Career
Since writing her debut short story "" ("An Intrusion in Pajamas"), Watase has created more than 80 compiled volumes of short stories and continuing series. In October 2008, Watase began her first shōnen serialization, Arata: The Legend in Weekly Shōnen 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".
