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OPERATION LIBERATE MEN VOL. 1 (ADVANCE REVIEW)
Reviews
Saturday, 13 October 2007
 RELEASED BY: NETCOMICS
 AUTHOR / ART: 

MIRA LEE

 FORMAT: ENGLISH / B&W
 PAGES: 240
 RATING: 12
 RELEASE DATE: 10/20/2007
 REVIEW DATE: 10/13/2007
 REVIEWED BY: SANDRA SCHOLES


Sooha Jung is a student in the last year of her middle-school and managed to fail her exams, and as such thinks her mother will send her to some factory where she will work day and night or as a maid in some house where she will live a very lonely and unhappy life.

She feels she is at a dead end crisis in her life, and wonders what could be round the corner for her, though she does not consider the progression beneficial to her. Sooha thinks that she wants to disappear off the face of the earth when a beautiful stranger with long, flowing blond hair approaches her and says how difficult it was trying to keep his chastity from the others who were admiring him when he came to the world.

The stranger tells her he listened to her plea for going to another world where she thought her life would be better than it is there in Korea, and Sooha is baffled he could hear her when she only thought it. She discovers he has great hearing. They get together and have a small meal in a snack bar, where they reveal their names and he says his name is Ganesha of the Beta Gender, or submissive male species in his world, And he thinks it is the same in her world as she is dressed in a tomboyish way, he still thinks she is a male.

Although it causes her anxiety being mistaken for a male, she has been a tomboy all her life and most of the people she has known have thought she was a boy rather than a girl as she shows no female attributes with the clothes she wears. Sooha asks Ganesha where he is from and he tells her it is a far away land called, The Para Empire and he has been sent on a special mission he wants her to become a part of where in his world women are the keepers of men and they are the slaves in that world.

Sooha shows her surprise when he asks her to go with him back to her kingdom and help him free the male population, where who knows what could be waiting for her. Will she journey to the far away place where Ganesha is from, or will she face her mother's wrath of placing her in a job that would seem like purgatory to be?

The artwork is very much like that of the old Art Nouveau period and creates a pleasing look that makes the male character seem delicate and wild.
The story is fun and shows how one girl can save another world even if she has failed in her own. It is about how men have to be freed from the binds of oppression from the opposite gender.

This manga would be well recommended for those who like a different slant on a classic idea of a manly girl and a feminine male interacting.

IN SUMMARY:
This first volume is comical, ethereal and a satisfying

 
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