Audience reviews
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XxshizxX
Fushigi Yuugi was made in 1995. While it might not be the absolute origin of the genre, it is one of the foundational anime that popularized the tropes we see everywhere today, like reverse harem and isekai. It didn't copy these tropes... it literally helped build them.
However, because it laid the blueprint, it might not be recommended for the newer generation of anime fans. Also, if you have already watched a massive amount of modern romance, isekai, and reverse harem, this show might feel incredibly repetitive or predictable to you.
Additionally, it is not recommended for individuals who are easily irritated by bubbly, weaker, or melodramatic protagonists. Due to a major shift in modern audience mindsets, the helpless "damsel in distress" is no longer popular and is often deemed highl…
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The overall plot and the story structure is actually really good and complex even for today's standards, however the execution is just... sad (it has so much potentials but the character writing destroyed all the redeemable qualities in this show).
The concepts and the general plots can easily makes this a 7 to 9 show, the story can be really intriguing when the plots hit and they hit hard. Of course, for a 90s TV the pacing is slow and draggy due to the TV rules back then (I have to admit I have speeded up the show, I don't think I would finish it otherwise). A lot of cliches and tropic plots, but I would let it slide cuz this is a very 90s thing (you don't appreciate vintages for their utilities or performance). And the audio and animation departments are unimpressed through out, nothin…
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Fushigi Yuugi is one of those classic shoujo isekai anime that may be from the ’90s, but its emotional impact, character arcs, and sweeping romance still hold up today. I genuinely enjoyed this series, it’s a nostalgic blend of fantasy, drama, and heartache, with just enough humor and magic to balance out the heavier moments.
The story follows Miaka Yūki, a modern day schoolgirl who gets pulled into the world of a mysterious book and becomes the Priestess of Suzaku. What starts as a fantastical adventure soon turns into a tale of destiny, betrayal, and love as she searches for the Seven Celestial Warriors and navigates her growing feelings for Tamahome. The emotional highs and lows of their relationship had me hooked, and the stakes only grew more intense as the story progressed.
Despite…
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Similarly to what a good handful of what even the positive reviews have said, this show really isn’t that big of a deal as some would make it out to be. In terms of positives, there’s definitely a few good bits of tension here and there, a majority of the characters are written kinda decently, I think the stuff with Miaka and Tamahome is cute for the majority, and I like how the story changes up it’s style just a little bit halfway through. Like, the first half is essentially Dragon Ball but you’re hunting for guys, and the other half is like a JJBA “go beat Dio in the wilderness” kind of thing.
I have two big problems though. The first biggest problem is the pacing of the show is absolutely miserable. Constantly and extremely often the series rollercoasters between cramming as many scena…
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Fushigi Yuugi is a classic, chaotic, and unforgettable anime in all ways. For some, I agree that the animation won't fit right, but let's be real. It's a 1995 anime, so of course, it's like that. We wouldn't ruin the fun of the plot just because of the animation.
Alright, let’s get into Miaka’s character since she's the protagonist. Honestly, she’s the definition of frustrating and annoying at its highest level. Like, half the time all you hear is her screaming “Tamahome, Tamahome!” on loop. I get she’s in love, but come on, does she even have a personality outside of her obsession with Tamahome? She’s supposed to be this destined priestess of Suzaku who is supposed to be saving the kingdom, yet she constantly needs to be saved, running headfirst into danger, and generally causing chaos t…
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It is an extremely under-rated anime in English-speaking areas of the world. I first read the manga version and it was mind-blowing. It was a great reference manga for pre-Qing dynasty Chinese material culture.
Each episode is a flavor bomb of emotions and mutual reliance to achieve the protagonists' goals in this isekai realm. Wuxia elements are very predominant. I also recommend this anime as a way for you to get used to wuxia literature.
Sure, some plot twists would annoy the experiences. However, the flow of the story is very rigid enough to be as enjoyable for the viewers.
Anyways, the jazzy ending song was a huge inspiration for me to listen to jazz music when I was a teen.
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Personally, I had to struggle to finish this anime. I knew it involved romance, but I expected it to not be the dominating factor. I know people like to joke about Sakura from Naruto being useless, but if you decide to watch this anime and expect a strong, independent female character, then I'm afraid you'll be disappointed. The fact that the main character and her friend end up in ancient China is fascinating. From what I've gathered, this anime is one of the first "iseki" anime. While this is interesting, the anime slowly develops into this sad, pathetic love triangle over a guy with the main character and her friend (who is her enemy at the time). There are some cool fight scenes and plot developments, but please be prepared for nonsensical romance arcs that add nothing to the plot.
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As my first anime and the one that will hold that special place for me it is something that I am unsure will stay popular for people watching it now. The plot is rather generic for 2020 standards but has some very memorable characters and was very good for it's time. Very typical story that we see when it came out with the stepping into a love story and to me really launched the genre.
It will always be a classic with 90's complexity to love and life. I think where it really shines is in how they have many characters that you can relate to and really build a fandom around.
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Trigger Warning:
This show has multiple scenes of attempted rape. They're not explicitly showed, but it does hint that attempts happened/tried to happen.
As cute of a show it looks on the outside, it can get pretty dark, which is why I put the warning up first.
Aside from that-
I didn't think I would enjoy this much because based on the cover art, it looks like a reverse harem. Most of the reverse harems I've seen have not had that great of stories, and are more for fanservice.
But this show wasn't a reverse harem (or not emphasized to be). Thank god! A few characters do crush on our main girl, but it's not focused on those aspects. Cool, she's surrounded by handsome guys, but the anime focuses more on the plot and developing the characters individually rather than trying to use the m…
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Review in English and then in Spanish....
Introduction
This time and seeing that I had time on my schedule. I chose to return about 25 years in the industry to observe some of the work of the Pierrot study back then, and I found it striking not only because of its synopsis and genres it covers, but also the good overall average score that “MAL” leaves us. " But let us not go any further and enter fully into the analysis.
Story: (5/10)
(SPOILERS)
This section tells us the adventures of how 2 friends find a strange book in a library and are taken inside it to another world from the ancient Chinese era, where the protagonist Miaka ends up being a priestess who is in charge of gathering her guardians to invoke to the spirit of Suzaku and thus be able to fulfill his desire to return his li…
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I went into this anime not expecting much and I think that is why I enjoyed it so much. If I had to sum it up; if this seems like the type of anime that you would dislike, then you will dislike it. If it seems like the type of anime you will enjoy then you won't necessarily enjoy it.
STORY- 6
It's a very typical story for this kind of show and it doesn't really do anything outstanding. One thing that really spiked my enjoyment for this show is how it handled it's cliff hangers. I think they were timed perfectly, I just had to watch the next episode, despite it not really being that mindblowing.
However! What the show does, it does well. It's satisfying to watch and I personally never really felt like it was wasting all that much time. Although the middle was a bit more boring than the r…
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Brought to us by the same guy who made Ayashi no Ceres, and basically following the same formula to the point I will reuse text from the review I made for it. It another one of those sappy melodramatic shows that made some impression at their time but were otherwise forgotten fast after several other better shows came about.
Romance is a very specific genre. There is not much variation to how “boy and girl meet” and usually everyone expects the exact same thing to happen in the conclusion. That is why to spice things up, the conditions under which the boy and the girl meet or the ordeals they are going through need to be different each time, in order to at least make the world around the otherwise one-track romance to appear interesting.
Take this series for example. We have quite the us…
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I watched an episode of this a week when I was in college with a group of girls in our dorm rooms, and every week, we were amply entertained by the insanity of the story. The story is so wild, the characters so over the top, everything just so outrageous, that So Bad It's Good and Go Big or Go Home both equally describe this anime.
I assume it was pretty groundbreaking and unusual at the time of it's creation and inspired many anime's after it, so for that reason alone, it's worth checking out. But the balls to the wall story is honestly another great reason to watch as well.
No, I would not say this is a well-written anime. But boy was it a lot of fun.
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Fushigi Yûgi is like if The Neverending Story was a melodramatic soap opera. It literally has the same precurser to The Neverending Story: two girls go to an antiquated library and then get rabbit holed into a magical storybook, but in this variation, it isn’t a high fantasy world, but a mystical version of ancient China. This series would have been much stronger if Yu Watase could write a story without leaning on the same old, tired reverse harem tropes.
• As far as the characters are concerned, there are a multitudinous amount in this series. There are seven Celestial Warriors to protecting the priestesses of fate from the opposing factionsーthe warring territories of the Gods: Suzaku & Seiryuu; exactly like the rivalry between the Dragons of Heaven and the Dragons of Earth in X/1999 (CL…
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In a way this Anime reminds me of InuYasha, falling in to a ancient artefact of some sort and then ending up in a historical world. One episode wasn't enough I wanted to watch more, there were moments when I was on the edge of my seat, there were times that I was on the ground laughing and sometimes I was in tears of joy and sadness. Just finished all of the episode and OVA and now it's over. If you like action comedy with dramatic moments that you would think "Oh My God!" with a huge smear of romance, then this is the show for you.
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This is the kind of show that you can come back to anytime to watch again and never be disappointed! The plot is outstanding with amazing characters that you become attached to throughout the show.
The PG-13 rating is very accurate as the show contains non-graphic nudity at times, but other than that it is extremely enjoyable. You can really tell that a show is good when one of the characters die halfway through and you just think "I don't think I want to watch this anymore" or "This show will never be the same without him/her".
The art is unique to the time period that this anime was written in, so if you're new to anime then I wouldn't let that put you off, it's well worth the watch! There is amazing character development and hilarity throughout; It is both the most hilarious yet enjo…
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First off, I'm going to start with the fact that I finished this anime, all 52 episodes and I'm still not sure why. I couldn't stand most of the characters, the art is outdated, the story is decent but there are so many stupid tropes and situations that I stopped watching it several times throughout the series.
But I returned to finish it. Why? Because despite the annoying characters, painful voice acting, and dumb tropes, it has a weird sort of charm. Maybe I'm just nostalgic for shows I watched in my childhood (mainly Inuyasha, actually) but I actually enjoyed it.
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I can understand why so many people gave low ratings to this anime while some gave higher ones. It mainly depends on your preferences as well as your gender. This is a shoujo type anime. If you're not into shoujo - fantasy romance, then don't watch this, or you'll only get annoyed.
Okay, so personally, I am a shoujo fan and I absolutely love reverse harem type series. So I definitely enjoyed reading the original FY mangas and when they've announced it was going to have an anime adaptation I literally flipped. I was so excited!
The series started with Miaka, the MC getting sucked in a magical book and became the main heroine who needs to find the 7 celestial warriors of Suzaku (all handsome men) in order for her to save the world. I know, i know! this sounds really cliche as there are tho…
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This anime is amazing! It keeps you always entertained. You always want to watch it. I have watched this anime for FIVE DAYS straight. The characters in the anime are so great! I don't even know how to describe them. All the characters have so much will power to protect one another. The story line in the anime is very entertaining as well. Since the anime was from the 1900s, the art style may not be so good. However, the storyline is amazing! So much love and so much friendship. The sound quality of this anime is not bad for an anime from the 1900s.
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I like Fushigi Yuugi but I don't really love the series... If I want to compare, I love Akatsuki no Yona much much more... Why? Because the heroin is not reckless as Miaka in Fushigi Yuugi...
Miaka always do something without thinking of the consequences... At most of the time, when that happens, she involves other members of the Suzaku seven to save her... they had to fight because of her recklessness... I know Suzaku seven exists to protect the Suzaku priestess... but if she is more aware of her position as the priestess, she might be able to avoid bad situations... On the other hand, I love Hotohori and Nuriko... They are cool...
The art resembles Saiunkoku Monogatari's...The plot is okay... Not boring since there are many ups and downs... It is fun too...Though, sometimes I felt tire…
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