The White Tiger of the West

Announced for Summer 2020!

Byakko Ibun is here! The first issue has 51 pages of goodness according to Yuu Watase's blog. Who's buying a copy today or waiting for a preorder? 

Stay tune for spoilers! 

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One more day to go! Who do you think these characters are? Friend or foe? Does one of them look familiar to you? We might have seen him about 20 or so years ago ^_~

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Yuu Watase Twitter: https://twitter.com/wataseyuu_

Five more days to go! Who is ready?

A selection of coloured pages from Yuu Watase's Twitter and blog.

The girl's supposed to be the protagonist.

Sources:

Yuu Watase Twitter: https://twitter.com/wataseyuu_

Byakko Ibun is slated to start on February 28th in the March issue of Flowers. It is reported to be an yomikiri which is usually a one-shot story or a short story of a few chapters. Byakko Ibun is likely the latter given that the articles going around state that the series would start in February rather than just appear. 

Going by the picture, I'd hazard a guess that one or both the boy and girl are Byakko seishi that we haven't met. There is also the possibility that one summons the other as part of their seishi power or as a reverse of Uruki from Genbu Kaiden, the girl turns into the guy.

I think Yuu Watase would be writing this series in a disjointed fashion of side stories rather than as a serial like her other series as this might be more flexible for her while she finishes Arata Kangatari. She will be working on both series for 2015.

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https://www.animenewsnetwork.com/news/2015-01-27/fushigi-yugi-gets-new-manga-about-priestess-of-byakko/.83740