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Gorae Byul

Also known as Whale Star: The Gyeongseong Mermaid.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Romance

The year is 1926 in this retelling of Hans Christian Andersen’s “The Little Mermaid”, and Joseon (present-day Korea), is under colonial Japanese rule. Su-A Heo is a handmaiden who spends her days working and swimming in the sea. Her work is her whole life, until one day, when she discovers a wounded independence fighter named Ui-Hyeon Kang washed up on the shore. She nurses him back to health, only to lose her ability to speak in a botched murder attempt by Ui-Hyeon’s comrade, Hae-Su Song. As she travels to the capital, Gyeongseong (present-day Seoul), to get revenge, she finds herself growing more and more intertwined with a strange, brave new world and the people within it.



Note: Chapter count includes prologue.

Tags: War , Tragedy , Historical , Disability , Conspiracy , Language Barrier , Heterosexual , Politics , Espionage , Fairy Tale , Full Color , Suicide , Female Protagonist , Coastal , Mermaid , Maids , Criminal Organization , Long Strip , Guns , Primarily Adult Cast , Love Triangle , Unrequited Love , Foreign , Snowscape , Torture

Hwaga Salieri

Also known as The Artist Salieri.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Psychological , Romance

Life is so unpredictable. Myeong-hwa had everything: the pretty face, the artistic talent, and even a wonderful boyfriend, while Sun-hee had nothing. Ten years later, the roles have reversed and Myeong-hwa is still a poor and unknown artist while Sun-hee is a major figure in the art world. What Myeong-hwa doesn’t know is that Sun-hee has secretly been pulling strings to make sure she fails…



Tags: Female Protagonist , Drawing , Age Gap , Full Color , Tragedy , Heterosexual , Love Triangle , Primarily Adult Cast , Work

Misterioso

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Music , Psychological , Romance , Slice of Life

Ji-Na, who has a mediocre talent, but is forced to play the violin as the only daughter of a big company. Gyeong-Mi, who had a genius talent, but was born as the daughter of a poor chauffeur and gave up on playing the piano. As Gyeong-Mi's father works as a driver for Ji-Na's family, the two meet and get closer through the link of music. Three years of puberty with music, they feel friendship and gradually love.



Note: Chapter count includes a two-chapter epilogue.

Tags: LGBTQ+ Themes , Classical Music , Full Color , Yuri

Boku no Giovanni

Status: Releasing
Genres: Drama , Music , Slice of Life

A young Tetsuou watched a performance by Giovanni Bazonni and was inspired to become a master cellist. But he knows that living as he is in an out-of-the-way Japanese island means his musical aspirations are unlikely to be realised.

One day, a boy named Ikumi comes to stay at Tetsuou's place. Ikumi is the sole survivor of an accident at sea, wherein he saved himself by swimming out to Tetsuou's island.

But he makes a surprising claim: he says he found his way to safety by following the sound of beautiful cello music, and is convinced that the player was Tetsuou.

Tags: Coming of Age , Josei , Male Protagonist , Classical Music , Band

Tachibana Baekjak

Also known as Count Tachibana.

Status: Finished
Genres: Drama , Fantasy , Romance

During the period of Japanese colonial rule, a young Korean boy, Yong-Hyeon, is invited every summer to a royal residence in the mountains behind his village. The residence of one Count Tachibana. The peculiar Tachibana Sho is a complete mystery, as it seems he’s never left his mansion, not even once. But over the summers, Tachibana Sho and Yong-Hyeon have made a strange but solid bond with each other. Now Yong-Hyeon is devising a plan to help Sho escape his mansion but it won't be easy. Adults with their meddlesome ulterior motives and the giant mansion itself all present challenges to their idea. How will the two boys break free and what will they learn about each other...?



Tags: Rescue , Achronological Order , Coming of Age , War , Historical , Boys' Love , Full Color , Politics , Detective , Tragedy , Coastal , Time Skip , Rural , Memory Manipulation , Male Protagonist , Rehabilitation , Work , Espionage , Writing , Love Triangle , Hikikomori , Gore