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Sun-Ken Rock #2
Sun-Ken Rock, Tome 2
Kitano Ken, un jeune Japonais, débarque à Séoul avec un seul but : devenir agent de police comme Yumin, la fille qu’il aime. C’est le début pour lui d’une succession de galères... Alors qu’il pleure son désespoir au comptoir d’un resto ambulant, des mafieux s’en prennent au patron. Le sang de Ken ne fait qu’un tour et les coups pleuvent ! Ce que Ken ignore, c’est que Tae-soo, le boss d’un gang de quartier, a apprécié sa réaction et son ardeur au combat. Il compte bien l’enrôler. Bastons, jolies femmes et costards de marque : pour Ken, c’est le début d’une nouvelle vie mouvementée et pleine d’humour !
192 pages, Paperback
First published January 12, 2007
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About the author
Boichi
262 books140 followersIntending to be a manga artist from his childhood days, majored in physics in college as preparation to draw science fiction works, and also to learn the technology of performance and imaging, went on to graduate school to major in image technology.
In 1993, while still enrolled, debuted in a Korean shoujo manga magazine. Since then, he gained popularity releasing a number of works and publishing books on how to draw manga targeting a wide range of reader.
In 2004 he stepped into the world of Japanese manga. His “Ultimate Space Emperor Caesar”, serialized in Monthly “Comic Gum”, was his first tankōbon in Japan.
In 2005, 9 out of Boichi’s 11 hentai one-shot serialized in Comic Aun were reunited under the volume titled “Lover in Winter”.
In 2006, he released two science fiction one-shot, “Hotel” and “Present” which, in 2008, were compiled in a volume titled Hotel along the other one-shots “It was all for the tuna”, “Stephanos” and “Diadem”.
2006 is the year of Boichi’s first serialized manga: “Sun Ken Rock” in the bi-weekly magazine Young King. This manga will also have a side-story based on Yumin in 2011 and one based on Pickaxe in 2012. 2012 will also see the serialization of “I want to feed Yumin”, another spin-off of Sun Ken Rock based on Yumin and serialized in “Monthly Young King”.
Boichi also worked on a 5 volume long manga titled Raqiya and written by Masao Yajima where he was in charge of the art and published in 2009. He also only did the art of the Brutality one-shot by Takeda Yuusuke in 2007.
In later 2011, he started the serialization of another manga titled “H.E the hunt for energy” in a new monthly magazine: Jump X. In this year, he won the Gran Guinigi prize for “It was all for the Tuna”.
To express his sentiment towards Vietnam and apologize for Korea’s action during the war, Sun Ken Rock volume 2′s royalties were donated to the humanitarian organization “Child of Viet Nam”. He asked Korean manga artists to contribute towards drawing a support page for Japan in regards to 2011′s big earthquake, and giving the royalties from the proceeding to the Red Cross. He also donated the money he planned to use to buy a new car towards helping tsunami victims.
In 1993, while still enrolled, debuted in a Korean shoujo manga magazine. Since then, he gained popularity releasing a number of works and publishing books on how to draw manga targeting a wide range of reader.
In 2004 he stepped into the world of Japanese manga. His “Ultimate Space Emperor Caesar”, serialized in Monthly “Comic Gum”, was his first tankōbon in Japan.
In 2005, 9 out of Boichi’s 11 hentai one-shot serialized in Comic Aun were reunited under the volume titled “Lover in Winter”.
In 2006, he released two science fiction one-shot, “Hotel” and “Present” which, in 2008, were compiled in a volume titled Hotel along the other one-shots “It was all for the tuna”, “Stephanos” and “Diadem”.
2006 is the year of Boichi’s first serialized manga: “Sun Ken Rock” in the bi-weekly magazine Young King. This manga will also have a side-story based on Yumin in 2011 and one based on Pickaxe in 2012. 2012 will also see the serialization of “I want to feed Yumin”, another spin-off of Sun Ken Rock based on Yumin and serialized in “Monthly Young King”.
Boichi also worked on a 5 volume long manga titled Raqiya and written by Masao Yajima where he was in charge of the art and published in 2009. He also only did the art of the Brutality one-shot by Takeda Yuusuke in 2007.
In later 2011, he started the serialization of another manga titled “H.E the hunt for energy” in a new monthly magazine: Jump X. In this year, he won the Gran Guinigi prize for “It was all for the Tuna”.
To express his sentiment towards Vietnam and apologize for Korea’s action during the war, Sun Ken Rock volume 2′s royalties were donated to the humanitarian organization “Child of Viet Nam”. He asked Korean manga artists to contribute towards drawing a support page for Japan in regards to 2011′s big earthquake, and giving the royalties from the proceeding to the Red Cross. He also donated the money he planned to use to buy a new car towards helping tsunami victims.
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May 29, 2012
If the graphic is brilliant, the story itself is quite violent. An adult manga with great fight scenes but also some of creepy rape and prostitution which I am not really crazy about as a woman. Even if, it certainly gives credibility to the story of Mafia gangs which terrorized a neighborhood in Seoul. A little touch of subtility will have done the trick too!
As for the good guys, the gang of thugs whose leader is Ken fights to save the oppressed. So, it's a bit as if Robin Hood was looking like a Yakuza ... This does not detract from the scenes of excess trash but say that it helps the medicine go down.
Lucie
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As for the good guys, the gang of thugs whose leader is Ken fights to save the oppressed. So, it's a bit as if Robin Hood was looking like a Yakuza ... This does not detract from the scenes of excess trash but say that it helps the medicine go down.
Lucie
http://newbooksonmyselves.blogspot.fr...
July 28, 2023
Now it feels the manga wasted little time in becoming hard as fuck. It gets a little "edgy" with the sexual violence, but that's probably a near-necessary price to pay to raise stakes in this way. Ken is forced to face the harsh truths of the crime world, but he sticks to the purity of his original morality. He doesn't want strength, but he'll take it if it means he can prevent more pain like what Miss Yoo suffered.
The Vietnamese dude was really cool as a foil to Ken. It was funny to see he's modeled after the Thai action star Tony Jaa, especially when the character was trained by his Korean father's Thai friend anyway, so he could just as well have been a Korean-Thai mix. But I guess that wouldn't fit the political theme?
It's also really neat that Boichi apparently gets his assistants to do action poses while he photographs them, to use as models for his fight scenes. As a kid, I assumed this was standard for action manga, and was disappointed to learn otherwise. So good on Boichi for respecting my child beliefs!
The Vietnamese dude was really cool as a foil to Ken. It was funny to see he's modeled after the Thai action star Tony Jaa, especially when the character was trained by his Korean father's Thai friend anyway, so he could just as well have been a Korean-Thai mix. But I guess that wouldn't fit the political theme?
It's also really neat that Boichi apparently gets his assistants to do action poses while he photographs them, to use as models for his fight scenes. As a kid, I assumed this was standard for action manga, and was disappointed to learn otherwise. So good on Boichi for respecting my child beliefs!
This entire review has been hidden because of spoilers.
November 21, 2024
J'ADORE JE M'ARRÊTE PLUS (le sale gosse j'arrive plus à bosser c'est de sa faute)
May 1, 2022
Me gustó el tema que tocó este tomo: el patriotismo y la xenofobia desencadenados por la guerra. Y ese es gran parte del motivo por el que le doy 3 estrellas y no 2.
La comedia en este tomo aparece en momentos inoportunos, arruinando toda la seriedad del momento. Entiendo que esto que digo se contradice con mi reseña del tomo 1, pero es algo que me parece que le resta mucho. A través de varios capítulos, el autor va preparando una situación de rescate completamente seria, sólo para sacarle la tensión armada con una racha de chistes malos. Si por lo menos estuvieran buenos, no estaría mal; pero al no ser ese el caso, resulta muy frustante.
Hay obras seinen que manejan perfectamente la comedia con la seriedad del momento: Golden Kamuy es el ejemplo perfecto. Los chistes en esas situaciones no interrumpen y toman el foco del momento, sino que aparecen de fondo y/o son muy sutiles.
El anterior tomo tenía unos chistes o situaciones cómicas buenas (ejemplo, el gigante saliendo del autito; las obtenciones de las oficinas y el auto de la banda), pero este es casi exclusivamente el tipo de humor de Boichi que odio: las caras caricaturezcas. Este tomo está lleno de esas. Imagino que son los remates de los chistes, porque no hay ninguna otra cosa que pretenda dar gracia. Mucho cringe
La comedia en este tomo aparece en momentos inoportunos, arruinando toda la seriedad del momento. Entiendo que esto que digo se contradice con mi reseña del tomo 1, pero es algo que me parece que le resta mucho. A través de varios capítulos, el autor va preparando una situación de rescate completamente seria, sólo para sacarle la tensión armada con una racha de chistes malos. Si por lo menos estuvieran buenos, no estaría mal; pero al no ser ese el caso, resulta muy frustante.
Hay obras seinen que manejan perfectamente la comedia con la seriedad del momento: Golden Kamuy es el ejemplo perfecto. Los chistes en esas situaciones no interrumpen y toman el foco del momento, sino que aparecen de fondo y/o son muy sutiles.
El anterior tomo tenía unos chistes o situaciones cómicas buenas (ejemplo, el gigante saliendo del autito; las obtenciones de las oficinas y el auto de la banda), pero este es casi exclusivamente el tipo de humor de Boichi que odio: las caras caricaturezcas. Este tomo está lleno de esas. Imagino que son los remates de los chistes, porque no hay ninguna otra cosa que pretenda dar gracia. Mucho cringe
February 20, 2022
Mots Clés: manga, seinen, violence, violence sexuelle
Dès le début de ce volume, on est plongé dans un monde de violence. J’ai donc beaucoup moins rigolé qu’en lisant le premier volume mais je l’ai trouvé très intéressant quand même. Le mangaka aborde le sujet de la guerre du Vietnam, sujet que je ne connais pas vraiment mais j’ai apprécié sa façon de parler de la guerre. Les scènes de combats sont toujours aussi belles en tout cas.
4/4
Dès le début de ce volume, on est plongé dans un monde de violence. J’ai donc beaucoup moins rigolé qu’en lisant le premier volume mais je l’ai trouvé très intéressant quand même. Le mangaka aborde le sujet de la guerre du Vietnam, sujet que je ne connais pas vraiment mais j’ai apprécié sa façon de parler de la guerre. Les scènes de combats sont toujours aussi belles en tout cas.
4/4
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August 24, 2021L'histoire se met peu à peu en place, alors que c'était terriblement brouillon dans le premier volume, mais ça reste très misogyne. Deuxième volume et déjà trois viols, avec des femmes qui n'utilisent que leur corps comme monnaie d'échange (pour remercier le héros, pour le récompenser, etc.).
September 24, 2020
Pretty awesome gang fighting manga, tho it spent way to much time on Echii stuff it was a pretty great story and exciting fights 😁👌💪❤️
February 14, 2017
I don't know why but I'm sorta finding this whole thing to be pretentious
October 20, 2021
What a powerful and explosive volume! I was wondering why this didn't get popular, but I see now. It is hard to get recognition in the manga industry unless your work gets adapted into an anime.
Sun-Ken Rock is an action manga which roots itself into gangs, wars, and ecchi. These mature elements, are not the type of genre regular manga readers might be into. But if you find the right type of genre, this could have been an awesome anime.
Sun-Ken Rock is an action manga which roots itself into gangs, wars, and ecchi. These mature elements, are not the type of genre regular manga readers might be into. But if you find the right type of genre, this could have been an awesome anime.
September 3, 2012
Amazing Art and Good story create a great manga.
I wonder Why there isn't Anime yet??
I wonder Why there isn't Anime yet??
December 10, 2015
Sweet baby Jesus, that was graphic! For a minute there I thought that I was reading a hentai mag.
November 20, 2022
boy in love is the new boss of his own mafia gang, in love with everything in this manga !
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