There’s certainly plenty of precedent for romantic comedies in which a feisty, average girl exchanges snarky banter with a rich and handsome fellow (to whom she is often secretly attracted even while deeming him odious). It may just be a licensing fluke, but it seems that a large portion of the sunjeong manhwa that I’ve read (Very! Very! Sweet, Sugarholic, Goong: The Royal … [Read more...] about Full House 1-4 by Sooyeon Won
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There’s Something About Sunyool 2-3 by Youngran Lee: B+
Sunyool Lee’s life is full of disreputable accomplishments. If only she had something to show for them! Volume two picks up four years after the dissolution of Sunyool’s six-month marriage to Sihyun Park, a wonderful guy with whom she was perfectly compatible. After a two-year stay in Paris, where she attempted to forget her pain and honed her pastry chef skills, she returned … [Read more...] about There’s Something About Sunyool 2-3 by Youngran Lee: B+
There’s Something About Sunyool 1 by Youngran Lee: B
Sunyool Lee first met her father, a powerful politician, six months after her mother’s death. He’d been unable to have children with his wife, and so acknowledged Sunyool as his daughter. The arrangement gave Sunyool access to the finer things in life, but also required a number of sacrifices, including giving up the freedom to choose her own spouse. For her part, though, … [Read more...] about There’s Something About Sunyool 1 by Youngran Lee: B
Favorite Manhwa of 2009
Over at Manga Bookshelf, MJ has asked a few manhwa fans, including yours truly, to name their favorite titles of 2009. You can find that post here. It was pretty tough narrowing my picks down to five, but in the end I went with: The Adventures of Young Det (Gyojeong Kwon, NETCOMICS) Goong: The Royal Palace (Park SoHee, Yen Press) Small-Minded Schoolgirls (toma, NETCOMICS) 10, … [Read more...] about Favorite Manhwa of 2009
Black-Winged Love by Tomoko Yamashita: A
As in her excellent Dining Bar Akira, Tomoko Yamashita has created in Black-Winged Love a set of boys’ love stories focusing more on a universal aspect of human relationships rather than what goes on between guys in the bedroom. Each story relates in some way to the difficulties of communication, be it the crippling fear that keeps gay men from confessing their orientation or … [Read more...] about Black-Winged Love by Tomoko Yamashita: A