Karsearin: The Biography of the Super Dragon

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Korean

초룡전기 카르세아린

Revised romanization of Korean

Choryongjeongi Kareusearin

Other names

Kalsearin: The Biography of the Super Dragon, Kalsearin: The Super Dragon Biography, 초룡전기 카르세아린, 초룡전기 카르세아린 (Kalsearin), 超龍傳記 Kalsearin (Choryongjeongi Kalsearin), Choryongjeongi Kareusearin, カルセリン：スーパードラゴンの伝記 (Karuserin: Sūpādoragon no denki), 超龙传记卡瑟阿林 (Chāo lóng zhuànjì Kǎsèālín), Kalsarin: La biografía del súper dragón, Karséarin: La biographie du super dragon, 超龍傳記卡瑟阿林 (Chāo lóng zhuànjì Kǎsèālín), كارسين: سيرة التنين الخارق (Karsin: Sirat altiniyn alkhariq), Супердракон Карсеарин (Superdrakon Karsearin), Супер Дракон Карсеарин (Super Drakon Karsearin), Kalsarin: Tiểu sử của siêu rồng, Karsearin: Biografi Naga Super

Genre

Fantasy, Comedy

Author

YKB

Original Run

February 5, 1998 ~ 1999? (Nownuri, HiTEL)

Status

Completed

Episodes

353

Summary[]

Karsearin: The Biography of the Super Dragon (초룡전기 카르세아린, 초룡전기 카르세아린 (Kalsearin), 超龍傳記 Kalsearin, 超龍傳記 Karsearin, Choryongjeongi Kareusearin) is a web novel created by YKB.

Plot[]

If 1998 was the year when fantasy literature took new roots in our country, 1999 can be said to be the year when fantasy literature expanded into new areas. It would not be an exaggeration to say that fantasy has established itself as a 'culture' by looking at the phenomenon that the readership is expanding from elementary school students to housewives, rather than being exclusive to teenagers anymore.
Many people living in modern times feel pleasure and interest mainly in 'watching'. To them, fantasy novels become attractive because they play a sufficient role as a 'visual genre' through game, cartoon-like material, and character setting of unique characters. Here, you can intuit the charm of the author's novel 'Karsearin' as a fantasy.
This work goes back and forth between the 'fantasy world' and the 'phenomenal world' through various characters and dialogue-oriented sentences, leaving the limited frame centered on the plot. Still, the unique 'color' of this work gives the reader meaning along with the novel's fun. It starts like a 'fantasy' and then returns to 'real', and in the next step, makes a 'cynic' gaze. This composition is the taste of this novel. His imagination and unique perspective have the power to make 'Karsearin' a work faithful to the role of 'fantasy as culture'.
'Karsearin' is a novel based on the character and the writer's imagination. The artist's imagination recreates the character's personality into a new three-dimensional character that goes beyond our flat imagination. The artist replaces the image of a 'dragon', an almost absolute creature expressed in existing fantasy, into the image of a 'simple yet indecisive baby dragon' for the main character, 'Red Dragon Karsearin'.
Elves, knights, wizards, and monsters, characters that almost never fall into fantasy novels, break the frame of the existing image. Imagine a cute elf who is sold at a bargain price in the slave market and is a jack of all trades of a fantasy that sucked up blood by vampires.
In this work, the saga in which a knight defeats a dragon often portrays a heroic knight as if it were an ordinary human's fortune, far from making the knight a hero. Even if you laugh while holding your belly button in this scene, you will be surprised by the unexpectedness.
All other characters break stereotypes and come out to reality and are given their own colors. The human world seen from the dragon's point of view is also sharply digging into human selfishness and greed through his cynical point of view. As shown in the saying, 'The people who treated me kindly were all bad people', around the main character 'Karsearin', exaggerated selfish and greedy typical human beings always appear. The cynical image that flows through the jokes and laughter throughout the work makes me feel like I'm looking at another aspect of us living in modern society.

Jamobooks's review (Korean)

In 1998, he published a novel of the same name serialized in Nownuri, a Bulletin Board System. It is a fantasy novel that satirizes the harsh reality and absurd society from the point of view of a dragon, not a human, centered on the dragon Karsearin.

Internet Kyobobooks (Korean)

The one and only masterpiece that rewritten the history of fantasy! The first and best fantasy novel "Karsearin" with a dragon as the main character! Karsearin, a young dragon with absolute power, but only naive. Polymorphed from secretly learned magic, he runs away to the human world. The desires and selfishness of human beings that are encountered as soon as they run away. It depicts the human world reflected in the eyes of the young dragon Karsearin. The ultimate masterpiece of fun and laughter, satire and criticism.

Internet Kyobobooks (Korean)

The story of a young dragon, 'Karsearin', who comes down to the human world and suffers. It's unique in that it broke the image of a dragon that appeared before and recreated the character to fit the frame of 'a simple yet indecisive baby dragon'. Not only dragons, but also elves, knights, wizards, and other monsters that appear in all fantasy novels gain vitality as a character by deviating from their original image and giving them a new personality. The descriptions of a knight who is sold at a bargain price in the slave market and gets the name of a hero not as a hero as an elf or a dragon slayer, but by an ordinary human's luck, are humorous and fresh. It's a feature-length fantasy novel that weaves cynical criticism of the human world from the perspective of Karsearin and humorous characters.

Aladin (Korean)

Table of Contents[]

Volume 1[]

Conspiracy Vortex
Towards a New World
Dragon Slayers
Feast of the Archmage
Wind Elementalist
Silver Seria
Silver Seria Ⅱ
Libeid on the Eve of the Storm
Black Dragon Eyra‎‎
Silver Vampire
1. Things are Bound to Go Awry Arc
2. Increased Confusion Arc
3. Residence of Count Sarasnein Arc
Shihad Fighting Tournament I
Shihad Fighting Tournament Ⅱ
Rain of Doom to Water the Earth

Parts[]

Release Status[]

The web novel is serialized in 1998 on SF/FANTASY Fiction Bulletin Board of Nownuri (나우누리) and Serial of HiTEL (하이텔) which are dial-up Internet access services by the name of 초룡전기 카르세아린 (超龍傳記 Kalsearin, Kalsearin: The Biography of the Super Dragon, Cholyongjeongi Kaleusealin) and published in 1999 by the name of 카르세아린 (Kalsearin). The first part being released on February 5, 1998, 17:04.

Characteristics[]

In this work, it uses chapters (장 (章, jang)), but it usually overlap with chapters used in volume version, here it temporarily uses parts as chapters.