Next part in "Fushigi Yuugi" Manga Series Launching Next Month

Fushigi Yûgi

Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play, also known as Curious Play, is a Japanese manga series written and illustrated by Yuu Watase. Shogakukan published Fushigi Yûgi in Shōjo Comic in its original serialized form from May 1992 through June 1996. Viz Media released the manga series in English in North America starting in 1999. I first read this series in the manga anthology Animerica Extra which completely blew me away with a tale of time travel and legend.

This Bishounen (genre of show featuring lots of beautiful men) spanned over a whooping 18 volumes, Fushigi Yûgi tells the story of two teenage school girls, Miaka and Yui, who find a book and are sucked into The Universe of the Four Gods, and take the roles of priestesses of different dynasties.

A 13 volume Japanese light novel series also followed Fushigi Yûgi: Shōgakukan published the novels from January 30, 1998 to September 26, 2003. In 2003, Watase began releasing a prequel to the manga series, Fushigi Yûgi Genbu Kaiden, and ended in May 2013 looking at another district in the fictional world. Now another prequel to the manga series, Fushigi Yûgi Byakko Ibun will be published in February 2015. "Byakko Ibun" will feature the extremely young looking Priestess of Byakko written in Shi Jin Tenchi Sho.

This will be featured in the March 2015 issue of Shogakukan's Monthly Flowers, which is officially published today in Japan, announces that Fushigi Yuugi: Byakko Ibun, a new instalment of Yuu Watase's long running Fushigi Yuugi manga series, will start in the magazine's next April 2015 issue to be published on February 28.

 The total number of copies printed of the series has reached 17 million in Japan. I have so much feels for this series and I even went as far as importing the VHS anime series from america. This was the first Manga I had collected with all types of themes and with beautiful art.

Byakko Ibun

First Impressions: Diabolik Lovers

In Diabolik Lovers the heroine, Komori Yui, has always been an ordinary high school student who has been able to maintain a positive outlook on life. In her second year of high school, Yui's father, a priest, moves somewhere else due to work, or so we are told. Yui is forced by these events to move to a new town and a night school for the wealthy and famous. Furthermore, the house she must stay in is called 'the haunted house' by everyone else, and Yui is suddenly living with six brothers who aren't exactly human.

The first episode outs Yui at the doorstep of this lavish mansion, no one seems to know the details of her staying here but one of the six brothers who is very vague about it. However, in this episode we are given a lot more information about her father who isn't her biological father. More questions come to mind but before we can focus on any plot we are distracted by the devishly handsome brothers.

Unlike the majority of anti-harem anime, the guys are good looking and charming. These guys are certainly not nice in the least. Any compromise is due to them needing her to cooperate so they can feed on her.

From the first two episodes there is a lot of moe for guys and girls to enjoy. This is quite the violent anti-harem and there is a lot of dominance and submissive power struggle. As much as Yui wants to leave she is imprisoned there and is yet to know her true connection to the vampire dynasty. The animation is beautiful such attention and detail is put into each character, the hair is even two toned to look like it has been dyed.