Yan 1

閻鐵花 #1.1

by Sheng Chang, 常勝, Antonio Paoliello (Translator)

Trent’anni fa, Yan Tieh-hua, giovane interprete dell’Opera di Pechino, venne ingiustamente condannata per l’omicidio della sua stessa famiglia e rinchiusa in prigione. Vent’anni dopo morì mentre si trovava ancora in carcere. Eppure, oggi, è misteriosamente tornata come un’adolescente superpotente. Indossando un costume dell’Opera di Pechino, è determinata a vendicare il massacro della sua famiglia.

Genres: Manga, Comics, Graphic Novels, Science Fiction, Contemporary

184 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2020

About the author

Name (in native language) : 常勝

Zodiac : Sagittarius

Blood type : O

Facebook : https://www.facebook.com/jlcomic/

Reviews

[Irene ➰ · Rating 5 out of 5]

4.5/5

"Yan"

Another amazing read!
I'm home with a fever for a few days so will definitely have the time to read more.

I loved the art style in this one, it felt so real and well made. The are tons of splash pages and the story seems very intriguing so far.
I liked as well the structure, where more than once the story seems to go back and reprise from a specific moment, but getting more and more detailed every time. It's a choice I really liked and definitely helped getting into this mystery.

So far I think we got a very big introduction of what happened, what is happening and what will happen, without jumping into the story too drastically, this first volume was used as a world building and to create a very good pace to the main story.

[Louenore · Rating 5 out of 5]

J'ai d'abord acheté ce livre pour sa magnifique couverture. J'avais peur une l'histoire soit un peu trop violente, mais non, je me suis complètement laissée embarquer par l'histoire. Vivement le tome 2.

[Monalisa · Rating 2 out of 5]

"Levante-se, garota! A vida é sofrimento, mas você deve ser forte!!"

É meio morno mas fiquei curiosa para o próximo volume

[Valquíria Gomes · Rating 4 out of 5]

teve realmente um pouco de tudo: opera de Pequim, origami falante, vidente e robô gigante. adorei! vamos ver se vão fechar bem a história futuramente.

[Missy (myweereads) · Rating 4 out of 5]

"Stand up my girl! Life is full of suffering, But a Yan does not shed tears!"

Sheng Chang's first volume of Yan looks into the mysterious return of Yen Tieh-hua. Supposedly dead, her return has sparked destruction as she is seeking justice for the massacre that took her family. Detective Lei who advocates for cold cases has been tasked to look into Yen Tieh-hua's situation. With this comes his battle with revelations that lean towards the supernatural.

I do enjoy a revenge story but with Yan it's more than just that. Straight away there is a deep dive into the events that led to her initial arrest and disappearance for all those years. There's always this feeling of something else below the surface, something malicious but this is soon explained as the story progresses.

The other characters involved include the detective investigating and a missing chess prodigy who has the ability to see the immediate future. Adding these two into the mix gives that feeling of more fun and dangerous things to come.

Although this is genre bending it did feel like a horror in the way of human monsters and how they are birthed. However along the way there are many moments of comedy which I enjoyed too.

The artwork was perfect for this kind of story, the fighting scenes as well as the comedy and emotional ones matched well with where the overall tale is headed.

I really enjoyed this first volume and look forward to seeing where things go in volume two.

[Mark · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5 stars for the art, but I reserve judgement on a higher, full five-star rating until the next volume/s and how Chang Sheng pulls together all the disparate story elements (& addresses the final point made at the end of my review).
Yan Tieh Hua is a young Peking Opera performer who works with her family troupe, literally coming to blows with her mother on stage. This is thirty years ago and one day she returns home to discover that her entire family has been murdered. Arrested for the vicious crime, she confesses, although it's obvious that she didn't do it. Once convicted she is imprisoned in a privately run institution.
Thirty years later she seemingly reappears (because she should be dead, blown apart in an explosion ten years earlier that destroyed the facility where she was imprisoned), to wreak vengeance on those behind the death of her family.
That's just the first third of this propulsive thriller, pulling in the detective that originally arrested Yan, a missing go-playing genius, a mysterious time traveller (?), a supernatural ancestral spirit directly connected to Yan, A.I. Number Thirteen (that's all you get, apart from the face of its creator) and a large humanoid robot that lands in the city centre, destroying cars and attacking the police...
I really want to see where Chang Sheng goes with this (but he does slightly succumb to the unfortunate habit of Japanese manga and it's voyeuristic obsession with young schoolgirls 😕)

[Niniane · Rating 3 out of 5]

2,5/5

Mouais. Au début j'étais plutôt convaincue par l'héroïne badass et les scènes d'actions spectaculaires. Mais le récit dérive très vite dans une espèce de délire SF qui ne m'a pas emballée (le personnage de la lycéenne qui vomit dès son introduction...quel était le but au juste ?).

Pratiquement tous les personnages féminins sont sexualisés à l'excès. La tenue de combat de l'héroïne avec ses bottes à talons en est un parfait exemple. L'héroïne a 45 ans, mais c'est surtout pour souligner qu'elle ne les fait pas. Dommage, j'aurais bien aimé voir une femme mature botter des culs. Le seul personnage masculin important est quant à lui laid et ordinaire.

La suite se passera de moi.

[L.ivresse.des.mots · Rating 5 out of 5]

Opéra peu ordinaire

C’était extraordinaire. Je lis pas souvent de mangas sur des thématiques aussi éloignées mais le mélange ici est fun, funeste et assez accrocheur !

J’en dévoila pas trop parce que mon seul moteur d’achat a été instinctif à la fois pour la couverture et pour le côté opéra et au mélange d’explosifs de dessins sombres et dans un format plutôt agréable !

J’ai été agréablement surprise et embarquée dans cette histoire de vengeance. L’histoire est courte, puisque le troisième tome sort à peine et finalise la série, mais c’est assez page turner.

🌂🎭🌋⌚️🚨♟️💣🗄️⏳

[reallee · Rating 2 out of 5]

Je suis trop mitigée de fou ? J'ai l'impression que ça part dans tous les sens, l'histoire avance super vite. Il y a des robots, des fantômes, des ia, une organisation secrète, des super pouvoirs, je suis perdue. Il faudrait peut-être que je lise les 2 autres tomes, mais j'avoue que ça ne me donne pas plus envie que ça. Et puis la tenue de l'héroïne bien en cuire moulant et talons hauts, bon ...

[Raphael Gomes · Rating 4 out of 5]

Esse é um mangá bem diferente, tanto pelo estilo de desenho quanto pela narrativa, mas o resultado final acabou me agradando. Os personagens são interessantes de acompanhar, a mistura de ficção científica com suspense deixou a história bem envolvente e o final deixa um gancho em aberto. Vale a pena conhecer!!

[Niche · Rating 2 out of 5]

A story about an opera troupe family that gets murdered. The daughter is framed and sent to a research institute and now has super strength and is out for revenge. Also a future-seeing oracle, time travel, and giant mecha. The whole thing had a frenetic dark comedy vibe that felt like someone crossed a serious story with a gag comic... so like Crying Freeman but with scifi tropes thrown in?

[Fiore · Rating 2 out of 5]

There are these three guys watching a Peking opera performance at the start. They are falling asleep and only perk up when there is action. That's my feeling towards this. Beautifully drawn, only shines in fight scenes. Everything outside of that was all over the place, too much without grounding us in enough to make me care.

[Alice Kirouac Nascimento · Rating 2 out of 5]

C'est divertissant, j'ai pas détesté, mais je n'ai pas aimé vraiment non plus. C'est vraiment sans queue ni tête, on dirait que rien n'a vraiment rapport dans l'histoire et tout arrive trop rapidement. Ça aurait été mieux de prendre le temps de développer un peu plus

[Juice · Rating 2 out of 5]

Wahou les mélanges de tons sont bizarres je m’attendais pas à une histoire de super héroïne
Monsieur on pourrait se passer des plans sur le cul de ton héroïne qui combat en talons et combi moulante, un classico sexiste

[Yingli · Rating 2 out of 5]

構圖與畫工非常扎實，非常快速就可以讀完的漫畫套書。但故事架構還是接近漫威英雄故事，缺乏京劇、文化或社會批判等我期待會帶到的元素。其中，能「看到未來五分鐘」的比嘉未來，角色與能力設定比主角更吸引人。

[Florida Pretashi · Rating 5 out of 5]

Classica storia di vendetta ma rivisitata in maniera molto originale e dallo stile grafico pauroso. I personaggi sono particolari e ognuno colpisce in maniera diversa.

[Daniel Santos · Rating 3 out of 5]

roteiro com varias camadas a protagonista é uma caixinha de surpresa arte soberba, mistura de ação e sobrenatyral na medida certa, bom começo com esse volime um da comix zone

[Luna Tick · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5

[Maëve · Rating 4 out of 5]

4.5⭐️

[Ivan · Rating 3 out of 5]

Une histoire qui ressemble un peu à "last hero Inuyashiki".

[Aimee · Rating 5 out of 5]

The art is captivating. I have never seen such gorgeous eyes….. the expression that is seen in them. Loved all of this. Story, history, art, everything.

[Juliane Teixeira · Rating 4 out of 5]

Gostei bastante e agora estou um pouco arrependida de não ter comprado os outros dois, preciso saber como vai continuar.

[London Summers · Rating 4 out of 5]

This graphic novel was not at all what I expected... I wish there was a little more chinese opera in it, but it's a super cool superhero mystery.

[Laura · Rating 2 out of 5]

Starts as a solid realistic revenge action, but then plot & tone goes all unfocused & random killer robot?? and a possible time-traveler drop in outta nowhere.

[Miha · Rating 4 out of 5]

A surprising take on the traditional superhero genre. The art style is beautiful and I also appreciate the minimal dialogue.

[Eden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Incroyable pile le style de manga que j’aime mystérieux et avec de l’actions

[chloe natalia · Rating 4 out of 5]

Yan Tieh Hua - a badass so far.

[Léo · Rating 2 out of 5]

je ne suis pas le public cible et les jurons, ça va bien 5 minutes

[Shimapan · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is a review for the whole series if you want to know what you're getting into.

It was alright, but I was disappointed that the plot went from being an action packed mystery around a revenge story, to being a superhero saves the world from an evil organization storyline. I really wasn't thrilled about it, and this is why I rated volume 2 & 3 lower than this one. It still had some pretty decent moments, but superhero stories just ain't really my thing. To me the overall series wasn't bad, but it wasn't amazing either; just alright.

What was amazing though, was the art! Wow that artist is amazing! Not only the character shots, but also the very dynamic and detailed action scenes as well. And those covers are so pretty!! (Yes, the pretty Peking Opera singer cover is what made me pick this up)

I wish it would've stayed more on the action revenge story/mystery narrative more, but if you're into superheroes, go right ahead!

[Lrt Manon · Rating 3 out of 5]

Un manga très intéressant et palpitant. Toutefois, les sujets sont abordés de manière bourrine, la première scène installe les relations conflictuelles du protagoniste envers sa famille, mais pas de manière assez claires, la scène démarre abruptement et on ne comprend pas les tenants et aboutissants, c'est limite risible alors qu'une page après le dessinateur souhaite qu'on ressente de l'effroi. Pour la suite, j'ai une petite peur que l'intrigue parte dans tous les sens, mais les dessins sont très beaux, et pleins de détails intéressants.