Yuu Watase

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name = Yuu Watase

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birthplace = Osaka, Japan
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occupation = "Mangaka"
nationality = Japanese
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genre = fiction
subject = "shōjo" manga, "bishōnen" manga
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nihongo|Yuu Watase|渡瀬 悠宇|Watase Yuu|extra=born March 5, 1970 in Osaka is a Japanese shōjo manga author and artist. She received the Shogakukan Manga Award for "shōjo" for "Ceres, The Celestial Legend" in 1998.cite web | url=http://comics.shogakukan.co.jp/mangasho/rist.html | title=小学館漫画賞：歴代受賞者 | publisher=Shogakukan | language=Japanese | accessdate=2007-08-19] Since writing her debut short story "Pajama de Ojama" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 50 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. [ [http://www.shojobeat.com/manga/ab/bio.php] Shojo Beat] Because of her frequent use of beautiful male characters in her works, she is widely regarded in circles as a "bishōnen" mangaka.Fact|date=August 2007 In October 2008, Watase began her first shonen serialization, Arata Kangatari ~Engaku Kougatari~ in Shonen Sunday.

Her name is romanized as "Yû Watase" in earlier printings of Viz Media's publications of "Fushigi Yūgi", "Alice 19th", and "Ceres, The Celestial Legend", while in Viz Media's "Fushigi Yūgi 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".

Works

Watase Yuu Flower Comics

* "Fushigi Yūgi" - 18 Vols.
* "Fushigi Yūgi Genbu Kaiden" - Vol.8
* "Shishunki Miman Okotowari" - 3 Vols.
* "Epotoransu! Mai" - 2 Vols.
* "Ayashi no Ceres" ("Ceres, The Celestial Legend") - 14 Vols.
* "Appare Jipangu!" - 3 Vols.
* "Imadoki!" - 5 Vols.
* "Alice 19th" - 7 Vols.
* "Zettai Kareshi" ("Absolute Boyfriend") - 6 Vols.
* "I Won't Let You Become a Star!" - 1 Vols.
* "Sakura Gari" - ongoing
* "Arata Kangatari ~Engaku Kougatari~" - ongoing

Watase Yuu Masterpiece Collection

# "Gomen Asobase!"
# "Magical Nan"
# "Otenami Haiken!"
# "Suna no Tiara"
# "Mint de Kiss Me"
# "Shōnen Aromatic" ("Aromatic Boy")

YuuTopia Collection

# "Oishii Study"
# "Musubiya Nanako"

Watase Yuu Flower Comics Deluxe, Kanzenban, Shogakukan Bunko

* "Shishunki Miman Okotowari" - 3 Vols.
* "Pajama de Ojama" (her debut work)
* "Mint de Kiss Me"
* "Fushigi Yūgi Kanzenban" - 9 Vols.
* "Fushigi Yūgi" -
* "Epotoransu! Mai"

Artbooks

* "Watase Yuu Illustration Collection Fushigi Yūgi"
* "Watase Yuu Illustration Collection - Part 2 Fushigi Yūgi Animation World"
* "Ayashi no Ceres" Illustration Collection Tsumugi Uta ~Amatsu Sora Naru Hito o Kofutote~"
* "Yuu Watase Post Card Book"

Novels

* "Shishunki Miman Okotowari"
* "Maseikishinden"
* "Fushigi Yūgi"
* "Ayashi no Ceres"
* "Yada ze!"
* "Alice 19th"
* "Fushigi Yugi: Genbu kaiden"
* "Absolute Boyfriend Series"
* "Imadoki! (Nowadays)"

External links

* [http://wataseyuu.free.fr Sous les Etoiles] - Unofficial Website on Yuu Watase.
* [http://www.sho-comi.com/ Sho Comi]
* [http://xoomer.virgilio.it/tasukinomiko/Manga/Watase/ Tasuki no Miko's Watase Yuu Page] - Unofficial Website on Yuu Watase and source for the majority of this info.
* [http://www.akadot.com/article.php?a=134 Random Play with Yuu Watase] - interview
* [http://www.y-watase.com/] - Watase Yuu's personal website