Now that I am older since I started to read the first chapter of this story and having seen so many other obsessive dark haired tsundere brooding angsty MLs in the following years...
I think Arhard is total fucking creep and unstabile violent manchild ( ̄∇ ̄") just like
Linden in "Doctor Elise", Ares in "Living as the Tyrant's Older Sister", Leofred in "The Justice of Villainous Woman", Hugo in "Lucia", Del in "This Is An Obvious Fraudulent Marriage", Travis in "The Maid and the Vampire", Khalid in "The Tyrant Husband Has Changed", Edward in "I Choose the Emperor Ending", Alexandro in "Beatrice", Asher "The Villainess Reverses the Hourglass", Dylan in "I Tamed a Tyrant and Ran Away" or Kiernan "Why She Lives as a Villainess" etc...
Sorry, not sorry.
Most of these FLs are in the end lowkey very attracted to their beauty, wealth, power, influence, status and superiority... Thus they quickly forget that these messed up MLs trying to harm or kill them.
In "Father, I Don't Want to Get Married!" the bloodthirsty ML only stopped trying to murder the FL because she has the NOT LIKE THE OTHER GIRLS ATTITUDE, caught his interests and realized how cute pretty she actually is in his eyes... And the FL forgets and forgets that he threatens her with his bloody sword....
The only dark haired MLs I consider lovely and healthy enough is the father (still feeling guilty for blaming his daughter for the death of his love and then trying to kill her but he stopped and then atone for the rest of his life) in "I Was Born As The Demon Lord's Daughter"; Cesar in "Survive as the Hero's Wife" (still very needy and childish but very respectful kind since the beginning) and Lancelot in "The Lady's Butler"(Very self-aware-reflective for a ML).
I am discussing and do not want to trash this entertaining story which reminds me very much of GTO - The original blue print of a delinquent teacher teaching his students and other adult assholes violent lessons.
(The female characters in GTO are quite sexualized, stereotypical and incompetent.)
Regardless I still enjoyed this concept when I was 13-27.
As someone who is Asian, suffers under depressions, was bullied and oppressed I know how appealing this story and the MC for many can be.
But now that I am 30 years old and having more life experiences I realize these extreme action drama school stories never really address mental health issues and often showcase how they can overcome problems with very extreme brutal meassures and how badass great manly the bodies of the larger than life MCs look like. It seems there are no mature or smart characters...
What I see is not horrible scars but sexy honorable scars. It does give me the message and pressure that you have to obtain this ideal body to be that visually striking fearful strong... (That is why I am a sucker for the MC in Weak Hero)
The thing is I talked to people who knows martial arts and suffered physical abuse.
They do not look like Adonis or Hercules who set up the ideal standard of an aspiring perfect sexy strong body - By the way even the ancient greeks (artists) lied about the accuarcies of how real/any men or warriors looked liked in the past. The asthetic greek statues are the equivalent of modern Photograph manipulation.
These people even confirmed that there are very regular ordinary looking people who can take down a tall muscular guy. They also know a small little fragile looking woman who practise martial arts and you wouldn't expect that she can defeat opponents taller + mascular than her. It made me realize Hollywood, Asian Cinema, any action shows or comics never show us that fighting people can look quite normal. We only see the bodies of Bruce Lee, Arnold Schwarzenegger, Christian Bale or any Marvel Superheroes on display.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g7K-0UQeRnY
The Dark Side Of Hollywood Body Transformations
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xx-SR1vJTUE
Male Celebrity Body Transformations: The Deeper Problem
When I told this manhwa story/plot to the one who experienced corporal punishments since his early childhood, he told me that it might have made him stronger he also suffered years of lots of anger issues and mental damages.
I still explained to him that the targets of the MC in True Education are really violent primitive scums who deserves the worst but he still doesn't think well of this logic of this story... Most martial art practioners are taught to avoid, deescalate conflicts or fighting each under rules in a tournament. They are not vigilantes, they are just people to stay more healthy and getting mentally stronger for themselves.
To be honest, I sometimes get the impression that I am watching glorified torture misery porn when watch specific mangas/manhwas/comics...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P89X-j-TWVE
Real Life Fighting Is Awkward - feat. Skylar Astin & Vincent Rodriguez III - "Crazy Ex-Girlfriend"
What I personally dislike is the trope that some victim character evtl will save, sympathize or forgive his atrocious bully. I can not comprehend this.
And the victims in this story aren't given any time to heal or actually deal with their traumas in an effective real healthy way... They are being saved + "guided" by that badass looking anti hero and then they just miraculously recover...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U1geZagL73k
How Hollywood Vilifies Bully Victims | Cheyenne Lin
I think I am personally more comfortable with sth like the Netflix Thai show GIRL FROM NOWHERE. What makes this plot so special is that immortal Karma Girl Nanoo use psychological terror to break the spirits of her targets. Her methods of punishments are quite terryfying creative.
She never actually touch or kills someone unlike her rival Yuri in season 2 who embodies pure madness and revenge.
And I like personally recommend the underrated anthology show INFINITY TRAIN about difficult people being forced to earn progress and facing their issues. It was criminally cancelled after season 4 by cartoon network because it was too dark and mature for an animated kid show... Seriously?!
To be clear: There is value in any fictional story/entertainment. But you can also enjoy media and stay critical.
I really wanted to expressed my concerns about this action genre of True Education/Schooled.
The comment on corporal punishment is on point, from someone who also experienced it I wrote similar things as well. Love Weak Hero and The Boxer despite mcs being overpowered it's about strength not the build, How to Fight has a good development from actual weak mc to gaining strength. The delinquents attitude here is the same as in weak hero's "who do you think you are" lol
I would say hwa-jin is more like a hired vigilante? which is what this manhwa is about long story short.
The Boxer is kinda a mysterious unnatural mythical force.
I would say the MC himself is a plot device to explore and fleshed out the lifes and personalities of all these other characters in this story.
I kinda like this idea where the point of view center main character has almost no personality but somehow gives the spotlight to other main supporting side characters.
Kinda wish he wouldn't have become that shredded/ripped to face his opponents on the box ring. .
It really seems That Black Knight Commander Jeremy is still an irredeemable bastard in the second timeline :)
https://forum.novelupdates.com/threads/a-red-knight-does-not-blindly-follow-money.128862/










Why does the Uke has to be a damsel victim who suffers either because of the tsundere manchild Seme or for being so adorable cute that he will attract other toxic assholes and psychotic evil jealous bitches???
Literally anyone can easily push him around#-.-)