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Korean title
선녀강림
Manga-ka/Author
유현 You Hyun
Genre
action, fantasy, romance, shounen
Volumes: 16+
Distributor: Tokyopop
Classification: 12
Rating
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High school student Ryang Jegal lives in Faeries' Landing, a perfectly normal
town in Korea. In fact, pretty much everything in Ryang's life was normal, until
the fateful day he met the strange deer-like creature Goodfellow and helped him
escape from the police. As a reward, Goodfellow showed Ryang three faeries
bathing in the local pool. They were discovered by the faeries, and in the
confusion, one of the faeries' robes was torn, leaving a faerie stranded on
earth and unable to ascend to Avalon. The faerie in question is the beautiful
Fanta, who to Ryang's delight (and dismay) comes to live with him.
When reading Ryang's fortune, Fanta discovers that Ryang is to be the subject of
108 doomed relationships - out in the wider world, there are 108 girls who Ryang
has an affinity with; but unfortunately, these affinities will manifest
themselves as evil forces. Fanta, being the faerie of affinity, decides to help
Ryang by destroying these evil affinities when they appear. However, neither of
the pair are quite prepared for what is coming; firstly the arrival of Fanta's
rival Medea, intent on causing trouble, then the interference of Fanta's brother
Pain and even a visit from the King of Avalon himself. Various other heavenly
(and not so heavenly) creatures also wait in the wings to cause trouble for the
pair. Will Fanta succeed to destroy all 108 of Ryang's evil affinities, or will
Ryang's love life quite literally kill him?
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Faeries' Landing
is one of the most popular manhwa releases to date, especially in the West. The
influence of Korean culture (both popular and traditional) upon the story and
its fresh, funny, modern style gives this series quite an edge.
This was the first manhwa I bought (at first not realising it was manhwa),
and I'd say it's a must-read for anyone interested in Korean comics. Faeries Landing
bases its plot on an Asian folk story, The Heavenly Maiden and the Woodcutter,
which has been featured in several other manhwa, manga and anime series (most notably,
Ayashi no Ceres).
Though infused with plenty of magic and supernatural events, this series is also very
much about teenage life and its trials and problems; a theme which is brilliantly dealt
with. Even though the story is this series' best feature, the art style is also fluid
and attractive, and action scenes display a lot of finesse.
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Manhwa
Faeries' Landing
is an ongoing series in the West and is nearing completion. It is also by far
the easiest manhwa series to find.
Anime
There is no
Faeries' Landing anime as of yet. Interestingly however, there is
a Faeries' Landing Game Boy game available in Korea.
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