Black God
Slacker Ibuki lost his mother a decade ago, the day after both of them encountered a woman who looked just like her. Tonight, while snacking at a ramen stall after a booze bender with his friends, he meets a girl who seems to know a bit about some instances; she begins to explain about “doppeliners” to Ibuki, but is not able to finish before she is brutally attacked by a mysterious hooded man. Fortunately, the diminutive girl knows a few violent tricks of her own and defeats the attacker, but Ibuki becomes a casualty in their melee.
Though this long-running series takes place in Japan and was originally published there, artist Sung-Woo Park and writer Dall-Young Lim are a Korean team who decided to try their luck at the Japanese comic market, a gamble which has paid off. The series has been turned into an animated series which will debut nearly simultaneously on television in Japan, South Korea and the US - the first time a series has debuted in those three markets simultaneously. However, the animated series makes rather severe changes to the plot and characters in the story.
Sung-Woo Park is an accomplished artist for manhwa and video games. He has followed up the success of Black God with a new series called Meteo Emblem. Many of Park’s other productions have been brought to North America from Infinity Studios.
Dall-Young Lim is a writer of just about anything that can be read; novels, manhwa, and video games.
Aside from the actual comic preview, the October 2008 issue also features an interview with Park and Lim.
