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Although she is sympathetic to Konan's cause, Miaka is worried about Yui and wants to go home. When she gets a chance to do so, she takes it, but upon returning to the library she cannot find Yui -- who has been drawn back into the book and installed as the ''Seiryuu no Miko'' -- the priestess of Seiryuu, the god who favors Kutou, and similarly charged to summon the deity. When Miaka finally returns to the world inside the book, she finds that she and her once-best friend are now on opposite sides of what promises to be a bloody and devastating war. The only way for Miaka to prevent utter genocide is to win the race to be the first to summon a god...
Easily the most famous of [[Yuu Watase]]'s works, '''''Fushigi Yuugi''''' (sometimes known as ''Mysterious Play'', which the English-dubbed version was released as in North America) was many anime fans' introduction to shoujo series after ''[[Sailor Moon]]''. It was popular enough to have spawned a prequel, ''[[Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden]]'', which
Also see the [[Fushigi Yuugi/Characters|character sheet]]. [http://fushigiyuugi.wikia.com Has a wiki.] Compare with ''[[The Twelve Kingdoms]]''.
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* [[Adaptation Dye Job]]: In the manga, every human character has a natural hair color. However, in the anime, [[You Gotta Have Blue Hair|Nuriko is given purple hair, Chichiri blue]], and Mitsukake's is given a [[Hair Color Dissonance|green tint]] while Tamahome's is undeniably green.
* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Nakago's aspiration. More specifically, he wants to become a god so he can ''kill'' a god.}} It's also {{spoiler|Tenkou}}'s goal in the latter part of the manga and the OVA.▼
* [[All of the Other Reindeer]]: Tamahome's childhood.
* [[Alternate Realm Boon]]: Every girl who is summoned into the world inside the book ''The Universe of the Four Gods'' is given three wishes -- but they are required to be [[Selfless Wish]]es.
* [[Angsty Surviving Twin]]: {{spoiler|Not really.}}
* [[Animated Actors]]
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* [[Cast Full of Pretty Boys]]
* [[The Chessmaster]]: Nakago. As it turns out, numerous events such as {{spoiler|Suboshi murdering Tamahome's family}} were arranged to manipulate members of the Suzaku ''and'' the Seiryuu Seven into following his plans.
* [[The Chosen One]]: Miaka, Yui... heck, all the Mikos.▼
* [[Cleaning Up Romantic Loose Ends]]: Half the male cast falls for Miaka in one way or another, then {{spoiler|gets killed off, as was the case with Nuriko. The fandom still can't decide if he loved her romantically or as a sister. Watase's intentionally ambiguous on the issue}}. Hotohori at least {{spoiler|gets his own wife, Lady Houki}} before this happens.
** However, only three of them can be officially considered in love with her; {{spoiler|Tamahome, Hotohori, and Tasuki}}. Anything outside of that is mostly in the minds of the fans. Three out of seven is still roughly half though.
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* [[Four Is Death]]: {{spoiler|Yui is the fourth priestess and almost dies as a ''direct'' result of it.}}
* [[Gentle Giant]]: Mitsukake, a huge and quiet man who has [[Healing Hands]] and loves kittens.
▲* [[A God Am I]]: {{spoiler|Nakago's aspiration. More specifically, he wants to become a god so he can ''kill'' a god.}} It's also {{spoiler|Tenkou}}'s goal in the latter part of the manga and the OVA.
* [[Gotta Catch Them All]]: Miaka, being the Priestess of Suzaku, has to gather all seven Celestial Warriors in order to summon Suzaku. Cue [[Unwanted Harem]] of [[Bishonen]].
* [[Great Big Book of Everything]]: The ''Universe of [[The Four Gods]]''.
* [[Heel Face Turn]]: Amiboshi.
* [[Hope Spot]]: Miaka's ill-advised plan in the manga, volume three, to march into enemy territory to find Yui actually goes off without a hitch. The guards take her [[Bavarian Fire Drill]], while the enemy court brings out Yui. Both girls hug, with Miaka tearfully saying she was so worried about her, accidentally revealing that she is the priestess of Suzaki and not Seiryuu. As the guards close in and Tamahome mounts a rescue, Miaka tells Yui they have to leave now. Yui then reveals, in an oddly cold tone, that she's not leaving. She calls out Miaka for leaving her in the book for three months, without any connection to home. Miaka is utterly confused and hurt as Yui walks away from her, refusing to be rescued, as the sickness from before makes her faint. When she wakes, she's all prepared to go back to Yui to ask what happened.
* [[Hot for Student]]: {{spoiler|In Eikoden, Mayo Sakaki falls for her basketball coach and PE teacher, Taka Sukinami aka Tamahome. Since he's already married to Miaka, this is pretty much doomed.}}
* [[I Just Want to Be Special]]: Mayo Sakaki, from the ''Fushigi Yuugi Eikoden'' OVA, is a brutal deconstruction of this.
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** Done and done: '''Tomo'''. Just because the audience didn't find it funny, doesn't mean he didn't; his "kakaka" laugh is famous to the point where he was referred to as "that laughing homo" in one of the omakes. In the manga, where he's more or less Nakago's lieutenant and the closest thing he's got to a confidant, one of the funniest Seiryuu scenes is when {{spoiler|Nakago tells Tomo he didn't rape Miaka.}} Since both of them are [[Deadpan Snarker|possessed of a very dry sense of humor]], it's subtle, but hilarious.
* [[Noticing the Fourth Wall]]: Numerous instances, but particularly Tamahome and Nakago. The latter took the news way better than the former.
* [[Now You Tell Me]]: In the manga, Miaka has this reaction when she learns that removing her uniform severed her connection to Yui, who took her place as the teen trapped in the book. She asks the wise woman why not inform her of that earlier, ''before'' she made the decision to return home. The wise woman points out it was no one's fault; Miaka couldn't wear her uniform forever, so it was bound to happen.
* [[Official Couple]]: You know the one. Although originally, [[Yuu Watase]] was going to separate them so it'd be realistic. And then her female editor, a hopeless romantic, made her change it.
* [[Ordinary High School Student]]: The four Priestesses - Yui, Miaka, Takiko and Suzuno - are all normal girls from Earth brought into the World of the Four Gods. Mayo as well.
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* [[Royals Who Actually Do Something]]: Hotohori, a legitimately good fighter, accompanies Miaka on her quest to gather the other warriors. He's also on the ball regarding the threat posed by the enemy kingdom Kutou well before most of the other characters.
* [[Sacrificial Lion]]: {{spoiler|Nuriko.}}
* [[Sadistic Choice]]: In the manga, volumes one and two feature this for Miaka. When she realizes that she doesn't have a way to get home, she resigns herself to helping out Hotohori's kingdom and winning the trust of the demon kanji soldiers to fulfill her destiny. Staying too long in the realm, however, causes her to fall ill, as she collapses while confessing her feelings to Tamahome. Tamahome and Hotohori determine that it's not worth risking Miaka's life if the realm is making her deathly sick, and seek advice from a local wise woman. She says that there is a way for Miaka to return home-- if she uses the connection that she and Yui have through their uniforms. Miaka opts to go for it because she's been gone for weeks, and her family must be worried sick about her. She finds out only after the fact that there is an [[Equivalent Exchange]] due to her being trapped for pages on end; Yui got pulled into the book and her connection to Miaka was severed. Miaka knows she could become sick again and not return home, but she goes back anyway to rescue Yui.
* [[Say My Name]]: All together now: "Miaka!" "Tamahome!" "Miaka!" "Tamahome!" [[Memetic Mutation|"MIAKA!" "TAMAHOME!"]]
** Lampshaded in the OVA. ("Tamahome." "Miaka." "Tamahome." "Miaka." "Tamahome.")
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* [[School Uniforms Are the New Black]]: A major plot point at the beginning of the story.
* [[Secret Test of Character]]: The role of the Priestess.
* [[Self-Made Orphan]]: {{spoiler|Nakago
* [[Selfless Wish]]: The three wishes a priestess gets from the Beast Gods are pretty much required to be.
* [[Senseless Sacrifice]]: {{spoiler|Nuriko. There was absolutely no reason for him to try to lift that boulder; there's clearly plenty of room to just get around it and into the cave entrance it's blocking.}} The Seishi even find skeletons ''inside'' the cave of people who presumably did just that.
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* [[Taking You with Me]]: {{spoiler|Chiriko stabbing himself to take down Miboshi, who had possessed his body.}}
* [[Talk to the Fist]]
* [[Taught By Experience]]: The second time that Miaka entered the book in the manga, it was to make sure that what happened was real. As a result, she's caught off-guard when someone closes the book, trapping her for days without any modern conveniences or means of letting her mother or brother know where she is. Yui manages to pull her out with their shared uniform connection but gets trapped after Miaka unknowingly breaks the connection by removing the uniform at home. When Miaka realizes that Yui must be trapped in the book after returning to school, she runs straight home and starts stuffing a backpack with food and clothes. Her brother asks her what she's doing, and she drags him to the library. Before reentering, she gives him one of her hair ribbons and tells him to hold onto it, no matter what. He's shocked on realizing that she was telling the truth about being trapped in another world.
* [[Team Shot]]
▲* [[The Chosen One]]: Miaka, Yui... heck, all the Mikos.
* [[The Unwanted Harem]]: Reverse-gender version. It must ''really'' suck to be a girl with several bishies at your feet, yet due to [[Virgin Power]] you can't do ANYTHING. {{spoiler|Poor Suzuno...}}.▼
* [[The Wise Prince]]: Hotohori.▼
* [[Theme Naming]]: All the Celestial Warriors are named for their constellation, in the pattern Mark + "Constellation". In some cases, even their given names are a simple variation of the same, like Tamahome's name of Kishuku.
* [[Trapped in Another World]]
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* [[Twin Telepathy]]: Suboshi and Amiboshi.
* [[Unlucky Childhood Friend]]: Which leads [[Face Heel Turn|into...]]
▲* [[The Unwanted Harem]]: Reverse-gender version. It must ''really'' suck to be a girl with several bishies at your feet, yet due to [[Virgin Power]] you can't do ANYTHING. {{spoiler|Poor Suzuno...}}.
* [[Verbal Tic]]: Chichiri, na no da! It's "You know!" in the English version.
** The English manga, at least the [[Viz Big]] editions, keep in the 'no da'
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* [[Vitriolic Best Buds]]: Tamahome and Tasuki.
* [["Well Done, Son" Guy]]: Miaka, in the manga.
▲* [[The Wise Prince]]: Hotohori.
* [[Word of Gay]]: Yuu Watase seems to get a big kick out of Tamahome/Nakago shipping and has also said at a con that if she ever wrote a doujinshi for her series, it would probably be Tamahome/Tasuki.
* [[Yandere]]: Yui is yandere for Tamahome ''and'' Miaka, whereas Suboshi is yandere for his brother Amiboshi and for ''her''.
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* [[Yaoi Fangirl]]: Yuu Watase. She even ships ''her own characters''.
* [[You Have Outlived Your Usefulness]]: Nakago says this word for word to {{spoiler|Ashitare}}.
* [[You Know What You Did]]: Yui tells Miaka this when the latter comes to rescue her from enemy territory. Miaka is confused, saying that she was only home for a few hours, and came back as soon as she could when realizing that Yui was in the book. Yui reveals she was trapped for ''three months'' and had no connection to home. It takes the wise woman to reveal that Miaka taking off her uniform severed the connection that the girls had. As Miaka points out, how could she have known that Yui was reading the book and had opened it? From what she knew, Yui was at home, studying for high school entrance exams.
* [[You Shall Not Pass]]
* [[Your Princess Is in Another Castle]]
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