The bullies are ridiculous for sure but not entirely unrealistic. Aside from being magic lmao, a lot of bullies do target weaker people purely bc they can and do heavily rely on what they have at their disposal. It’s like a power trip for some, they need no cause it just makes them feel good.
Yeah, we're used to take the bully archetype for the things they do to the bullied. But that's not all they are, they have a drive, reasons and circunstances behind that behavior and those details are what makes the bully archetype something recurrent and particular and not something common and fixed as it's shown here even with the quasi-hierarchy they have (That imo it's a poorly excuse for the frequent invocation of that archetype). This type of character brought time and time again in this manner where it shows only the tip of what it actually should be means we are being fed crappy characters with poor developments for the main cast. Which explains why there is so much frustration with this story.
Characters grow as much as their counterpart influences. If the main cast want a deep and meaningful development, it can't be brought from superficial and poorly stablished counterparts
I feel like the author decided to go with quantity over quality. It’s true that good supporting characters are essential to a leafs growth but the bullies only purpose is to serve as minor antagonists. They are ment to symbolize society outside the school and are thus made to gain focus as a group and not individuals.
The real enemy is supposed to be the villain organization and I think they use these bullies to show how the leads progress in their thought processes. The real development will be caused by the leads influencing each other opposed from John and Remi and Sera learning from the bullies.
I don't see the point tho, I agree that the bad guys are those drug dealers, but the situation at school and that don't co-relate. That organitation only cares for business and control. Remi's experience with them is the best example that differenciate their childish world where the powerfull looks for submission (the bullies/Royals), and the real world where they all live where the powerfull use that power to do business and control the flow of society to wield an even greater level of power that is called influence.
I'm really interested in Remi and Arlo's investigation about "invisible man", since so far he's the closest lead to the actual important matters in this story.
Anyone else find the bullies hillarious? like, they're quite the bad joke in this whole manhwa? and seeing as all this whole plot spins around them makes me feel dumb for even taking serious all this characters to begin with. "Bullys" aren't like that at all.