Yukina (YuYu Hakusho)

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Yukina, Hiei's fraternal twin sister. Known as an ice apparition.

Yukina (雪菜) is a fictional character from the manga/anime series Yu Yu Hakusho. She is the twin sister of Hiei. Her seiyū is Yuri Shiratori, and her English voice actresses are Susan Huber and Jessica Dismuke in the FUNimation Dub and Veronica Taylor in the US Manga Corps Dub. Her Latin American voice actress is Azucena Hernández.

Yukina was born as an ice apparition (Kōrime, 氷女, literally Ice Woman), the same as her clan. But she was also born with a twin brother Hiei. Her twin brother was the forbidden child who was never supposed to exist, and was "killed" by being thrown off a cliff, despite his mother's desperate pleas. However, Yukina grew up to search for her twin brother, in full hopes that he was still alive.

Ice apparitions have special abilities relating to snow and ice, and have light healing abilities. In addition, when they cry, their tears become gems, which are highly valuable in the human world.

Yukina is first introduced in Yusuke's fourth case, where she is caged in an isolated room of talismans by Gonzo Tarukane, a greedy rich man who uses her to gain tear jewels to sell for money on the black market. Yusuke and Kuwabara are to save her from Tarukane, but Hiei ends up finding out about Yukina's whereabouts, and rushes to find her as well.

Hiei and Yukina eventually meet after she stops him from killing Tarukane, but Hiei has no intention of telling her that he is her brother, so he watches over Yukina silently.

Yukina has also appeared in the Dark Tournament and Three Kings sagas, as well as the Yu Yu Hakusho movie Poltergeist Report. It is also revealed at the end of the Three Kings saga that Yukina had spent the last year living with Genkai.

She also gets along well with animals, especially birds. She is a kind-hearted, caring, and somewhat naïve. Yukina does not understand the affection shown to her by Kazuma Kuwabara. She refers to him as Kazuma, unlike most of the characters within the series, aside from Kuwabara's sister, Shizuru Kuwabara.

Trivia

• Yukina does eventually figure out that Hiei is her brother in the manga. From her facial expressions, some fans speculate that she figures it out in the anime as well but has decided to not say anything for unknown reasons.
• On the soundtrack, Yukina has a duet with Kazuma Kuwabara in "Rocketto Hanabi no LOVE SONG." She also sings with Keiko and Botan in "HOLD OUT!!"
• In the English dubbed and Japanese subbed version of the anime (in the beginning, after Yukina is rescued from Tarukane--the human who tortured her for five years) Hiei tells Yusuke that Yukina and he have different mothers. This is clearly not true, since it's later revealed that they are, in fact, fraternal twins. A possible reason for this deception is that in the beginning of the series Hiei doesn't trust Yusuke as much, and sees no reason to make it common knowledge that they are very closely related; full siblings as opposed to only half-siblings.
• Her name means Ice Sprout