The Four Saint Beasts arc kicks into high gear as Team Urameshi enters Maze Castle and Kurama proves he's one of anime's most underrated fighters (even if he gets his butt kicked often).

This week on Toonami Absolution, Alyx, Jon, and Sam dive into YuYu Hakusho Episodes 15 and 16: "Genbu, the Stone Beast" and "Byakko, the White Tiger."

Yusuke, Kuwabara, Kurama, and Hiei are deep inside Maze Castle, fighting their way through the Four Saint Beasts to stop the Makai Insects from turning humanity into a zombie army.

First up: Kurama faces Genbu, a stone-controlling demon who fights using fragments of his own body. Then Kuwabara gets his moment to shine, or at least tries to, as the fearsome white tiger Byakko makes his entrance and insists on testing the gang. But can Kuwabara’s sword even make a dent in the tiger’s mighty hide?

We also dig into YuYu Hakusho's complicated history with Toonami censorship, the infamous edits that plagued the show's US broadcast, and how this arc stands up as one of the series' most underappreciated story runs.

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Toonami Absolution is a weekly podcast where Alyx, Jon, and Sam revisit the Toonami and Adult Swim shows that made them, and you, you.

From the block's early days with shows like Space Ghost: Coast to Coast and Transformers: Beast Wars to the imported anime that made Toonami and Adult Swim appointment television for a generation of kids, such as Cowboy Bebop, Sailor Moon, and Dragon Ball.

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