Snow Drop, Volume 1

when i was a freshman in HS my friend jessica lent me the first like, 6 or 7 snow drops and i loved them. then she stopped buying them or something and i forgot about them for a while. now just graduated, i remembered the series and bought them all. they are ADDICTING!! i've been reading 1 a day and today i read 6, 7, and am now starting 8. i don't know what it is about them. they're just good. i like the art - it's very unique but i also love I.N.V.U. and it looks similar so i guess that's just the korean manga way ^.^ loves it. p.s. - the one thing i wish they would show more of is ha-da and ko-mo's relashonship!! i love ha-da and ko-mo!!

I am not too familiar with manhwa, but when I found a few volumes of Snow Drop on a book trading site, I was too curious not to check it out. Snow Drop tells the story of So-Na, a teenage girl with an obsession for flowers who is going back to school after dropping out years before. She won't be alone though, as her outspoken friend Ha-Da will be coming with her. Still, it looks like going back to school will not be a simple affair when she gets tied up in the life of Hae-Gi, an attractive student who spends his days after school working part-time and molding. So-Na quickly finds out that there's more to Hae-Gi than at first meets the eye, and that the two may find more in common than they suspect. The story behind Snow Drop seems to be that of a fun high school romance that touches on slightly more mature themes, but there are hints that the series will go in a more serious direction. Although there was some parts of the storyline that made me go "whaaa?," for the most part, I found it enjoyable. The characters are interesting because the author reveals enough about them so that we have an idea about who they are, but there is still plenty of mystery left. I found most of the characters to be enjoyable, save Ha-Da, whose boisterous attitude never failed to get on my nerves. The artwork, drawn in a slightly different style then you'd find in manga, was good, but not great. The Flowers were beautiful, as was the main characters hair, and for the most part everything worked well. My only complaint about it is there were frames where some of the main characters looked just wrong, as if their body parts weren't fitting together just right, and I'm not talking about when they were Super Deformed. I found this to be an interesting volume and I'm eager to read on to the next.

But this seris deverse it! I love this seris to peices. The characters are amazing in parts yes it is predictable but you find youself yelling and laughing threw out the book (some times at it) this is one of the only seris worth buying. I ussually just read them in the stores and never buy them....I had to buy the entire seris of this one though. PICK IT UP! You will be glad you did. The romance is sweet and the plot interesting and entertaining. Some times not realistic but who cares? Really my favorite seris hands down.

As the review below explains, this is Korean manga called manhwa, and increasingly popular. There are so many manhwa's that have been translated now it's great that we get to experience a new taste in manga art! I've now read so many manga's and manhwa's it is absolutely sick and probably the reason that I have now become one. Snow Drop is one of my current favourite series. The first explanation I read about this series said it was a Romeo and Juliet type story. It isn't really, which makes me glad. The two main character, Hae-gi and So-na are youths with problems, troubled pasts that they have not come to terms with and set them appart from other kids. The two high-schoolers find kindred spirits in each other and fall deeply in love, but they have many obsticles to over come. For one, So-na the rich daughter of a politician and Hae-gi is a poor nobody. Other people also try to split them appart, but they cling together and it seems that perhaps something surprising in their pasts also link them together... My fav character's in this story are actually the side character, Jang Ha-da and Oh Ko-mo; So-na's childhood friend and Hae-gi's crossdressing brother respectively. Fun and sweet, you will like Snow Drop's lyrical story and hip art.

This is not Japanese manga, but rather it is from Korea. And instead of being called manga, it is called "manhwa". But either way its quality stuff.! Personally, this is my first Korean manga or "manhwa", and I very much enjoyed it. It was a little hard to get into at first. Mostly because the drawing style was different, a little more crude then I'm used to. Not bad drawings, it just seemed less glossy, more gritty. But I believe that was the artist intention, and if that's so, they succeeded marvelously. The back cover claims that it is a Rome & Julietesque style romance. Which I believe is a pretty decieving description of this book. Let me give you a run-down of some of what happens in Vol. 1: We meet So-na a (rich)girl whom has quit school so that she can take care of her nursery full time. It is the only thing in her life that really matters to her. Each flower is special to her, and has a special meaning. But then her father forces her into attending school again when he threatens to destroy her nursery. :( Her friend Ha-da whom also quit school is being forced to go back. As soon as they get there Ha-da announces to the class that he is the *coolest* person there and what-not. Then they take seats and So-na ends up sitting next to the quiet pretty boy "Hae-gi". He is unfriendly and fairly rude, but when he sees So-na covering for someone at a floral shop when he comes in to purchase some flowers, he finds her attractive, but also annoying as she goes on and on about the meaning of flowers and such. And this establishes the conflict, she now sees him as haughty and stuck-up, and he sees her as a prissy flower-obsessed girl. Bur when Ha-da comes up with a plan to get Hae-gi back So-na is determined to make sure it works out, her plan works, but then quickly backfires. There is a lot more to it then that, but I don't want to give the whole thing away, I just wanted to give you a taste of what the this volume is really like, it hasn't really got any romance in it, but it seems quite probable there will be some in Volume 2. So, I guess, since this was my first Manhwa and I *enjoyed* it quite a bit, then you may to whether or not you've read Manhwa before. The characters are strong, the plot is familiar, but still good and holds interest, and its good enough for me to want Vol. 2. So *Enjoy* & God Bless ~Amy