Veritas

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A REVIEW FOR LAZY PEOPLE

SUMMARY:
a Masterpiece without Ending

DETAILS:
I started this Manhwa long time ago and last week i did see it again on reddit, remembering that it was a great read i said to my self why not. So i started it again, and Maaaan what a waste it has no Ending u continu reading all that creative ideas and characters and then boom the manhwa is finished without a warning LOL it gives you a big bitter taste.

OVERALL:
10 if it has an Ending without A Doubt. Great Manhwa but since it has not i will give it a 7
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PEACE

Veritas is an action manhwa that contains a lot of common themes. That isn’t what makes it great. What makes it great at the themes it subverts. Where this manhwa shines are the refreshing protagonist and the good fight scenes.

What makes the protagonist, Ma Gangryong, refreshing? He’s a common action comic hero – dense, always looking to fight the strong, been taught by a powerful master, etc. However, the author built on this strong point – he’s basically a violent punk that just loves fighting.

No, really that’s him to a ‘tee’. He doesn’t care about school, doesn’t have any love interests, and the only reason ... he has friends at all is because they forced themselves on him. What does he preach, i.e. ‘his path of truth’ in shounen terms? Nothing. He cares about nothing except getting stronger. When confronted by people who tell him that they fight to protect their families, he mentions – for the first time – that he has a little sister…then promptly says he still never thought about fighting to protect anyone.

See? Refreshing. Just a violent punk who happens to be the protagonist.

Thanks primarily to him, we get plenty of great action scenes.

Unfortunately, the manga could use a lot of improvements elsewhere. Aside from the refreshing protagonist, it is cliché and dull in a lot of other ways.

The main setting of this manhwa is an exclusive school designed to nurture martial artists. Here, fighters can learn skills and challenge each other. This school is ruled by an all powerful ‘Student Council’ (of course…) who is led by the rich, intelligent, and powerful president. Sounds familiar, huh?

Additionally, the presidential election is coming up and there is a conspiracy to overthrow the leader, and this is the primary plot of Veritas. From here, you get a lot of the Batman gambits, underhanded plotting by crafty guys, and so on.

You see the same thing in every action manga which involves school in any way, shape, or form.

Aside from the bland plot, there is a problem wherein Veritas lacks decent antagonists. Unfortunately, the author has a love of basically two types of villains: The bloodthirsty lunatics (who always laugh with wide teeth) and the cold, quiet calculating types. There’s a few people in-between, but they’re rare and they get less prominence.

So in short, Veritas is great with the protagonist and action scenes, but has a generally bland story and antagonists. Overall, I’d still recommend a read if you’re into action with great art style.

THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS

One Line Review: Don't waste your time.

So this is my first manga review, and I only felt compelled to write one because I wanted to give potential readers a different opinion of the OVERALL series than the Top Reviews do. Honestly, I have no idea how they would rate it so highly, if they actually finished it.

I decided to read this series since I thought it would be similar to The Breaker, and was well rated by the Top Reviews. As you can tell by my score, I did not like it and hope to spare other readers from wasting their ... time. Actually the manga was quite decent ..... up to a certain point. I'll briefly list what I thought was good, and what was not.

Pros:
- The Art was good
- A MC who is sort of arrogant and enjoys fighting
- How important events that played out in the past of the school, gradually get revealed from many characters point of view. This provides some intrigue and advancement to the plot, as events gradually build up to a supposed "final fight(s)"

Cons:
- MC is absent from considerable portions of story. He also does not get into as many fights as you might expect.
- Quite a few plot holes and nonsensical things throughout story
- Although it's a fighting manga, I believe that there were quite a few things that could be resolved through some conversation. It's like these characters are too stupid to talk to one another and realize that their goals are maybe not so different.
- Many characters have pretty stupid/trivial reasons for their actions throughout story. Bringing me to my next point, and why I rated this manga so poorly:
- The ENDING WAS S**T. THE WORST ENDING I HAVE EVER SEEN in manga or anime. I may have rated this manga a 6 or 7, if it wasn't for the utterly garbage ending starting from maybe CH 78-79. SPOILERS BELOW...

SPOILERS NOW: So out of nowhere, one of the main characters decides to personally kill pretty much the entire school including their friends, for some stupid reason. Not only will this nonsense rub you the wrong way, but this has the additional effect of not allowing ANY of the fights you were expecting from the "final fights" of the Reunion students vs Traditional students, that you thought was going to happen just a chapter before. And finally, the character that will fight this other character, just barely starts the fight before the manga abruptly ends. Additionally you should know that the manga was rushed near the end and cancelled. So there will not be any sequel, further locking in this garbage ending.

So I don't recommend you read this manga. I hope I have helped some people save their time.