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Fushigi Yuugi
Fushigi Yūgi (ふしぎ遊戯; literally Mystery Game but usually rendered Mysterious Play) is a Japanese manga (later an anime) created by Yuu Watase and serialized in the manga magazine Shōjo Comic. more...
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The name is rendered as Fushigi Yūgi in the Viz versions and as Fushigi Yugi in the Chuang Yi version. In the story, two teenage girls (Miaka and Yui) find a book in the restricted section of the National Library, entitled "The Universe of the Four Gods". When they open the book and read the first page they are transported within the story, which is set in a world similar to feudal China.
The Fushigi Yūgi anime spans a total of 52 TV episodes, which are divided into two seasons (available in box sets from Geneon in North America). Additionally, there are 2 TV "Specials", and a total of 13 OVAs, broken up into Series 1 (3 episodes), Series 2 (6 episodes) and Fushigi Yūgi Eikoden (4 Episodes).
The Fushigi Yūgi anime is released in Singapore by Odex. The manga is published in Japan by Shogakukan, in English in North America by VIZ Media (where it was also serialized in Animerica Extra), in the United Kingdom in English by Gollancz Manga, and in Singapore in Chinese and English by Chuang Yi.
Plot Summary
Miaka Yūki is a junior-high student desperate to pass the entrance exam for the illustrious Jonan High School. Her best friend Yui Hongo is a straight-A genius applying for the same school, and her mother is pushing her also in an attempt to see Miaka gets the best education available, although Miaka would rather attend Yotsubadai High School. The result is Miaka is constantly under pressure to study and attends juku (cram school) every day, when she’d rather be with her friends and eating.
During a study session with Yui in the library, Miaka, in the manga, drops her pen; in the anime, she drools at the vending machine and drops her 100 yen coin. In both versions, as she chases it, she finds herself in the Restricted Section. As the girls go through the books, Miaka stumbles across “The Universe of the Four Gods” and both girls start to read. They’re then sucked into the book-world, and after an encounter with slave-traders and a man with ‘demon’ written on his forehead (Tamahome), return to their world. They continue on as normal, believing the whole thing to be a dream, but neither want to forget about the book, and Miaka especially can’t get her mind off her handsome rescuer. After getting into an argument with her mother, she ends up back at the library. As she starts to read “The Universe of the Four Gods” again, she’s shocked to find what happened in her ‘dream’ has been written in the book. She then gets sucked into the book a second time.
Trying to find the boy who helped her earlier, she runs into a gang looking to sell her to a brothel. Tamahome steps in and helps her again, and in trying to repay him, gets them into a sticky situation with the Emperor’s men. They try to escape the dungeon, only to come across the Emperor Hotohori himself, who explains that they believe Miaka is the legendary Priestess of Suzaku (Suzaku no Miko), a girl from another world who will gather Konan’s Celestial Warriors and summon the phoenix god, Suzaku. Doing so will grant her the power to grant any three wishes. Miaka decides to accept the responsibility, and already has a head-start, as Tamahome and Hotohori are two of the seven Celestial Warriors, distinguishable by characters for their respective constellations on their bodies. The third, Nuriko, is found quickly afterwards in a somewhat unconventional fashion, and soon Miaka and company are setting out across Konan in search of the other four warriors.
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