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As everyone's saying, the art is amazing. It can be a little hard to follow exactly what is being drawn sometimes during the fight sequences because they are drawn very roughly to give a sense of speed and weight to the movements - which is great, but ends up being very puzzling to figure out if it's a head or a foot or how a character ended up in bum-fuck nowhere.

As for the plot. It's so stupid, it's so fucking dumb. First of all, the romance between Shiho and Goomoonryong is so forced it's laughable. They start off as barely interacting with eachother in any ... way other than by being absolute assholes to each-other; they have no chemistry whatsoever and end up being rushed into a relationship, like, just before they get to the last place in the manhwa. It's a mess. Yes, Shioon hints at Goomoonryong having a thing for Shiho, but it's clearly stapled on right before they get together that it's obviously a contrived way to give any sense of foreshadowing to them liking each-other in any way whatsoever. It's also repeated a million times right before the final showdown and during it that Goomoonryong doesn't know how to express his feelings as an effort to desperately try to give an explanation to them getting together. An explanation as thin as tissue paper.

I only bring up that romance sub-plot because it's the main fucking reason for the story turning out the way it did. If they didn't become "lovers" right at the end, Goomoonryong would never go full Berserk-mode with the Black Origin Threshold bullshit and punch Shioon's fuckin' ki-center lights out.

They could have done so much more with it that it's honestly sad as fuck. It's so well drawn, it's jaw-dropping at moments to look at the amount of effort put in every single page. But the story doesn't hold up.

To wrap it up, with my biggest gripe. Why in the name of everything holy did Shiho - who presumably was in on the plan since the start even though it never looked like they had a plan until Alex showed up - give the fucking 'dan' to Shioon? Why?! If she hadn't done that NONE OF THIS WOULD HAVE HAPPENED! Three of those miraculous fucking dans were stolen, but by the looks of it she only got one of those because she didn't give any to the little fucking kid, Sosul, that had the exact same problem as Shioon had with the blood vessels or whatever the fuck they decide to translate it to this time! It makes ABSOLUTELY NO SENSE! Unless my brief hiatus between Vol. 2's beginning and the rest of the whole manhwa made me forget some crucial fucking shit. The only way that it makes sense is if they got there with no plan and when they finally got together decided to draft a plan that only happens after the disciple swallows the dan! They really must have been kicking themselves "Ah fuck, we should have come up with this before I gave it to that kid for no fuckin' reason. Oh chucks!"
BUT WAIT A MINUTE! They only got recommended to be teachers at that school because the fucking PRESIDENT recommended them, but the fucking president of the school was DEAD. So presumably they had to have killed him and faked the recommendation, SO THEY MUST HAVE HAD A PLAN SINCE THE START! WHAT KIND OF FOOLS ARE THEY?! TO LIKE THIS STORY YOU GOT TO ACCEPT THAT THEY ARE ALL STUPID, IMBECILE, MORONIC BUFFOONS!

Unless I have some sort of amnesia, I honestly don't know how anyone can like this story. It's riddled with plot-holes. Like, why didn't they, after pretty much finding out that Shioon's blood practically resurrected Sosul, give some of his blood to help Goomoonryong heal that fucking ARM CAST! It was there for so long it seriously aggravated me.


Anyway, in conclusion, it could have been much better and unless I really missed some obvious shit, it doesn't make any logical sense at all. They must all be absolute chimps or the plot doesn't work. I'm actually gas-lighting myself because I don't trust that I didn't miss some important shit that would have made all of this come together. I just refuse to believe it. It was such a massive letdown when it started off so well. I give it a light to decent 6 (mainly because of the art). Tran-

-sition. Have you given this manhwa a read? Did you love it did you hate it? What would you rate it? (this last Anthony Fantano bit is just a goof to help me forget how disappointed I was with this manhwa)