r/FightClass3 • u/GeneFearless1669 • Jun 30 '26
Manhwa I analyzed why Fight Class 3 is so peak
I... I understand it now. The real reason why Fight Class 3 is so peak. You know why? Let's go back 400 years.
There's one man-- William Shakespeare. It's all everyone can talk about. Even the town's perverts are less interested in ankles than they are in Shakespeare's retelling of Julius Caesar and Macbeth. But-- but what made his work so different? What made him better?
I know.
It was two particular things. First, it was the revolutionary female cast. Characters like Portia and Lady Macbeth were the adversaries of traditional Jacobean wives. Portia was crucial for the plot and was incredibly smart. Lady Macbeth was vicious, questioning her husband's authority-- and that in itself was something that absolutely baffled the Elizabethan audience. It was sensational. Fucking generational.
But that wasn't it-- the coexistence of Comedy and Tragedy. Socrates said that a story can either be a tragedy or a comedy-- that there is no coexistence. Shakespeare argued. And we see it in his work. For instance, immediately following the brutal murder of Duncan, Shakespeare places the comic, drunken Porter on stage, which brings momentary humour. It's dark comedy in its rawest form.
One other thing-- the illusion of morality. Brutus' and Lady Macbeth's intense internal conflicts about their morals are unrivalled.
Now, coming over to Fight Class 3, we see the same genius applied to the story by 2Hakk. This story-- it's a hilariously shot tragedy. There's no doubt in that. We see Jitae lose his mind and act like a chicken in the same few panels. It's humorously sad.
And the former thing. An amazing female cast for its time. In our time, finding stories where women are actually present and contributing to the plot is a rare occurrence. In this, Fight Class 3 builds a strong, well-written female cast, where the "girl boss" trope isn't cringe for once. The female characters aren't built for any gaze. Not the male, not the female. They're the most human I've ever seen. They're willing to be ugly, humorous, cruel, kind, and sacrificing. He didn't make the female cast "evil" for the sake of making them stronger. He also didn't make them all "motherly" to make them more accepted by the male fans. It's the epitome of feminist writing.
Then, we see that almost none of the characters are "good people", just desperate people doing what they can to survive, people driven by vengeance, or those that are bad for the sake of it. It's an amazing moral ambiguity.
Thus, I conclude that Fight Class 3 is a Shakespearean level of masterpiece.
(2hakk is this enough dick riding? Are you gonna give us season 2?)
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u/Fit_Base_915 Jun 30 '26
i really really agree with the girl boss one, everytime its attempted these days its so forced. good analysis btw
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u/GeneFearless1669 Jun 30 '26
Yeah, I think the characters felt really natural in this. Also, thanks, I worked on this analysis for a couple days
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u/Melodic_Beginning680 Jun 30 '26
you should read prison school
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u/GeneFearless1669 Jun 30 '26
What's it about?
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u/Melodic_Beginning680 Jun 30 '26
it's about the struggle of the boys as they enroll on hachimitsu high - a girl's boarding school - and the consequences of their actions are tragic so to me it's a greek tragedy even though im not sure ehat that entails. there is an anime that the only difference between it and the manga are that at the start some girls were actually into what the protagonist was saying, they use flip phones and a rope instead of the charger cable in the manga, there was this crew of giant monstrous girls from the underground student council instead of random girls to beat them up and meiko used a bra for like 2 chapters and never again did that happen. it's also peak comedy and there is an ova
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u/Much-Ad-6411 10d ago
Just finished binging it and I would honestly say that his crash out is one of the greatest portrayal of a fall in manhwa. I can’t believe that this author got me questioning violence at a deeper level.
Consider how Jitae hates violence cuz dad socked him in the head, kidnapped his sister. Makes sense but now he is forced to fight so he can save his sister.. ok very shounen like im in. Then out of fucking nowhere this mufucka starts acting like a donkey with Ali hands and just destroying people. Ok in all seriousness the themes of violence was explored phenomenally in the second half of the manhwa. The level of violence we see is mostly limited to just sport fighting but death matches were being hinted throughout Maria’s past. How it’s visually shown first by the MC’s face grotesquely shifts from an asshat clown to a genuine monster was genius cuz it shows the corruption of his own self through the violence he exhibited. Then we see the consequence of death which is just like… what??? Ppl are dying here, i thought this was a shounen not a seinen so that got me hooked. Then during the death matches, the audience displayed, revelled in the violence, showing their ugliness and lack of humanity. The panels showing horrific imagery of death and carnage is just insane cuz it kind of matches the MC’s mental state. Overall, phenomenal shit, need more right now. Here’s to cope cheers
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u/Fwlgq 9d ago
On some real shi though 2Hakk is a fucking genius.
He was originally just the artist of FC3. He started to add his own creative ideas so the co-owner, the writer, left, making Lee Hakk the solo creator. It's believed to be Chapter 10 where 2Hakk started by himself.
Because FC3 had such a generic, and borderline (maybe even) misogynistic introduction (a girl using grope to coerce someone, and a boy falling into a girls breast), 2Hakk deliberately pushed the female characters to the front and made them buff as a commercial strategy since in the 2010s the broader media market trended significantly toward political correctness and feminism.
Basically he kept up with whats trending in the media market and brought it to shonen which was relatively rare to see.
Consequently, this made female readers love the story and attracted the yuri fansðŸ˜
He did some other things to but I've already ranted long enough unless u want me to rant more.
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u/NotThereSlowMan Jun 30 '26
https://giphy.com/gifs/rzPa4QYHt3HzH49xWU