Land of Silver Rain Vol 7

[meganbmoore]

The last volume pretty much had Misty Rain and Sirius sitting back and doing nothing, unfortunately. Misty Rain stayed on Earth and worried, and Sirius was in a coma. Meanwhile, Sirius’s father and nurse and The Great Lord of Darkness were the ones who confronted Medusa. I don’t know. I know it fits with the mythology type that the story is based on, I was just hoping that Misty Rain and Sirius would be active participants in deciding their own fate, not bystanders.

Still, the fairy tale-like ending was very well done and fitting, and tied into the themes at the beginning of the series, before all the action moved to Earth, very well. I liked the story of Misty Rain’s parents, but find it slightly odd that Hanbit didn’t realize he might have romantic feelings for Misty Rain until after he knew they were cousins. Oh, Korea…

Hmm..I just realized that this was the title that got me looking and manhwa again after a number of disappointments/loss of interest the last few years. And now it is over. Perhaps I shall track down Mira Lee’s other series, Operation: Liberate Men. 

Comments

[salimbol.livejournal.com]

I read the first two volumes of this and liked it in a vague sort of way - the mythology was interesting, the drawings were pretty - but it didn't quite 'do it' for me so I never continued. Would you say it kept on in the same vein the whole way through?
And I'm a bit intrigued by the title 'Operation: Liberate Men'! What's that about?

[estara.livejournal.com]

It really is a manga about Liberating men in a female-ruled archaic world. It has fantasy and a female heroine crossing over from our world and lots of intrigue and double-crossing and angst and Shiva

Janimes was scanlating it for YEARS.. and klisis has a very detailed review going on (her English isn't perfect, but by god she's scanlating all these series by herself)
Storyline and concept: http://www.janimes.com/lore/article.php?id=002
Review (3 parts)
http://www.janimes.com/lore/article.php?id=118
http://www.janimes.com/lore/article.php?id=119
http://www.janimes.com/lore/article.php?id=120

[salimbol.livejournal.com]

Oh, cool; thanks again for the pointers. Sounds like it's worth checking out. Gender-pattern reversals always have potential!

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

I flip-flopped on it a fair bit, but in the end, I quite like it. I think it lost some oomph by setting it in modern times.

O:LM is(as I understand it) about a girl who's asked to be queen of another world, and when she gets there, she learns all the men are slaves.

[salimbol.livejournal.com]

I've only read the one volume set in the modern world; perhaps it lost its fairy-tale like qualities by plunking it down in our time? Whereas something like 'Dokebi Bride' (I think you read that, right?) belongs completely in our time; in fact, it's partially a meditation on the continuities as well as the disjunction between past and present.
O:LM is something I think I will try at some point; it sounds interesting enough.

[meganbmoore.livejournal.com]

It doesn't completely blanace the modern world/fairy tale aspects, or the romance, until near the end, and is always better at the mythic aspects than the romantic comedy ones.

Dokebi Bride I've read the first 5 volumes of, and am quite fond of. It's essentially built around myth and tradition vs modern world, and someone who can't make the two come together in her own life.

[salimbol.livejournal.com]

Volume 6 of Dokebi Bride has had the temerity to be on backorder! I've been buying one volume a month this year, which is a nice sedate pace to be moving through the series, and now it's totally thrown me off *gripe gripe*.