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The Queen's Knight | |
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![]() Cover, The Queen's Knight volume 1 (Tokyopop edition) | |
여왕의 기사 | |
Genre | Romantic fantasy, Drama, Tragedy |
Author | Kim Kang-won |
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Original run | 1997 |
Volumes | 17 |
The Queen's Knight, is a South Korean manhwa graphic novel, written and illustrated by Kim Kang-won, creator of the high-school soap opera, I.N.V.U . It is distributed in English by Tokyopop.
When Yuna Lee's mother moves to Germany to pursue a music degree, Yuna is left to stay with her father, a university professor, and her three older brothers, who are overprotective of her. During her summer vacation, she visits her mother in Germany, where she falls off a cliff and is rescued by Rieno, an 18-year-old knight living in the land of Phantasma. Rieno makes a deal with Yuna that, because he has saved her life, she must become his queen. Indebted to him for saving her life, Yuna is torn between her normal world back home and life as Phantasma's Queen.
Yuna Lee
Jin Lee
Hyun Lee
Beum Lee
Kahyun Song
Hae Won Min
Mari Park
Rieno
Ehren Furst
Leon Per
Schiller Licht
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