 Hey everyone, welcome back to a We Can Get Them Geo here and today we're going to be taking a look at a Korean Manhwa named the Kingdom of the Gods. Let's do this. Welcome back to the channel everybody and yeah, I finally gave this a shot at the Kingdom of the Gods. I had no idea as of 2020 about this book. When it was first solicited it intrigued me and I got my hands on this book and I read it as soon as I was able to and I just, heads up, I'm probably going to butcher a lot of names here. I'm going to try and do my best and some of you will probably laugh but that's okay because we're all friends and family in here, right? So this is a Manhwa. The original concept is from Inwon Yon. The story is from Il-Ni Kim and the art is provided by Kiun Il-Yang. I probably butchered all three but here's the cover for this Manhwa which instantly looks really striking but what I really liked about this, I thought it was just going to be this romance of the three kingdoms type story or maybe inspired by things like Samurai over in Japan. I don't know what I was getting myself into until I learned that it's actually an action zombie story set in ancient times which is just freaking fantastic with beautiful, gorgeous artwork. One of the things I loved about this so much is that even though it's a one and done story, the art is pretty freaking fantastic. I mean when you have stuff like this, take a look at that, it's the ferocity, oh and it's a zombie story so you'll have to excuse the gore but that's the nature of the story I guess. But when you have stuff like that, how can you not be entranced and intrigued by what is happening on screen? Basically you have the character, this kid over here. This kid over here called Yi Moon, he is the prince of this land. He survived an assassination attempt and now these ninja looking dudes or assassins are looking after him to kill him and he has employed the services of this bandit, Jai Ha, probably butcher that name as well, who from my understanding and by reading this book probably was ex-military and some tragic events unfolded and he's now living the bandit life wandering aimlessly I guess throughout the country landscape. So when these two meet up, we quickly learn that something has gone terribly wrong in this land. This is a kingdom that has been riddled with strife not only politically but with famine and food shortages, all that stuff and there is a disease happening which is called the living death which basically is a zombie outbreak and look at this stuff, this is pretty awesome. The landscapes, the richness of the art is fabulous, the art is swift, smooth looking and visceral, I mean look at the panel layouts right here and how fluid everything goes from scene to scene, it's all, it's mostly like one smooth take as you're reading all the action scenes, it's really awesome and yeah it's basically one giant escort mission in a zombie apocalypse story. You learn about them in chunks and there's not a whole lot of room for character development. The tropes are already set, you have the prince who is this young kid and the bandit doesn't really believe when the kid is telling him, no I am really the prince so when he does convince him, he's asking for a larger bounty for this escort mission so to deliver him to the palace or the kingdom and as they wander into this town they find out that people are missing, it's warthorn, it's very hellish in nature of the landscape, let's see if I can find the actual panel while I talk to you guys here and as you can see right there, right over here, it's all really awful looking, there we go, but we find a couple of people offering them their house to stay in their house and yeah it turns out that they're kind of gross and they're eating human body parts because there's no food anymore. So once you die in this world or you come in contact with other zombies you get turned into one and you spread the disease I guess, however the cool thing about this book is that they strike at night which makes it that much more frightening for characters to be out and about in the wilderness or in towns at night so they really gotta take refuge and try to escape the hordes of zombies. I love how the landscapes reflect how dreary, grim and brutal this world has become with this death disease but overall just really fun stuff, I mean I love zombie stories that's one of my favorite things when it comes to horror, I prefer, I don't like the psychological stuff, I don't like the slashers, killers, the demonic paranormal stuff, I don't like that stuff. What I like is the creature horrors, zombies, vampires, werewolves, that's my kind of thing. When you have a zombie story regardless of the medium, whether it's a movie or a comic or whatever it might be, there's always that social criticism that is involved with the plot and how the debacle of society reflects the nature of the hungry citizens that have turned into ravenous beasts, the social commentary on politics with the governments and the social structure of a country and all that stuff but here having it set in ancient times and it being a war-torn state if you will really drives home that these people are suffering and they need food and sustenance and they're dying of famine and droughts and all that stuff and to have a zombie apocalypse really does drive that point home that these people are in miserable conditions whereas obviously the kingdoms and the bureaucracy and the kings and queens and all that stuff, they might be better off for all we know but we don't have enough information to get the full scope of things. We get some exposition dialogue, later the characters do find some medical records that inform you of one of the origins of the outbreak in the city that the characters want to travel to so you do get some information from there but yeah it's more of a character piece, it's more about these individuals doing an escort mission basically, wonderful art, really slick action, look at those fantastic drawings right there really detailed stuff in my honest opinion and the zombies, let's see they're fast zombies which aren't necessarily my favorite I prefer slow walking ones instead of the runners but I dig it nonetheless you know there's something eerie about society going berserk and turning on one another that appeals to me I guess and you find some really horrific things but the survival aspect is always intriguing that is that is pretty gruesome right there geez yeah and there's a there's a sound effect crunch and crack you can just imagine hearing that but overall just a really cool one and done zombie story you're not gonna get a whole lot and by the end there is some really cool commentary on the whole social nature of people and there and what they're worshiping at and all that stuff which I thought was great but the only fault is that it's over once you get going it ends and you're left wanting more you're left asking yourself what's gonna happen next and you're not gonna have that answer which is normal for zombie stories I don't mind at all that's part of the fun where you have sort of a vignette if you will of a specific event that happens and these characters trying to survive some don't make it others do all that stuff and you do get enough hints at these characters that you wonder and maybe care about them but not nearly enough like I would have wanted to I wanted to invest myself into these guys into the Prince Yimun and his quest because he's a young kid to see him grow up in this hellish landscape but we don't get that unfortunately I would have preferred it maybe a limited series instead of a one-shot thing hopefully if this continues doing well in sales maybe we could get something into future I don't know however all that aside I mean oh this was a really cool panel by the way look at that is that is pretty frightening right there love that scene so much at the end of the book you do get a side story from the same creators burning hell I'm not gonna show the last page because it's a spoiler there we go burning hell is the last one in this book and this is a much shorter tail as you can see right here compared to the kingdom and here is it doesn't have anything to do with zombies it's more it's supernatural in nature but it's about this island this hellish island is in the stretch between the Korean Peninsula and Japan and it's used sort of like a giant exiled island where you dump all your criminals all the insane criminals all that stuff and we get this crazy dude right here you get this crazy dude right here who is the foulest meanest mother effort you've ever seen and he gets thrown in and escapes when they're throwing him into the island and he murders all the government officials from Japan all that stuff and he is looking for you know to kill all the other inmates in the prison island but it turns out that one of them is the only one that is still alive and it's this character right here and the two sort of develop a really interesting animosity relation between the two and they're constantly fighting it's a very brutal series because unlike the zombies these guys are alive and well and conscious enough and you don't really root for any of them I didn't really care for the two of them they're horrible people but the years later they get attacked by some pirates European pirates and there's this man that has some crazy witch supernatural demon powers and it's it's kind of crazy and chaotic and I wasn't nearly as invested as the first one but kingdom of the gods I really did enjoy and this is a nicely built viz signature sized manua as you can see right there I love the spine with the black and reddish orange hue just looking fantastic so that's it the kingdom of the gods thank you everybody for tuning in thank you for liking subscribing commenting being a part of a week and keep them hit the notification bell of your subscribe to make sure you don't miss a single video when I upload them so that's about it guys if you've read this book let me know what you thought of it down below and if not tell me what are some of your favorite zombie comics manga or manua I'm very interested in finding out I've got to go guys I will catch all of you on our next review