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Viral Hit/How to Fight has a really good start. The story is about Hobin Yoo who is a weak kid that that gets regularly bullied at school but more importantly is poor and him and his mom are financially struggling. When he suddenly makes it big on youtube by mistakenly livestreaming him and his friend having a pathetic fist fight, he realizes he can make money off Youtube by streaming him fighting bullies and in the process learns how to fight. The fights are great, the writer used two professional fighters as advisors on the choreography and the art is amazing, one of my favorite ... visual styles in all of manhwa. Hobin is a fun underdog character who is constantly punching up in his matchups and it's enjoyable to read as the author goes into great detail of the strategies Hobin has to rely on to win against a much stronger opponent. After the beginning, there is a group of villains that get introduced and all of them are emotionally compelling villains with interest backstories.

Viral Hit is a manhwa that runs on a season system similar to Tv shows in the west and it has in total two seasons. This is where it starts getting hard to truly recommend Viral Hit. Season 1 is written by the main author Park Tae Jun and the art is done by Kim Junghyun and Park Tae Jun has two professional fighters as advisors. Season 1 has an almost conclusive story at the end, the main conflict feels like it basically resolved. But then it continues the main villain gets away and is the main villian againt for a whole another season, season 2 has the main author Park Tae Jun drop out and the story is now done by the artist Kim Junghyun and the two professional fighters also drop out of being advisors. What you have left is a story being done by someone who is obviously much less skilled at writing and fights maybe could be considered interesting in any other story but in look bland and lacking substance in direct contrast to the fights in Season 1. If Season 1 was a 9/10 then Season 2 is a 6/10

Overall the only real way to really enjoy Viral hit would be to pretend like Season 2 doesn't exist. Just pretend Viral hit ends abruptly at chapter 135 then teleport to the epilogue chapter at chapter 217-218.