{"id":2862,"date":"2024-09-03T09:28:41","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T16:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=2862"},"modified":"2024-08-31T09:30:04","modified_gmt":"2024-08-31T16:30:04","slug":"book-manhwa-turning-the-mad-dog-into-a-genteel-lord-by-v_an-yepbee-zuisha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2024\/09\/03\/book-manhwa-turning-the-mad-dog-into-a-genteel-lord-by-v_an-yepbee-zuisha\/","title":{"rendered":"Book (Manhwa): Turning the Mad Dog into a Genteel Lord by V_An, Yepbee, zuisha"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Turning the Mad Dog into a Genteel Lord
<\/strong>by V_An, Yepbee, zuisha
published by Tappytoon<\/a> (28 chapters, ongoing)
2024 – present<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This is another comedy that makes me laugh out loud (so I read it when I’m alone, as I don’t want people to fear me on BART), and one I eagerly await new episodes for. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Diarin is a priestess who always gets the worst assignments. Her new project is to take a magically-brainwashed, berserker veteran soldier from a notoriously murderous military unit, and spruce him up so he can be a regional noble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It’s… an impossible task, and one that puts her own life at risk – she is dealing with a man who can hear a heart beating from a great distance away, and then seek that heart out to kill – but Diarin will try with a smile! Especially since she gets to live in a mansion with her charge who, despite is formidable size and strength, she protectively comes to think of as an unruly puppy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As with other manhwa, I want to point out the effort that went into the background art:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"Attractive
It’s not just the details of the building, but also the reflection of the sun, the dappled shadows, the elements in shade, the different shadows on the sculptures of peacocks and shadows from the stairs… Goodness. (Yes, I can’t unsee the size of the guards, but the landing is really deep so they are in perspective, okay?)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Diarin is extremely expressive, and I laugh at her reactions to being blinded by someone attractive (illustration below), her eyes bulging at her first sight of Ceres’ attempts to write, or her mental process after attractively-built Ceres stands naked in front of her (pieces of fruit on a table have never been funnier). The use of exaggeration is well executed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Left: being exposed to an especially attractive person; right, an argument about taking on additional work.
Before reading manhwa, I hadn’t realized how I also want cartoon letters to float around me for emphasis, though I admit they would create problems for me professionally.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

This is a light, fun, well-executed comedy about an ambitious, optimistic clergy member trying to re-train a dangerous man-puppy whose head has been magically reprogrammed in what might be some kind of trap. It’s fun! I recommend it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Turning the Mad Dog into a Genteel Lord by V_An, Yepbee, zuishapublished by Tappytoon (28 chapters, ongoing)2024 – present This is another comedy that makes me laugh out loud (so I read it when I’m alone, as I don’t want people to fear me on BART), and one I eagerly await new episodes for. Diarin … <\/p>\n

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