The series debuted in 2017
Shogakukan’s Monthly Flowers magazine revealed on Twitter on Tuesday that Yuu Watase’s Fushigi Yūgi: Byakko Senki manga will resume serialization in its July issue on May 28.
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月刊フラワーズ2024年7月号（5/28頃発売）にて連載再開!!
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続報pic.twitter.com/FenIGrPJZB— 月刊フラワーズ編集部 (@flowers_ edit) December 27, 2023
The series was originally scheduled to be published back in the fall.
Watase most recently launched the Fushigi Yūgi: Byakko Senki manga in Monthly Flowers magazine in August 2017. The manga went on hiatus in August 2018 due to Watase’s poor physical condition and is currently on hiatus. Shogakukan published the manga’s first compiled book volume in April 2018. Viz Media licensed the series.
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© Yuu Watase, Shogakukan
The manga will be the final story in Fushigi Yūgi’s “Four Spirits” storyline. Watase previously explained that she is monitoring her health and stamina, adding that she will work hard to complete the story.
She previously published a 51-page one-volume manga titled Fushigi Yūgi: Byakko Ibun (Fushigi Yugi: Curious Tales of the Byakko) in Monthly Flowers magazine in February 2015.
Watase serialized the original Fushigi Yûgi manga in Shogakukan’s Shōjo Comic (Sho-Comi) magazine from 1992 to 1996, and Shogakukan published 18 compilation volumes. She then drew Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden from 2003 to 2013. Viz Media published both previous manga and Watase’s other works in North America.
The original manga inspired a 52-episode anime television series in 1995-1996. The manga also draws inspiration from the original three anime video series. Geneon Entertainment first released the television series and three OVAs in North America. Media Blasters later re-released the television series on DVD in 2012-2013 and again in 2015. Media Blasters also released the three OVA series on DVD in 2013. Crunchyroll began streaming this television series and three OVA series in February 2016.
Fushigi Yûgi also inspired three stage plays as well as stage musicals.
Watase launched the Arata: The Legend (Arata Kangatari) manga in Weekly Shōnen Magazine in 2008. The manga went on a publishing hiatus for five years, before returning with republished chapters in May 2008. 2021 and new chapters in July 2021. Watase previously resumed the manga in July 2015 (after a previous 17-month hiatus), only for the manga to return to hiatus a month later.
The manga was adapted into a 12-episode anime in 2013, and Crunchyroll streamed the series as it aired. Viz Media published the manga’s 24th compiled book volume in English in August 2016.
Source: Monthly Flowers Twitter account
