(First, forgive my English, I'm French... I take some English classes at my university/college but it's still far from perfect)
I created my account for this forum a couple of years ago, but only now I'm making my first post. I did however read almost all the "important" threads. A very "elitist" forum, but I like that.
I wanted to talk about "Shin Angyo Onshi", a manwha (but often referred as a manga because it was published first in Japan) written by Youn In-Wan and illustrated by Yang Kyung-Il. 17 volumes, published in France by "Pika", and after reading it online I had to buy them...
Oh, you might be familiar with it because an animated film came out in 2004, covering the first couple volumes... It wasn't as bad as the new Berserk movies. A nice introduction to the story.
Sadly, to my knowledge the paper manga is not published in English, so if you want to read it you will have to read scanlations.... I know it sucks, collecting manga myself I know that there is no comparison in the experience, and the mangaka is not getting any money from it, but for SAO there is no other choice if you don't speak Japanese/Korean/French, etc...
I might actually make a new thread because I wanted to make a long post about all the similarities between those two manga.
Even if Berserk is much better, SAO has the same themes. I'd like to tell you "trust me, read it", but we all know it's not that simple, and so I have to give details. thus:
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I won't get deeply into details, Ill save that for the thread I'll make about the end of SAO; because for the first time, when I finished that manga, I was able to imagine Berserk's end, and I wanted to know if other people here shared the same views as I do;
But just for a quick introduction:
The main character, Munsu, shares a lot of similarities with Guts. His past in the army as a general, his hatred and need for vengeance are powered by,
to simplify, the "betrayal" of a best friend/comrade in arms/equal, as well as a woman in the middle of them and many other things.
As for SAO's villain, Aji Tae, not only does he physically looks like Griffith, but his story with Munsu is similar to Griffith/Guts.
Also like Berserk it's gory, like Berserk there is an element of "heroic-fantasy" present mixed with technology, the way story is built is similar to Berserk: the manga first introduces Munsu wandering for a few volumes in a post apocalyptic world and killing "monsters", and then you have the backstory for a few volumes, and then back to the present.
At that point, you may wonder if that manga is not simply a copy of Berserk... not really, even if many people refer to it as the "Korean Berserk", they also point out that it's a great seinen on it's own, and I recommend it if you're looking for something good, art&story wise, and
finished. Because my only concern with Berserk it that I started buying the volumes 10 years ago, and as of today I'm not even sure I'll see the end someday.
Have fun reading it online/downloading the volumes (unless you speak one of the languages that SAO was translated in, in that case I strongly recommend purchasing it), i'll make a new thread later if several people have read it and would like to have a conversation about the ending, and how it could be similar to what Miura might have in mind.
A bientôt!
Mammon
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