However, Wallad made the mistake of inducting Jiu Dae-Gak as one of his students. In a mysterious incident, Dae-Gak murdered the entirety of Maria's family except her. Maria was seriously traumatized by the loss, and would even later attempt suicide unsuccessfully. [1] The next day, Ji-Tae arrived at the gym early, and with Maria not present begins working on his punches. He ran into Shim Ha-Min, who taught him how to throw a punch properly before leaving. When Maria arrives, she began to instruct Ji-Tae on how to counter Dong-Won's dirty boxing with a flying armbar; unbeknownst to them, Dong-Won was conducting reconnaissance on them and discovered their strategy. [5] throughout the story both the art and storytelling transform which brings the reading in on the journey. the artist is very good at conveying mood with the art. the story develops from the average school fight manga (past few dozen chapters the school hasn't even been related) so it can be difficult depending on what you are going in for. The main character goes through a drastic change at a point in the story. that's when everything changes. Maria is one of the best fighters out of all of the Namil High students portrayed thus far. She has defeated an entire room of Namil High students by herself, and has defeated every member of Class 1 personally with very little difficulty. Her fighting style, which her fellow students are not informed of, is Barborado Jiu-Jitsu, which combines the grappling and submissions of Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu with striking techniques drawn from Capoeira, Muay Thai, Karate, and Taekwondo. After this, Maria, now without her previous sponsored accommodation, moved in with Ji-Tae. [9] Afterwards, Maria would compete in the Namil High Ranking Tournament. She warned Ji-Tae that he would not be victorious in any matches no matter who he faced. Maria herself would advance through the preliminaries automatically when all her opponents withdrew. [10]

Maria would later approach Ji-Tae in disguise to test his reactions. Ji-Tae would avoid her strikes with his kinetic vision and then escaped an armbar with his double-jointedness. After discovering Ji-Tae's posters which displayed Dae-Gak, alongside his sister, Maria realized that he was the son of Dae-Gak and had inherited his flexibility and kinetic vision from his father. Upon discovering this, Maria immediately offered to train Ji-Tae. [4] The plot sometimes feels like it's all over the place, especially during the middle half of the series, but that's just probably my inexperience as a manga reader barging in and making a point, so as such it might not count for much I'm afraid lol. It's mostly linear and expectable, guy had a bad thing happen to him when he was a kid, he requires resources and ability to overcome said thing, attain something of value or just become stronger, and yeah it's mainly centered on school life so it's pretty easy to guess the kind of characters you'll be seeing throughout the series. I appreciate that every Fight Class character has an appropriate body shape, female and male fighters both stand on equal ground, and everyone is given a room to grow after a certain event. Also, Maria is best girl. <3After seeing some TikTok's I decided to dive in and read up in a day. Would I do I again? Probably not. After Dong-Won left the gym, Maria revealed to Ji-Tae some details; she also lost her family to Dae-gak, and wishes to take revenge. The only way to even meet him, however, is to join Fight Class 3. Maria also asked Ji-Tae if Dae-Gak is really his father because she wishes to kill Dae-Gak for her revenge. Ji-Tae cannot answer. Ji-Tae begins the series completely devoid of any skill or fighting experience, especially in comparison to members of Nam-il High's fight classes. However, he does have several advantages inherited from Jiu Dae-Gak that he uses to compensate. While he is not as physically fit as the average member of the fight classes, his ability to dodge using his kinetic vision and his double-jointedness that allows him to slip out of submissions are traits that impressed even Maria immediately upon seeing them in action. [1] After the test ended with Ji-tae's disqualification, Maria would interrogate Dong-Won by force. [7] However, Ji-Tae demanded mercy, and threatened to cease working with her if she did not relent. Maria ultimately agreed to these terms and even went so far as to reveal part of her own connection to Dae-Gak. Maria also told Ji-Tae that the only way to meet Dae-Gak would involve qualifying for Fight Class 3, and warned him that her revenge would require the death of Dae-Gak. [8] Maria herself would then request that the school support Ji-Tae in her place in exchange for her fighting in official tournaments on behalf of the school. This allowed Ji-Tae to be accepted as a member of the fight classes.

While the story is very broad and attempts to have several stories, ultimately, for me, many of them fell flat, not that they were terrible. The earlier chapters do a lot of heavy lifting to parts of the story I enjoyed reading, but after chapter 70, we start going in a very dark and unhinged direction which wasn't what I was looking for and might turn others off. For example, over time, the main character into a relentless psychopath, which perhaps was only Impressed, Maria noticed the details on the poster and correctly identified Ji-Tae as the son of Dae-Gak, Maria asked him to come to the fight classes, offering to turn him into the "strongest jiu-jutiero". [1] Later on, Dong-Won attempted to take responsibility for his cheating so Ji-Tae can join Fight Class 1, but was rebuffed, as Maria had already negotiated for Ji-Tae to join by offering her sponsorship money in exchange. Ji-Tae met with the class president of Fight Class 1, Yeo Eun-Sol, who drilled him through a series of physical tests to establish his aptitude. She also warns him that his association with Maria may make him a target; Maria had defeated the entire class brutally during testing, and as a result, they all either idolise her or resent her, making Ji-Tae who has a close relationship with her a target of both.

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I’m almost repeating myself, but don’t start this expecting the main character to improve in leaps/bounds and continue improving panel by panel. This is a slow burn in terms of the Weak to Strong development. I like it, but not everyone will. The next day, a despondent Ji-Tae went in search of Maria to try and get some answers about her knowledge of Dae-Gak, but happened upon her torturing Dong-Won in the school gym, extracting a confession that he knew about the flying armbar in advance. Ji-Tae interrupted her assault, and after a heated discussion finally convinced her to spare Dong-Won by threatening to refuse to help her at all if she did not.

It took me 2 days to read it, not to my expectations which was a surprise to me, so I'd guess that says something about how much I like it.the beginning and most recent parts of this manwah are unrecognizable with each other. they'd sooner be assumed to be different stories from different artists. so it can As far as the character and story portion of the manhwa goes, it's mostly what you'd expect out of a traditional shounen-esque work, even though during certain stages it wouldn't qualify Maria would eventually take Ji-Tae, who had fallen unconscious, to the hospital to recover from his wounds. [31] Abilities [ ]