Korean Dragon Raja (드래곤 라자) by Lee Yeongdo 이영도

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  1. EienMugetsuTensho

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    Dragon Raja (드래곤 라자)
    Author: Lee Yeongdo
    NU Link: None
    Korean Raws: ???
    Chinese Raws: http://www.99lib.net/book/4105/index.htm

    Description (From Wikipedia):
    The books chronicle the adventures of a 17-year-old boy Hoochie Nedval, his mentor Karl Heltant and his friend Sanson Percival, all of whom are from the poor town of Fief Heltant in the Kingdom of Bysus. The main story arc, told in the first-person by Hoochie, concerns the three's quest to rescue their people from the black dragon Amurtaht by finding money to pay the ransom; then to find and protect a lost dragon raja girl, who would serve as the bridge between people and dragons and stop a crimson dragon that terrorized the continent 20 years ago.

    Synopsis (From Reddit):
    The Black Dragon Amurtaat is an existence that has been plaguing Fief Heltant.
    One day, Cathselprime the White Dragon and her Dragon Raja arrived in the village where Huchi Nedval lived, sent by the House of Hustheil, a family with over 300 years of Dragon Raja Lineage, to slay Amurtaat.


    Reason: The book was massively popular (If so many people loved it then that is also a good reason for it to be picked up so others can read it too). I also think the book will be interesting. Found out about it from a reference from The Tutorial is Too Hard.

    "The success of Dragon Raja prompted two big phenomena in the Korean publishing industry."
    (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dragon_Raja).

    From Reddit(https://www.reddit.com/r/noveltranslations/comments/3yjdkt/kr_dragon_raja_chapter_12) :
    "Dragon Raja is a work that pioneered the Fantasy genre in Korea, and made way for webnovels to be considered viable for publishers in Korea. First posted on a forum by Lee Yeongdo in 1997, its explosive popularity saw it quickly being picked up for publishing, spawned a radio show, a manhwa adaptation, a mobile game as well as an MMO (it's 15 years old but still has playable servers today)"


    Note: This is for the Korean novel by Lee Yeongdo NOT the Chinese book with the same name by Jiang Nan.
    Chinese raws listed above are the book translated from Korean to Chinese. Obviously

    The first two chapters (as stated in Reddit post use right sidebar to get to other parts of the chapter)
    https://dragonrajanovel.blogspot.com/2012/08/chapter-one-riding-towards-dawn-pt1.html

    If someone has a KR raw link ill update it.
     
  2. EienMugetsuTensho

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    Well, the author might have miss used raja.
    I read Lv1 Skeleton a few weeks ago and the author mixed up female and male names. Male priest was named Meridith and female mage was named Ian.
     
  3. Pau

    Pau Useless Hamster

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    That's right, if it goes by "Raja", might as well give it name "Raja Naga" --> "Dragon King". Naga mean Dragon in South Asia (at least in my country)

    Edit: apparently, the korean name of this novel 드래곤 라자 read as "deulageon laja" hence "Dragon Raja" in English, And means "Raja Naga" in my country (South Asia), while "Raja" it self means King in English.
     
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  4. All mighty Asian

    All mighty Asian Well-Known Member

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    Bro you're asking in wrong place the moment word (raja) was mentioned people would start boycotting it
     
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