Are you not intrigued by this gorgeous cover?
Inklore, the manhwa imprint for Random House Worlds, revealed the first volume cover of Delusion. The cover features a woman with bobbed hair, her eyes closed and a tear streaking down her cheek, almost imitating a crack breaking her features. Part of her face is blurry from the smoke she’s exhaling. Framing her face are two delicate branches of cherry blossoms. It is a haunting image.
Written and illustrated by Hongjacga, Delusion launched on Naver WEBTOON in September 2019 and concluded in November 2020 with 60 chapters. The English translation was released in March 2021. The manhwa has inspired a live-action television series that will premiere on Disney+ sometime this year with Bae Suzy and Kim Seon-ho taking on the lead roles.
Inklore has provided the synopsis for Vol. 1:
It’s 1935 in Seoul, Korea, and struggling artist Yun Iho has been commissioned by the elderly, reclusive Madam Song Jeonghwa to paint an updated portrait of her. When Iho goes to pick up the art supplies from the previous artist’s room, he finds an ominous note tucked between paint tubes: “Do not finish the portrait.”
When he actually meets Madam Song, he finds her to be startlingly young and beautiful, yet she asks him to paint her as though she were eighty. What could it all mean? Listening to her seemingly unrelated stories about a spate of unsolved murders in Shanghai that happened long before Iho was born does little to allay his confusion.
In a slowly unfolding revelation, each panel drenched in more dread than the last, Iho learns that no artist has ever left Madam Song’s hotel alive. He starts to suspect the horrifying truth of what she is, and what, exactly, she might be capable of…
Vol. 1 of Delusion releases on September 1. The digital version can be accessed on WEBTOON.
Source: Inklore
