Yu Yu Hakusho episode 35
The Identity of Mask?!
A Beautiful Warrior
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For a detailed overview of this episode, click here.
The Urameshi team continue their fight against the Ichigaki team.
Original Japanese broadcast date: June 19th, 1993
Contents
1) Synopsis
2) Manga differences
Synopsis
The match between the Urameshi team and Ichigaki team is totally one-sided -the Ichigaki team are constantly attacking, and the Urameshi team don't know how to fight back. Ichigaki reveals each of his team have blood-controlling nodes on their backs, which put their minds completely under his control. These things can't be removed without killing their hosts, either. M3 then attacks Yusuke, but the masked fighter takes the hit instead.
She gets back into the ring and kicks down the entire opposing team, but her mask has been torn -revealing a beautiful woman's face underneath it. Just then, Kurama and Hiei arrive in the ring, after throwing M5 into the stadium and riding on Gatasubaru. Kurama reveals they got M5 to tell them everything, including the fact that Ichigaki was the one responsible for making his team's old master ill.
Ichigaki doesn't care about his team, saying they are just pawns for him to throw away once he's done with them. Kuwabara realizes his dream he had about them was them trying to call out for help, and he tries to get them to open their eyes, as he doesn't want to fight them. However, the Ichigaki team batter him, sending him flying out of the ring. When the masked fighter checks on Kuwabara, she finds that the Ichigaki team deliberately missed Kuwabara's vital spots.
Having heard and seen enough, Yusuke gets angry and his spirit energy returns, allowing him to see his opponent's attacks. Ichigaki sees this and realizes the chances of his team winning have now been greatly reduced, so he orders his team to kill Yusuke. Yusuke, however, leaps up into the air and prepares to fire his spirit gun...
-The masked fighter kicks Yusuke out of the way twice in the anime, but only once in the manga.
-Ichigaki does not re-check his 99.95% odds in the manga, like he does in the episode.
-Any scenes in this episode with Jorge, Koenma, Botan, Shizuru and Keiko do not happen in the manga.
-M5 dies in the manga -his head is seen coming off when he hits the ring. In the anime, he potentially survives, as his head stays on his body.
-In the manga, the Ichigaki team all attack Kuwabara together straight away. In the anime this was expanded on, with things like Kuwabara grappling with M3.
-When Kuwabara gets hit, he lands in the ring in the manga. In the anime, he gets sent bouncing off the ring.
-In the manga, Yusuke is only seen avoiding M3's attack once he gets his spirit energy back. In the anime, he also dodges M1 and M2's attacks. In the manga, he does later also see M2's attack, just before he gets ready to fire his spirit gun.