| Jack Frost | |
| Ko Hangul: | 잭 프로스트 |
| Multigenre: | y |
| Adventure: | y |
| Horror: | y |
| Humor: | y |
| Author: | Jinho Ko |
| Publisher: | Haksan Culture Company (South Korea) |
| Publisher En: | Yen Press (U.S.) |
| Magazine: | Booking (South Korea) Yen Plus (U.S.) |
| First: | 2005 |
| Last: | November 2014 |
| Volumes: | 11 |
| Chapter List: | List of Jack Frost chapters |
| Subcat: | Haksan Culture Company |
| Addpubcat1: | Yen Press titles |
| Ko: | Y |
Jack Frost (잭 프로스트) is a complete manhwa series by Jinho Ko (고진호). In May 2009, the first volume of Jack Frost was released by Yen Press in English.[1]
Jack Frost follows the story of Noh-A Joo, the new student at Amityville High School. Things start off rather poorly for Noh-A as she quickly comes to realize that the school is not as it appears. Caught in an interschool war between vampires, monsters, and other creatures, she must quickly learn what her new role is as the "mirror image," and how to handle the mysterious Jack Frost.
What is known about Amityville; There have been 13 wars/classes, only Jack survived the latest.There are 4 districts North, East, South, West, and of them, North is smallest. The combined population of the four districts is equal to a country in the living world.Those who come there are removed from the karmic cycle of death and rebirth, thus death is truly final there with no hope of any reincarnation or afterlife. There have been multiple statements hinting that the mirror image is somehow able to change this.
He appears to be in some way tied to Noh-A, through a doll given to her by her father (presumably before he was killed), who also bears the same name. He was asked by Helmina to protect the mirror image, and even to 'take her as a lover', though he declines, still wearing his smile. Jack declares that the mirror image is just a tool and, in the English version, says she should concern herself with his "home work." Noh-A nicknames him Nasty-Smile or Smirky, due to not knowing his name throughout the first few scenes. His smile seems too wide for his face. He seems to respect, though slightly indifferently, Helmina and treats everyone else as inferior.
An interesting point is his full length coat, which is torn and shredded at the edges. This appears to heal his body when he is injured as well as rebuild itself. Also, his main weaponry is his lightning fast reactions, and also blades and armored gauntlets which appear from his lower arms. In Violence 14 it is revealed that the coat is called Devil Thread and once belonged one of the "Immortalizer" Ji-Hon
According to Hansen himself, he likes his women with glasses, long hair and "a voluptuous body", to which Helmina fits the bill.
Jack Frost has received mixed reviews among Western critics. PopCultureShocks Ken Haley graded Jack Frost with a B−, praising the illustrations as "slick and stylish", but criticizing the characters as being "almost all one-note".[2] Snow Wildsmith of School Library Journal reviewed the chapter placed in Yen Press's Yen Plus magazine[3] She criticised it as having not "much plot to tie it together", and that the "combination of fan service and gruesome decapitations" made reading "uncomfortable".[3]