Fushigi Yûgi: The Mysterious Play - Reflections OAV 2

The second OAV series was a definite improvement over the first, but there were still several problems associated with it.

1) Probably the most prominent reason for this OAV series not living up to the original was, again, LENGTH OF SHOW. The amount of material gone over in these 6 30-minute episodes needed another TV series at least. Apparently they thought that they could cover the second half of the manga in a space less than a 1/5th of the space (First + Second OAV series). Sorry, it didn't work.

2) Because of the speed, the story told the emotional parts with much detail, but with the action between the scenes reduced to such a degree, the scenes were meaningless.

3) The music was just not as fitting. While there was a few of the original TV tunes mixed here and there, and the new music was not at all BAD, it simply did not fit the series correctly, and did not compliment the actions or emotions of the characters (I greatly missed the TV ending theme).

There was one very good thing that the 2nd OAV series took from the first was what was called 'Bad Play' (A takeoff of 'Fushigi Yuugi', which means 'Mysterious Play'). After each episode, they would have a small section with scenes of the show redone in various funny ways. I laughed very hard at a few of these.

All in all, the bad outweighs the good, and the show is nowhere near what it could have been. Alas, the end of Fushigi Yuugi.