
Is The God of High School Worth Reading? Review & Where to Read
Some of the best fight art you'll ever see, bolted onto a plot that completely loses the plot — worth it for the spectacle alone.
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It's deliberately excruciating to read — that squirming, exposed feeling of being thirteen — and that's exactly what makes it brilliant.

Fifty years on, it's still one of the most relentless, upsetting survival-horror manga ever made — dated melodrama and all.

Few fantasy manga are this gorgeous or this quietly sad — it stumbles a little once it settles into a magic school, but the spell mostly holds.

The second-chance hook makes Nie Li a hero who plans three steps ahead — more fun than the usual cultivation grind, even if all that foreknowledge drains the suspense.

The art alone is worth the click — but the real trick is somehow making you root for a romance between a fairy and a walking suit of armor.

Pure cultivation junk food: switch your brain off, watch the arrogant young masters get humbled, and don't expect much more than that.

Classic cultivation comfort food — endless training, tournaments, and power-ups — pulled off on a bigger, more polished scale than most, if you don't mind the grind.

Mitsumi is the most endearing klutz in recent manga, and the whole thing is so warm and observant that it's hard not to fall for it.

Kyoko is one of the best heroines in shojo — funny, fierce, and impossible not to love — even if the romance crawls along for 50-plus volumes.

The kiss-and-see-the-future gimmick is a great romcom engine and the art is gorgeous — just don't poke too hard at how the precognition actually works.