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I think part of it was the constant rape/attempted/threatened rape in the storyline, and part of it was how hackily the Seiryu Seishi were handled--especially Nakago.

"Yeah, Nakago is doing everything short of punting puppies into the sun and he's super-evil and unforgivable, he's manipulative as hell and does all this nasty shit so he can become a god OH WAIT LAST HALF OF THE LAST EPISODE HERE'S LIKE A MINUTE AND A HALF OF TRAGIC BACKSTORY, NOW FEEL BAD FOR HIM"

Speaking of the last episode, I also really hated how Miaka and Tamahome got their happy ending so easily, and Suzuno and Tatara got jack shit. MIAKA AND TAMAHOME BASICALLY GOT IT JUST BECAUSE THEY ARE LITERALLY GOD'S FAVORITE AND SUZUNO AND TATARA HAD TO WAIT FOR EACH OTHER FOR DECADES UNTIL THEY BOTH DIED AND THEIR GHOSTS MET UP! WAS THAT NOT TRUE ENOUGH LOVE?

I really loved the concept and I loved the Suzaku Seishi as characters--I even liked Miaka at the very beginning, when she was kind of sassy and stubborn, and not just pining all the time--but it was really poorly-executed.

I got into the series because of the ensemble cast, but it felt like it might have been too big for her to not end up writing herself into corners. The sudden "deep and tragic" backstories, and the truer love of MIAKA!TAMAHOME! overcoming everything at the expense of worthless sacrifices for the sake of angst got a bit much to swallow.

That and, like you said, Nakago who is so a Gary Stu with an apparent shot at redemption.

That's all true too!

I always wondered why ALL of the Seishi on every side had a tragic backstory. I always wanted to write a sequel parody story about a new Byakko no Miko who had just a bunch of regular random people as Seishi.

"So what's your tragic backstory?"
"A kid knocked over my cabbage cart by accident and I lost my day's work, but that's okay, because I have more cabbages to sell tomorrow."
"Cool."

Whoaaaaaa I'm now picturing the cabbage salesman from ATLA as a bishounenified chosen warior

That's what I was thinking of :P

Basically Fushigi Yuugi would be cooler if it had Avatar's caliber of characters. I don't want all this depressing shit in my escapist reverse-harem fantasy, I want relatable/fixable sad backstories D:< *fistshake!*

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