She falls in love with the Celestial Warrior Tamahome, who eventually reciprocates and Miaka's desire to use a wish to enter the high school of her choice begins to shift towards finding a way to be with Tamahome. Miaka is destined to gather the seven Celestial Warriors of the god Suzaku in order to summon Suzaku and obtain three wishes. Yui is transported back to the real world almost immediately, but Miaka finds herself the Priestess of Suzaku. Reading this book transports them into the novel's universe in ancient China. While at the library one day, Miaka and Yui encounter a strange book known as The Universe of the Four Gods. The series describes the various trials of Miaka Yuki and Yui Hongo, two junior high school students. Watase also released two prequel manga series: Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden, which ran from March 2003 to February 2013, and Fushigi Yûgi: Byakko Senki, which began serialization in August 2017.Īs of November 2015, Fushigi Yûgi had over 20 million copies in circulation, making it one of the best-selling manga series of all time. Shogakukan published the novels from January 1998 to September 2003. The anime series was first licensed by Geneon Entertainment and re-licensed by Media Blasters in 2012.Ī thirteen-volume Japanese light novel series, written by Megumi Nishizaki, followed Fushigi Yûgi. In North America, Viz Media licensed the manga series for an English-language release in 1999.

The anime spawned three original video animation (OVA) releases, with the first having three episodes, the second having six, and the final OVA, Fushigi Yûgi: Eikoden, spanning four episodes. Studio Pierrot adapted it into a fifty-two episode anime series that aired from April 1995 to March 1996 on TV Tokyo. Shogakukan serialized Fushigi Yûgi in Shōjo Comic from December 1991 to May 1996 and later compiled the manga into eighteen tankōbon volumes. It is essentially based on four mythological creatures of China.

It tells the story of two teenaged girls, Miaka and Yui, who are pulled into The Universe of the Four Gods, a mysterious book at the National Diet Library. 'Mysterious Game' ), also known as Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play or Curious Play, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Watase.

Priestess by Yuu Watase