Ashamed of failing her high school entrance exam, a 16-year-old tomboy Sooha just wants to disappear off the face of the Earth.
However, when she yells it out loud a mysterious stranger named Ganesha approaches with an offer. He comes from a magical realm called the Para Kingdom ruled by a female military hierarchy that enslaves the male population. Ganesha offers to grant Sooha's wish if she will help liberate the men. Thinking his country sounds like paradise, she instantly agrees.
But, when she arrives the men look to her as their new leader and Sooha learns that fate has a funny way of leading people to their destiny.
The Korean edition of this series was put on hold after volume 9, but the author has plans to continue the series in the near future. NETCOMICS will make sure to bring you the series to its completion.
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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, and how it affects those around them.
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 read.
- Sandra Scholes, September 2007
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Yay, another OLM supporter!!!
Sunseaukoe
08/16/08 11:38
First, I have to say I am soo glad someone else loves this series. I've been so disappointed that there hasn't been a lot of commenting in the forum on this topic.
Anyway, I don't think Yuisad has any indecent designs on Esana but he was being a lot weird. The first time he saw Esana, it seemed very obvious that he was comparing his looks to Ladan's. I got that he was jealous; no problem.
The second time they meant was a little creepy because we were already aware of Yuisad's jealousy. It seemed to be turning into something really twisted. I understand that Esana favors his father in a way that Yuisad covets but will never attain but Yuisad's all-too-sensual image of this child gave me bad-vibe goosebumps.
Then again; I'm probably reading too much into it. Maybe the only one with impure thoughts is me.
Sunseauoke, I'm interested in your POV on the last chapter but I'm confused. I thought that the descriptive ways that Yuisad was thinking of/describing his little bro was so detailed and sensual because he was describing someone who possessed a beauty that he would just never match up to, and a person who was the spitting image of his father--another beautiful man, who Yuisad will also never look like, and also not be fully accepted by. I thought the detailed descriptions and pained looks were all out of jealousy and fascination, nothing sexual, espcially because of how closely he relates his brother and his father. Although perhaps he's just got the hots for everybody in his family, since they're all major hotties, and there are major, unfortunate, incest vibes that have just totally gone over my head.
Anyway, discuss. I am intrigued. Oh! And I heart this series! Can't wait to see how the proverbial sh*t will eventually have to hit the fan, showing us how the Empire came to be the big ole hot, men-opressed mess that it is today.
I know this is leading up to something and I appreciate the pretty pictures of Esana as a child and Ladan is a major hottie; but can we get to the point already?! I think an end to this trip down memory lane is long overdue.
I'm starting to think that hateful Para is the one responsible for Ladan and Esana being executed (well we know Esana doesn't really die) and the emperor being dethroned. Otherwise, I can't see any reason for all of the back story.
I really want to get back to present-day Esana and find out what happened to him. Plus, even though Sooha is the main character, we've hardly seen any of her.
I've got my fingers crossed that the next chapter is the last chapter set in the past.
I really can't stand Para. I thought we would learn something about her past that would make me understand why she is such a hateful wench and feel sorry for her. So far, all I've learned is more reason to hate her. I had wanted her to end up with Ganesha (even though he is her first cousin - incest much?) because I thought maybe she truly loved him but I have changed my mind. I hope she dies alone as she deserves because of the hateful wench that she is.
Maybe something in the next chapter will change my mind...
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