Wednesday, December 29, 2010

Jea-Eun Kim's "Smoke"

I've read a few of Jea-Eun Kim's works and let me tell you she is FABULOUS. She does a lot of manhwa, (usually boys friendship) and her artwork is flawless.

Being the bad girl that I am, I tend to read behind the lines and let my mind wonder to the world of taboo love.

So when I found out that Jea-Eun Kim's latest work is BL; I've been in a fan girl frenzy (can you blame me? this is her first BL work! After 12 years of "boys friendship", we've been rewarded with her version of BL).

I've been googling every week trying to find raws; and to no avail either!! There aren't any anywhere, well Google cant find them that's for sure lol. I'll just have to keep scouring the net looking, hoping, for a shred of yaoi goodness.

For some reason I really like BL manhwa, I haven't felt this excited about one since "The Summit".

Ok, on to business; Jea-Eun's latest work is called "Smoke", I haven't really found out anything particular about it, other then various wall papers. 

The wall papers themselves are somewhat misleading, they always have a few lines on them leading me to believe; they're either past loves, rivals, or have a romeoXjuliet scenario going on.

Apparently there's seventeen volumes out, that's a lot and Jea-Eun is just the artist; a person named TAZ is the author so it might be different from her usual work.

Update: so here's what I've been able to find out. 

Correction: when I posted earlier about there being 17 volumes, I was wrong.

its not actually a manhwa, its a doujinshi; that means its basically self put out; he/she (the artist) puts out & releases their own work; (like at conventions and stuff or door to door sales). 

There are currently 17 doujinshi's available each usually around 30 page each; each volume is actually like a chapter to the series. 


o.O


The series is about a syndicate of assassins. 

Basically, a young boy (hes the innocent looking brunette) see's his mother get assassinated & vows revenge, he grows up & finds a mentor/teacher, whatever; he becomes his companion (lover) and becomes an assassin himself.

His mentor is an older blond seme (pictured below; he doesn't look that old, rather only a few years older then the lead uke).  
Our uke ends up becoming close with his teachers "abandoned" son, who's also an assassin for a rival company. 

He's also blond by the way; so it can get confusing. (its hinted at that maybe hell get his revenge by doing something to his son).

He knows his master/teacher killed his mom but he fell in love with his boss, (thats why you dont mix business with pleasure; its hard to separate your feelings).

The shocker is that the teacher is also the lover of the assassins company's boss & that the lead ukes lover is an uke himself for the assassin companies boss :O 

who will our uke kill? his lover? or his lovers lover? The man who hired him to kill his mom. 

Wednesday, December 8, 2010

welcome

This is my first post in my new blog, so let me thank you for stopping by. 

SANKYUU!!

You're probably wondering what this is or who I am lol, this is my own personal space for sharing whatever it is I feel like sharing.

I believe theres a place for everything & everything in its place; I'm very anal about these things.

I'm a huge otaku, well not fat but I love an escape from reality for my own personal reasons.

You've probably noticed I'm a huge fan of the double space, its my bff lol, it's not to be taken lightly.

Anyways I'm not paying attnetion to the movie I'm watching so I'll post more later this was supposed to be a simple, "hello".