A magical girls adventure from the creator of Les Bijoux and The Tarot Cafe!

Sang-Sun Park has crafted a beautiful, humorous and surreal tale of morality and hope in this story of three magical sisters who are charged with saving the world. The beautiful and bishonen "Earth" has been ravaged by human negligence and greed—and the sisters must race through time to make things right before mankind is extinguished forever.

~Rob Valois, Editor

From a small lake nestled in a secluded forest far from the edge of town something strange emerged one day: Three young girls. The three girls, Shem, Hamu and Japheth, are sisters from another world. Equipped with magical powers, they are charged with saving all the creatures of Earth from becoming extinct. However, there is someone or something sinister trying to stop them. While saving our world from destruction, these sisters live like normal human girls: They go to school, work at a flower shop, hang around with friends and even fall in love...

Sang-Sun Park:
Sang-Sun Park was born on August 9th (Leo) and her blood type is AB (People with AB blood type are supposed to be difficult to get along with).

She graduated from the Gukmin University with a degree in Visual Designs and made her debut as a cartoonist in 1994 with Illusions, but continued to focus on her school work. After graduating from college in 1997, she resumed her career as a cartoonist with Broken Toy and since then, has published Requiem of the Soul, Lost Wings, Les Bijoux, and Tarot Cafe.

Shem:
The eldest daughter. She is the smartest of the sisters and is usually very calm, but when she gets upset she becomes extremely out of control.

Japheth:
The youngest sister. She dresses like a boy and is forced by her sisters to do all the housework. She has the power to stop time for 5 minutes.

Hamu:
The middle daughter. Hamu is a wild girl who enjoys riding bikes and martial arts. However, she also loves flowers and gardening. She has never dated a boy and has a lot of mistaken ideas about them (like that shaking hands with a boy means that you are engaged).

teenreads.com
It's no mistake that Shem, Hamu and Japheth share the names of the biblical Noah's sons: these three girls have the monumental task of traveling through time to collect pairs of all the endangered and extinct species and gather them all on their mystical, whale-on-wheels ark to ensure their survival. (Yes, you read that correctly -- a whale on wheels...just go with it.) Having filled in for their father (he bugged out to a cooking class) at a conference of all the forces of the universe, including planets, sprites, elements, and animals, the three defend humanity's good side only to be challenged to prove humanity is worth a second chance. The three sisters do get distracted, most of the time by squabbling amongst themselves over who stole whose panties, why youngest Japheth must continue dressing as a boy, and how they are going to survive their daily lives as high school students in our own time.


As is often the case in such supernatural manga, the planets and animals in this Korean manhwa are represented by fantastical human forms: the Earth is an astoundingly beautiful young man who dresses like he escaped from a 1970s Glam Rock show, and each animal saved is seen as a beautiful human dressed in elaborate costume. This trend leads to some excellent outfits (who knew a fruit bat could be so handsome?), as well as amusing interactions between the trio of girls and their rescued animals. And just who is that hot guy from their school who keeps appearing when they're out on missions?


The crazy humor makes this series a great, light read, and the combination fairy tale, rock opera artwork makes the whole ride a beautiful trip through the creator's imagination.


   --- Reviewed by Robin Brenner from teenreads.com
http://www.teenreads.com/reviews/1598162624.asp