You know there series that should be more talked about All hail the sect leader: how to write curb stomping This is the law/national tax service thug : how to make bureaucracy compelling I’m not really the demon gods lackey: how to write an oblivious character Beyond myriads people’s: comedy gold And Rose garden saga: a paradoxical beautiful existence I get my manga/ manhwa mostly from manga geko
Love your video about the rooftop swordsmaster. There's another revenge manhwa that i would love to know your opinion on. It's called A Mark Against Thee
i love your videos i suffered a lot of bullying when i was in school and did get knock outed more than once but still think almost all of this manhwas are trash
Yes 'sexually pessimistic' is a mistranslation. What it actually is 'grade pessimistic/성적 비관' (in Korea many teenagers have a lot of pressure of having good school grade). This mistranslation probably happened because Korean word '성적' can mean two things 'grade' and 'sexual'.
It's a time like these where I wish I could have seen the development of these words, like how does grade and sexual share a word separated only by context, it's interesting.
Ikr while it’s fun seeing a character essentially get a isekai power up to make themselves strong enough to kill everything it gets repetitive when everyone starts doing that & instead doesn’t try to improve their flaws. That’s why I gravitate more towards high school series that deal with bully issues because they CANT have them die or shit like that the MC must actually become stronger while improving their life in the process showing us how different they were from the start compared to the end of the story besides physically.
You should read To Not Die (its not a revenge manga in the traditional sense). The MC gets bullied, attacks his bully, but faces punishments. He gets kicked out of his home by his parents and ends up homeless, and then its just a story of him growing up with his homless "fam" and slowly learning how to fight (at least in the first half). The second half is where the "revenge" concept comes into play, but it wasn't against his high school bully, but an international gang leader that killed the leader of his fam that took him in. Really good, but not stupidly eccentric.
He put images of it while talking about how bad trash manhwa are, i dont think he fully reads a lot of these good ones or maybe hes rage baiting idk, he put weak hero (one of the best action manhwa imo) in the shit revenge manhwa pile which im convinced is probably for comments like one i posted
I really enjoyed that series but tbh the second season kind of felt like a downgrade when it comes to the fights. Sure I get it he got stronger or whatever but it just feels like he wins way too easy at least from what I've read. I might pick it up again sometime tho.
The fight scenes in this manwha puts a smile on my face. They aren't happening for the sake of it, they have purpose and stakes. And that's what a good fight needs to exist. The consequences of missing a punch and taking a blow for that mistake, its a rush like no other~
I especially loved the moment after a tense fight where he tries to be like "I'll take you on too right now!", immediately gets his ass kicked and the other guy's just like "dude you can't fight me right now fight me in 5 days"
I’ve been to juvie here in the USA and it is exactly like prison. There are different security levels. Low security juvie is basically like a school you can’t leave but maximum security juvie is literally like prison.
I think "The Boxer" is really like this one with the characters that actually have personalities and backstories, prodigies and bullies. And its goddamn good too. I believe it deserves to be taken a look at at least once or twice by everyone.
One thing that I like too is the fact that the protags goal is not to just beat the bully. Its to become a better person, a braver stronger person in general.
One thing I do like about the show lookism it's not the fact that he has the ability to switch bodies it's over time that he realized he shouldn't blame others for his mistakes and then he actively chose to work out and become thinner so he can become stronger by himself without needing to switch bodies constantly
I've releases a good like 4 critically acclaimed manhwa are 'shown' to be bad via images, he never says them explicitly, 99% he did this for engagement, which credit to him, is working wonderfully.
@@problemperson4221 his big dan NEVER became a burden. It was only a burden because he was kidnapped in that body BEFORE he knew how to fight. If he was trained by Gun, Big Dan would've soloed the entire verse.
Until it turns into gangism which is when it turns into trash. Plus Logan was definitely a one note bully, it just wasn't really noticed because he wasn't used a lot
@@pleasedont7439 Big Dan is definitely a burden. Whenever it goes MIO and then shows up in its UI state, it severely cripples or impairs the team as well as Daniel. The body is literally alive with a mind of its own that is only ever kept in line by Daniel's own consciousness. Its too unpredictable in my opinion to be long term useful tool
Weak hero is also a good one, it doesnt necessary focus only on revenge on bullies but used it as a motivator for the story and allows the story to be told and not restricted by only revenge on bullies
@@oli9973 fr like unlike alot of garbage revenge manwha john and weak hero actually are good plus john does not just stomp out niggas like their paper he does get hurt during those fights unless their actually shit
@@oli9973Yeah, and Viral hit was never about revenge, Hobin became a youtuber to earn money for his mom, and his goals would evolve to stopping Jinho and his gang. Edit: Looked at the pile again and saw that Study Group is there. Study Group DEFINITELY isn't about revenge, I think the title kinda speaks for itself.
You know the talk of all these bully revenge manhwa's reminded me a lot about Battle Royale, which is also filled with sociopathic teens murdering each other. But the difference is that no matter how terrible the bullies and killers were, they were never really the main villain of the story. They were just a symptom of a culture that bred them and gave them no other options but to exist in a dog-eat-dog world where they were given no chances and had to become harden monsters just to survive.
@@AmanKumar-ty8kc people have free will except that free will were corrupted by the situation they endured. I mean come on. They were forced to commit on a murder battle royale.
Hajime no Ippo was the best bully revenge. Ippo showed that he could beat Umezawa in a fight, but chose mercy. He spent absolutely zero energy or ill will towards his bully from that point on, and even allowed him to befriend him and work with his family. It overall improved both of their lives for the better and was inspiring. I used to get bullied a lot and I had that Bully Revenge energy that a lot of your detractors on that video seem to have. I wanted to destroy my bullies, but seeing a media depiction of reconciliation and redemption for what's usually just cannon fodder for the protagonist's abilities really opened my eyes. I didn't have to be angry anymore. I didn't need to fixate on the worst years of my life, exchanging my time in the now as I wallowed in the past, I dunno. It was a hell of a lot more inspiring than "You should beat your bullies up." Hajime no Ippo for the above stated paragraph, and Vinland Saga's "I have no enemies" have changed my life for the better.
it's not like i don't agree with you on the topic of bullying in most places, however, considering where manhwa are made, there are many cases of bullying that are a group of kids picking on one single "weaker" kid, and the violence and bullying escalates from smaller things to bigger things. It does happen, and is probably more common than we assume. At this point the fact that it's such a huge trope in Korean media, indicates that it's likely a significant problem there. That's not me arguing for the one-dimensional bullies, I want them to have character development as well. I'm just saying bullying looks different country to country, case to case, and is often a systemic issue.
@@yourtypicalexploiter1019 lmaooo not really, that’s not what I was trying to say at all. A lot of victims irl don’t get the chance to retaliate for the same reason in the video -> it could ruin their lives or make the bullying worse. I agree that a lot of these manhwa definitely leave a lot to be desired, I didn’t even read the one with the huge sword and only watched his video on it, I also appreciate the ones that develop all the characters including the villains, rather than just making the MC stupidly overpowered. I don’t mind if things are a little exaggerated or unrealistic in general though, one of my personal favorites is Weak Hero.
People just tend to see things with the only pov available, theirs, so as you said the context and place matters, in a little country like mine you'd be really surprised how much children of wealthy people can get away with anything, hardcore bullying, SA, and sometimes even murder, and the whole thing just end up silenced and the perpetrator get send abroad and that's it That's corruption and nepotism for you
I think you're onto something and trends in media do indicate something about society producing them. However, it's also incredibly easy to draw wrong conclusions. Isekais start with truck-kun, so am I supposed to take away the lesson that Japanese roads are some of the world's unsafest and truckers the most incompetent? Or can we both agree that that's just the common trope other mangakas / light novel authors are following Yu Yu Hakusho and few other classics because they lack originality and more than often aim for familiarity? It could be the same with bully revenge fantasies. Maybe significant part of the South Korean kids are bullied that severely, or maybe the need for these violent revenge fantasies is caused by something more complex and less tangible, like society that represses its citizens and those citizens then seeking fulfillment in somewhat extreme, yet harmless ways. Or this was just a stupid trend that caught on because it's same kind of low effort escapism like harems and isekais. It's really hard to say without further context.
I love the self improvement the mc had, and realized there is more things in life to live for, i remember i was such a bad person but later i changed when my sister was born and realized my mistakes and went to say sorry to every person i did harm to
@@wodtozack1347 that's not an excuse bro, I'm glad you feel like you changed but you are still held accountable for your actions. Still it's not my place to speak on it, that's for the people who you've hurt to decide. And I'm not saying it because I'm innocent or anything I've hurt some people too but acting like that was a whole-nother human because of who I am now is not correct.
The video essay was already amazing in summary, but the edits man... they really made these fights feel so hype. Cherry on top to the video, DON'T STOP MOVING FORWARD!!!
Love to see an author that understand there is a life worth living after bullying, and also making the villains actually know how to fight so it makes it more heroic when the MC wins. Honestly thank you for this video, I will read it and fuck it, might try to get a friend into it so she translate it? or at least tell me what happens later
My man was not letting anyone get away with their comments in his other video bro, I'm wheezing. Every time the manwha got good he said "SEEEEEEEEEE this is a good Manwha" lmao
I am starting to belive that Da Hun survived the last time and just waited for the unpious godly MC to die and then change his name to Du hian and became pro boxer
Well personally, I still love "The Weak Hero", "The Boxer" and "Unordinary" even if the bully revenge in these stories is more set dressings than actual central plots.
Actually I feel I can defend all three as just as good as Shark on the "revenge on bully" alone part: The boxer : is the easiest because the bully character has the same characterisation as Seok who now that I think about it, has the same characterisation as Bakugo from MHA Unordinary : there is an arc where the MC gets revenge on his bullies while never breaking a sweat but there's nothing glorious about it because the other characters already moved on and tell him as much "We're trying to dismantle a terrorist group, we don't have time for your tamper tantrums" "Weak Hero" this one is the closest to a revenge bullied story, but there is some nuance, the MC looks dominant but we know it would cost him greatly if he ever slipped up, the antagonists are all irredeemable jerks, but they are 14 different flavours of jerks.
i wouldnt call unordinary a bully revenge story, john did have an arc for that but it was more like the bullied becomes the bully rather than a bully revenge arc he was going around like a psychopath beating ppl nearly to death because he didnt like the way they looked at him, some of them did deserve to get beaten up but most of them didn't thankfully the story moved passed that and now he is going to become a vigilante like blyke, remi and isen
@@argy7526 None of the three manwha I described is really about getting revenge on your bullies, I just used that part since it was the focus of the video.
@@sjstronghold9238 true, for some reason whenever i see a youtuber wanting to show a trope beind done bad in manwha the ones they show most of the time have nothing to do with it
@@gito4066 Great characters and different take on the bullying genre. Definitely PTJ's best storytelling. I have no idea why it's even in the same iceberg lol. Lookism still peak action tho.
@@blackbearnumber1fan Lookism WAS peak, the title meant nothing to the story now. Imagine if ptj wasnt a pussy and stick to his own story. Lookism probably wouldve still been a peak manhwa, with park jiho being his best antagonist.
MLAAL is pretty good, a good length (unlike other ptj works that kinda stretch a biiiit too long), though i with it got a second season. i laughed when i realised the entire c*rcumcision arc got removed from english webtoon though haha!
Your editing is CRAZY, and makes the fights really engaging to unfold, much better than if you were to simply tell and not show. As an editor myself, I can tell that those edits might not have been so easy to make, and might have took a lot of time to think about you could make them interesting. Thanks for the video, I appreciate the effort you put in to make things engaging.
Finally someone fucking gets it. Rooftop Swordmaster was garbage, and didn’t at all feel like I could impart myself onto the MC. Shark did that. I’m a victim of a lot of shit and bullying is on the lower end of the totem pole, yet it still gave me PTSD. Before even knowing about this manhua I’ve been working on improving myself physically and mentally. I’ve never been to juvi but this character is so much like me it’s fascinating. I’ve spent the last 6 years of my life with only one goal, to turn myself into a living weapon. Not for revenge, not for some sort of bloodlust or justice or anything like that. Just to protect what’s dear to me, and God help any poor soul that dare threaten it. Fights are almost never one sided. You don’t come out of one unscathed, ever. To do so means you’re the bully, and it wasn’t a fight. This MC and I share this in common, we don’t care what others think about us, and we aim to be greater and more terrible than those who seek to hurt us. To be a a worse monster. Though I don’t want anything to do with professional fighting, it is a thrill to throw hands that I wish Id known when I was younger. At the end of the day, anyone who’s wronged me in the past is forgiven but not forgotten, and the only thing that matters is what I want and how I’m going to get there. This fuckin author gets it.
As someone who was bullied for years (not anymore thank God), I've always thought: "Look, I need to better myself. Getting bullied was a learning experience, and I have to grow from it.". Never in my life would I have thought: "I was bullied, might as well do some unhinged and evil shit to get my revenge." I read these bully manhwas, not because they're masterpieces (cause most of them are bad), but because I like seeing them throw hands. Especially when they use real-life fighting styles, such as boxing, karate, taekwondo, etc.
Some of this "revenge" bully manhwa/manga is idiotic as someone who used to get bullied, the stupid manhwa like rooftop sword guy is a bad influence to kids, u killing someone is dumb, proof them they are wrong by being better, and thankfully i did
Study group doesn’t really fall into the bully revenge category tbh, bro is just chilling and keeps getting dragged into the gangster shit while trying to get his grades up (also lookism actually does have pretty good self improvement shit but it’s a slow burn and it has a lot of the strengths that shark has, such as the bad guys having character, etc)
Idk if it qualifies as a bully revenge manhwa, but Weak Hero is peak. Mostly because it actually has characters and the mc isn't the center of the universe.
The mc is barely anything in the universe, some people complain about it not having enough mc, but they dont understand how interesting the author makes every character and all the villains
Bruh lookism daniel when he got stronger and fought with logan he basically was like the shark mc he just says he doesn't care and doesn't want revenge against logan
I appreciate that the series shows fighting as both this violent and brutal thing for revenge, but in the little moments shows how just dedication to a skill can make such a diffrence in ones mindset
Not sure if Viral Hit counts as a bully manga but it is great. It’s made by the author of Lookism and fixes on a lot of its shortcomings (mainly pacing and character progression). It has one of the most realistic representations of MMA I’ve seen in a manga/manhwa and the character progression is done really well.
@@m.a.a9794 Eh, viral hit should've ended at season 1 but season 2 is still good just a bit repetitive and Jiho lost his intimidating vibe and fell off.
Viral Hit should’ve ended season 1 but season 1 of viral hit will always be gold man. There’s very little realistic proper mma stories out there besides holyland. And on top of that Hobin is funny and acc a good character who wants more than just “revenge”, he just wanted to earn money for his mom’s hospital bills and reform himself into someone better. Major self improvement focus over “revenge”.
I feel like the extremely over the top nature of these bullies and the extremes they go to can be easily and quickly resolved by simply not making them highschoolers and instead making them adults dealing with actual organized crime shit. But god forbid manwha authors make their characters an age that actually benefits the story in some way instead of a 16 year old who sets houses on fire and runs a prostitution ring (aka juvenile offender)
Yeah, Gambino selling Guts to Donovan works because he is a literal medieval mercenaries, not some 16 years old bully. (I don't say what he did is justicable, I just said it makes sense for a mercenary like Gambino to do something like that)
Lookism fans when a manhwa isnt about school violence (their bully is a mafia lord who sells drooogs to people and somehow for whatever reason he is an expert at muay Thai taekwondo boxing and 99+ other martial arts. PS: he beat everyone when he was in juvie and he recently turned 17 years old) where the mc asks to train with a martial master (the said martial master would later be unalived by the bully on a fist fight)
Y'know, up until now I've never understood why there's so many rap AMVS. And yet you've managed to show me why they're so good just by editing a bunch of still panels.
If they're good rap songs they're lyrically dense, so you can fast-paced edits that match to the lyrics. Also it's the best way to go "epic" without going the orchestral route. Metal also works, but the lyrics often gets lost in the screaming.
I'm offended that this series isn't talked about more. I just learned about it, and I want the entire thing translated. What I love the most about this manwha is the table flip of who's enacting revenge. With Se Young in RTSM, he does so many heinous actions to his bullies and other poor suckers after being given a buster sword and the body of Hulk, but the manwha bends over backwards to try to make him the hero and his vengence "justified." Meanwhile in Shark, Seokchan also is overpowered and vengeful...but he's not the one being bullied: he IS the bully. HE'S THE VILLAIN, WHO'S *SUPPOSED* TO BE IRREDEEMABLE AND OVERPOWERED. He's like RTSM's bullies, but HE'S the OP and chilishly vengeful one that refuses to give up until they reach their goal. He's not a coward when his back's against the wall either; dude has nuts the size of watermelons. Instead of Cha Woo-Sol being a total demon, making the audience goe "he's just gonna flatten Seokchan; how boring," it's SEOKCHAN who's the vindictive demon, making the audience go "OH MY GOD, WOO-SOL IS GOING TO DIE."
now that you've read a good revenge manhwa, and a bad one. you need to read one that falls right in the middle; Get Schooled, it has some very good moments, and some very BAD moments.
im curious what youd consider those BAD moments are. granted ive only read up to that secret teacher chat room part so idk if things get worse from there
Honestly bro your video essays are goated and they're so underrated, thanks for putting out a spiritual successor to the original one LOL hope to see more bangers from you soon!
i might be biased and this opinion might be invalid but i think weak hero and unordinary have more depth than just revenged and most of the characters are fleshed out over time even the bad guys. i still like the video and respect all of the things you said and i agree with most of it
Weak Hero is pretty good ngl, i readed it because of the character interactions and their depth. The small revenge part (which is just the MC's backstory) is just a bonus, and then you have Tokyo Revengers but better and without the time travel.
Weak hero goes mad deep, it unironcially is one of the few manwas that attempt deep world building and fleshing out many other people than the mc, including humanizing and treating the ANTAGONISTS as more than just bullies to be revenged on. And most of them didn’t even start as bullies to begin with so they didn’t need redeeming like that but they still got fleshed out. Remove my goat from the trash heap. By the end you even root for some previous bad guys in fights.
0:38 Aw man not the subtle shot at “My Life as a Loser” 😭 That’s like one of my favorite manhwa. I don’t see how it’s uninteresting or bad, if anything I thought it was kind of a touching “bully gets retribution” story, because the bully is actually shown the consequences of his actions. Also I found it pretty funny. Of course, the bully in the series is suuuuper over the top, but that’s part of the comedy of it.
@@Eywhatwithyourattitudebruh true at least the show is still funny let's just think of the new season as a alternate reality so that the s1 ending is not ruined
Man I can see why people like this manhwa , I was on the spot of the MC myself at one point in life , altho I did not go through as much as the MC did , never tried to kill someone , never got sent to juvie... But I had my fair bit of problems regarding dealing with bullies. The biggest one beeing that I almost choked one out. I tried anger managment , I tried therapy , but what really helped me out was martial arts , I've been training for about 11 years and I can say I have changed for the better , I have grown to be more mature , more confident , more skillful and , overall , I like to think I've turned into a better person , long past are the days of trying to harm someone cause they pushed too many buttons , and , long past are the days of letting myself be pushed around like a sandbag. I still have a taste for fighting , but now I do not fight out of anger , I fight out of the love of it. Thank you for this video , Shark is without a doubt one of the best things I've ever read.
1:04 but I agreed with you? The manga sucked and did it terribly. I pointed out how the MC in that comic would make a good villain and the former bully the hero. I even gave an example of how that could work. Edit: 17:10 Again, I agree with you. Idk why you put in the list of people who think the comic was good or that bullies deserve death because that's not what I was saying at all. In retrospect, I might have written it poorly but I was not saying that bullies deserve to die. Final Edit: Great video, you did a great job and this comic looks great. And again, I wasn't trying to say that bullies deserve to die. I'm sorry if it came off that way. I was just trying to give an example of how a bully revenge story could be done.
Woops I had other comments saved for a different part of the video that got cut out, guess they got mixed together in editing somehow. Sorry for the friendly fire lol
Can’t believe there’s human beings who act like this just because they’re being protected by an online alias, there’s almost no way they really believe these thoughts
The ability to hide one's face, allows someone to be more honest with their character. There really is significant numbers of people in the population. Who would have embraced their more animalistic desires if they could.
@@Craigtheone-st7ne Uh... Yeah the video is great i was referring to the people who commented on his last video being the most criminally insane people to walk the comment section
@@xenobersejakkun7357 >>" i was referring to the people who commented on his last video being the most criminally insane people" people are such. anonymity is available for everyone, even to the ones you dont like. let bygones be bygones.
As someone who was bullied to the point of becoming a shut in (my own depression and anxiety got so bad I struggle with interactions), I do enjoy bully revenge stories or seeing karma in action. I always was a firm believer that what goes around comes around and I don't really see enjoying revenge stories as therapy, I'm already in therapy as it is. But I agree with that most bully revenge manhwa lack tension when it comes to fights. Seeing the edits of the fights is really cool.
This is so good man, I loved your older analysis too. I'd absolutely love monthly vids where you talk about underrated new series, that'd be incredible.
I wouldn't say either are bully revenge manwha. To not die the bully ruins the mc's life twice but both times he is taken care of quickly and isn't really the focus. The boxer is similar the bully is beaten before the story even really gets going and isn't a focus past that point.
@@mr.protagonist5639 i feel like that's exactly why they're good manhwa's overall though, revenge isn't the vocal point but the progress and story is amazing on both manhwa's
Ngl my life and the MC's life is somewhat similar, but not similar enough to be almost 1 to 1, but there is this one point that's similar enough to be almost 1 to 1 and that is the stabbing part, well the difference is almost all the guys is shitting on me, and the bully he stab and i almost stab is has a different sport, his is a boxer while mine is a judoka and the similarities only met at me snapping and the stabbing, because he run inside of a convenient store, so the guard stopped me from entering so i waited for him to go out and then his mom came and made us "do peace", and now for the reason for me to snap is him punching a chest dead center, and after that i trow away the thought of probability of what might happen to me and my mother after i kill him because all of my thoughts after he punch me is to kill him, and after the "fight" (it wasn't really a fight it's just him running and me chasing him) the mom of the bully didn't escalate it any further, and i got to go home and cry out of anger because i didn't kill him, but my mom made me realize that what would have happened IF i did kill him, that it would only ruined my whole life, but the bullying is not done after that, they kept shitting on me and my blood lust would keep on rising after that day. Sorry for the yapping😅 Feel free to correct my grammar.
I just caught up to where you leave off in the recap and something that really made me appreciate it all so much is when the protagonist sits down with two former gang bosses and just drinks and talks with them. Instead of further diving into the hatred and dislike, he briefly wonders if he can perhaps sit and laugh and drink like that with the bully too. He did not leave his humanity behind. not one bit. Even after everything. I think that's what makes a person truly strong. Not some overly power fantasy cheap ass revenge drive that destroys everything and leads to just more suffering in the end.
the art in all the other crappy power fantasy revenge manga is really high quality, but the overall charm that Shark has in its art style is radiating Tatsuki Fujimoto levels of scratchy but iconic penmanship that really shows that the artist themselves is working to put out their ideas into the light no matter how difficult it is to illustrate the concepts their ideas may be.
See the amount of people trying to defend, debate, shrug it off or just straight up agree with that terrible manwha you made a video of is just sad, i can't tell if it's just edgy teens trying to be cool or it's just sad people projecting themselves as the MC of that manwha getting angry on the video, maybe both tbh
I fully agree lots of these are awful manwha but to group unordinary in there is a bit much especially considering the character growth that does actually happen and from my perspective it’s less revenge plot more a look on how bad government can actually be but that’s my opinion
Thing is, Indian society isn't as concerned with wealth and appearances as Korean one is. You're only saying that because India doesn't have as many bullies left unpunished because of their wealth when that's the exact reason why they deserve punishment you see in F&H.
There are a lot of comments under something like Berserk video essays, something along the lines of "this manga/anime inspired me to go fight depression/start lifting/etc". While admirable, it became ubiquitous. But I'm a fucking lazy lonely loser pissbaby who is 27, never got laid in his life, my school bullies are way in the past while I'm currently on antidepressants, changing fucking nothing with my life until recently, with a job which has a risk of working with people and being assaulted. There is nothing to pity, everything is fine, I'm just a basement dweller of some kind. Yet I never thought I would end up in a situation where this very fucking video made me finally scrape up the remnants of my balls from the floor and start boxing. I'm with a personal trainer for now, but my schedule doesn't allow consistency for group training. Still, the guy is some major champion of his native country and fucking slaughtering me every training. And holy fuck I enjoy it.
I will not take this lookism slander, but most of your points about other bullying manhwa are right. Most of them are just brain rot made to farm views . but if you turn your brain off and watch the pretty lights and read Bullied Unga beats Bad Bully Bunga it can be kinda entertaining and it makes you appreciate good Bully Manhwa or just good Manhwa in general.
I feel like it's the equivalent of isekai to anime, there are good ones but people also turn their brains off to watch most of them. just something to relax and keep life from being too mundane.
I was bullied a lot in school. I used to believe that in the end, bullies get the end of the stick. Now where I am now? It's been almost 20 years since I graduated. I'm a nobody. I'm not a CEO like those fantasy stories I've heard about bully victims. No, I'm still a failure in life. Have a job that I hate. Cant find a better job at the moment to improve my finances and mental health. While bullies I know are doing well in life. Is that even fair? It's not at all. But that's how life is compared to revenge stories in comics.
The world doesn't own you anything, if you don't fight for it, it won't happen. I was a bully victim for most of my life and I know that bullying sucks, but just keep sinking in your trauma without to climb out of the abyss is only give you more abyss to sink in. If you're not happy with your life, change it, in anyway you can and if you can't, reflect on the situation and try again. What happened to us wasn't fair and it wasn't good, but we can't die on that, life is much more than suffering for no reason
Good video, but I do have some comments abt stuff you said regarding certain manwhas, 47:48 first of all, I don’t think the point of Lookism is just “If you were more attractive, your life would be better”. Although that’s seemingly what happens, not only does the fat version of the mc try to improve himself despite already having a 2nd body which is perfect, he also actively defends those who are judged for their looks. You literally see som characters like Duke not simply becoming an oncle, and instead pursuing his dreams, I’d say the message of Lookism is really more just to become comfortable with who you are, no matter if you want to lose weight or not.
Smthing else, although you didn’t directly cite it, you included “My life as a loser/ F my life” as part of the heap of trash revenge manhwa, when it’s opposite. The whole story revolves around the bully realizing his mistakes and making up for them without using violence, how would it even classify as revenge??
Liked the way you presented this story and plan to read and support it. I was a bully victim and this felt like the most relatable story to me. I think all normal healthy bully victims have limits and these mangas/manwhas often go fantasyland with it and it's not cathartic watching the protags entire family and friend circle be defensless to a bunch of teens then get instant power ups or find a magical teacher that trains them to become olympic level athletes. This shows the other side of the coin of bully victims who fight win or lose which is what most of us end up doing BEFORE the bullying gets to a point where it costs us our humanity. I learned that Bullying is a low effort and cowardly sport they won't bother you if you are a difficult target, it runs on fear not real strength.
@@ghostme5743 that is true but bully stories are usually ended after the guy finishes his revenge story ( beats his bully) or just continue infinitely making more and more nonsensical bullies but unordinary is centered about a supernatural society. Sure the mc gets bullied first then becomes the bully himself but its a longshot fron the other bully revenge stories.
Unordinary isn’t even about bully revenge, it’s a super hero dystopia. That confused me too. Also why is Viral Hit and Weak Hero in that pile, they only start with the trope to attract readers but the plot of both is something entirely different. And it doesn’t even take long. Hobin starts doing non bully related shit after beating Taehun and even befriends him and Weak Hero guy literally becomes a commentary on gang activity and humanizing gangsters.
Yo viral hit and to not die are both pretty lit imo (tho that’s because they move past the whole revenge thing pretty quickly) also high key the protagonists are insane in a really fun and interesting way (and none of the fights are easy)
@@lunymoon4684 well I don’t really think the bullying at the beginning is THAT over dramatic since at the beginning it’s just an asshole who’s bullying everyone in the class basically (and the story obviously raises the stakes over time so it may feel insane later but that’s from progression)
@@lunymoon4684 At least vhit characterizes its villians and they arnt over the top evil villians, plus the fighting is actualy fighting not a bunch of kicking and punching with a couple of real martial art techniques
your editing of the fight scenes was so badass and your format kept me hooked all the way through, it feels like i just watched an entire show and yet it was only so little! definitely subbing, keep up the amazing work 🦈
I understand you not thinking this is not regular bullying behavior by American bullying standards ,but bullying is different all over the world and is really prevalent in places like Korea where money and status of you're family dictates you're life, there have been actually real cases of these types of bullying happening to kids but it isn't exaggerated to this extent like in manhwa it's not only In manhwa where this happen's but in Kdrama's too that take from bullying cases in Korea and add them together to form an exaggerated view on bullying example the glory which I would advise everyone to watch, so the point I'm trying to make is cases like this happen but not to this extent, the bullies do tend to get away with it because of them not reaching the proper age for them to be accountable for their actions overall I understand you're view on this and see the point you're trying to make
When you putted viral hit in the bad revenge bully manhwa position i was really mad because hobin struggled and tried really hard to win his fights i have a theory that he putted viral hit there because he didn't like juvenile offender in viral hit the villains mostly all have backstrories only someone like pakgo doesn't have a backstory but almost everyone else has one
@@theartsurgeon7106 have you read any of the ptj manhwa? If you didn't then you should shut up because you don't want to break your mewing streak right?
The montage edits go SO HARD it's literally insane, I've never been huge into fighting type comics and such (I only clicked on this video bc I was bored and had some time to kill) but oml the edits ALONE make me want to read shark, bad translation and all
Shark become the best MMA/fighting manwha and I love it, the drawing and writing never cease to improve. But I had to translate the Indonesian for a long time to keep up, the last few chapters are translated into English tho. There are actually 325 chapters at the moment, translated into English from 1 to 159, then from 305 to 325. It would be cool if someone were to take over the English translation, or if it arrived on a platform like webtoon. Random good manwha reco : Red Storm (big mix between shonen and seinen, we follow the life of a warrior, a chief, an homie) Pick me up! (the action is hot, the thrills don't stop) Peerless Dad (a widowed Daron who fights in a martial arts world to give his children a good life) Her Summon (how to evolve as a person in an unconventional isekai, it's incomprehensibly beautiful)
I saw you bunching Unordinary with those bully revenge stories but I feel like it's a bit unfair, during the entire ark of the mc going full edgy beserk joker mode he's actually the antagonist and in later parts has some sort of redemption arc. I highly suggest reading through it and if you did I'd love to hear your thoughts about why you bunched them together. Loved the video
I agree, i think the main problem is that pple see it as a simple series... The mc going crazy after genuinely getting betrayed's entire purpose was to give the other characters, development and try to better pple after they realize they were just as bad as him for abusing their powers. Plus he was never justified for his actions they made it clear he was the bad guy and had deeper mental issues than "i was bullied, i must have revenge" and got humbled hard. Plus they took time to actually redeem him than immediately making him good again But it's a matter of perspective, i think it's fine series knowing what it was trying to aim at... but not surprised if pple don't like it if they take it at face value
Whenever you go off on one of your rants, i get really excited because yes we CAN have our satisfying revenge stories AND a cohesive plot with interesting characters!
Fuck, I was sent to the hospital in elementary school from "bullies" and ended up being able to shut that shit down at the ass-end of middle school because I learned to fight (aaaand was a 5'11" 14 year old girl lmfao) This is WAY more satisfying than the power fantasy shit!
I wrote "Bisexual Swordmaster" as a proof of concept that these guys wouldnt enjoy it quite so much if it was a queer guy getting revenge on rich pricks who went after him again and again because they were offended he survived getting Bashed. Funniest response was when someone called it "woke violence pr0n". Have you READ the original?
That bit about ADHD is true with therapy. It doesn't cure or mitigate it. It helps to make you conscious of certain things related to it or things just tangential to ADHD and gives you the assurance and awesomeness to better yourself. Even with medication, ADHD doesn't magically go away. Both help you grasp ADHD to be able have mental control over it and be able to utilize it in a nondetrimental way. Despite "Disorder" and "Deficit" being in the name, it is not a disorder. In addition, there is no lack of attention. It is just the extremely strong compulsion to mentally focus attention on something that only interests the person at that moment, which is why it seems someone with ADHD will be fixated on a past subject, "zone out", or seem to have their focus jump to seemingly unrelated things.
16:37 No, sorry, you're wrong: Having a twist where a battle ends because of a random lightning strike would be absolutely amazing. Your point stands about the rest, but I'd LOVE some bog standard fight to end suddenly with a random "act of god" event. Absolutely hilarious - and possibly a means for a character or two to reflect on how much whatever fight this was actually meant in the first place and move on in a fit of catharsis.
“Revenge is what a loser would do against a winner” bruh I swear to God if Manwha writers just realised this!!😭😭😭😭 Also your point about this exaggeration actually hit different, Now I know this probably sounds like a reach but this is exactly the way I feel about Dubbed Goku vs Toriyama’s Goku In the Dub of DBZ Goku is portrayed in that series as a superman esc character who’s the “saviour of the universe” to me personally I usually find this adaptation boring because it feels fake and exaggerated it doesn’t feel real at all However in Toriyama’s original vision (Rest in peace) Goku is an actual character He makes mistakes and is GENUINELY selfish at times This struck to me especially when Goku dies against cell instead of a cheasy goodbye Goku owns up he says that he “was selfish and did whatever” HE wanted This hits hard because a lot of parents do this, having an expectation that your child should just be another you instead of them and I’m glad Toriyama actually took Goku’s main characteristic of loving battle and used it to make Goku screw up like a person and have him OWN it There’s so many examples I could choose from but my point is what Manhwa writers miss is that you can’t just make your characters have one trait and nothing else you have to BUILD off that trait (Not really sure how I linked Manhwa with Shonen but you can use any sort of media and come to the same conclusion)
@@AmanKumar-ty8kc you are completely missing the context of the line The point was that if someone is basically dedicating their entire life on taking revenge on someone else they are a loser, simple as that You don’t see Ukrainians dedicating their lives to taking revenge on Russians Nor do you see SA survivors dedicating their lives for the sole purpose of taking revenge on their abusers So I don’t see why you are trying to link my comments to said things
@@RyomenAyeni225 ??? People literally wait their entire lives to get closure and overcome thier trauma. Which world are you living in. There are literally millions of pending legal cases being fought for decades around the world.
So having just read all of Shark after watching this video (btw thanks for the rec and great job on the video), I'm not sure Shark really counts as a "bully revenge" manhwa. It's a great series, but imo it's more of a full-on martial arts manhwa where the main rival character happens to be the protagonist's school bully. Like, Seokchan feels less like the bullies in Rooftop Swordmaster and more like a Vegeta-type character except not a total jobber.
Although I disagree with you that pure evil characters who love nothing then misery for others can´t be great antagonists, I still found this review quite interesting.
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You know there series that should be more talked about
All hail the sect leader: how to write curb stomping
This is the law/national tax service thug : how to make bureaucracy compelling
I’m not really the demon gods lackey: how to write an oblivious character
Beyond myriads people’s: comedy gold
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Rose garden saga: a paradoxical beautiful existence
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Love your video about the rooftop swordsmaster. There's another revenge manhwa that i would love to know your opinion on. It's called A Mark Against Thee
have you read fight class 3?
This manhwa has movie adaptation 'SHARK: THE BEGINNING' watch it, im sure you'll enjoy it. Also imo its better than manhwa
i love your videos i suffered a lot of bullying when i was in school and did get knock outed more than once but still think almost all of this manhwas are trash
Yes 'sexually pessimistic' is a mistranslation. What it actually is 'grade pessimistic/성적 비관' (in Korea many teenagers have a lot of pressure of having good school grade). This mistranslation probably happened because Korean word '성적' can mean two things 'grade' and 'sexual'.
Bro why are those two the same word 😂
@@Mr0nknowncause thats the only two things korean people look foward to their whole entire lives
It's a time like these where I wish I could have seen the development of these words, like how does grade and sexual share a word separated only by context, it's interesting.
@@CastleMiserfunny joke but realistic lol
@@the_big_bad_reaperNgl I’m Korean and I can see how the word can be misunderstood that way but idk bro I’m not that great at Korean
"sexually pessimistic" sounds like an insult i've never heard of before
There was no reason for that kind of attack
"MAAAN SHUTCHO SEXUALY PESSIMISTIC AHH UP"
I'll use it for now and on
Wait so you are just happy not being in a relationship, is that what it means?
@@mikeyyaylan2748 I don't think so
It’s so refreshing when authors remember that they need to make their characters feel like characters
Ikr while it’s fun seeing a character essentially get a isekai power up to make themselves strong enough to kill everything it gets repetitive when everyone starts doing that & instead doesn’t try to improve their flaws.
That’s why I gravitate more towards high school series that deal with bully issues because they CANT have them die or shit like that the MC must actually become stronger while improving their life in the process showing us how different they were from the start compared to the end of the story besides physically.
You should read To Not Die (its not a revenge manga in the traditional sense). The MC gets bullied, attacks his bully, but faces punishments. He gets kicked out of his home by his parents and ends up homeless, and then its just a story of him growing up with his homless "fam" and slowly learning how to fight (at least in the first half). The second half is where the "revenge" concept comes into play, but it wasn't against his high school bully, but an international gang leader that killed the leader of his fam that took him in. Really good, but not stupidly eccentric.
Yea, I remember that one. It was a different story altogether
He put images of it while talking about how bad trash manhwa are, i dont think he fully reads a lot of these good ones or maybe hes rage baiting idk, he put weak hero (one of the best action manhwa imo) in the shit revenge manhwa pile which im convinced is probably for comments like one i posted
Nah, I don't want to read the MC suffering for fighting back.
@@starplatinum1113hes for sure rage baiting
I really enjoyed that series but tbh the second season kind of felt like a downgrade when it comes to the fights. Sure I get it he got stronger or whatever but it just feels like he wins way too easy at least from what I've read. I might pick it up again sometime tho.
The fight scenes in this manwha puts a smile on my face. They aren't happening for the sake of it, they have purpose and stakes. And that's what a good fight needs to exist. The consequences of missing a punch and taking a blow for that mistake, its a rush like no other~
I especially loved the moment after a tense fight where he tries to be like "I'll take you on too right now!", immediately gets his ass kicked and the other guy's just like "dude you can't fight me right now fight me in 5 days"
@@xuanathan what manhua is this
@@lordblanck7923 He said it's called shark. Look it up
I’ve been to juvie here in the USA and it is exactly like prison. There are different security levels. Low security juvie is basically like a school you can’t leave but maximum security juvie is literally like prison.
@user-pc3io5ji1o
Dang, bro. Not surprised to hear that it was _basically_ prison, but that sucks.
What was you charged with?
You don't ask people that.
@@dakai-kun2248
Ask?
@@thangfahsavung9120 assault
the worst part is that it isnt being translated anymore just when we were getting the tournament arc
What nooooo seriously I was thinking of picking it up too
@@Bluemeanie588 Well these manwha's or the translators tend to go on long breaks. I would just check back in every few months if you're dedicated
At this point I'm going to learn hangul instead of relying on shitty translations
@@GiornoーGiovanna good idea and last resort
@@remixmaster5000 im p sure she (the translator) said she had to focus on college so no more update
I think "The Boxer" is really like this one with the characters that actually have personalities and backstories, prodigies and bullies. And its goddamn good too. I believe it deserves to be taken a look at at least once or twice by everyone.
The Boxer is 100% one of the best manhwas out there, I'd also really recommend "The Horizon" by the same author.
@@DamnBruhthatscrazy they're honestly my favorite ones, ngl.
Mosquito wars is also a good one by the same author. Not super deep, but a fun read nonetheless
@@default9314 the author is a weird guy the works are either the saddest thing ever written or just goofy shit
The Boxer is way fucking better as a "bully revenge story" and then some.
One thing that I like too is the fact that the protags goal is not to just beat the bully. Its to become a better person, a braver stronger person in general.
One thing I do like about the show lookism it's not the fact that he has the ability to switch bodies it's over time that he realized he shouldn't blame others for his mistakes and then he actively chose to work out and become thinner so he can become stronger by himself without needing to switch bodies constantly
yeah, after little dan got his own glowup and training, his big dan body kinda became a burden which is interesting as hell
I've releases a good like 4 critically acclaimed manhwa are 'shown' to be bad via images, he never says them explicitly, 99% he did this for engagement, which credit to him, is working wonderfully.
@@problemperson4221 his big dan NEVER became a burden. It was only a burden because he was kidnapped in that body BEFORE he knew how to fight.
If he was trained by Gun, Big Dan would've soloed the entire verse.
Until it turns into gangism which is when it turns into trash. Plus Logan was definitely a one note bully, it just wasn't really noticed because he wasn't used a lot
@@pleasedont7439 Big Dan is definitely a burden. Whenever it goes MIO and then shows up in its UI state, it severely cripples or impairs the team as well as Daniel. The body is literally alive with a mind of its own that is only ever kept in line by Daniel's own consciousness. Its too unpredictable in my opinion to be long term useful tool
Weak hero is also a good one, it doesnt necessary focus only on revenge on bullies but used it as a motivator for the story and allows the story to be told and not restricted by only revenge on bullies
Yea weak hero and unordinary shouldn’t be in that trash pile
@@oli9973 fr like unlike alot of garbage revenge manwha john and weak hero actually are good plus john does not just stomp out niggas like their paper he does get hurt during those fights unless their actually shit
@@oli9973tbh unordinary had a good start but the plot goes so slowly at one point
@@oli9973Yeah, and Viral hit was never about revenge, Hobin became a youtuber to earn money for his mom, and his goals would evolve to stopping Jinho and his gang.
Edit: Looked at the pile again and saw that Study Group is there. Study Group DEFINITELY isn't about revenge, I think the title kinda speaks for itself.
Everyone’s entitled to their own opinion when it comes to media. That said, I also like UnOrdinary and Weak Hero.
You know the talk of all these bully revenge manhwa's reminded me a lot about Battle Royale, which is also filled with sociopathic teens murdering each other. But the difference is that no matter how terrible the bullies and killers were, they were never really the main villain of the story. They were just a symptom of a culture that bred them and gave them no other options but to exist in a dog-eat-dog world where they were given no chances and had to become harden monsters just to survive.
Then there's battle royale 2.... 😐😐😐😐😐
@grindyvin9354 yeah I know
Except people have free will and are accountable for thier actions. Its people like you who always put the criminals before the victims.
@@AmanKumar-ty8kc people have free will except that free will were corrupted by the situation they endured. I mean come on. They were forced to commit on a murder battle royale.
@@GrindyVine Not canon bro
I don't have any substantive analysis or anything I just want to say the line "Why should I be afraid of the dark? I AM THE DARK" goes hard as fuck.
@silversunset396
Man and when _it's _*_both_* the protag *_and_* the -deuterotag- antag being hard as 💩...
Man this should be animated...
@@ivoryas1696 I'd pay for the special edition box set of this.
Is almost a copy of "your locked up here with me" from watchman
@@Windwalker88
Eh, I feel like there's _something_ it's closer to than that.
@@ivoryas1696Batman quotes. "Why would I be afraid of the night? I AM The Night"
Hajime no Ippo was the best bully revenge. Ippo showed that he could beat Umezawa in a fight, but chose mercy. He spent absolutely zero energy or ill will towards his bully from that point on, and even allowed him to befriend him and work with his family. It overall improved both of their lives for the better and was inspiring. I used to get bullied a lot and I had that Bully Revenge energy that a lot of your detractors on that video seem to have. I wanted to destroy my bullies, but seeing a media depiction of reconciliation and redemption for what's usually just cannon fodder for the protagonist's abilities really opened my eyes. I didn't have to be angry anymore. I didn't need to fixate on the worst years of my life, exchanging my time in the now as I wallowed in the past, I dunno. It was a hell of a lot more inspiring than "You should beat your bullies up."
Hajime no Ippo for the above stated paragraph, and Vinland Saga's "I have no enemies" have changed my life for the better.
it's not like i don't agree with you on the topic of bullying in most places, however, considering where manhwa are made, there are many cases of bullying that are a group of kids picking on one single "weaker" kid, and the violence and bullying escalates from smaller things to bigger things. It does happen, and is probably more common than we assume. At this point the fact that it's such a huge trope in Korean media, indicates that it's likely a significant problem there. That's not me arguing for the one-dimensional bullies, I want them to have character development as well. I'm just saying bullying looks different country to country, case to case, and is often a systemic issue.
So getting a big ass sword solves all ur problems if your getting bullied 😂
@@yourtypicalexploiter1019 lmaooo not really, that’s not what I was trying to say at all. A lot of victims irl don’t get the chance to retaliate for the same reason in the video -> it could ruin their lives or make the bullying worse. I agree that a lot of these manhwa definitely leave a lot to be desired, I didn’t even read the one with the huge sword and only watched his video on it, I also appreciate the ones that develop all the characters including the villains, rather than just making the MC stupidly overpowered. I don’t mind if things are a little exaggerated or unrealistic in general though, one of my personal favorites is Weak Hero.
@@yourtypicalexploiter1019 if the sword turns me into Hulk
Then yes, short term solution
People just tend to see things with the only pov available, theirs, so as you said the context and place matters, in a little country like mine you'd be really surprised how much children of wealthy people can get away with anything, hardcore bullying, SA, and sometimes even murder, and the whole thing just end up silenced and the perpetrator get send abroad and that's it
That's corruption and nepotism for you
I think you're onto something and trends in media do indicate something about society producing them. However, it's also incredibly easy to draw wrong conclusions. Isekais start with truck-kun, so am I supposed to take away the lesson that Japanese roads are some of the world's unsafest and truckers the most incompetent? Or can we both agree that that's just the common trope other mangakas / light novel authors are following Yu Yu Hakusho and few other classics because they lack originality and more than often aim for familiarity?
It could be the same with bully revenge fantasies. Maybe significant part of the South Korean kids are bullied that severely, or maybe the need for these violent revenge fantasies is caused by something more complex and less tangible, like society that represses its citizens and those citizens then seeking fulfillment in somewhat extreme, yet harmless ways. Or this was just a stupid trend that caught on because it's same kind of low effort escapism like harems and isekais. It's really hard to say without further context.
I love the self improvement the mc had, and realized there is more things in life to live for, i remember i was such a bad person but later i changed when my sister was born and realized my mistakes and went to say sorry to every person i did harm to
ur goated for that bro
Bullies should never know happiness
@@AmanKumar-ty8kc yes they do have to know, i was bad because i had problems in other areas
@@AmanKumar-ty8kcnot unless they change
@@wodtozack1347 that's not an excuse bro, I'm glad you feel like you changed but you are still held accountable for your actions. Still it's not my place to speak on it, that's for the people who you've hurt to decide. And I'm not saying it because I'm innocent or anything I've hurt some people too but acting like that was a whole-nother human because of who I am now is not correct.
The video essay was already amazing in summary, but the edits man... they really made these fights feel so hype. Cherry on top to the video, DON'T STOP MOVING FORWARD!!!
Hell yeah brother
@@Living_Deadman where can I read shark?
@@Rainy_nightday just search it up but I should recommend bato
@@Rainy_nightday I don't think I'm legally allowed to answer that so all I can say is google is your friend
@@Living_Deadman allright thanks pookie anyways 😘
Love to see an author that understand there is a life worth living after bullying, and also making the villains actually know how to fight so it makes it more heroic when the MC wins. Honestly thank you for this video, I will read it and fuck it, might try to get a friend into it so she translate it? or at least tell me what happens later
My man was not letting anyone get away with their comments in his other video bro, I'm wheezing. Every time the manwha got good he said "SEEEEEEEEEE this is a good Manwha" lmao
42:49 Damn, that’s a cold asf line to say after getting both of your eyes destroyed
I am starting to belive that Da Hun survived the last time and just waited for the unpious godly MC to die and then change his name to Du hian and became pro boxer
23:20 Da Hun note
Maybe he got isekaied into a better manhwa after Seyoung killed him (truck kun was on a vacation)
Well personally, I still love "The Weak Hero", "The Boxer" and "Unordinary" even if the bully revenge in these stories is more set dressings than actual central plots.
Actually I feel I can defend all three as just as good as Shark on the "revenge on bully" alone part:
The boxer : is the easiest because the bully character has the same characterisation as Seok who now that I think about it, has the same characterisation as Bakugo from MHA
Unordinary : there is an arc where the MC gets revenge on his bullies while never breaking a sweat but there's nothing glorious about it because the other characters already moved on and tell him as much "We're trying to dismantle a terrorist group, we don't have time for your tamper tantrums"
"Weak Hero" this one is the closest to a revenge bullied story, but there is some nuance, the MC looks dominant but we know it would cost him greatly if he ever slipped up, the antagonists are all irredeemable jerks, but they are 14 different flavours of jerks.
i wouldnt call unordinary a bully revenge story, john did have an arc for that but it was more like the bullied becomes the bully rather than a bully revenge arc he was going around like a psychopath beating ppl nearly to death because he didnt like the way they looked at him, some of them did deserve to get beaten up but most of them didn't thankfully the story moved passed that and now he is going to become a vigilante like blyke, remi and isen
@@argy7526 None of the three manwha I described is really about getting revenge on your bullies, I just used that part since it was the focus of the video.
@@sjstronghold9238 true, for some reason whenever i see a youtuber wanting to show a trope beind done bad in manwha the ones they show most of the time have nothing to do with it
Man The Boxer is a Manhwa Masterpiece.
My Life as a Loser shouldn't be grouped into the same category as the rest. The characters are flushed out and the story is unique.
I reread it after seeing it in the trash pile of bully manhwas. Best ptj manhwa, and one of the best in general imo
@@gito4066 Great characters and different take on the bullying genre. Definitely PTJ's best storytelling. I have no idea why it's even in the same iceberg lol. Lookism still peak action tho.
Video Essay or it isn't good 💀
@@blackbearnumber1fan Lookism WAS peak, the title meant nothing to the story now. Imagine if ptj wasnt a pussy and stick to his own story. Lookism probably wouldve still been a peak manhwa, with park jiho being his best antagonist.
MLAAL is pretty good, a good length (unlike other ptj works that kinda stretch a biiiit too long), though i with it got a second season. i laughed when i realised the entire c*rcumcision arc got removed from english webtoon though haha!
Villains getting their own arc is absolutely the hypest sheet, you gotta build the bastard up if you want the take down to be meaningful
Your editing is CRAZY, and makes the fights really engaging to unfold, much better than if you were to simply tell and not show. As an editor myself, I can tell that those edits might not have been so easy to make, and might have took a lot of time to think about you could make them interesting. Thanks for the video, I appreciate the effort you put in to make things engaging.
Edgelord1988 has got to be trolling
His name speaks it’s self
Edgelord takes on a whole new meaning nowadays
@@realhumanbean7915 we didn't need to go there
@@realhumanbean7915 lol edge edge edge edge sigma ohio skibidi toilet lol!
No, there are people like that and they are many.
Your narration and editing is something else. I hope the manhwa gets translated fully cuz it looks so damn raw.
Finally someone fucking gets it. Rooftop Swordmaster was garbage, and didn’t at all feel like I could impart myself onto the MC. Shark did that. I’m a victim of a lot of shit and bullying is on the lower end of the totem pole, yet it still gave me PTSD. Before even knowing about this manhua I’ve been working on improving myself physically and mentally. I’ve never been to juvi but this character is so much like me it’s fascinating. I’ve spent the last 6 years of my life with only one goal, to turn myself into a living weapon. Not for revenge, not for some sort of bloodlust or justice or anything like that. Just to protect what’s dear to me, and God help any poor soul that dare threaten it. Fights are almost never one sided. You don’t come out of one unscathed, ever. To do so means you’re the bully, and it wasn’t a fight. This MC and I share this in common, we don’t care what others think about us, and we aim to be greater and more terrible than those who seek to hurt us. To be a a worse monster. Though I don’t want anything to do with professional fighting, it is a thrill to throw hands that I wish Id known when I was younger. At the end of the day, anyone who’s wronged me in the past is forgiven but not forgotten, and the only thing that matters is what I want and how I’m going to get there. This fuckin author gets it.
As someone who was bullied for years (not anymore thank God), I've always thought: "Look, I need to better myself. Getting bullied was a learning experience, and I have to grow from it.". Never in my life would I have thought: "I was bullied, might as well do some unhinged and evil shit to get my revenge."
I read these bully manhwas, not because they're masterpieces (cause most of them are bad), but because I like seeing them throw hands. Especially when they use real-life fighting styles, such as boxing, karate, taekwondo, etc.
Some of this "revenge" bully manhwa/manga is idiotic as someone who used to get bullied, the stupid manhwa like rooftop sword guy is a bad influence to kids, u killing someone is dumb, proof them they are wrong by being better, and thankfully i did
Same. The story telling can be mid but the fighting that is grounded and mostly hand to hand will always be a treat.
Study group doesn’t really fall into the bully revenge category tbh, bro is just chilling and keeps getting dragged into the gangster shit while trying to get his grades up (also lookism actually does have pretty good self improvement shit but it’s a slow burn and it has a lot of the strengths that shark has, such as the bad guys having character, etc)
Idk if it qualifies as a bully revenge manhwa, but Weak Hero is peak. Mostly because it actually has characters and the mc isn't the center of the universe.
The mc is barely anything in the universe, some people complain about it not having enough mc, but they dont understand how interesting the author makes every character and all the villains
Bruh lookism daniel when he got stronger and fought with logan he basically was like the shark mc he just says he doesn't care and doesn't want revenge against logan
Yeah especially when fat Daniel did it die the sake of others, not himself
Lookism isn't really even a bully revenge manhwa in my opinion.
@@NothingMoreThanAKoi it's more of a REDEMPTION manwha.
jesus christ those montages in your videos are absolutely insane, the first manwha video with this type of style ive seen. this is top tier stuff
I appreciate that the series shows fighting as both this violent and brutal thing for revenge, but in the little moments shows how just dedication to a skill can make such a diffrence in ones mindset
I guess you could say the theme is...
*...An eye for an eye makes the world go blind.*
I'll see myself out.
WOOOOOOOOOOAH!!!!!!🔥
✍️🔥🔥🔥🔥
An eye plucker will take everyone's eyes and guys like you will still defend him and stop victims from defending themselves.
And then the bad guy takes everyone's eyes and people like you keep defending him.
😂
Actually insane audio editing for those fight scenes btw, props to you
Not sure if Viral Hit counts as a bully manga but it is great. It’s made by the author of Lookism and fixes on a lot of its shortcomings (mainly pacing and character progression). It has one of the most realistic representations of MMA I’ve seen in a manga/manhwa and the character progression is done really well.
Exactly, I don't think he read it
yeah but it does unfortunately kinda fall off after a while
@@m.a.a9794bc of author change
@@m.a.a9794 Eh, viral hit should've ended at season 1 but season 2 is still good just a bit repetitive and Jiho lost his intimidating vibe and fell off.
Viral Hit should’ve ended season 1 but season 1 of viral hit will always be gold man. There’s very little realistic proper mma stories out there besides holyland. And on top of that Hobin is funny and acc a good character who wants more than just “revenge”, he just wanted to earn money for his mom’s hospital bills and reform himself into someone better. Major self improvement focus over “revenge”.
I feel like the extremely over the top nature of these bullies and the extremes they go to can be easily and quickly resolved by simply not making them highschoolers and instead making them adults dealing with actual organized crime shit. But god forbid manwha authors make their characters an age that actually benefits the story in some way instead of a 16 year old who sets houses on fire and runs a prostitution ring (aka juvenile offender)
Yeah, Gambino selling Guts to Donovan works because he is a literal medieval mercenaries, not some 16 years old bully. (I don't say what he did is justicable, I just said it makes sense for a mercenary like Gambino to do something like that)
Lookism fans when a manhwa isnt about school violence (their bully is a mafia lord who sells drooogs to people and somehow for whatever reason he is an expert at muay Thai taekwondo boxing and 99+ other martial arts. PS: he beat everyone when he was in juvie and he recently turned 17 years old) where the mc asks to train with a martial master (the said martial master would later be unalived by the bully on a fist fight)
Oh come on my life as a loser is actually well done and has an interesting twist on bully revenge formula.
Y'know, up until now I've never understood why there's so many rap AMVS. And yet you've managed to show me why they're so good just by editing a bunch of still panels.
If they're good rap songs they're lyrically dense, so you can fast-paced edits that match to the lyrics. Also it's the best way to go "epic" without going the orchestral route. Metal also works, but the lyrics often gets lost in the screaming.
My life as a loser is a good one about bullying, because the main character is the bully not the vitcim, he undergoes alot of character development.
it's also fucking hilarious
@@leedelcie2130 yes sir, ancheol the goat, him as pink man was so funny
I'm offended that this series isn't talked about more. I just learned about it, and I want the entire thing translated.
What I love the most about this manwha is the table flip of who's enacting revenge. With Se Young in RTSM, he does so many heinous actions to his bullies and other poor suckers after being given a buster sword and the body of Hulk, but the manwha bends over backwards to try to make him the hero and his vengence "justified."
Meanwhile in Shark, Seokchan also is overpowered and vengeful...but he's not the one being bullied: he IS the bully. HE'S THE VILLAIN, WHO'S *SUPPOSED* TO BE IRREDEEMABLE AND OVERPOWERED. He's like RTSM's bullies, but HE'S the OP and chilishly vengeful one that refuses to give up until they reach their goal. He's not a coward when his back's against the wall either; dude has nuts the size of watermelons. Instead of Cha Woo-Sol being a total demon, making the audience goe "he's just gonna flatten Seokchan; how boring," it's SEOKCHAN who's the vindictive demon, making the audience go "OH MY GOD, WOO-SOL IS GOING TO DIE."
Can you please tell me where can I read it . I tried to search it up but couldn't find any website to read it on
now that you've read a good revenge manhwa, and a bad one. you need to read one that falls right in the middle; Get Schooled, it has some very good moments, and some very BAD moments.
im curious what youd consider those BAD moments are. granted ive only read up to that secret teacher chat room part so idk if things get worse from there
@@xation6048 i think theyre referring to the racism arc which was terribly written and was quickly swept under the rug
@@crayongf no it was pretty spot on tbh.
Definitely going to give this Manhwa a read and really hope this guy makes a video on "Hajime No Ippo" because that manga is incredible!
Hajime no ippo is my favourite anime ever,great character development at each turn
Honestly bro your video essays are goated and they're so underrated, thanks for putting out a spiritual successor to the original one LOL hope to see more bangers from you soon!
This manwha reminds me of "How to fight" / "Viral hit" because it's really close "Shark" unlike the other bully revenge manwhas, love the series
The montages were so fire what the hellll. And the videos are so amazing too, definetely deserves a lot more attention
i might be biased and this opinion might be invalid but i think weak hero and unordinary have more depth than just revenged and most of the characters are fleshed out over time even the bad guys. i still like the video and respect all of the things you said and i agree with most of it
Ur right, manhwa like weak hero, unordinary and viral hit are good
Especially weak hero
Also when the show came out it showed exactly how much shit the MC went through to become who he is at the start of the manhwa
Weak Hero is pretty good ngl, i readed it because of the character interactions and their depth.
The small revenge part (which is just the MC's backstory) is just a bonus, and then you have Tokyo Revengers but better and without the time travel.
Weak hero goes mad deep, it unironcially is one of the few manwas that attempt deep world building and fleshing out many other people than the mc, including humanizing and treating the ANTAGONISTS as more than just bullies to be revenged on. And most of them didn’t even start as bullies to begin with so they didn’t need redeeming like that but they still got fleshed out.
Remove my goat from the trash heap. By the end you even root for some previous bad guys in fights.
I didn’t ever want this video to end.
Don't let this distract you from the fact that bungee has both the properties of rubber and gum
40 chapters in and I’m hooked.
Thanks for recommending this.
Where did you read this? I couldn't find a good website
@@legoldmanofficial8944I used Mangadex mainly. Also used some various scanslation sites for the missing chapters
You seriously have a talent for video essays keep it up
Fr I barely even watch RUclips videos cause of my low attention spam but I finished this whole thing
0:38 Aw man not the subtle shot at “My Life as a Loser” 😭 That’s like one of my favorite manhwa. I don’t see how it’s uninteresting or bad, if anything I thought it was kind of a touching “bully gets retribution” story, because the bully is actually shown the consequences of his actions. Also I found it pretty funny. Of course, the bully in the series is suuuuper over the top, but that’s part of the comedy of it.
Well the new season kinda ruined it
@@Danny43716 new season? I thought it ended?
@@sweet-nessu well it has a new season now
@@Danny43716 Yeah the new season kinda ruined it, but idk man let ptj cook
@@Eywhatwithyourattitudebruh true at least the show is still funny let's just think of the new season as a alternate reality so that the s1 ending is not ruined
You want a good webtoon!? Read solo farming in the tower! Now thats some grown man shit right there
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I like how not one single gangster in this series has a gun, so they all eat shit from one highschool blondie amateur boxer.
Man I can see why people like this manhwa , I was on the spot of the MC myself at one point in life , altho I did not go through as much as the MC did , never tried to kill someone , never got sent to juvie... But I had my fair bit of problems regarding dealing with bullies. The biggest one beeing that I almost choked one out.
I tried anger managment , I tried therapy , but what really helped me out was martial arts , I've been training for about 11 years and I can say I have changed for the better , I have grown to be more mature , more confident , more skillful and , overall , I like to think I've turned into a better person , long past are the days of trying to harm someone cause they pushed too many buttons , and , long past are the days of letting myself be pushed around like a sandbag.
I still have a taste for fighting , but now I do not fight out of anger , I fight out of the love of it.
Thank you for this video , Shark is without a doubt one of the best things I've ever read.
1:04 but I agreed with you? The manga sucked and did it terribly. I pointed out how the MC in that comic would make a good villain and the former bully the hero. I even gave an example of how that could work.
Edit: 17:10 Again, I agree with you. Idk why you put in the list of people who think the comic was good or that bullies deserve death because that's not what I was saying at all. In retrospect, I might have written it poorly but I was not saying that bullies deserve to die.
Final Edit: Great video, you did a great job and this comic looks great. And again, I wasn't trying to say that bullies deserve to die. I'm sorry if it came off that way. I was just trying to give an example of how a bully revenge story could be done.
Woops I had other comments saved for a different part of the video that got cut out, guess they got mixed together in editing somehow. Sorry for the friendly fire lol
@@Living_Deadman It's alright. I had a good laugh about this with my friends lol. Great video btw, this comic looks great.
Can’t believe there’s human beings who act like this just because they’re being protected by an online alias, there’s almost no way they really believe these thoughts
They do.
The ability to hide one's face, allows someone to be more honest with their character.
There really is significant numbers of people in the population.
Who would have embraced their more animalistic desires if they could.
Bud what are you talking about the video is great
@@Craigtheone-st7ne Uh... Yeah the video is great i was referring to the people who commented on his last video being the most criminally insane people to walk the comment section
@@xenobersejakkun7357 >>" i was referring to the people who commented on his last video being the most criminally insane people"
people are such. anonymity is available for everyone, even to the ones you dont like. let bygones be bygones.
If you like the mixed martial arts aspect, then there's a good mahwa called "king of the octagon"
As someone who was bullied to the point of becoming a shut in (my own depression and anxiety got so bad I struggle with interactions), I do enjoy bully revenge stories or seeing karma in action. I always was a firm believer that what goes around comes around and I don't really see enjoying revenge stories as therapy, I'm already in therapy as it is. But I agree with that most bully revenge manhwa lack tension when it comes to fights. Seeing the edits of the fights is really cool.
I haven't read or heard of this other than this video, but man does the fighting look good, the impacts look like they have weight behind them
This is so good man, I loved your older analysis too. I'd absolutely love monthly vids where you talk about underrated new series, that'd be incredible.
To not die and the boxer is GOOD, to not die has sick fucking fights but the boxer has better stories
I wouldn't say either are bully revenge manwha. To not die the bully ruins the mc's life twice but both times he is taken care of quickly and isn't really the focus. The boxer is similar the bully is beaten before the story even really gets going and isn't a focus past that point.
@@mr.protagonist5639 i feel like that's exactly why they're good manhwa's overall though, revenge isn't the vocal point but the progress and story is amazing on both manhwa's
Great video! I know these types of videos take a ton of effort but I will be here for all of them.
Ngl my life and the MC's life is somewhat similar, but not similar enough to be almost 1 to 1, but there is this one point that's similar enough to be almost 1 to 1 and that is the stabbing part, well the difference is almost all the guys is shitting on me, and the bully he stab and i almost stab is has a different sport, his is a boxer while mine is a judoka and the similarities only met at me snapping and the stabbing, because he run inside of a convenient store, so the guard stopped me from entering so i waited for him to go out and then his mom came and made us "do peace", and now for the reason for me to snap is him punching a chest dead center, and after that i trow away the thought of probability of what might happen to me and my mother after i kill him because all of my thoughts after he punch me is to kill him, and after the "fight" (it wasn't really a fight it's just him running and me chasing him) the mom of the bully didn't escalate it any further, and i got to go home and cry out of anger because i didn't kill him, but my mom made me realize that what would have happened IF i did kill him, that it would only ruined my whole life, but the bullying is not done after that, they kept shitting on me and my blood lust would keep on rising after that day.
Sorry for the yapping😅
Feel free to correct my grammar.
Please put down a dot after each sentence.
@@Ropewatch thank you for correcting me👍
I just caught up to where you leave off in the recap and something that really made me appreciate it all so much is when the protagonist sits down with two former gang bosses and just drinks and talks with them. Instead of further diving into the hatred and dislike, he briefly wonders if he can perhaps sit and laugh and drink like that with the bully too. He did not leave his humanity behind. not one bit. Even after everything. I think that's what makes a person truly strong. Not some overly power fantasy cheap ass revenge drive that destroys everything and leads to just more suffering in the end.
the art in all the other crappy power fantasy revenge manga is really high quality, but the overall charm that Shark has in its art style is radiating Tatsuki Fujimoto levels of scratchy but iconic penmanship that really shows that the artist themselves is working to put out their ideas into the light no matter how difficult it is to illustrate the concepts their ideas may be.
Dropping multiple fire edits in this video essay damn!!
See the amount of people trying to defend, debate, shrug it off or just straight up agree with that terrible manwha you made a video of is just sad, i can't tell if it's just edgy teens trying to be cool or it's just sad people projecting themselves as the MC of that manwha getting angry on the video, maybe both tbh
I fully agree lots of these are awful manwha but to group unordinary in there is a bit much especially considering the character growth that does actually happen and from my perspective it’s less revenge plot more a look on how bad government can actually be but that’s my opinion
Thing is, Indian society isn't as concerned with wealth and appearances as Korean one is. You're only saying that because India doesn't have as many bullies left unpunished because of their wealth when that's the exact reason why they deserve punishment you see in F&H.
There are a lot of comments under something like Berserk video essays, something along the lines of "this manga/anime inspired me to go fight depression/start lifting/etc". While admirable, it became ubiquitous.
But I'm a fucking lazy lonely loser pissbaby who is 27, never got laid in his life, my school bullies are way in the past while I'm currently on antidepressants, changing fucking nothing with my life until recently, with a job which has a risk of working with people and being assaulted. There is nothing to pity, everything is fine, I'm just a basement dweller of some kind.
Yet I never thought I would end up in a situation where this very fucking video made me finally scrape up the remnants of my balls from the floor and start boxing. I'm with a personal trainer for now, but my schedule doesn't allow consistency for group training. Still, the guy is some major champion of his native country and fucking slaughtering me every training. And holy fuck I enjoy it.
W comment, not any edgy shit that some emo ass kid says
I will not take this lookism slander, but most of your points about other bullying manhwa are right. Most of them are just brain rot made to farm views . but if you turn your brain off and watch the pretty lights and read Bullied Unga beats Bad Bully Bunga it can be kinda entertaining and it makes you appreciate good Bully Manhwa or just good Manhwa in general.
I feel like it's the equivalent of isekai to anime, there are good ones but people also turn their brains off to watch most of them. just something to relax and keep life from being too mundane.
he was gone for 3 months but cooked a 3 michelin star 8-course buffet
I was bullied a lot in school. I used to believe that in the end, bullies get the end of the stick. Now where I am now? It's been almost 20 years since I graduated. I'm a nobody. I'm not a CEO like those fantasy stories I've heard about bully victims. No, I'm still a failure in life. Have a job that I hate. Cant find a better job at the moment to improve my finances and mental health. While bullies I know are doing well in life. Is that even fair? It's not at all. But that's how life is compared to revenge stories in comics.
Life isn't fair, The only real question is, what are you willing to do to make sure you get what you deserve?
The world doesn't own you anything, if you don't fight for it, it won't happen. I was a bully victim for most of my life and I know that bullying sucks, but just keep sinking in your trauma without to climb out of the abyss is only give you more abyss to sink in. If you're not happy with your life, change it, in anyway you can and if you can't, reflect on the situation and try again. What happened to us wasn't fair and it wasn't good, but we can't die on that, life is much more than suffering for no reason
It sucks dude. But if it's any consolation no one is happy, your bullies are likely no exception
@@zannchristo Life is suffering.
@@talimancern7724 Life is life, don't put qualities on it to justify anything you personally feel. Life is just the open possibilities existing
Good video, but I do have some comments abt stuff you said regarding certain manwhas, 47:48 first of all, I don’t think the point of Lookism is just “If you were more attractive, your life would be better”. Although that’s seemingly what happens, not only does the fat version of the mc try to improve himself despite already having a 2nd body which is perfect, he also actively defends those who are judged for their looks. You literally see som characters like Duke not simply becoming an oncle, and instead pursuing his dreams, I’d say the message of Lookism is really more just to become comfortable with who you are, no matter if you want to lose weight or not.
Smthing else, although you didn’t directly cite it, you included “My life as a loser/ F my life” as part of the heap of trash revenge manhwa, when it’s opposite. The whole story revolves around the bully realizing his mistakes and making up for them without using violence, how would it even classify as revenge??
Liked the way you presented this story and plan to read and support it. I was a bully victim and this felt like the most relatable story to me. I think all normal healthy bully victims have limits and these mangas/manwhas often go fantasyland with it and it's not cathartic watching the protags entire family and friend circle be defensless to a bunch of teens then get instant power ups or find a magical teacher that trains them to become olympic level athletes. This shows the other side of the coin of bully victims who fight win or lose which is what most of us end up doing BEFORE the bullying gets to a point where it costs us our humanity. I learned that Bullying is a low effort and cowardly sport they won't bother you if you are a difficult target, it runs on fear not real strength.
there is a live action of this: "Shark the beginning"
Why is unordinary a part of the trashy revenge bully stories? Its not even about bullies
He got bullied crashed out and started beating the shit out of everyone who bullied and made of him when he had no powers
@@ghostme5743 that is true but bully stories are usually ended after the guy finishes his revenge story ( beats his bully) or just continue infinitely making more and more nonsensical bullies but unordinary is centered about a supernatural society. Sure the mc gets bullied first then becomes the bully himself but its a longshot fron the other bully revenge stories.
@@ghostme5743that’s only the first chapter lol?
@@notthebot3801 I think that happens after 30 or ch
Unordinary isn’t even about bully revenge, it’s a super hero dystopia. That confused me too.
Also why is Viral Hit and Weak Hero in that pile, they only start with the trope to attract readers but the plot of both is something entirely different.
And it doesn’t even take long. Hobin starts doing non bully related shit after beating Taehun and even befriends him and Weak Hero guy literally becomes a commentary on gang activity and humanizing gangsters.
Yo viral hit and to not die are both pretty lit imo (tho that’s because they move past the whole revenge thing pretty quickly) also high key the protagonists are insane in a really fun and interesting way (and none of the fights are easy)
Reading viral hit shit not too bad but just the bullying is really over dramatic but really like main character slowly but surely improving himself
@@lunymoon4684 well I don’t really think the bullying at the beginning is THAT over dramatic since at the beginning it’s just an asshole who’s bullying everyone in the class basically (and the story obviously raises the stakes over time so it may feel insane later but that’s from progression)
@@lunymoon4684 At least vhit characterizes its villians and they arnt over the top evil villians, plus the fighting is actualy fighting not a bunch of kicking and punching with a couple of real martial art techniques
Yeah viral hit is good but after the crew fighting againts lee jinho is kinda fell of to me, the way the plot save lee jinho is kinda irratating
@@Eywhatwithyourattitudebruh I need to catch up high key but I def felt some of these issues
23:21 THE GOAT IS BACK
your editing of the fight scenes was so badass and your format kept me hooked all the way through, it feels like i just watched an entire show and yet it was only so little! definitely subbing, keep up the amazing work 🦈
28:38 Dude picked him up like he's a doll
I understand you not thinking this is not regular bullying behavior by American bullying standards ,but bullying is different all over the world and is really prevalent in places like Korea where money and status of you're family dictates you're life, there have been actually real cases of these types of bullying happening to kids but it isn't exaggerated to this extent like in manhwa it's not only In manhwa where this happen's but in Kdrama's too that take from bullying cases in Korea and add them together to form an exaggerated view on bullying example the glory which I would advise everyone to watch, so the point I'm trying to make is cases like this happen but not to this extent, the bullies do tend to get away with it because of them not reaching the proper age for them to be accountable for their actions overall I understand you're view on this and see the point you're trying to make
To not Die manhwa would be a good recommendation after reading this as it also has proper characters
I love that manwha
I really liked To Not Die up until the timeskip.
@@stanharold7641 The time skip was a big downgrade for me. But it's been a while since I read the post-timeskip
When you putted viral hit in the bad revenge bully manhwa position i was really mad because hobin struggled and tried really hard to win his fights i have a theory that he putted viral hit there because he didn't like juvenile offender in viral hit the villains mostly all have backstrories only someone like pakgo doesn't have a backstory but almost everyone else has one
bro shut up
@@theartsurgeon7106 have you
read any of the ptj manhwa? If you didn't then you should shut up because you don't want to break your mewing streak right?
I mean it's not garbage their but it ain't great either
Shark sounds absolutely phenomenal. We can try translating it during our free time. Finding the raws would be a challenge.
The montage edits go SO HARD it's literally insane, I've never been huge into fighting type comics and such (I only clicked on this video bc I was bored and had some time to kill) but oml the edits ALONE make me want to read shark, bad translation and all
dude i hope your video gets enough traction so we get a good translation for this
also this has a movie apparently but i went through some of the major scenes and it seems too cartoonish ironically
Shark become the best MMA/fighting manwha and I love it, the drawing and writing never cease to improve. But I had to translate the Indonesian for a long time to keep up, the last few chapters are translated into English tho. There are actually 325 chapters at the moment, translated into English from 1 to 159, then from 305 to 325. It would be cool if someone were to take over the English translation, or if it arrived on a platform like webtoon. Random good manwha reco : Red Storm (big mix between shonen and seinen, we follow the life of a warrior, a chief, an homie)
Pick me up! (the action is hot, the thrills don't stop)
Peerless Dad (a widowed Daron who fights in a martial arts world to give his children a good life)
Her Summon (how to evolve as a person in an unconventional isekai, it's incomprehensibly beautiful)
I saw you bunching Unordinary with those bully revenge stories but I feel like it's a bit unfair, during the entire ark of the mc going full edgy beserk joker mode he's actually the antagonist and in later parts has some sort of redemption arc. I highly suggest reading through it and if you did I'd love to hear your thoughts about why you bunched them together.
Loved the video
unordinary is so bad bro
I agree, i think the main problem is that pple see it as a simple series... The mc going crazy after genuinely getting betrayed's entire purpose was to give the other characters, development and try to better pple after they realize they were just as bad as him for abusing their powers. Plus he was never justified for his actions they made it clear he was the bad guy and had deeper mental issues than "i was bullied, i must have revenge" and got humbled hard. Plus they took time to actually redeem him than immediately making him good again
But it's a matter of perspective, i think it's fine series knowing what it was trying to aim at... but not surprised if pple don't like it if they take it at face value
@@lupin8876 ur opinion is so bad bro
Whenever you go off on one of your rants, i get really excited because yes we CAN have our satisfying revenge stories AND a cohesive plot with interesting characters!
Fuck, I was sent to the hospital in elementary school from "bullies" and ended up being able to shut that shit down at the ass-end of middle school because I learned to fight (aaaand was a 5'11" 14 year old girl lmfao) This is WAY more satisfying than the power fantasy shit!
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I wrote "Bisexual Swordmaster" as a proof of concept that these guys wouldnt enjoy it quite so much if it was a queer guy getting revenge on rich pricks who went after him again and again because they were offended he survived getting Bashed.
Funniest response was when someone called it "woke violence pr0n". Have you READ the original?
That sounds hilarious, where can I see that?
shark is a really good manga with epic art thet you don t usually see to bad they gave up o translating it fr
Can you tell me where can I read it
That bit about ADHD is true with therapy. It doesn't cure or mitigate it. It helps to make you conscious of certain things related to it or things just tangential to ADHD and gives you the assurance and awesomeness to better yourself. Even with medication, ADHD doesn't magically go away. Both help you grasp ADHD to be able have mental control over it and be able to utilize it in a nondetrimental way. Despite "Disorder" and "Deficit" being in the name, it is not a disorder. In addition, there is no lack of attention. It is just the extremely strong compulsion to mentally focus attention on something that only interests the person at that moment, which is why it seems someone with ADHD will be fixated on a past subject, "zone out", or seem to have their focus jump to seemingly unrelated things.
16:37 No, sorry, you're wrong: Having a twist where a battle ends because of a random lightning strike would be absolutely amazing. Your point stands about the rest, but I'd LOVE some bog standard fight to end suddenly with a random "act of god" event. Absolutely hilarious - and possibly a means for a character or two to reflect on how much whatever fight this was actually meant in the first place and move on in a fit of catharsis.
“Revenge is what a loser would do against a winner” bruh I swear to God if Manwha writers just realised this!!😭😭😭😭
Also your point about this exaggeration actually hit different,
Now I know this probably sounds like a reach but this is exactly the way I feel about Dubbed Goku vs Toriyama’s Goku
In the Dub of DBZ Goku is portrayed in that series as a superman esc character who’s the “saviour of the universe” to me personally I usually find this adaptation boring because it feels fake and exaggerated it doesn’t feel real at all
However in Toriyama’s original vision (Rest in peace) Goku is an actual character
He makes mistakes and is GENUINELY selfish at times
This struck to me especially when Goku dies against cell instead of a cheasy goodbye Goku owns up he says that he “was selfish and did whatever” HE wanted
This hits hard because a lot of parents do this, having an expectation that your child should just be another you instead of them and I’m glad Toriyama actually took Goku’s main characteristic of loving battle and used it to make Goku screw up like a person and have him OWN it
There’s so many examples I could choose from but my point is what Manhwa writers miss is that you can’t just make your characters have one trait and nothing else you have to BUILD off that trait
(Not really sure how I linked Manhwa with Shonen but you can use any sort of media and come to the same conclusion)
Yeah. Let all the ukarnians forgive the Russians and all and the SA survivors give up thier legal battles.
@@AmanKumar-ty8kc tf does any of allat have to do with my comment??
Bro I was talking about Manga, Manhwa and anime
Touch grass please 🙏🏿😭😭😭
@@RyomenAyeni225 because according to you they are losers for wanting avenge the injustice that's happened to them.
@@AmanKumar-ty8kc you are completely missing the context of the line
The point was that if someone is basically dedicating their entire life on taking revenge on someone else they are a loser, simple as that
You don’t see Ukrainians dedicating their lives to taking revenge on Russians
Nor do you see SA survivors dedicating their lives for the sole purpose of taking revenge on their abusers
So I don’t see why you are trying to link my comments to said things
@@RyomenAyeni225 ??? People literally wait their entire lives to get closure and overcome thier trauma. Which world are you living in. There are literally millions of pending legal cases being fought for decades around the world.
So having just read all of Shark after watching this video (btw thanks for the rec and great job on the video), I'm not sure Shark really counts as a "bully revenge" manhwa. It's a great series, but imo it's more of a full-on martial arts manhwa where the main rival character happens to be the protagonist's school bully. Like, Seokchan feels less like the bullies in Rooftop Swordmaster and more like a Vegeta-type character except not a total jobber.
Although I disagree with you that pure evil characters who love nothing then misery for others can´t be great antagonists, I still found this review quite interesting.