Yu Kaitou
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Yu Kaitou (海藤優 Kaitō Yū) is a minor character from the anime and manga series Yu Yu Hakusho by Yoshihiro Togashi.
He is voiced by Issei Futamata in the Japanese version and Jakie Cabe in the English Version.
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[edit] Character outline
Yu Kaitou is a student from the same school as his perennial rival, Kurama. He has a serious personality and is extremely intelligent. He is also very interested at video games, once playing the fictional Goblin City for over twenty hours trying to beat his previous high score. During his first appearance, Kaitou is seen as a snob with a serious tone. Later on he appears to be much more dangerous, with his own "territory" and the ability to take away people's souls. After teaming with Kurama and the rest of the Spirit Detective team, he becomes more friendly and willing to help out.
[edit] Powers and Abilities
- Power of Taboo : With this power, Kaitou can open up a perimeter around himself (about a 10m radius) where he can create his own rules. Anyone can enter and leave his territory whenever they want, but when someone is in it, they must follow the rules or face the consequences. Kaitou can remove letters or words from the alphabet, making them Taboo and whoever speaks the taboo words will lose their soul. Kaitou must follow his own rules as well.
[edit] Chapter Black Saga
Kaitou makes his first appearance at Kurama's school after seeing that he came out second to Kurama during an exam. After being told that he can always do better next time, Kaitou tells himself that he has other plans for Shuichi Minamino. When Yusuke fights with Asato Kido, Kaitou is seen standing off to the side with Mitsunari Yanagisawa, witnessing Yusuke's defeat against a lower class fighter.
After bringing Yusuke to the House of Four Dimensions and holding him hostage, Kaitou was the first of the New Recruits to challenge Yusuke's friends. Sitting quietly in a heated room, Kaitou uses his Power of Taboo. He eliminates the word "hot" from the vocabulary, explaining that whoever speaks the Taboo word will lose their soul. After taking the souls of Hiei, Kuwabara, and Botan, Kaitou and Kurama agree to up the challenge. In this game, the rules are to not speak any word from the alphabet that has been eliminated, starting from the end to beginning. When Kurama stacks the odds firmly in Kaitou’s favor, Kaitou thought for sure he could defeat Kurama for once. After eliminating nearly every letter from the alphabet, Kaitou thinks for sure he’s won, until a surprise from Kurama causes him to laugh. Kaitou then lost his soul and the game.
Sometime after Yusuke has been rescued and everything was explained as being a test set up by Genkai, Kaitou's soul was restored to his body, and he introduces himself formally. He also points out that even though he was only supposed to be playing along with Genkai's trap, he really did try his hardest to defeat Kurama. Now part of the team, Kaitou later helps the team out in the field as they investigate Mushiyori City. Kaitou was put in Kurama's group to check out the area where the door to Demon World would be, and they work well together.
Later on Kaitou joins the team in Game Master's Territory, Goblin City. He plays against the Game Master in a trivia game called Battle Quiz, having all the questions and answers memorized, and being able to answer before the question is finished. When Kaitou seemed to have the upper hand (he was given a 5 question head-start and answered all questions correctly), the Game Master then revealed that he was much better than Kaitou at the game, as Amanuma has not only memorized all the questions asked on the quiz as well as he has, but can know what pattern of questions are going to be asked simply by looking at the first 5 questions. Kaitou, utterly out-played, loses, but he isn't literally killed or anything at his defeat, revealing that the game plays like it does normally. After Amanuma's defeat, Kaitou carries his dead body outside to be healed by Koenma.
Throughout the rest of this saga Kaitou is seen standing outside with Yana and Genkai, and mourning the death of Yusuke Urameshi. After the battle against Shinobu Sensui was finished, Kaitou, along with Yana and Kido, say their last words to Genkai and walk away, being told to never use their powers ever again.
[edit] Three Kings Saga
Kaitou does come out on top in a math test during the Three Kings Saga, with Kurama’s score an absolute mess, though he recognizes that Kurama is going through troubled times and the score is merely a reflection of that (“I smell metaphor.”). Kaitou is the only one of the three (Kido, Yana, and himself) to appear after the Chapter Black Saga, keeping some small degree of contact with Kurama after he leaves.
