One thousand and one nights

[telophase]

I read volumes 2 and 3 of the manhwa One Thousand and One Nights, the shoujo-ish retelling of the classic tale with the sort of CRACK-INSPIRED twists that we expect from this genre. There is a mad Sultan who takes a new wife every night and kills her in the morning, and who is rather hot except for that whole mass-murder thing. There is a scruffy Grand Vizier, who is also kinda hot and wears glasses, thus rachelmanija will probably rush right out and buy it. There is a Scheherazade, only this one happens to be a beautiful young man who dressed up as a woman and offered himself in his sister's place. Did I happen to mention that his sister loves him? I mean, loves him? Yeah, you'd probably all assumed that before I mentioned it, knowing the genre and all.

Anyway, yes, young Sehara, our Scheherazade, tells the mad Sultan stories (and plot happens in between the stories, involving bandits and kidnapping and so on). These are retellings of stories and legends from around the world, that most of us are probably familiar with.

In a story in book 3 I was confronted with a shoujo version of ... well, you know what? This calls for a poll! Below this cut you shall find a picture of this person and a poll for you to guess who he might be. Have at it!






[Poll #924919]


The answer is in this journal entry.

Comments

[frostedelves.livejournal.com]

Guess in comments: Sephiroth!!1!!

[telophase.livejournal.com]

UNCANNY!

My next entry has the answer in it. XD

[azure-reverie.livejournal.com]

Hm, I am guessing Sanzo, and bare chested Sanzo at that.

[stardustmajick.livejournal.com]

I loooove this manhwa. Sopretty. Although, I'm torn between rooting for Sultan/Sehara or Bodyguard/Sultan ... I need to reread, can't remember their names.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

They have names?

XD I mostly admire the hot, hot men linework.

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

Aizen's brother?

[thomasyan.livejournal.com]

And speaking of Sephiroth, have you seen this?

http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=814

[dragovianknight.livejournal.com]

Helllllloooooooooooooooooooooooooo Nurse!

[heyoka.livejournal.com]

(I already read the manhwa, so dunno if that counts as cheating. XD)

[rayechu.livejournal.com]

I love QC and am one of the many people that thinks it would actually be quite fun to watch that.

[irukai.livejournal.com]

OMG. Now where do I get this? Sounds like something my g/f and I will be reading together, lol.

[telophase.livejournal.com]

I ended up ordering the volumes from Amazon.com, because they never show up in my local bookstore, unless I happen to already own them. :) The publisher ia Ice Kunion (http://www.icekunion.com/).