Snow Drop, Volume 1

Snow Drop #1

by Kyung-ah Choi

Hae-Gi and So-Na love each other, but their relationship faces many difficulties, mostly related to the hatred So-Na's rich father feels towards Hae-Gi's poor family, and a terrible past that they share.

Genres: Manga, Manhwa, Romance, Comics, Graphic Novels, Young Adult, Shojo

200 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1999

About the author

Birthplace: South Korea
Other Information: Choi-sensei is married and has a young son named Ji-Ho. Choi Kyung-ah is known for her lavish, fantasy-laced illustrations for works like "Akashic Records" and "Come on Out, Love!". Her other works (currently unlisted) include "Aroma" and "Love". Choi-sensei once said that to draw someone cool and sexy, she wears her sexiest outfit, and stands in front of the open refrigerator.

Reviews

[Tamara · Rating 3 out of 5]

Dropped at vol.5 (but I did spoil myself for other volumes so dont tell me it gets better.)

I heard this one was like a clone of romeo & juliet.....the whole star-crossed lovers, love each other to the death no matter what etc. but damn it, it's getting too much time to get there even though we already had too much drama. I spoiled myself, checked out some stuff so; NO THANKS. I wont finish this manga. At least for now.

Here is why:

1. I cant stand romeo & juliet. Great love story and great lovers my ass. Two stupid teenagers. That's what they are.

2. All the crying and all the fights between the characters gets repetitive. And then the stupid feud between the families that never ends until they almost die so...UGH!!!

3. It somewhat reminded me of the manga MARS. Which makes me compare these two. I'd rather re-read/re-watch MARS again so no, thanks.

4. The story was already dragging for me at volume 5 and it seems things get so much worse in later chapters. Manga should have been 10 volumes instead of 12.

5. The manga was interesting. But then got boring. Then suddenly got interesting. Then boring. Then I was like 'STOP TIRING ME!!'.

6. After all those awesome and realistic mangas and webtoons, I just cant stand ordinary and over-the-top shoujo drama. Stereotypical love triangles and antagonists trying to break the main couple up with stalkerish and creepy ways? No, thanks.

Art: Sometimes 'good', sometimes 'meh'.






Will I Ever Pick It Up Again?: Never say never...but probably not sometime soon in the future.

[Roxanne Rosa · Rating 5 out of 5]

Just thinking about this series breaks my heart. I remember this was my first Korean manga series I ever read, and reading the names was SO confusing. But I kept going and by the end I was happy, sad, and everything in between. This series is a great work of shojo manga.

[Yoyomaus Die Büchereule · Rating 2 out of 5]

Eine neue Schule,

viele neue Menschen

und du willst einfach nur nach Hause zu deinen Pflanzen.





Zum Inhalt:

Die reiche, aber emotional labile So-Na fühlt sich nur bei ihren Pflanzen, die sie mit Liebe und Hingabe züchtet, wirklich geborgen. Als sie eines Tages von ihrem Vater gezwungen wird, eine neue High School zu besuchen, lernt sie den gut aussehenden Hae-Gi kennen. Bevor die Beiden sich näher kommen, beginnt ein kompliziertes Katz- und Mausspiel.



Cover:

Das Cover ist so richtig typisch Manwha. Es sieht gut aus, es ist ansprechend und lässt einen enttäuscht zurück, wenn man dann die Qualität der Zeichnungen im Manwha gesehen hat, denn die ist bei weitem nicht so gut, wie auf dem Cover dargestellt. Wir sehen hier Hae-Gi, der keck dem Betrachter entgegenblickt. Viel zum Inhalt sagt das leider nicht aus, aber es ist hübsch anzusehen.





Eigener Eindruck:
Das junge Mädchen So-Na liebt es bei ihren Pflanzen zu sein und ist gern für sich. Als ihr Vater sie zwingt den Privatunterricht zu unterbrechen und in eine normale Schule zu gehen, ist sie nicht sonderlich begeistert davon. Gesellschaft leistet ihr ihr frecher Kumpel Ha-Da, der regelmäßig mit den Regeln der Gesellschaft aneinandergerät. Als So-Na auf den Jungen Hae-Gi trifft und sich scheinbar auch für ihn interessiert, beginnt sofort ein Konkurrenzkampf zwischen Hae-Gi und Ha-Da zu entbrennen. Und auch Hae-Gi scheint nicht uninteressiert an So-Na zu sein…



Mit dem Werk „Snow Drop“ flutet wieder einer dieser Manwhas auf den Markt, die die koreanische Antwort auf japanische Mangas sind. Wer schon einige dieser Werke gelesen hat, der weiß, dass sie gut und gern sprunghaft sind und selten qualitativ genau so wie auf dem Cover dargestellt sind. Meist wirken sie skizzenhaft und wenig ausgearbeitet. Szenen und Storyline sind bisweilen sehr sprunghaft und sind so recht schwer zu greifen. Und die Charaktere haben zumeist einen Hang dazu psychisch labil zu sein. Auch hier ist es so, dass die Zeichnungen nicht so besonders sind. Die Geschichte sehr schnell und sprunghaft daherkommt und die Charaktere ihr Päckchen zu tragen haben. So treffen wir hier auf eine introvertierte So-Na, einen rebellischen Ha-Da und einen vom Schicksal gebeutelten Hae-Gi. Das Ganze mischt sich dann noch mit dem klassischen Element – reich und arm und schwupps haben wir wieder das klassische, asiatische Klientel einer Geschichte rund um die Schule. Verwöhnte Reichgören treffen auf ultrahübsche Arme. Es ist immer wieder das Gleiche und daher so langweilig, man mag es kaum glauben. Allein, weil mich die Story auch nicht packen konnte und weil es eben immer wieder das Gleiche ist, habe ich die Serie direkt wieder abgebrochen und glaube kaum, dass ich noch einmal hierzu greifen werde. Ich bin scheinbar auch einfach nicht für das Genre Manwha gemacht.



Fazit:

Für mich leider total übertriebener Tüneff und somit gibt es von mir keine Empfehlung.



Idee: 5/5

Charaktere: 3/5

Logik: 2/5

Spannung: 1/5

Emotionen: 1/5





Gesamt: 2/5



Daten:

ISBN: 9783865802019

Sprache: Deutsch

Ausgabe: Flexibler Einband

Umfang: 183 Seiten

Verlag: Tokyopop

Erscheinungsdatum: 22.11.2004

[Rick Silva · Rating 3 out of 5]

Rich-kid high school drama with a lot of tragic backstory and a fair number of plot twists. So-Na dropped out of junior high school to run the Snow Drop plant nursery. The nursery is her safe space, where she can mourn the loss of her mother. But when her father pressures her to return to school and finish her diploma, she is stuck in the same classroom with her rich and obnoxious childhood friend, Ha-Da.

Enter pretty boy (and actual professional model) Hae-Gi, who was named after a character in a novel written by So-Na's mother. He and So-Na immediately hit it off in all of the completely wrong ways, and we're off and running. The introduction of Hae-Gi's crossdressing younger brother provides a nice injection of chaos toward the end of this volume.

This was a fast-paced romance fueled by a lot of teenage angst. It suffered from some of the usual issues of "these problems would not be problems of people would just talk to each other", but that is to be expected in this type of plot. So-Na seemed particularly inconsistent, and hopefully this will be smoothed out as the series moves on. Right now, she's likeable only in certain moments.

[Tankii · Rating 1 out of 5]

Ich weis ehrlich gesagt nicht, was ich zu diesem Manhwa sagen soll. Man erkennt auch in diesem Band bereits eindeutig, wer zukünftig der Loveinterest werden wird. Allerdings ist von Liebe oder Romanze im ersten Band kaum was zu spüren. Außerdem ist die Charaktertiefe und Hintergrundgeschichte aller Charakter wirr und sinnbefreit. Kann ich nicht empfehlen.

[Francine · Rating 3 out of 5]

It took me a little while to get into it. I'm not the biggest fan of teenage drama manhwa, but somehow I got roped in by the end of the volume. What's going to happen with these adolescent fools?? I guess I'll have to keep reading, cause I own the series up to volume 12.;;

[Bryn · Rating 3 out of 5]

I am not sure what it is about this that I enjoy so much -- maybe it's that the protagonist is the kind of spoiled rich girl that show up in a lot of Japanese manga as the antagonist?

[Bonnie · Rating 5 out of 5]

Has my favorite style of manga/manhwa. I love the outfits of So-Na and Ha-Da. The story is good too, it sells its self as a twist on Romeo and Juliet.

[Alyssa Lacey · Rating 5 out of 5]

My friend was nice enough to give me the whole series! It’s already so cute!

[Jessika Hoover · Rating 2 out of 5]

Alas, you can't win 'em all--this one just didn't do it for me. At first, I thought it was the art style, but that actually grew on me. I think that by the end, I just didn't care about the characters and *all* *that* *drama.* All in all, it wasn't too bad--just not for me.

[Cara James · Rating 5 out of 5]

Snow Drop is a good story if you like a good romance. The artwork took a while for me to get used to, but once I did I came to realize the beauty in the way the artist draws her characters. The pace of the book starts out slow, but it's kind of nice to see the characters interacting and falling in love. It helps build up the readers connection to their romance so that by the end of the book you're routing for them. There was an interesting twist to two side characters which I loved! I don't want to give away too many details XP The only issue I really had with this book was the ending. I felt at some parts it was a little repetitive and forced as though the author were throwing the characters into this state of turmoil over and over again. I didn't think that was necessary nor did I think it built up any kind of suspense because by then end of it we all knew where it was headed. It does say in the description 'a modern day Romeo and Juliet'. I did like the ending though. Much better than the actual Romeo and Juliet!

[SaturNalia · Rating 3 out of 5]

So-Na mourns the loss of her beloved mother by quitting school and taking care of her nursery. After a year, with her best friend Ha-Da, she goes back. In her class she meets cool and aloof Hae-Gi. Nothing too exciting happens, the characters are set up and the art is pretty. Toward the end things get more interesting. Ha-Da is the comic relief, he is vain and impetuous. He falls for Hae-Gi crossdressing brother, Ko-Mo, who he thinks is a girl. Hae-Gi has a sick mother and needs money to pay hospital bills, he works as a model and starts considering nude modeling because it pays more. He is lonely and friendless, doesn't have much to smile about, but So-Na made him laugh. Curious to see what happens next.

[Redfox5 · Rating 4 out of 5]

Snow Drop, along with Faeries' Landing was the first Manga I ever brought. I read it and then forgot about it. I started buying more volumes of Faeries' Landing but never got any further with this one. I'm not sure why because after rereading this one, I really enjoyed it. There seems to be more between the main characters than what the book is letting on right now. Why does So-Na have a bodyguard? And why does she keep changing her hair? I thought she looked amazing in the club scenes. Page 60 has a wonderful illustration of her and Ha-Da. I want to know more about Hae-Gi and I'm loving the blooming romance between Ha-Da and Ko-Mo, can't wait till Ha-Da finds out "she" is a he. Haha!

[Linda Zekry Zaki · Rating 2 out of 5]

Var ju tvungen att börja läsa om manga serien jag läste för sådär 15 år sedan. Kom ihåg den med värme, att jag gillade karaktärerna och storyn.

Men bok för bok? Då är det en helt annan historia!

Nu som nästan 40 åring läste man den på ett helt annat sätt. Den var en trea den här boken, jag störde mig på bästisen något enormt. Hade god lust att hoppa in i boken o ge han en reality check och en kurs i hur man uppför sig.

[Ericka annamarie · Rating 5 out of 5]

the main chracters of this series is so-na and hae-gi but i found that the main reason i read the story all the way to the end was the sub-main characters, komo and hada. from the firt moment you see komo he is beautiful, majestic and so out of place that you can't help but be intrestedin him and everything he does.

[Nikki Kelly · Rating 4 out of 5]

A Romeo And Juliet-esque tale with a modern twist. Beautiful art by a korean artist.

[Hatter · Rating 4 out of 5]

ok, so i only read this because it was one of the three magnas my local library has, but it was acually pretty good

[Kerry · Rating 3 out of 5]

This was crazy and entertaining :)

[Seloy · Rating 2 out of 5]

I started out really liking this series... and then slowly disliked it more and more with each volume to the point where I never even bothered to read the very last one.

[Tessie · Rating 5 out of 5]

I loved this book when I was younger, and when I re-read it, it was almost as the first time.

[Wren Goodwin · Rating 4 out of 5]

I love this series so far the two main characters are awesome

[Carolyn · Rating 2 out of 5]

Standard high school budding romance in a love-hate relationship with dark twists waiting on the cliff hanger.

[Malak]

Why cant i reda the Brooks help me please

[Nicole West Moore · Rating 5 out of 5]

ooh ooh and Anime and a modern version of Romeo and juliet! I have found a new obsession!