Nightschool

There’s probably a reason Alex Treveney is homeschooled by her sister Sarah, but we don’t know why just yet. You see, Sarah works at a Nightschool – a regular school by day that becomes a place for young demons, weirns and vampires to learn how to use and control their magic. But when Sarah goes missing all of a sudden and Alex sees something she shouldn’t, she has to get herself enrolled at the school to try and unravel the mystery.

The End of YenPlus

Today I was planning on writing one of my usual posts – a veritable whingefest about a manga that I had very high hopes for that fell magnificently flat – but got sidetracked by an announcement on the YenPlus website: The July 2010 issue will be the last print issue of YenPlus.

As a subscriber from the fifth issue and a reader since issue one, I feel like a broken record even writing this post since a similar one was posted not even a year ago. I truly loved and enjoyed YenPlus even more than Shojo Beat because it had a wider variety of manga styles and included manwha and OEL series as well. The thought that I won’t be able to idly flip through the latest Soul Eater episode while eating dinner is, well, heartwrenching.

Jack Frost

Jack Frost is one of the manwha that is featured monthly in Yen Plus. True, it’s the only manga magazine I subscribe to now that Shojo Beat is gone but I had been starting to lean in its direction for a little while now due to the diverse assortment of stories it features. Korean, Japanese and English all under one roof in a double-sided magazine – what’s not to love? For me, it’s this series.

The story is a little confusing from the start – the heroine is Noh-A Joo, a normal everyday schoolgirl who has this recurring nightmare that she has a run-in with a man she refers to as “Nasty Smile” and in the ensuing brawl between him and an enemy at her school, her head is cut off and she dies. This is usually where she wakes up, but this time it seems that she’s died for real. Sort of.