a pendant that was precious to him and then ordered Yoko to flee. One of the Netherworld Gods impersonated Kuronue and accused Kurama that he had betrayed him. During their second encounter, Kurama, knowing that this Kuronue was a fake because the fake did some things that the real Kuronue never did was able to use part of a bamboo plant to kill the fake Kuronue in the same way his friend had died.
Name: Suichi Minamino
Age: 15
Weight: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Hair: Red hair (which is probably the main reason why he's mistaken for a female)
Eyes: Green
Armor: Prefers loose clothing; Often seen is chinese-like clothes.
Weapon:
* Rose Whip- With this weapon, Kurama uses his yōki to grow a rose from its seed state to its flowering state and then into a long thorny whip. With Kurama's skill the Rose Whip is truly a deadly weapon. The Rose Whip is so deadly it can cut even through steel. This weapon can be used in 2 (or 3, if you include the English one) different attacks. This is Kurama's most common weapon.
* Fuuka Enbu Jin- Fuuka Enbu Jin is a defensive attack that make uses of sharp rose petals. These rose petals forms a circle surrounding Kurama when summoned. And when commanded to do so, these petals would fly to the opponent and cut him into pieces. These petals can penetrate through almost everything, including very strong shields.
* Shimaneki Sou- A single Shimaneki seed, if entered to an opponent's body by Kurama, would cause him to get paralyzed and turn into one of the most beautiful elaborate flower arrangement you'll probably see in your whole life (Shimaneki-sou). This seed is also responsible for the plant-sword he used once against an opponent in the Black Tournament. In the Japanese version, someone needs to utter a certain word before it takes root: "Shine", meaning "die".
* Kyūketsu Shokubutsu- A blood sucking Demon Realm plant that also was used against Karasu in the Team Toguro Match. When Yoko Kurama reverted back to Kurama and with his yōki running low, Kurama deliberately placed a Shimaneki seed on Karasu's chest knowing that he would find it so it would expose his blood. Kurama intented to sacrifice himself in this kamikaze attack to kill Karasu who thought that Kurama could only control Human Realm plants. Kurama was narrowly able to survive by using this technique.
* Janenju- A product of Kurama's ingenious furious mind-set after having to end a child's life to save the human race from apocalypse (Gamemaster). An attack he used by first tricking Toguro Ani into getting lost within a thick cloud of fog. Kurama managed to grow this tree to imprison Toguro Ani's mind and body. Hallucinations of him fighting Kurama is all he sees. The tree will never stop inducing such thoughts until its prison tire out and died from it. The tree would send its victim their worst fears until they die, but since Elder Toguro was incapable of dying, it would prey on him forever.
* Okunenju Root (Sakura blossoms in the Japanese version) - Used during Kurama's battle against Shigure in the Three Kings Saga to show that using Yoko Kurama was not his ace card. Kurama is able to grow this tree in order to surround the fighting arena and the roots were able to render Shigure's ring sword useless.
Special Abilities: being able to manipulate plants
Appearance:
Background: (prepare yourself for a long one)
Kurama was a notorious thief in the Makai. One day, he was trapped and almost killed by a bounty hunter contracted by Spirit World. He just barely escaped, in the form of his soul, and fled to Human World, whereupon hiding in the embryo of a human baby he was born to a human woman, Shiori Minamino. Shiori then renamed him Shuichi Minamino.
Kurama then met Hiei while he was attending Middle School. Hiei had mistaken Kurama for one of Yatsude's servants (a demon who had been terrorizing the town). The two battled, but when Kurama realized Hiei's mistake, he stopped the fight. However, Hiei was injured. Kurama took Hiei back to his home and treated him.
Maya was a classmate of Kurama's during middle school. She openly admitted to being in love with him. Maya was kidnapped by the demon Yatsude (aka Eight Hands in the English version) and almost devoured, but Kurama and Hiei defeated Yatsude and rescued her. Later, Kurama erased her memory of the horrible events. After that, Hiei developed respect for Kurama and the two became friends for a while before teaming up with Gouki and stealing the three Spirit World artifacts.
He then becomes one of the three members in Hiei's Underworld crime ring, and steals the Mirror of Forlorn Hope. Yusuke Urameshi faces Kurama on his first case, which is to recollect the stolen Spirit World artifacts. However, Kurama does not fight Yusuke, for he is trying to use The Mirror of Forlon Hope to save his human mother, Shiori Minamino, from dying.
Kurama's original plan, upon becoming human, had been to leave his mother and return to Demon World after he got strong enough(roughly about ten years old. He retained his Yoko consciousness during his second babyhood.) However, something happened that made him change his plans. One day, Kurama was reaching up on a high shelf when he slipped. He knocked some plates off the shelf, and they crashed to the floor and broke. He fell off the stool he was standing on and would have injured himself on the broken plates had it not been for his mother. She put her arm under his head just in time to save him. However, her arms were badly cut and she was scared. From then on, Kurama felt very guilty about all the pain he had caused her and vowed to protect her and stay with her.
When Kurama tried to use the spirit artifact he had stolen, Yusuke interfered and told the mirror to take his life instead, so that Kurama would not die, but the mirror decided to take neither life and still heal Shiori After that, Kurama along with Hiei are forced to join Yusuke and Kuwabara on Yusuke's third case and Team Urameshi is formed.
During the Dark Tournament saga, Kurama first faced Roto, from Team Rokuyukai, who threatened to end the life of his human mother if Kurama attacked. To defeat this opponent Kurama planted a Death Seed on Roto's body without him noticing and killed him with it. Kurama then faced Gama and Touya, of Team Masho. Gama magically chained Kurama's arms and legs, making him unable to move and then attacked him, but at the last moment Kurama was able to use his Rose Whip to finish Gama. Before dying, Gama sealed Kurama's yōki (demon energy) within his body. Then Kurama fought Touya and because Gama's spells were still in effect, Kurama was forced to plant a Death Seed into his own body and use it to defeat his opponent. After that Kurama became completely unconscious but since he had fainted while he was still standing , he had to face a third opponent named Bakken. Bakken inflicted heavy blows on Kurama and was about to kill him, but then two things happened, Yusuke got ready to kill Bakken with a spirit gun, and his boss ordered him to stop, pointing out that if he continued Yusuke would kill him. So he knocked Kurama out of arena and prepared himself for a fight with a very infuriated Yusuke.
Later in the tournament, Kurama was turned into his fox form when fighting Uraurashima with The Idun Box. Originally it was supposed to turn Kurama into a baby, but instead transformed him into Yoko Kurama.
The last person Kurama faced in this tournament was Karasu. Karasu had a strange crush on Kurama, and because of that, he wanted to kill Kurama. (He says that taking away the things he likes gives him a thrill like pondering unanswerable questions.) Kurama then becomes desperate to know what caused his transformation into Yoko Kurama during his fight with Uraurashima because he knows that he cannot defeat Karasu while in his human form.
Suzuki then gives Kurama a potion that he used to make the Idun Box, telling him he is unsure of its effects in this concentrated form. After testing it, Kurama finds out that it will make him transform into Yoko, but only for fifteen minutes. Kurama takes some of the potion before his battle with Karasu, but its effect does not take place right away, and Kurama is badly injured. Finally, just before Karasu inflicts a lethal blow on Kurama, the transformation happens. Yoko is able to trap Karasu in his Ojigi Plant, and believes to have defeated him. But Karasu is still alive. Unfortunately for Kurama, the effects of the potion wear off before the fifteen minutes are up. After being almost blown to bits, Kurama decides to sacrifice himself to kill Karasu. As he releases a blood sucking plant on Karasu, he gives the last of his life energy and therefore intends to die. However, Kurama does not die. Much to his own surprise, he realizes that each time he takes the potion, the effect does not last as long because he gains some of his demon strength back, enabling him to survive. After this fight Kurama only needs to feel extreme emotions such as hatred or anger to revert back to Yoko Kurama.
During the Chapter Black saga, after Yusuke was kidnapped, Kurama fought against Yuu Kaito, a fellow student from the same private school that he attended in a word game. After Kurama's suspicions confirmed that Genkai was behind the kidnapping, Kaito revealed that although he agreed to Genkai's plan, he went after Kurama seriously to prove that just once he could beat Kurama at his own game. Kurama then fought against Shinobu Sensui "Dark Angel" and his six companions alongside Yusuke, Hiei, Kazuma Kuwabara, Genkai, and his other friends. First he encountered Tsukihito Amanuma "Game Master" and was forced to kill him during a video game competition, which left him angry afterwards. After that, he fought Sadao Makihara "Gourmet," cut his head off and confirmed that Elder Toguro was controlling his body.
Shiori Minamino is later re-married to Hatanaka (He's the president at a company where Shiori works) after the events of the Chapter Black Saga. Kurama also gains a new stepbrother, coincidentally named Shuichi (whose name was changed to Kokota in the English Dub, possibly to avoid confusion).
During the Three Kings saga, Kurama is forced to re-live his past as he's called to Yomi's side. Yomi is Yoko Kurama's old partner-in-crime. A thousand years ago, Yomi was sent on a raid, but it was a set-up. Yoko had arranged for an assassin to kill Yomi. "Life is greater than the reward" was what the assassin said after slashing Yomi across the eyes, taking away his vision, and then fleeing the scene after Yomi injured him while flinging his sword about (for by now he could not see). After a thousand years, Yomi and Kurama face each other again. Kurama is forced to become a member of Yomi's advisory when Yomi threatens to kill Kurama's human mother and stepfather, who are on their honeymoon. Kurama suggests that all three demon lords must replace their second in commands (Mukuro and Raizen have done this already by appointing Hiei and Yusuke). Kurama then goes back to the Human World and calls for a group of old friends and former opponents from the Dark Tournament; Rinku, Chu, Jin, Touya, Shishiwakamaru and Suzuki. They train under Genkai in her temple and turn into a very strong team, even stronger than Yomi's entire army. Kurama then brings his new team to Yomi. Yomi is so impressed that he removes his second in command and appoints Kurama instead. Enraged by this, he attacks Kurama and tries to kill him but Kurama turns into Yoko and kills the former general with ease.
After the death of Raizen, Yusuke comes to Yomi's territory with a proposition; a new tournament which will determine the ruler of whole Makai. Yomi accepts and the tournament begins. Kurama's team qualify easily in the preliminary round but after that they face stronger opponents and are defeated one by one. Then, Kurama fights Shigure "The Demon Surgeon." During a fierce battle he manages to defeat Shigure and destroy his Ring Sword. Unable to accept this, Shigure commits suicide. Kurama is qualified to the next round but he could not fight more due to severe injuries.
Kurama's internal struggles become more apparent during this part of the series. He holds three personalities: Kurama (with Yusuke and the others), Yoko Kurama, and Shuichi Minamino. He is now forced to choose which one he will remain as. After his fight with Shigure, he decides to give up his Yoko side and live as Shuichi Minamino from now on. With loyalty to his human mother and support of his friends, he is able to make the choice to stop living a lie. After the end of the Demon Tournament, Kurama goes back to the Human World and gets a job at his stepfather's company. He lives like a normal human being from now on alongside Yusuke, Kuwabara and his other friends.
In Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report, it is revealed that during Kurama's previous life as Yoko Kurama, he had an old friend and partner named Kuronue. Kuronue had sacrificed his life during a robbery when he attempted to recover a pendant that was precious to him and then ordered Yoko to flee. One of the Netherworld Gods impersonated Kuronue and accused Kurama that he had betrayed him. During their second encounter, Kurama, knowing that this Kuronue was a fake because the fake did some things that the real Kuronue never did was able to use part of a bamboo plant to kill the fake Kuronue in the same way his friend had died.
Name: Youko Kurama
Age: About 1000
Weight: Unknown
Height: Unknown
Hair: silver/white
Eyes: Hazel/gold
Armor: Some kind of white clothing. Material highly similar to Sensui's defensive armor.
Weapon:
* Shoku Yō Shokubutsu- This plant contains a saliva that can dissolve you in minutes, although the pain make it seemed like it was for hours. These plants has branches that, when commanded by Kurama, would eat his opponent.
*Makai Ojigi Sō- This plant is highly sensitive that it attacks anything that moves in front of it. The flowers/leaves of this plant is able to kill an opponent by eating it. This deadly plant is a Makai version of the original from South America where it responds to movements or flammables by closing its leaves around its prey and crushes it to death.
Special Abilities: being able to manipulate plants,shape-shifting, casting illusions, and breaking seals and codes.
Apperance:
Background: (prepare yourself for a long one)
Kurama was a notorious thief in the Makai. One day, he was trapped and almost killed by a bounty hunter contracted by Spirit World. He just barely escaped, in the form of his soul, and fled to Human World, whereupon hiding in the embryo of a human baby he was born to a human woman, Shiori Minamino. Shiori then renamed him Shuichi Minamino.
Kurama then met Hiei while he was attending Middle School. Hiei had mistaken Kurama for one of Yatsude's servants (a demon who had been terrorizing the town). The two battled, but when Kurama realized Hiei's mistake, he stopped the fight. However, Hiei was injured. Kurama took Hiei back to his home and treated him.
Maya was a classmate of Kurama's during middle school. She openly admitted to being in love with him. Maya was kidnapped by the demon Yatsude (aka Eight Hands in the English version) and almost devoured, but Kurama and Hiei defeated Yatsude and rescued her. Later, Kurama erased her memory of the horrible events. After that, Hiei developed respect for Kurama and the two became friends for a while before teaming up with Gouki and stealing the three Spirit World artifacts.
He then becomes one of the three members in Hiei's Underworld crime ring, and steals the Mirror of Forlorn Hope. Yusuke Urameshi faces Kurama on his first case, which is to recollect the stolen Spirit World artifacts. However, Kurama does not fight Yusuke, for he is trying to use The Mirror of Forlon Hope to save his human mother, Shiori Minamino, from dying.
Kurama's original plan, upon becoming human, had been to leave his mother and return to Demon World after he got strong enough(roughly about ten years old. He retained his Yoko consciousness during his second babyhood.) However, something happened that made him change his plans. One day, Kurama was reaching up on a high shelf when he slipped. He knocked some plates off the shelf, and they crashed to the floor and broke. He fell off the stool he was standing on and would have injured himself on the broken plates had it not been for his mother. She put her arm under his head just in time to save him. However, her arms were badly cut and she was scared. From then on, Kurama felt very guilty about all the pain he had caused her and vowed to protect her and stay with her.
When Kurama tried to use the spirit artifact he had stolen, Yusuke interfered and told the mirror to take his life instead, so that Kurama would not die, but the mirror decided to take neither life and still heal Shiori After that, Kurama along with Hiei are forced to join Yusuke and Kuwabara on Yusuke's third case and Team Urameshi is formed.
During the Dark Tournament saga, Kurama first faced Roto, from Team Rokuyukai, who threatened to end the life of his human mother if Kurama attacked. To defeat this opponent Kurama planted a Death Seed on Roto's body without him noticing and killed him with it. Kurama then faced Gama and Touya, of Team Masho. Gama magically chained Kurama's arms and legs, making him unable to move and then attacked him, but at the last moment Kurama was able to use his Rose Whip to finish Gama. Before dying, Gama sealed Kurama's yōki (demon energy) within his body. Then Kurama fought Touya and because Gama's spells were still in effect, Kurama was forced to plant a Death Seed into his own body and use it to defeat his opponent. After that Kurama became completely unconscious but since he had fainted while he was still standing , he had to face a third opponent named Bakken. Bakken inflicted heavy blows on Kurama and was about to kill him, but then two things happened, Yusuke got ready to kill Bakken with a spirit gun, and his boss ordered him to stop, pointing out that if he continued Yusuke would kill him. So he knocked Kurama out of arena and prepared himself for a fight with a very infuriated Yusuke.
Later in the tournament, Kurama was turned into his fox form when fighting Uraurashima with The Idun Box. Originally it was supposed to turn Kurama into a baby, but instead transformed him into Yoko Kurama.
The last person Kurama faced in this tournament was Karasu. Karasu had a strange crush on Kurama, and because of that, he wanted to kill Kurama. (He says that taking away the things he likes gives him a thrill like pondering unanswerable questions.) Kurama then becomes desperate to know what caused his transformation into Yoko Kurama during his fight with Uraurashima because he knows that he cannot defeat Karasu while in his human form.
Suzuki then gives Kurama a potion that he used to make the Idun Box, telling him he is unsure of its effects in this concentrated form. After testing it, Kurama finds out that it will make him transform into Yoko, but only for fifteen minutes. Kurama takes some of the potion before his battle with Karasu, but its effect does not take place right away, and Kurama is badly injured. Finally, just before Karasu inflicts a lethal blow on Kurama, the transformation happens. Yoko is able to trap Karasu in his Ojigi Plant, and believes to have defeated him. But Karasu is still alive. Unfortunately for Kurama, the effects of the potion wear off before the fifteen minutes are up. After being almost blown to bits, Kurama decides to sacrifice himself to kill Karasu. As he releases a blood sucking plant on Karasu, he gives the last of his life energy and therefore intends to die. However, Kurama does not die. Much to his own surprise, he realizes that each time he takes the potion, the effect does not last as long because he gains some of his demon strength back, enabling him to survive. After this fight Kurama only needs to feel extreme emotions such as hatred or anger to revert back to Yoko Kurama.
During the Chapter Black saga, after Yusuke was kidnapped, Kurama fought against Yuu Kaito, a fellow student from the same private school that he attended in a word game. After Kurama's suspicions confirmed that Genkai was behind the kidnapping, Kaito revealed that although he agreed to Genkai's plan, he went after Kurama seriously to prove that just once he could beat Kurama at his own game. Kurama then fought against Shinobu Sensui "Dark Angel" and his six companions alongside Yusuke, Hiei, Kazuma Kuwabara, Genkai, and his other friends. First he encountered Tsukihito Amanuma "Game Master" and was forced to kill him during a video game competition, which left him angry afterwards. After that, he fought Sadao Makihara "Gourmet," cut his head off and confirmed that Elder Toguro was controlling his body.
Shiori Minamino is later re-married to Hatanaka (He's the president at a company where Shiori works) after the events of the Chapter Black Saga. Kurama also gains a new stepbrother, coincidentally named Shuichi (whose name was changed to Kokota in the English Dub, possibly to avoid confusion).
During the Three Kings saga, Kurama is forced to re-live his past as he's called to Yomi's side. Yomi is Yoko Kurama's old partner-in-crime. A thousand years ago, Yomi was sent on a raid, but it was a set-up. Yoko had arranged for an assassin to kill Yomi. "Life is greater than the reward" was what the assassin said after slashing Yomi across the eyes, taking away his vision, and then fleeing the scene after Yomi injured him while flinging his sword about (for by now he could not see). After a thousand years, Yomi and Kurama face each other again. Kurama is forced to become a member of Yomi's advisory when Yomi threatens to kill Kurama's human mother and stepfather, who are on their honeymoon. Kurama suggests that all three demon lords must replace their second in commands (Mukuro and Raizen have done this already by appointing Hiei and Yusuke). Kurama then goes back to the Human World and calls for a group of old friends and former opponents from the Dark Tournament; Rinku, Chu, Jin, Touya, Shishiwakamaru and Suzuki. They train under Genkai in her temple and turn into a very strong team, even stronger than Yomi's entire army. Kurama then brings his new team to Yomi. Yomi is so impressed that he removes his second in command and appoints Kurama instead. Enraged by this, he attacks Kurama and tries to kill him but Kurama turns into Yoko and kills the former general with ease.
After the death of Raizen, Yusuke comes to Yomi's territory with a proposition; a new tournament which will determine the ruler of whole Makai. Yomi accepts and the tournament begins. Kurama's team qualify easily in the preliminary round but after that they face stronger opponents and are defeated one by one. Then, Kurama fights Shigure "The Demon Surgeon." During a fierce battle he manages to defeat Shigure and destroy his Ring Sword. Unable to accept this, Shigure commits suicide. Kurama is qualified to the next round but he could not fight more due to severe injuries.
Kurama's internal struggles become more apparent during this part of the series. He holds three personalities: Kurama (with Yusuke and the others), Yoko Kurama, and Shuichi Minamino. He is now forced to choose which one he will remain as. After his fight with Shigure, he decides to give up his Yoko side and live as Shuichi Minamino from now on. With loyalty to his human mother and support of his friends, he is able to make the choice to stop living a lie. After the end of the Demon Tournament, Kurama goes back to the Human World and gets a job at his stepfather's company. He lives like a normal human being from now on alongside Yusuke, Kuwabara and his other friends.
In Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report, it is revealed that during Kurama's previous life as Yoko Kurama, he had an old friend and partner named Kuronue. Kuronue had sacrificed his life during a robbery when he attempted to recover a pendant that was precious to him and then ordered Yoko to flee. One of the Netherworld Gods impersonated Kuronue and accused Kurama that he had betrayed him. During their second encounter, Kurama, knowing that this Kuronue was a fake because the fake did some things that the real Kuronue never did was able to use part of a bamboo plant to kill the fake Kuronue in the same way his friend had died.
