Snow Drop

    (Tokyopop, 2004-2006)
™ and © 2000 Choi Kyung-ah, Daiwon C.I. Inc
Black and white

While “soap opera” is usually used as a pejorative, a truly good one, like Snow Drop, can be a wonderful thing. It’s got strong characters—with inner lives and more than romance on their minds—and it doesn’t hurt that they’re all insanely beautiful.

Choi Kyung-ah has created a world populated entirely by super-models, with perfect eyes, lips, and hair—not to mention incredibly elongated, distorted figures (the exact opposite of the dread “super-deformed” phenomenon) with arms, legs, and giraffe-like necks that defy all laws of anatomy.

The only things more beautiful than the girls are the boys, even those who aren’t working as models. And, when romance does appear, it’s never cute or coy in the standard saccharine manga manner; a character might be playing The Crying Game in Volume Two.

— S.A. Bennett
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