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“Miaka and Taka's peace shatters when Mayo opens the cursed book, reigniting peril across two worlds.”
Mysterious Play: Eikoden
ふしぎ遊戯 -永光伝
6.79
5,874 rank · 19,386 viewers · 39 favorites
Adventure
Drama
Fantasy
Romance
Isekai
Shoujo
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Synopsis
Miaka and Taka's peace shatters when Mayo opens the cursed book, reigniting peril across two worlds.
Years after their legendary adventure, Miaka and Taka have built a peaceful life together. Their quiet happiness, however, is about to be tested once more. When a troubled high-school student named Mayo discovers the ancient book that once pulled Miaka into its mystical world, she finds herself drawn to its pages—and to the power they hold. As Mayo’s fascination with the book grows, strange disturbances begin to ripple through both the real world and the realm within the pages. With the boundary between the two worlds once again at risk, Taka must confront the possibility that the story he thought had ended may have only just begun. A new chapter unfolds in the tale of The Universe of the Four Gods, where love, destiny, and the fragile threads that bind worlds together are put to the ultimate test.
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 10 sampled reviews
3.8
/10
What 10 viewers settled on.
22%
recommend
Score distribution
median 2.5
mode 2
σ 2.93
Agreement
Polarized
σ 2.93 · split reception
The polarity gap
7.0 pts
Recommenders 9.0 · others 2.0
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No
Score over time
↑ 0.80
Running avg · Jul 2008 → Feb 2017
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 9 “How can I explain.. The main character, that little girl was empty! The story it wasn't that bad but the girl should had be much better.. And because of that the rest was a little bad compared to...”
- 9 “It was a masterpiece again, as expected of Yuu Watase. Many didn't like this OVA but for me it was great. At first, I really didn't like it because of Mayo, and I hated her because of her attitude...”
- 2 “I thought this was going to be good,but boy was i wrong i expected it to be good cause i loves the tv series and the first two ova series. but this was awful,which makes sense because its based on...”
Verbosity
Short · 30%
Medium · 60%
Long · 10%
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A Ova Production
Studio Pierrot.- Format 4 × 30′ eps × min
- Total runtime 2h 00m all episodes
- Aired Dec 2001 – Jun 2002
- Source Ova media type
- Rated PG 13 - Teens 13 or older
- Ref. BS-0104 catalog
Licensed by
- Media Blasters Licensor
- Geneon Entertainment USA Licensor