Manhwa

The Korean comparison to Japanese Manga is Manhwa. Manhwa is often unique in its graphic design and content when compared to Japanese manga.

The Snow Queen

*Note: Recently I ordered Volume 8, 9, and 10 of 100% Perfect Girl and OF COURSE volume 10 comes in first. How sad. Decided to get my Wann fix through another series. Here you go. :)

Name: The Snow Queen
Mangaka: Wann

Volumes: 2 (Finished)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.02 Ch.18 (Complete)
Scanlator: RC-Scans (Closed) and Noir
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Tragedy/Drama
Age Group: Teen

Summary: There once was a man called the most brilliant intellectual. And a woman with everything standing at the death’s door. Their hearts were so completely frozen solid that nothing could melt them. What kind of light was it that could melt their hearts? …Love…? If the answer was love, isn’t it beyond absurdity?

–MangaUpdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Love at First Sight (Hannune Banhada! Season1)

Name: Love at First Sight (Season 1) {Hannune Banhada! Season 1}
Mangaka: Lee, Si Young

Volumes: 4 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.04 (Complete)
Scanlator: JanimeS
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Comedy
Age Group: Teen

Summary: Ha-Da is a rough and tumble girl heading off to high school with dreams of men in mind. The only thing standing in her way are her senior parents, her 40 year old brother, and her next door neighbor. Ha-Da’s neighbor Han-Se plays double duty as a childhood friend and as her neighboor, but as a love interest?

At her middle school graduation Han-Se’s famous shaman mother tells Ha-Da a bit of her of future. And apparently it includes three guys and a few complications. But who could these three guys be?

Graphics Rating: 3/5
Plot Rating: 3/5

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Savage Garden

Name: Savage Garden
Mangaka: Lee, Hyeon-Sook

Volumes: 6 (Complete)
Licensed: Ablaze Publishing (Print) Azuki (Digital)
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Drama/Historical/Crossdressing
Age Group: Teen

Summary: In 18th century England, Gabriel, an orphan girl from a fallen noble family befriended a young man named Jeremy, who was rumored to be an illegitimate child of a nobleman. After an incident occurred, Gabriel must impersonate her friend Jeremy, taking his place at an all boys academy for nobles, a place that may seem like heaven to others, but really hides a harshness which she would never have imagined.

–Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 5/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Flowers of Evil

Name: Flowers of Evil
Mangaka: Lee, Hyeon-Sook

Volumes: 7 (Complete)
Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.07 Ch.26 (Complete)
Scanlator: Noir and RC-Scans (Inactive)
Type: Manhwa
Genre: Psychological/Incest/Tragedy/Drama
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Se-Joon and Se-Wa are siblings with a dark, complex relationship. Se-Wa, a girl considered psychotic by others, is attached to her brother… a little too attached. In her eyes, there is only Se-Joon, and no one else. And what of Se-Joon’s feelings?

–Mangaupdates

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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Antique Romance

Name: Antique Romance
Manga-ka: Kim, Mi-Jung

Licensed: No
Scanlations: V.04 Ch.27 (Complete)
Scanlator: Esthetique and Osuwari Team
Volumes: 4 Volumes (Complete)
Type: Manwha
Genre: Romance/Historical/Lolita/Drama
Age Group: Older Teen

Summary: Ian Macport is the richest man in town with an eye for fine art. What will happen when he buys a human girl who is sold as a mysterious painting?

Graphics Rating: 4/5
Plot Rating: 4/5

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