Kurama (Japanese: 蔵馬, /ˈkuːrɑːmɑː/ KOO-rah-mah) is a fictional character from the manga YuYu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi.

As the next arcs, which primarily relieve on action, Kurama became a prominent fighter much to Togashi's pressure since he was not used to writing fighting series.

[5] As the YuYu Hakusho transitioned from a comedy to a fighting series, Togashi expressed pressure when incorporating Kurama and Hiei as main characters.

She stated that while auditioning it was a requirement by the anime's production company that the character's voice sound like a 17-year-old male but also like that of a member of Takarazuka Revue, an all-female musical theatre group that portrays both men and women.

[13] Fifteen years before the series began, Yoko Kurama was a fox youkai and notorious thief; cool-headed, clever, and ruthless.

Kurama was genuinely shocked at her selfless act, done out of love for her child, and he felt guilty for the scars she received trying to protect him.

When she later became gravely ill from an unknown malady, Kurama realized that he had come to love his mother as her own son would have, and he could not bear to leave her all alone.[ch.

However, he abandoned his partners and departed with one of the treasures: the Mirror of Darkness (暗黒鏡, Ankoku-Kyō, known as the "Forlorn Hope" in the English anime dub).

After learning of the fox youkai's past and reasons, Yusuke agreed to help Kurama, with both of them giving half of their life forces to pay the mirror's cost, allowing both to survive and Kurama's mother to be saved (in the Funimation dubbed anime, the mirror cancels the sacrifice due to Yusuke's kindness).[ch.

21] Kurama, alongside Hiei, would then begin assisting Yusuke, helping to defeat the Makai entities known as The Four Beasts in exchange for a reduced sentence for his crime.[ch.

For associating with humans, Kurama and Hiei were invited to take part in the Dark Tournament on Yusuke and Kuwabara's team.[ch.

As a full-fledged youkai once more, Kurama's powers were greater than those of his Shuichi guise, capable of creating much deadlier and larger variants of his plant arsenal.[ch.

83,97] Kurama was later gifted the source of the opponent's time-reversing abilities, which allowed him to change back into his youkai self, though for a duration of ten minutes at most.

This portal was being crafted by Sensui, Yusuke's predecessor as an agent of the Reikai, who became disillusioned with humanity and sought their destruction by unleashing youkai into the world.

Kurama, aware that winning the game would literally kill Amanuma, proceeded nonetheless but showed great remorse and anger at taking the child's life.

With Hiei and Kuwabara, he traveled through the portal to the Makai, witnessing Yusuke's rebirth as a demon and Sensui's death at the revived detective's hands.[ch.

Due to his shifts to his demon form, Kurama became torn about whether to remain with his family or finally leave the Human World.

158,163] However, due to Yusuke's tactics, Kurama and the others become free to take part in the Demon Plane Unification Tournament as individuals, not as underlings for any overlords.

On finding out about the impersonation and that the henchman had tried to pervert the friendship between him and Kuronue, an enraged Kurama summons a whole forest of sharp-edged bamboo, which pierces the imposter and kills him.

[27] In Japanese website goo poll, Kurama was voted as the fourth most sexually appealing character in Shonen Jump.

[33] Anime News Network favorited Kurama's tactics in the early episodes of the Black Chapter arc for standing out as one of the most intelligent characters.