Presented in the original Korean format, Shaman Warrior is a dramatic fantasy series with a kinetic style that will appeal to fans of Blade of the Immortal and Vagabond! From the desert wastelands emerge two mysterious warriors, master wizard Yarong and his faithful servant Batu. On a grave mission from their king, they have yet to realize the whirlwind of political movements and secret plots which will soon engulf them and change their lives forever. When Yarong is mortally injured, Batu must fulfill a secret promise to leave Yarong's side and protect his master's child. As Batu seeks to find and hide the infant, Yarong reveals another secret to those who have tracked him down to finish him off - the deadly, hidden power of a Shaman Warrior!
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For readers who love grunting warriors and roaring battle scenes, this Korean manhwa fits the bill. Master Yarong, an elite Shaman Warrior, and his loyal servant, Batu, are enmeshed in a political plot only hinted at in this introductory volume. The beautiful, clear art avoids the visual confusion of many combat-driven graphic novels, and the tenderness Batu shows for Yarong adds an element of sweetness to the otherwise brutal tale. This may be just prologue to what's to come, but it provides a complex political and emotional backdrop to what might have been a rote battle tale. Brenner, Robin
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5.0 out of 5 stars
SPECTACULAR OPENER TO THE HIT KOREAN MANHWA,
This review is from: Shaman Warrior Volume 1 (Paperback)
One of Korea's to-selling Manhwa titles is now available in English thanks to the good people at Dark Horse Comics. Shaman Warrior is one of the most exquisitely drawn Manga or Manhwa titles I've ever seen. Incredible depth and detail and some of the most ferocious battle sequences combine to make this a stunning hit.Master Yarong is a Shaman Warrior, and elite order of warriors, gifted with fantastic fighting and spiritual abilities. Yarong and his warrior-servant Batu are given a mission by their general to journey out to the borders of the kingdom of Kugai and keep track of the movements of an exiled warrior named Aragorn who is gathering his forces. It seems as if someone doesn't want them to succeed, however. The pair are set upon by scores of desert bandits under the command of Yuda, the Death Lord. This is wherecreator Park Joong-Ki truly shines. The battle scenes are simply breath-taking. Often times, the fight scenes in manga/manhwa titles can be hard to follow as their tendency is for tight close-ups. Not so with Shaman Warrior as Joong-Ki takes a wider angle view of the action, and lets the reader truly be dazzled by the fighting prowess of Yarong and Batu. We will also see that Yarong holds a couple of very interesting secrets up his sleeve. Shaman Warrior not only surprised me with the art, but with the complex storyline for which I won't give away the spoilers. There were a lot of shocks and surprises! Dark Horse has a penchant for hooking their wagon to a winner and they've done so again with the first volume of Shaman Warrior. Reviewed by Tim Janson
3.0 out of 5 stars
Where Did The Shaman Warrior Go?,
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This review is from: Shaman Warrior Volume 1 (Paperback)
With all nine volumes of this story now available, I would like to review it as a series from the angle of whether it is worth the investment of your money.There are many strengths. The artwork is detailed and very well done, though sometimes body perspective is odd. The main characters all have depth, good back stories, and are interesting to the point that you care what happens to them. The story is essentially one of revenge and the quest for freedom. The Korean kingdom of Kugai has been subjugating the surrounding areas. It has been using shaman warriors to do so. These are people who can manifest an animalistic attack form that increases their ferocity, speed and strength. At the end of its conquest stage, Kugai decides that the shaman warriors are too dangerous, betrays them, and sends out hunter teams to wipe them out. Only a few survive; one is Yaki, the infant daughter of one of the greatest shaman warriors. She gets hidden in a camp that trains assassins, where we expect her to grow up and become the sword of justice against Kugai and what it has done to the shaman warriors. The story that follows takes its time and is paced somewhat like Blade of the Immortal. Battles are lovingly rendered and intense. The characters develop at a leisurely rate over many pages and there are prolonged flashbacks to fill in details and character motivation. However, when you open the final volume, after seeing the length of time Joong-Ki has taken to tell his story so far, you will be worried. Normally, when you are nearly half way through a last book before the climactic fight begins, you would not be concerned, but not with Joong-ki. You know from his rate of story telling that a proper ending is easily going to take another half to three quarters of another volume. Don't worry about me giving away how it ends, because there really isn't an ending. Up to that point, the story is progressing with the timing and detail that you have come to love and expect. The event for which everyone has been waiting for over a thousand pages has finally happened: [this is no spoiler; you would have to have no brains not to know that this was going to happen in the final battle]: Yaki has gone full bore shaman warrior and has a sea of villains to kill, not to mention the major bad guys. Another main character is surrounded and in deadly danger. You turn the page to see what happens next.....The End. Excuse me? Now, understand this correctly. I don't mean that Joong-Ki decided to compress things. Nor do I mean that he got tired of drawing and gave a text epilogue explaining what happened. I mean the story cuts off cold at about what was likely the third-of-the-way point of the climactic arc during the climactic battle, as surely as if Yaki had just used her sword to chop the last half of the book right out of your hands. You will be looking at the binding wondering if the back fell out somewhere on the way home from the bookstore or if Dark Horse had forgotten to include something. Seriously, it's that brutal. After realizing, to your shock, that the claim on the back cover, that this is the final volume, is actually not a mistake, you get a lame six-page "several months later" epilogue that doesn't clearly explain anything [all your questions can equally be answered, "Maybe, maybe not"], five more pages of irrelevant behind-the-studio-scenes stuff, and a few pages of art. It would have been nice if those fifteen pages had been used to at least try and give a decent ending, but more than half of a non-existent volume ten would have been needed to do so, which is what Joong-Ki should have done. His artwork is good enough that he could have easily filled out the rest with portfolio work for the series and no one would have complained. At least we would have been given the ending we deserved, instead of this disappointing, artsy wannabe non-sense. At the bottom of the final page, the author expresses the hope that we will purchase his future projects. I hope he isn't betting the house on that happening after I spent over a hundred dollars on this series only to get a cheap, cop-out ending like this. In fact, after the way other manhwa I have tried reading have turned out or, more often than not, just been canceled or left unfinished, I think I'm going to stick with manga from now on, thank-you.
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great for a Blade of the Immortal fan,
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My husband is a huge Blade of the Immortal fan. I have gotten him the first book of the series and will continue to purchase the rest based on the first one.
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