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| Fushigi Yuugi (roughly translated to Mysterious Play) is the story of a fifteen year old girl, Miaka Yuuki and her bestfriend, Yui Hongo. The two girls were to ordinary junior high school students studying to take their high school entrance exam. One day, Yui asked Miaka to come with her to the National Library to return a book that she had borrowed. While waiting, Miaka saw a red phoenix disappear into a private room called "Important Documents Reference Room" and she followed it into the room. Yui looks for Miaka and finds her with a mysterious book called " The Universe of the Four Gods". |
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| As it turns out, the story itself is an incantation and when they read it out loud, it sucked them into a fictional world resembling ancient China. In this new world, there are four rival countrys: Konan, Kutou, Hokkan and Sailo, which are each protected by their own god. The gods ca only be summoned by their Mikos (priestesses), which are girls who come from another world (Earth). When they were sucked into the world, they were almost immediately harrased by a couple of traffickers, but suddenly a guy appears to save them. He has a Chinese character on his forehead, the sign of ogre. Both of the girls take an instant liking to him. Money seems to be all he cares about and when he found out that the girls have no money to give him in return for saving their lives, he left them. Yui runs after him but all of a sudden a red light and she was sucked back in to her world. Thinking that the boy had kidnapped her friend , Miaka left to follow him. After being assaulted by a group of men in the street, Miaka was once again saved by the boy. He introduced himself as Sou Kishuku or Tamahome. Later, Miaka met the emperor, who told her of the legend of the Suzaku no Miko or priestess of Suzaku. |
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| Miaka learned that the country she was in is called Konan, the southern country of the universe of the four gods. The four gods are the phoenix god Suzaku of southern Konan, the dragon god Seiryuu of eastern Kutou, the tortoise god Genbu of the northern Hokkan, and the white tiger god Byakko of western Sailo. Emperor Hotohori told Miaka of the legend that a young girl would appear from another world and gather the Suzaku schichiseishi. The schichiseishi are seven warriors marked by a glowing Chinese symbol on a part of their bodies. When the shichiseishi were gathered by the miko, the respective beast god would appear and grant the miko three wishes. Miaka accepted her role as a Suzaku no Miko and eventually falls in love with Tamahome, one of her shiciceishi, along with Emperor Hotohori, Nuriko, Chichiri, Tasuki, Mitsukake and Chiriko. |
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| Through powerful magic, Miaka is allowed to return to Tokyo. Once there however, she discovers that Yui is missing and realizes that her friend was pulled back into the book! Miaka returns to the library and opens "The Universe of the Four Gods" determined to return and find her friend. Three months had passed in the world of the four gods while its only been 24 hours in Tokyo. Miaka's love, Tamahome has left in search of wealth. Travelling with another shichiseishi, Nuriko, Miaka meets Tamahome and meets a strange priest with mysterious powers. She then leaves them and enters Kutou country where she believes Yui would be. She finds Yui in the care of Nakago, the Shogun. Yui agrees to leave with her friend until she overhears Miaka telling Tamahome that the only reason that she returned was to be with him. Yui, who is also in love with Tamahome, was not only hurt but believes that Miaka did not return for her at all. Enraged, she becomes Seiryuu no Miko, Suzaku no Miko's enemy. |
| And so the battle begins, friend against friend, in a race to see who can gather their shichiseishi and summon their deity first. |
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