Fushigi Yûgi
"Fushigi Yûgi" and its prequel series, "Fushigi Yûgi: Genbu Kaiden" and "Fushigi Yûgi: Byakko Senki", are all licensed for English-language releases in North America by Viz Media. Viz serialized "Fushigi Yûgi" in their manga anthology magazine, "Animerica Extra", starting with the October 1998 debut issue and running until the magazine's final issue in December 2004. The series was first released in a flipped trade paperback format, starting in August 1998. Viz kept the original Chinese names of characters and places, at the request of Watase, causing some confusion for fans as the anime version uses the Japanese names. After eight volumes, Viz put the release on hiatus, later reviving it in June 2003 with a re-release of the series in unflipped standard manga size volumes and printing volumes nine through eighteen. The final volume was released in April 2006. In the table below, the dates and ISBN numbers given for the first eight volumes are for the second edition releases. In January 2009, Viz again began re-releasing the series, this time as part of their "VIZBIG" line of manga, which include three of the original volumes into a single, larger volume with extra color pages. The first volume of "Genbu Kaiden" was released in English in July 2005; the twelfth and final volume was released in March 2014. Viz released the first volume of "Byakko Senki" in August 2020.