God of High School

About

God of High school is a manga webcomic created by Yongje Park, and published by Naver. It follows a boy named Jin Mo-Ri, a 17-year-old martial artist from Seoul, South Korea who is invited to join a Martial Arts tournament called "The God of High School" (or GOH), where the winner gets his wish fulfilled by the hosting corporation.

History

Yongje Park launched The God of High School in Naver's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon on April 8, 2011. Its first collected volume was published by Imageframe under their Root label on January 31, 2017.

God of High School Video Game

On August 14, 2014, YD Online announced that they had acquired IP rights for The God of High School to develop a game based on the webtoon. A mobile role-playing game titled God Of High School was released in 2017. On June 2018, it has exceeded 1 million downloads on Google Play.(shown below)

Anime Adaptation

An anime television series adaptation was announced in February 2020. MAPPA is animating the series, with Sola Entertainment providing production management, is directed by Sunghoo Park, with scripts by Kiyoko Yoshimura, Manabu Akita designing the characters, and Arisa Okehazama composing the music and Crunchyroll is producing the series.^[4] It will premiere on July 6, 2020. (shown below)

Fandom

The webtoon has grown very popular and has been translated into English by Naver.^[2] According to Tom Akel, head of Line Webtoon, the site that hosts the series, the series' installments are read by 10 million people. The webtoon's subreddit, /r/godofhighschool, has over 12,000 readers.^[3]

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