| | |  | FANTASY | Home » » » » Fushigi Yûgi, Vol. 14: Prophet (Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play) | | | | | | | Product Promotions: | | | | | Description: | | "First published by Shogakukan Inc. in Japan as "Fushigi Yugi." --t.p. verso. | | | Product Details: | | | Author:
| Yuu Watase | | Paperback:
| 200 pages | | Publisher:
| VIZ Media LLC | | Publication Date:
| April 12, 2005 | | Language:
| English | | ISBN:
| 159116737X | | Product Length:
| 7.12 inches | | Product Width:
| 5.14 inches | | Product Height:
| 0.64 inches | | Product Weight:
| 0.42 pounds | | Package Length:
| 7.3 inches | | Package Width:
| 4.8 inches | | Package Height:
| 0.7 inches | | Package Weight:
| 0.4 pounds | | Average Customer Rating:
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Part 2 begins.Jul 19, 2006
By Robert P. Beveridge
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Yu Watase, Fushigi Yugi: Prophet (Viz, 1995)
Part II of Fushigi Yugi opens with this volume, and my, how things have changed. It's a year later. Miaka and Yui are now in high school (though neither one got into Jonan, the school they spent much of Part I agonizing over trying to get into). Tamahome, now reborn in our world as Taka, is a short-order cook and, of course, Miaka's boyfriend. Everything is going along swimmingly until Miaka's class visits an old ruin on a field trip, a tomb covered in drawings of the constellations from the Universe of the Four Gods, where tomb robbers have broken through and destroyed Suzaku's wall. Suzaku, of course, is not pleased with this, and appears to Miaka in a vision-- it seems the tomb was the burial ground for a demon god, who escaped when the tomb was violated and now must be stopped. And so the adventure begins again.
There's something that seems not quite right about this installment of the series (and it's not just trying to get used to calling Tamahome "Taka"). The pace of it seems jarring in comparison with other volumes, more lackadaisical, for want of a better word. Still, it's a first episode, setting everything up, and so that may, perhaps, be forgiven if the rest of Part II gets back over the bar Watase set for herself in the first thirteen books of the series. Not the best volume to date. ***
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