All right, finished reading what's currently published of No Hero (6 volumes). :'D Volume 7 should be the last volume. Now I have no more from Yu Wo to read. T___T;; Oh, but she did recently post up a new part of Female Warrior. (part 9) :DDD

To sum this series up, it's about a vampire butler and his half-android master living in a city protected by 4 heroes. The necessity of the heroes is questioned later in the story, and humans, the church, and non-humans (vampires, werewolves, gargoyles...) start coming into conflict with each other... there is also modeling. Lots and lots of modeling. XD; I wondered where this "modeling" part fit in! Secret identities EVERYWHERE, but I wish we got more of people's reactions to finding out secret identities... we don't, because everything is told from ZhaoSuo's POV, who is not a part of a lot of the action.
So, the outsider POV I mentioned in my previous post. ZhaoSuo, who is not a fighter but a butler, sees a lot of happenings through TV, through surveillance cameras, and the like. He's mostly not at the actual scenes where things are happening. It's a strange way to move the story along. I kept wanting more of the action, except we only ever see what ZhaoSuo sees, so we miss quite a lot of the action. (I don't know how many times I went, "Nooo, don't leave, ZhaoSuo! I want to see what that guy does!!" *flails* "Don't faint here!") Yu Wo mentions in her author notes that she wavered between 1st person and 3rd person before she settled on 1st person because she wanted to write the story through a butler's stance on heroes. Yu Wo's 1st person POV stories are quite awesome. 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight are both evidence of that. I feel like her 1st person POV stories are more popular...? I wonder if anyone else feels the same way.
It's pretty funny that in one of Yu Wo's plurks, she mentioned that people requested, "Please write a story with ZhaoSuo as the main character!" She burst out laughing because ZhaoSuo is the main character of all of No Hero (that's seven volumes!) but he's always commenting on other people's actions that his own presence is... very thin. XD; This outsider POV thing is quite interesting. I feel like playing with something like this in my own writing.
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To sum this series up, it's about a vampire butler and his half-android master living in a city protected by 4 heroes. The necessity of the heroes is questioned later in the story, and humans, the church, and non-humans (vampires, werewolves, gargoyles...) start coming into conflict with each other... there is also modeling. Lots and lots of modeling. XD; I wondered where this "modeling" part fit in! Secret identities EVERYWHERE, but I wish we got more of people's reactions to finding out secret identities... we don't, because everything is told from ZhaoSuo's POV, who is not a part of a lot of the action.
So, the outsider POV I mentioned in my previous post. ZhaoSuo, who is not a fighter but a butler, sees a lot of happenings through TV, through surveillance cameras, and the like. He's mostly not at the actual scenes where things are happening. It's a strange way to move the story along. I kept wanting more of the action, except we only ever see what ZhaoSuo sees, so we miss quite a lot of the action. (I don't know how many times I went, "Nooo, don't leave, ZhaoSuo! I want to see what that guy does!!" *flails* "Don't faint here!") Yu Wo mentions in her author notes that she wavered between 1st person and 3rd person before she settled on 1st person because she wanted to write the story through a butler's stance on heroes. Yu Wo's 1st person POV stories are quite awesome. 1/2 Prince and Legend of Sun Knight are both evidence of that. I feel like her 1st person POV stories are more popular...? I wonder if anyone else feels the same way.
It's pretty funny that in one of Yu Wo's plurks, she mentioned that people requested, "Please write a story with ZhaoSuo as the main character!" She burst out laughing because ZhaoSuo is the main character of all of No Hero (that's seven volumes!) but he's always commenting on other people's actions that his own presence is... very thin. XD; This outsider POV thing is quite interesting. I feel like playing with something like this in my own writing.
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