God Of High School Recap: “close/friends”

Season 1 / Episode 8, “close/friends / CrunchyRoll And You Say Charyeok City! Off the rip, you know this episode God of High School is about to be a mean mix of savage and tender. That random first round fighter is laid up in the ICU looking wild mummified after that Jaws attack. Park Mujin like, “Yeahhh I ain’t disqualifying Jegal Taek, cuz that boy might be The Key.” South Jeolla vs. South Chungcheong We finally got to see the Hooded Homie (that’s what I’m calling him), Park Ilpyo, fight and it was worth the wait! First, he gives his South Jeolla homegirl, Park Seungah, tips on how to beat that Goldberg looking muf***a, Namgung Po. Boiiii, she put the Chun Li roundhouse beats on that boy! Ilpyo steps into the ring to put the winning touches on this bout and starts by straight up telling Gwim Gi, “You can’t beat me.” Gi hits him with a left and right before Ilpyo comes out with the crazy Taekkyon slap style. Gi’s Charyeok arrives in the form of Gaara’s black sand but the hooded homie evades like Neo when he got drop code. Then he hits dude with the Falling Leaf Inferno kick that sent that man’s soul straight to the pearly gates!

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Jin Mori, who was watching this fight intently and surprisingly quietly, notices the tiger logo on Park Ilpyo’s jacket and knows his grandpa is somehow connected. Or at the very least that Ilpyo is wild powerful. The trio confirms as much on the walk home when they cite that he and Jegal Taek are on a different level,…