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The God of High School

"The God of Highschool" is a South Korean manhwa released as a webtoon written and illustrated by Yongie Park. It has been serialized in Naver Corporation's webtoon platform Naver Webtoon from April 2011 to December 2022, with the individual chapters collected and published by Imageframe under their Root label into four volumes as of January 2023. It received official English translations by Line Webtoon beginning in July 2014. It has received a mobile game and an original net animation (ONA) short attached to the aforementioned game's original soundtrack. An anime television series adaptation produced by MAPPA aired from July to September 2020. The action takes place and involves the inhabitants of three different realms, the Human Realm is mainly populated by humans and identical to our known world. It is the least powerful realm followed by the Sage Realm and then the Heavenly Realm at the highest. The Sage Realm , also known as the Demon Realm, Taoist World or Other World. It is populated by various mythical creatures, spirits and monsters such as dragons, Minotaurs, Phoenixes. The Heavenly Realm is home to many powerful gods of various mythologies and legends like the Jade Emperor, Michael the Archangel and Hercules. At the dawn of time, humans, demons and gods lived together on Earth. The gods allowed the weak humans to borrow their powers, creating the "Borrowed Power" system so they could defend themselves from the demons who wanted to rule over them. Shortly after the demon defeat, the gods split up the humans, demons and gods among the three realms. Humans are since able to use Borrowed Power freely but are not allowed to attack gods with it. 

The main protagonist is Mori Jin, a 17 year old martial artist from Seoul. At the beginning, he is invited to join a Martial Arts tournament called "The God of High School". The event, sponsored by a shady corporation, brings together people from high schools all over South Korea on a regional and then, national level in order to select three representatives for the World Tournament. As a prize, the winner gets his wish fulfilled by the hosting corporation, no question asked. This intrigues Mori, and as he continues through the tournament, he meets many competitors each with a different way of fighting. Martial arts aside, participants fight by using "borrowed power", a mystical energy granted by supernatural entities, hence the name borrowed power. During the opening rounds, he comes across two other martial arts prodigies, Full-Contact Karate expert Daewi Han and epeeist master Mira Yoo. These two would befriend Mori after their fights with him, and will become teamed together as the Korean Team after the preliminary rounds. As the tournament's preliminary rounds finish and teams assemble, plans for many different people within the organization, and those pitted against them begin to make their moves to achieve their goals. 


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