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19 August 2008 12:15 AM, PDT | Twitch | See recent Twitch news »

I remember I introduced this back in 2006, but there was little to no news for the following two years. Korean animation, at least in its feature form, still has a hard time leaving first gear, in many ways because of cultural issues (the same reason space operas or straightforward Sf rarely do well). Yet, the talent is certainly there, as the few efforts we get every year rarely end up being stinkers, and there’s even the occasional gem a la 아치와 씨팍 (Aachi & Ssipak), or the flawed but immensely beautiful 원더풀 데이즈 (Wonderful Days). 오디션 (Audition) adapts manhwa kingpin Cheon Gye-Young’s bestseller, about a young man who has to find some old friends (all of immense musical talent, obviously) and form Korea’s “greatest band” to inherit his father’s empire. Now the idea, in the manhwa, was that it would be Korea’s greatest boy band, which …

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1 article from 2008