Pig Bride
At age eight, Si-Joon, the son of a wealthy politician, was lost in the woods and hungry. He stumbles across a house with a feast, but before he can partake, he has to promise to marry Mu-Yeon, a strange girl wearing traditional robes - and a cartoonish pig mask. Unable to resist his empty stomach, Si-Joon promises, then pigs out (if you’ll pardon the pun) on the feast. When done, he heads back to the woods and eventually back to civilization.
Eight years later, Si-Joon is in high school, and has written off his experience in the woods as a bizarre dream. But his life - including his relationship with his beautiful almost-girlfriend Doe-Doe - is turned on its head when Mu-Yeon returns, mask and all, ready for Si-Joon to follow through with his promise. But Si-Joon is understandably hesitant. Does he really have to marry her? Can he keep her sudden appearance a secret from the jealous Doe-Doe? And, most importantly, what the heck is up with the mask?
KookHwa Huh and SuJin Kim’s Pig Bride is fun light-hearted drama. I don’t really understand what direction it’s going, but the the ride is not entirely unpleasant, and, as with Sarasah, we’re treated to some great visuals along the way.
Pig Bride was labelled as one of the “2009 Manga Hall of Shame Inductees” by critic Katherine Dacey, which prompted Kurt Hassler to take the surprising step of responding to the criticism.
