Overall, I enjoyed the anime but the problems I had with it was that it was very rushed. The animation is absolutly amazing, as is the music (except maybe in the last fight scene, it's very rare that a pop (ish) song goes well with a dramatic fight scene), with it managing to actually get my heart racing a few times. Especially with (trying to avoid spoilers so I'll keep it vague) the fight scene at the end of episode ten. The mix of amazing animation, interesting concept and music made the scene, in my opinion, fantastic to watch.
However, other than that God of High School tends to fall flat in other aspects. The character development feels a little rushed for some characters, with really good moments one episodes and in others it's entirely glossed over. I realise this is definitely the curse of trying to fit such a large bit of webtoon (which I have yet to finish reading) into a 13 episode anime, but still it's somewhat annoying to have huge moments of development followed by pretty much nothing. The pacing is also... horrible. It was okay at first as quite a few animes rush into things to get it going, espiecally with 13/12 episode animes but the problem with GOH is that it's constant. Things happen, that thing is resolved and then often something escalates and then is easily dealt with - this doesn't help by some of the scenes and ideas being rather predictable.
One thing I also kind of disliked that took me out of the ending (tho tbh the bloody music already took me out. I was really enjoying the kind of gospel/classical music they would play during the big fight scene, especially the drum type music they used for episode 10 - I don't know what kind of music you'd call that lol. But this pop song really took me out of and just kind of made me roll my eyes? It just felt really out of place and I know it's meant to go with the 'friendship!' thing they were going for but for the imagery and fighting they were using it didn't feel right. The ending song playing over the more light hearted stuff made sense though but I'm still not entirely sure what they were trying to achieve with this playing over the fight scene) was that it ended too quick? The fight was amazing and I really enjoyed the characters who's abilities as fighters develop throughout the show (though some of it was rushed) playing off eachother well but as a whole it just ended too quick for me.
I liked the characters, Mira is an intersting character I enjoyed seeing on screen and so is Mori. The character design also! It was really cool seeing such distinctive designs. The concept is also amazing and it's such a shame the anime doesn't seem to deliver on showing this concept off properly.
As a whole, I really enjoyed watching it as who doesn't like a well animated fight scene with good music? I really wished the show developed some of it's more interesting aspects, especially the abilities that the fighters have, as well as the actual God of High School itself because for some reason the entire tournament felt a little glossed over? But other than that it was a good watch and I'm giving it a solid 7.
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