Fushigi Yuugi OAV Main Characters
 

Miaka Yuuki
 

Miaka is a young woman and high school student, passing her entrance exams and now attending Yotsubadai High School. Miaka is a lot more serious and strong, learning a good deal from her adventures as Suzaku No Miko in the "Shi Jin Ten Chi Sho". She faces difficulties with wisdom gained from experience; no longer concerning herself with trivialities such as food or being spoiled. Miaka works hard for her goals, with a bravery and persistence that had formerly not been a part of her. She is self-sacrificing and giving; displaying open courageousness and inner strength when stepping up to a challenge. Miaka is patient and clear-headed, keeping in mind what is important to her, and accepts with kindness and understanding the hardships she and her friends must endure. She devotes herself to the quest of getting back Taka’s memory globes; bringing back not only the precious remembrances but also peace to both worlds. She loves Taka and all of her friends dearly, using the strength of the people she cares about to spur herself into doing her best. Miaka once again faces a great destiny as Suzaku No Miko, devoting her life to the salvation and protection of both the book world and the real world; where the people she loves exist.

Taka Sukunami
 

Birthday: June 18
Age: 18
Zodiac: Cancer
Height: 180cm (5'10")
Blood type: O
Birthplace: Saitama Prefecture
Family: Parents, little brother, little sister
Interests: Making money
Powers: All forms of martial arts

Taka is the reincarnation of Tamahome in the real world, who is a freshman at K University, the same college Keisuke and Tetsuya attend. He also belongs to the same history study group as Keisuke. While Taka seems richer than his previous life, in this life he is still attached to money. Taka gave up all of his memories and powers, which were sealed into globes, in order to cross worlds and be with Miaka. All he has to go on is a very faint recollection of existing in a past life; that he protected Miaka and loves her. Taka is like a more mature version of Tamahome, retaining the courage and loyalty of his, while losing some of the temper and sparkle of his earlier days. Taka tries his best to protect Miaka, but has a harder time due to the loss of his powers; in fact, more often than not, Taka is the one who needs protecting. Taka deals admirably with a very difficult situation, having nothing to rely on save his love for Miaka. He experiences sadness and shortcoming in his inability to remember anything, but still keeps going, never giving up the hope that someday he’ll get back what was lost to him. Taka loves Miaka with all of his heart, always trying to do what’s best for her, and remaining a faithful and caring friend to everyone. He wears his wedding ring on a chain around his neck.

Yui Hongo
 

Yui, also now going to Yotsubadai High School, is again the true, loyal friend of Miaka, who would stay by her through all crises. Yui is a great deal stronger from the difficult ordeal she had to endure in the book. She has let her hair grow long and possesses an attitude of serene self-confidence that simply wasn’t a part of her before. Yui is much happier, with faith in herself and her friends; and she would do anything to help Miaka and Taka stay together. She is also now a couple with Tetsuya, becoming his girlfriend, and staying with him and Keisuke a lot more often. Yui has grown up a lot, becoming a very capable, courageous woman; with the strength to see what is important in life and deal with the blows it can deliver. She has lost the naiveté that marked her earlier days, no longer possessing jealousy or childlike feelings. Instead, Yui carries herself with the fortitude, poise, and responsibility of an adult, while remaining the best friend and confidante of Miaka.

Chichiri
 

Chichiri is his usual wise, calm self. Once again, he makes the intelligent decisions for the group, and solves a lot of the emotional difficulties that are now rather waging a war around him. Chichiri manages to keep all of his friends in a collective, working team, easing the tensions that have slowly built up over time and calming the powerful tides of feeling that threaten to break loose. Chichiri, more than ever before, provides the elder guidance and leadership necessary to solving the problems and winning the battle everyone finds themselves engaged in. He manages to keep a calm, cool, straightforward head; not being swayed by the dilemmas around him, and helping his friends make it through their own troubles while retaining their sanity. Only towards the end of the series does Chichiri begin to have feelings of self-doubt and worthlessness, believing that he did not deserve his position as a Suzaku Seishi, a protector of Suzaku No Miko. Chichiri then begins to distance himself from the others, staying in the background and torturing himself with guilt and depression. Then, it is up to Miaka and the others to take their turn to help Chichiri, bringing him out of his sad state back into his usual kind, supportive self.

Tasuki
 

Tasuki is one of the characters who has changed the most, and provides a good deal of emotional drama and conflict. He discovers something strange about himself that he believed was impossible - he is falling in love with a woman, and that woman is Miaka. Tasuki finds himself irresistibly drawn to Miaka with an overpowering attraction that surprises even himself, but buries his feelings under a wall of tormented guilt, where they threaten to burst free. Tasuki is shocked by the power and strength of his desire, but has no idea how to express such emotions; he is in a constant restrained confusion due to his frustrated attempts to deal with his feelings and sexuality. Tasuki, who always maintained the virtue of loyalty between friends to the utmost degree, suddenly encounters a great about-face in his beliefs when he realizes he possesses roiling jealousy towards Taka. Tasuki is torn between his best friend and the woman he is in love with, and fumbles in trying to deal with the pressures of such a situation. For the first time in his life Tasuki experiences fierce loneliness and envy; only he is in such emotional pain over two people he cares deeply about. Tasuki, usually bright and optimistic, becomes full of repressed sadness, rage, and disappointment over his inability to express the love that exists inside of him.

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