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Yuu Watase's Fushigi Yūgi: Byakko Senki Manga Returns in Fall 2023

The November issue of Fushigi Yūgi: Byakko Senki manga will return in fall 2023.

The same November issue of Monthly Flowers Twitter last year the new one-shot was not connected to the Fushigi Yūgi: Byakko Senki manga.

Watase most recently licensed the series.

The manga will be the last story in the Fushigi Yūgi's "Four Gods" storyline. Watase previously explained that she was watching her health and stamina, and added that she would work hard to finish the story.

She previously Fushigi Yūgi: Byakko Ibun (Fushigi Yugi: Curious Tales of the Byakko) in Monthly Flowers in February 2015.

Watase serialized the original Fushigi Yûgi manga in Shogakukan's published both of these earlier manga and other works by Watase in North America.

The original manga inspired a 52-episode television anime series in 1995-1996. The manga also inspired three original video anime series. streaming the television series and three OVAs in February 2016.

Fushigi Yûgi has also inspired three stage play productions, as well as musicals.

Watase debuted the Arata: The Legend (returning with republished chapters in May 2021 and new chapters in July 2021. Watase previously resumed the manga in July 2015 (after an earlier 17-month hiatus), only to put the manga back on hiatus a month later.

The manga received a 12-episode anime streamed the series as it aired. Viz Media published the manga's 24th volume in English in August 2016.

Source: Monthly Flowers November issue