Been rewatching Yu Yu Hakusho since, tbh, I'm very skeptical of Star Wars Visions, I don't think it's actually a real Star Wars anime so much as smokescreen tactics (real Japanese businessmen would have taken far longer to hammer out some kind of contract - it took a year and a half before to get a Dragon Ball Super dub licensed, they needed that much time to be satisfied with all details inked out) to try to cash in on the recent anime hype, to get jaded fans to THINK it's anime. I mean, come on, there's going to be restrictions placed on it (no Star Wars Legends, for one, even though Japanese studios have been adapting manga to anime for decades, lol, no reason they couldn't do the same for American comics past Disney's paranoid hawk management), so no, I'm not falling for it, I'd rather check out REAL anime.
And it got me thinking of one of my favorite battles - in theory, at least. Kurama from Yu Yu Hakusho vs. Poison Ivy or Pamela Isley from Batman! In practice, however, it always felt like a curbstomp battle in the worst way. Really, does she stand any chance? Kurama could just plant a seed in her and when he explodes, she's ripped apart from the inside, and yes, I love me some good innuendoes!
Though it really isn't a joke, anyway. From what I know, the only resistance to Kurama's demonic plants comes from beings with a strong resistance in either Spirit Energy or Demon Energy and Poison Ivy has none, does she not? She's a normal human, though "normal" in the same world as Batman might temper her on the end of the bell curve there. We could go with any incarnation of Poison Ivy. Do any of 'em stand a chance? I'll be defending my boi, Kurama. Let's see your best case for why Poison Ivy across some of the various continuities might stand a chance.
"A culture's teachings - and more importantly, the nature of its people - achieve definition in conflict. They find themselves, or find themselves lacking."
— Kreia, Knights of the Old Republic 2: The Sith Lords
