Veritas

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Alternatives: Synonyms: Veristas, Truth
Japanese: 베리타스
Author: Yoon, Joon-shik
Type: Manga
Volumes: 10
Chapters: 81
Status: Finished
Publish: 2021-03-07 to 2021-03-07
Serialization: Booking

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3.7
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Alternatives: Synonyms: Veristas, Truth
Japanese: 베리타스
Author: Yoon, Joon-shik
Type: Manga
Volumes: 10
Chapters: 81
Status: Finished
Publish: 2021-03-07 to 2021-03-07
Serialization: Booking
Score
3.7
14 Votes
21.43%
50.00%
7.14%
21.43%
0.00%
0 Reading
0 Want to read
0 Read
Summary
Gangryong is a high schooler unlike others. He has always had a dream of being the strongest. One day he meets Yoochun, who teaches him a powerful skill. One year later, people come to see him and announce that his "master" is dead. Because he was his only student, Gangryong has to follow them and go to a school where everybody has supernatural powers.

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Veritas review
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InformationGeek4
Apr 03, 2021
This is my first review. I don't usually bother with this but i had to make and exception for this manga because all I see are reviews saying it was great when it was just a stinking pile of...you know what.

First of all, the story goes to hell after about 30 chapters. I don't mean there are plot holes or that it doesn't make sense but it just goes from a good development to a very bad, frustrating and anger inducing one. If you don't like to get angry this is not for you.

Second of all, the main character is kinda cool but you start to see him less and less in the manga(at one point he's missing from 10 or more chapters one after another). I did say he is kinda cool, but there is also a bad part to him. He cannot make any decision by himself(besides fighting). He doesn't even try to see who's wrong or right, he just follows what his "friends" are doing.

And last of all, all the characters in this manga/manhwa are hypocrites. Nobody has a justified/right reason. Sure, you can expect that the villain cares only about himself, but you wouldn't think that the "good guys" are doing the same thing, right? The villains and the heroes in this story are like 2 sides of the same coin. They might be following different purposes but their methods of achieving them are completely the same. Crush whoever or whatever stands in front of your path using any method necessary.

Maybe this will not make sense to any of you and as such we cannot see eye to eye. I was not able to completely explain this because I'm not that good with words but if you feel like me and think this is utterly bad from any point of view you can pm me and tell me what you thought was bad about it. I'm really looking forward to it.
Veritas review
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Resiverence12
Apr 03, 2021
Story: It's not really unique. A persevering student finally gains acceptance by a teacher in martial arts that also holds supernatural powers, but is shocked to learn that the teacher dies not long after teaching basic techniques. The student then goes to a school for martial artists (semi-complicated - The school exists to steal traditional martial arts techniques passed down by families in exchange for artificial ki rewarded after winning fights) Pretty much being forced into the school, the main character sets forth to make a name for himself like a typical shounen. (9)

The art is pretty good. Nothing special. The manhwa is full of men with 6 packs and smoking hot ladies. (9)

Characters: This is what gets me. I absolutely love the personality of the main character. If you want to follow the story of a badass character (maybe like Ichigo or Naruto?) who starts off very weak (maybe like Ikki from Air Gear) at first, then this is the manga, er, manhwa for you. His dogged spirit just tricks me out. He acknowledges once that he might get some broken bones and get beaten to a pulp at first, but he will still fight in order to get stronger. Even with his idioticly determined fighting spirit, he still has a sense of humor which makes him a thoroughly enjoyable character for mainstream shounen addicts. (10)

Overall: If you're looking for a deep story or a meaning to life, then this manga is not for you. If you're looking for hot babes, ecchi, or a good romance, this manga is probably not for you. If you're looking for kickass battle scenes, badass characters, and lots of action, then I would full heartedly recommend this. I give this an overall 10.
Veritas review
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Hinatara1
Apr 03, 2021
Veritas is an action manhwa that contains a lot of common themes. That isn’t what makes it great. What makes it great at the themes it subverts. Where this manhwa shines are the refreshing protagonist and the good fight scenes.

What makes the protagonist, Ma Gangryong, refreshing? He’s a common action comic hero – dense, always looking to fight the strong, been taught by a powerful master, etc. However, the author built on this strong point – he’s basically a violent punk that just loves fighting.

No, really that’s him to a ‘tee’. He doesn’t care about school, doesn’t have any love interests, and the only reason he has friends at all is because they forced themselves on him. What does he preach, i.e. ‘his path of truth’ in shounen terms? Nothing. He cares about nothing except getting stronger. When confronted by people who tell him that they fight to protect their families, he mentions – for the first time – that he has a little sister…then promptly says he still never thought about fighting to protect anyone.

See? Refreshing. Just a violent punk who happens to be the protagonist.

Thanks primarily to him, we get plenty of great action scenes.

Unfortunately, the manga could use a lot of improvements elsewhere. Aside from the refreshing protagonist, it is cliché and dull in a lot of other ways.

The main setting of this manhwa is an exclusive school designed to nurture martial artists. Here, fighters can learn skills and challenge each other. This school is ruled by an all powerful ‘Student Council’ (of course…) who is led by the rich, intelligent, and powerful president. Sounds familiar, huh?

Additionally, the presidential election is coming up and there is a conspiracy to overthrow the leader, and this is the primary plot of Veritas. From here, you get a lot of the Batman gambits, underhanded plotting by crafty guys, and so on.

You see the same thing in every action manga which involves school in any way, shape, or form.

Aside from the bland plot, there is a problem wherein Veritas lacks decent antagonists. Unfortunately, the author has a love of basically two types of villains: The bloodthirsty lunatics (who always laugh with wide teeth) and the cold, quiet calculating types. There’s a few people in-between, but they’re rare and they get less prominence.

So in short, Veritas is great with the protagonist and action scenes, but has a generally bland story and antagonists. Overall, I’d still recommend a read if you’re into action with great art style.
Veritas review
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Aure-Aui1
Apr 03, 2021
THIS REVIEW CONTAINS SOME SPOILERS

One Line Review: Don't waste your time.

So this is my first manga review, and I only felt compelled to write one because I wanted to give potential readers a different opinion of the OVERALL series than the Top Reviews do. Honestly, I have no idea how they would rate it so highly, if they actually finished it.

I decided to read this series since I thought it would be similar to The Breaker, and was well rated by the Top Reviews. As you can tell by my score, I did not like it and hope to spare other readers from wasting their time. Actually the manga was quite decent ..... up to a certain point. I'll briefly list what I thought was good, and what was not.

Pros:
- The Art was good
- A MC who is sort of arrogant and enjoys fighting
- How important events that played out in the past of the school, gradually get revealed from many characters point of view. This provides some intrigue and advancement to the plot, as events gradually build up to a supposed "final fight(s)"

Cons:
- MC is absent from considerable portions of story. He also does not get into as many fights as you might expect.
- Quite a few plot holes and nonsensical things throughout story
- Although it's a fighting manga, I believe that there were quite a few things that could be resolved through some conversation. It's like these characters are too stupid to talk to one another and realize that their goals are maybe not so different.
- Many characters have pretty stupid/trivial reasons for their actions throughout story. Bringing me to my next point, and why I rated this manga so poorly:
- The ENDING WAS S**T. THE WORST ENDING I HAVE EVER SEEN in manga or anime. I may have rated this manga a 6 or 7, if it wasn't for the utterly garbage ending starting from maybe CH 78-79. SPOILERS BELOW...

SPOILERS NOW: So out of nowhere, one of the main characters decides to personally kill pretty much the entire school including their friends, for some stupid reason. Not only will this nonsense rub you the wrong way, but this has the additional effect of not allowing ANY of the fights you were expecting from the "final fights" of the Reunion students vs Traditional students, that you thought was going to happen just a chapter before. And finally, the character that will fight this other character, just barely starts the fight before the manga abruptly ends. Additionally you should know that the manga was rushed near the end and cancelled. So there will not be any sequel, further locking in this garbage ending.

So I don't recommend you read this manga. I hope I have helped some people save their time.
Veritas review
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Yokoai6
Apr 03, 2021
With the exception of a few comedies, like Sayonara Zetsubou Sensei, or Cromartie High School, manga and anime primarily set in high school absolutely suck.

The reason for this is simple enough; of all the exciting, interesting places to base a story, high school is just about the worst. Choosing this as a setting is simply pandering to one's audience, nothing more.

However, despite so much working against it, "Veritas" manages to pull this off. This is no ordinary school; it's a place for instructing exceptional fighters, set up by an organization called Reunion, which has mastered biotechnology and robotics at a level far beyond anything in the real world.

None of the main action occurs in the classroom either; instead, the manga is a series of tremendous fights interspersed with political intrigue and mystery.

At the center of all this is the hero, Gangryong, the typical, strong-willed, never give up, never back down street fighter. While at first just an ordinary juvenile delinquent, his life changes when he comes across Lightning Tiger, a tremendous warrior who begrudgingly takes Gangryong on as a pupil.

After Tiger's supposed death, Gangryong is recruited into the school as his late master's only student.

While this could easily turn into a non-stop fight manga, (not that there's anything wrong with those!) there is a great deal of exposition and mystery connected with Gangryong's sponsors, the struggle between traditional martial artists like Lightning Tiger and Reunion's own brand of synthesized, bio-engineered martial arts, and the battle for the title of the head of Heaven's Riches that includes the school's student council as well as its adult sponsors.

While the story is well done, and the fights are brutal, gorgeous, and exciting, the manga manages to include a number of funny, humorous moments as well. It never takes itself too seriously, which just makes it that much more fun to read.

The place where this work really stands out most is the style of the characters. They just look cool. Gold chains and pendants around their necks, bracelets all over their arms, beanies over their heads, (in one case) a tribal tattoo, and a generally cool, trendy vibe are a hallmark of every significant character.

The guys all have hard, chiseled facial features and a moderate, well-defined amount of muscle. The female characters have soft faces, slim bodies, disproportionately large breasts and ass, and a similar trendy, up-to-date sense of style.

All of this might seem besides the point, but it's not. Having the characters look interesting, appealing, and (gasp) like a bunch of trendy high school youths makes the illustration more entertaining and the story more palatable.

While it undoubtedly alienates a portion of its readers, who won't be able to identify strongly with most of its cast, it's a fine decision on the part of Veritas's creators.

In terms of weaknesses, Veritas suffers from some predictable fights and scenarios. They're done well, but on several occasions, the creators had a chance to change it up, but opted to go for the more familiar route.

2018 EDIT FOR THE 3/10 REVIEW BELOW MINE-

Yes, I read the entire manhwa. It continuously gets better and more interesting, and while the final ending is rushed due to being canceled, it's far from bad. For a series that is all about playing with and subverting the cliches of the high school shounen fight genre, such a plot twist isn't out of place. Moreover, it's sensible, given the story arc and nature of the character in question.

SLIGHTLY OFF-TOPIC RESPONSE BELOW, IGNORE IF YOU ONLY CARE ABOUT VERITAS-

Also, I don't mind anyone disagreeing with my review, but if you're going to specifically call out my score, how the hell do you then justify giving The Breaker 10/10? It's the same genre as Veritas except utterly generic, blindly adhering to the high school shounen fight conventions which Veritas was all about innovating upon.

Moreover, The Breaker ALSO had a rushed, last-second ending. Except in that case, it made zero sense, and was nothing more than a "reset" of the plot and main characters for the new series. In other words, none of the shit in The Breaker matters, and read The Breaker: New Waves to see how everything progresses from square one. Again.
Veritas review
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Ione3
Apr 03, 2021
In very simple terms. The characters are bland. there's no depth in this manga, it'd complete garbage in my opinion. I've read thousands of manga tried this out because people preached how good it it was or comparable to Breaker. It..is...not such an insult to such a great manga this crap deserved to be canceled in my opinion. Everyone sees things differently but to me it was just so flawed and lacked real emotion.


Characters: i didn't see anyone worth mentioning main character is dumb as bricks and does everything in which you should not do. Main enemies of so called mc lacked actual ground for their feelings of pride anger or resentment. All of it seemed like pity emotions with no real meaning behide it.

Plot: Seemed to me like they were trying to create some sense of pain and sorrow in this story but it was all to rushed and none of it actaul felt like it should be something to hold a grudge over. Here's a main point the student council worship vera but for no reason they say she brings balance but quite clearly she does not the characters don't even know what is going on and can't see that their beliefs are so flawed.

Art: nice art always to be expected for manga's that are so talked about.


Overall opinion: i feel the story needed more depth to it, real meaning and REAL reactions to certain situations. By this i mean if you were to find out ''hey my buddy just tricked me kicked the crap out of me. Then broke my ki core''. No biggie though i'm going to continue worshiping him like REALLY. Also this so called Vera doesn't like to take blame for anything and tries to push blame on to others , or act as if none of it was her problem to begin with. Somehow , amazingly enough everyone agrees with it. Story is frustrating if you have common sense to not be lead by such ludicrous actions.
Veritas review
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DesolatePsyche12
Apr 03, 2021
So this is actually a manhaw not a manga. So the characters names are a little different then usual. Take Gangryong for example, he's the main character. I don't know why i felt like pointing that out first. Anyways on with the review of the manhaw.

STORY: 8/10
The story is really not outstanding, but its better then a lot of other fighting series' stories. I was suprised that alot of thought was put into the different fighting techniques. Theres literally pages of characters doing nothing, but explaining the different types of ki, fighting styles, elements, etc... It's nothing groundbreaking, but suprisingly good for a fighting manga.

ART: 9/10
The art is not to be overlooked. Almost every male character has a 20-pack, and is loaded with musle. Despite all their musle they're not big like in DragonballZ. They're all just really fit. No characters look the same, and they each have something unique about them. The art is drawn very cleanly, and the fight scenes are really easy to follow. I haven't once come across a "mystery panel" which seem to appear so often in other battle manga.

CHARACTER: 8/10
I mentioned the characters being nice to look at, but they're also fun to watch. Even though Gangryoung is one of those never give up characters, I don't hate him. The only thing ever on his mind if fighting which makes him perfect in a fighting manga. He never thinks about girls which is kind of suprising considering how many beautiful girls go to the same school as him. Only a few characters have backstory, but thats understandable since theres only 39 chapters out right now.

ENJOYMENT: 10/10
The main focus on this manga is fighting, and boy does Veritas deliver in that department. Each fight scene is really well put together. Each character has his/her own unique move(s), and watching them fight is just a blast. Li Gauwho fighting the robot was the first real major fight. And it's just plain awsome to see his body turn hard as steel and just go toe-to-toe with the robot. I was hooked from that moment onwards.

OVERALL: 8/10
This manga has sweet action, a surprisingly half-way decent story, and great artwork. I enjoyed it immensely.
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