'The God of High School' Anime Series Debuts in Summer 2020

by Vindstot
Apr 16, 2020 3:24 PM | 42 Comments

Main cast and staff members for the anime adaptation of Yong-je Park's The God of High School manhwa were announced by Crunchyroll on Thursday. The anime will debut exclusively on Crunchyroll in Summer 2020.

Synopsis
It all began as a fighting tournament to seek out for the best fighter among all high school students in Korea. Mori Jin, a Taekwondo specialist and a high school student, soon learns that there is something much greater beneath the stage of the tournament. (Source: LINE Webtoon)

Cast
Mo-ri Jin: Tatsumaru Tachibana (Kabukichou Sherlock)
A sixteen-year-old whose taekwondo, which he learned from his grandfather, makes him undefeatable. Nothing is more important to him than being the best fighter of all, and his current record out of 299 fights is 297 wins and 2 draws. He decides to participate in the God of High School tournament, an interdisciplinary martial arts competition, after suffering the first loss of his life against Judge R, one of the tournament's judges.

Dae-wi Han: Kentarou Kumagai (Grancrest Senki)
One of the "Mad Cows," a duo that once controlled the entire Gangnam area. He's been working part-time jobs to pay the medical bills for his partner in the duo, who fell ill with an incurable disease, but the part-time work available to high schoolers is barely enough to cover the daily medical bills and won't cover a cure. He joins GOH after being told that he can save his friend if he wins.

Mi-ra Yu: Ayaka Ohashi (Masamune-kun no Revenge)
The 25th Master of the Moon Light Sword Style. She pretends to be a fragile high schooler, but she has the strength to easily overpower an entire group of delinquents in a fight. She prefers guys who are macho, because she's been told that she needs to marry a man strong enough to help her resurrect her family's sword style. For that reason, she's participating in GOH to find a potential husband.

Seong-Hu Park (Garo: Vanishing Line) is directing the anime at MAPPA, featuring character designs by Manabu Akita (Kakegurui). Sola Entertainment is in charge of the management production.

Park launched the action comedy manhwa in Naver Webtoon (now Line Webtoon) in April 2011. Naver began publishing the chapters in English in June 2014.

Teaser PV

Source: Crunchyroll

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This show gonna implode inside because of mediocrity premise. With Re Zero in summer, this anime will be overshadowed. With MAPPA its gonna be good or trash, leaning to the latter.

Apr 26, 2020 6:27 PM by chriskor022

Hype, totally will watch this, as a reader the story is kinda a letdown but i can't wait to see my boy Mori... i hope the VA turns out good tho.

Yes, next pls pls let it be Solo Leveling.

Apr 25, 2020 5:46 AM by roppuri

Stoorainclaire said:
next please...solo leveling, The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor or hardcore leveling warrior

Yes please! legendary moonlight sculptor is what got me into korean webnovels and while i haven't enjoyed the webtoon as much, i would still love to see a full animation of the series!

I just hope the adaptations we are already getting like this, tower of god and noblesse are enough to warrant more adaptations

Apr 24, 2020 8:39 AM by AGlitchGnome

Stoorainclaire said:
next please...solo leveling, The Legendary Moonlight Sculptor or hardcore leveling warrior

So agree on the this.

Apr 22, 2020 1:59 AM by shintai88

Come on,please Solo Leveling be next. And I hope no delay.

Apr 21, 2020 7:38 PM by Papa_Scorch

OK, the trailer was pretty hype.

Apr 19, 2020 10:06 PM by malvarez1

xgongiveittoya said:

Damerino said:
this actually looks better than tog. interesting.

I see, still will shit on it tho.

Nobody cares about your opinion, nobody wants to hear you shit on anything other than shitting on your shitty life. You people really love acting as if your opinion matters or you yourself matters, its so hilarious

It's actually precious to see people of your kind getting so salty that instead using the main account go ahead to creating an alt. I hope you're doing well, Ma'am. Otherwise without you I won't be having this much fun.

Apr 19, 2020 4:02 AM by bend_over

Damerino said:
this actually looks better than tog. interesting.

Skirroz98_NL said:
Please let this be 2 cour!

cchigu said:
Beware that this is your typical generic battle shounen manhwa, you would enjoy it a lot more if you turn your brain off. I hope to see some good fights.

I see, still will shit on it tho.

Apr 18, 2020 11:37 AM by xgongiveittoya

katsu044 said:
honestly the only thing i've heard thats good about this is the fighting and it being compared to dragon ball z of webtoons does almost nothing for me ,but will check it out since i do enjoy high quality action but i ant expecting much nor will i buy into the hype.

some how i think this will do fairly well with how simple and straight forward it is as long as they keep the animation good

Nobody cares if the comparison did nothing to you or if you will buy into the hype or not. If you end up not liking it or watching it, nobody fucking cares. Stop making it sound you're important

Apr 18, 2020 11:34 AM by xgongiveittoya

honestly the only thing i've heard thats good about this is the fighting and it being compared to dragon ball z of webtoons does almost nothing for me ,but will check it out since i do enjoy high quality action but i ant expecting much nor will i buy into the hype.

some how i think this will do fairly well with how simple and straight forward it is as long as they keep the animation good

Apr 17, 2020 3:34 PM by katsu044

this actually looks better than tog. interesting.

Skirroz98_NL said:
Please let this be 2 cour!

cchigu said:
Beware that this is your typical generic battle shounen manhwa, you would enjoy it a lot more if you turn your brain off. I hope to see some good fights.

I see, still will shit on it tho.

Apr 17, 2020 2:46 PM by bend_over

Please let this be 2 cour!

Apr 17, 2020 12:40 PM by Skirroz98_NL

Beware that this is your typical generic battle shounen manhwa, you would enjoy it a lot more if you turn your brain off. I hope to see some good fights.

Apr 17, 2020 12:06 PM by cchigu

Good animation but it's basically a Korean version of a generic battle shounen, so I will stay very far from this.

And seeing how overrated are manhwa here (lol that 8.96 of Solo Leveling) if this has barely an 8 I am not expecting this to be good.

Apr 17, 2020 8:22 AM by removed-user

ElGoblino said:

Xenocrisi said:
Animation doesn’t look that good tho

Tower of God, The God of High school and hopefully Solo Leveling next

Are you blind sir? The animation looks incredible, animators are already talking about cuts from this teaser over on twitter and on the sakuga forum. The director for the series is a veteran when it comes to action animation and from what I heard he's gonna bring a lot of free lancers and animators that worked on Naruto/Boruto

No I’m not blind. Sure, there are 2 or 3 sakuga scenes, but the other ones don’y look very fluid.

Apr 17, 2020 7:24 AM by Xenocrisi

Xenocrisi said:
Animation doesn’t look that good tho

Tower of God, The God of High school and hopefully Solo Leveling next

Apr 17, 2020 7:19 AM by ElGoblino

FINALLY. One of my favourite manhwa is getting an anime adaptation. I have dreamt of this since the beginning of time. The only sad thing is, that it will take a long time for the anime to reach the point I am at in the manhwa, right now.

Will definitely watch this. I recommend this SO MUCH. It is on par, if not better, than most of the battle-shounen series out there.

Apr 17, 2020 5:53 AM by AliAnimeCrack

Oh this looks pretty cool. Will check it out.

Apr 17, 2020 4:33 AM by Tsarko

lmao the god of high school has got to be the most anime name ever

Apr 17, 2020 4:21 AM by kai

Hopefully they don't rush it. Tower of God already felt slightly rushed

Apr 17, 2020 4:20 AM by Animevsirl

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