Manhwa Monday: Bride Of The Water God Vol. 15

04/21/2014 3:56pm
We've just gotten back from Sakura-Con in Seattle, but we just wanted to write a brief note to let you know that the latest volume of Mi-Kyung Yun's Bride of the Water God arrives in the stores this Wednesday. Your support for this title has been amazing—Dark Horse has published a number of works by different Korean creators, but Bride has been by far the most successful. 
Beyond the courtly elegance and heavenly intrigues of Bride of the Water God, it's a title I admire for keeping in mind the unattractive everyday truth that folklore often shadowed. Soah's tale of a girl sold and sacrificed—not by bandits or raiders, but by her own family and village—reminds us of the often ugly realities of centuries past (and in some places still today) that people lived with alongside their fairy tales; perhaps they needed fairy tales all the more for that reason. To a poor peasant of medieval times, wouldn't we ordinary people of the 21st century seem to be living in the realm of the gods?
In Vol. 15, Mui and Soah's attempts to live happily in the human world are complicated further by Soah's jealous former fiancé and his sister—a starstruck woman with a strange secret and devious intentions. The former water god's odd curse remains, making him revert to his childlike form whenever Soah is near. Mui and Soah are now more vulnerable than ever, and several schemers in both the realm of the gods and on Earth seek to tear them apart!
We'll see you next Monday with a full report on Sakura-Con!
—Carl Horn
Manga Editor
We've just gotten back from Sakura-Con in Seattle, but we just wanted to write a brief note to let you know that the latest volume of Mi-Kyung Yun's Bride of the Water God arrives in the stores this Wednesday. Your support for this title has been amazing—Dark Horse has published a number of works by different Korean creators, but Bride has been by far the most successful. 

Beyond the courtly elegance and heavenly intrigues of Bride of the Water God, it's a title I admire for keeping in mind the unattractive everyday truth that folklore often shadowed. Soah's tale of a girl sold and sacrificed—not by bandits or raiders, but by her own family and village—reminds us of the often ugly realities of centuries past (and in some places still today) that people lived with alongside their fairy tales; perhaps they needed fairy tales all the more for that reason. To a poor peasant of medieval times, wouldn't we ordinary people of the 21st century seem to be living in the realm of the gods?

In Vol. 15, Mui and Soah's attempts to live happily in the human world are complicated further by Soah's jealous former fiancé and his sister—a starstruck woman with a strange secret and devious intentions. The former water god's odd curse remains, making him revert to his childlike form whenever Soah is near. Mui and Soah are now more vulnerable than ever, and several schemers in both the realm of the gods and on Earth seek to tear them apart!

We'll see you next Monday with a full report on Sakura-Con!

—Carl Horn
Manga Editor
We've just gotten back from Sakura-Con in Seattle, but we just wanted to write a brief note to let you know that the latest volume of Mi-Kyung Yun's Bride of the Water God arrives in the stores this Wednesday. Your support for this title has been amazing—Dark Horse has published a number of works by different Korean creators, but Bride has been...">

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