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Gosu

Description

When his master dies, Gang Yong pledges to avenge his teacher at all costs. After training his martial arts skills in seclusion, Gang Yong sets off to hunt down the traitors and make them pay! But when he gets to town, he discovers they're... already dead? Well, what's he supposed to do now?!

Original Webtoon:
Naver Webtoon, Naver Series

Official Translations:
English, Japanese, S.Chinese, T.Chinese

Type

Manhwa

Related Series

Yongbi Bulpae Oejeon (Prequel)

Yongbi (Prequel)

Associated Names

Gosu (The Master)

Великий майстер

高手

高手～武術の達人～

고수

Groups Scanlating

N/A

Latest Release(s)

N/A

Status in Country of Origin

231 Chapters + Prologue (Complete)

Season 1: 86 Chapters (Complete)
Season 2: 145 Chapters (Complete)

16 Volumes (Complete)

Completely Scanlated?

Yes

Anime Start/End Chapter

N/A

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User Rating

Average: 8.4 / 10.0 (343 votes)

Bayesian Average: 8.23 / 10.0

31%

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25%

15%

Last Updated

September 27th, 2025 1:14am PDT - 4 weeks ago

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Genre

Action Adventure Comedy Historical Martial Arts Shounen
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Author(s)

Artist(s)

Year

Original Publisher

Haksan

Naver

Serialized In (magazine)

Naver Webtoon (Naver)

Naver Series (Naver)

Licensed (in English)

Yes

English Publisher

LINE Webtoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)

Weekly Pos #786

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Monthly Pos #1692

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3 Month Pos #2668

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6 Month Pos #3277

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Year Pos #3781

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List Stats

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On 425 wish lists

On 394 completed lists

On 52 unfinished lists

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Well paced story.

by 0o0ryonangt0o0@gmail.com
8 months ago

Rating: 8.9 / 10.0

In the beginning the fighting like Wuxia and towards the final arc fighting like Dragon Ball.

Story is well paced too. I like the comedy too.

The final 10 chapters are heartwarming.

... Last updated 8 months ago

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Nice and simple slice of life story, happy start and happy ending

by skynet5c
3 years ago

Rating: 8.3 / 10.0

The good:

Nice happy ending, amazing art brings this up to at least a 8/10.
Characters were surprisingly well written and fleshed out, which brings this up to a 8.3/10.

The bad:

It is a slice of life manga and as such has some fairly boring side plots.
Story is somewhat predictable and not really all that interesting.
It's not really "deep" and doesn't really carry any emotions either.
The fight scenes can sometimes drag on for a while.
Despite having lots of fight scenes, the fight scenes themselves are not very well choreographed. If you want to read a top tier action manga I would recommend Ajin, which has MUCH MUCH better fight scenes.

Conclusion:

So it's not high art, and the fight scenes are not the best. But the artwork is awesome and the characters are actually pretty well written and fleshed out, with realistic motivations and reactions to events.

Okay, so the story is actually a bit boring and there is a lot of anticlimaxes where there is a ton of build up and you think something really shocking is going to happen but it ends up being very predictable.

But overall, it was a hell of a ride! I think this makes for a nice shounen slice of life story. Better than 90% of shounen manga out there for sure.

... Last updated 3 years ago

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A classic

by ekushay
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

The art ALONE is worth a 10. All the scenery and background? The choreography of the fight scenes? Oh my goodness. The details are so striking. The colouring is phenomenal. Each chapter is A+++.

Love the comment before mine, thanks LordOfTheThunder for backing up the MC and the plot progression.

Notice how everyone is either a 10, or a lowish score? You will either love and appreciate this webtoon, or misunderstand and miss the point of it.

GOSU is quality to those who can see it. The quality of this webtoon is the same as Tower of God (or ToG is like GOSU). It's that good.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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Ignore the edgelords. The protagonist is great.

by LordOfTheThunder
4 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

Writing this because I see people complaining everywhere that the protag is a "p*ssy" and want to clear that up.

The protagonist's character progression is amazing. He lived a peaceful life growing up so it would make no sense if he ran around murdering everything in his path immediately unless he's a total psycho. There is nothing unique about being a horrible person; you can just read xianxia if you want to see that and you can easily find enough to read until you're sick of it.

Instead of just being a sociopath, the protagonist is a person with a good heart who is slowly dragged into the violence of the murim. For the first part of the story, his power is enough to allow him to keep his hands relatively clean, but as he meets stronger enemies it gets harder for him and he's forced to adjust psychologically.

I don't know why tf someone even said he acts like "with great power comes great responsibility" because he does nothing of the sort. The protagonist thinks everyone has the responsibility to not be a !@#$ing serial killer regardless of power level and that's entirely reasonable. He personally helps people when he wants to, which is often, because he comes off as a genuinely nice person, but he puts his personal goals first (which are not nice at all). That is not something to write off, because the reason a lot of generic "good" protagonists are annoying is that they're actually unsympathetic hypocrites.

And no, him being a nice person does not make him "boring" because he is constantly forced by the plot to have to make decisions where he can't accomplish his goals while being "soft". The internal struggle and resulting brutality is much more interesting to watch than "hurr durr I instantly kill everything that pisses me off because I'm a reincarnated dragon bloodline asura god of destruction". The people complaining that he's not OP enough are probably in the middle of their isekai addiction phase.

As for the landscape panels: They are amazingly detailed to the point where the artist is some sort of miracle worker for being able to draw so many of them in a week. They're just plain gorgeous. The fights are cool and the humor is good. The side characters are good, too. Overall, one of my top 3 webtoons.

... Last updated 4 years ago

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LONG FIGHT SCEENES

by Helbrassen
5 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

ONE BATTLE HAS BEEN GOING ON FOR MORE THAN 50 CHAPTER NOW!!!!

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Overrated

by tiankioo
5 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

the whole premise of the MC not killing anyone is kind of annoying because most of them end up getting killed off by the author either way. Shounen tag needs to be removed or changed to seinen. This manhwa has no issue killing off innocent people, even a village gets massacred. Definitely not material for kids.

The fights are not good. Uses too many explosions, and most of the panels are just landscape getting torn up. There isn't much actual fighting going on, just things like whirwinds, or stuff like that. It doesn't deserve to be classified as a martial arts manhwa.

... Last updated 5 years ago

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Really enjoy this

by Suxinn
5 years ago

Rating: 9.2 / 10.0

I really like Gosu, and I think it's one of the few "pure" martial arts manhwas I enjoy. It really reminds me of why I like this genre, even as the genre itself has become oversaturated with endless fights and powerups.

I think what sets Gosu apart from its ilk is, as another commenter noted, the real opponent for our protagonist isn't the other martial artists, it's himself. The webtoon is ostensibly about him taking revenge on his master's killers, but it's about a lot more than that: it's about a disciple who's always loved his kind and benevolent master realizing that his master had actually done some truly evil things and that his killers might not be good people, but actually had a good reason to commit that one particular murder. And these attempts to reconcile these two disparate images of his master are really eloquently and neatly interspersed between the scenes of really epic and fun-to-watch martial arts fighting.

Gosu also gets extra bonus points for having side female characters who are also martial artists and can hold their own against most men, and who aren't just there to act as the love interest for a dude. Especially Yerin, who, in any other manga, would've been a typical damsel-in-distress, but in this she's actually extremely powerful and never needs any saving from Ryong. In fact, all she really needs is a delivery boy, so Ryong should probably stop ditching work and start delivering some steamed buns again!

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Extremely engaging.

by CriminallySane
6 years ago

Rating: 10.0 / 10.0

A martial arts manhwa based on the typical protagonist facing tougher and tougher enemies - except it isn't. As you progress through the story, you find that Gang's struggle isn't with the enemy in front of him, but one in his own mind. He's only just come out of his cave and into the world, and we get to see how he evolves as he discovers more and more of that world.
What more is there? Beautiful artwork, and an intriguing cast no less interesting than the protagonist himself.

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Comment from Yongbi fan!!

by TheIro
7 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I read this after Yongbi. But unfortunately this was not as good!

Wasn't as funny as Yongbi. Plot seems.... rather generic? At least it didn't have the same level of plot twists Yongbi had. I would of liked to see some more characters from Yongbi and how they turned out over the years, but as far as I could tell, this is pretty much a separate story with very little relations to the previous.

While not as exciting as Yongbi, it seems interesting enough for me to want to read more.

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Was expecting something different but it fell into the usual cliche tropes

by deathcoy
7 years ago

Rating: 6.0 / 10.0

I was expecting the story to be about an MC being a crouching tiger hidden dragon, an overkill monster in retirement, something different from all the stuff we see nowadays but after a few arcs, it fell victim to the usual shounen cliche tropes.

A few arcs down the line we start to see MC winning battles only by a hair's breathe, the common power leveling progression seen in shounen. Author also pulled the usual, with great power comes great responsibility, the good guy and justice shenanigans, refusing to kill despite being in a Murim world where its a dog eats dog world. Up to the latest chapter, MC is still struggling with going all out, fighting and killing, law of the jungle style but instead chose restraining and being the good guy batman. Frankly it gets annoying and stale.

If theres any budding authors out there reading this, i would like to remind you that creating such a character will make him a unique figure in your story setting. Your character will stand out in the world and even might seem cool but that also means you're making your main character the same as 90% of the other MCs out there. To readers, your MC is the same shit but just a different read, they are NOT unique or interesting!!!

... Last updated 7 years ago

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