{"id":71,"date":"2007-09-03T20:35:34","date_gmt":"2007-09-03T20:35:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=71"},"modified":"2008-08-29T19:44:02","modified_gmt":"2008-08-29T19:44:02","slug":"fushigi-yuugi-oni-eikoden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=71","title":{"rendered":"Fushigi Yuugi &#8211; Oni &#038; Eikoden"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" id=\"image70\" src=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/09\/fushigi1.jpg\" alt=\"Fushigi\" \/> <em>Miaka (from TV series)<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A few weeks ago I got a complete cheapie set of Fushigi Yuugi. It tended to confirm my impression that this series has not stood the test of time particularly well. I was surprised, though, to discover how many OVA episodes came with it (13), and I have now had a bit of time to sort them out.<\/p>\n<p>Labelled as &#8220;Oni&#8221; are the first OVA set (3 episodes) released in 1996, with an entirely non-Watase script, and generally regarded as rather poor, and the second OVA set of 6 episodes, from 1997. The latter is based on manga volumes 14-18, though much more loosely adapted than is the case with the TV series, and is generally regarded as being better than OVA #1 despite being an attempt, as in the manga, to spin out the story at the request of fans past its natural ending. Apparently these 6 OVA #2 episodes are 45 minutes each.<\/p>\n<p>Then there is OVA #3 &#8220;Eikoden&#8221;, 4 episodes of 30 mins each, released in 2001, and adapted from a novel by Megumi Nishizaki, based on Yuu Watase&#8217;s characters. I&#8217;ve seen part of OVA #3 and not been much impressed by this attempt to drag the original characters out for a further airing.<\/p>\n<p>There are also two TV specials from 1996, never released in the US, probably because they are mostly a recap of the TV series.<\/p>\n<p>And if you want more, Megumi Nishizaki actually wrote 13 spin-off novels, and there&#8217;s a Fushigi Yuugi prequel manga, <strong>Fushigi Y\u00c5\u00abgi &#8211; Genbu Kaiden<\/strong> by  Yuu Watase.<\/p>\n<p>(for more about any of the above, see articles in <em>Wikipedia<\/em>.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Miaka (from TV series) A few weeks ago I got a complete cheapie set of Fushigi Yuugi. It tended to confirm my impression that this series has not stood the test of time particularly well. I was surprised, though, to discover how many OVA episodes came with it (13), and I have now had a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/?p=71\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Fushigi Yuugi &#8211; Oni &#038; Eikoden&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.sandg-anime-reviews.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}