Profilic shojo (girls') comics artist Yu Watase has created a wonderfully exciting, funny, and heartfelt tale of a normal school girl who is transported into a fictional version of ancient China. She encounters base villains and dashing heroes, and still manages to worry about her grades and where her next banquet is coming from. Miaka Yuki is an ordinary junior-high-school student who is transported into the world of a book. The Universe of the Four Gods. To save her newly adoptive country of Hong-Nan, Miaka must take on the role of Priestess of Suzaku and scour the nation for the Celestial Warriors of Suzaku who will aid her in her quest. But her search takes her to places such as a lair of bandits, and also a plague-cursed town where she has to die to survive. During her quest, Miaka meets up with the likes of Tamahome, a dashing miser, and Hotohori, the beautiful emporer of Hong-Nan. They are both celestial warriors and are both in love with her. She also meets Chichiri, a former disciple of Tai Yi-Jun and Nuriko, an amazingly strong cross-dresser. Both of which are also celestial warriors. Later during her journey, she becomes enemies with the most unlikely person of all who has now become the Priestess of Seiryu. I do not want to spoil the story too much for those of you who have not read or watched it, so I will leave it there. Fushigi Yugi is most definately one of the most beloved fantasies from one of Japan's top creators.