@ brid, Just to let you know the author is not getting paid for his work he may make some money depending upon how many views he gets), and this was a manhua he wrote during his free time. Unfortunately he had to end it around ch 20 due to rl issues. It had great reviews from the chinese website where it was published, and ranked fairly high on their rankings. Thats why we at CWL decided to pick it up.

I hope everyone enjoys it

I'm not sure how Chinese webcomics work, but I know that many of the Korean webcomic authors are professionals who do get paid for their work (if they are part of sites like Naver and such), so I'm going to review this manhua as if it were a professional, paid work.

So far, I don't have a positive impression of this. I hate to make a snap judgement after only three chapters, but Toto's review is pretty much correct: this series is one to pass up. The artwork is sketchy and somewhat unfinished looking. The character designs are bland, and the author doesn't draw backgrounds that often. Additionally, if you're reading this series because you like vampires/supernatural themes, you can forget it. There's very little that's vampire-like (or gothic) about this manhua.

The premise of the series is similarly uninspiring: a loser gets the chance to walk home with the girl of his dreams. On that walk, the girl randomly gets attacked by a gun-toting rapist. While trying to save her, the protagonist gets shot. In the afterlife, the protagonist is offered the chance to become some half human-half vampire hybrid for the purposes of fighting "vampires." (Vampires in this series, incidentally, are giant blob-looking monsters.) The protagonist naturally agrees to become a hybrid because it will give him the opportunity to return to life and confess to his crush! (Apparently, that was the great regret of his life--not that he was murdered, that he left friends/family behind, etc.) I can honestly say I don't care about any of the characters we've met so far, least of all the bland main character.

I'll give this series until the 10th chapter and then come back and update my review if it improves. (I don't have high hopes that it will.) Otherwise, this isn't a manhua I can recommend.

The characters neither draw me in or make me care about them.
Half vampires, half humans saved from death... thrown in with no real story line.
With a sloppy montage sequence tossed into the "3rd" chapter (really it's the 2nd... one and two were released together with no separation but are called the first two on the author's website... it's a pilot episode/oneshot; so, it's twice the length of a normal release).
The artwork reminds me of Bleach. The author probably used a few bleach characters and tweaked 'em a bit. Though, the craftsmanship of the artwork is poorly constructed. It's looks incomplete at times... unprofessional (well, it is a web comic). It would be an okay piece for someone that isn't getting paid to do this, as a practice; however, it doesn't seem worth while to read.


Overall, it seems like a good practice piece for the author to progress in his/her art, but it's good policy to destroy the duds.

... Last updated on July 25th, 2011, 3:12am