 | | ▪ | RELEASED BY: | | TOKYOPOP UK | | | ▪ | AUTHOR / ART: | | OH SE-KWON | | | ▪ | FORMAT: | | ENGLISH / B&W | | | ▪ | PAGES: | | 173 | | | ▪ | RATING: | | 13 | | | ▪ | RELEASE DATE: | | 12/12/2006 | | | ▪ | REVIEW DATE: | | 12/13/2007 | | | ▪ | REVIEWED BY: | | SANDRA SCHOLES |
A carriage transporting the merchant's daughter, Ju Sanghui travels over a dangerous stretch of road and is ambushed by a band of mercenaries. When the daughter is roused, in fear she is told it is nothing but a joke. But when their small group of guards are slaughtered, and she is left vulnerable, she thinks she is now in the hands of some of the land's most cruel men.
Luckily, mercenaries Danu and his friend intercept them, putting the thugs in their place. As Danu defeated them so easily, one of the fallen believes he must be a Hyeongyeong master, and an extremely powerful one at that. At Death Castle the master of the Red Dragon Kings is told the merchant's daughter was snatched away from them, so their kidnapping did not go as planned.
Their Bright White Killers suffered and can be healed from their injuries, as they were only superficial. Gyeonyu, one of the mercenaries who survived says he will go to find Ju Sanghui and kill the rest of the ones who defeated them before. His master offers him only one warning - if this male is a Hyeongyeong master, and then he is not to fight him, but to return to the castle. Ju Sanghui and her two protectors rest a while in a deserted forest, but what evil roams where they cannot see? Oh Se-Kwan has created a very special action-packed manga about the kingdom of Yuldo, a world of abundance, which was invaded by a rival bunch of warriors who ruined it beyond repair. The story is interesting and will surprise the reader with its content. Oh Se's artwork is full of intricacies and depicts his professional grasp of such grand realism. The action scenes of fighting and spell-casting are amazing to read all the way through. They are pounding and intense, and show how realistic the artwork can become with so much effort and skill. The artwork in this volume is intricate and gives the reader the impression it must have taken quite a long while to draw. The reader will take this into account when looking through it and see the effort there within the pages of Utopia’s Avenger.
Oh Se-Kwan has done an excellent job of bringing a warrior style manga to the public who will see how his work has expanded over the course of the novel. IN SUMMARY:
An intense adventure, thumping action and all round good fun!
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