Crunchyroll has expanded with some welcome catalog titles this week that will definitely catch the eye of older fans as they’ve picked up the Fushigi Yugi TV series, Fushigi Yugi OVA, and Fushigi Yugi: Eikoden. The entire run is now available will be available for Premium members in the U.S., Canada, the United Kingdom, Ireland, Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Norway, Sweden, Finland, Iceland, Denmark and the Netherlands. Free members will be able to watch 26 episodes at launch, with the remaining episodes released 26 episodes at a time the following weeks.
Media Blasters brought out the TV series on DVD last spring again in North America. The show was originally licensed and released by Pioneer back at the dawn of the DVD era.
Plot concept: Miaka, a junior high school student in Tokyo, has normal problems: fights with her mom, entrance exams, and deciding where she’s going to go eat with her friends. Then, she finds a mysterious book in the library, The Universe of the Four Gods, and her life is changed forever when she and her friend Yui are transported inside it!
Upon arriving in this new universe, the girls are immediately attacked by would-be slavers. Lucky for them, a dashing young man happens to be around! Saved from the would-be slavers, both girls are enthralled with him, but all he’s really after is money! When Miaka isn’t looking, both Tamahome and Yui vanish. Could he have kidnapped her to sell her for money? Unbeknownst to Miaka, Yui has been sucked back into the real world. Back in the library, all she can do is read on as her childhood friend sets out for the city to find the mysterious young man.
But what awaits for Miaka isn’t what either of the girls expect – and now Miaka’s only way back to her world is to become the Priestess of Suzaku and save their world.
