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manhwa: Two Will Come Vol 1-2
Oct. 31st, 2008 05:44 pmCenturies ago, Jina’s ancestor approached a Buddhist priest to learn how to gain prosperity for his family. After a 100 Day Prayer, the priest told him to kill a large serpent living on his land to gain prosperity, and then disappeared. The serpent, however, was an Imugi, and was one day short of the thousand years it has to live before turning to a dragon and ascending to heaven. As punishment, the serpent cursed the family that once every generation, a family member will be killed by two people close to that person.
Today, the only candidates to be victims of the curse are Jina, her younger brother, and Myunghun, their friend who lives in the U.S. While Jina and her brother have been raised ignorant of the curse, Myunghun’s mother was forced to kill her older sister by the curse, and so he was raised aware of it, and he brings his friend, Yoojin, to Korea with him. Yoojin always has some awareness of curses, and is haunted by the ghost of a mysterious woman. After an exorcist reveals that Jina is to be this generation’s victim, and her mother tries to kill her in the spell of madness that attacks all the killers, the three set out to get to the bottom of the curse, and to find out how to break it.
At this point, I’m having fun, despite the plot moving a bit slowly. But then we throw in almost every romantic trope shoujo has that’s guaranteed to annoy me.
Unsurprisingly, Yoojin quickly develops a crush on Jina, which she is oblivious to. Really, we have no problems with that, and think it’s rather cute in a passive way. But then we add in Sehee, Jina’s best friend, who has a crush on Yoojin and makes it clear that Jina liking him would be poaching. And then we throw in Jaesuk, a classmate who claims to like Jina, and who she likes in return. Except that Jaesuk is a cheater who uses girls, and who used to date Sehee. Now he’s secretly dating Hyeri (who, naturally, is tall and pretty and elegant and composed) who hates Jina because Jaesuk is always chasing after Jina in front of her. Aside from scenes with Yoojin and Jina and no one else (well, excepting Myunghun, who is probably-not-incorrectly convinced there are designs on his cousin’s virtue) almost every scene pertaining to the romantic machinations has made me want to rip my hair out. The only almost exception being when Hyeri got some guys to beat up Jaesuk. Except that we’re then told “Nonono..she has no right to be upset, she’s a cheater too! (Naturally!)” and that we should sympathize with him because he says he won’t cheat on Jina. Just, you know, every other girl he’s ever gone out with, who he doesn’t care about, but lies that he does.
So, we likes the main plot with the ancient curse tied to mythology and the current victim out to find out what’s going on before she gets offed. We do not like the convoluted romantic subplots. Has anyone else read this, so they can tell me which is the focus of the rest of the series?
Today, the only candidates to be victims of the curse are Jina, her younger brother, and Myunghun, their friend who lives in the U.S. While Jina and her brother have been raised ignorant of the curse, Myunghun’s mother was forced to kill her older sister by the curse, and so he was raised aware of it, and he brings his friend, Yoojin, to Korea with him. Yoojin always has some awareness of curses, and is haunted by the ghost of a mysterious woman. After an exorcist reveals that Jina is to be this generation’s victim, and her mother tries to kill her in the spell of madness that attacks all the killers, the three set out to get to the bottom of the curse, and to find out how to break it.
At this point, I’m having fun, despite the plot moving a bit slowly. But then we throw in almost every romantic trope shoujo has that’s guaranteed to annoy me.
Unsurprisingly, Yoojin quickly develops a crush on Jina, which she is oblivious to. Really, we have no problems with that, and think it’s rather cute in a passive way. But then we add in Sehee, Jina’s best friend, who has a crush on Yoojin and makes it clear that Jina liking him would be poaching. And then we throw in Jaesuk, a classmate who claims to like Jina, and who she likes in return. Except that Jaesuk is a cheater who uses girls, and who used to date Sehee. Now he’s secretly dating Hyeri (who, naturally, is tall and pretty and elegant and composed) who hates Jina because Jaesuk is always chasing after Jina in front of her. Aside from scenes with Yoojin and Jina and no one else (well, excepting Myunghun, who is probably-not-incorrectly convinced there are designs on his cousin’s virtue) almost every scene pertaining to the romantic machinations has made me want to rip my hair out. The only almost exception being when Hyeri got some guys to beat up Jaesuk. Except that we’re then told “Nonono..she has no right to be upset, she’s a cheater too! (Naturally!)” and that we should sympathize with him because he says he won’t cheat on Jina. Just, you know, every other girl he’s ever gone out with, who he doesn’t care about, but lies that he does.
So, we likes the main plot with the ancient curse tied to mythology and the current victim out to find out what’s going on before she gets offed. We do not like the convoluted romantic subplots. Has anyone else read this, so they can tell me which is the focus of the rest of the series?