Is There A God Of Highschool Anime

Synopsis

The "God of High School" tournament has begun, seeking out the greatest fighter among Korean loftier school students! All martial arts styles, weapons, means, and methods of attaining victory are permitted. The prize? I wish for annihilation desired by the winner.

Taekwondo skilful Jin Mo-Ri is invited to participate in the competition. There he befriends karate specialist Han Dae-Wi and swordswoman Yu Mi-Ra, who both accept entered for their own personal reasons. Mo-Ri knows that no opponent will be the same and that the matches volition be the about ruthless he has ever fought in his life. But instead of being worried, this prospect excites him beyond belief.

A secret lies beneath the facade of a transparent test of gainsay prowess the tournament claims to be—one that has Korean political candidate Park Mu-Jin watching every fight with expectant, hungry eyes. Mo-Ri, Dae-Wi, and Mi-Ra are well-nigh to detect what it really ways to get the God of High School.

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Park, Seong-Hu

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KSUKE

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Sep 28, 2020

13 of xiii episodes seen

Overall	2
Story	i
Blitheness	6
Sound	5
Character	1
Enjoyment	3

Do not scout this anime. Instead, get into your kitchen, put on some dubstep, and start banging pots and pans together. Then close your eyes and imagine the most generic fighting anime possible. Well done. Yous accept created an experience near as horrible as The God of High School.

Allegedly, this anime is about loftier school students fighting in a tournament to win a wish. After watching it, I do non think any part of the synopsis is correct. Everyone is supposedly in high school, but none of them show the slightest signs of encephalon activeness. Just a few of the contestants are actually students. In that location is a bodybuilder, a xxx-year-former construction worker, and an army sergeant, to name a few. It seems like the author forgot his own premise. Calling this show a tournament would also be a prevarication. The main character, Jin Mori, is wrapped so tightly in plot armor he is invincible. A bomb could explode right beside him, and he'd be unscathed. Amazing logic! His entire personality is limited to being loud, abrasive, and comically overpowered. Occasionally he is fatigued with chibi artwork to highlight simply how obnoxious he is. Someone had the genius idea to add comic relief chibi-art at random times while people are fighting and killing each other. Just who cares well-nigh tonal consistency when you have sakuga?

Jin breaks the tournament rules all the fourth dimension, and naught happens. Fifty-fifty though the angsty commission who run the bear witness are supposed to be threatening, they rarely punish him. He doesn't deserve his wins. Jin gets stronger incredibly fast with no grooming likewise. I can't cheer for a protagonist who never struggled for his powers. Why would anyone root for a hero who is given everything? Jin had a one-minute training montage, now he tin heal any wound by poking it with his finger. No joke, this really happens. Jin e'er holds dorsum his powers because he has a secret program. He reveals his cool new moves, but it's not impressive. We're never allowed to see his strategies, so at that place'south no build-up. It's the aforementioned trite formula every fight. All we go is mindless back and along of punches and kicks. It'southward equivalent to removing a WWE commentator. In the manhwa, in that location were fighting style explanations. All of them were removed from the adaptation. There's an announcer for the tournament who contributes nothing except enthusiastic introductions.

In the outset episode, Jin met his friends Mira and Dae-wi. The start fight scene is one of the best in the show. The bike chase that began the episode was very well choreographed. The voice interim was frantic, and then was the music. Everyone fought together. The characters interacted with the environment in ways they never do again. The campy comedy felt sincere—afterwards, it was nowhere to be seen. Mira and Dae-wi are the most powerful competitors, but somehow they're more underwhelming than Jin. Mira is determined to exist a worthy successor to her belatedly father by carrying on her family'due south sword and combat manner. Other than a few scenes to herself, Mira gets virtually no time at all. Her fights are shorter, and sometimes all we run across is the beginning and stop. Dae-wi had ane motivation in the whole show. His entire reason for being in the tournament became irrelevant, but he even so stayed in. His backstory was interesting, but he became obsolete afterwards a couple of episodes. The three of them have no chemistry at all. They only seemed like friends in the outro credits (Where they do friend stuff together). The opening provides some "graphic symbol development," besides, but that's if you tin heed to it. Listening to the OP is like getting stabbed in the eardrums with rusty knives. Imagine mixing dubstep and the sound of nails scraping a chalkboard.

The merely reason why I kept watching the God of High School was the fight scenes and sakuga. It really pissed me off when they gave people a backstory moments before they would lose. Information technology's pointless. With every passing episode, more characters were added. There were increasingly more plot-lines. The pacing became and then fast it felt like a 50 episode anime was beaten with a shovel until it fit in 13 episodes. Nosotros were told that important fights happened without getting to encounter them. They'll show us the starting time and cease but skip everything else. They just show us the outcome. We're told The God of High Schoolhouse tournament is broadcasted worldwide, just it's never incorporated into the setting to build up the fights. Even the main characters lose rails of the new powers their opponents are fighting with. This puts them at a disadvantage, but why should we care? They're in a tournament, but they're besides stupid to picket their upcoming opponents on TV? How am I supposed to believe they are THIS dumb. I tin't enjoy God of High Schoolhouse if information technology makes no sense to me. What am I supposed to practice? Stare at the sakuga with drool dripping downwards my face? Pass. Is this the futurity of anime? God, I promise not.

The characters move from one fight to the next without existing in the setting. They don't know what's happening beyond their red clown noses. The author churns out new characters similar a paper-thin cut-out printing press. People accident themselves upwardly, summon spirit sharks and giant bazookas. It'due south like Looney Tunes, except encarmine and boring. The rules of this earth don't make any sense. The fights never bear upon the setting. They fight in public, damage property, and impale people, but it rarely explains how this affects actual citizens. The author could've avoided this gaping plothole with a simple solution. If the tournament took place in an alternate dimension, information technology would explain why the setting is empty. Even Hand Shakers, the infamously terrible anime from 2017, got this right. Somehow God of High School is fifty-fifty stupider than that shitshow. Calling GoH a shit evidence would be insulting to both shit and shows. At least afterwards a shit, you lot feel meliorate. Subsequently this, I only felt dead inside.

The fight choreography makes the fight scenes fifty-fifty less comprehensible. Jin grazes his opponent in one fight, just the audio furnishings are so impactful you could error information technology for a fistfight. The same punching sounds are repeated in rapid succession. It'due south like One Punch Man 2 all again. Did the sound editors even communicate with the manager? God of High School'southward animation gets a lot of praise, which is deserved for specific action sequences, but for two-thirds of the show, it looks very average. The visuals are spectacular… in a couple of scenes. Due to the clusterfuck of a script, the editing lacks continuity. We skip from one place to the adjacent in less than 30 seconds. It's difficult to follow whatsoever of the storylines. In that location are so many details lost betwixt stories. Attempting to grab up with everything that has happened makes it impossible to just enjoy information technology.

Fights take identify in the streets, and buildings are destroyed… but no 1 seems to care. Are there police officers? Military? Firefighters? DOES ANYONE Exist IN THIS World?! It doesn't seem like it! I guess the author but didn't finish that part! I have no idea why the author added magic to this show. They cut out every explanation of the magic when adapting the script. Magical circles are copied and pasted everywhere like you'd see in a generic isekai anime. Massive swords autumn from the heaven, and people literally accept Jojo's stands.

In other, ameliorate fantasy stories, the world would wait much different from magic. It would advance applied science, architecture, science, and alter the media. God of Loftier Schoolhouse didn't bother. Information technology is a lazy cash grab. Rather than being original, it regurgitates tired genre tropes and cliches. There is no creative integrity in this script. The pacing flies at breakneck speed, making it hard to follow along. All I could do was try to brand sense of what I was watching. If yous want to sympathize what'south happening, you demand to read the Wiki.

God of High Schoolhouse was filled with unnecessary advertising for Crunchyroll and Webtoon. Their intentions were obvious--to advertise the webtoons and convince people to purchase them. It'southward unclear if they will make sequels to these anime. I idea it was just an Easter Egg the first fourth dimension. Anime studios often subtly integrate their proper noun into their shows. Dissimilar artists, Crunchyroll does not care how obnoxious their logo is. Their advertisement is plastered on every side of the God of High Schoolhouse battle arena. Sponsored past Crunchyroll! Sponsored by Webtoon! They make certain you lot never forget who paid for what y'all're watching. How ironic that they attached their name to the shittiest anime they've funded. How embarrassing. Even though this anime isn't high art, it is slimy to put your company's proper name all over the show. Does the anime take identify in a world where Crunchyroll exists? No, they are just comprised of greedy investors who don't requite two shits virtually anime. Crunchyroll messed upward this adaptation. They chose to conform 118 chapters, that'southward 9 chapters every episode. What we have here is a shitty xiii episode trailer for the webtoon. This is an embarrassment for MAPPA, a studio filled with passionate artists.

The God of Loftier Schoolhouse is a called-for dump truck stinking up the unabridged anime industry. This ending tin can never happen again, only I know it will every bit long every bit they keep making money. This is a genuinely baffling piece of animation. They tried their hardest to entertain us but failed miserably. The saying, "Too many cooks spoil the broth," explains this anime excellently.

It's boring equally hell, the story is a clusterfuck, the characters are walking cliches, the powers are unexplained, and it'due south all riddled with plot holes wider than the Mariana Trench. MAPPA has a few extraordinary skills, including motility capture fight choreography. In one case in a while, the visuals are godly. The advertisements have these fights out of context to merits information technology is amazing. For the residuum of the show, the art is hideously mediocre. I've never seen an anime with a upkeep every bit high as The God of Loftier Schoolhouse's that tin be compared to the worst action anime ever made.

Sep 28, 2020

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall	2
Story	one
Animation	6
Sound	half dozen
Character	two
Enjoyment	4

***THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SPOILERS***

Two words: Principal-PIECE
When you idea that your favourite anime had come to your top to stay for a long time, when you lot conceived that your life would not exist aware again by an artwork of such caliber, God of Highschool soon came knocking on anybody's door, what am I maxim knocking!, breaking down the door and establishing themselves as the best anime ever.

Where should I showtime? Its pacing and story-telling? Marvelous. Who else doesn't beloved when things are so rushed that after xiii episodes you don't take any idea of what is the chief goal of the serial...or even the main goal of its characters? Is information technology world destruction? God supremacy? Supporting the case of why taekwondo should keep being at the Olympics? No determination whatsoever!
As a matter of fact, usa members of society can call back that We ALL Beloved pointless fights without any pregnant nor backstory; why wouldn't we, if I may enquire? Devices such as plot twists, showcasing character motivations, displaying impactful moments or executing contrasts properly in order to build up/shift momentum, alter characters status quo, conveying emotions through the screen, or merely for the sake of having an interesting, meaningful action scene are things that GoH NEVER contemplated, which, in my humble opinion, sets the tone on how things must be done on whatsoever anime which places value in providing quality content to its viewers. Greatness.

Speaking about greatness, we must ask ourselves well-nigh the integrity of the "plot". It had been awhile since the final time I've watched a show which had such an organised, perspicuous and like shooting fish in a barrel to follow plot, with no plot holes or unexplained sudden events whatsoever. For example: Seoul's population looks doomed because the good guys seem incapable of dealing with <<Nox>>? No worries, Alchemist-san saves the solar day transporting the whole metropolis to a cliff out of nowhere. Already non convinced? What virtually if I told you that the bear witness has a mysterious aureola effectually information technology (however I have not been able to grasp it all the same)?
And don't go me started with this show'due south coherence -one of its strengths-, like for instance, when the evidence it'southward stuck in a cul-de-sac, as they display their marvelous scripting techniques to solve the sticking betoken masterfully (e.one thousand. kyuubi-power recovery from Ilpyo despite the key being detached from him)

And what about the GoH universe itself and its mechanics? Nothing notorious, simply a normal society with its ups and downs, a little bit corrupted and all...oh, did I forgot to tell yous that it'due south based on Ancient Rome? Such an elegiac tone! I mean, it's pretty obvious when yous notice how people dearest to rock the dome to run into how high school students martial-fight to expiry...where the lions at? Oh, before I forget! Did y'all think this was a martial arts-esque show? Cipher further from the truth! By episode eight you realise that Everyone has something known as "Charyeok" -kind of a borrowed power from an ancient God who had appeared twice in previous episodes- and that they are going to fight with it pretty much for the unabridged fourth dimension. Greatness.

Nevertheless, I personally have to say that the major asset of this series is its originality. A mysterious organization stages a tournament in social club to find the strongest high schoolhouse student in Korea, simply manifestly information technology's all staged, being their "chief goal" to find a "key" (which, apparently, is well-known that has to be within a highschool student) that will assistance them fight a more than mysterious and darker organisation (equally you must infer, because information technology's never said due to the complexity of the plot and how they play heed games with usa) who wants to destroy the world as we know. It is not my function to discern for you, only let me to say that I had never heard of anything like this. NEVER EVER.

And let's not forget about the originality of our characters! Whether information technology'due south our MC Mo-Ri, an oblivious, food-lover, meathead, "don't y'all cartel bear upon my friends" who just wants to live life fighting potent people, for the sake of condign stronger; Mi-Ra and her pursue of power to forestall the ostracism of her family's hallmark or even our s1 antagonist, a guy who wanted to feel relevant by any costs and rejected his personality and liveliness for the likes of a third party. Amazingly unique, isn't it?
Speaking about this, highlight the ability of the writers in God of Highschool to avoid breathing life into their fictional characters. Motivations, backstories, RELATABILITY...the writers could had made the mistake of believing that these would take helped them develop a marvelous, compelling story which made the audience sympathise with the cast on a personal level, laughing/suffering/crying with them as different events took place during the show, but, fortunately, they were quick-thinkers enough to avoid using these devices.

Backtracking a footling chip, talking about the creative component of the show, it's obvious that MAPPA made sure that the quality of the animation in God of High School was proficient enough to support their OFF THE CHARTS task in the plot and characters counterpart. Fluidity and choreography looked, for the most function, good enough -especially during fight scenes-, sakuga animation was carried out surprisingly well, backgrounds were depicted nicely, characters were designed properly...art and animation was quite good, with the just complaint on how camera rotations and 3D movements were often overused, making it, on those specific moments, something really hazy to sentry.

By the aforementioned token, music has had a leading part in the "success" of this season. Good job enhancing the different emotions that were on brandish during different moments, whether it was hyping up the moment when a fight was taking place, intensifying the sense of urgency, ...withal I really missed a banger as OP. Vox actors did a notable job, felt like it had to be said.

And so, at the end of the 24-hour interval, I gauge that if you lot've reached the end of this review you'll have the same opinion as myself: GoH is a smashing piece of rubbish.

"There'due south a resistance for people to talk about things that make them feel guilty. When natural disasters happen, it's easier not to feel guilty about it."

Sep 28, 2020

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall	3
Story	three
Animation	viii
Sound	5
Grapheme	3
Enjoyment	3

No, my optics aren't deceiving me. I finished today, what I see equally one of the most overhyped, all the same underwhelming bear witness of the twelvemonth. The God of High School represents the type of show that is forced downwardly our throats similar the next big affair. Advertised as a Crunchyroll original, this anime has convinced me that there's little hope for a decent manhwa accommodation in the hereafter. Don't let your eyes deceive you by the flashy animation and aesthetics. The God of High School is a show I wouldn't dream of recommending.

As I sabbatum hither wondering what went wrong, my initial impression of the anime was actually hopeful. The first episode bought out the talents of director Seong-Hu Park every bit he'due south able to craft together some lavishly animated scenes. In fact, information technology's easy to say the first episode is an eye catcher of animation with the amount of ass kicking and fast moving action. Nosotros are introduced to 17 twelvemonth old Mo-Ri Jin, a martial arts from the country of South korea. The free spirited swain has the appetite of a fighter, and seeking out powerful opponents to test his abilities. This is where we are introduced to the God of High School Martials Arts Tournament, a identify for fighters all over the world to showcase their skills.

Despite being the main protagonist, the story also introduces Mi-Ra Yu and Dae-Wi Han. Both characters also possesses talent in martial arts with their unique fighting styles. It'south why both are also invited to the GoHS tournament although they take unlike motives. For instance, Han participates in the fight to assistance his friend while Mira seeks to find a suitable marriage partner. No affair what the reason, it seems GoHS loves pushing the characters' personalities at every run a risk it gets. The most prominent examples are when Jin gets excited at fighting a powerful opponent or when he is motivated. Other times, it'southward when Jin finds a reason to fight, such equally crashing a wedding and helping Mira. It'southward motivations like this that sets off an early impression of the show. But with every progressing episode, the show degenerates into a chaotic mess.

It seems the more and more than I watched the bear witness, the less I feel motivated myself to sympathise the chief purpose of the story. What is it even trying to go u.s.a. to understand? The main characters? The tournament arc? Or perhaps some sort of reason for God of High Schoolhouse to even exist? The meat of the show remains with the tournament and different fights that occurs throughout the main story. It also seems these fights often feels rushed and lacking importance. Even Han, a selfless man, who fights for the sake of others becomes a chore to watch. How many times do we accept to hear his unenthusiastic dialogues? Every i of his fight feels similar and furthermore, information technology's piece of cake to say he is the nearly boring character to picket in the entire serial. As the story ventures forward, we are thrown into more chaotic storytelling involving supernatural forces such every bit the Nine Tailed Guardian, God incarnates, and plot to kill certain divine beings. When you attempt to make a show spin out of control in such way, it sets off a ticking time bomb of anarchy.

Outside of the main cast, don't expect much character development from the other characters. This is advertised as a xiii-episode one cour series. To make the story catamenia, nosotros are introduced to some significant side cast such as IIpyo Park. Serving as a more than logical member of the bandage, IIpyo is observant and not often the 1 to rush into battle head on. He appears to be one of the more mysterious member of the cast but unfortunately, the anime doesn't get the chance to explore the full side of his character. This seems to autumn in line with the bulk of named characters, including one of the chief antagonists, Mujin Park. As being the head in charge of the tournament, you lot tin expect him to be the master pulling the strings. Beingness manipulative and calculating, Mujin represents the anti-thesis of Jin and the main cast. And to add on to the rogue gallery, there's Taek Jegal, a major threat who treats most anybody as worthless. His ability hungry personality fees on his ego to the signal where he cares for no 1 but himself. It'southward the type of stereotypical adversary you can come upwardly in less than five seconds in whatsoever blazon of anime. Taek's chief rival appears to be Iipyo, just from a storyline perspective, he represents nothing more than a generic villain. With all said and washed, background storytelling even falls short with info dumps about the cults, Gods, and other divine powers. Because let's face information technology, this anime serves as little more than than existence an advertizement for a glorified fight show.

Well, if there'south one selling point of the anime, it'southward the animation. In fact, I can say The God of High School is more about showing than telling. From the first major fight and every other frontward, it looks similar the anime pushes the boundaries of blitheness. It's stylistic and dynamic with fast paced motion. The comic-like art quality as well makes the important fights feel like major attractions. When the anime settles for a lighthearted tone, it bounces back into comedic scenery of cartoonish graphic symbol expressions. Even the music accompanied with the action sequences makes the fights more dynamic. If you wanted to see a visual action flick, The God of High School volition exist a hell of a ride.

Don't let those flashy animation fool you. This bear witness wanted to exist something special and indeed, it some means managed to do that. But beyond the typical principal trio cast and the ass boot scenes, this is no more than a mediocre story trying its best to sell its product to yous. Even with the sufficient funding, The God of High School reminds me to always, and e'er keep expectations in check for manhwa adaptations.

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Sep 28, 2020

13 of 13 episodes seen

Overall	1
Story	1
Animation	4
Sound	5
Character	i
Enjoyment	1

Spilled Paint.

Ii simple withal effective words that perfectly describe The God of Loftier School, the ultimate travesty from Summer 2020 and yet another defective product via the courtesy of Crunchyroll. With their recently established "strategic" partnership, Crunchyroll and Webtoon took full advantage of the pandemic of the year 2020 to interact and present their lineup of products of "original blithe content" known as "Crunchyroll Originals".

With the second coming of a webtoon adaptation, The God of High School, they've managed to fool tens of thousands of people all over the world into thinking this is ane of the best action fantasy series to start off the new decade of anime. Only like its webtoon sibling Tower of God (otherwise known every bit Kami no Tou), it became pop enough to be adapted for the sole sake of being Crunchyroll's summer gravy train, and with the help of studio MAPPA, it pressed for "mode over substance" to wow and mesmerize the audience into thinking quantity is more important than quality.

In terms of plot and worldbuilding, God of Loftier School is an absolute mumble-jumble of loosely tossed-in parts. The story starts off looking like a "dumb fun" setup of a mixed martial arts "high school" tournament, where the winner will exist granted a single wish as the ultimate prize. Tournament arcs in anime are the ultimate easy-to-brand selling points, then on top of that, Crunchyroll and Webtoon also shamelessly slap their cocky-promoting logos all over the tournament itself, even though it doesn't even actually make much sense to do so, so it just looks silly onscreen in a bad fashion.

The MMA setup then speedily morphs into a superpower free-for-all, crusade superpowers also sell well. The power arrangement in this series, known as charyeok, literally meaning "borrowed power", is inserted into the plot with barely a damn shred of helpful exposition or background context; lacking any sort of tangible foundation, it's literally a shitshow of randomly inserted abilities and powerups whipped out left and right for the sake of getting oohs and aahs from the viewers.

The choice of pacing in the serial is infuriatingly rapid and unruly. The staff apparently chose to mash or omit whole truckloads of chapters within single episodes for the sole sake of "getting to the practiced parts". All it does is add to the chaos, as the scenes shift back and forth between the tournament and the underlying disharmonize in an unruly fashion; certain this may appeal to many people, but there's no sense of organization or sophistication for enough, if any, of the showcased content to make sense.

New characters keep showing up at random or in the masses, void of any sense of depth, purpose, creativity, or novelty. They are just just there to brand the primary characters look good when defeating or profitable them, and are written off or ignored when no longer needed. The bear witness tries to give empathic entreatment to them via brief instances of "flashback jutsu" in half-hearted attempts to manipulate the audience into relating or feeling for them. Any motivation or backstory is simply glazed over, if not just completely cut out altogether.

The story tries to take mystery elements to add suspense, but it'south hollow and anticipated. It just serves to brand whatever plot there is look more compelling and engaging in nature. To sum it up, everyone wants to claiming "God". The whole tourney itself is controlled by an surreptitious organization whom wants to use it to proceeds a "Key" to reach "God". They're opposed past a cult group who wants to employ that same "Primal" to world domination. Yet nosotros're non given any helpful background context to explain the whole history. And so there's too the typical jackass one-dimensional villain with a banal excuse of a background and motivation to be "super-bad". I personally Hate these sort of villains in particular. They're simply at that place to get on your nerves, flaunt around their ego without any sense of metaphorical or philosophical significance, and ultimately make the main protagonists look good when they fight and finally beat out them. They have no actual depth grapheme-wise and their purpose is superficial merely like whatsoever other side grapheme, cause once the plot is washed with them, they're disposed of like litter.

At that place is no sense of coherence or guild in the story. It'due south a bunch of raw ideas and references dumped into one large pot without any consideration to follow a specific recipe step by step. Instead of an organized well thought-out story with great quirks, the narrative direction is akin to a pool of chaos. An incomprehensible drove of abstractions, it's like an unholy crossover of a hundred unlike TV shows mashed together in discord. Grotesque and terrifying, it's like an abomination of an entity taken correct out of the universe of Cthulhu Mythos. Zilch but nonstop, mindless, soulless conflict and fights with no amuse or quirk to speak of their own.

Going back to the characters in general, they're cipher of originality. They're typical, generic, bland, and rehashed equally part of a continually looped presentation of mediocre shounen tropes. The master cast is extremely dreary in particular. Jin Mori is your typical happy-become-lucky principal protagonist who would always go the biggest upgrades and plot conveniences and keeps saying he wants to fight strong people, with nothing really going for him on an empathic level besides his ties to his granddad...not like I haven't seen something like that earlier. Han Daewi is your typical loner in the secondary main grapheme function. His initial motivation to fight for his ill and dying friend, while initially promising, was not well idea-out or executed, and instead the show does a quickie gear up for him with the regurgitated and cheap "friendship" clause. Yu Mira has that ubquitious graphic symbol role where the inner conflict comes from family unit-related issues, which can be frequently get too complacent and grating in full general. Her character work is only glossed over inside ane episode and wasn't given enough exposition and empathy to really be worth caring about on an emotional level. Jegal Taek is the banal-ass master villain mentioned before; he is ultimately inserted just to apace fix your typical last boxing to make Jin and co. look good, and he has admittedly no redeeming factors backing up his ego-filled composition. As for the remainder of the other characters, they are merely plot devices to pull and yank the disoderly narrative along in its hasty tempo and too make the main characters expect practiced, only calculation to the chaos.

God of High School is supposedly praised past many for its amazing looking animation quality, which is manifestly the primary selling point. However, it's not all that'south croaky upward to exist. Ane half of the fourth dimension, the animation looks smooth and impressive with cracking camerawork and utilized calligraphy/ink style drawings. The other half of the time counterbalances well-nigh of the positives when the camera panning and rotating becomes redundant and overused. During many of the fights, characters are tweened lazily and sloppily, with seemingly a good amount of frames missing in a agglomeration of parts, resulting in awful-looking choreography and motion inconsistency. The animation also seems to lack enough impact frames to really sell the authenticity of the battles, which make nearly every "body blow" look comical instead of painful. In short, the animation quality is only slightly above average compared to your usual shounen serial. The grapheme designs take to be one of the silliest looking things I've ever seen in anime. Everyone who can fight has red noses and cerise earlobes, and some of them have their noses elongated. Why such an impractical design? Why exercise they need to expect similar Rudolph? Or even Pinocchio? Are they all sick with the influenza or something? Why couldn't they stick with a normal looking design like in the games based off this series? I can understand the fidelity to the character blueprint in the source material, but it goes to show that the creator patently didn't recollect things through with their ideas on even basic standpoints.

The soundtracks themselves are your typical boxing shounen music, some good, some passable. The OP theme "Contradiction" is literally ear-rape, and my only adept proffer for listening to something like this is for maybe a workout session or as a course of Chinese-style torture. The ED theme "WIN" is notably ameliorate and gives a really nice and chill summertime vibe to settle down the viewers from the chaotic scenes of each episode, but it'southward amend as a standalone soundtrack. The sound furnishings attempt to be fancy specially during certain "special moves", just they're nix that special, and in fact, they feel out of place at times quite often, especially during parts when concrete impacts are shown. Equally for the overall voice acting, information technology felt very stiff, unmotivated, and tone-dead; it's like the vocalisation actors are reluctantly giving out their lines in an apathetic manner, knowing how badly adapted this show is.

I wouldn't say I didn't totally enjoy information technology at showtime. I initially wanted to cover the series as "dumb fun" MMA series where the term "God" was just a metaphor and it'd be all about breaking down different types of martial arts with a little bit of hax here and there. It was not the case, unfortunately. When the series drastically turned onto its head, my enjoyment level grew less and less, even when I try to turn my brain off. It gradually went from rolling forth leniently with the schlock setups to hurting my head trying to follow and comprehend what the actual hell is going on. Information technology quickly became a huge mental endeavor just to really get myself to up to appointment with each calendar week's episode. I like action, but not mindless, soulless, emotionless, purposeless conflict like what God of High School committed. And oh yea, this is very subjective, merely one more thing: I HATED the comedy. "Chibi-fied" comedic skits don't equal proficient tonal shifts; it's and so obnoxious, sudden and forced that it's literally a walking bag of cringe.

In the finish, God of High School was one of the worst shows to come up out of 2020. It had nothing to show for itself nor anything in full general worth its weight in golden. Rather than sticking to simplicity and charm with compelling and inspiring presentations, information technology lacks any sort of substance, flavor, or 18-carat beauty and winds up as a head-scratching failed product brand. With practically no redeemable factors from this show other than a few great looking animated parts, this bear witness is one I absolutely cannot recommend to even the hardcore action fans or novices. I will suggest to you to look elsewhere for a much more than sophisticated anime, and steer VERY clear from the likes of those damned "Crunchyroll Originals".