I wasn't very keen on the original Fushigi Yugi but found its later prequel to be much better. How will their latest installment of the story compare to the others?
FUSHIGI YUGI: BYAKKO SENKI by Yuu Watase. First published in 2017 and first published in North America in 2020.
PLOT:
Young Suzuno is a sweet, sheltered young girl growing up in 1920s Tokyo. Her father dotes upon her, but he has one rule: do not touch the book called The Universe of the Four Gods. He remembers all too well what happened to their family friend Takiko and he fears that the book is now seeking out Suzuno in turn. When her home and family are destroyed in the Great Kanto Earthquake, the only way to save Suzuno is to let the book draw her into its world. It is there that she meets a shapeshifting tiger-woman, a pair of desert-wandering orphans, and the first hints to Suzuno's true destiny as the Priestess of Byakko.
