Webtoon Manhwa: Papi Nyang

Hello again everyone!

         I’m sure you’re getting ready to return to school in this month or the next … couf couf … because I start classes again on monday 6  TTwTT

The final torture is coming next … ♫ 5th IB semester!!!! ♫ :D ☠

TT-TT I have to survive if I want my diploma.

Anyway!!!

         Today I want to present you a really cute manhwa which is a webtoon named Papi Nyang. I fell in love with the story even before start reading it because of the cute characters, more Chev which is in the cover. x3

Here is it: 

Papi Nyang

Name in Korean: 빠삐냥

Drawn and story created by Guava

Released in 2008

Originally published online on Blog Naver (NAVER 블로그) in guava85 account.

Genres:  Slice of Life, Drama, and some also consider it Shoujo, though I do not.         

        Summary:

Webtoonlive:

Gorba Chev, a fiesty Turkish Angora cat, dreams of escaping from his so called "prison". However, when he finally succeeds, he finds there is a hidden darkness in the outer world...

MangaFox:

Gorba Chev is a feisty white kitten owned by a kind and caring young woman -- yet he often dreams of escaping from the "prison" that is his owner's apartment.

When he eventually succeeds, Chev joyfully prepares to embrace his new life of freedom and adventure; but soon finds out that reality is a sadistic mistress and a very cruel teacher...

This manhwa by today August 4, 2012 is already completed with 28 chapters.

         This cute manga, as you can infer is about the live of a cute little cat (I love cats) named Chev which wants to scape home as he thinks is a kind of prison, but he ends up discovering that world outside isn’t as nice as he thought before, and even he ends up sick wanting to return home. Don’t think I’m just spoiling you the story, because that is just the beginning of the story, as there happen many other things.

Chev gets to know many other cats, most of them street cats, which conform the story, apart from some human characters as the owner.

         The drawings are really good and cute, also the author posted some information about the cats with pictures. This manhwa is based on real life events, but Guava explains that at least 70% of the story was made up by her. :P

         I really recommend you to read this manhwa, as the manga before (Hourou Musuko) but this story because is heart-moving (at least for me), I’m sure you will love it too if you love animals (or at least like cats). :3

         Well this was my last post before returning to classes, I’m sure it’ll be a long time before I make another post, but I wish to do many more as I have my stupid computer again with me and now it works properly as a Mac is supposed to do (I hate iMac’s >:C ).

Have a nice weekend everyone, 

enjoy the time you have left of your summer vacations and rest well,

if you enter classes as me I wish you good luck and success.

Bye~ bye~

♪ GBU all!

Manhwa: Love in the Mask

Hello everyone,

How are you?

As always, I wish you're doing fine, and healthy (I'm sick again);

but now I'll make you another question and is…          

have you ever been in love?, had you ever dream or known of an impossible love? … 

if it is yes, or maybe, then I will recommend you to read the cute manhwa that I bring to show you today: Love in the Mask.

I decided to post about this beautiful manhwa because on Tuesday(Feb 14) it would be Valentine's Day or Day of Friendship and Love, a day in which everybody(or most people) wants to be in love, or find somebody to love, or be with the beloved ones. And as the title and the summary below says this Korean comic is a love story:

Love in the Mask Manhwa

MangaFox or EatManga

Original Name: 가면속의 사랑

Pronunciation: gamyeonsog-ui salang

Story created by: Han Yu-rang

Released in 2009

Magazine: nnim

Publishing Company: Kkonnimm

Genres: Drama, Comedy, Romance, School Life, Shoujo, Action, Harem, Martial Arts, Gender Bender, Tragedy, Mistery

Summary: Hyun Bin has to live surviving as a man. Fate has come to trap her compassion in a mask like a bird blazing only in it's cage...

From various Asian Comics pages: Hyun-bin grew up under the cruel hand of street gangsters, selling gum in the subway with her little brother. However, after an unfortunate event, Hyun-bin runs away and is taken in by a businessman to be trained to become a bodyguard. However, she must hide that she is female, and pose as a man. And so, for eight years, she grows up as a cold, male bodyguard. But is this how she'll be forever?

From Tinte: Suh Hyun-bin grew up under the cruel hand of street gangsters, but after her little brother dies, Hyun-bin runs away and is taken in by a rich family to be trained to become a bodyguard. However, she must hide that she is female, and pose as a man. And so, for eight years, she grows up as a cold, male, and bodyguard. It looks like she'll be this way forever--until a fateful encounter with Lee Yun-ha shakes her very foundations, and leaves her conflicting with herself, as her feelings of love clash against her feelings of duty.

By fall/autumn of 2011 the manhwa was already completed.

This story will make you cry a lot, believe me. The story is sometimes so sad that you'll feel bad for the main characters. Is a really good story, thought the drawing are the one that my friends usually call "generic manhwa", except the end, which I classify as typical Mexican dramas ending.

If you start read it, you will be so fascinated that you won't stop reading it, not even in the ending even if you already have theories of how the story will end.

This story does also have the common element in Korean stories: Business, gangs, a pretty poor girl and a rich handsome boy; but it does also have another fact which is what caught my attention and it is the gender bender, from after reading this story I got a certain fascination for reading gender bender stories, xD.

Another thing is that this Korean Comic has many characters that if you want you can do a characters' map.

I wanted to post about this manhwa since the past semester, but I couldn't first because my computer became trash, and then because it was on the US. But by this manhwa is by which I got to know many other Korean Comics as it was on the top or most popular list, even if it wasn't the first one I started to read. Also I wanted to publish of it now because there's had been many weeks since I published an entry with information of a manhwa. 

Thanks for reading; I wish you'd like it, have a nice upcoming week, GBU a lot. Good bye. :3

PS: I wish you could be with someone on Feb 14, and not be a Forever Alone on that day.

How did I got to know Asian comics...

Hello bloggers!

And everyone, how are you?,

as every single time before I wish you are well and healthy, XD

right now I'm somehow happy because yesterday was the last day of classes, but that doesn't mean that is my last day of the semester, which is really sad T_T

I do also watch anime when I should be doing something else

Anyway! Today I'm not really going to introduce another Asian comic, because all the pictures and information I've been collecting is on the stupid mac, right now I'm using my brother's and father's computer ¬,¬

and on Saturday I was checking how many words my computer could write in one minute, and oh! surprise! it wrote approximately from 5 to 8 words per minute, I checked that while trying to leave a message in Facebook at a FB group wall(to do so, it took me 26 minutes :S).

I need to change my computer, and the guarantee is from the US, but it could also be possible to change it here in Mexico as a Best Buy was opened on the past weekend :D

      In this post I'm going to still talk about Asian comics, but not like in the past in which I make a recommendation, xD

instead today I'll talk about myself and how I got fascinated by Asian comics, obviously of how much I like them and how did i got to know they existed :P.

      First of all(before talk about myself), the way most of the people in the Western world get to know the Asian comics is by Anime and Manga(Japanese cartoons and comics). Japanese culture is really advertised by American and European TV channels. Here in Latin America the Japanese stuff come from the US(and maybe from Canada), if in the US something results being popular, it does come to Mexico or Colombia(countries in which TV stations make the translations/dubbed) and then to the rest of Latin America. (I don't know the situation in Europe.)

Shugo Kyara!(guardian character). Amu and Ikuto

      Obviously that's the way I got to know Asian comics. In my life, when I was younger(12 years), I usually spent time in the internet chatting on MSN or watching videos on YouTube. Once I was watching a video of Winx Club there(I was a huge fan on winx), and in the video it have scenes of Sailor Moon, Tokyo Mew Mew(Mew Mew Power), Mermaid Melody(PichiPichiPitch), Winx Club, and Shugo Chara! *o*

I had already known of all those animes and I didn't care for anything except Winx Club, but Shugo Chara! caught my attention and I started to search for more videos of shugo chara on YouTube and tried to watch the anime. When I found the first episode subtitled, I watched it, and I loved it. From there I started to watch anime, knowing it was Japanese Cartoon and not a "Chinese cartoon" as everybody would call it in Mexico(here anybody or anything that have Asiatic features or characteristics is called "Chinese"). :B

Death Note manga

      A year passed until I started to watch another anime, which is really popular, but I actually think it sucks, NARUTO. I started to watch it on summer when I was 13 when my brother was watching TV, I was passing by and found it interesting. Some months passed until I started to watch more anime, it was when I was finishing my first year of middle or secondary school and I discovered I had a cousin which was otaku, but with whom I never talked with. She introduced me to this world by recommending me more animes to watch: CLANNAD, Rosario+Vampire, Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicles(which two years later she told me to never read :/ ), and many others.

As time passed I watched those animes she recommended me, and obviously I started to watch more by my own way. I got somehow caught and becoming more interested in those, as Japanese anime stories weren't as repetitive as Mexican stories, not even in love, and those didn't always have a happy ending(some were more realist). ^_^

      I didn't started to read manga until the next year, in which by May(I think so), I was watching NARUTO Shippuden, and I found most of the anime was a filler, so I started for search for the original story in the manga, and that's how I just started to read to know more about NARUTO, and also because the manga had more episodes than the anime.

The Sexy Simpleton Manhwa

Sometime later I found some manga webpages(which some are listed at the very bottom of this blog) and started to read some mangas of the animes I watched first, as Rosario+Vampire(I usually call it by its original name, Rosario to Banpaia). From there I started to read more and more mangas, until it came the moment in which I didn't like to watch animes anymore, in the same way I preferred to read many books instead of watching movies or TV. :D

It was when I was 15 I found the existence of Korean comics, in which I did also got fascinated, the first story I read was Love in the Mask, it was in the HOT section of most manga webpages and the picture and summary make it looks interesting. As in manga, I started to read manhwas in that way until I discovered more and more. Some mangas and manhwas were recommended to me by school friends whom I didn't knew they liked to read Asian comics, and watch anime. :X

      The first time I read a manhua was briefly described in Knight Princess post, because it was the first time I read a manhua because I thought it was from a Japanese mangaka whose stories I liked, and I discovered it was really Chinese until I read the name of the author. This happened when I was in second semester of High School.

      Right now, I'd read many stories, still reading some ongoing series, and have in waiting list many others. All this began four years ago, and I wonder why I feel like it happens way much time. I started with Shugo Chara! when it was October in my first Middle School year, now I'm almost 17 and finishing my 3rd High School semester. :)

3:00 am Danger Zone Manga

      But anyway, that's how life is. I wish you had liked to read my story. Maybe other time I'll publish some social conflicts most of the fanatics to Asian culture face with society, the most problematic is Parents and Friends(in which you discover who really is and who really is not your friend, and who does easily accept it, and who not).

Thanks for reading. have a nice weekend, I wish you had liked the post, GBU, goodbye.

(Sorry if something that's written in the post doesn't make sense in English, I'm still learning, xD).

PS: People, don't stop eating or making your chores for reading. It is not good for your health. I'm saying this because I'd done this while reading some really interesting mangas and manhwas. .-.

Manhwa: Delinquent Cinderella

「Cinderella lost her parents when she was a little girl and had to live with her stepmother and stepmother's two daughters. Her stepmother saw her as a maid and made her clean all day.

Until one day, the king wanted to choose a wife for the prince and he invited all the single ladies to attend the party. Cinderella couldn't go because she had to do all her chores. 

When Cinderella cried, a fairy godmother appeared.  The fairy godmother used her magic wand to turn Cinderella into a beautiful girl with a sparkling pair of shoes. The fairy godmother turned a pumpkin into a carriage, 4 mice into 4 white horses, a horse into a driver and a dog into a person to be Cinderella's assistant.

"You have to come back before midnight, everything will turn back to the way it was." advised the fairy godmother.

That's when Cinderella smiled and said:

"These glass slippers are really inconvenient. Could you change them into sneakers for me?…"」

Hello everybody,
once again, how are you?
as always I wish you're doing really well.
      I'm sure you'd noticed that in this post I put the usual introduction after a brief story, xD, also sorry for not posting the past weeks. I didn't post anything, neither finished this entry because I had a lot of things to do because the final exams and projects are coming, and right now I just had finished the 3rd partial exams, so I'm really busy. sorry. =_=
Anyway, getting back to the subject, (since the past week) I bring you a new Manhwa to introduce you, it is called Delinquent Cinderella(불량 신데렐라), created by the famous Korean Mangaka Hwang Mi Ri (she's one of the korean mangakas that had created more comics than other, also she's the first author whose manhwas I'd read). This manhwa is really interesting, is based in different towns in South Korea and also it isn't a romantic love story, instead a it have more of the korean gangster and business life(those aspect seem very important in most of the manhwas), but not really romantic, at first instance, there's not love, it is just used as an appearance:

         Nan Hui is a girl that lived on the countryside, in an apparently pacific life with her school friends, until one day she's caught smoking again in school, and sent off to the city by her grandmother to live with her mother and her nasty step-grandmother.

Since the moment she reaches to Seoul, the first thing she wants is to cause problems. There she found a drunk boy that was being hit by other 5 guys, she rescues him. But the ungrateful Gong Myeong didn't appreciated her help, so she stomped on his arm and ran off, expecting not to meet him ever again.

Anyway, Gong Myeong results to be Nan Hui's classmate and her step-brother best friend, which afterwards devises a plan with her, "We’re not going to really love each other. We’ll be a contract couple to get what we both want.”. He lost the girl he loved to Baek Jae Ha(Nan Hui's brother) and she wants to obtain favor from her step-grandmother.

However none of them expected to see al the problems that would come in the future, then what would happen if Nan Hui's best friend, who is in love with her, comes to the city? and how much complicated things can get if Gong Myeong's half-brother falls in love with her?

"Can this bad prince give this bad Cinderella her glass slipper? Will love blossom between these two bad personalities?"

    The genres of this manhwa are Shoujo, School Life, and Romance. The little brief story of the beginning is the beginning of this manhwa story. This is one of the first manhwas I did read, so if you're starting to read Korean comics, this is a good alternative to start with, because this one is easy to read as it has to be read from left to right(as the American comics), also because this comic contains the principal elements of most manhwas that represent Korean life, those which I've mentioned before: gangs, business, rich handsome boys, and a pretty poor girl.
If you're trying to know more about manhwas, it is convenient to start first with this kind of Korean comics, it will help you to find later which kind of stories do you prefer, and which kind of style do you like the most, additionally, to tell the difference of drawings and mangakas between manhwas.

Sorry for giving a really bad entry, but my fucking computer is not working properly, everybody would think that they're viruses, but no, it can't be, because i bought a Mac, so i need to go to the store and change it, for that i need to go to the US, which is 6 hours away from here, also the highway is not safe because of the narcos. Also sorry for the gramatical and spelling mistakes, but i won't return to correct them. just to open a single program takes like 10 minutes and to open google takes like 30 minutes, to open googledocs take like hour and half, to write down three words take me like 1 minute, to open a folder it take 3 minutes. my computer is really slow, even slower than a little snail :$

Thanks for reading,

I wish you to have a nice week,

GBU,

Goodbye, and thank you so much for being patient.
I planned to make a really good post, but my inspiration got away from me as this stupid computer was really slow, please be comprensive, and understand that just to make this entry took me a week when i ususally make them in 5 hours(to make my choice of the comic, to choose the pictures, to write the text, read again the first chapter to make the summary, etc.)

Please comment -_-, gomennasai, sorry

Manhwa: The Breaker

Hi everybody~!

How are you? I wish for you everything is fine.  :)

For me, things have been hard since I was at partial exams :S

         As in past posts, I'm going to present you another Asian comic :D , now I'm going to present you another Manhwa:  

The Breaker(브레이커) created by Jeon Geuk-Jin and Park Jin-Hwan, this story does also have a second part The Breaker: New Waves. :B This is one of my favorites Manhwas, it is full of fights and action, romance and friendship:
 ...

Shioon

      Shioon is a high school student that is constantly bullied by his classmates. One day  a new English teacher came to the school, Chun-Woo, but he wasn't the normal kind of teacher with his wily ambitions. When Shioon was determined to become stronger in order to protect his best childhood friend and to not be bullied again, in his way to the gym, unexpectedly he witness Chun-Woo fighting, and saw how strong his teacher was, so he begs him to take him as disciple. The teacher accepted with one condition: that Shioon throw himself in the river to prove his will. However, he didn't even imagined that his teacher was a killer with the mastery of the nine dragon arts techniques of Murim(secret or forbidden martial arts) world and was hiding himself after a big mission.

The Breaker New Waves

       The plot is set in Seoul, the capital of South Korea. The Breaker have lots of characters, and a really interesting story, it may be a little bloody because of the fights (when there are fights, there’s death), at first it is centered at the high school life and how Shioon defended himself and his friend from the people that bullied him, but then it turns to the Murim lifestyle. This Manhwa have a really good story (a good beginning, an excellent ending), and good drawings. It has to be read as the Japanese Comics, not as the normal way of reading Korean Comics. The Breaker genres are Seinen, Action, Comedy, Martial Arts, Ecchi, and School Life.

Goonmoonryo Sunsengnim's fighting skills

Well, that's all for this week. I wish you had like the posts I’ve been writing by now.

Goodbye, have a nice day, everybody~! :P

GBU!

Manhwa: Lingerie

Hi everybody,

I wish you do remember the terminology, and if you are thinking “wut u talkin’ about?” then please read the preview post :D , sorry if I’m being a bit rude :P

Today, I am going to present you the manhwa Lingerie created by Seo Yoon Young, it’s genres are Shoujo, Fantasy, Historical, and Romance. This is one of my favorites manhwas, even thou is short, it is really cool and interesting, sadly it is new and just have a few chapters T.T

Lingerie’s background is of Korea in the past. It is about lingerie designers. The father owns the shop, his daughter is the principal character(the girl in the picture), there’s a little cute brother(really he was a teenager), and the rest of the employers, models, also a hot guy that works for the family as servant :B

The plot begins just as you could see a common shop, selling their products, a crowd of customers, the store trying to get famous and gain lots of money; but as the story is developing it introduce you the characters personal life and past, that’s what makes it interesting, some internal problems in the shop, and also there’s romance(it includes the main and external characters). I can’t say more about the story, because it is still short, and if I tell you more things, then I’ll be telling you everything. :D

The manhwa story is cool, and also the drawings are good, the enviroment of the story is nice, and the structure of the story is also well done. The beginning wasn’t really interesting, but as I continued to read it I was fascinated. I recommend it.

Everybody have a Nice Day, and good-bye, GBU. :3

Terminology and Introduction

Hi everybody,
this is the first post of all, xD
here I’m just going to introduce myself and give you some important terminologies for read Asian comics, specially Japanese(that are the most popular) and Korean(also popular); Chinese, Thai, and Vietnamese comics are not often seen so there's no exactly terminology for those.

I'm Berenice Milán, Mexican,
I am not otaku, but I like it, and I understand the otaku obsession for 2D.
I have been called otaku by some friends, but I think I am not, that I still have long way to go :)
I don't usually watch anime because I don't really like TV, but I love to read, so I am a manga, manhwa, and manhua fan.
I don't like hentai, yaoi and yuri, I think my mind could become scum. I usually read Shounen, Shoujo, Gore(I’m a sadist), and Koma, I think those are cool(specially gore :B ).
I’m a Lolita fan, but I’m not Lolita, I think it doesn't fit me, also I’m not that feminine.

However, I wish you could like my blog, and the things I’m going to post on it. :3

Have a nice day everybody, and good-bye. :D GBU !!!

if there was something you didn’t understand here is the terminology:

Japanese Terminology:

Otaku: a person obsessed with something, but we use it to refer just to Anime and Manga fans

Anime: from animation, we use it to refer to Japanese animations(cartoons)

Manga: Literally Comic, but we use it to refer to Japanese comics

Mangaka: a person who works in drawing manga

Shoujo: young girl(also referring to the genre)

Shounen: young boy(also referring to the genre)
Josei: a sub-genre of Shoujo, targeted to the young female adult readers/audience.
Seinen: a sub-genre of Shounen, targeted to the young male adult readers/audience.

Mecha: the mechanical genre

Koma: is the humorist genre(there's also the 4-Koma)

Kodomo: Kids(also referring to the genre)

Mahou-Shoujo: Magical girl(also referring to the genre)

Gore/Guro: bloody(also referring to the genre)

Nakama: Mates, Friends, Comrade.

Tomodachi: Friend

Bishounen: pretty boy

Bishoujo: pretty girl

Ecchi: Erotic(also referring to the genre), in mangas or anime it can be used also Ero.

Hentai: Pervert(also referring to the genre)

Yaoi: love between man-man, Gay(also referring to the genre)

Yuri: Lilium, love between woman-woman, Lesbian(also referring to the genre)

Nihon/Nippon: Japan

Sayounara: Good Bye

Konnichiwa: Good Evening/Hello

Ohayou: Good Morning

Konbanwa: Good Night/Late Evening

Baka: stupid/idiot

Akuma: Devil
Doijinshi: is the Japanese term for self-published works, usually magazines, manga or novels; they are often works of amateurs. 

(name)-san: it could be Mrs., Mr., or miss

(name)-chan: it is used to refer to a person you're familiar with, it is more used referring to children and girls(it could also be (name)-chi)

(name)-kun: it is used to refer a person whom you know, but not very close to you, it is more used on boys.

(name)-sensei: sensei is teacher

(name)-senpai/sempai: someone older than you or with more experienced in something than you, whom you respect.

(name)-dono: an authority with whom you're subjected or that you just simply respect and is not married.

(name)-sama: is an authority like a chief, a president, gods. also fans call their idol -sama.

onee-san: older sister

onii-san: older brother

imouto: younger sister

itouto: younger brother

Kawaii: pretty, cute, adorable, or dear.

Ganbaru: A word of encouragement: Hang in There!, Go! (it may also be in other verb tense: ganbatte, ganbatta, ganbare)

Gomen/gomenasai: sorry/I’m sorry

Etto: is like saying "mmmm…." in a conversation when you think or are in blank.

Sake: rice wine

Hime: Princess

Ojou: young master

Onegai: Please

Youkai: Monster or demon(reffering to supernatural like vampires, werewolves, sirens, etc.)

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Artículo original: The 100 most essential words in anime.

Korean Terminology:

Oppa: Older Brother, Used only by girls

Hyung: Older brother, Used only by boys

Unnie: Older Sister, used only by girls

Noona: Older Sister, used only by boys
(name)-ssi: is like using -san in japanese

Hyungnim: Gang members use it to refer to their Gang leader

Sunbae: used in both genders as a term of respect for upperclassmen

Sunsengnim: teacher
Ahjussi: Old Man 
Ahjuma: Old Woman

http://www.mangahere.com/manga/love_in_the_mask/v14/c103/