The series then follows Yusuke with new found spiritual powers as he works together with his rival and classmate Kuwabara, an intellectually dense but spiritually powerful fighter, to track down rogue demons and humans posing a threat to the Spirit World (and to Earth of course). Because of this rather uncharacteristic act of self-sacrifice, the Spirit World decides to give Yusuke a second chance at life - but with the condition that he must be a Spirit Detective on Earth. One day while walking home from school, he performs the unexpected selfless act of saving a small child from being hit by a car, and it causes his death. He skips school, gets into countless fights (and typically wipes the floor with everyone), mouths off to teachers, etc. Yusuke Urameshi is a fairly stereotypical high school delinquent. Still, it's hard to complain about 28 episodes on 4 discs. Of course, that means, if you want to see the rest you'll buy the next one, but it's a bit annoying all the same. Episodes 27 and 28 start a new storyline that continues into the second season of the show. I do wish they had gone ahead and only put the first 25 or 26 episodes on there, because that concludes a story line. DVD extras include some helpful character profiles, textless songs and trailers. Just, again, it seems a little strange and inconsistent. Again, it's not a problem it's the proper track anyway. I was also disappointed to notice that, while the first disc contains both dub-titles and subtitles (the second might have as well, I can't recall), the others only contained the subtitle track. It's not a problem for me, but it is kind of a strange mistake. Or, I should say, each disc has an extra episode more than what is listed, so they don't match up. All 28 episodes are still there, but each disc is off by one episode.
The episodes listed on the cases (as per each disc) don't match what's actually on the discs. There are some weird, amateur packaging mistakes.
The cases are clear with reversible covers (both sides are nice). The season one box set released by FUNimation contains the first 28 episodes (out of 112) of the series on four discs, in a thin pack. Also, when I first started watching it, I was crushing on Kurama (but don't tell anyone). The series succeeds at this, for me, exceptionally well. It's a good show to watch when I just want to giggle a little at the jokes, or the absurdity of the situations in the story. But it's so cheesy, and so ridiculous, and it's fantastic. In fact it's horribly cheesy, really looks its age, and comes from one of the genres of anime that I tend to hate. It doesn't really have anything amazing going for it.