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Story - 3
Art - 8
Sound - 8
Characters - 3
Enjoyment - 5
Right into it. So what’s the story? The story, you ask? What story, in fact, who cares? Sliding in a ton of friendship cliches like it was something out of Yu-Gi-Oh for the first few episodes is apparently the best thing to do. Though with GOHS being an original source 400+ chapter webtoon, then surely you ask yourself that this couldn’t possibly be the only plot device used. Luckily, you’re correct. Nox, a developing tournament, other characters suddenly doing stuff also happens. Is it done in a good fashion? No. It is very rushed. Stuff happens without any good explanation. As for characters, they too are very undeveloped. They have one episode of dedication to them and then boom, they exist as if there were a side character. That is for everyone who isn’t Jin Mori though, his mysterious background with a mysterious grandpa causes him to get some good development, or at the very least redeeming qualities to make him stand out at least a little. Yeah? Not really. Even he has some questions still left in the dark. All in all rushed story and characters.
Audiovisuals. They are actually very good. A wide variety of fighting styles are used, although it is not on a level like something out of ufotable, it is indeed worth the watch, it is quite fluid and doesn’t try to skip out on any frames, with the added bonus of random shots of good art to convey the power of the character in a said moment in time. The art style is slightly questionable, characters looked drunk with their red noses, not too sure why but apparently that was a good idea. OSTs were good, with their electronic music, same with the OP. ED was chill however and not as lively as the other sounds that show has. The VCs did a good job but I did actually question if there were Korean accents as opposed to the Japanese ones used, and after surfing the incredibly helpful YouTube got a few cringe videos and came to the conclusion that VCs probably could have made for a somewhat Korean accent to go with characters, seeing how this is set in Korea. Overall, very good audiovisuals
Enjoyment. This isn’t enjoyable if you are someone like me who gets easily confused, though I am sure that even the most understanding of people will have trouble understanding this story. The visuals make up for it, however, great action all around, even if nothing made sense. In the middle enjoyment
Overall - 5.4 (5)
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My intention: A quick/undeveloped review based on a rushed/undeveloped story
You are probably thinking after reading something like this I must have a distasteful opinion for GOHS, and well yes, but actually no. I feel like the story is indeed very rushed but the audiovisuals made up for it. Though even with pretty good audiovisuals, they clashed with the storytelling and ended up cancelling each other out. Forming a blank slate, not good, not bad. Incredibly balanced.
Maybe webtoon adaptations are just unbelievably hard to pull off, maybe the licensors are bad, maybe there is some other force at work. But all that is known so far is that as of now, webtoon adaptations are not in the best positions they could be in. I remember watching 4 episodes of Re:Zero S2 in one go and then going back to GOHS a few hours later, and the quality drop was genuinely felt. I don’t like to compare one anime to another especially when the two aren’t similar. But it was my way of showing one of the cases where GOHS really felt dry. As someone who hasn’t read the original source, I still have every intention to do so. Though the same cannot be said for webtoon adaptations of the future.
