Yu Yu Hakusho is a combination of crime drama and comical detective story, with a dose of light and comical mysticism. It tells the story of hero Yusuke Urameshi, a junior high school street punk who seems to be on a path of destruction and evil until he sacrifices his own life to save a child from a car accident. Yusuke's death propels his ghost into the Spirit World, where he embarks on a mission to restore his soul to the world of the living by solving several mysteries involving sinister demons, powerful stolen artifacts and weapons, and much more. As a result of his work in the both land of the living and the Spirit World, he earns himself the title "Spirit Detective".