About Yuu Watase

A Japanse shoujo manga-ka. She is known for her works Fushigi Y?gi, Alice 19th, Ceres: The Celestial Legend, Fushigi Y?gi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend. She likes all music, except heavy metal and old traditional music.

She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for sh?jo for Ceres, Celestial Legend in 1997. Since writing her debut short story "Pajama de Ojama" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles[which?] as a bish?nen manga artist.[citation needed] In October 2008, Watase began her first sh?nen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Sh?nen Sunday.
Her name is romanized as "Yû Watase" in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of Fushigi Y?gi, Alice 19th, and Ceres, The Celestial Legend, while in Viz Media's Fushigi Y?gi Genbu Kaiden and Absolute Boyfriend her name is romanized as "Yuu Watase". In Chuang Yi's English-language versions of Fushigi Yugi (spelled without a macron or circumflex), her name is romanized as "Yu Watase".