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Yu Yu Hakusho: Poltergeist Report character song mini discs (1994)

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Thinking abt a point luna brought up (I know you're busy this can wait for after the busy busy bee week is over!!) while we we're re-watching a saint beasts yyh episode, abt spirit office ferrygirls being short-staffed, and realised I was so deep in my fanon thought of "there should be more ferrygirls bc I think Botan should be the newest hire second to Yusuke who is the new newest hire" that yeah!! in canon there are really few ferrygirls!

Botan

Ayame

Hinageshi

Rena

All in all, we technically have 4 ferrygirls! Excluding the manga, bc she appears only in a side-panel, and Hinageshi, bc she appears in the movie and is not considered canon by all fans tho, that's 2 ferrygirls. Woah....

Besides Botan, Rena does appear relatively early, but as stated, in a manga side panel (chapter 27). I kinda hope Togashi'd had plans for her and then decided against it and that's why she appears at all, bc he felt a storyline w her didn't fit w the direction he wanted to have. First are the various dead and living in the ghost!yusuke era, so wringing attention on ill-behaved reapers feels distracting bc we have to focus on the human background bf we can get to the demon background. Then comes the detective saga proper, with introduction to demons and fellow humans who are equally as strong or stronger than Yusuke, and whose intentions don't align often with his own. From a technical-narrative standpoint, there isn't really a good place to introduce a storyarc including her or being morally ambigious for finding a source of whimsy in her end of care work u_u A Botan vs Rena ferrygirl showdown could've been so cool too, and could've added context for why Botan is kinda op in the beginning and gets less powerful the rest of the bit, that her preventing Keiko from becoming a demon + fighting all-out with Rena, could've depleted her offensive and healing powers severely.

Ayame is....... Idrw talk abt her, she's the shyest child predator I've ever seen in fiction I guess?

Meanwhile Hinageshi recontectualises Botan a little bit for me bc when tells Yusuke abt how indebted she feels to her, that tells me that she's really used to taking care of other coworkers, especially those who tend to cause trouble whether they mean to or not. In other words, Yusuke is not the first person she's had to or chose to take care of.

With the exception of Rena, ferrygirls carry a flower name motif (peony, iris, and common poppy respectively), suggesting that it was somewhere between Rena's addition and Ayame's that Togashi figured he'd use that motif for them.

The series suggests Botan being the senior ferrygirl for at least Hinageshi and Ayame, hence why she's doing so much bc she's senior ferrygirl. I am very curious still how exactly ferrygirls are recruited, but based on numbers alone, it seems very few can do it, or are allowed to do it.

A rogue ferrygirl oc unaffiliated with the spirit office would be cool....

[tanuki-kimono]

Chic gradation for this summer haori, patterned with lovely red poppies over running water ground.

The white hexagones on both sleeves are paper pieces basted into place so to protect mon (family crest) from being damaged by running dye while in storage (middle back one is usually also protected this way).

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👉🏻"(You cannot attack us, Hiei!)"

🐉"Those evil eyes could not seduce my Black Dragon."

🌹"Hiei! Using the Black Dragon Wave against those evil eyes exhausted all his energy."

👉🏻"Are you okay?"

🐉"Don’t worry about me. There is no time. Hurry!"

👉🏻"Okay!"

👊🏻"Boy, you sure are a troublemaker. Here we go."

🌹"Kuwabara - kun!"

👊🏻"We all have to see the conclusion. Let's go!"

(Look at them!! They're worry about each other and they don't leave anyone behind🥹🥹)

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Ferry Girl Shenanigans