Hiei is a Roast Master and Evil Eye Connoisseur

Don’t make Hiei hurt you. He’ll do it.

Hiei is one of my favorite anime characters. Known to be the smallest and yet one of the most deadly main characters of the hit shounen anime Yu-Yu Hakusho! Hiei has cemented himself in anime history as one of the baddest of the bad. Like legitimately, this dude was totally evil at one point before transitioning over to anti-hero and then to ‘apathetic hero with a heart of gold buried way deep’. This pipsqueak’s image comes to mind immediately when listing my top five faves. Even after over a damned decade of being introduced to him, I still remark fondly on this tiny ball of rage and roasts. One of the Yu Yu Hakusho hallmarks was the infamous boyband also known as Yusuke’s gang. Each one of the characters had their own distinctive personalities and quirks, and Hiei was the brooding and biting asshole of the group. Think Garfield the cat, but agile and loves killing people. His macabre and delightfully aggressive personality melded well with the more elegant and calm Kurama, and the two of them quickly became one of my favorite ‘ships. I am particularly fond of wholesome gay dynamics, and who DOESN’T love the bubblegum pixie holding hands with the angry goth? Queue up the Pacha hand gif, please.

Me, thinking about Hiei and Kurama.

Now, a not-so-sweet hallmark of Hiei’s personality is his biting banter. Most notably with the hard-headed and dense Kuwabara. These shounen badasses were constantly at each other’s throats, to my gleeful de…