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Jin Mori

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Voiced by: Tatsumaru Tachibana (Japanese), Robbie Daymond (English)

The protagonist of the story. A teenager raised solely by his grandfather in the woods, all he really knows how to do is fight, eat, and sleep. He's very good at all three. His role in the story kicks off after he's finally beaten down by a man representing the God of High School tournament just before his 300th street brawl victory. Enticed by the prospect of interesting people to fight, he joins the God of High School tournament solely to test himself against the best.


  • 100% Heroism Rating: At the end of the series, Mori is beloved by all after he defeats Mubong as the Supreme God and thus saves humanity from extinction. Everyone knows him by name and is excited to see him walking down the streets. Anhan notes that she never needs to buy groceries because of all the gifts and produce that's constantly sent to his home.
  • All-Powerful Bystander: At the end of the series, Mori becomes the Supreme God who reaches Nirvana, letting him act as a Reality Warper capable of controlling all of time and space if he wanted. But he remembers what Mubong said about the system falling apart if he starts making exceptions for people, so he doesn't instantly fix his friends' problems to maintain the natural order of things and because he believes his loved ones will be just fine without his intervention.
  • Animals Hate Him: He hates them back. Daewi noticed that Mori is tense and even scared around dogs and cats, getting into growling and hissing contests with them. Ironically enough, he's the king of an entire race of animals, the Monkeys.
  • Armor of Invincibility: The Yongpyo, a mass of energy that takes the form of black jacket lined with yellow fur when equipped. It further enhances his durability and strength and can even be passed to others temporarily. When not in use it can also take other forms, which the Fake King used to cement his rule. It also comes with built in rocket thrusters,apparently.
  • Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy: An interesting example in that Mori doesn't want to use Charyeok because he wants to rely on his own powers to win a fight. Fighting with Ilpyo who's activating his Charyeok has Mori learn that, ultimately, using Charyeok you're still fighting with your own mind and body, leading him to realize that they're not that different.
  • Art Shift: When he's not particularly mad or serious he's often drawn in a chibi style, especially during his dorky moments where he has a rounded face and big buckteeth. When he gets serious however, his face becomes more angular and his eyes become smaller and sharper than before to the point of Bishōnen at times.
  • Badass Boast: As part of his Roaring Rampage of Revenge for the death of Hui Mori.
    Mori Listen up, clones. Starting now I'm going to have a funeral for my clone, Hui Mori, with the bodies of 400,076,000 of my enemies.
  • Badass Normal: He refuses to fight with borrowed powers, relying only on his own strength but fights on par with most users regardless.
  • Bare-Handed Blade Block: Humorously averted in chapter forty-two, where his attempt to do so ends with him getting hit on the head after missing. Played straight in the far more serious fight between Mori and the First Crown Prince of Heaven, albeit not without the sword managing to cut through his Armor of Invincibility and into his shoulder first.
  • Berserk Button: Don't use Northern Style ITF Tae Kwon Do in front of him if you know what's good for you. Don't hurt anyone he considers his friends. Seriously, don't.
  • Big Eater: If he's not sleeping, fighting, or watching someone else fight, chances are he's eating. This actually becomes a major plot point when his midnight hunger pangs cause him to accidentally eat a Sage's Pill, jump-starting his transformation back into the Monkey King. This trait of his gets played up by one of his alternate selves in the finale, who has grown obese from eating so much but has learned to convert that fat into tremendously destructive attacks that are Cast from Calories.
  • Blood Knight: Loves nothing more than a good fight and his reason for joining the tournament in the first place was to find strong opponents.
  • Blow You Away: Several of his kicks are so ridiculously powerful they generate localized tornadoes upon use.
  • Book Dumb: Played up as this for most of the series, but his grades are actually surprisingly good, to Mira's shock.
  • Brought Down to Badass: He loses most of his power after he suffered the rebound of using 250,000x his normal power with his Limit Remover and having his powers removed with Park Mubong's use of the Holy Grail. Once he regains his memories, he's still so overwhelmingly powerful compared to the majority of the competition that spends the entire tournament learning how to hold back in order to avoid drawing too much attention.
  • Character Development: Mori begins the story as a happy-go-lucky Blood Knight and Arrogant Kung-Fu Guy obsessed with becoming the strongest he can be and little else. But numerous humbling experiences and his growing attachments force him to confront the consequences of his actions and take responsibility for others in addition to his own whims. After regaining his memories of his past life as Sun Wukong, Mori becomes increasingly determined to avoid repeating his mistakes and stakes his life to protect other without regard for himself. Mori then goes through various stages of grief, anger, and loss over his failures and becomes cynical and despondent upon seeing the world Mubong has envisioned for humanity as Tathagata. But seeing humanity's continued resistance and others' willingness to sacrifice themselves for a future they might never see restores his fighting spirit in time to battle Mubong over the fate of humanity. He ends the story with the same cheer he had at the beginning, but a much more worldly maturity as he becomes a father figure to Mubong's daughter Taejin and the protector of all life in the universe.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: Ridiculously strong for a kid his age, able to destroy entire boxing rings with a single attack and kick people across a football stadium sized room at 17. Then again... he is a god in the flesh...
  • Chronic Hero Syndrome: Jin Mori has a tendency to go after small-time crooks and break the rules to save people even when it inconveniences him. This habit is what gets him into most of his problems such as nearly being disqualified from the competition and getting himself trapped in the Sage Realm.
  • Combo Platter Powers: As the Monkey King he has plenty of different powers, the Yongpyo, Ruyi Jingu Bang, creating clones for every hair he has, and the Kinto-Un.
  • Deus Exit Machina: After regaining his full power as the Monkey King the author shunts him into the exploding Sage Realm to save Sujin Lee, leaving him trapped in another dimension so that he wouldn't steamroll the competition in the latest Tournament Arc.
  • Ditto Fighter: Has a knack for learning someone's martial arts technique after observing them, using Daewi and Mira's techniques to compensate for his weaknesses during his fight with Ilpyo and even Ilpyo's own attack during their very fight.
  • Empowered Badass Normal: Once he regains his memories of being the Monkey King, he quickly becomes one of the most powerful characters in the story, wielding incredible magical powers while bolstering his already considerable physical prowess to godly proportions.
  • Expy: Yet another reinterpretation of the legendary Sun Wukong.
  • Exotic Eye Designs: Has four pointed star shaped irises that are bright yellow against black pupils. It's actually left over from his time as the Monkey King.
  • Eye Color Change: His pupils turn into four-pointed stars when things start turning serious. His eyes later turn blue when he accesses his true form as the Monkey King, then red later on.
  • Family of Choice: By the end of the story, Mori considers Daewi and Mira to be more like his siblings than simply his best friends. He and Anhan become Parental Substitutes to Mubong's daughter Taejin and they're clearly a happy family without any blood relations to bind them together, with Daewi and Mira being honorary aunt and uncle to Taejin.
  • Fantastic Fighting Style: Tae Kwon Do is one of the most well-known martial arts in the world... Mori's version... is not. It contains a variety of outlandish moves that range from unbelievably hard to absolutely impossible to perform in real life. The most mundane of the special techniques involves kicking a person's head in one direction, before kicking them in the opposite direction, before finishing with another kick to the back of the head. Not only is this ridiculously hard to perform in a split second the way he does it, but the fact that he performs this with one leg (meaning he's moving his leg to the other side of the person's head before the target even moves from the first kick's impact) ups the difficulty even further. It was apparently a form called Renewal Tae Kwon Do invented by his grandfather and the South Korean government after reverse engineering and improving a particularly deadly Northern variant during his time as a soldier, a form which is entirely fictional of course.
  • Flash Step: Bo-Bup note  is apparently a basic technique of Renewal Tae Kwon Do, created with the intent of being able to attack from any direction.
  • Foreshadowing: The ape-like apparition that Bongchim sensed while Mori was being resuscitated foreshadowed his nature as the Monkey King.
  • God in Human Form: It was clear from the start that there was something that wasn't normal about him and his unnatural physical prowess. He turns out to be one of the Great Gods, Sun Wukong, who reverted to an infant after the Great War for an unknown reason.
  • Godzilla Threshold: He refuse to use charyeok (borrowed power), since he insist on getting strong with his own power. In fight with the most powerful god of Heavenly Realm, he uses it regardless. Although, the "god" in question is his own clone so it's debatable if it counts.
  • Going Native: After being defeated by the Jade Emperor thousands of years ago, Sun Wukong was reverted to an infant and was eventually found by Taejin and taken in as his adoptive grandson. Even after Mori regains his memories of his former life, he identifies much more strongly with his identity as Mori, something Xuanzang comments on when she corrects herself after calling him "Wukong". Mankind even refers to him as a demon who became a god but learned to live as a human.
  • Happily Adopted: It turns out his grandfather picked him up after a mission in North Korea that left the entirety of his unit wiped out. Up to the reveal of his true nature he thought that his parents had died in an accident of some kind and never knew them.
  • Hot-Blooded: When he's worked up he shouts a lot and he never holds back in a fight. He mellows out with time though, particularly after the revelation about his identity.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: When he starts kicking prepare to run, as his power more than doubles when he starts using his legs instead of simply punching. Truth in Television, Tae Kwon Do puts a heavy emphasis on match ending kicks.
  • Iconic Item: His sleeping mask. He wears it everywhere so he can take naps anywhere. The only times he's not wearing it are when he's taken on his Monkey King form and the end of the series, where he leaves it with his adoptive daughter, Taejin.
  • Idiot Hero: Not particularly bright when it comes to day-to-day matters due to living in the mountains and only traveling down it to pick up groceries and go to school. That said, it gave him plenty of time to refine his mastery of martial arts. Unfortunately, his common sense took a hit for it. Subverted somewhat later on, when his clone, Hui Mori, explains that Mori only focused on the core subjects and did surprisingly well on his exams, meaning that he's more of a Genius Ditz than he's initially depicted as.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Mori may not care for some of the consequences that come with some of his actions but he is in fact very energetic and a happy-go-lucky person who is actually nice when he comes across people and is especially very kind towards his two friends. That said, he was much worse in the past.
  • I Hate Past Me: His opinion of his former self as the Monkey King after seeing how much of a jerkass he was as well as how his reckless actions led his people to be enslaved by Heaven.
    Mori: I'm not the Monkey King. I'm just me.
  • Laser-Guided Amnesia: He lost his memories and his power as the Monkey King after reverting to an infant.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Played for comedy.
    Mori: [while chasing a purse-snatcher] Stop right there you overly-used thief who's only here because the story needs one!
  • Leeroy Jenkins: He rarely comes up with a plan in the early fights and is frequently the one to break the rules and charge into other people's fights. Ilpyo even outright states that Mori's lack of strategy is one of his greatest weaknesses.
  • Magic Staff: The Ruyi Jingu Bang, the famous staff that can extend all the way to the moon note , multiply itself along with its master, levitate, among other things.
  • Manchild: Some of his dialogue would be better suited for a seven-year old than a seventeen year old.
    Mori: [complaining about which Judge he has to fight] I dun wanna! No! No! I want Yellow Hair! Yellow Hair! I don't want Glasses! Screw Glasses! I want Yellow Hair!
  • Mayflyā€“December Friendship: At the end of the series, Mori has more or less stopped aging due to becoming the Supreme God and the difference in relativity from zipping around the universe at velocities far surpassing the speed of light. Meanwhile, his friends on Earth are aging normally as humans do. Mira expresses concern that Mori's visit could be the last time they see each other.
  • Nice Guy: He's very cheery and kind towards people.
  • Nigh-Invulnerable: This kid takes a licking and keeps on kicking. Unless someone is far above him in power, chances are they're not going to be able to take him down without an extremely hard fight. As the Monkey King he spent a month and a half trapped in lava and come out none the worse for wear outside of complaining that his eyes hurt. Not to mention surviving the explosion of a planet!
  • One-Man Army: And how! Upon regaining his full power, the first thing he does is single-handedly wipe out 158,582 nephilims the size of skyscrapers (mind you, they were laying waste to an entire planet at the time) in all of thirty seconds. Later he single-handedly defeated 400.076.000 Apostles (Nephilims) alone during Ragnarök
  • Parental Substitute: In the epilogue of the story, Mori takes the role of Taejin Park's father figure. He proves to be doting and kind to her just as his grandfather was to him, but he's constantly away as he flies around the universe beating up Eldritch Abominations attempting to break into their reality.
  • Physical God: He was once Sun Wukong, the Monkey King and the Great Sage Equal of Heaven who rampaged through Heavens armies. Compared to most mortals, Mori's fully unleashed power lets him cause natural disasters with a single attack. By the end of the story, he's powerful enough to seize control of the Oort Cloud and turn it into an enormous Geunwoodin to rain lightning strikes down on Mujin powerful enough to vaporize planets. Following the final fight of the series, Mori has become the Supreme God in full and has achieved Nirvana, letting him theoretically manipulate all of time and space at his leisure and spends the epilogue killing Eldritch Abominations around the universe.
  • Power Copying He's able to copy most techniques after a single glance, incorporating them into his fighting style and creating entirely new moves when combined with his own specialties.
  • Power Makes Your Hair Grow: After regaining his full powers, taking on all of the remaining dragon bones as Ruyi Jingus, and unlocking his full potential as the Supreme God by taking in the Borrowed Power of all of humanity, Mori's hair grows out so long that it reaches down to his heels.
  • Pressure Point: Learns this from Nabong Chim after eating the Sage Pill. He can use it to knock people out with a touch, restore feeling in numb limbs, remove his limiters to increase his power at the cost of severe pain in the aftermath (ala Kaio-Ken), and block arteries to literally cause them to explode from the buildup and thus deal internal damage.
  • Rank Scales with Asskicking: The strongest monkey and the Monkey King, a veritable God able to challenge most of Heaven's armies at once.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: A sign that he's getting serious as The Monkey King. Later subverted as it becomes his standard eye color while fighting, though he reverts back to his regular eye color after taking the Yongpyo off.
  • Scars Are Forever: Has a long gash across his forehead that's usually covered by his sleep mask. His staff gets one too after being sliced by the First Crown Prince's Lightning Sword.
  • Self-Duplication: Much like in the original legend, he can create a clone for every hair he has, each of them only a little bit weaker than him with most of his memories, skills, and powers. However, they grow weaker the farther away they travel from him, and can even develop their own personalities should they spend too much time away from the original.
  • Sleep Mask: Subverting the stereotypical feminine connotations, he wears one everywhere he goes so he can take a nap when nothing is interesting him. It gets replaced by his Chinese headband when he enters his godly form.
  • Shock and Awe: Crosses with Weather Manipulation as he can call the Kinto-Unnote  practically anywhere though it's much easier if he has a large concentration of airborne water in the form of vapor or liquid to work with. His primary use for it is to attack foes with endless bolts of magical lightning, though he can also ride it and use it as a smokescreen.
  • Shonen Hair: Has Goku-style hair, a trait he earned from his grandfather's own unkempt hairstyle. This makes it hilarious when readers learn who he really is.
  • Skilled, but Naive: He's incredibly good at fighting... not so much at anything else. He often has trouble reading the mood in the early chapters and is innocently honest to a fault. He's also prone to going after robbers in crowded cities despite not knowing the lay of the land.
  • Sore Loser: Not at first, but he gets shell-shocked after fights he loses while going all out. The first thing he wants to do after regaining consciousness is to charge right back in and beat up whoever managed to defeat him. If he doesn't he becomes rather submissive in that person's presence.
  • Super-Speed: Along with the aforementioned Flash Step, he's able to pedal fast enough on his bicycle to keep up with a motorcycle while Mira is standing on the seat.
  • Take Up My Sword: At the end of the series, his adoptive daughter Taejin succeeds him as Jaecheondaeseong, and Mori leaves a Yeoui behind on Earth for her to use whe nshe gets older.
  • Took a Level in Badass: He actively learns from his fights and is getting stronger all the time. His biggest one is a bit of a retroactive example, where he regains his former powers as the Monkey King instead of gaining new ones.
  • Tranquil Fury: When he's angry he rarely goes into a flying rage, only wearing a straight face before delivering the mother of all asskickings to the idiot stupid enough to piss him off.
  • Walking Spoiler: Seriously, removing the spoilers from almost any one of these tropes reveals the rest.
  • World's Strongest Man: Acknowledged as such by Odin after single handedly defeating the whole Heavenly Realm and 666:Satan
    Odin: Perhaps you are the one the prophecy spoke, Monkey. The 'Almighty God' of The Universe
    Odin (after defeating 666:Satan): We have been completely defeated. From this moment.... You are Lord of the Heavens..... The Supreme God, Jaecheondaesong...

    Han Daewi 

Han Daewi

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Voiced by: Kentarou Kumagai (Japanese), Sean Chiplock (English)

Charyeok: Haetae

"I used to have a wish a few months ago, but now I don't really have one. If I had to have one... maybe helping Jin Mori to get what he wants?"

A droopy-eyed fighter that Mori meets during the Seoul tournament. He's the most level-headed of the main trio and is often the one who makes decisions. Contrary to his lazy-looking and stoic exterior, he was actually known for beating up entire gangs alongside his childhood friend. He uses Kyokushin Karate, the famous style invented by the man who wrote the Bible on Karate, Masatatsu Oyama. His wish is to get three hundred million dollars for his friend's operation. His charyeok Haetae lets him control water.


  • Armor of Invincibility: Gains one after receiving The King's power, as The King's Robe of the Sage recognize him as its owner. It has high degree of durability, protecting its owner from physical attacks
  • Badass Normal: While he does gain a borrowed power (a blue mascot resembling a Qilin or a Chinese Lion he saw on a poster at the bus stop as part of an ad), it can't really help him in combat most of the time as it's mostly there for healing through its tears with the occasional (and rarely used) shield against minor attacks, something it can't accomplish when its master is moving during a fight. As a result, he fights like this most of the time.
  • Battle Couple: Becomes this with Yoo Mira.
  • Brought Down to Badass: Unfortunately, the injury inflicted upon him keeps him from using his Charyeok at all on top of dampening is ability to perceive moving objects as well as his depth perception. That said, he's still far from helpless in a fight and proves essential in the G.O.H.
  • Blood Knight: Not to Mori's extent, but he enjoys a good fight as well, getting into many street brawls alongside his childhood friend Seung-Tae before the latter succumbed to cancer during Daewi's and Mori's fight.
  • Came Back Strong: Did he ever. To be clear, he gained The King's powers after being revived, granting him power over all of the fundamental forces of physics. Thus he's able to fight Gods that give Hui Mori trouble despite still having the physical abilities of a human.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: Not as blatant as the others, but he's rather strong and can punch several men across the room with a single blow.
  • Combat Pragmatist: When he really wants to win Daewi is more than willing to fight dirty, kicking dust in his opponents faces and sucker punching them during displays of good will.
  • Combo: His signature, based on the Four Pillar Gods of Chinese Mythology. The first move is the Basaltic Fist, a counterattack meant to destroy incoming force and return it with a powerful blow. This is followed by the Phoenix Horn, a Shockwave Stomp that throws the opponent off balance. The third move is White Tiger's Void, a furious barrage of punches and kicks meant to eliminate any chance of retaliation. While formidable on their own, the real purpose of the previous three attacks was to control the surrounding air flow, allowing Daewi to unleash the final attack, the Blue Dragon's Storm, shooting the air as an extremely powerful projectile.
  • Deity of Human Origin: Daewi is this after becoming the Jade Emperor.
  • The Determinator: He will continue to fight for what he believes in no matter what, going against opponents that should be clearly stronger than him on paper if it means protecting someone or something he cares about. His whole reason for entering the tournament was to save his dying friend leading to him pulling every trick in the book to try and beat Mori, only to lose by a slim margin.
  • Deuteragonist: Of The God of High School as one of the main characters of the story second to Mori in importance.
  • Disney Death: Subjected to one of the rare examples of this in the series by Japan's team, only being saved by The King coincidentally reopening the gate to the Sage Realm, giving Hui Mori the information he needed from the original to save Daewi through acupuncture. More recent chapters indicate that he's not out of the woods yet, and is scheduled to die during the finals of the God of High School tournament. He does in fact kick the bucket while holding off a half-dozen Priests to stall for Mira, but after being drained by Ultio R, the King uses the last of his life force to designate Daewi as his successor, reviving him.
  • The Everyman: He's the most normal out of the leading characters. Prior to the tournament he lived a relatively normal middle-class life outside of his karate, working several part-time jobs and having a nagging older sister at home.
  • Famed In-Story: He and his childhood friend were a legendary delinquent duo known as "Mad Cow", having beat up every gang in the Gangnam district by themselves.
  • Fantastic Fighting Style: His version of Kyokushin Karate involves dishing out crushing blows through a methodical sequence based on the Four Pillar Gods. All the while the moves are apparently manipulating the flow of air which he can unleash as the Blue Dragon's Storm, an attack powerful enough to leave a crater in a boxing ring. Oddly enough, it's based on a real fighting style, meaning it's simply exaggerated rather than completely impossible.
  • Handicapped Badass: Loses his right eye to The King. It hampers him severely in later fights as everyone he fights exploits it.
  • Heal It with Water: The water formed from Haetae's saliva can help close open wounds.
  • Healthcare Motivation: Daewi entered the titular tournament in the hopes of using the promised "wish" to pay for his best friend's cancer treatments.
  • Hidden Depths: His stoic exterior and minor Blood Knight tendencies lead many others to believe that he's just in the tournament for a good fight like many of the other delinquents who entered the fight (his association with Mori not helping his case), not knowing that the reason he's doing so is to use the wish to save his friend's life. Prior to this, he also held multiple jobs at his own expense to pay for his friend's medical bills while still sneaking in time to train. He's also amazingly good at Janggi, the Korean equivalent at Chess, outsmarting The King several times even when the latter cheated to try and get an advantage.
  • Honor Before Reason: Daewi does this in his first real fight in the tournament when his opponent trips during an attack and he stops to offer him help to get back up (getting hit in the face by his bat in the process), arguing that attacking him while he's down would be cowardly.
  • Killer Rabbit: Haetae, Han Daewi's Charyeok/borrowed power, looks pretty cute, specially compared to some of the other creatures that show up in the series. Even its abilities end up being mostly used for defense and support purposes. This quickly changes once Daewi gets the Jade Emperor's powers and makes a direct contract with Hae-Tae, when, alongside his normal water manipulation abilities, he becomes capable of firing light beams from his mouth just like Executive O's dragon, Changsik - but in an even greater scale, capable of stunning even gods.
  • The Lancer: The deuteragonist, Mori's collected foil, and his best friend.
  • The Leader: The most level-headed member of the trio who takes the role as leader of the team when the team tournaments begin.
  • Making a Splash: His borrowed power can create bubbles for shields and transportation. The blue mascot that supplies it can also cry healing tears.
  • Nice Guy: When he's not being pragmatic he's this, always taking his friends' wishes and well-being into account and refusing to attack an opponent who slipped and fell on the floor. After his friend died he admits that he only wants to make Mori's and Mira's wishes come true.
  • Official Couple: With Yoo Mira.
  • Only Sane Man: One of the only characters in the series without ulterior motives and is probably the least quirky out of the entire cast.
  • Red Oni, Blue Oni: The calm, level-headed stoic to Mori's loud, impulsive emotional.
  • Relationship Reveal: Is revealed to have gotten together with Yoo Mira near the end of the Ragnarok arc.
  • The Stoic: He's extremely calm most of the time, his expression rarely changes unless he's either in a tight spot or if something good happens (or if he needs to put on a cashier's smile for his part-time jobs.)
  • Supreme Chef: Judge Q stated that Daewi's cooking far outstrips anything he's had from the high-end restaurants he's visited with Mubong.

    Yoo Mira 

Yoo Mira

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Voiced by: Ayaka Ohashi (Japanese), Veronica Taylor (English)

Charyeok: Yeopo Bongseon

"I have to protect my Family's sword! Have you ever had that kind of responsibility?"

One of the people Mori meets and befriends during the Seoul tournament. The final heir of a reclusive sword style, her wish his to make her style known to the world over, saving her family's name in the process. Her charyeok Yeopo Bongseon enhances her physical strength.


  • Absurd Cutting Power: She can cut through clothing with a quick swipe from her bare hands. Give her a good sword and well... goodbye mountains.
  • Absurdly Sharp Blade: Can turn any sword she has into this, she can even cut cleanly through most mundane objects with her bare hands! However, the level of sharpness and its overall effectiveness skyrockets with a good sword.
  • Action Girl: She's adamant in her stance to remain independent until she can find a good man (when she's not feigning weakness in the process of doing so) and is considered the most terrifying member of the team in terms of the sheer killing intent she's able to produce.
  • An Arm and a Leg: She loses her right arm fighting against Nox. She tends to wear various cloaks to cover up her lack of an arm up until she obtains the arm Park Mubong lost fighting Jin Taejin to replace it.
  • Bare-Handed Blade Block: Casually does this to a katana with the back of her hand due to how skilled with a blade she is.
  • Battle Aura: Her avatar is Lu Bu, the infamous general from the Romance of Three Kingdoms. She gets feathery antennae in her hair, his famous horse Red Hare, along with dramatically increased offensive power that allows her to go toe to toe with a serious Park Ilpyo.
  • Battle Couple: Becomes this with Han Daewi.
  • Berserk Button: Don't touch her sword if you know what's good for you. Seriously.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: She might look a bit twiggy, but she's thrown men twice her weight when they try to grapple her from behind.
  • The Chew Toy: Downplayed, though a few of the injuries she sustains during the series are played for comedy, e.g. in the opening bike chase when she hits an overhead sign face first.
  • Cool Horse: Red Hare, Lu Bu's famous steed. As its name implies, it's bright red in coloration and is not only fast but can fly as well. It can also grow big enough to fit the whole team on its back.
  • Cool Sword: Has a double-edged sword with a yin-yang symbol for a guard that early on, but it's stolen from her after the first tournament. She later gets it back during her fight with Park Ilpyo, showing that it can teleport to one that it recognizes as its true owner. When she's at her best its sharp enough to let her cut through a mountain and the clouds above it in a single swing!
  • Cute Bruiser: Don't let her looks fool you, she's more than capable of holding her own in a fight and will gladly snap your neck with annoyed.
  • Determinator: She constantly fights hopeless battles in the name of her friends, even when no one but her team expects her to win.
  • Fantastic Fighting Style: She's the last inheritor of a unique sword-style known as the Moonlight Blade. Designed to be usable in any situation, it focuses on ending the foe decisively with powerful blows but also extreme counterattacks should the user come under fire. The fantastic part is when she's cutting mountains, clouds, and buildings that were nowhere near her target in half. Then there's the part when she can use multiple swords to generate a resonance effect to cause internal damage or... cause the opponent's clothes to explode.
  • The Glasses Come Off: A sign that she's about to use her Charyeok.
  • Master Swordswoman: She's incredibly skilled with a blade and can cut through almost anything with a wooden sword in her hands. Even entire mountains aren't safe when she has a real sword in her hands. However, she still has a lot to learn due to her preference for brute force and cutting power over flexibility more often than not.
  • Heir to the Dojo: Mira is the heir to her family's failed dojo as a result of her father's untimely death and her uncle's lack of talent, and as a result became obsessed with trying to revive it and spread their martial art to fulfill his Dying Wish.
  • Jerk with a Heart of Gold: She can be rather short-tempered and is shown to be distrusting and suspicious of any and all strangers but she's fiercely protective and ambitious friend, constantly defending her friends from active or preemptive danger and quick to admit to her mistakes.
  • Ms. Fanservice: She gets a number of panty shots throughout the series. Team Japan was kind enough to lend her a sweater when her school uniform was damaged... it has a boob window.
  • Neck Snap: Played for comedy in the early chapters where she pulls one on Mori for holding her sword in his teeth while getting it back for her. It stays like that for the rest of the chapter and the first pages of the following one while he spoke normally!
  • Official Couple: With Han Daewi.
  • Overshadowed by Awesome: She has trouble keeping up with Mori due to his absolutely ridiculous physical prowess and destructive power that she quite frankly lacks (but everyone is lacking compared to Mori), leading to her fears of becoming The Load. That said, she's more than capable of dishing out the pain when she wants to and is not to be underestimated. Both Team China and Team USA make the mistake of doing so, leading her to single-handedly knock them all out, even when one girl had channeled Thor as her Charyeok.
  • Post-Victory Collapse: Has one after winning her fight against Park Ilpyo.
  • Relationship Reveal: Is revealed to have gotten together with Han Daewi near the end of the Ragnarok arc, although they were separated soon after and the relationship presumably ended once Mira lost her memories.
  • Theme Naming: Many of her techniques are named after celestial bodies or the concept of heaven. Case in point, Heaven Splitter, Galaxy Cutter, Luna Halo.
  • Underestimating Badassery: Frequently the subject of this due to being the physically weakest member of the team and her tendency to lose her matches. Nevertheless, this fact also gives her the win several times because they don't expect her to be as strong as she is.
  • Unskilled, but Strong: While she appears Weak, but Skilled compared to the other combatants at first, Judge T reveals that she's actually this. She's too focused on using her own strength to overpower her foe rather than use the flexibility and swift counters of her sword style to her advantage.
  • Women Prefer Strong Men: She prefers men who aren't afraid to speak their mind and back it up too (but aren't boastful about it), but the main reason why is because she promised to revive her sword style by procreating the new generation, leading her to be very picky to produce the best warriors down the line.
  • World's Strongest Man: While she's considered weaker than Mori and Daewi, with the former being the Monkey King and the latter becoming the Jade Emperor, Mira is considered the strongest humanity has to offer, and is able to keep up with the two of them post-Ragnarok, something she forces Mubong to acknowledge when she fights him one on one.
  • The Worf Effect: While she's usually recognized as the weakest member of the team, she's still an immensely formidable combatant, leading others to trounce her with cheap tricks or overwhelming force to demonstrate their threat level.

Korean G.O.H. Participants
    Gang Manseok 

Gang Manseok

Voiced by: Tomokazu Sugita

A fighter with great strength even with his arms restrained in a straitjacket. He uses Northern ITF Taekwondo. He's in juvenile detention but participates in G.O.H.


  • Combat Pragmatist: A sadistic ex-con who practices Northern Taekwondo, a variant developed during the Korean War that emphasizes dirty tactics like eye gouges and strikes below the belt.
  • Extremity Extremist: Like Mori, he practices a form of Taekwondo. His variant however is noted to be Northern ITF Taekwondo, an anything goes variant that specializes in otherwise dirty fighting strikes like eye gouges, piercing strikes, and groin attacks. In addition, he largely limits himself by keeping his arms bound in a straight jacket, but will break them out when he gets serious.
  • Sadist: Manseok takes great pleasure in trying to humiliate his opponents as he brutalizes them, repeatedly demanding they say "please forgive me". He will continue to brutalize them worse and worse until they do.

    Go Gamdo 

Voiced by: Hiroyuki Yoshino


  • Defiant to the End: Utterly refuses to give in to Manseok's beating and nearly gets both arms broken in the process.
  • Eyes Always Shut: Gamdo tends to keep his eyes shut most of the time. The few times he does open his eyes are either when he gets serious, or he's in tremendous pain.
  • Honor Before Reason: Even as he is being brutalized by Manseok and can barely move his arm, Gamdo refuses to beg for forgiveness and stands by his principles. The only reason this didn't get his arm popped out of his socket was because Mori intervened.
  • No-Holds-Barred Beatdown: From Manseok, who brutally assaults his opponent and attempts to force Gamdo to beg forgiveness.
  • Warrior Poet: He's shown to have a very philosophical personality and is a skilled Tai Chi practitioner.

    Baek Seungchul 

Baek Seungchul

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Voiced by: Yūya Uchida

Charyeok: Oxen King

An absurdly gifted student who enters the tournament just to see how far his studies will get him. He uses a baseball bat as a weapon.


  • Academic Athlete: His whole shtick.
  • The Ace: He consistently tops the scoreboard in regards to grades and test scores (never earning below a 100) and is gifted with incredible martial skill, being able to wield a bat so deftly he can hit a person seventy-two times before they realize what happened.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Another one of his key traits is his ability to analyze anything and everything about a fighter and work out the best course of action from there. He can even copy moves like Mori's Shaft Axon after seeing it only once. It didn't do him much good against Daewi though. For this reason Daewi asked for advice on how to beat Mori.
  • Arbitrary Skepticism: He refuses to acknowledge the presence of the Oxen King in his head as part of his contract with her when everyone else in the main cast can see her!
  • Batter Up!: His preferred weapon. He upgrades to a Barbadium version as part of his contract with the Oxen King.
  • Blow You Away: Gains an incredibly powerful version of this as part of his contract with the Oxen King, being able to slice the tops of mountains with ease and extinguish an entire leviathan made of lava.
  • Broken Pedestal: Looked up to his father, a police officer and wanted to be one too when he got older. However, his father died as a result of trying to be a hero, his efforts wasted due to a lack of evidence against the crooks he captured. As a result, Sung-Chul is disillusioned with the law system and heroism as well as his father, but his interactions with Daewi rebuild it somewhat. After the timeskip, Sung-Chul has made it his goal again to become a police officer.
  • Combat Hand Fan: Gets one as part of his contract with the Oxen King.
  • Symbiotic Possession: Subverted somewhat in that the Oxen King became half-ghost and can still interact with the corporeal world, but she does talk to Sung-Chul quite often despite his refusal to acknowledge her at first. She's also invisible to anyone who hasn't awakened their Charyeok.
  • Ship Tease: With the Oxen King.
  • Teen Genius: He was reading classic literature by four years old, learned nine languages by six, mastered physics, chemistry, and mathematics by age nine, eastern and western philosophies by age eleven, as well as medicine and modern sports by age thirteen. To call him a genius is an understatement.
  • The Worf Effect: Beaten despite his seemingly overwhelming advantage to show off Daewi's hidden moves. Beaten again by The King to further demonstrate the man's sheer power.

    Park Ilpyo 

Park Ilpyo

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Voiced by: Kōki Uchiyama (Japanese), Griffin Puatu (English)

Charyeok: Nine-Tails Guardian

The leader of the South Jeolla team. He seems to have some strange connection with Mori's grandfather. He entered the tournament to heal his friend's leg which was injured in a fight with Jegal Taek. He uses a variation of the Korean martial art Taekkyon, which focuses on swift kicks and elbow strikes. His charyeok Nine-Tails Guardian turns him into a humanoid fox and lets him control fire.


  • Asian Fox Spirit: Legends speak of a kumiho that once served God but He feared its power and ordered its execution, and it retaliated by rebelling against Him and destroying half of Heaven before swearing revenge. In the present day, Ilpyo is able to draw on its power through his Charyeok and take on a sort of hybrid form vaguely reminiscent of Naruto's.
  • Attack Reflector: He is able to read the movements of his opponents muscles and cancel their attacks by applying an equal amount of force of his own, even if those attacks generate tornados and/ or fire. As a result, the attacks are somehow sent back at the target of the action.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: He's very good at analyzing fighting styles, their weaknesses, and coming up with strategies to exploit them. He often makes better calls than Mira (who is The Smart Guy of the main characters) about what's going to happen next in a fight.
  • Blood Knight: Enjoys a good fight and grins when Mori begins turning the tables on him.
  • The Chosen One: He's the Key that Park Mujin is looking for. The Key is someone who can remove the limits on human nature and allow them to defeat gods. Though it turns out he's not the only one.
  • Combat Pragmatist: He knows that he can't take down Mori in a straight fight, so he instead has his friends (who fully consented) weaken him by throwing off the balance in his ears and damaging his fingers and joints so that Ilpyo can beat him.
  • Combat Sadomasochist: Hoo boy. His smile only grows larger as Mori tries to punch his face in.
    Ilpyo More! More! More! Become stronger Jin Mori!
  • Cunning Like a Fox: Exceedingly pragmatic, analytical, and intelligent. It helps that his Charyeok is the nine-tailed fox.
  • Curtains Match the Window: He has dark blue hair and light blue eyes.
  • Determinator: One of the only fighters to get up after his HP hits zero, though his Charyeok certainly helped.
  • Extremity Extremist: He uses Ssamsu Taekkyeon a martial art that focuses on using strong, quick kicks which have Ilpyo fight barefoot.
  • An Ice Person: He can apparently kick so quickly that ice coats his leg.
  • Kissing Cousins: He and Park Seungah are second cousins, and Park Seungah is very obviously has a crush on him. It is reciprocated.
  • Mystical White Hair: His blue hair turns white while using his charyeok Nine-Tails Guardian.
  • Nice Guy: Outside of fighting he's a really nice guy to be around, leading to his deep friendship with his comrades who gladly consent to his plans at their own expense. His motivation to join the tournament was to use the wish to repair his sister's leg which was badly injured in a match with Jegal Taek.
  • Night Parade of One Hundred Demons: One of his techniques is named after this, forming countless foxes out of fire.
  • Playing with Fire: He can ignite bursts of concentrated air (like the ones Mori uses for his tornadoes) and shoot them as waves of fire. His Charyeok is the Nine-Tails Guardian, an immensely powerful being able to fight on par with gods. Naturally, he uses fox fire in his attacks which he can shape into foxes to home in and hunt down their targets.

    Mah Miseon 

Voiced by: Yuko Kaida


  • Amazonian Beauty: Broad shouldered, very muscular arms and toned abs while still sporting very large breasts all shown off by her revealing outfit which is a tube top with short shorts. The announcer in her fight with Mira calls her and Mira beauties and she has a ton of fans cheering her on to back up that claim.
  • Designated Girl Fight: Against Mira.
  • Harem Seeker: She joins the tournament in the hopes of using her wish to get a harem of handsome men.
  • Pro Wrestling Is Real: Miseon is an American Pro Wrestling champ and does pretty well applying her moves to a martial arts tournament.

    Jegal Taek 

Jegal Taek

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Voiced by: Kenjiro Tsuda (Japanese), Kaiji Tang (English)

Charyeok: Megalodon

A brutal fighter in the Meridional Gyeongsang Team. He has a hostile relationship with Park Ilpyo. His charyeok Megalodon summons a giant shark and its teeth to impale targets.


  • Arc Villain: The main antagonist of the Nationals Arc.
  • Animal Motifs: Long blue hair, an aggressive, dominating personality, calls enemies his "prey", and the charyeok Megadolon which summons the giant shark to impale people with its huge teeth.
  • Freudian Excuse: He was sold by his mother as a child to a Corrupt Corporate Executive seeking a successor, who then raised him on a Might Makes Right philosophy. In his young adult years, Jegal's become a ruthless psychopath willing to do whatever it takes for power and seemingly hates women as he goes out of his way to beat female opponents while they're down. When he cripples one of Ilpyo's female cousins during a martial arts tournament in the past, Ilpyo fiercely attempts to beat an apology out of him and he takes the defeat personally, seeking revenge ever since out of frustration at his own perceived weakness.
  • Omnicidal Maniac: A Straw Nihilist raised on a Might Makes Right philosophy. After stealing the power of the gods and going One-Winged Angel, he declares his intent to destroy all of reality and then himself.
  • One-Winged Angel: During the final fight against Jegal he absorbs the power of the Key and obtains the power of the gods, taking on a form vaguely resembling Sephiroth's (except with two wings this time).
  • Politically Incorrect Villain: He's a brutish jerk who makes disparaging comments towards the female fighters he faces in G.O.H.
  • Red Eyes, Take Warning: He has red eyes contrasting his blue hair and is a vicious, cruel fighter who impales enemies with his charyeok.
  • Sadist: Full stop. Noteworthy among the series' Arc Villains for being motivated almost solely by lust for power and a desire to hurt others, rather than having any sympathetic goals or traits.
  • Scary Teeth: Weaponized with Megalodon, summoning its huge teeth to impale enemies. His Thorny Road technique summons a whole forest of them at that.
  • Threatening Shark: His charyeok Megalodon summons the ancient giant shark to impale enemies with its huge teeth.

The Six
    In General 
  • Badass Crew: Although they rarely congregate in one place, a fight with all six sunk 10% of Korea into the ocean!
  • Godzilla Threshold: They all have their own lives and generally go their separate ways most of the time, but you know that things are going down hill when all of them are called together for once.

    Park Mujin 

Park Mujin

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Voiced by: Daisuke Namikawa (Japanese), Micah Solusod (English)

Charyeok: Longinus

"You can only know the true face of a man when he hits rock bottomā€¦ Whether he's the son of a tiger or rabbit."

A member of the National Assembly of the Republic of Korea and the Six. He organizes the God Of High School Tournament to obtain the Keys. His charyeok Longinus lets him form spears and control gravity.


  • Artificial Limbs: He gets a prosthetic metal right arm after losing his real one during his final fight with Taejin.
  • Awesomeness by Analysis: He's really quick thinker, able to improvise and think up alternate solutions well when his plans don't go as planned. Notably he could think up a successful strategy to avoid getting killed by Dusik Kim in a matter of centiseconds.
  • Badass Longrobe: He wears a Buddhist robe around his orange Hawaiian dress shirt after fusing with Tathagata and becoming the Maitreya.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: He has the power to easily crush an island with his borrowed power, and is almost always seen wearing a black suit and dress pants.
  • Big Bad: Mujin becomes this in time for the Grand Finale after the world turns on him, becoming the Maitreya and deciding to remake humanity by annihilating it.
  • Cast from Lifespan: Mujin uses his own life-force on top of the strain from increasing his power through the Cross to kill Taejin, leaving him weaker afterwards.
  • Combat Pragmatist: More than willing to lie, cheat, and use every trick in the book to win a fight.
  • The Comically Serious: He's taken aback when Mori simply gives the directions to his grandfather's house, with the caption even stating that Mubong's weakness is honest and straight-forward people.
  • Cross Attack: His Charyeok Longinus takes the shape of a cross on his palm to emit cross-shaped energy blasts and shields. Ironically enough, his main targets are devout followers of God.
  • Devilish Hair Horns: His black hair forms two small horns on top of his head. A Running Gag is that he tries to use hair gel to flatten them only for them to pop up right after. As for his morality, it goes back and forth a bit, but he's utterly ruthless and kills Mori's grandpa the minute they are finally reunited. They become a lot more prominent when he becomes the Maitreya.
  • Expository Hairstyle Change: Seventeen years after RagnarÖk, his hair has grown out much longer with white patches on the sides.
  • Gravity Master: His borrowed power can control gravity to crush targets, modify trajectories, rearrange an area's topography, and increase gravity over levitated objects to send them flying at enemies.
  • Hero Killer: He uses the borrowed power from the Cross to kill Taejin.
  • Hiding Behind Your Bangs: Downplayed. His hairstyle has two strands of his black hair in front of his eyes alluding to his deceptive, manipulative nature.
  • Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique: Prepared to use this on Mori to find out where Jin Taejin was... only for the teen to spill everything he knows just because he was asked.
  • Leitmotif: "Power of Mujin Park".
  • Light Is Not Good: His Charyeok Longinus takes the form of crosses, he wears a large cross as a necklace, and he's a merciless, malicious guy who's first seen casually destroying an island when a senator on it rejected his proposition. After merging with Tathagata to become the Maitreya, his hair becomes white and he's surrounded by a halo and wearing Buddhist robes, and wants to eradicate humanity so he may create a superior species.
  • The Leader: The current leader of The Six. And seventeen years after RagnarÖk, thanks to plenty of propaganda, he becomes the World's President as well as the special human cultural asset.
  • Leaning on the Fourth Wall: Played for humor in his argument about name changing.
    Mujin: Didn't I already tell you? I determined my name to be Park Mujin sixty-five years before I was born.
    Mandeok: One hundred years for me then.
    Mujin: Before this earth was created
    Mandeok: Before this Manhwa started.
    Mujin: I'm always just before you.
  • Manipulative Bastard: He always tries to manipulate things in his favor, not caring who or what gets hurt so long as it gets him the results he wants. For this same reason he is willing to supply the tournament's wish to Jegal Taek despite his clear Ax-Crazy and megalomaniac tendencies.
  • Meaningful Rename: His original name was Mubong, which means a purely perfect "once-in-a-lifetime genius". After he lost to Jin Taejin seventeen years before the start of the story, he changed it to "Mujin", because he no longer believed that he was the perfect genius that people praised him as after his defeat. Sang Mansuk gave his new name "Mujin" meaning — infinite potential, a man without limits.
  • Mystical White Hair: His gray hair after fighting Kim Dusik turns completely white after becoming the Supreme God Maitreya.
  • Sherlock Scan: He could deduce that Commissioner R got his arm broken after fighting with Mori and even where someone was hit and how fatal the attack was just by looking at a drop of blood.
  • Sinister Schnoz: He has a prominent nose and is a malicious guy who casually destroys an island, killing everyone on it, and is willing to make anyone his pawn to achieve his agenda.
  • Spontaneous Weapon Creation: His charyeok is named Longinus after all. He can conjure legionnaire spears out of thin air, with it up to eleven with 2400 Legion Spears.
  • Storm of Blades: His Longinus charyeok can form countless spears out of thin air to send flying at enemies, with up to 1200 Holy Spears of Longinus and later on 2400.
  • The Worf Effect: Post-timeskip, he struggles against an Elite Mook who happened to be channeling Beelzebub to demonstrate Nox's firepower.

    Na Bongchim 

Na Bongchim

Voiced by: Kenyuu Horiuchi


  • An Arm and a Leg: Jin Taejin tore off his arm, leading to a long standing grudge the lasted to the present day.
  • Badass Teacher: Impressed by Mori's talent, Bongchim takes him in as an apprentice despite his deep-seated grudge. The skills Mori learns prove very handy in later fights.
  • Handicapped Badass: His right arm was torn off by Jin Taejin, leading to a deep-seated grudge against the man and his grandson.
  • Magical Asian: Na Bongchim is Korean like the rest of the cast, but has the stereotypical Wizard Beard and a mastery of traditional Asian medicine that earned him the title of "Divine Doctor". He takes on Mori as an apprentice and teaches him how to use the body's pressure points to enhance his martial arts and heal injuries.
  • Old Master: He's old and he's Mori's master.
  • Pressure Point: The undisputed master of exploiting this. He can paralyze foes, heal allies, remove his internal limiters, and make your body explode with a single poke from one of sharp nails.
  • Revenge by Proxy: Hates Jin Taejin so much for humiliating him and tearing off his arm that he attempts to murder his grandson out of spite. Luckily, he fails, albeit barely.
  • Shout-Out: His specialty in acupuncture and the resulting effects are a clear reference to Fist of the North Star.
  • Training from Hell: Subjects himself to this in order to prepare himself to take in the power of the Sage Pill... only for Mori to eat it while Bongchim had himself tied up.

    Jeon Jaesan 

Jeon Jaesan

Voiced by: Takaya Hashi


  • The Archmage: The Great Magician and the most capable magic-type Charyeok user on the planet to such an extent that he's declared a living National Treasure.
  • Badass in a Nice Suit: His combat outfit is a stereotypical stage magician's attire.
  • The Big Guy: He's absolutely enormous and dwarfs the other members of The Six.
  • Big Damn Heroes: Comes in at just the right time to save the heroes from Sang Mandeok's assault and keep the U.S. from destroying Korea with nukes.
  • Hard Work Hardly Works: His belief in life and a motto he passed to his grandson. It bites him in the ass when it is what caused his grandson's need to impress him to spiral out of control, leading to Ju-Gok's transformation into a monster.
  • Heartbroken Badass: He dearly loved his grandson and his death hit him hard enough to come out of retirement to try and end the conflict.
  • Killed Off for Real: The strain of using several high-level spells at once and surviving an alchemic missile of his own creation eventually led to his death, but not before seeing Mori reawaken as the Monkey King.
  • MegaCorp: Runs one when he's not doing things related to fighting. It gets taken over by Nox after the deaths of him and his grandson.
  • Mind over Matter: Turns hundreds of nukes into a single missile aimed at Sang Mandeok's Charyeok. Before this he does a Sith-style choke hold on Mu-Jin's subordinates.
  • Teleport Spam: He can bend space to prevent this.

    Seo Hanryang 

Seo Hanryang

Voiced by: Hiroki Yasumoto


  • Badass Army: Believe it or not, he leads one entirely composed of hobos! They're integral to the defense of Korea against Nox's overwhelming assault.
  • Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep": All of his men refer to him as Boss.
  • Hyperspace Arsenal: Averted. He's actually seen carrying and lugging his weapons around, though usually not all at once.
  • Magical Homeless Person: He appears to be an unassuming homeless man begging on the streets of Seoul. In actuality, he's a member of The Six, the most accomplished martial artists and Borrowed Power wielders in Korea. Seo is a Multi-Melee Master without compare, wielding an arsenal of 108 National Treasure-class magical weapons from across history and mythology. His skills are so profound that he teaches Mori Hui, Mori's clone and a copy of the legendary Sun Wukong, a thing or two about wielding a staff and is powerful enough to injure the likes of a god like Zeus.
  • Martial Arts Staff: His preferred weapon. He's mastered it to such an extent that it can bend and hit the opponent from behind when he wants it to, exceeding even The Monkey King in sheer skill.
  • Multi-Melee Master: His specialty, having mastered one-hundred and eight different legendary weapons!
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: He acts like a harmless hobo most of the time, but when push comes to shove he can and will show you why he's a member of The Six.

    Kim Ungnyeo 

Kim Ungnyeo

Voiced by: Romi Park


  • Fights Like a Normal: Aside from her wish-granting, she doesn't have any other powers to help her in combat, so the majority of her fights are won through pure skill. Her hand-to-hand combat ability was enough to give Jin Taejin trouble.
  • Reality Warping: Her power is able to grant wishes with few limits as long as she's stored up enough energy through rest and nutrition. She has trouble reviving the dead though, with her other limitation being that she's reduced to the physical size of a toddler whenever she uses this power.
  • Sleep-Mode Size: She's reduced to the size of an infant whenever she goes all out with her powers. It takes her months to fully recover.

    Kim Dooshik 

Kim Dooshik


  • Badass Normal: Scoffs at the use of Charyeok and prefers to fight street brawler style with just his fists. Doesn't stop him from being one of the six most powerful fighters in Korea.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Has a massive scar on the right side of his face but he falls as more or less Chaotic Neutral on the morality scale.
  • Only in It for the Money: Absolutely loves money and fame and is more than willing to betray his allies if it means getting it. It takes a massive bribe from Mubong to get him on his side. Even then he sells out the heroes to Nox for an even bigger sum of money.

    Moon Giju 

Moon Giju

The Six's official apprentice and childhood friend of Park Mubong. He serves as Mubong's right hand man, but the two often fall into petty arguments. His alias is Judge S.
  • Bodyguarding a Badass: One of his jobs is to protect Mubong... not that he needs it.
  • Childhood Friend: Of Park Mubong.
  • Cool Sword: Wields Balmung, the famed sword of Sigurd and Siegfried, in combat. He's able to level entire city blocks with a single blow along with healing allies and shooting lightning.
  • Fiery Redhead: Inverted, he serves as Mubong's right hand man but is the calmer and more moralistic of the two.
  • Good Scars, Evil Scars: Gained one over his left eye when Mubong used him as a "friend shield" during training when they were younger. In this case, he's the good between Mubong and him.
  • Instant Armor: Gains armor on his right arm when he pulls out Walmung.
  • Shonen Hair: Bright red, spiky hair that shoots out in all directions.
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: He and Mubong come to blows on many topics, but ultimately they get along quite well and have similar goals in mind.

The Judges
     In General 

    Judge O 

Judge O

Voiced by: Yuki Kaida


  • Always a Bigger Fish: Inflicts this on Saturn's whale by having Chang-Sik eat it when the former was trying to eat O.
  • Ambiguously Brown: Explained away that his strangely dark skin color resulted from continued exposure to his Charyeok's flames, which tanned his skin.
  • Dragon Tamer: Commissioner O is the strongest of the commissioners, and his contract is with an enormous red dragon the size of an apartment building. And he won her loyalty by beating her in a fight, without the assistance of a dragon. He tames another dragon in the buildup to Ragnarok, and after the time-skip has a whole family of child dragons.
  • Playing with Fire: His Charyeok is a massive red dragon that breathes fire. He can also punch a tooth off the dragon to use as a sword (that abruptly bursts into flames to form a blade that can also act as a barrier).
  • Shout-Out: His dragon's name, Chang-Sik, is a references to another Manhwa written by a friend of the author.

    Judge P 

Judge P

Voiced by: Asami Tano


    Judge Q 

Judge Q

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Voiced by: Kenji Hamada (Japanese), Xander Mobus (English)

Charyeok: Joker

A judge who recruits and later trains Daewi for G.O.H. His charyeok Joker lets him use cards and a scythe.


  • Ax-Crazy: Once he starts fighting, he doesn't want to stop.
  • Berserk Button: Contrary to his behavior and outer persona, he actually cares quite a bit for the well-being of his co-workers. He goes absolutely ballistic after Judge T is killed.
  • Blood Knight: Enjoys fighting a little too much, even by the series's standards.
  • Death Dealer: His power involves the use of cards, allowing him to use them as magical shields or throw them as projectiles. His Charyeok focuses around the Joker Card, allowing him to teleport using the card as a catalyst.
  • Diagonal Cut: A variation. During his fight against Priest Axley he slices off one of his wings at an angle while the latter is rushing to save Priest Saturn. As a result, the priest doesn't notice the injury until Q points it out to him.
  • Made of Iron: Is more annoyed than hurt after being stabbed completely through the torso by Durandal.
  • Monster Clown: His Charyeok, the Joker Card.
  • Must Have Nicotine: Rarely seen without a cigarette in his mouth. It's even lampshaded by R.
    Judge R: [mocking concern] Q... you should really quit smoking.
  • Sinister Scythe: Gains one as part of his Charyeok.
  • Smoking Is Cool: One of the most popular characters in the series, is rather powerful, and is constantly smoking.
  • The Glasses Come Off: A sign that he's going full Ax-Crazy.
  • Work Off the Debt: Stuck with this since he's always accruing millions of dollars worth of debt from the property damage he inflicts when he fights. His first appearance post-timeskip has him washing dishes at a restaurant Daewi used to work at.

    Judge R 

Judge R


  • Blow You Away: He can create tornadoes with a flick of his wrist.
  • Eyes Always Shut: To emphasize his deviousness and status as a mole for Nox.
  • The Mole: He's a mole for Nox
  • Vitriolic Best Buds: Seems to be this with Q. Key word is seems, it turns out that R has nothing but contempt for Q and the feeling is mutual after the former's reveal as a mole.

    Judge T 

Judge T (Shim Bon-Sa)

Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki

    Judge X 
Voiced by: Tomokazu Seki

Nox
    The King 

The King/Okwhang

  • Affably Evil: Sometimes. He's actually quite polite outside of combat and visits Daewi's house on several occasions for friendly games of Janggi... which amusingly enough he always loses. For every other time.
  • Badass Preacher: His organization is almost entirely made up these, so it's safe to assume that he's this as well.
  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Every fight against him is this in his favor!
  • Faux Affably Evil: He's unfailingly polite and gentle in his mannerisms... while he's cutting you apart and gouging your eyes out. He also drags the Oxen King by her hair after defeating Sung-Chul in addition to forcing Ilpyo to kneel out of spite for the Nine-Tailed Guardian's actions.
  • Magic Staff: His staff can open a portal to the Sage Realm and is also handy as a melee weapon. It's later revealed that it also hides a Cane Sword.
  • Physical God: He's still able to casually throw planets around in spite of his advanced age. Just try to imagine how strong he was in his prime!
  • Really 700 Years Old: He's 1600 years old! Doesn't stop him from kicking everyone's asses.

    Bishop Sang Mandeok 

Bishop Sang Mandeok

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Voiced by: Yūma Uchida

Charyeok: God's Blades

One of the Bishops of Nox. His charyeok God's Blades lets him summon nephilim and conjure giant blades.


  • Affably Evil: To Mubong. The two see each other as rivals and even share a brotherly hug before they start trying to kill each other.
  • Badass Preacher: Preaches the name of god while driving massive swords into his foes.
  • BFS: His Charyeok, God's Blades, allows him to throw around swords the size of skyscrapers like meteors.
  • Light Is Not Good: He has white hair, wears a preacher-like outfit, and his charyeok, called God's Blades, summons nephilim and angels. And as a bishop of Nox he spreads spread the word of Nox while having the goal of wiping out humanity in a rapture.
  • The Power of Creation: He's able to create most things he can imagine, such as regrowing his arm with his clothes as well as the many swords he drops on his foes.
  • Storm of Blades: His charyeok God's Blades lets him conjure massive swords out of thin air to send at foes.
  • Villainous Breakdown:[[spoiler:He was highly infuriated when Judge R had planned behind his back to empower humanity, specifically so gods and humans will destroy each other, that he fatally wounds him while screaming at him.
  • White Hair, Black Heart: Subverted towards people who are on the same side as him, played straight against everyone else.

    Bishop Lee Sujin 

Bishop Lee Sujin

  • Action Girl: One of the strongest in the series, able to go toe to toe with Mori as the Monkey King and easily defeat the Ox King.
  • Anti-Magic: Her Pandora ability allows her to disrupt the functions of other Charyeok, making them veer off course if not negating them entirely with just a glance.
  • Attack Reflector: She's able to do this as part of her Anti-Magic ability.
  • Battle Aura: She gains a bridal veil and goat ears and emanates enough power to put the Crown Princes on edge.
  • Berserk Button: The mere sight of Jin Taejin's emblem (a white tiger that Ilpyo wears) is enough to send her into a rage. Renewal Tae Kwon Do is another offender that she seeks to crush with all her might.
  • Brought Down to Normal: She's capable of inflicting this on both gods and humans, but particularly powerful individuals will still retain a good deal of their powers.
  • The Chosen One: She's one of the Keys, a handful of individuals who have incredible powerful Charyeoks, particularly those of legendary individuals who left chaos in their wake during the course of their rebellions against the Gods. As a result, she's capable of unlocking a human's potential to fight gods, a feat that's normally impossible. Her particular Charyeok is Pandora and her infamous box.
  • Heelā€“Face Turn: Undergoes one after the forces of Heaven try to nuke her along with Mori and the rest of the Sage Realm.
  • Instant Armor: She's able to open Pandora's Box to don one, a turquoise suit with silver leggings that dramatically boosts her already terrifying power. It also exposes her ample cleavage and barely covers her thighs.
  • My Kung-Fu Is Stronger Than Yours: A literal example. She's constantly trying to prove that ITF Tae Kwon Do is stronger than Renewal Tae Kwon Do
  • Poisonous Person: As a result of the myth where the opening of the box released every ill onto the otherwise perfect and complacent human race, she's able to create various poisons and toxins virulent enough to even affect gods.
  • Power Makes Your Hair Grow: Activating her Charyeok makes her military style crew cut grow out into long, flowing hair.
  • Ship Tease: Everyone in the comment section and tsukkomis, ship her with Jin Mori. Which is mostly fueled by the way they treat each other.
  • You Killed My Father: She has a particular grudge against the southern Tae Kwon Do users due to the rivalry that resulted in the death of her mother and many of her fellow mine workers she considered family. Jin Taejin also killed her grandfather, the inventor of ITF Tae Kwon Do.

    Priest Axley 

Priest Axley

  • Affably Evil: He's quite polite and cares about his allies. The only real reason why he's an antagonist is his belief in Nox's teachings.
  • Brainwashed and Crazy: Seems to be subjected to this after He was captured by McDonald and become part of Morning Crows.
  • Cool Sword: The legendary sword Durandal, which not only enhances his power but can teleport to him at any time.
  • Clipped-Wing Angel: A literal example after Judge Q chops a wing off with his scythe.
  • Faceā€“Heel Turn: Sort of, from The King's loyalist point of view. Sang Mandeok and Ultio R brainwashed him to switch his loyalty.
  • Power Gives You Wings: His Charyeok, Shield of Discrimination, gives him a pair of angelic wings to fly around at high speed as well as ward off attacks.
  • The Worf Effect: Defeated by McDonald to demonstrate McDonald's growing power

    Priest Saturn 

Priest Saturn

    Priest Drake McDonald 
Voiced by: Nobuyuki Hiyama

  • Action Bomb: The other priests left him to self-destruct in hopes of killing Judge Q and Judge O. Thanks to his Charyeok, it doesn't kill him.
  • Ax-Crazy: Gleefully recounts how he killed Judge T and how he enjoyed slicing through the bodies of T's family.
  • Good Thing You Can Heal: He gets sliced apart repeatedly by Judge Q as revenge for Judge T's murdered. The priest's Charyeok, an enormous caterpillar, literally sows his body back together.
  • Would Hurt a Child: He fully intended on killing not just Judge T, but also his wife and infant child. Only reason he failed is because Judge P got to them in time and used her Marionette Charyeok to serve as a decoy.

International G.O.H. Participants
    Team Argentina 

Samuel Rosinante (Captain)

Carmen

Blit

    Team China 

Fei

Linmei

Xiaolin

    Team Japan 

Kyoichi Kusanagi

Midori Yata

Sugihara Oyama

    Team Macedonia 

Alexandros

Natasha

Violet

    Team Malta Knights 

Dante

Donatello

Alpha

    Team Poland 

Aldon Ski

    Team South Africa 

Mujahedin

  • Awesomeness by Analysis: Instantly picks out Mori as the strongest of Team Korea and asks to fight him first.
  • Master of Illusion: His power, Umdiji, allows him to induce wild hallucinations in his opponents.
  • Talking Is a Free Action: Averted. When he warped Daewi's vision he tells him that he's won, only for Daewi to use the sound of his voice to locate and pummel Mujahedin into submission before the latter could do anything.
  • Technical Pacifist: States that he wants to cause the least amount of bloodshed necessary, so he hoped to fight Mori in hopes of getting Mira and Daewi to back out. Doesn't do him much good though.

Azizi

  • Curb-Stomp Battle: Doled one by Daewi like the rest of his team. He stands out since he didn't get to do anything.
  • Wrestler in All of Us: Stated to be a grappler, but Daewi kicks his ass so quickly that he never gets to show it.

Zamila

  • Spider People: Her borrowed power, Pazuzu, which allows her to punch many times faster than normal as a result. Still doesn't do much against Daewi's single, more powerful punch.

    Team USA 
  • Badass Crew: As ridiculous as they look, they pose a serious threat to Team Korea during the competition.
  • Eagleland: Oh yeah. An American Indian, a superhero, and a football player on the same team, all of whom embody stereotypical American traits and cultural icons.

Anna

J-Doggy

  • A-Cup Angst: Wishes she had a rack like Mira's. Out loud. She does get it after the tournament though.
    J-Doggy: [while clutching her chest] Good for you. You have big boobs.
  • Badass Normal: She doesn't use a borrowed power. She still manages to nearly beat Mira.
  • Defeat by Modesty: Also gets stripped by Mira, much to everyone's displeasure.
  • Easy Sex Change: An omake reveals that she got a sex reassignment operation three years after the tournament. She would have gotten the surgery earlier, but he grew to like the NFL so much that she couldn't bear to see the disappointed looks on her teammate's faces as they begged her to stay.
  • Helmets Are Hardly Heroic: Is an antagonist by proxy of
  • I Know Madden Kombat: Uses football as a fighting style. It's not as pathetic as it sounds, allowing J-Doggy to give Mira a good fight before being defeated.
  • Lightning Bruiser: Extremely fast, strong, and tough, able to take most of Mira's direct strikes while keeping her on her toes the entire time.
  • Not in the Face!: Tries to punch Mira in the face after calling her ugly, only for the latter to snap and start pounding her face in with her forehead, leading to this trope.
  • Muscles Are Meaningful: Extremely muscular despite her height and a real bruiser in a fight.
  • Pint-Sized Powerhouse: Her football outfit is actually designed to exaggerate her height and width. Nevertheless, she is very muscular despite being the same height as Mira.
  • Speech-Bubble Censoring: After getting stripped.
  • Worthy Opponent: Considers Mira one after hearing her speech about how much she doesn't want to let her friends down, comparing her to a beautiful runningback.

Hawk

     Team Vatican 

Paul

John

Maria

Others
    Jin Taejin 

Jin Taejin

Mori's grandfather and the one who taught him Tae Kwon Do. He's apparently infamous in the underworld for defeating The Six and sinking a tenth of Korea into the ocean.
  • Badass Normal: One of the only true examples in the series, being completely without powers and only using his monstrous physical prowess and skill to overpower dozens of foes at once. He's basically the Johnny Gat of the series, since the bad guys consider him too dangerous a threat to be left free.
  • Badass in Distress: The bad guys managed to capture him after flinging dozens of Elite Mooks (each of them capable of holding their own against the main characters) at him and injuring his arm to the point that he had to cut it off. He only went down after a Bishop-class fighter (on the level of The Six) showed up to finish him off before being carted off to be brainwashed later.
  • Charles Atlas Superpower: To an absolutely absurd degree. For reference, in a world where practically everyone important has some kind of superpower to bolster their skills, he took on the six most powerful martial artists (all armed with extreme supernatural powers) in Korea and their disciples and won... sinking 10% of the country into the ocean in the process. Remember that he has absolutely no superpowers aside from his own strength. Let that sink in...
  • Defiant to the End: When cornered by a band of extremely powerful fighters with only one arm to use he doesn't surrender. He instead gives the Korean equivalent of the middle finger before preparing to give his last stand.
  • Friend to All Living Things: He's very appreciative of nature and animals, preferring not to do anything that would harm them unless he's really pushed into a corner.
    Taejin: [sighing in disappointment after destroying an entire mountain] The reason why I didn't want to use it [his Shaft Axon Kick] is because... nature gets destroyed.
  • Good Parents: Despite not being related by blood Mori absolutely adores him and the feeling is mutual, with Taejin dropping his usual instantly when they're together. The first thing Mori does when they finally reunite is to Glomp his grandpa and start cuddling and exchanging stories, with Taejin scolding Mori to tell him ahead of time when he was going off on a long trip, noticing how much taller he's gotten/more muscle he has, and asking if he's made any friends. The only exception to this is when Mori tells him that he lost, upon which Taejin begins barking questions about how and why it happened (though it's almost always easily explained).
  • Hot-Blooded: Where his grandson gets it from.
    Taejin: [shouting over an earpiece] WHAT'S OUR FAMILY'S MOTTO?!
    Mori: [shouting back] DO WHAT YOU WANT!
    Taejin: [still shouting] THAT'S MY BOY! OVER AND OUT!
    Mori: [to Bak-Mu-Jin] That's how we usually talk.
  • Obfuscating Stupidity: Very briefly acts like a senile old man convincingly enough to make the strike team sent after him do a Double Take.
  • Old Master: At least 70 Years Old and extremely badass to boot. Even in his old age he's able to easily wipe out a group of elite soldiers armed with the latest equipment.
    Taejin: Me? I'm Jin Taejin. And I'm gonna teach you some manners for breaking into my home! [asskicking ensues]
  • Parental Substitute: We don't know anything about Mori's parents, but if Taejin's relationship with him is anything to go by, the teenager absolutely adores and idolizes him. He's also the one who taught Mori his signature fighting style, so there's that too.
  • Shonen Hair: Like his grandson, he has spiky, messy hair that he doesn't bother to comb.

    Hui Mori 

Hui Mori

Mori's clone sent to save his friends with the gourd while the original saved Lee Joo-Sin. Hui is not as strong as the original due to the distance between them, but is more than capable of subbing in his absence. Although he considers himself nothing more than a copy that is to vanish when his job is done, his begins wondering about his place in the world after spending time with his original's friends.
  • Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence: After his death his spirit continue to protect Han Daewi and in the end he become the source of Jin Mori's borrowed power
  • Berserk Button: He considers it his charge to protect his original's friends. Injuring them is a very good way to make him very angry.
  • Boxing Lessons for Superman: Gets staff training from one of the Six to improve his technique in preparation for the final battle. They let him curb-stomp Heracles despite the injuries he took in the process of protecting the audience.
  • Cessation of Existence: States that he will lose more and more of his personality as his original gets closer to coming home, eventually only being an extension of his thoughts rather than his own person.
  • Clones Are People, Too: He tries to deny this at first, but this is very much the case. He doesn't share his original's Blood Knight tendencies and is far more polite and well-mannered when he's not angry. There's also his sense of fashion along with his inability to withstand spicy food, turning red after a single bite of spicy tteokbokki. The King soon realizes this and tries to recruit him by offering Hui a chance to live his own life.
  • Clone Angst: Averted at first, as he's content to serve out his purpose as a substitute until the day that he re-merges with Jin again. However, it's played straight when Mira's and Daewi's displays of kindness and concern for him make him think twice about the whole situation and about whether or not he can be his own person. Both of them acknowledge this and give him a headband to distinguish him from the other clones, which he gratefully accepts, but not without pointing out that it'll be left behind when he returns to the original.
    Hui: [While the audience cheers for Hui's performance as Jin Mori] My name isn't Jin Mori... it's Mori Hui....
  • Dead Alternate Counterpart: Inverted. In the finale of the comic, Mori rips holes in space-time to bring some of his strongest alternate selves from across the multiverse to aid him. Among them is a version of Mori Hui who not only survived and became his own person, but managed to settle down and marry Mira. Mori congratulates Hui on becoming a true "dragon" rather than a serpent-like "imoogi" right before Hui is sent back home.
  • Earn Your Happy Ending: with shades of Bittersweet Ending, he finally becomes his own person and recognized even by his own creator Jin Mori, but he died in the process.
  • Faceā€“Heel Turn: Mori Hui seems to be doing this, siding with The King to preserve his life and individuality. Subverted as he only do it to get access to The King's chamber.
  • I Am Not Left-Handed: It's revealed that during his rematch with Rosiante he wasn't using the Ruyi Jingu throughout the entire tournament, instead using one of Hanryang's spares. When Hui does pull it out, things turn around in a hurry.
  • Pre Ass Kicking One Liner: To Dante during the tournament while fighting off Team Japan at the same time.
    Mori Hui: Are you ready for a whooping?
  • Real Men Wear Pink: He has a decidedly feminine outlook on home decorating, emptying Jin Mori's bank account to fill the interior of his apartment with flowery and girly-looking furniture.
  • Scars Are Forever: Gains an eerie, snake-shaped scar similar to a tattoo across his left shoulder after surviving Heracle's Hydra toxin. Mira immediately calls him out on it.
  • Sleep Mask: Same as the original. He later swaps it out for a bandanna given to him by Mira so they can distinguish him from the original.
  • Skilled, but Naive: Strong enough to defeat a clone of a god and a member of The Six, can master technique just by seeing them once, but lack the experience to battle cunning opponents.
    Seo Hanryang: Weakness No.4: You Lack Experience
  • Smug Super: Initially reluctant to take lessons from Hanryang due to the latter being weaker than him in power, but he's quickly proved wrong right after making this statement.
  • Superpowered Evil Side: Implied by Rosiante's gut feeling that something dark is lurking in Hui's spirit.
  • The Worf Effect: Subjected to this when he loses to Judge R of all people to demonstrate how much weaker he is compared to the original.

Post-Timeskip
Due to the nature of how far into the series these characters first appear, a significant amount of the characters below are spoiler characters by default. If you have just started the webtoon or are watching the anime, you've been warned.

     Dan Mori 

Dan Mori

A student at Apricot Flower High School, a school that stratifies based on Charyeok talents. 17 years after the events of Ragnarök, he's a cheerful and hard-working boy who cares deeply for his sister Dan Ahan. He has no skill in Charyeok and is a member of the lowest "failure" class, but the newest iteration of the G.O.H. tournament plunges him into a web of secrets and forces him to discover his true background.
  • I Am Who?: He's repressed the memory at first, but he's Jin Mori.
  • Late-Arrival Spoiler: He's Jin Mori after reverting back to child form after his grandfather's death. He's not related to Dan Ahan but is living with her because of the guilt he feels from her parents being killed from his actions and her being crippled during Ragnarök.
  • Nice Guy: Despite his low-standing at school, he's incredibly selfless and offers to run errands for his fellow students (even if it means they're taking advantage of him).

    Dan Ahan 

Dan Ahan

A student at Apricot Flower High School. Unlike her brother Dan Mori, she's incredibly talented at using Charyeok and is considered one of the four "Divine Kings" in the school.
  • The Ace: One of the top-ranked students in high school. Her borrowed power involves channeling the Princes of Natak.
  • Grade Skipper: In a higher grade and class because of her skill in Charyeok.
  • Handicapped Badass: Walks with a crutch due to an incident in her infancy that crippled her. Doesn't stop her from being one of the strongest in the school.
  • Orphan's Ordeal: Lost her parents during the events 17 years prior that crippled her.

    Jung Mori 

Jung Mori

A transfer student at Apricot Flower High School who looks incredibly similar to Jin Mo-Ri.
  • Artificial Human: It's Hui Mori who he's related to, not Jin Mori. He's an artificial man-made clone constructed by Sang Mandeok.

Alternative Title(s): God Of High School

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