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MFrontier
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It's kind of surreal seeing some of her older characters in her modern style.
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ChirashiD
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Amritzer
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Fushigi Yuugi is one of anime I've heard about for years, but for some reason just haven't started yet.
Not sure why, but I often put it together with Rekka no Honoo. ... Considering all the remakes lately, there could be a new adaptation announced. Myself, I wouldn't watch it before seeing old anime. |
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ChirashiD
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When you watch it now you can't help but laugh and roll your eyes so it's impossible to recreate the experience of watching the show back then, unless you have already watched FY BACK THEN. If they did a remake, they'd have to remove many of those tropes to try to help viewers experience the true passion and magic that made it such an epic love story. But then it really wouldn't be Fushigi Yuugi anymore. |
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Amritzer
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As for possible remake, personally, I don't need it to repeat the magic of the past, but to create its own. |
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merr
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IMHO, the secret to Fushigi Yugi’s success was the fact that Yuu Watase had zero interest in writing romance but knew she had to include it. It feels like she looked at the shoujo landscape, realized what readers really want is messy drama, then she took all the tropes and dialed them up to 11. Like Rumiko Takahashi, she knew the secret to romance was to never, ever let the leads be together. But while Takahashi liked her couples to stay at a baseline “will they/won’t they” for most of a run, Watase decided she’d let everyone get together then immediately rip them apart in increasingly ridiculous ways. She absolutely did not care whether Miaka and Tamahome were happy, so she was willing to make them suffer over and over for the sake of a good cliffhanger. It sounds mean, but the end product is fantastically enjoyable. |
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scanlines
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One of the first fansubbed series I saw way back in the day. I'm glad it's still getting recognition. I can hear Miaka saying "Tamahome" in my head while typing this.
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MFrontier
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I think they'd be better off adapting the Genbu story than remaking the original. |
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Triltaison
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It's especially funny reading her author notes in the sidebar of the manga as an adult. A lot of the stuff went over my head as a teen, but she really did not care about the main couple at all. She was all in for Nakago from the beginning, and it's pretty great to have the mangaka so devoted to the villain's development in a shoujo. I still have a huge amount of love for FY. Have the manga singles and Animerica Extra full run, the Geneon/Pioneer DVD boxes (got the Japanese Tasuki VA to sign one too), and one of the first online orders I ever made back around 2001 was a Seiryu dragon wall scroll that I still have hanging up. I'm sure it feels incredibly dated to new people, but good lord do I enjoy the melodrama in this show. The soundtrack is still awesome, too. |
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xxmsxx
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Damn, I wish it would last one week longer, then I would have a chance to visit.
Still waiting for Genbu Kaiden to be adapted. |
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