HUNTER X HUNTER and YUYU HAKUSHO: similarities I

I knew almost immediately after watching the first episode of Hunter x Hunter (2011) that this was とがし -先生's  (togashi-sensei's) work.  Why?  Because of these similarities...

Kuwabara, Kurama, Hiei, Yusuke

Killua, Leorio, Kurapika, and Gon (in the middle)

         Here are the obvious points, Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter have repeated names.
幽☆遊☆白書 means "ghost files" at least according to Wikipedia.  ハンターXハンター　is in katakana so it has to be obvious to the English speaker.  Hunter is someone who hunts for something.

        Another obvious thing to point out is that the main protagonists of the two shows are 4 male protagonists.  Both sets of characters have their recognizable equal in the other manga.  In fact a lot of the Yu Yu Hakusho characters are repeated in Hunter x Hunter.  Kurama is a lot like Kurapika.  Killua would be Yu Yu Hakusho's Hiei.  Leorio would be Kuwabara, and Gon is like Yusuke.

Of course- all art credit goes to Togashi せんせい

  


art style

Gon-Hunter x Hunter

Motherless in the manga

He's like the cutest younger brother of Yusuke Urameshi and youngest son of Ging.

Yusuke Urameshi- Yu Yu Hakusho

Fatherless in the manga

Looks related to the Freecss family.  Like Ging's delinquent older son. 

Ging Freecss

Father to the main characters of Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter

Togashi, after running out of ideas probably, just made the main characters look the same.  If you didn't know that Yu Yu Hakusho and Hunter x Hunter were made by the same person, an analysis of the art style could hint towards a similar authorship.  All have slightly rounded eyes.  Urameshi's age is in the middle of Ging and Gon.  Putting his picture in the middle, it is possible to see that the eyes grow slanter as the character ages.  Smaller eyes are sort of like adult markers in manga.  Gon's eyes are big and naive looking that suits his character and the story of a kid who learns about the world as he searches for his father, Ging Freecss.


ART CREDIT： とがし先生　と MADHOUSE と 日本 ANIMATION と STUDIO ぴえろ

There are so many more similarities between the two anime /manga, however I will leave that for a later date.  This is only part I that mention some obviously similar aspects.