Today's post is on Fushigi Yugi: The Mysterious Play, Volume 5: Rival by Yuu Watase. It is 189 pages long and is published by Shojo Beat. The cover has the two main characters on it facing the reader. The intended reader is someone who likes historical fantasy, high fantasy, romance, and shojo stories. There is mild foul language, mild sexuality, and violence in this story. The story is told from third person close of the main characters. There Be Spoilers Ahead.
From the back of the book- Honor among Thieves? Miaka Yuki is a ordinary teen suddenly transported into the world of a book. To save her newly adoptive country of Hong-Nan, she must scour the nation for the remaining three of the seven Celestial Warriors who will help her in her quest. But the search takes Miaka into the lair of bandits and to a plague-cursed town where she has to die to survive!
Review- The blurb does not go into the real meat of this volume which is trying to get Tamahome back from Qu-Dong. He went there to wait until Miaka found the last of the seven warriors and she does in this volume. But because Yui, Miaka's best friend, has also fallen in love with Tamahome she does not want him to leave. Her general promises that she can make Tamahome love her instead of Miaka. So most of the volume is really about Miaka deciding what she is going to do now. There is good fight scenes in this volume with some of the newer warriors getting to show their power and Chichiri's brains are on show for this volume and I liked that a lot. I think that this love spell that Tamahome is under if going to slow the plot down but we will see in the next volume.
I give this volume a Five out Five stars. I get nothing for my review and I bought this manga with my own money.
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