Travelers
of the Moon
by Lee Na Hyeon
Summary:
“There’s nothing more important than friendship!” In a world where vampires are
nearly extinct, Yuh-Ur wakes up one morning to discover that the injured bat
her father brought home from a trip is not only fully healed but also a
vampire. Unsure what to think about this she becomes even more worried by this
development when it appears that a fellow classmate has been attacked by a
vampire, although Ida doesn’t seem like the type to go around hurting people….
The
Good: Plot-wise this was the strongest of the three
manhaw I had checked out, feeling neither like a rip-off of something else and
having a plot that made sense and did make me curious about what happened next.
The characters also had a pretty good debate about whether or not to trust Ida
and their ideas and experiences fleshed out the side characters much more than
I was expecting. There is a limit to how much story you can tell in one volume in an on-going story but this story did a lot more in it's first volume than a lot of stories I've read.
The
Bad: I did wonder if the first chapter was meant to
be a one-shot that later got picked up for a full story since it focused on a
completely different character, Ida’s personality seemed rather different, and
Yuh-Ur didn’t even make an appearance. I also had a hard time keeping all the
character’s names straight, partially due to the odd order and pacing of the
story and finally, while there certainly is room for a longer story I think I
would have been happier if this had been a single volume work. That’s just
personal preference on my part, although perhaps future volumes would be able
to explain the series’ odd title. Also, that quote in the summary is the only bit of information on the back cover of the manhwa and you really need more than that if you hope to get buyer/library goer's attention.
The
Art: The art is rather conventional, no odd panel
shape or placement, lots of screen tones used to fill in objects and
backgrounds, there’s not a lot worth noting. While I do have complaints on how
the story was paced the panels themselves flowed well and all in all I don’t
have any complaints about the art, just no praise either.
As a heads up, I'm heading to a con tomorrow and Sunday so tomorrow's review will be up rather early. I would say that Sunday's review will be up late but since I'm posting this one near midnight anyway (I will blame my brother's graduation for that one) I don't think most people will notice a difference there.
