Following the legend in the book, Miaka becomes the Priestess of Suzaku and must find her seven celestial warriors before she can save the kingdom and return home.Read the shojo manga that started it all! Fushigi Yugi, the bestselling series from beloved creator Yuu Watase is now available in a VIZBIG Edition-three of the original graphic novel releases collected into one volume, including color artwork and new bonus content!Īn embittered Yui has sworn revenge on Miaka, believing that her best friend had no intention of rescuing her from the Qu-Dong empire. So I'm gonna continue to pick on editorial choices instead! The inclusion of Suzaku color spread in the bonus pages is baffling because a) Suzaku-god has not yet been summoned so his face is a spoiler in itself, b) mirrored layout Seiryuu illustration falls better in this volume's content, why didn't anyone use that?! b.2) yes I know there's a matching Seiryuu illustration! I have an entire freakin artbook of this stuff shutup.Īnd yes, more endless pages of not Translator Notes, but instead Sound FXs notes.A classic shojo series now available in an omnibus format.įifteen-year-old Miaka Yuki is transported into an ancient Chinese kingdom by an old library book, The Universe of the Four Gods. Seriously tho, if you're still reading the series there's nothing I can possibly say to change your already established opinions The Celestial Warriors body count is rising on both sides while the story is spiraling to a fever pitch of WAR!! so much bloody fighting (not all that well drawn, sorry Watase just doesn't do fights well) In Chuang Yi's English-language versions of Fushigi Yugi (spelled without a macron or circumflex), her name is romanized as 'Yu Watase'. Her name is romanized as 'Yû Watase' in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, and Ceres, The Celestial Legend, while in Viz Media's Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend her name is romanized as 'Yuu Watase'.

In October 2008, Watase began her first shōnen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Shōnen Sunday. Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles as a bishōnen manga artist.

Since writing her debut short story 'Pajama de Ojama' ('An Intrusion in Pajamas'), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for shōjo for Ceres, Celestial Legend in 1997. She likes all music, except heavy metal and old traditional music. She is known for her works Fushigi Yūgi, Alice 19th, Ceres: The Celestial Legend, Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend.

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