Arguably, Hiei is the to the lowest degree original member of the Yu Yu Hakusho group. He'due south self, short, and has a horrible time admitting his feelings to those effectually him because of his harsh childhood. That definitely sets off some triggers in most Dragon Ball Z fans.

Aside from non existence a person who lets his pride virtually get him killed several times over, there'due south a lot of subconscious depth to the fourth pb character of Yu Yu Hakusho. For those who've always been curious to larn more near this character, this list is for you, every bit nosotros go into his backstory...and who the grapheme's really based off of.

10 UNDEFEATED IN THE Night TOURNAMENT

Hiei was rarely ever known to lose fights in Yu Yu Hakusho, but perhaps the virtually impressive thing was he never managed to lose a match during the Dark Tournament, fifty-fifty when the team's back was against the wall.

Kuwabara lost his first match versus Rinko. Kurama was eliminated by Bakken during the tertiary round. Genkai loses in her battle against Toguro, even though information technology isn't official. And Yusuke winds upward with a necktie against Jin thank you to a bribe by Butajiri, sponsor of Team Masho.

ix APPEARS MULTIPLE TIMES IN HUNTER 10 HUNTER

Unsurprisingly, Hiei makes an appearance in Togashi's second major series, Hunter x Hunter. He pops upwardly 3 different times in the manga. First, he appears aslope Yusuke and Kurama equally a toy in Milluki Zoldyck's room. Later, he's seen as a plush toy during an auction.

Between both of those appearances though, he makes a total, non-Saturday morn cartoon commercial appearance as a spectator to Gon'southward arm wrestling challenge in Yorknew City. He too seems to heavily resemble ane of the Phantom Troupe.

viii NEVER USED THE JAGAN FORM AGAIN

When Hiei is first introduced, nosotros find he's a cheat that'due south stolen a specific weapon known as the Conjuring Bract, which is capable of transforming people into demons. In battle, Yusuke is surprisingly able to keep upwardly with Hiei, until he accesses the power of his Jagan Heart.

The power gives Hiei eyes all over his body, turns him green, and vastly increases his speed and makes it impossible for Yusuke to go on up with, and he simply narrowly wins the battle. Despite this ostensibly existence a power-upwards for Hiei, he never decides to use this form again. It's never explained why, but information technology's likely because heroic characters aren't meant to employ forms that make them look like that.

It'southward sometimes difficult to quantify something like this. Afterward all, nearly popular with who? Well, in the Japanese mag Animage, he was the commencement, 2nd, and 3rd almost pop character in 1993, 1994, and 1995. He was besides voted first in a popularity poll in the manga when it was still releasing. And the pop Japanese series Newtype voted him the fifth-all-time male character of the 1990s every bit a whole.

Of grade, the fact Hiei exists at all as a main character is because fans reacted so positively to him, Togashi changed Hiei from a character used in 1 story to one of the main players in Yu Yu Hakusho.

6 WAS BORN TO ICE MAIDENS

Hiei really led a pretty crude life. He was considered a cursed child because he was born to an water ice maiden, which is meant to be a tribe of all females. As a fire demon, he was immediately ostracized past the women at that place.

If anyone was expecting this to be a story well-nigh love and a community choosing to raise the child, they are sorely mistaken. The tribe chucked the boy off the mountain he was born on, leaving Hiei stranded in the world of Makai to be raised by bandits.

five WAS ORIGINALLY AN A-CLASS DEMON

While Yusuke had the blood of Raizen, a demon rex inside him, Kuwabara was spiritually sensitive, and Kurama was originally a legendary fox...information technology's a fleck weird that Hiei was able to gain power then quickly. At the get-go of the series, he tin barely beat Yusuke, and yet within less than a twelvemonth, he's already an A-Course demon?

Well, that's because Hiei was already an A-Class demon before the serial starts. He gained this power when he was much younger just getting the Jagan Eye so he could detect his sister resulted in him losing the vast majority of his power.

iv COULD Be Near 100 YEARS One-time

"Could Be" sounds a bit vague; unfortunately, that's all nosotros're left with. Though Hiei was built-in to an ice maiden, he wasn't the but one. Hiei was a twin, with his sister being the ice maiden Yukina.

We don't know the age of either of them but members of Yukina's race don't hit puberty until they're one hundred years old. Yukina isn't quite there yet, which means the two of them could be anywhere betwixt sixteen and ninety-nine years old.

3 THE JAGAN Heart HAS BEEN IN OTHER ANIME

The Jagan Eye is something that'south used a single time and and so written off, aside from explaining Hiei's weakness before in the series. Still, it'south withal well remembered considering it's the in one case Hiei actually managed to give Yusuke the hands. Furthermore, that's not the only time the Jagan Eye has been used.

In the series Get Backers, protagonist Ban Mido also has access to a technique called the Jagan. For him, it tin can be used three times a day, forcing anyone he makes eye contact with into a minute-long illusion that tin can exist time-displaced. Essentially, it's the Mangekyō Sharingan. Every eye technique eventually overlaps.

2 LEARNED SWORDSMANSHIP AFTER HE LOST HIS STRENGTH

When Hiei first began making himself known in the demon world, he was more than about fighting with his hands. He fabricated information technology all the way to A-Rank by age five with nothing but manus to hand combat. But when he decided to proceeds the Jagan Eye, he was told he would lose all of his strength.

The surgeon who implanted the heart offered to teach him how to use a sword to defend himself while he got his strength back. Though Hiei is stronger than always now, information technology seems unlikely he'll ever give up on using a blade in combat.

1 IS BASED OFF A Grapheme FROM PATALLIRO

It'due south easy to look at Hiei and recollect "this is clearly someone based off Vegeta." Merely that would exist incorrect. For one, Hiei actually knows how to win a fight. Secondly, Togashi has already explained the inspiration for Hiei comes from the 1980s serial Patalliro.

A shoujo manga set on an island home to a vast collection of diamonds, the story followed the island's 10-year-old king, Patalliro Eight. Certainly there's at to the lowest degree a tiny fleck of resemblance with the hair.

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