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Across the Tooniverse

Across the Tooniverse By Im Guk Yeong Translated by Emily Bettencourt he Sailor Scouts had appeared, new guardians to protect T Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn. The one who caught Mankyŏng’s interest was Sailor Uranus, with her sharp blonde pixie cut and high-bridged nose. She usually wore an easy smile and made romantic comments to women, but as soon as a fight started, she donned her Sailor Scout uniform and beat the villains up. When she gathered her red energy in her hands and slammed them to the ground, a magma-like sphere would break through the ground and shoot towards the enemies. Ka-pow! On the floor in front of the sofa, Mankyŏng and Suchin sat slightly apart from each other and stared at the television. Mankyŏng glanced back and forth, looking between Sailor Uranus on the screen and Suchin’s face in profile, and thought to himself, Woman? Or man? At the end of the 1990s, Korea was facing its most severe economic recession since the war. With large corporations going bankrupt, unemployment on the rise, and the rate of juvenile crime increasing, the atmosphere was gloomy and chaotic, as was fitting for the end of the century. —Tooniverse’s airing of His and http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture University of Hawai'I Press

Across the Tooniverse

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University of Hawai'I Press
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10.1353/aza.2022.0008
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By Im Guk Yeong Translated by Emily Bettencourt he Sailor Scouts had appeared, new guardians to protect T Uranus, Neptune, Jupiter, and Saturn. The one who caught Mankyŏng’s interest was Sailor Uranus, with her sharp blonde pixie cut and high-bridged nose. She usually wore an easy smile and made romantic comments to women, but as soon as a fight started, she donned her Sailor Scout uniform and beat the villains up. When she gathered her red energy in her hands and slammed them to the ground, a magma-like sphere would break through the ground and shoot towards the enemies. Ka-pow! On the floor in front of the sofa, Mankyŏng and Suchin sat slightly apart from each other and stared at the television. Mankyŏng glanced back and forth, looking between Sailor Uranus on the screen and Suchin’s face in profile, and thought to himself, Woman? Or man? At the end of the 1990s, Korea was facing its most severe economic recession since the war. With large corporations going bankrupt, unemployment on the rise, and the rate of juvenile crime increasing, the atmosphere was gloomy and chaotic, as was fitting for the end of the century. —Tooniverse’s airing of His and

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Azalea: Journal of Korean Literature & Culture – University of Hawai'I Press

Published: Jul 14, 2022

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