Trivia / Fushigi Yuugi: Genbu Kaiden

• Development Hell: Since Watase has been juggling several series at the same time, she only managed to publish 12 volumes throughout a whole decade.
• Flip-Flop of God: Takiko's relationship with Suzuno Osugi a.k.a the future Byakko no Miko. First they were said to be best friends, later it was stated that they had only seen each other few times. Word of God settled the best of both statements via revealing Suzuno being the daughter of Einosuke Okuda's Number Two and Takiko's doomed first crush, Takao Osugi; with the two families being in a close relationship and the two girls being Childhood Friends (at least on Suzuno's part).
• Role Reprise: As of the Drama CD and Game franchise, Nobuyuki Hiyama and Tetsuya Iwanaga from their Fushigi Yuugi act are both back for Hikitsu and Tomite respectively.
• Series Hiatus: The series went on hiatus from 2008 to 2010, since Watase was dealing with health issues and other work commitments.
• Trolling Creator: Watase clearly took advantage on her Fushigi Yuugi readers by giving them one hell of an emotional roller-coaster.
  • First, Tomite was quickly introduced ^note Second-in-line of celestial team intro, but first to accompany on journey. and knows Hikitsu by default, but it took way longer than anticipated to actually locate Hikitsu, which was 2 years in the waiting. ^note Hikitsu's the fifth-in-line.
  • Once Tomite switched to his blue (aka. death) outfit, fans have never slept well with each published release until they could confirm his survival. ...And that alone lasted 8 years.
  • Flags really sunk in to prepare fans for the deaths of Tomite and Hikitsu once Hikitsu switched his light blue tribal clothes into the black uniform The Odozoku Tribe provided him. And somehow Watase made it a rather unsettling atmosphere to have Hikitsu not revealing his outfit on plain sight, showing only bits and pieces underneath his heavy winter cloak. ...Then again, things didn't happen until the second-to-last chapter of the entire story.
  • Things were hopeful for assuring the survival of Takiko, since Watase did confirm to fans that she pended on that issue for some time. Until one fateful day a close friend of Watase's passed away, which made her rethink the whole thing again, and eventually decided to stay on her old plan of dropping the bridge on Takiko and Einosuke. Leaving fans in utter disbelief.

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