Moon Boy (manhwa)
Moon Boy is a Korean manhwa created by Korean author Lee Young-you. The series, as of June 2009, is completed in Korea. It is complete with nine volumes. Nine of them have been translated and released in the United States and other parts of the world. It is translated into English by Yen Press, license absorbed from ICEkunion following the latter's dissolution.
Plot
Five years before the story begins, a fifth grade girl named Myung-Ee Joo is on her way to school when she accidentally bumps into a classmate, a boy named Yu-Da Lee. Yu-Da and Myung-Ee both have an instant dislike of each other but they have one thing in common; eyes that turn red at night when the moon's out.Later, Myung-Ee is asked out on a date by a tenth-grader and is annoyed at Yu-Da for his suspicions that the older boy wished to take advantage of her. This resulted in a conflict where she challenged Yu-Da to a fight after school. Yu-Da's suspicions of the tenth grader turned out to be correct. After school the older boy reveals himself to be a Fox who craves "Earth Rabbit Meat," this being Yu-Da and Myung-Ee.
Luckily, Yu-Da is saved by an unknown boy and faints. Myung-Ee, not knowing of what had happened, is left still waiting for Yu-Da thinking she has been stood up and resolves to never talk to him again. On the following day however, Yu-Da does not show up for class and no one in class remembers him. No one in the entire school except for Myung-Ee.
Five years later, Myung-Ee transfers to a school in a new city but is shocked to see Yu-Da among the student council with no recollection of her or ever living in the city where they both went to school together. Yu-Da's school council friends prevent Myung-Ee from speaking with Yu-Da for long and one member, Sa-Eun, tries to attack her in her home to wipe her memories of ever meeting Yu-Da. She is rescued by Ho-Rang a fellow student at her new school.
She soon finds out that she is an "Earth Rabbit". A descendant of the Rabbit people who came from the Moon. The school council members guarding Yu-Da are Foxes who hunt the Rabbits for their flesh. Yu-Da is the "black rabbit" whose liver is said to have special immortality powers. Since his disappearance, Yu-Da was imprisoned by the Foxes and put under a memory spell to forget his childhood. He is guarded by the Foxes until he matures and his liver is harvested.
Mung-Ee decides she wants to save Yu-Da's life with the help of fellow Rabbit Ho-Rang even if it means being targeted by the powerful Foxes guarding him.
Characters
Main characters
;Yu-Da Lee;Myung-Ee Joo
;Ho-Rang Jin
;Sa-Eun Won
Secondary characters
;Ya-Ho;Chi-In Shin
;Jin-Soo Jung
;Mok-Hee Kum
;Ga-Woo Yang
;Hee-Ju Lim
Supporting characters
;Fan-Sy-Cou;Seo-Wha
;Ah-Ri and Min-Soo
;Myung-Ee's Teacher
;Yu-Da's Grandpa
;Elders
;Sun-Ok
Antagonists
;Ha-Eun;Yumei
Terminology
;Bon-Ga: The place where high level Foxes get to live and play away from human contact. The elite group of Foxes are chosen here and one of their missions is to keep the Black Rabbit from being rescued.;Earth Rabbit: Rabbits who fled to the Earth from the Moon in order to escape the Fox invasion. Upon living on Earth for many years, many of them have lost their identity and became more like humans. The only difference that set them apart from the humans are their eyes that turn red when it's night. If any Earth Rabbit comes to Junghyun Mountain, their eyes turn red in an instant.
;Foxes' Sword: Some Foxes uses their long claws as defense weapons but the highly trained Foxes don't use their claws. Like Sa-Eun, there are foxes that use swords that's made out of their claws.
;Fox Tribe: Creatures from who knows where. When there was no more Rabbits on the Moon, they followed the Rabbits to Earth. They assumed human form and made their own little community which is Bon-Ga. There are two different types of foxes.
- High Level Foxes: Are the elite ones chosen to have a good education mentally and physically so they can live among humans and be able to defend themselves against the Soon-La army. They are chosen right away from birth so they don't even know who their real parents are.
- Low Level Foxes: Are the Foxes who aren't capable of controlling themselves. They seem to act almost zombie/animalistic. They are always hungry for Rabbit blood and meat they have already attacked humans. Very dangerous people.
;Hun-Choo-Oak: A special talisman that acts like a tracking device for the Foxes.
;Junghyun Mountain: The place where Rabbits, who don't want to live among humans, stay. The gravity in the area is equivalent to the Moon's gravity so no human is even able to survive being there.
;Mung-Guh-Wan: A special pill that's used for altering memories.
;Mung-Guh-Yeon: Used for mass wide manipulation/altering that only works on humans.
;Rabbit Tribe: The same as Earth Rabbits except, these Rabbits are the ones who are able to preserve their sense of identity by building a hidden community underneath Earth's surface called Junghyun Mountain. They don't live among humans, except when they're on missions. When they are in Junghyun Mountain, not only do their eyes turn red but also, their rabbit ears come out as well.
;Soon-La Army: The elite group of Rabbits chosen to help fight and defend themselves and each other against Foxes. A part of their mission is to rescue the Black Rabbit from the Foxes. Just like the high level Foxes, those chosen to be in the army are usually picked from birth and have never once met their parents.