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I skimmed most of the manhua again yesterday to try to get a better feel for Storm. I so can't write him! He's shy, bad with women, always bombarded with paperwork, usually patient... but he's also always had to pretend he's a flirt, he knows all about gossip, he smiles dangerously when he's angry, he's lost his temper at Sun a few times... I seem to only be able to write him with his outer appearance or him being angry. =/

I got stuck with my writing, so I ended up reading the prequel to Legend of Sun Knight. (finally read it!) I believe there's a second volume to it. I so want to know what happens next! This prequel is set way back before the 1st generation of knights is formed. It was quite fascinating to read about the beginning of the kingdom, and the two characters the story follows have hilarious interaction. I want to see the rest of the 1st generation! Yu Wo also posted Leaf's side story "Beloved Voodoo Doll" recently. It is so much love because Leaf and Judgment go on a mission together! *flails*

All that aside, main point of this entry was that I took some pics of my Legend of Sun Knight merchandise. ;) I also took pics of my 1/2 Prince merchandise, but that would've made this entry super long, so I'll include those pics in the next entry.

This is an image heavy post!

LSK 2011 calendar from the 4th manhua bundle. I have this image set as my computer wallpaper at the moment. :3

Also from the 4th manhua bundle was this huge bag. Don't know what I'm going to use it for... maybe I'll put all my LSK merchandise in there, haha. Christmas-y Sun, Blaze, Leaf, and Earth! I love how Earth looks here. :3

Back of the bag. I wonder why Storm's with Ice and Judgment... maybe because his hair is cool colored? XD Gosh, everyone from the good, warm faction are smiling but of course Judgment and Ice can't smile. Poor them!

Christmas cards that came with the bundle. :D

Manhua + novel side story from the 4th bundle. This side story was the one about Storm owing Sun a favor. :3 The manhua contains the end of volume 2 of the manhua.

6th manhua bundle~! So cute! This is a clearfile/portfolio thing. I don't think I'll be using it since I'm afraid I'd damage it!

The back featuring Pink~

The manhua and side story that came with the 6th bundle~. The side story is about Blaze... kicking down doors. XD; The manhua concludes the first volume of the novel, with Sun and everyone in the King's chambers battling Roland. Darn, I wish I'd gotten the 5th bundle (it was sold out), because I'm missing a chunk of the story. :'D (the 4th bundle ends with Sun realizing the Death Knight is Roland, and then the 6th bundle picks up with them in the chambers already...) I was super excited to see that Adair has some panels here! \o/ I don't think he was mentioned in the novel during this portion (was he?) but he gets a panel and a line here. XD;

I also bought volume 1 and 2 of the manhua (compiled versions of bundles 1-4). :3;; So useful to have for reference! The manhua shows some different POVs from time to time that we don't get from Grisia's account in the novels. I'm guessing that bundle 5 and 6 will be reprinted as volume 3, so 3 volumes of the manhua concluded 1 volume of the novels~. so that'll make around... 24 manhua volumes to illustrate the entire story if they keep the same pacing, since there are 8 novels? Wow.

Inner flap from manhua volume 1. So cute!

Title page. Grisia's trying to wash blood out of his shirt and is complaining how it's hard to wash blood out of white shirts.

The manhua comes with a small pull out! :D

Back of the pull out.

Back of the manhua. I remember these drawings of Grisia were included as postcards in the 1st or 2nd bundle or so. I'm glad they included them on the cover!! I hope they include the drawings of chibi Blaze somewhere too. =x

The end of the manhua contains some concept art. First up is Sun!

Sun and Blaze~

Blaze and swords!

This is the inside flap from the 2nd manhua volume~

Title page. Judgment's making fish porridge for Sun. :D

Pull out features Earth!

Back of the pull out features Storm! (Oh gosh, more and more reason for me to write them togetheeeeeer or body-swapped!

Back of the manhua~

Concept art for Judgment. He's smiling in the bottom pic, eee.

More art of Judgment, and then swords!

Ice~

Young Grisia and Roland, and then Supreme Dragon. XD

The King and Prince also get a page. XD

I also bought the novels. :'D Volumes 1-7. Volumes 4-6 are the best because they include sidestories in manhua format! *____*

Volume 1.

Each volume comes with a pull out drawing of the cover.

Back of the volume.

Volume 2.

Pull out!

Grisia getting mad that Roland's sweeping. XD

Volume 3. I believe that's Sun in his Supreme Dragon mode. At least that's what I always thought this drawing was of. :3;; But his hair's too short...?

Pull out~

Character popularity poll at the end! Ice is #4!

Sun is #1, Judgment #2, Roland #3, and Adair #5. Yesss, Adair! I'm surprised though that Roland and Adair were more popular than the other knights. XD;

Volume 4! The manhua that comes with it is mainly about Neo and Chasel choosing the next Sun and Judgment. :D It's based off of one of the side stories Yu Wo posted in her blog.

This volume's pull out is super huge!

Volume 4 is so awesome that it even has drawings of each of the holy knights. So this was where these images came from. I've seen these images floating around, but I didn't know where they were from. :3

Storm and Earth ~~next to each other again~~

Leaf and Blaze.

Cloud!

Judgment and Ice~

"Spoiler" and Metal. XD; Haha... don't think too hard about this.

Forgot to take a pic of this page so took it later (which is why the lighting is completely different!) Pic of Moon (right) and Stone (left).

Same drawing that's featured on the back of the novel~

Random page inside the manhua. ;) The binding is pretty stiff and fragile! Can't bend it much. This page shows Neo getting mad at Grisia, and then Chasel finding Lesus. :3

Concept art of young Grisia and young Lesus from Ya Sha (novel artist)! Lesus was so cute! XD;

Young Roland! And then there's Chasel and Neo. ;)

The Pope and Pink. :3

Ya Sha's drawing of when Lesus and Grisia meet and Lesus has to run off because he's about to vomit.

Volume 5 has the same deal with a novel and a manhua sidestory bundled together. :) This sidestory is Blaze's sidestory when he's kidnapped by Pink and saved by Sun.

Pull out!

Back of the novel~

Random pic from the manhua. Grisia choking Chikus. XD; Cloud is up on a tree.

Young Grisia at age 15. Below is a drawing of the previous Earth Knight.

More teachers, yay! The 37th generation Storm Knight, Blaze Knight, and then Sun Knight on the left. He looks quite a lot tougher than Grisia. XD;

The dark elf Neo meets later on. :3 To the left is Ice's side story illustrated! (how he got chosen)

Ice's teacher. XD; He doesn't seem like he can control his emotions very well!

Volume 6 + manhua! The manhua contains the second half of Blaze's sidestory. It sure is one long side story!

Pull out~

Back of the volume.

Random page from the manhua.

Volume 7. No more manhua bundled with it! Ya Sha apologizes in the 6th volume that she's not good with illustrating panels, so they stopped the manhua side story project.

The pull out~

Back of the volume.

And that was it for the novels! Volume 4-6 were so worth it. I can't wait until volume 8 comes out. I hope it comes out soon. It's supposed to be the last volume, and it was supposed to come out this year, but Yu Wo seems to have some trouble with it. She updated her blog to say that she doesn't know if she can conclude the story within one volume. (I sure wouldn't mind if the story became longer!)

I also bought some other LSK merchandise that was recently released. This is another bag. Don't know what I'm going to do with it. XD;

Back of the bag.

Another bag.

Back of the bag. These drawings are what I used for my current LJ header! :)

Some clearfiles using the same drawings.

Some cards using the same drawings. They also had everyone in chibi form, but they were sold out with those... seems like everyone wanted that one!

Mousepad. XD;;

Next up are doujinshi and fan-made stuff!

These were made by Icicle. I'm really impressed with the cellphone strap (wonder where she got that made so professionally!) and the clearfile. *____* Her doujinshi is also really professional too.

The back of her new doujinshi~

This was stuff I bought from Icicle back in February.

Cute clearfile by Icicle~

Back of the clearfile.

Back in February, I also bought from another artist called Fruit. This was her work! Postcards, doujinshi, pins, and a clearfile.

And here's her new work from August. Fruit's new doujinshi is about the 37th generation Storm and Blaze Knight. :3 The top ones are doujinshi and the bottom ones are postcards.