DVD Mini Review (manhwa)
September 24th, 2007 by Lianne
PG-16 for sexuality, language, and other delinquenty things; amazon website (since official series website only works half the time)
This manhwa is pretty much Scott Pilgrim if Scott Pilgrim were a highly stylized Korean shoujo. The “serious” aspect of the plot is developmental and relationship-based, as a recent high school grad is suddenly dumped by her jerk boyfriend after she fails to get into college. She decides to commit suicide, but not before having a hot last hurrah in a club…where she meets two boys around her age, DD and Venu, who choose to live life as if they’re functioningly retarded. The majority of the first volume is DD and Venu having conversations about unbelievably stupid things, but everything they say is so ridiculous and funny that I laughed hard enough to cry. I think the plot is about how the girl learns to love life again, and her boyfriend learns how to not be a jerk, all through the idiosyncratic stupidity of DD and Venu. That’s the best plot summary I’ve gotten to write in a long time.
Initial impression: Worth a try. (Lianne)