Fields |
USA Info |
Japanese Info |
Image |
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Name |
Raizen | Raizen |  |
Alias |
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Race |
Demon | Demon | |
Gender |
Male | Male | |
Age |
At least 3000 years old | At least 3000 years old | |
Hair |
Greyish yellow | Greyish yellow | |
Eyes |
Violet | Violet | |
Height |
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Weight |
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Status |
Makai Ruler | Makai Ruler | |
Quote |
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Voice |
Chris Sabat | ||
Debut |
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Anime |
Yu Yu Hakusho | Yuu Yuu Hakusho |
Raizen is one of the three rulers of Makai. He first appears in the show when Yusuke is fighting Sensui and he interrupts and possesses Yusuke. When Raizen's men retreive Yusuke from Earth he tells Yusuke that he is his ancestor. Yusuke then trains to defeat his ancestor Raizen in battle.
During their battle Raizens past unfolds. He tells Yusuke how he would raid villages and eat human flesh. But when he once was in battle he became wounded. A female human doctor helps him and they fall in love. He then promises her that he would never eat human flesh again, with this he is slowly dying over the course of the years since he last ate human flesh. With his passing he leaves Yusuke to take over his position.
In episode 107, one of Raizen's fighters says he had fought Raizen himself over 1,500 years ago and it was just childs play for Raizen, and Raizen states he trained for 1,000 to reach he power level, so that should make Raizen be at least 3,000 years old.
There is some controversy over whether Raizen is just Yusuke's ancestor, or if he is actually Yusuke's father. You can read about this on Yusuke's profile so I don't have to reprint it (and thus update it) here as well. But to sum up, Raizen is Yusuke's ancestor, NOT his father.
Flag[admin]#19 - Posted by Anonymous on Monday, May 30th, 2011 at 3:54am:
Why are you guys arguring, genes have nothing to do with being a father, anybody can have a kid but not anybody can be a Father and Raizen clearly prove that he worth being a father to yusuke and that why yusuke called him dad, so regardless of what you idiots say about Raizen not his father is pointless, because as far as yusuke goes he is his father ... show more »
Flag[admin]#18 - Posted by Anonymous on Tuesday, April 5th, 2011 at 7:50pm:
ATTENTION NUMBNUTS! To all who think that Raizen is Yusuke's father, YOU ARE WRONG! Raizen is Yusuke's ancestor and father FIGURE.
Flag[admin]#17 - Posted by Helpful spirit on Friday, November 12th, 2010 at 9:16am:
Raizen is Yusuke's ancestral father. His genes lied dormant in Yusuke's bloodline until one of them had become strong enough to recieve Raizen's power, hence he Atavism of the Mazoku.
Flag[admin]#16 - Posted by Dana on Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010 at 8:50am:
I wish Raizen didn't have to die! He's too cool and sexy to have died!
Flag[admin]#15 - Posted by SakuraSky on Sunday, April 25th, 2010 at 8:26pm:
V. Wilridge is correct. Raizen is only Yusuke's Ancestral father. If you read the manga, at the very end, you'll see Atsuko talking with a man. A few pages later, they'll clearly state that that man is Yusuke's father.
Flag[admin]#14 - Posted by KairenSatomi on Monday, March 8th, 2010 at 9:10am:
Whether or not Raizen is Yusuke's father doesn't matter to me. I simply like the character for who he is. Raizen is an awesome character and I wish he had been seen a little more in the Three Kings Saga, but it's all good the fact that Yusuke actually got to know Raizen...somewhat before his death. Though I did feel bad for Yusuke being powerless to stop Raizen's death and that his ancestral father died in front of him as he did. ... show more »
Flag[admin]#13 - Posted by Dana on Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010 at 3:40pm:
Hey, I respect every view. But I agree with the idea that Raizen's genes lay dormant. It only would make sense though.
Flag[admin]#12 - Posted by nikk on Saturday, November 28th, 2009 at 7:11pm:
the power raizen wanted to pass on was passed through the generations as a dormant power until yusuke came along, then raizen altered yusuke to mirror himself, but he still didn't father yusuke anyways.
Flag[admin]#11 - Posted by RAGA on Wednesday, October 14th, 2009 at 12:25pm:
It was a demonic atavism. An atavism is when a pre-existing trait (meaning that the family had the trait themselves before evolution happened and the trait became super recessive), re-emerges in much, much later generations. Think of the cases of a whale or a snke having legs or a person having a tail. These traits are usually considered primitive. In Yusuke's case though, while he develops demonic characteristics from his ancestor, he also somehow managed to evolve it too. This is why he doesn't feel the need to eat humans, even though his ancestors did. ... show more »
Flag[admin]#10 - Posted by shaanjin on Tuesday, October 13th, 2009 at 4:30pm:
Raizen is only in a certain sense Yusuke's father: Only in Yusuke Raizen's genetics awakened. He is not his real father per family tree though, as Koenma stated in about episode 90/91.
How exactly those genetics came to them I don't have a clue since demon's can't reproduce like humans do... I think they said something about "spectral infusion"...? Forgot the word -.- ... show more »