Seo Moon Da Mi - They, Too, Love, vol. 01-05

[oyceter]

(almost done with the weekend manga writeups)

octopedingenue recently posted some manhwa recs, of which this was one.

Eun Myoryong and Jung Euimoon are the only two members of their school's defunct biology club; Euimoon grows vegetables in the old lab and cooks over Bunsen burners while Myoryong tells morbid fortunes with her tarot cards. They're eventually joined by two other students, the rebellious Banha and gay Chunpa.

There's some love quadrangle stuff going on; Banha likes Euimoon who likes Myoryong who likes Chunpa, but that's not really the focus of the series.

Instead, it seems to be a series of shorts on the students and how odd they are. Some of them are touching, some are just wacky and have frogs. I think I would have liked it much better had I gone in with the expectation of that and not an actual plot, but a reread will be a lot of fun.

What I like the most is how odd everyone is and how different aspects of each character get illuminated in different chapters; it reminded me a lot of Kare Kano even before octopedingenue said so.

Comments

[jinian.livejournal.com]

... biology tarot cards? I need that deck.

[oyceter]

Alas, just regular tarot cards (looks like Rider-Waite to me), albeit read in the biology lab. Also, there is an invasion of frogs!

[larryhammer]

Not an invasion! They're local frogs. With an admittedly Old-Testament predilection for Plaguing.

---L.

[oyceter]

They, um... locally invade?

[larryhammer]

Overdose of frogs?

---L.