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Fushigi Yugi (OAV)

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Alternative title:
El Juego Misterioso Fushigi Yugi (Spanish)
Fushigi Yugi: Il Gioco Misterioso (Italian)
Mysterious Play
Tajemnica przeszłości (Polish)
ふしぎ遊戯 (Japanese)
Objectionable content: Significant
Plot Summary: A year after the events of Fushigi Yuugi, Tamahome is pulled back into the book and is sent on a complicated ride through illusion, confusion, and betrayal. Meanwhile, Yui is acting oddly and Miaka is heartbroken over the loss of Tamahome, while Keisuke and Tetsuya try to discover what is going on with the book.
User Ratings: 716 ratings have been given [details]
 Masterpiece: 52 votes (sub:30, dub:22)
 Excellent: 85 votes (sub:58, dub:23, ?:1, raw:1, others:2
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Polish subtitled
)
 Very good: 127 votes (sub:80, dub:42, ?:3, raw:1, others:1
1 French subtitled
)
 Good: 189 votes (sub:130, dub:51, ?:3, edit.dub:1, others:4
2 Russian subtitled
1 Spanish subtitled
1 Catalan dubbed
)
 Decent: 119 votes (sub:95, dub:20, ?:1, others:3
1 Italian dubbed
1 Portuguese dubbed
1 Spanish dubbed
)
 So-so: 57 votes (sub:45, dub:10, ?:1, edit.dub:1)
 Not really good: 40 votes (sub:35, dub:3, ?:1, others:1
1 Spanish subtitled
)
 Weak: 22 votes (sub:16, dub:6)
 Bad: 15 votes (sub:9, dub:5, edit.dub:1)
 Awful: 6 votes (sub:4, dub:2)
 Worst ever: 4 votes (sub:2, dub:1, others:1
1 Spanish dubbed
)
Seen in part or in whole by 1877 users, rank: #645 (of 10077)
Median rating: Good
Arithmetic mean: 6.823 (Good−), std. dev.: 1.9628, rank: #4818 (of 10260)
Weighted mean: 6.716 (Good−), rank: #5110 (of 10260) (seen all: 6.79 / seen some: 6.27 / won't finish: 3.45)
Bayesian estimate: 6.730 (Good−), rank: #4703 (of 7749)
Running time: 25 minutes per episode
Number of episodes: 3
Episode titles: We have 3
Vintage:
1996-10-25 to 1997-02-25
2015-04-25 (Philippines - TV5 AniMEGA)
Release dates: We have 9
Opening Theme:
"Yo ga Akeru Mae ni" by Akemi Satou
Ending Theme:
"Ashita no Watashi o Shinjitai" (明日の私を信じたい) by Saori Ishizuka
Official website:
Fushigi Yuugi - Pierrot (Japanese)
Links: We have 2
Trivia: We have 1
Review:
Fushigi Yuugi OVA DVD (Jan 16, 2002)
News: Show:
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Media Blasters Updates on Scheduled Releases (Dec 1, 2012)
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DVD (Region 1)
    Fushigi Yugi - OVA Collection (DVD) 2013-05-14 (from $20.50)
    Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play - Oni Box (DVD) 2001-06-05 (from $17.98)
VHS
    Fushigi Yûgi - Illusions (Dub.VHS 1) 2000-11-21 (from $29.99)
    Fushigi Yûgi - Illusions (Sub.VHS 1) 2000-11-14

Japanese staff
Japanese cast
Director: Hajime Kamegaki
Screenplay: Genki Yoshimura
Storyboard: Hajime Kamegaki
Music: Yusuke Honma
Original story: Yuu Watase
Character Design: Hideyuki Motohashi
Art Director:
Hitoshi Nagasaki
Yūji Ikeda
Animation Director: Hideyuki Motohashi
Sound Director: Katsunori Shimizu
Director of Photography: Tomoyoshi Ishizuka
Executive producer:
Shigeru Watanabe (Bandai Visual)
Yūji Nunokawa (Pierrot)
Yutaka Takahashi (MOVIC)
Producer:
Chizuko Kanno
Ken Matsumoto
Kōichi Kikuchi
Koichi Mikami 
Michiyuki Honma

Background Art:
Hitoshi Nagasaki (ep 3)
Kazuya Fukuda (eps 1-2)
Kenji Fujikawa (eps 1-2)
Michiko Taniguchi (eps 1-2)
Mio Isshiki (eps 1-2)
Noriyoshi Doi (ep 3)
Saori Sugita (eps 1-2)
Sawako Takagi (eps 1-2)
Yong Il Park (eps 1-2)
Yutaka Itō (ep 3)
Color design: Mika Iwami
Editing:
Hiroshi Itō
Masahiro Matsumura
Finish Check: Yoshiko Takiguchi (eps 1-3)
In-Between Animation: Eitarō Abe (Studio Pierrot Fukuoka; eps 2-3)
In-Between Check: Yaeko Kodama (eps 1-3)
Key Animation:
Hajime Kamegaki (ep 3)
Kinuko Izumi (ep 1)
Minako Shiba (eps 1-3)
Susumu Nishizawa (eps 1-3)
Yoshinori Tokiya (eps 1-3)
Yuko Kusumoto (eps 1-3)
Yuriko Nagaya (eps 1-2)
Music Director: Akihiko Fujita
Photography:
Juri Harima (eps 1-3)
Kōji Yamakoshi (eps 1-3)
Masaki Kubomura (eps 1-3)
Miki Kameda (eps 1-3)
Yūichi Katsumata (eps 1-3)
Production manager: Koichi Mikami
Recording Adjustment:
Masato Mutō
Ryō Narikiyo
Sound Effects: Shōji Katō
Sound Production: Yūko Suzuki (Zack Promotion)
Special Effects: Kenji Ikeda
Special Thanks To: Yuji Hosokawa (Shogakukan)
Theme Song Lyrics: Saori Ishizuka
Theme Song Performance:
Akemi Satō (OP)
Saori Ishizuka (ED)
Video Editing: Yukiko Inoue (Glovision)
Hikaru Midorikawa as Tamahome
Kae Araki as Miaka Yuki

Jūrōta Kosugi as Tenkou (ep 3)
Nobutoshi Hayashi as Tasuki
Tomokazu Seki as Chichiri
Yumi Touma as Yui Hongo

Akemi Satō as
Girl (ep 1)
Kaen (ep 2)
Atsuko Mine as Kai-ka's Mother (ep 2)
Atsuko Tanaka as
Soi
Takiko Okuda
Chika Sakamoto as
Nuriko (ep 3)
Prince Ereditario (ep 1)
Hikaru Midorikawa as Taka Sukunami
Hiroko Konishi as Naomi Kyomoto
Hisako Kyōda as Taiitsukun (ep 3)
Katsuya Shiga as Toki
Ken Narita as
Suzaku Seikun
Tetsuya Kajiwara
Kōji Ishii as
Minister (ep 1)
Mitsukake
Villager (ep 2)
Kyōko Hikami as Nyan Nyan
Midori Nakazawa as
Maid (ep 1)
Miboshi
Nobuaki Fukuda as Kai-Ka's Father (ep 2)
Nobuo Tobita as
Soldier (ep 1)
Tomo
Nobutoshi Hayashi as Kaika (ep 1)
Ryūzaburō Ōtomo as Ashitare
Shinichirō Miki as Keisuki Yuki
Takehito Koyasu as
Hotohori (ep 3)
Soldier (ep 1)
Tomokazu Seki as Kouji (ep 2)
Tomoko Kawakami as
Child (ep 1)
Chiriko
Nyan-Nyan
Tōru Furusawa as
Minister (ep 1)
Nakago
Yūji Ueda as
Amiboshi
Kaika (ep 1)
Kojuku (ep 3)
Suboshi
Yumi Touma as Tama (ep 2)
Japanese companies
Animation Production: Studio Pierrot
Backgrounds:
See Throu Studio (eps 1-2)
Studio Wyeth (eps 1-3)
Editing: Jay Film
Film Processing: Tokyo Laboratory
Finish Animation:
Anime World Osaka (ep 2)
MI (ep 1)
Production I.G (ep 1)
Studio Add (eps 1-2)
Studio Killy (ep 1)
Studio OM (eps 1-3)
Studio Pierrot Fukuoka (eps 1-3)
In-Between Animation:
Anime World Osaka (eps 1-2)
Dragon Production (ep 1)
Studio Live (ep 1)
Studio Pierrot Animation Room (eps 1-2)
Studio Pierrot Fukuoka (eps 1-3)
Studio Z5 (eps 1-3)
Tamazawa Dōgasha (eps 1-2)
Twenty First (ep 1)
Photography: T. Nishimura
Producer:
Bandai Visual
MOVIC
Studio Pierrot
Recording Studio: Seion Studio
Sound Effects: Anime Sound Production
Sound Production: Zack Promotion
Titles: Maki Production
Video Editing: Glovision
English staff
English cast
ADR Director: Bridget Hoffman
Translation: Neil Nadelman
ADR Script: Bridget Hoffman
Executive producer: Hideki 'Henry' Goto
Producer:
Haruyo Kanesaku
Hiroe Tsukamoto
Yutaka Maseba

Additional Sound Effects: Michael McCarty
Assistant producer:
Kevin Chu
Osamu Maseba
Taku Otsuka
Casting: Jenny Haniver
Digital ADR Engineer: Phil Brewster
Digital ADR Tracking: 'Big Phil' Brewster
DVD Engineer: Songyi Liu
Final Mix:
Les Claypool III
Michael McCarty
Scheduling: Jenny Haniver
Subtitle Timing: Neil Nadelman
Supervision: Jenny Haniver
Bo Williams as Tetsuya
David Hayter as Tamahome/Taka Sukunami
David Umansky as Keisuke Yuka
Ruby Marlowe as Miaka Yuuki

Dean Elliot as Tenkou
Gregory Kuhn as Toki Osugi
Melissa Williamson as Nuriko (ep 3)
Sean Mitchell as Chichiri
Wendee Lee as Yui Hongo

Bryce Rothstein as
Gyoushiku (ep 1)
Hikitsu (young; ep 3)
Catherine Luciani as Taiitsukun (ep 3)
Christy Mathewson as
Civilian Walla (ep 1)
Ice Cream Store Clerk (ep 3)
Chuck Farley as Konan Torturer (ep 1)
Cody MacKenzie as Tomite (ep 3)
David Ellenstein as Informing Guard A (ep 1)
David Lucas as
Councilor (ep 1)
Disposal Guard B (ep 1)
Kobushi (ep 2)
Dean Elliot as Neighbor (ep 2)
Dean Michaels as Informing Guard B (ep 1)
Debbie Derosa as Handmaiden A (ep 1)
Debbie Papenbrook as Handmaiden B (ep 1)
Dorothy Melendrez as Playing Boy B (ep 1)
Ethan Murray as Kouji (ep 2)
Georgette Rose as Kaen
Harold Muckle as
Disposal Guard A (ep 1)
Tomo
Heather Ashton as
Handmaiden Walla (ep 2)
Playing Boy A (ep 1)
Jack Hammer as Nakago
James Penrod as Tasuki
Jane Alan as Kai-ka's Mother (ep 2)
Josh Gerhardt as
Black-Haired Bandit (ep 2)
Distrustful Guard A (ep 1)
Neighbor Walla (ep 2)
Lia Sargent as Civilian Walla (ep 1)
Lisa Tarulli as Civilian Walla (ep 1)
Marie Downing as Nyan-Nyan (ep 3)
Matt 'Masamune' Miller as
Civilian Walla (ep 1)
Headband Bandit (ep 2)
Neighbor Walla (ep 2)
Mike D'Gard as Mitsukake (ep 3)
Mona Marshall as Handmaiden Walla (ep 3)
Sam Strong as Distrustful Guard B (ep 1)
Sharon Alsina as Takiko
Sparky Thornton as Emperor Hotohori (ep 3)
Steve Cannon as Amiboshi/Suboshi
W.T. Hatch as Kai-Ka's Father (ep 2)
Wycliff Shaunesey as Civilian Walla (ep 1)
Zan as Chiriko (ep 3)

Alfred Thor
Barbara Goodson
Christy Mathewson
Chuck Farley
David Ellenstein
Dean Elliot
Dean Michaels
Debbie Derosa
Debbie Papenbrook
Dorothy Melendrez
Ethan Murray
Gregory Kuhn
Heather Ashton
Josh Gerhardt
Lia Sargent
Lisa Tarulli
Marie Downing
Matt 'Masamune' Miller
Mona Marshall
Richard Plantagenet
Richard Rahl
Sam Strong
Shefra Batyah
Sonja S. Fox
W.T. Hatch
Winfred Couts
Wycliff Shaunesey
English companies
French staff
French companies
(none)
Distributor: Dybex
French cast
(none)
Spanish staff
Spanish cast
ADR Director:
Joaquín Gómez (Spain dub)
Teresa Manresa (Catalan dub)
Translation:
Alessandra Moura (Spain dub)
María Ferrer (Spain dub)
Executive producer: José Luis Puertas

Screen Inserts: Joaquín Gómez (Spain dub)
Theme Song Performance:
Meritxell Sota (ED1; Catalan dub)
Montserrat Ros (ED2; Catalan dub)
Silvia Guillem (OP; Catalan dub)
Aleix Estadella as Tamahome (Catalan dub)
Belén Roca as Miaka Yuuki (Catalan dub)
Carmen Calvell as Miaka Yuuki (Spain dub)
Francesc Rocamora as Tamahome (Spain dub)

Anna Romano as Kaen (Spain dub)
Carles Lladó as Tasuki (Spain dub)
Enrique Hernández as Chichiri (Spain dub)
Ivan Pera as Chichiri (Catalan dub)
Jaume Villanueva as Tasuki (Catalan dub)
Joaquín Gómez as Tenkou (Spain dub)
Noemi Bayarri as Yui Hongo (Spain dub)

Anna Orra as
Kaika's Mother (Spain dub)
Nuriko (Spain dub)
Anna Romano as
Gyoushiku (Spain dub)
Nyan-Nyan (Spain dub)
Takiko Okuda (Spain dub)
Antoni Forteza as
Keisuke Yuuki (Catalan dub)
Nakago (Catalan dub)
Carles Lladó as Kaika/Suboshi (Spain dub)
Domenech Farell as Tomo (Catalan dub)
Enrique Hernández as Keisuke Yuuki (Spain dub)
Francesc Figuerola as Hotohori (Catalan dub)
Gloria Garcia as Chiriko (Spain dub)
Gloria Gonzalez as Taiitsu (Spain dub)
Glòria Roig as Taiitsu (Catalan dub)
Joaquín Gómez as Mitsukake (Spain dub)
Jordi Pineda as
Amiboshi (Spain dub)
Kouji (Spain dub)
Tetsuya Kajiwara (Spain dub)
José Antonio Teruel as Kaika's Father (Spain dub)
Josep Maria Mas as Mitsukake (Catalan dub)
Kike Caraballo as
Nakago (Spain dub)
Toki Osugi (Spain dub)
Lourdes López as Nuriko (Catalan dub)
Mar Roca as Gyoshiku (Catalan dub)
Maria Josep Guasch as Chiriko (Catalan dub)
Santi Lorenz as
Koji (Catalan dub)
Roko (Catalan dub)
Yosui (Catalan dub)
Tasio Alonso as Tomo (Spain dub)
Teresa Manresa as Yui Hongo (Catalan dub)
Toni Mora as Hotohori (Spain dub)

Jordi Vilaseca (Catalan dub)
Spanish companies
Dubbing Studio:
Mix Sound (Spain dub)
Soundtrack (Catalan dub)
Licensed by: Jonu Media (Spain)
Translation: Traducciones Imposibles (Spain dub)
Italian staff
Italian cast
Dubbing Director: Melina Martello
Art Director: Laura Valentini
Translation: Laura Valentini
Executive producer: Francesco Di Sanzo

Dialogues: Barbara Chies
Dubbing Assistant: Elisabetta Liberti
Federica De Bortoli as Miaka Yuki
Patrizio Prata as Tomahome

Debora Magnaghi as Nuriko
Massimiliano Alto as Tasuki
Massimiliano Manfredi as Imperatore Hotohori
Simone D'Andrea as Chichiri

Barbara De Bortoli as Yui Hongo
Daniele Raffaeli as
Amiboshi
Suboshi
Emanuela Baroni as Takiko
Fabrizio Vidale as Tetsuya
Flavio Aquilone as Principe imperiale ereditario
Francesco Bulckaen as Koji
Francesco Prando as Nakago
Gianluca Tusco as Mitsukake
Ilaria Latini as Kaen
Ilaria Stagni as
Chiriko
Soi
Letizia Ciampa as Nyan Nyan
Massimo Rossi as Toki
Maurizio Romano as Tomo
Perla Liberatori as Miboshi
Roberto Stocchi as Ashitare
Sergio Di Stefano as Tenko
Solvejg D'Assunta as Taiitsukun
Stefano Crescentini as Keisuke Yuki
Italian companies
Broadcaster: Cultoon (from September 2009)
Distributor: Dynamic Italia
Dubbing: CVD
Internet Streaming: PopCorn TV
Sound Dubbing: Cooperativa Eddy Cortese
German staff
German cast
(none)
German companies
Distributor: OVA Films
Tagalog staff
Tagalog cast
(none)
Lloyd Navera as Tamahome
Rose Barin as Miaka
Tagalog companies
Broadcaster: TV5
Polish staff
Polish companies
(none)
Broadcaster: Hyper
Polish cast
(none)

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