Black God
Volume I
by Dall-Young Lim and Sung-Woo Park
Keita Ibuki dreams of becoming the designer of a popular game and making money, but the reality is rather
different. One evening he purchases some ramen at a noodle stand, only to lose his meal to a young girl who
appears to need it more than he does. Kuro is not a human, but a mototsumitama, who is being pursued by others
of her kind who want to kill her. Poor Keita gets caught in the middle of a battle soon after their meeting and
loses an arm - but why does he still have the arm when he wakes up back home, if it really happened?
For anybody new to the world of graphic novels, manhwa is the Korean version of manga. Here is another
enjoyable tale from Yen Press filled with Far Eastern fantasy involving superbeings, a new use of boxing and
some nifty illustrations showing fight scenes and more, that positively crackle with energy and movement. If you
think stories just about words and pictures are for little kids, then you haven’t seen any good manga (or
manhwa). See for yourself how the graphic style complements the tale, and suddenly just print fiction might not
be enough. There are many ways of telling a story, and with this type of thing a mixture of words and pictures
seems the best one. If, like this reviewer, you are tired of fantasy=Tolkein and doorstop tomes then you are
overdue for something like this. |
The Book |
Yen Press (Little, Brown) |
22 October 2007 |
Paperback |
0759523495 / 9780759523494 |
Teenage Fantasy / Manhwa Korea and Japan |
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The Reviewer |
Rachel A Hyde |
Reviewed 2008 |
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