Threads of Time

High-school student Moon Bin Lee has difficulty sleeping due to a recurring nightmare: he's stranded over a thousand years in the past chasing a dark-haired girl into a deep abyss. Before long, the nightmare overwhelms him, and he is unable to tell whether he is Moon Bin, a Seoul teenager at the end of the second Millennium, or Sa Kyoung Kim, the son of a prominent warrior family in the middle of the first Millennium. People in his present-day life assume roles in his historical life as he struggles to learn exactly who he is and what he's expected to do, straddling a transmigratory portal through time and space. In the present, his school's kendo club battles to stay in the championships... but in the past, Moon Bin finds himself at the threshold of a territorial dispute on the plains of Mongolia.

Source: Tokyopop

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Threads of Time is an interesting historical story of a teenager who gets caught up in a shogunate type Korea. Normally I stay away from historical things as I find them boring, and this might have been no exception, but I continued anyway to find out how the present day school boy would survive in this sword weilding environment. I was not disappointed by the realism, it was a very serious take on the issue, no last minute saving of damsels in distress, no immediate win for the hero. It was a sombre look at early Korea. Story - The protagonist is a high schooler who is transported to early Korea into the body of a boy of similar age from a fairly wealthy family who had been in a coma. The story was quite slow for me when I read it but this was back when I was used to shounen types where the wrongs are righted straight away and no harm comes to others, which is why I was also shocked by the harm that came to others. Side characters die on both sides and it is truly a dark tale, but a twist makes it a manhwa worth reading and the fact that there is a proper ending to it also makes it worth while. Art - Not a style I am used to and hence I marked it down, it's definitely readable, just not what I wanted. Opinions are opinions. Characters - I am not marking this in terms of character development as I don't remember clearly, but as far as how interesting the characters are, it deserves a 9. The protagonist is your typical hero, he'll kill for revenge and to get back to where he was, the others are interesting too though I don't remember the details. Overall - It is worth reading. It is interesting and it is fulfilling.

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