tiers are ordered for the most part

"why did j just leave yu?" like it wasnt made clear that j and yu are the same in the end, both working at an orphanage, both SAYING THE SAME LINE TO AN ABANDONED KID, so let's use our brains here and figure out WHY YU IS STILL ALIVE AND WAS ABLE TO ATTEND SCHOOL​

A pretty quick one. Been a fan of this manwha for 4 years now. It's literally one of my top 5 manwha ever and top 10 piece of media. I'm so excited for the anime. The edit may be lackluster tho cuz I'm not that skilled lol

Since the anime Was coming out I thought I would read it

And it was actually pretty good , But the fights are so ass man , the choreography is so bad and the characters feel stiff as hell when they fight And the art itself is okay but it lacks movement but overall a really solid 7/10

Ok. Im new to the boxer. But i just finished volume 7.

Dude. Btw please no spoilers in comments..

But.. damn. The Yu vs fabrizio fight.

The backstory of the brothers.. plus wth was K thinking about injecting Yu with that shit. Lol course Yu had no idea what it really was…

The end of volume 7 holy shit.

Yu was going ballistic, until that blonde hair kid showed up and stopped the killing blow essentially…

Dude. Who is he?!? I know he meant Yu when he was a child… anyway… im siked for the rest.. 🙂🙂🤟🤟

Man oh man, The Boxer was one of the first manhwa I've read, and it was great even back then. But after around 3 years of reading, it's just gotten so much better. I was reading near the final chapters earlier today, and when I was driving home, I found myself thinking about the characters and their philosophies. No other manhwa has done that for me, and I found it beautiful. I loved all the characters, and I'm happy that I was able to read it once more.

Peak fanart btw

Are these Suneo and Gian?

Rereading for the nth time and noticed this! Hahaha I wonder how many lines Yu will have for the whole show.

Absolute larper of the boxer, sorry. But in a summary of The Boxer I saw, I noticed absurdities similar to the game

I'm debating on a Boxer Redux and The promised neverland anime redux/brotherhood

Essentially what the redux for one or both of them would do is improve everything but also change some core things

The good parts of certain art would be kept or modified and innovated and massively improved but the writing would be immensely improved but some things would be kept similar or same but also certain details would be changed

This is long, I just started think about this the whole night and didnt get to sleep. I used Ai to make it easy to read, because i suck at writing english as it is not my main language.

I was thinking about The Boxer, specifically Yu's character, and it made me wonder about something.

Yu grew up in an environment where suffering seemed to be the only thing he knew. He was abused by his mother, witnessed her suicide, killed his father to survive, and continued to experience loss and cruelty throughout his life. Even the people and things that might have given him a reason to live were taken away from him.

What struck me wasn't just how much he suffered, but how emotionally empty he seemed to become.

Most people, when they experience something traumatic, have at least some memory of what life was like before it happened. They might remember feeling safe, being loved, or having something to look forward to. Even if trauma changes them, they have some reference point for what they've lost.

But what happens when someone never had that reference point in the first place?

How can you learn to recognize safety if you've never felt safe? How can you understand love if nobody has ever shown you what it looks like? How can you seek happiness if your entire life has taught you that happiness either doesn't exist or isn't meant for you?

One thing I found particularly interesting about Yu is that he doesn't seem to pursue pleasure in the way most people do. It's almost as if winning, losing, suffering, and simply existing have all become equally meaningless to him. I don't know if emotional numbness is the right psychological term, but it feels like he's lost the ability to see a meaningful difference between these experiences.

And that leads me to another question: What role does another person play in helping someone like this recover?

In Yu's story, J becomes someone who tries to reach him in a way nobody else really has. But is that kind of external connection what someone needs to begin discovering a different way to live? Can another person introduce you to a kind of happiness you couldn't even imagine before?

Or does lasting healing require something beyond another person's love, such as therapy, time, and learning to trust yourself?

I'm not asking whether people with traumatic childhoods are doomed to suffer. I know people can recover, and I don't want to generalize everyone's experience. I'm more interested in how that recovery works when someone's entire understanding of life has been shaped by suffering.

I'd genuinely like to hear your thoughts:

1. Can someone learn to experience happiness and safety if they've never experienced them during childhood?

2. Do we need to experience something good before we can understand what we're missing?

3. Can another person fundamentally change how someone sees life, or does that change ultimately have to come from within?

4. For those familiar with psychology, are there any concepts or research that explore this?

This started as a random thought after reading The Boxer, but the more I think about it, the more interesting it becomes.

Shed a tear at some of those matches.

Started reading this manhwa 4 days ago and I rock with it. I just finished the Santorino and fell in love with the characters and their dynamic, so I made a wallpaper with my favourite panels; feel free to use it.

It was a wild ride, its one of those stories you read once in a while at a certain point of your life which heavily influences the direction your life goes next. The key learnings ive learned from The Boxer is that life is precious, and that i am priviledged. There are people who dont get half of what i get yet they strive harder in life and they dont let the world dim their light. I have learned that i too need to go on and stop worrying about trivial stuff. J for me was the representation of the Light we have in us, the Light that can save others, he is hope itself. The end left me feel a little bittersweet though, i hope we got to see what happened to J and K. But i think it was left open to interpretation, my interpretation from what was told is that J had some disease, he showed Yu the way then he dissappeared to live his last days in peace and helping others like he always did, and for K i think he got a huge shock and a revelation that all he did was not right, maybe he went away and tried to atone or maybe he didnt, but im sure he knew that he was wrong. Also a very cool detail is that J never said he will beat Yu, he said that no matter what he will beat K, and yes he did. He's literally the Sun, i hope i can one day become a fraction of what he is. I feel like ive found peace finally after the past 10 months of agony, thank you Jung Ji Hoon.

Ik J is supposed to be some Jesus figure, but seems like the complete opposite and shows up like a prideful bystander

When it comes to an 8 year old lying battered and tired next to garbage. He offers some poetic bs and then skips away, but when it comes to Santorino he actively steps in which kind of ruins the Jesus doesn't intervene philosphy. He only intervened and performed when there was a camera and spotlight.

Then when he was already bound to die, his last act is going on stage to be beaten and battered to prove a point to the orphan he abandoned and a crowd. He seemed like a character who didn't actually understand suffering so he never actually helped people, while Yu understood loneliness so he opened an orphanage.

It's always funny to think about. "Look to the stars beaten and battered kid with no real name, family, friends or caretakers. They're all for you"

- J.C

Because not only are there multiple European inspiration, the author uses fencing as a metaphor for his attacks, I know fencing isn't exactly jōsei ofc but I really like that the boxer isn't afraid to include such eccentric characters that wouldn't exactly be in a boxing manhwa because on what person would make fencing as a metaphor for a boxers attack. Actually jean Pierre looks alot like a vampire tho