Kuronue was a bat demon/youkai and was Yoko Kurama's best friend, helping "The Legendary Bandit" on thefts, raids, and quests. He appeared in the Yu Yu Hakusho Movie: Poltergeist Report. Or more precisely a demon disguised as Kuronue to bring up Youko's past. He later dies in a battle against Kurama.  He is voiced by Eric Stuart in English.

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After Yomi was dealt with, Kuronue became Kurama's partner. In the movie, Kurama meets someone who looks alarming like Kuronue. This brings on a flashback of his death during an escape from the Spirit Team. Kuronue's pendant's string was somehow cut off and fell to the ground below. Kuronue went back for it, thus falling behind. Kurama stopped and told him that it wasn't important enough to go back for.

Kuronue said that he needed it and that he couldn't live without it. After finding it and picking it up, Kuronue was pierced several times throughout his body by shoots of bamboo, killing him. Before he bled to death, Yoko came back for him, wanting to rescue him. Kuronue told him "Go Kurama! Save yourself! Go! Run!". Youko only shouted his name and ran to save himself.

Synopsis

Poltergeist Report Movie

In the movie, we see Kuronue standing before Kurama, who is now in his human form. Kuronue suggests that it was Youko who cut his pendant and made him fall into the trap that killed him, and left him there to die. Kurama claims that that is not true, and that he told him to save himself. This starts a fight between them, and during this fight Kuronue throws his pendant aside. Kurama now realises that the true Kuronue would never just throw it away, especially after he lost his life to get it back. Kurama attacks this impostor of Kuronue, as he asks for Kuronue, the real one, to lend him his strength. Kurama defeats him and the demon reveals his true form.

The demon angers Kurama greatly, and we see just how fierce Kurama can truly be as he destroys the demon by a forest of bamboo shoots, how ironic. After the battle is over, Kurama mourns for Kuronue one last time, and just then Hiei appears. "A person who does not carry scars on their heart, is a shallow soul." he says trying to comfort Kurama, and it appears to work.

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