School Principal Reacts - Yu Yu Hakusho S1E1 - "Surprised to Be Dead" Reaction Video 

Did anyone notice I wore almost the same suit as Principal Takenaka? Totally unintentional! 😂

This is a certified hood classic!

The fact that you're even watching Yu Yu Hakusho blows my mind.

I discovered this anime while I was in high school. Was going through a tough time during that time and the show really hit me in the feels and was really entertaining. I remember watching episodes while finishing up homework or working on projects

I found out about Yu Yu Hakusho when I was in high school in like 2015-2016. I saw the first episode and I was hooked. Really great anime.

Well at least he scolded a little kid, saying it’s dangerous to play on the street and saved him. He even say at least I can make kids laugh.

Thank you, youtube algorithm for pushing this video to me.

Kids often hang out in school during the school day because their home life is terrible, they don't want to be home, they don't want to be in class, but they can't be outside of the school without being harassed either. So they're in school, probably with friends, not having cops or anyone called on them, and not having to deal with everything going on at home.

If you’re interested in anime, Assassination Classroom has some education-focused episodes. Japanese schools are a completely different world, though.

They hide out in or around the school because they need somewhere to be for 8 hours and the school is warm. I was one of those kids but I was smart enough to skip a few lessons. I passed every test and got a scholarship. Messed that up helping my sister 😂

Please continue this reaction it’s a great show.

Woaaaah! You’re getting into anime! I haven’t seen this one lol but your video is making me want to catch it hahaha. Keep it up!

Those kinds of male uniforms are real. But you are right, they are military "inspired". Gotta remember Japan used to have a pretty militaristic culture.

I'm kind of hoping he would react to the whole funeral scene the principal saying his regrets and how he wanted to help yusuke while the other teacher was just talking smack at his funeral and the principal was having none of it

1:47 That's for the best, the openings and endings tend to be from established artist in the music industry. In other words, very quick way to get a copyright strike from their record labels. Edit: Since this takes place around the early 90s and/or late 80s, I believe giving disaplinary actions like beating was still allowed in Japan. Also I believe in the manga Yusuke had cigarettes instead of gum, but broadcasting standards don't allow for depictions of underaged smoking. Another important bit they left out is that Yusuke's mother had him at about 13 or 14, and was either implied or explicitly stated that she works as a pr*stitute. So yeah, a much more unstable household than what is shown in the anime.

I found some more school related episodes from some my shows. First off there’s Static Shock episodes: 1, 3, 6, 13, 22, 24, and 36. Then Yugioh Gx episodes: 1-4, 9, 12, 15, and 35 And the 2003 Teen Titans series episodes: 10, 19, and 27 Lemme know if you have any questions about the episode details

I enjoyed this reaction more than I thought. There are other old anime and new ones with school involved or even the school as the main point of the story but some tend to go towards to the ecchi genre these days.

I think you'll find episode 3 of Yu Yu Hakusho interesting as a principal.

this was shared in a YYH fan group; hopefully will get some views for you ^-^

yeah, this anime is a product of its time. i don't have all the facts, but somewhere around the 1980 to early 1990 there was apparently a real issue with teachers using "discipline" as an excuse to be borderline abusive in their practices in japan, and the type of punk counter culture that developed because of it that urameshi is a part of. after all, if the place that is supposed to educated you treats you like trash and a waste of time, no matter what you do, why even bother going? if you look back, there are actually quite a few manga and anime of the time that tackle the same issue, like GTO (great teacher onizuka) for example. although i don't think that one would be quite your cup of tea. it's pg13+ and pretty horny, especially early on, and focuses more on very unorthodox teaching methods. then again, it does portray a unique point of view from a person who was a victim of the failed education system, finding himself being part of the same system.

?!?! You're reacting to this show now? I never thought you would react Yu Yu Hakusho, I just figured you never react anime. Or something like that.

I would love you to react to the show as told by Ginger. I would recommend the episode, Of Lice and Friends

I've heard the first episode called "It's a Wonderful Life" meets "21 Jump Street".

0:03 Those dance moves though 😅😅😅😅

I never seen this show before, but anime in general is pretty good. I particularly love The Cat Returns, Wolf Children, Pokemon, and Wolf's Rain.

I forget how much of the show revolves around the school, but it is definitely a first season thing. I don't remember if there's many school scenes in episode 2, but you should definitely react to episode 3.

This might be my favorite anime of all time.

This anime is amazing and gets better and better and more deeper. Keep watching. The VAs are funny and give it their all!

Another good show from back in the day was Big Time Rush and the episode Big Time School Of Rocque is a good episode to react to

Anime heavily tends to center around school-related stuff, and not just "Dragon Ball Z". Handa-kun is one recent example, ReLIFE is another. Even Korean dramas also center around school themes. "Playful Kiss" is one I can name off the top of my head from Korea, even though its based on a manga from Japan, from around the same time Yu-Yu Hakusho came out, also in manga form.

So I've been watching this show since I was in elementary school. I'm now nearly 30 and it's still one of my favorites. Great video thus far, but I think there are some cultural things that we as Americans just brush aside that actually bear much more importance in Japanese culture. Being class rep is one of those things. Considering they make students clean up classrooms daily, including things like the chalk erasers, i totally believe Keiko would have gotten repremanded for her fellow classmate not showing up. I used to have tea and baked goods every friday with my principal and a small group of other students. Only those that were in the know had any idea it would even happened. One of my favorite memories.

Anime's typically take place in Japan, so you'll usually see Japanese everything

Keiko's friends talking about how yusuke "k!ll$ for fun" actually resonates with me. I was bullied through all of elementary school and most of my 7th grade year until someone actually punched me and i retaliated at a multi-school event. Fast forward 3 years when I was a sophomore in highschool and someone recognized me from the incident. He immediately started going off about how i smashed a chair over the kid's head when the reality was that i only punched him twice. Funny enough, the worst rumor came when my brother went to the same event and his classmates told him about how they heard from "a reliable source" that i k!lled the kid and that i was in jail. Rumors get out of hand very quickly.

As far as I know… Japanese school uniforms are navy style. That’s why Keiko and Yusuke are dressed like that. I’ve seen military schools here in the U.S with a somewhat similar uniform

Another series episode probably worth looking into would be Battle for Dream Island S1E3 - "Are You Smarter Than a Snowball", in which characters are given worksheets to fill out, though that doesn't begin to happen until around 2 minutes and 50 seconds into the episode. Other than that, the rest of BFDI generally has nothing to do with education. For some context, BFDI is an animated web series by the RU-vid channel jacknjellify in which anthropomorphic objects compete in a series of contests for a prize. (in the case of the first season, an island resort called Dream Island, hence the name) After each competition, viewers were instructed to vote on which member of the losing team would be eliminated (similar to how it works in shows like Survivor or Total Drama Island) and the results were subsequently revealed at the beginning of the next episode.

This seems to be interesting

I enjoyed that. I have a lot of nostalgia for this show, because I used to watch it when I was in secondary school. I always thought the jacket looking thing that theirs wore in this episode were blazers. Blazers are common in school uniforms in the U.K.. I was looking forward to you reacting to the wake. All of the people from school come by, so it could fit into your remit. Most anime are about teenagers, so hopefully, you can find some other shows that you’d enjoy reacting to.

Every time Yusuke tries to chew a piece of gum, it's censoring he was trying to light up a cigarette

Lucky Star is a great slice-of-life anime; nearly all the episodes revolve around the school, and even the ones that take place outside of the classroom often involve the teachers

I think the public announcements that summon a student to the office have been phased out in favor of paper slips delivered to the classrooms.

5:13 I think a few motives I’ve heard of are managing a top-secret black market-like facility (such as the one in the bathroom stall from The Simpsons) or simply trying to avoid getting caught if suspended or expelled. These aren’t the most common, but they’re the ones I know best.

This was written and produced in Japan in the early '90s. Although corporal punishment had been illegal since the mid-1900s, it was still quite prevalent at that time.

16:48 After looking at pictures of Japanese uniforms, I can confirm that those look a lot like regular school uniforms. Military uniforms are more often green than blue.

I left my High School once because I thought it was after sixth period and I missed the bus!! So I tried to walk home, but I missed my turn and had to call my father and my grandfather because I stopped at a cab company!! But I later found that I left after fifth period ended and THAT'S why the busses weren't there!! 😂😂 I know, I'm a goof!! 😂😂

You should check out the episode Skooled from The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack.

@SchoolPrincipleReacts I think you would enjoy Yu Yu Hakusho. It's a good series. There are some other anime series that definitely has more of a school atmosphere.

6:40 the concept is more so to display that, the actions of the class is the responsibility of the class representative, just like with any team or group, when one player screws up, it makes the team look bad and the leader needs to correct that whether it be by setting a better example themself or by force/punishment. She may not have the capacity to enforce the rules with certain classmates like yusuke but then at that point the administration understands that she’s not a bad farmer, he’s just a bad apple But of course we know there’s a lot more behind that grouchy look yusuke gives everyone

Once you get deep into this series, it gets really dark......But totally unrelated to school.

Great video!

I still love the yu yu hashko show growing up I use to watch it late night on adult swim. I’m a big anime fan of dragon ball z inuyasha Pokémon so I love your reaction to this show!!

I haven't looked at his reaction list, but anyone else agree Great Teacher Onizuka would be interesting to react to.

Principal Takenaka does seem to care about Yusuke. Tbh I would never endorse hitting a student but that school is so violent, everyone just seems to communicate by throwing punches lol. Needs a maaaaaajor overhaul in policy if you ask me.

Awww you didnt finish the episode. The latter half really does show a lot of these characters in a better light

Iwamoto and Akashi are the worst types of teachers; you'll meet them later

I have the same questions as you about how he’s even enrolled if he’s a known serial killer. He should probably be in some kind of education program administered by the prison or some other legal system. I’ve seen JJAEP before, but I don’t know how they handle this in Japan.

Wish you would’ve commented on what the teachers said at the funeral 😢 they are downright sad and disgusting 😢

It would be interesting to do a commentary on a circumculum masters versus a teaching masters in education, through your experience.

This episode originally aired in Japanese language in October 1992, before we had access to the internet. I am shocked to see the principal resorting to physical actions (e.g. ear pulling) on the minor student. However in episode 3, the principal is more refined. On the other hand, there is no channel like you who make educational reaction videos, who educates and explain about their experiences.

Do one on the prurd family

A good series for an educator would be GTO (Great Teacher Onizuka)

A very good one you could watch is Card Captor Sakura (japanease version with subtitles pls, unfortunately the dubbing isn't good and they changed a lot of things when it went to America, like the order of the episodes and cutting episodes), more than half of CCS takes place on a day-to-day normal Japanese school and he touches on very delicate topics such as a romantic relationship between an adult teacher and a student.

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Yusuke = ichigo Botan = Rukia Kuwabara = renji Kurama and hiei = uryu and Chad Keiko....no she's not some god defying super being like Orihime also keiko doesn't scream SAVE ME SAVE ME all the time.

If you react to movies I want to hear your input on a movie Called Middle school the worst years of my life.

Teachers and principal definitely shouldn’t hit students. But are they allowed to defend themselves? I heard about a teacher taken a phone away from a teenage student and she pepper sprayed him in his eyes, twice I think. Another instance, probably an elementary school or middle school, a teacher took a student’s Nintendo Switch away and he stated beating her on the ground. Would they have been allowed to defend themselves, or would that be a firing? Would the students not get in that much trouble?

There are not many episodes in this show involving school, so I'm not sure if you should watch the whole thing.

Also in Japan things are very different. Not the good kind of different either

You should watch the original japanese dubbed with english subtitles. Sounds more authentic and less censored with their original voices