I Wish (manhwa)

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name = I Wish


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caption = Cover, "I Wish" volume 2 (Tokyopop edition)
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author = Seo Hyun-joo
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publisher_en = flagicon|United States Tokyopop
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volumes = 7
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I Wish is a Korean manhwa by Seo Hyun-joo.

This story tells the tale of a young woman whose family passes away. In desperation, she asks a magician to wish them back. However, the wish cannot be granted. She ends up becoming his assistant until she can decide on a wish he can grant. Just what is the most precious possession one must give up to have their wish granted?

Main Characters

Ryu Jin: After being angry at her family for leaving to Hawaii without her, she says she hopes they die before their plane arrives, and it happened even when it's not what she wished for. After that even, she goes to K, the mysterious magician to bring them back since it was a mistake. When K says he can't bring them back he conscripts her to work as his assistant until she finds something to wish for. Though she first resents K and expects the worst of him she grows to see him as a friend and hinted to be, someone she cares about. She doesn't really think about what she'll eventually wish for but in volume 6 Y reads her future to get an idea of what she'll wish for. Y doesn't reveal to her what she'll wish for to her face but instead makes her promise that when she does make her wish she'll think of how much she's come to like K. When Jin leaves Y tells D that Jin's wish is for K not to die.

K: The mysterious sorcerer that can grant any wish except the restoration of live. Once a person looks at him, they cannot leave until they make their wish, or they die. His name remains unknown since he said there is a curse attached to his name. He also grants wishes to live, if he doesn't fulfill a wish, no matter how selfish it could be, he'll die. Though K is a cranky, cold individual when he grants wishes they tend to, in the end, result in good rather than hurt. Regardless of who heartless he seems if he makes a mistake with his power he'll take utmost responsibility to atone for it. Unknown to Ryu Jin, her brother was K's teacher. K is apart of the same race as Yuri, meaning that when he falls in love, when his love dies, his heart will ultimately burst. Because his race assimilates to who they love, in volume 6 K's beginning to become more human (such as, his hands are no longer ice-cold and he can get colds).

Other Characters

J: One of K's friends and fellow peers, he's apart of a race that when they become too happy, they die. He trained a young woman named Yuri and over the hundred years they spent together he not only fell in love with her but the happiness he felt soon took his life. Like with Yuri, he taught K about human emotions such as warmth and love.

Yuri: A young woman apart of the same race as K. She spends one hundred years with J to learn to live as a human being with human emotions but falls in love with him over the period. Because of her race she's tied to J to feel happy when he is, to feel pain when he's hurt, and finally, succumb to death with his death. After J's death she visits K to pass onto him J's ashes before she dies.

D: One of K's friends and fellow peers. She's a bit empty headed and naive but her intentions are always to help others. However, these methods usually backfire and she receives criticism, much to her offense. D has a habit of trying out spells by using K, usually resulting in K's misfortune and her being told he doesn't want to see her face for one hundred years. One incident involved K being locked in a tree for two years because she couldn't make the escape spell work. While she wants to gives K his "spring day" and constantly chases after him what she truly wanted was Y's praise. While her love potion succeeded in making K fall in love because she had been experimenting on humans they nearly killed her to "share her equally" between them but Y sacrificed himself to save her. The incident has assumably made her more cautious of magic. In volume 6, it's revealed her and Y got married.

Y: One of K's friends and fellow peers. He was once a great magician capable of even rising the dead who succumbed to greed and power. When he began to be ostracized and feared by the people he created a love potion so they would love him but that made things worse when humans began to fight over him. Rather than give up his power he went to the desert to be alone. To his horror, the love potion caused the sun itself to fall in love with him and caused the sun to move closer to earth, eventually to crush earth. However, Jin's brother found him first and showed him to hide himself from the sun in exchange for Y becoming his third pupil. Y is usually covered in bandages and is often mistaken for being an old man. Because of his fondness and worry for D he asks K to transfer his magic and knowledge to D, leaving him a normal human. Though he's killed during his effort to save D he's resurrected by the spell he transfered to D. It's revealed in volume 6 that he and D got married.

Ryu Ui: Jin's brother and K's teacher. He's a guy with a twisted personality and a bit narcissistic. He died in the plane accident that killed Jin's parents too but it's revealed that Jin was supposed to die in the crash but he took her place. He was supposed to die at age twenty but made her miss the trip and made a wish to K to take care of Jin for him. Apparently he's been reborn multiple times.

7: One of Ryu Uli's pupils. Not much is known about him, except that he's spoken of with disproval by the other characters. D describes him as the "weird" one and Y makes a comment about how 7's help comes with a "too heavy" price. In volume 5 Y warns K to watch out for 7 and that he had a "new face".