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One of the best series of all time, even outside of anime. This series has an x factor that even non-anime watchers can enjoy, and I could see this easily adapted into a phenomenal live action series. I can think of no other series that comes close to combining so many mysterious elements together to make for one of the greatest mystery stories I've come across. It also has top tier characters, visuals, animation, sound design, music, and direction. I have to go back years to think of a series that comes close to comparing to best ever status, perhaps Ergo Proxy, Stiens;Gate, and Erased. ... In short, I was blown away in the first 5 minutes by basically every metric being 10/10, and it only got better as the series went. This series is something special, and I hope it will be noticed and appreciated for many years to come.

Oh boy, the time has finally come. Due to Myanimelist rules they didn't let me review before the season was finished, but now it has, and my axe is sharpened. Are you ready, God of High School?

I'm reading a lot of hype for this series, apparently from fans of the Webtoon, but as a viewer approaching it fresh, believe me when I say there is a lot of fan hype going on. Blind, unfounded, bigoted fan hype. Now that it has finished hopefully people are seeing it for what it is. Trash.

My first criticism will be leveled at the art. It affected my enjoyment of ... the show immensely because there was something salvageable here. The hand to hand fights were long and had great animation. But the character designs just took me out of the moment every time.

The art is appalling. The character designs are a genuine crime against humanity. The original author clearly has a gripe against the human form, because the monstrosities that he draws are nauseating. It isn't a matter of talent or sloppiness, the hideousness was intentional and makes me question the authors mental state. Why would you subject yourself to watching the whole series you might ask? Because I was hoping some of the other elements would be enjoyable, and I am a sucker for action.

The fights are animated very well, and look cool, but the writing of them is trash. It goes like this, protag opens fight against opponent. Opponent comments that the protag has no chance because their skill is better. Protag is beaten to a pulp by opponent with fighting moves. Finally as protag is about to lose, protag begins using magic power. Magic power is so OP that opponent is easily beaten. Just terrible writing.

So there is some enjoyment of pretty action, at least during the actual tournament that kept me watching, but the character designs disgusted me so much I couldn't really enjoy it. So aggravating.

Aside from the art, the story, characters, and writing are also trash, and completely obliterate any chance of enjoyment. The 3 main leads are the least likable characters in the series. It didn't have to be that way, but the writer suffered from a bad case of fan fiction, and made the leads get through the story beats without struggle. They never earned their victories. I say it didn't have to be that way because the writer wrote compelling characters and arcs for the other competitors destined to lose. In a matter of minutes, other characters were developed with enjoyable arcs and struggles to get where they were in the tournament, but the writer then had to have them all lose to the leads because he just had to have the leads always succeed. The leads never earned their victories. There was no chance for them to win, but the writer would have them win anyway, crushing the actually interesting characters along the way. That might be worse than the art actually.

I address a little of the fan fiction nature of the story and characterizations, but little did I know just how far it went. I knew initially the main lead was a rip off of Goku, but while Goku was based on the Monkey King, but was decidedly different and had a totally different story, the author here made the MC the actual Monkey King. Thats right, the actual Monkey King. Worse still, its clear at the end the series is going to go on to full on rip off Journey to the West. Not to mention ripping off the dragon ball make a wish at the end of the arc cliche.

I suppose some enjoyed the manga in the way that some people pretentiously like when someone rehashes something that has been done before, but to me, I look to the truly creative, the new stories. Borrow some elements from other works, go right ahead, but to recover famous stories again? Creatively bankrupt in my opinion.

This is probably going to be my one and only review here, so buckle up. This series is so criminally overrated. It is melodramatic dreck. None of the characters have a meaningful, interesting, believable, or well done arc. They are just a mess of people.

I had high hopes in the first few episodes because it felt good to see old friendships restored, so the setup was good, but they failed to actually do anything with the characters. There is no real story here. Things happened to the characters and then because they cry and are sad about something we are supposed to feel sad as ... well? Its dreck.

I think there should be some kind of crying-porn tag for series because that is the only thing I can image accounts for the high score. Riding the waves of melodrama in hopes of crying.