Smash It Girl! - Ch. 9 - Apologize!

[MangaDex]

 

[Sippers]

Lol super glad she didn't back down, thx @thebenefactor

Edit: thank you @mimicking for everything!!!

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

Not very bright, are they? They saw the superhuman leap. They see that she has no fear of them, so no matter why she backed down before that wasn't why. Figure out you're outclassed before you're dangling in midair.

 

[mimicking]

@purplelibraryguy yeah not very bright. they were intimidated by seul after that catch down the stairs, but the leader's ego wouldn't let them back down and apologise lol

 

[Deoxyribo9]

A nice story so far, will this be her first friend?

 

[thebenefactor]

You're welcome, @Sippers, but @mimicking is the one in charge of this. 😀

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@mimicking Yeah. I can respect pride . . . except bullies don't deserve any pride.
As usual in a Korean school setting, the place is infested with bullies--fictional Korea needs to clean up its school system as bad as fictional Japan needs a vaccine for the deadly Japanese manga cold.

 

[purrrkitty]

wooo my home gurl

 

[mimicking]

@purplelibraryguy a lot of people don't deserve a lot of things. it's really just the audacity of these bullies. they were blinded by their excessive pride, but they also didn't know what to do since i imagine not a lot of people try to go against them.

these story tropes are abundant in other cultures too, not just south korea btw. take mean girls. karate kid, and plenty of other american movies for example. there's even more in american young adult/teen literature, mind you. but in a broader sense, bullies are just "enemies that repeatedly attack those weaker", which is a thematic topic that has existed ever since story telling was a thing for cultures all across the world. it's not just sk lol.

i do agree, to some extent, on the common cold trope in japanese pop contemporary media tho. but these tropes exist for convenience of furthering plot or something other, which isn't always bad. they can make for good development in plot.

 

[Purplelibraryguy]

@mimicking It wasn't a complaint. But I do think the bullies thing is particularly common in Korean school setting fiction. Like, you pretty much never get a Korean school story where bullying isn't a pretty big thing. In Japanese shoujo, on the other hand, it does happen, it isn't even what I'd call rare, but it isn't a majority thing, and only now and then do you get a story where it's the main event.
It may be that bullying is actually particularly prevalent in real Korean schools, but I'd hesitate to make that call just based on the fiction. In fiction and on TV, apparently there are masses and masses of murders in Oxford; in real life, not so much.

When I say bullies don't deserve pride I'm making a fairly specific point, actually. The act of bullying is mainly not about attacking an enemy, weaker or otherwise. Bullies don't find themselves with an enemy, determine the enemy is weaker, and then attack. They seek victims out, generally ones who are minding their own business. It is not about combat or even genuine dislike. It is about humiliation--it is about destroying the pride of other people. If you go around systematically destroying other people's pride, you deserve none yourself.

 

[mimicking]

@purplelibraryguy well said tbh. i thought you were complaining and it kinda set me off OTL.

personally, I can't really say if bullying is a huge issue in sk, but i won't deny the possibility. but again, bullying exists in other cultures' fiction. it's plenty prevalent in american literature and film, but this doesn't mean that the us is rampant with bullying cases, though. likewise for sk. but yeah, uh. idk lol.just wanted to wrap this up OTL

 

[shiirosagi]

Ahahaha now our mc is off to build her harem😂

 

[LaDeeDah]

Yes girl fuck her up!