the anime?
it's fine; missed a few, if not a lot of parts from the original source material, but it's to be expected.
the story?
if you guys are confused by the plot at all, it's basically: monkey king gets reincarnated as a kid, one of the strongest martial artists in the world - aside from six other strong and mystical individuals - tae-jin jin, takes it upon himself to adopt the little kid. the kid's name is mo-ri jin, he grows up without tae-jin because tae-jin leaves to keep evil people hunting him away from mo-ri. mo-ri takes this as a sign that he's weak and not strong enough, so he trains until he's the strongest kid in his highschool. later, he gets an invitation to join a martial arts tournament for other high schoolers that are strong like him, dubbed the god of highschool tournament. anyone that participates in and wins the god of highschool tournament gets one wish granted, but these high schoolers use powers they borrow from powerful beings they think of as "gods," (i.e one person could worship their martial arts teacher as a god and be able to use their teacher's spirit and moves, one person could use
the powers of jesus, one person could use an entire u.s. army battalion, not to mention sacred treasures where any weapon relating to their borrowed power can be used) but the REAL reason behind the god of highschool tournament is to find a way to break the taboo that humans can't hurt gods and finally have humans on top of everything. there's some broken morals here, some very sad deaths there, but it'll all leave you on the edge of your seat for the next chapter.
the fights?
i'ma keep it $1.50 with you guys: the fights aren't it, chief; they're not as impactful as the ones from the webtoon. in the webtoon, you can feel the blows being landed, the injuries being dealt, the pain each character's facing when fighting, and the webtoon artist - shout out to the homie yongje park, by the way - makes it all great because he's good at drawing out a lot emotions with them. that's how good he is. the only good fight, in my opinion, is the one in the last episode.
overall?
it's a solid 5.5-6.0. it isn't good, it's fine. but, i'm not gonna say it's a generic shounen, it's just that the anime didn't do the webtoon justice. either wait for season 2 to make the anime better or check out the webtoon. even though the anime didn't do the webtoon justice storywise, characterwise, or plotwise, the animation looks pretty clean and smooth.
