ID eNTITY
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| 유레카 (Yureka) |
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| Genre | Action, Fantasy |
| Manhwa | |
| Authored by | Hee-Joon Son (story) Youn-Kyung Kim (art) |
| Publisher | Daiwon C.I. Inc. |
| Serialized in | Tokyopop |
| Original run | 2005 – Present |
| No. of volumes | 8 |
- The title of this article should be iD_eNTITY. The initial letter is capitalized and an underscore is substituted or omitted because of technical restrictions.
iD_eNTITY or Yureka (유레카) is a manhwa series created by Hee-Joon Son in collaboration with Youn-Kyung Kim and distributed by Tokyopop in North America. The series centers around the main character Jang-Gun and his friends along with their virtual reality avatars in the computer game world called "Lost Saga".
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[edit] Story
The series centers around the main character Jang-Gun and his friends along with their virtual reality avatars in the computer game world called "Lost Saga".
[edit] Characters
[edit] Jang-Gun/Roto/Yureka
Roto (his identity in the game, and what he is most commonly called) is a master level of the sorcerer class. Along with Boromid and Ah-Dol, he is one of the members of Team Triple Threat. He is considered one of the most powerful players in the game, logging over 6000 hours.
Jang-Gun is very short for his age, but is still considered attractive, and is popular with girls (although he hardly notices them, usually thinking about game strategy).
After his ID with the game expires, and he has to get it renewed, he ends up finding an ID dropped on the floor of a girl using the name "Yureka". He uses that instead of his own, joining up with his friends and pretending to be a low level character of an unknown class (later revealed to be a warrior). Oddly enough, he soon found out that Yureka had completely max stats.
Roto mostly focuses on fire magic & fire-based summons (Efreeti) but can use other elementals if need be. Along with the large repertoire of spells he has at his disposal he is a highly skilled swordsmaster shoring up many of his sorcerer class' weaknesses and rounding out his character.
[edit] Yureka
After Roto gets his normal ID back, Yureka is still around. Her presence hasn't been explained yet, but she is most likely a rogue AI, like Aura from the .hack series. She may have been hacked, as her stats are all maxed out. Though her stats are maxed she possesses no skills whatsoever but that does not seem to hinder her as her stats more than compensate and she possesses an odd ability to copy enemies' moves and repeat them with increased power.
[edit] Kwan-Su/Boromid
The healer of Team Triple Threat, Boromid is partially a comic relief to the series. Unlike Roto, he enjoys the attention of girls his age, and is constantly frustrated as they all flock around his apathetic friend. As the healer, his role is very important. Then again he's not the best healer around since the only place you'll usually find Boromid in a fight is running away in the opposite direction. He prefers to fight with maces but has been seen duel-wielding ogre scimitars or using the Priest-class master item, Mjollnir, from time to time.
[edit] Woon-Suk/Ah-Dol
Ah-Dol is the warrior of Team Triple Threat. Unlike his two friends, Boromid and Roto, he is stoic, and doesn't excite as easily as the others unless his brother's avatar, Alpha, happens to be around. He tends to be the only thing preventing Boromid and Roto from attempting to kill each other. Also unlike his allies, he shuns weapons such as swords and maces as he prefers instead to move in close and pummel his enemies with his knuckledusters.
[edit] Aradon the Black
Aradon is the fastest player ever to reach master level, and since he is both a master sorcerer and a master swordsman, he is also the first ever player to obtain two master levels. He teams up with the mysterious Alpha for the Luciferian Double Trouble Team Tournament. He wields both the magical Sword of Harmony which he uses to channel and control the elements and the master-level Warrior weapon Gladiat, the Sword of Light.
[edit] Il-Ban
One of the master-level players, not much has been said about him yet, besides a brief mention in Volume 1 though he features largely in Volume 6. Capri (the player who mentioned him earlier and a good friend of Il-Ban) also referred to how Il-Ban helped him out earlier on in the game, contradicting his title "Dark Priest of the Dragon Lands," and his physical appearance (he is menacing looking, with an upside down cross on his forehead), however. Il-Ban later transfigures Rapha into a Night Shade, a spirit monster which helps to support his title. Il-Ban apparently knows the inside workings of the Game and knows the twists and turns in the Game before they happen. He also appears hesitant in battle when his team encounters monsters on the path to Monster Island.
[edit] Basara
One of the master level players, and hands down the best player in Lost Saga (the game): he single handedly annihilated a dungeon that Team Triple Threat only got to level 8 on (and there are 20 levels). He also threw away a sword worth 700,000 gold like it was trash because he said his sword was better. He extremely despises people who attack his "prey" and is even willing to break player-killing laws in order to dispense his own version of "justice". Extra note: according to the profiles in the manga, Basara "Enjoys long walks on the beach. Alone."
[edit] Jin-Mee/ K.C.
A master-level Thief and one half of the Thief duo "The Fallen Angels". She and her sister Gina (or her game name, Julie) are also the famous pop group known as "The Lovely Angels".
[edit] Gina/ Julie
Another master level thief and Jin-Mee/ K.C.'s sister. She is the other half of both "The Fallen Angels" and "The Lovely Angels".
[edit] Da-Bin Yun / Rapha
Offline she is a 16 year old student attending "Beautiful Star Middle School", wise beyond her years she shares a girlish love for her NPC guardian John. Online she is a high level Cleric capable of many buffs and wields a powerful shield spell.
[edit] Mun-Suk Sim / Miriah
A student and part time employee for Dexon Corp she seems to have a history with the team Triple Threat after in a quest for levels they destroyed everything she loved.
[edit] Teams/Guilds
[edit] Team Triple Threat
Team Triple Threat includes Roto, Boromid, and Ah_Dol. All of them are master level characters. Roto is a sorcerer, Boromid is a priest, and Ah-Dol is a Warrior. They are (kind of) famous and really strong. Though they're strong they somehow always manage to get into trouble...
[edit] The Fallen Angels
A pair of master level thieves who in reality are pop idols The Lovely Angels. KC and Julie (Jin-Mee Kang and Gina Kan) are sisters who have gone straight after a run-in with Triple Threat.
[edit] Cultural Note
While Roto's name has been translated as "Roto," this translation has a possibility of being "culturally" incorrect. "Roto" can be spelled either one of two main ways in English. The first one being "Roto" and the second being "Lotto." The Korean language has no "l" or "r" sound so "Roto" is a correct translation. However, the Korean slang term for "lottery" is "lotto" and so the main character's name could be seen as a play on the Korean word for "lotto," thereby making his name "Lotto" instead of "Roto."
