Bride of the Water God (Volume 1) by Mi-Kyung Yun
Genre: Manhwa Shoujo
Edition Reviewed: Paperback
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When Soah's impoverished, desperate village decides to sacrifice her to the Water God Habaek to end a long drought, they believe that drowning one beautiful girl will save their entire community and bring much-needed rain. Not only is Soah surprised to be rescued by the Water God - instead of killed - she never imagined she'd be a welcomed guest in Habaek's magical kingdom, where an exciting new life awaits her! Most surprising, however, is the Water God himself... and how very different he is from the monster Soah imagined.
Review:
That day . . . which was as gloomy as a funeral . . . was my wedding day.
With those words I thought this manwha was starting out strong, especially with the accompaniment of the gorgeous artwork! Sadly the story pacing and paneling of the artwork is choppy. While reading volume 1 of Bride of the Water God, I thought it felt like it was a first time work. Lo and behold when I got to the end that's exactly what the creator said it was. There's nothing wrong with that, it just means that Mi-Kyung Yun needs to find her footing.
The artwork is the most appealing thing about this manwha, sadly it's flecked with a few standard manga/manwha tropes. Such as chibis and other standard work. If the artwork looks this amazing, you should be careful about the other quality of scenes you're mixing in. At times it took away from the story.
Speaking of the story despite what I thought was an original idea about a girl being sacrificed to the water god and coming into a new land as his bride, it quickly became a pretty normal story. There's a love triangle, the water god has two bodies and makes Soah think they're two different people, standard supporting cast, and so on. The world of the gods and the realm that Soah now finds herself isn't expanded on, which is a shame. It also bothers me that with such an amazing idea that the emotions are shoved in a box. No really I didn't feel sad about what was happening to Soah, and none of the scenes so much as evoked a smile out of me.
This is an intro not only to a series but to Mi-Kyung Yun, and the series is going to need a lot of work. The artwork is beautiful enough and the story line still has enough potential as long as things go a bit deeper then standard hijinks. It's worth checking out volume 2 just to see if this series gets into the swing of things.
Sexual Content: Clean.
2/5- Average/disappointing, library check-out
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