After noticing a lack of reviews for The God of High School, I figured I'd give anyone interested an in-depth review, of the currently ongoing Manwha Webtoon (currently presenting almost 500 chapters at the time of this review).

First I'll give some quick scores, with as simple of an explanation as possible, and I'll follow it up with an overall review with as few spoilers as possible.

Story: 8/10

I wanted to give it a 9, however I would first like to touch on the fact that the story starts fairly slow and one dimensional, then it rapidly grows, and at some point it peters off... Before exploding into a ball of awesome.
This story has its ups and downs, but at the end of the day, it's drenched in a rich world with detail, depth, and more lore (and flaws) than a reader can ask for. Nothing is off-limits (in a good way) to Yongje Park, who elegantly introduces themes from all over the world, ranging from Christianity and Chinese History, to Greek Mythology and much more.


Art: 8/10

Being a Webtoon/manwha, there is only so much that can be said here... Besides outstanding, even though its panel to panels of mostly simplistic art. When it comes down to what is needed, it outshines against the top Fighting Manga and Manwha out there.
Fully colored, and well drawn panel to panel. I had to go back and randomly open up chapters from as far back as the start to hunt for flaws, and to my surprise even from the start, when a fight is drawn out by Yongje Park, you can imagine them in an anime. You are satisfied.


Characters: 9/10

If there is something this Webtoon/Manwha did right, that an anime sadly failed to meet the expectations on, it was the characters. The characters have so much depth, you'll begin connecting and caring about your favorites so fast.

Each character both main and supporting, and even some of the ones who only show up in 2-3 chapters are given at least some motivation besides being generic "I want to fight strong people" "I'm evil to be evil." I'll be going into a very serious review on this at the end, so if you're interested please read on.


Enjoyment: 9/10

There isn't much to say here, because I play to explain why this Webtoon stood out so much to me later. So simply put, I can't imagine not rereading this, enjoying it each time, and occasionally flipping over to my favorite chapter/fight and indulging in them with a smile on my face.

Overall I reluctantly give this an 8/10, it's not perfect, there are flaws in logic and some of the story is hard to understand and follow, and sometimes things drag on. However that's it, it covers each weakness up with its own outstanding points I'd like to touch up on in a REAL review.


In order to avoid this becoming a multi page essay I'm going to combine points I talked about earlier but go in-depth on.
Characters and Story go hand and hand, so this should be simple to give you a review on how Yongje Park brought to life an epic that started out as kids fighting a tournament, to so much more, that Worlds are dragged into it, and you are as well.

Each characters is given a sublime backstory, and reasoning for whom they are, it's not over the top and 20 chapters long per person, so you're never completely sickened by the "filler." Instead you're given a reason to care about the kid with a bat, or martial artist equal to our main character Mori Jin. You quickly find your favorites, and you look forward to seeing each one in the next chapter they show up in, and roll in excitement when you watch them grow. Or cry your eyes out when something unfortunate happens to them.

A world is built around all the characters, and it's not just a simple "this is a world where people have powers and fight." NO, there is a reason people can use these powers, there is a logic behind it, and a reason why some people can activate it and some can't. You're introduced to an incorporation of myths and legends that stand as the base of each power. For example the Charyeok (or borrowed power) of one character is to summon the Demi-God Hercules, and manifest him in a few ways to use in fights. Whilst another character is able to call upon the powers of Yeo-Po Bong-Seon, who in history is known as Lu Bu Feng Xian. A Chinese Warlord and General who actually existed until the year 199.

The only flaw in this world building art, is that sometimes it feels like it's gotten out of hand. Like the powers of others is just too fantastic to be incorporated into a book, without having some sort of limiter, or penalty. While times there is, in regards to Mori Jin/Na Bongchim's Bongchim acupuncture.

Earlier I talked about "motivation" beyond your generic, evil because I hate things. The people you find evil, you hate with your heart, but you are given a look into why they are evil, the tragedy of living the way they have.And while you still hate them, some of the you understand as misguided or outright foolish. Almost no one in this Manwha besides surprisingly one character, is the "I just want to fight strong people, I have nothing more going for me" kind of person. Which is phenomenal, and what most Martial Art/Action manga often find themselves suffering from.A splash of backstory here, a sprinkle of sudden world altering change here, from seemingly nothing, and you have a generic fighting anime.
Here you're introduced to a world, some people are more shallowly built than others, but the main cast you follow, and the people they run into, more times than not, have a purpose, a goal, and can even develop properly from that goal without a magical brainwash of "Ok, you're right."

To close, I will say, this story developed strong. Where it stands now, nearly 500 chapters later, I am so invested in our main characters, that I readily open up and sit down to read the weeks latest chapter.