September 2014 KLNs

I miss summer.

 
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September 2014

New releases:

 

Title: 시온의 아이들 (The Children of Zion) Author: 나후 (Nahu) Artist: Bae. C http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=2356928 Publisher: Novel Engine Premise: After the Third World War, humanity had declined to the point of near-extinction. A new, sacred world is built as humanity's last hope; a land where concept of weaponry is forgotten. However, humanity becomes endangered once again with the birth of dangerous monsters that are somehow capable of wielding the forgotten weapons of old humanity. People of Zion fight back for their survival, using their new-found ability to replicate the same weapons through psionic powers... Pre-Read Thoughts: ...Wait, what? Aren't weapons supposed to be forgotten?

Title: 반역기사의 성녀찬탈 (The Usurping of the Saint by a Treacherous Knight) Author: 최지인 (Choi Ji-In) Artist: VIT-B Publisher: Seed Novel Also, a mini-VN: http://seednovel.com/Rebellion/start.htm Premise: In a world where young women have special powers to protect the world, a holy land is built to raise and train them. One day, a boy is found to have the same power and becomes an entrant to one of the holy academies in the land. Despite barely having any power or skills, he somehow manages to defeat the top ranked entrant in combat and takes away her rank and her dignity as a human being(!). With his new position, he declares that he will do the same to the city's purest, most powerful saint. Pre-Read Thoughts: Jerk protagonist is pretty fresh in the world of KLNs, sure, but the main heroine being a slave to the protagonist is just all sorts of Rance wrong. And that just works as a distraction from the fact that the rest of the story seems to be just another one of those "guy has special powers that only women have, suddenly has a million women after him" stories. I think there are four of them just mentioned in this blog alone. But it's the 4Lovers author, so...

Title: 레벨 0 마스터 (Level 0 Master) Author: 토돌 (Todol) Artist: 나묘 (Namyo) http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=6390291 Publisher: Seed Novel Premise: In a land of constant battles orchestrated by its ruling gods, the protagonist, an average gamer guy, is summoned into the fight by accident. He finds that the the battles are carried out in MOBA-style, and true to its spirit, the skill levels on both sides are completely mismatching. Despite being a 0th-level, classless character, the protagonist causes a shift of power with his gamer wits alone. Pre-Read Thoughts: This is the point where the author needs to admit that he's playing too much and needs to stop.

Sequels:

 

Title: 몬스 패닉 7 (Mons Panic Vol. 7) Author: NEOTYPE Artist: Gilse http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=702789 Publisher: Novel Engine Premise: The world is coming to an end, and three humans must put a stop to that from a foreign world full of supernatural beings. Pre-Read Thoughts: Notable for getting an animated OVA... sometime.

 

Title: 손만 잡고 잤을 텐데?! 4 (But All We Did Was Hold Hands! Vol. 4) Author:류호성 (Ryu Hosung) Artist: 유나물 (Yunamul) http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=470779 Publisher: Novel Engine Premise: The protagonist and his daughter find that the future and the past aren't changing drastically enough to prevent the same tragedies from happening over and over again. Just as they come very close to giving up and accepting their fate that their lives will be ruined no matter what, the time-traveling maid steps up to make changes to the timeline herself. Pre-Read Thoughts: Time Cop 2: The Decision Maid.

 

Title: 언리쉬드 앤솔로지 : AREA2-2 (Unleashed Anthology: Area 2-2) Author: 차민하 외 (Cha Minha and others) Artist: Koka, Dingu http://blog.naver.com/dingunim, 망가진르망 (Manle) http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=104986, Juke http://www.prism-juke.com/, 라티세 (Ratise) http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=263924 Publisher: Novel Engine Premise: The story of various characters from the world of Unleashed CCG. The book deals with the story of a girl who worries that her attitudes are too manly; of a world-class acorn chef whose entire supply of acorns get stolen; of a romance-loving high school girl who can only talk with her fists; of angels and demons that coexist; and finally, of a high school girl who constantly finds herself kidnapped and brainwashed by psychotic, psionic girls who claim to love her. Pre-Read Thoughts: AREA 2-2, is, obviously, the fourth book in the series. At least the numbering is better off than XBox.

 

Title: 오라전대 피스메이커 RB (Aura Corps: Peacemakers - Re:Build) Author: 반재원 (Ban Je-Won) Artist: Eika http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=35131 Publisher: Seed Novel Premise (for the series): Remake of the author's old series, originally named Aura Corps: Peacemakers. In the world of tomorrow, a mysterious portal opens on Earth and brings forth an endless horde of powerful monsters. Unable to drive them back, humanity resorts to its last hope, the Peacemakers, a group created solely to retaliate against the monsters. Pre-Read Thoughts: Notable for sporting the most unsafe image in KLNs to date.

 

Title: 용사가 마왕을 무찌를 때 우리들도 있었다 3 (We Were There When the Hero Defeated the Demon Lord Vol. 3) Author: 맑은 날 오후(A Clear Afternoon) Artist: Tob http://www.pixiv.net/member.php?id=316471 Publisher: Seed Novel Premise: The heroine finally discovers that the protagonist had become the right hand man of the current demon lord. In the face of danger, she sides with the protagonist, but consequences soon follow for all of them. Pre-Read Thoughts: Generic!

 

Title: 에이투지! 4 (A to Z! Vol. 4) Author: 서혜성 (Seo Haesong) Artist: SALT http://www.pixiv.net/member_illust.php?id=340139 Publisher: Extreme Novel Premise: TBD Pre-Read Thoughts: TBD