Yu Yu Hakusho episode 31
The Drunken Warrior! Chu's Drunken Fist
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Yusuke fights Chu, a master of the drunken fist technique.
Original Japanese broadcast date: May 22nd, 1993
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
Synopsis
The fight between Yusuke and Chu begins. Chu uses his strange demon energy to rapidly move around, and Yusuke can barely keep up with him. Chu lands the first attack, striking Yusuke five times at such speed that to most of the audience, it only looked like one hit. Yusuke goes on the offensive and eventually managed to knock Chu down with a punch to the face, but Chu gets back up again and kicks Yusuke so hard he's sent flying out of the ring.
Chu announces to everyone that he's not at full power yet, but as Koto starts the count, Yusuke jumps back up and lands in the ring. Yusuke shows off his specialty, the spirit gun, by firing a shot at the stadium's ceiling. He says that at his current limit, he can fire the spirit gun four times a day, so he has three shots left. Chu says now is as good a time as any for him to show his reserve technique, and he pulls out a flask. It's full of oni goroshi (ogre killer), the strongest sake there is in the Demon Realm. He drinks it all and, after making everyone wait, has to run off to throw up.
As he does that, Rinku tells Yusuke that being completely wasted is Chu's true form! Chu getting deeply drunk, along with using the drunken fist, is his ritual for calling his true self up in the Human Realm. He explains he saw Chu use this technique before, where he saved him by slaughtering a gang of demons. Chu is then ready to resume fighting, and gathers his energy into a projectile, which he throws as Yusuke. Yusuke counters by firing a spirit gun blast, and the two projectiles destroy each other. The two fighters resume punching each other, and Chu eventually lands a hit that sends Yusuke flying back.
Chu then throws out another, larger projectile, but Yusuke counters it by using the rapid volley technique -he quickly fires off two spirit gun blasts. These blasts pierce through Chu's projectile. The two fighters are hit by each other's moves, but both survive. However they are both worse for wear, and Chu says that now Yusuke has used all of his spirit energy, he's no different from any ordinary human. Yusuke tells him he guesses he's right, but then Chu admits that he's also all used up energy wise. He tells Yusuke one way or another, they must settle this, which Yusuke agrees to. Is there any way left for Yusuke to defeat Chu?
-The scene where Koenma takes Jorge's potluck isn't in the manga.
-The action replay Koto goes through isn't in the manga.
-The anime adds more action to the fight, such as Yusuke's first attack on Chu being a punch to the face. In the manga this doesn't happen, after Chu dodges all of Yusuke's punches, he does the kick that sends Yusuke flying out of the ring.
-The scenes with Chu and Koto again explaining that Chu isn't at full power weren't in the manga.
-The part where Gondawara explains about his team's abilities wasn't in the manga.
-The dialogue where Chu and Koto admit they're hitting it off wasn't in the manga.
-Rinku's flashback with the demon gang wasn't in the manga.