Genbu Kaiden finally ends

This is totally unrelated to occupational therapy but I felt that I really REALLY needed to blog about it.  Since the year 2007, I have been diligently reading Yuu Watase's Fushigi Yuugi Genbu Kaiden.  Anime fan or not, you may be familiar with Fuushigi Yuugi.  Well, this is the story of the first ever maiden who entered the book of the four gods - two hundred years before Tamahome and Miaka's love story set into motion.  Truthfully, I had doubts before reading it for two nonsensical reasons (now that I look back to it). One, I haven't exactly read the past work of Yuu Watase although I have watched the anime Fushigi Yuugi.  And you know, not to demean Miaka's story but I just grew out of that "too cheesy" stuff (and the reverse harem factor).  So I kind of expected it to be with the same feel as the last one.  Boy, was I wrong.  Second reason, I knew it was tragedy.  I didn't want to read it knowing it was going to end in Takiko dying.  Tragedies stick to me until I sublimate it into something like what I am doing right now.   Otherwise, I'm going to think of it for days!  But I'm glad I did decide to click that first chapter.  One chapter was all it took and I knew I just had to finish this manga.  It didn't help when suddenly Watase decided to put it on hiatus in 2008).  All of us waited for almost five years.  FIVE YEARS!!!  That felt like forever!  I mean come on, with the 2012 apocalypse ringing back in 2010, I was thinking, "There is no way the world is going to end before I know what is going to happen in Genbu Kaiden!" And yes, Watase-sensei didn't fail us.

A love this pure deserves to have a happy ending

Five years for this fulfilling ending

Took my two favorite pages, which by the way, still makes me cry when I read them. Kudos to Genbu Kaiden Love who scanlated the whole series!  Without your hardwork, I never would have known Uruki and Takiko's pure love.