Kim Yeon-Joo - Nabi: The Prototype (Eng. trans.)
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oyceterThis is a collection of interrelated short stories that the manhwaga used as a sort of prologue to her current series Nabi. Alas, I've heard sales of this volume weren't great, so TokyoPop isn't planning on releasing the series. That's too bad, because the art in this is simply gorgeous, and though some of the stories are confusing, her characters are charming and intriguing and I want to see more of them and the world.
The first two stories don't seem to be connected at all. The first is on a young girl who's a political hostage; she's been temporarily blinded to prevent her from ever seeing her captives. The second is on a somewhat tomboyish girl being married off for a political alliance; both have a nicely bittersweet feeling, not much resolution, and a sense of a wider world going on around the heroines. The next few stories are about two orphans at different ages. We first meet them when they're kids—incredibly adorable kids! So cute!—and then we watch as their relationship doesn't quite develop as expected, thanks to a vase.
On a side note, I wish TokyoPop put blank pages or dividers or something between the stories instead of an easily-missed title; I had to flip back several times before I realized that I was in a new story.
Really lovely art and atmosphere, and I pout to think we might not get more in English.
The first two stories don't seem to be connected at all. The first is on a young girl who's a political hostage; she's been temporarily blinded to prevent her from ever seeing her captives. The second is on a somewhat tomboyish girl being married off for a political alliance; both have a nicely bittersweet feeling, not much resolution, and a sense of a wider world going on around the heroines. The next few stories are about two orphans at different ages. We first meet them when they're kids—incredibly adorable kids! So cute!—and then we watch as their relationship doesn't quite develop as expected, thanks to a vase.
On a side note, I wish TokyoPop put blank pages or dividers or something between the stories instead of an easily-missed title; I had to flip back several times before I realized that I was in a new story.
Really lovely art and atmosphere, and I pout to think we might not get more in English.
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