Korean [Bromance] He is an asexual boy, but his "harem" includes every heterosexual guy on the planet

Hello. Excuse me, my English is not very good. I am not a native English speaker.

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The new cover of the novel. Shine "Shan" Altelion (the male protagonist) and his dragon Kai (the male deuteragonist).

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Shine.

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Shine and Kai (a little dragon).

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Shine protects Kai (a teenage boy) from Shine's angry school teacher. Kai usually looks like a small dragon, but sometimes he turns into a teenage boy or a large adult dragon.

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Cai (Kai's evil personality) protects Shine who has passed out. Kai has two personalities: a kind personality named Kai (a white dragon or white hair guy) and an evil personality named Cai (a black dragon or black hair guy). Kai befriends Shine, while Cai kills Shine's enemies.

Name: "The owner of the divine dragon" (Korean: "신룡의 주인", 2011–2015) / "The Dragon Master"

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Language: Korean
Status in country of origin: 11 volumes, completed
Genres and tags: adapted to game, adapted to manhwa, PG-13, josei, gender bender, bromance, weak protagonist, magical academy, world in a dream, post-apocalyptic, action, adventure, comedy, drama, fantasy, martial arts, school life, supernatural
Characters in color illustrations in the web edition of the novel (2017, artist Dobin) https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/60830953
Characters in black and white illustrations in the printed edition of the novel (2012, an unknown artist) https://languidday.tistory.com/413

Spoiler: The manhwa "The Dragon Master" in Korean (artist Dobin)

https://page.kakao.com/content/52326633

Author: Taeseon ("Chitra", "Doctor's Rebirth", "Dusk Howler").
In 2014, Taeseon published an introductory excerpt from this novel online in Japanese. In Japanese, this novel is titled "The owner of the divine dragon: A boy, a dragon and a magical academy" (Japanese: "神竜の主 - 少年とドラゴンと魔法学院"). This novel has not been translated into other languages.

Why It Should Get Picked Up:
1. Unusual and unpredictable plot.
2. Well thought out fantasy world.
3. Interesting main and secondary characters.
4. Sweet, cozy and funny atmosphere. There are sad and scary moments, but mostly it's comedy, romance and adventure.
5. This is a "fairy tale" novel that adult Korean women re-read during New Year's holidays in order to return to childhood, that is, to create a kind, cheerful and playful mood for themselves.
6. This is not a story where a strong young man protects a weak young woman. This is a story where several strong 16-30 year old bishounens protect a weak 12 year old boy who looks like a beautiful young woman. Korean readers say that the genre of this novel is bromance, but not BL. This is not a love story. This is a story about friendship. Basically, this novel tells about the protagonist's friendly relationships with his father, three 20-30 year old older brothers and about ten 16-19 year old school friends.

Spoiler: About adaptations

Taeseon's novel "신룡의 주인" (Korean: "The owner of the divine dragon", josei, BL subtext, complete, 2011.10.07 – 2015.12.18) has received a manhwa adaptation in South Korea ("[리메이크] 신룡의 주인"; Korean: "The owner of the divine dragon: Remake", shoujo, reverse harem, isekai, discontinued, 2012.12.27 – 2014.04.27) and manhwa adaptation in Japan ("神竜の主: The Dragon Master"; Japanese: "The owner of the divine dragon: The Dragon Master", shounen, BL subtext, discontinued, 2014.11.13 – ?) and almost got an anime adaptation in Japan (2015) and a video game adaptation in Japan (2015) (these anime and video game were canceled).

In October 2013, the mobile tactical RPG "신수의 주인: The Summon Masters" (Korean: "The owner of the divine beast: The Summon Masters" ) (based on Taeseon's novels "환수의 주인" (Korean: "The owner of the phantom beast", 2010), "신룡의 주인" (Korean: "The owner of the divine dragon", 2011) and "신수의 주인" (Korean: "The owner of the divine beast", 2013)) was released in South Korea. In February 2014, a remake of this game was made, the mobile action RPG "신수의 주인" (Korean: "The owner of the divine beast"; the scriptwriters are Taeseon and Seong Sangyeong). But both games were canceled. (Taeseon began writing the novel "The owner of the divine beast" in 2013, but the official publication of this novel began in 2016.)

Seong Sangyeong (Korean: 성상영; Revised Romanization: Seong Sangyeong; born March 11, 1984 or March 11, 1985) is a South Korean male writer who creates novels in the genres of fantasy and martial arts, as well as scripts for comics and video games. He is best known as the screenwriter for the manhwa "The Gamer" (2013) and the founder of the publishing house "Golem Factory".

Until 2014, Seong Sangyeong was a popular writer, and Taeseon was a little-known writer. Seong Sangyeong became interested in Taeseon through her manhwa "[리메이크] 신룡의 주인" (Korean: "The owner of the divine dragon: Remake", 2012, discontinued) and he promised her that he would teach her how to create popular manhwas based on her novels, so in July 2014 they started releasing the manhwa "Dusk Howler" based on Taeseon's novel "Dusk Howler" (2009–2010).

On November 29, 2014, Seong Sangyeong married Taeseon.

Also while working on the manhwa "Dusk Howler" (shounen, BL subtext, complete, 2014.07.18 – 2016.07.22), Taeseon wrote the web novel "Dusk Howler 2" (xianxia, shounen, BL subtext, complete, 2015.11.27 – 2016.11.16).

Description
Shan, who was born weak, was born in the family of dragon masters Altelion and was a concern of his family. One day he found a dragon egg in the forest and became the master of the dragon.

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Shine "Shan" Altelion is the most beautiful person on planet Atreia (he is the son of Reiner Altelion, the most beautiful woman in the Western Continent, and he is even more beautiful than his mother), so he has a "harem" that consists of almost all heterosexual guys on the planet.

Reiner gave birth to three sons and she wanted the fourth child to be a daughter, so she gave him the female name Shine (샤인). His friends call him by his male name Shan (샨).

Shan's father, baron Reines Altelion, is the best swordsman in the world and one of the strongest men in the world. Reines' three eldest sons became outstanding swordsmen. But Shan was born during a solar eclipse, so he is very unlucky. Shan is constantly involved in accidents, such as accidentally tripping and falling out of a window. Shan has very little physical strength, so he cannot hold a sword in his hands. But Shan dreams of becoming a swordsman, so he regularly trains his fighting skills to increase his physical strength. But when Shan trains his fighting skills, his outward beauty of the body increases, not a physical strength. He looks like an angel or goddess, not like a human. Due to his poor health, he often faints, so his family almost never let him out of the house and he never had friends.

He learned information about the world around him mainly from books about dragons, knights and princesses, so he knows almost nothing about the world around him. To prove to his family that he is a manly man, Shan got himself a battle pet (a dragon named Kai) and left for the magical military academy "Dragon School". But in this academy, he got a "harem" which consists of several heterosexual bishounens.

But Shan is an asexual 12 year old boy who considers himself a masculine man, so he gets mad when guys mistake him for a girl and flirt with him.

Almost all the events in this novel do not take place in the real world, but in a dream that an immortal god named El dreams of. Approximately 1000 years ago, the god Baekho (Japanese: Byakko, White Tiger of the West) fell in love with a human woman and he turned himself into a human man named El in order to live with her in the human world on planet Atreia. He gave up almost all of his divine powers, but he remained immortal. His wife died of old age and he missed her very much, so for 1000 years he was looking for a way to kill himself. One day, the moon fell to the earth and killed the entire population, except for El. El became very upset and plunged himself into an eternal sleep. He has been sleeping for several centuries and during all this time he has a dream about the planet Atreia, where the moon did not fall to the earth and the population did not die. If El wakes up, then Shan and the rest of the population will disappear forever.

Sometimes El talks to Shan. Therefore, Shan knows he is a character in El's dream, not a real person. In general, Shan is something like Joan of Arc.

 

Sign me up! Bromance and asexuality is cool and I would totally read a fantasy novel that focuses on friendship.

 

Man, cant hold my laughter when I see the synopsis. I dunno why, but MC's goddess face and his attitude that thought he was so damn manly reminds me to our phantom player from KnB I know I read too much fanfiction about him, but...dont tell me his harem are the rest of kiseki no sedai??? I just cant

All in all, this novel's so hilarious. I love this kind of bromance so much. Please pick it up!!!

 

oh god someone pls pick this up-

 

Illustrations in the novel:

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1. Nell (넬, a guy with light gray hair; Shan's classmate; Nell is the only commoner among the students in the aristocratic academy "Dragon School"), Dantes Alfado (단테스 알파도, a guy with dark green hair; Shan's classmate), Giselle Baskerville (지젤 바스커빌, a girl with pink hair; Shan's classmate; Giselle is a fujoshi and possibly a lesbian; she forces Shan to wear women's clothes and pretend to be a girl), Chrom Meyerheart (크롬 마이어하트, a guy; in the manhwa and in this illustration, he has red hair, but in the plot of the novel, he is platinum blonde; Shan's classmate), Tiss Etakar (티스 이타카르, a guy with yellow braid; Shan's classmate), a protagonist Shine Altelion (샤인 알테리온, a boy with black hair, better known by his nickname Shan (샨); Korean readers often say that they were disappointed by the way artist Dobin chose Shan's appearance), the sword "Altelion's Sword" (it's a very heavy sword in Shan's hand, but Shan can use it because it's a magic sword that only members of the Altelion family can use), Kai (a small white dragon; sometimes he turns into a bishounen with knee-length white hair, but when he gets angry, he turns into his evil version Cai and his hair turns black), Yulkess Landskne (율케스 란츠크네, a guy with short yellow hair; Shan's classmate).

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2. El (엘, a guy with ground-length white hair; he is the most important god on the planet Atreia, but he works as the director of the academy "Dragon School" because this academy was built on the place where the house used to be, in where El and his late wife lived, and El did not want to move to any other house after the death of his wife), Yulkess Landskne, Shine Altelion and Tiss Etakar.

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3. El embraces the planet Atreia in his dream.

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4. Chrom Meyerheart.

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5. Raon (라온, a male teacher at "Dragon School", a dark elf with long white hair in a ponytail) and Enoch (에녹, a male teacher at "Dragon School", a light elf with long blue hair).

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6. Shan's three older brothers: Argo Altelion (아르고 알테리온, left), Erron Altelion (에론 알테리온, center) and Lio Altelion (리오 알테리온, right).

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7. Dantes Alfado (left) and Nell (right).

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8. Tiss Etakar (left) and Yulkess Landskne (right).

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In Taeseon's novels "The owner of the phantom beast", "The owner of the divine dragon" and "The owner of the divine beast" the events take place in the country Empire on the planet Atreia. Atreia is the planet Earth in a parallel world, so these planets have some similarities, for example, Atreia also has a Moon.

1. "The owner of the phantom beast" (Korean: "환수의 주인", novel, 2010, complete). The main male characters are Rusk Altelion and Innix Altelion. Rusk is the owner of the illusory wolf Tamrang (the phantom beast).
2. "The owner of the divine dragon" (Korean: "신룡의 주인", novel, 2011, complete). The male protagonist is Shine "Shan" Altelion. Shine is the owner of the dragon Kai (the divine dragon).
3. "The owner of the divine beast" (Korean: "신수의 주인", novel, 2016, complete). The female protagonist is Kai Altelion. Kai Altelion is the owner of the dragon Akanel (the divine beast). Taeseon began writing this novel in 2013, but the official publication of this novel began in 2016. Shine Altelion, Rusk Altelion and Innix Altelion are distant descendants of Kai Altelion. Shine named his dragon Kai after Kai Altelion.

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Fantasy setting in the novel "The owner of the divine dragon"

The Empire is a fantasy country that is vaguely similar to England in the 19th century, during the time of Sherlock Holmes. Horses, dragons, and magical trains are used as transport. The mana (magic energy) that dragons' bodies create is used instead of electricity. There are a lot of dragons in this country, including huge mountain-sized dragons and small cat-sized dragons. All dragons are immortal, but they can be killed with the sword "Altelion's Sword". There are approximately 10 swords "Altelion's Sword", and all of these swords were created by a legendary female smith named Kai Altelion.

Kai also created other legendary swords, such as the sword "Rain Cutter". "Rain Cutter" is a sword that can stop time: if you cut a cup of water with this sword, the water will remain in the cup, and will not flow down. "Rain Cutter" is the best weapon on the planet because this sword can control space and time, and therefore this sword can be used to travel through time and travel to parallel worlds. This sword belongs to Kai Altelion, but she rarely uses it, because the gods punish her when she uses this sword, because this sword violates the laws of the universe. Sometimes Kai uses this sword to visit her descendants in different eras.

In the novel "The owner of the divine dragon", the emperor in the Empire is a depraved man who spends his days having fun with his harem which consists of beautiful female concubines. Since the emperor is of no use, the country is ruled by several wealthy aristocratic families who fight each other for power over the country and from time to time enter into small battles so that one family can capture some city or region that belongs to another family. But these rich families prefer to buy cities and regions from each other rather than engage in battles, so in general the country lives almost peacefully and calmly, and there are almost no battles. However, most of the ordinary people are starving, so from time to time there are small popular riots, during which the population demands "Give freedom to the oppressed!".

The emperor is a seasoned warrior who has surrounded himself with experienced advisors and guards who are loyal to him. The Empire has an experienced army because the Empire has repeatedly fought with neighboring countries, and this experienced army is also loyal to the emperor because the emperor has made the military leaders of those people whom he trusts. Therefore, no one can kill the emperor and take his throne.

Basically, the novel "The owner of the divine dragon" tells about the friendship and enmity between several powerful aristocratic families that have been in conflict with each other for several centuries.

The Altelions are legendary swordsmen with great physical strength who save the world from the end of the world every 100-300 years because the founder of this family made an agreement with an ancient god and the blood of this god flows in the bodies of representatives of this family.

The Landsknes are mad scientists who use black magic to perform sinister scientific experiments (revive dead people and turn them into vampires, revive mechanical dolls and infuse human souls into them, etc.).

The Etakars are psychopaths who suffer from various hereditary mental illnesses and periodically try to kill each other on the principle of "only one person must remain alive so that he can give birth to the descendants of the family". Some of them have hereditary superpowers, for example, some Etakars can predict the future and find lost things and disappeared people.

The Meyerhearts are the richest family in the country (they have more money than the emperor and his family). They are obsessed with luxury, and usually when they get wounded in battle, they worry about their luxurious clothes getting dirty, not because of the wounds. In addition, due to hereditary mental illness, the Meyerhearts are bad at recognizing people's faces, and therefore they may mistake men for women.

The Baskervilles are territorial mages who constantly expand their lands to increase their magic. And if they lose all the lands, they will lose all their magic.

The Alfados are the mafia (the richest mafia organization in the Empire), which is engaged in loansharking, gambling, drug trafficking, human trafficking, etc.

Children from these families (the healer Shine "Shan" Altelion (he is studying to be a healer, but he dreams of becoming a swordsman), the swordsman Yulkess Landskne, the whipsman Tiss Etakar, the telekinesis mage Chrom Meyerheart, the lancer Giselle Baskerville and the spirit tamer Dantes Alfado) study at the elite academy of magicians and warriors "Dragon School" (where the same strange teachers work as in "Hogwarts") and, in parallel, they investigate the terrible secrets of their relatives.

The protagonist is a 12 year old boy, Shine "Shan" Altelion, who is a distant descendant of Kai Altelion. Shan's father is Reines Altelion, the best swordsman on the planet, and he gave Shan one of the swords "Altelion's Sword".

Yulkess, Tiss, Chrom and Dantes are 16-19 year old heterosexual bishounens, and Giselle is a 16-19 year old fujoshi girl.

 

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Yess i wanna read this

 

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