Native English teachers in Korean comics.

So I've been reading a lot of manhwa [Korean comics] lately.  The latest one I've just started is Unbalancex2, by Im Dal Young.  It's a pretty standard high school harem love story.  I'm sorry if that doesn't make any sense to you.  Anyway, the protagonist's main love interest is his high school homeroom teacher, which also isn't really surprising.  What does surprise me though is:

That's right.  A native English teacher in a Korean comic.  Fucking ridiculous.  

So there she is, Caroline sunsengnim.  I don't want to ruin too much of the story if anyone decides to read it, but her father is Korean.  It's not entirely clear if her mother is from America or England.  Both countries have been mentioned and I'm not sure if it's the translator's fault or if it's a mistake by the author.

I didn't know I could make learning English so sexy.

Hang in there, MangaToshokan.

It looks like manga publishers are finally addressing the issue of scanslations.  For some reason, I just noticed this message today on mangatoshokan even though I've been frequenting the site, but here it is from one of the admins:

We hoped it wouldn't come to this, but due to mounting legal pressure, we have been advised to remove all series serialized by the publishers in the coalition. This was a very difficult decision to make, and one we did not take lightly. Unfortunately this means we have had to remove the majority of our library, however we have been able to retain some manga, as well as most of our manhua and manhwa. We will be shifting the focus of the site more to manhwa and manhua (Korean and Chinese manga).

It's a little disheartening, but I can't really be surprised about it.  I'm excited to see how much attention they're going to be giving to manhwa.  I do take a casual interest in it and all.

Immortal Regis

My school is eerily quiet today because all the students are taking their finals.  However, it means I have no classes today.  While pretending to work on the lesson plan for the upcoming summer camps I have to teach, I've decided to indulge myself by reading some manhwa (Korean comics).  I've tried reading a few since I've been here, but nothing I was really able to get into.  The only one I've been following is Veritas, which is one of the most entertaining comics I've read in a while.  Yesterday I stumbled on Immortal Regis though, and I have to say that I really like it.  It's a little like Chrono Crusade, with their being demons and all that, but probably not as good.  It's still solid though.  You should check it out here if you have the time.  I have to warn you though, that the plot line is a little hard to follow at the start, but it all comes together a few chapters in.