Immortal Regis is the ONLY korean manhwa which i find is on par of Japanese battle mangas. Its one of the mangas which i feel should have an anime. The costumes' designs are my favourite style, and the weapons aren't too bad either.
Story wise is also good.Jae Hyuk, a normal human with a sickly younger brother on Earth is unfortunately killed accidentally by Serin, a necromancer from another worldcalled Chaos where magic and monsters exist. She makes him an undead as an apology for killing him, but as an undead he cannot be near humans or he will take all their vitality. So he is unwillingly forced to leave his only family. In Chaos, creating an undead is forbidden due to a bad incident in the past, so they are against Jae Hyuk and Serin. Although Jae Hyuk hates Serin for causing so much suffering initially, eventually they fall in love, although their road is full of thorns.
This story is continued in
Cavalier of the Abyss
Reading CotA was a big shock for me, because, guess what.
JAE HYUK IS NOT THE MAIN MAIN MAIN CHARACTER!!!!!!!!!!NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!
But thats not all, because, it turns out that
JAE HYUK IS THE "BAD" KING!!!!! WRRRRRYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!??!!?!?!?!?
This is definately not another version, it is THE sequel to IR. This time is set where JH has become 30 years old, has a WIFE and a DAUGHTER and a SON, and is the stern and merciless king of chaos. WHATMYCUTEJHWHY!
Similar readers of IR were equally shocked and felt betrayed by the author, because JH was the typical odd-one-out Good Guy with a heart full of justice and emotions, yet in the span of a new page, he has become a tyrant king. Just think of it like your favourite hero became bad. Like, not that there is a bad persona inside that comes out, but that he turns bad.
Although it appears there is alot of reason and history behind his transformation including something about how Serin betrayed him, I still find it hard to swallow that the naive and honest JH we all knew was gone, maybe not for good, but when I think of how his actions has crossed the border for doubt that he has learnt how to be merciless, i really feel sad that the author has decided on this course of his personality. I only continue to read it because I am such a fan of the art and the character designs and in hope that JH and Serin will be together in the end.
Ga On-Bi, you better think of some brilliant way to salvage back a JH we readers are still hoping for!!!!!!! *cries*
Oh I have totally forgot about the main character ._. Okay its another undead boy, Xix/Jyi with a crow Oskii (who later turns out to be an eccentric creator of 12 evils) who is contracted with Skoll, the wolf of darkness. His clan was apparently obliterated on orders of Nex (JH) and so he tries to kill him in revenge. However, little does he know that there are more secrets involved that includes him .
Xix is embroiled in more trouble then he expects, due to internal strife and Oskii's interferance. One of the main point in this story is about Nex's true son since there appears to be 3 now. It becomes apparent who is the real son though. Also, the main girl for this story's main guy is Dragoness Yuan, who is supposedly the current Prince Ninurrta's fiance. We all know this isn't going to work out between this two, since Yuan is for Xix.
Here, we find out about the missing timeline where Good JH becomes Merciless Nex. I'm awaiting a VERY good explanation.
The characters I plan to cosplay:
<Prince Ninurrta
(I have this hidden fetish with kingdoms and royalty, and guys with braids. No, I'm serious. So a prince with long hair in a braid with long dragon-ish horns on his head = FANGURLSQUEALOVETIME!)
Ninurrta is the "son" of Nex, but he is most probably not the real son. It is for sure that he is of the Noah clan due to the horns on his head. He appears to be very powerful compared to the rest of the magicians, but of course is nothing compared to the bigshots like Nex's Depore, Xix's Skoll, Juste's Ouroboros and Serin's Semek. He already doubts himself but is afraid to find out. He is very concerned with his "younger sister" Mitra/Miya though.
>Jae Hyuk
(I like Jae Hyuk, because I love normal and strengthless characters with no special root who are able to gain powers above all and has a distaste for politics.
And unlike many heroes, his dark side can be equal to his kind heart, but not because of another residing entity, but due to the nature of his human heart. )
I forsee many problems for this cosplay because you definately can't find any reference off the rack for the costumes, not to mention that there is so little pictures of the full costume AND the artist, while having amazing coloring skills, makes it hard for people to decide exactly what is the color combination of the character. This is one of my dream cosplays to pull off though, simply because they are too cool OTL
