Yuu Watase Appreciation Blog!

Hello everyone! Kinda surprised I haven’t lost a single follower all this time...

I just wanted to let you all know that I have deleted all screencaps and reproductions of Watase’s work on this blog. In the time since I’ve started this blog, I have gone from shamelessly often reading manga illegally online to now understanding how much piracy and unauthorized reproduction of art harms and artist. Watase blatantly states on her Twitter that an unauthorized reproduction of her work is not allowed, and out of respect I have taken it all down from this blog. This discludes things she has publicly posted on Twitter. I’ve left up all my answered asks and texts posts as well as cosplay posts. Thank you for understanding.

I’ve hardly been on this blog in the past year at least and I just want to share that I’m informally declaring it inactive. I still love the works of Yuu Watase, but unfortunately I just couldn’t keep up with this blog and I have other things in my life to attend to and new, more important hobbies to me.

I would have gladly turned this blog over to someone else if it weren’t for the fact that it’s still attached to my main blog that I still use.

I really love this idea! I’m picturing mainly how they’d all be in high school.

Tamahome: I don’t think he’d be very good at school and probably be more athletic and into sports, but maybe video games too. He’d definitely listen to angsty early 2000s punk rock (even though Fushigi Yuugi takes place in the mid 1990s haha)Hotohori: in my mind he’d be the star of drama club and still be the wonderfully vain pretty boy he is. He’d listen to modern pop music.Nuriko: Nuriko is so complex and hard to characterize to me! Perhaps they’d be in an art club?Chichiri: well Chichiri is definitely studious, so I think he’d be into studying and reading, definitely interested in old literature studies and language. He’d listen to Enka or something haha!Tasuki: Tasuki is definitely one of those people who thinks he like the bancho or something and so tough but isn’t actually that intimidating! Maybe he’d be interested in cars and fashion and definitely listen to some hard rock/metal.Mitsukake: okay I don’t think I could envision Mitsukake in high school even though he’s a lot younger than fans seem to think. But he’d literally be the same? Why did I immediately think he’d listen to soft Christian rock?? But he definitely likes some soft nice songs.Chiriko: he’d like anime and TV and be more fun in the modern world than I think he is in the book. He’d still be studious and get good grades but enjoy fun too! He likes 80s pop maybe haha!

Hello! I think you’re referring to this picture?

Tbh I don’t know why Watase thinks they wouldn’t get along, but in my own personal opinion, Uruki is a lot more level headed and rational, but Tama is a lot more brash and acts upon his immediate feelings. I think this was a conscious decision on Watase’s part to contrast the relationship or Takiko and Uruki vs Miaka and Tamahome; Takiko and Uruki were a bit more mature but Miaka and Tamahome were typical teenagers in love in my opinion.

Hello, I have a link on the “resources” tab where you can watch the stage play, no subs though.

Admittedly it’s been about two years since I’ve caught up with Arata, and some details are a bit fuzzy for me. Anyway, here’s my opinion.

I think Arata is quite good and I think Watase has finally had her time to shine as a shounen mangaka. I think she knows just enough of what’s popular in the shounen demographic as well as putting her own twist on it. It feels very typical but also with her touch!

I really like the premise of the story, it’s like a shounen Fushigi Yuugi meets Inuyasha plus something else? I think while it can be a bit “trope-y” and has very placed and intentional fan service at some points, it still feels wholesome and good. The major con is that it’s been on hiatus for 3 years!!!!!