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Just read Dokebi Bride 3, and I'm loving every second of it. XD
DB is a manhwa put out by Netcomics. Sunbi is a teenager who grew up with her grandmother, a shamaness* out in the Korean boonies. When her grandmother dies, Sunbi has to move to the city and live with her father and his wife and daughter. Suffice it to say, nobody's really happy with this arrangement. A complicating factor is that Sunbi's mother had great spiritual power, but denied it and ended up dying from the harassment of evil spirits, and Sunbi's inherited this power. Sunbi's father, a psychiatrist, thinks that his former wife had suffered from a psychiatric disorder and is frightened that Sunbi may have inherited it. Sunbi starts to get harassed by spirits and tries to find ways to get rid of them.
Book 1 is a bit slow, as it starts with Sunbi's childhood with her grandmother and moving to the city. Book 2 picks up a bit as her spiritual problems start arriving, and the series hits its stride with book 3, as Sunbi sets out to do something drastic about it, with (naturallly) unexpected consequences. I think the art also hits its stride in book 3 - the backgrounds are more fully developed, and the people and spirits are drawn with a little more confidence.
Minor spoilers from volume 3
Volume 3 starts with Sunbi heading up to a mountain to try to call a dokebi, or type of Korean spirit that lives out in the woods and mountains, to help her. She manages to do so, but it turns out that dokebi love drinking and partying and having fun and this one's no exception. He also eventually ends up with a massive crush on her and tells the others that they're engaged - well, the title of the manhwa should have clued you in to that.
He's no elegant, sublime bishounen spirit, but a big, vulgar lunk. Marley, the writer/artist, handles him in such a funny manner that I find him a sympathetic character and I'm lookig forward to starting volume 4, which is sitting right next to me at this moment. :D There's also the usual classmate-with-a-crush-on-the-main-character who the dokebi sees as a rival, and the drama of Sunbi's new family to deal with, especially as her father thinks she may be going crazy like her mother did.
* My inner anthropological geek wants me to use the proper feminine term, "shamanka," but I figure few of you will know what I'm talking about if I use it.
DB is a manhwa put out by Netcomics. Sunbi is a teenager who grew up with her grandmother, a shamaness* out in the Korean boonies. When her grandmother dies, Sunbi has to move to the city and live with her father and his wife and daughter. Suffice it to say, nobody's really happy with this arrangement. A complicating factor is that Sunbi's mother had great spiritual power, but denied it and ended up dying from the harassment of evil spirits, and Sunbi's inherited this power. Sunbi's father, a psychiatrist, thinks that his former wife had suffered from a psychiatric disorder and is frightened that Sunbi may have inherited it. Sunbi starts to get harassed by spirits and tries to find ways to get rid of them.
Book 1 is a bit slow, as it starts with Sunbi's childhood with her grandmother and moving to the city. Book 2 picks up a bit as her spiritual problems start arriving, and the series hits its stride with book 3, as Sunbi sets out to do something drastic about it, with (naturallly) unexpected consequences. I think the art also hits its stride in book 3 - the backgrounds are more fully developed, and the people and spirits are drawn with a little more confidence.
Minor spoilers from volume 3
Volume 3 starts with Sunbi heading up to a mountain to try to call a dokebi, or type of Korean spirit that lives out in the woods and mountains, to help her. She manages to do so, but it turns out that dokebi love drinking and partying and having fun and this one's no exception. He also eventually ends up with a massive crush on her and tells the others that they're engaged - well, the title of the manhwa should have clued you in to that.
He's no elegant, sublime bishounen spirit, but a big, vulgar lunk. Marley, the writer/artist, handles him in such a funny manner that I find him a sympathetic character and I'm lookig forward to starting volume 4, which is sitting right next to me at this moment. :D There's also the usual classmate-with-a-crush-on-the-main-character who the dokebi sees as a rival, and the drama of Sunbi's new family to deal with, especially as her father thinks she may be going crazy like her mother did.
* My inner anthropological geek wants me to use the proper feminine term, "shamanka," but I figure few of you will know what I'm talking about if I use it.
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[Also, anthropological geekery? I think I may friend you]
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(Hey, knock yourself out! XD I have an MA in anthro, which is solely used for getting into arguments on teh intarwebs right now. XD)