Comments | oyceter: Kim Hee Eun - Dear My Girls, vol. 01-02 (Chi. trans.)

oyceter

Kim Hee Eun - Dear My Girls, vol. 01-02 (Chi. trans.)

Jan 14, 2009 01:08

This is a version of Little Women in which the March sisters go to an English boarding school: Meg's a teacher, Jo's the much-squeed-over fencing club president, Amy's pretty much herself, and Beth is a resentful girl jealous of being the ugly duckling among her accomplished sisters ( Read more... )

manhwa: dear my girls, sequential art, a: kim hee eun, manhwa

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fmanalyst January 13 2009, 17:38:38 UTC

Your description is mind-boggling to me. Little Women is one of The mainstays of my childhood reading experience. I'm curious to see the manhwa but also terrified. The cultural dissonance may be too much for me.

oyceter January 18 2009, 02:07:09 UTC

It is so weird! I got a little better with it by volume 2, but I am still not sure how to judge the manga because my main reaction is "GAH! Beth!"

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oyceter January 18 2009, 02:07:52 UTC

I cannot tell if it is brilliant or just weird! I think I read LIttle Women too often as a kid. But I still love cross-dressing manhwa hero(ine) Jo.

[Eeeee! ASN!]

heavenscalyx January 13 2009, 18:17:03 UTC

I suspect that Louisa May Alcott (also the writer of many Victorian blood-and-thunder stories) might have approved of this transformation. It sounds kinda fun.

oyceter January 18 2009, 02:08:13 UTC

It is immensely fun! It just sort of blew my mind.

rachelmanija January 13 2009, 18:51:20 UTC

That sounds really interesting! I guess Jo's hair grew back.

oyceter January 18 2009, 02:08:38 UTC

It is really interesting and extremely weird! I cannot tell if anything in LW happens in it at all, like Amy's burning of Jo's book or whatnot.

marfisa July 2 2010, 10:06:16 UTC

I think Beth's tearing up Amy's letter of acceptance to the fancy boarding school the others go to (because she doesn't want to be outshone by her younger sister) is inspired by Amy's burning Jo's book.

lnhammer January 13 2009, 23:20:40 UTC

Janni once read a YA novel reset in contemporary California suburbia, with a boy named as the POV trying to figure out why these new next-door neighbors are dead ringers for the March sisters of Little Women. She cannot, at the moment, remember the title.

Also: c.f. Burst Angel.

I think I'm in love with the idea of Jo with a bouncy ponytail.

---L.

oyceter January 18 2009, 02:08:54 UTC

Oh, what about Burst Angel? I don't think I've heard of it.

lnhammer January 18 2009, 18:38:36 UTC

Gonzo anime with a manga prequel set in a less-than-lawful future, about a boy who wants to become a pastry chef who ends up working for a band of female mercenaries (as one does) named Jo, Meg(umi), Amy, and Sei. Other parallels to LW are extended but tenious, especially once the yurilicious overtones ramp up between Jo and Meg.

---L.

oyceter January 23 2009, 00:02:14 UTC

Whoooa, weird! Thanks for the description.