Miaka Yuuki

Name: Miaka Yuuki
Birthplace: Tokyo, Japan
Birthday: May 12, 1977
Age: 15
Measurements: 33-24-34
School: Toritsu Daisan Junior High, Ninth grade, classroom 4
Hair Color: Brown
Eye Color: Brown
Blood Type: B

Miaka is a student of Toritsu Daisan JR. High school, which with her best friend Yui Hongo attends. The two friends start their unlikely adventure when Yui needs to return a book to the National Library where Miaka is suddenly thirsty for a drink so she goes to the vending machine on the ground floor where she proceeds to put yen into it when off to the corner of her eye she sees a red phoenix going up the stairs but after blinking the phoenix disappears. Intriguing Miaka's curiosity she drags her best friend Yui along to go and investigate what she saw and they find themselves going into a restricted room labeled Important Foreign Documents Room. As Miaka and Yui walk into the room a book suddenly falls onto the floor titled "Jin Ten Chi Sho" which translates to "The Universe of the Four Gods, Sky and Earth". The two more curious than ever sits comfortably on the floor and opens the book to read and thus is how our heroine Miaka is born as both Miaka and Yui enter the world of Fushigi Yuugi. Miaka is incredibly silly and hardly takes much seriously even between life and death situations she always thinks food first. Though she can be silly at times she does know when things are grim and she takes it to the extreme, in example of this is when she gets trapped as a test if she was truly the Suzako no Miko she breaks a piece of glass and proceeds to stab herself in hopes of killing the clone that was her on the outside of the object she was stuck in. Oh yeah if I didn't mention already Miaka loves to eat, in one episode she takes Tasuki's magical white paper that transforms into whatever things that is written on it and writes not weapons but food items on it instead. Miaka at first meeting of Tamahome instantly thinks of him a jerk for how he uses her to his benefit, mainly cash as we notice that Tamahome sells off her bubblegum sticks that he gets from Miaka. As the series goes on we see a deeper meaning behind what Tamahome does and soon Miaka understands slowly but surely falling in love with him at the same time. Miaka early in the series is really naive but as the series moves on we catch glimpses of how she's slowly maturing and learning as she grows into a woman. Learning responsibilities, dealing with things and coping with love and loss at the same time is a lot especially not of her own world. The romance between Miaka and Tamahome I think is definitely one of the best things of Fushigi Yuugi and though they are annoying at first to watch them say constantly "Tamahome" and "Miaka" I can't really blame them for always saying each other's name, I think he says it to make sure she's still with him and she says it to reconfirm he's really with her in the real world... after all he is a fictional character.