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The Deadly Triad is the twenty-fourth episode of season 1 of YuYu Hakusho. It aired on March 27, 1993 in Japan and April 4, 2003 in the United States.

Short Summary[]

Yusuke, Kuwabara, and Botan must face three demons known throughout the Spirit World as The Triad. All three are overwhelmed by Yusuke's group. At the same time, Sakyo's successful bets on Yusuke's group have earned him an enormous amount of money.

Plot[]

Miyuki confronts the gang and challenges them to a bout. Kuwabara takes it easy on her since he doesn't want to fight girls. But then, Yusuke steps front and accepts the challenge. Miyuki attacks, and so does Yusuke. Miyuki uses a rope and strangles Yusuke, but Yusuke uses this for his own advantage and he bounces up and nails Miyuki with a punch right on her chest. Kuwabara yells at Yusuke and tells him to take it easy since Miyuki is a girl. Miyuki continues to attack, but Yusuke fires back with a powerful roundhouse kick right into her chest again and sends her smashing to the wall. Kuwabara gets enraged at how Yusuke treats women (even though she's an enemy), but then Yusuke gropes Miyuki's chest and groin and reveals she is transgender. Kuwabara gets confused and he tries checking out Miyuki's private parts, but Botan hits him in the head for being so perverted.

They continue on as Koenma, and his servant Jorge Saotome, watch them from the Spirit World. Koenma eats some dumplings which gmakes Saotome envious. They make a wager on who will win, the winner receiving a royal treatment, like Koenma's. Back at Tarukane's mansion. Kuwabara suddenly pushes Yusuke away and barely avoids an attack by another enemy. It hits the band he tied in his head with the "I love Yukina" writing. It turns out another one of Tarukane's fighters has faced them: Inmaki. He has some cloaking skills and he manages to slash Yusuke's back with his wolverine-like claws. Since they can't see him because of his disguise, Yusuke tries to escape then runs into a corner. Just then, Kuwabara gives him the signal and Yusuke unleashes his spirit shotgun attack. It hits Inmaki and knocks him out. They deliberately tried to escape so that Inmaki followed them into an ambush. They continue on but Botan suddenly gets caught by another monster: Gokumonki, another one of Tarukane's fighters. He uses Botan as a human shield so Yusuke and Kuwabara can't use their attacks, but Botan manages to break out and the combined force of Yusuke and Kuwabara's flying kicks send Gokumonki flying.

Tarukane is getting more and more irate as Sakyo wins another bet. So he decides to place his final bet, which he thinks for sure he will win: the Toguro brothers versus the outsiders. Tarukane reckons that Toguro's strength willwin back all the money he lost during the previous bets but Sakyo makes a high-stakes bet: all his property in favor of the outsiders. Tarukane takes the risk and seals the deal. They go into a special battle room where Toguro will await the three, and at the same time Yukina is brought there to watch how her rescuers will fare after facing Toguro. Hiei, who has been jumping from tree to tree this whole time, finally reaches Tarukane's mansion, but then he feels an intense power from within, as does Koenma, and realizes that the power is coming from Toguro himself. Yusuke, Kuwabara and Botan arrive at the battle room and confronts their next opponent, Toguro.

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Anime Notes[]

  • In the English dub of this episode that aired on Cartoon Network's daytime Toonami block, Miyuki being transgender (and Yusuke figuring it out by groping her breasts and crotch) was changed to Miyuki being a cisgendered female who fakes her injuries so male fighters would go easy on her (as most male fighters would take issue with beating up a woman), leading Miyuki to attack them.
  • The anime omits a scene from the manga, where several of Tarukane's men attempt to shoot Yusuke and Kuwabara with their guns only to be knocked out, just before Miyuki arrived to deal with the two of them.

Gallery[]

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