Girls of the Wild's
Girls of the Wild's () is a South Korean manhwa webtoon series written by Hun and illustrated by Zhena (Kim Hye-jin). It was first published on Naver Webtoon on August 7, 2011, and has been released in English by Line. The story follows a high school guy who enrolls as the sole male student at a former all-girls school of champion fighters, and struggles with dealing with his athletic schoolmates, as well as bullies and gangsters, while training in mixed martial arts. The print release of the first volume of "Girls of the  Wild's" was released on November 9, 2012. 260 chapters of "Girls of the Wild's" have been released online, with the final chapter posted in October 2016. A Chinese TV adaptation, titled "Sweet Combat" was released in 2018. Plot. Jaegu Song, a teenager struggling to take care of his two kindergarten-aged siblings, enrolls on scholarship to Wild's High, an all-girls private school that has become co-ed for the purposes of having their female students, who are renowned for being champions in martial arts, behave like maidens in society. As the sole male student, Jaegu is  uncomfortable with the excessive attention from the girls, who get extra credits for befriending Jaegu. To make things worse, he has a run-in with the aloof Queen, who is the Wild's League tournament champion. He is befriended by Moonyoung Lee, Queen's best friend and the boxing club captain, and Daldal Choi, a cute and petite Taekwondo club captain. Although he refuses to follow any of Queen's demeaning tasks, he apologizes for his behavior, and Queen begins to develop romantic feelings for him. Queen selects Jaegu to be her opponent in the upcoming tournament, but a conflict  between Jaegu and Queen's rival, Hyeshin Kim, from Gura High, results in Jaegu being placed in the preliminary rounds. When Jaegu is bullied by a former middle school classmate, Hangyeol Kim, the girls help train Jaegu to fight and their schools arrange for them to face each other. Jaegu overcomes his fears and knocks out Hangyeol. Since then on, Moonyoung, Daldal, Queen, and Jaegu become good friends. Hopae Kim, a successor in a mafia family who easily wins his preliminary matches, gets into a conflict with Queen which escalates to another sanctioned fight that also involves Jaegu and Moonyoung . With Queen away on family business, Daldal and Moonyoung recruit Jaegu to coach them for the second part of the tournament. Moonyoung and Daldal end up fighting each other in the round of 16. Although Queen returns for her match, she withdraws from the tournament to continue her work. A middle-school boy, Gangrok Choi, joins the group after being rescued by Jaegu from bullying. Hoping to find an edge to use against their Wild's High rivals, Jaeoh joins Jaegu's car wash job while Hopae observes Jaegu more. With Moonyoung to face Hyeshin in the tournament finals, Jaegu  meets Hyeshin's older brother, Hyesong, who is a shut-in and, with Hopae's help, gets Hyesong to overcome his fear of bullies and move on with his life. Queen goes on an arranged date with Higyeong Lee, a young businessman who seems perfect in every way, meanwhile, Daldal meets Myunghwan, a handsome older brother of a soccer-playing boy she gets to know. Higyeong gets jealous of Queen's friendship with Jaegu and at a social event Queen discovers she has been photographed in the bathroom. In order to retrieve the pictures, she and Moonyoung visit a warehouse  garage where they, along with Jaegu, Hyesong and Jakdu, agree to fight in matches against the owner Jonathan's top fighters. As Wild's High students wrap up final exams, Daldal confronts Queen because both of them have romantic feelings for Jaegu. Feeling sad about the rivalry with Queen, Daldal is comforted by Myunghwan which raises the ire of a girl who likes Myunghwan. Higyeong and Jonathan send fighters to get revenge on Queen and Moonyoung but fail once more. After Queen's grandfather cancels the dating arrangement with Higyeong, he meets Jaegu to question his motives with Queen. During  the summer, the group, along with Jaegu's siblings, Gangrok, Inseong, Jungu, Hyesong, and Jakdu, go on a trip to one of Queen's resorts. Queen finally tells Jaegu that she likes him and Jaegu reciprocates. However, after returning home, he turns down both Daldal and Queen. After returning home from the trip, Queen goes to Europe and Daldal starts avoiding Jaegu, but is abducted by a group of her fans; she is rescued by her parents, along with Jaegu, Myunghwan, and Hyesong. After this incident, Jaegu's and Daldal's friendship gets better but, at the same time, Daldal  gets closer to Myunghwan. As part of a volunteering project at Wild's High, Moonyoung, Daldal, Jaegu, and Jungu join the city's "Walk Home Safe" where Jaegu attempts to protect a middle school girl from her bullies; the bullies bring in a larger gang to confront him but they fail to do so. On Christmas evening, the group, along with Jaegu's siblings, Gangrok, Inseong, and Jungu, celebrate together, and Jaegu realizes his feelings for Queen who is still abroad. As students enter their next year of school, Jaegu takes over the boxing club as captain, Queen is studying  in Japan, Daldal and Myunghwan start dating, whereas Moonyoung and Jungu continue to pursue their unrequited crushes. In the last chapter, Jaegu gathers his courage to go to Japan and reunites with Queen, telling her he promises to be with her always. The series' protagonist, the first male student in Wild's High after it became a co-ed institution. After his father died, his mother abandons him and his two twin siblings, Jaesom and Jaehyeong (at first, they are in kindergarten but Jaegu later sends them to a primary school for gifted pupils). This leads to his aversion to  women. After school, he works at a car wash. He originally chose Wild's because it was close to home and he was given a scholarship. After being forced to become stronger to help his family, and to survive inside and outside school, he picks up boxing and trains for the Wild's League preliminaries under the care of Queen, Moonyoung and Daldal, and is able to defeat a bully who had harassed him since middle school (later, he still trains himself and even becomes the captain of the boxing club). He also coaches Moonyoung and Daldal during the Wild 's League Tournament. Despite the attention Queen and Daldal give him, Jaegu is oblivious to their affections. He initially accepts Queen's confession, but after interacting with Daldal, he turns both girls down. In the final chapter, he reunites with Queen in Japan and promises to be with her always. Known primarily as Queen, Ingui is the heroine in the series, a second-year student and the Wild's League Tournament champion. She has long blonde hair and almost always has a cool and serious attitude. She is a mixed martial artist, proficient in nearly every form of martial arts , where she helps spar with each of the school clubs. She is the daughter of the financial corporation YK Line, where she was raised to be its successor until her younger brother was born. Despite their initial bad impressions, she develops feelings for Jaegu, who does not fawn over her like everyone else. In later chapters, she musters her courage to tell Jaegu that she likes him as more than just a friend. After being rejected, she stays abroad for a few months to clear her head but is eventually reunited with Jaegu. Moonyoung is a second-year student and  Queen's best friend. The president of Wild's High's boxing club, she has pink hair usually tied up in a bun and wears a red tracksuit. She has a friendly rivalry with Daldal Choi, who makes fun of her weight or calls her a pig. She tries to get along with Jaegu in order to improve her maidenly status. She later coaches Jaegu on fighting. Her father Mungwang Lee owns a boxing club, and is a former welterweight boxing champion in Asia; her estranged mother was also a boxer. She later turns her affections towards Gangrok Choi. Daldal  is a second-year student and the captain of the Taekwondo club. She is described as "cute, adorable and sweet" with a petite figure and "cherry lips" that many boys want to kiss. She has short blonde hair and wears tiger ears-shaped hair-clips as the author was into tigers when he came up with the character. She has a friendly rivalry with Moonyoung who makes fun of her petite stature. She falls in love with Jaegu after initially seeing him as a chance to advance her feminine reputation, and because he was the first boy to refuse her  kiss. Over the course of the series, she constantly flirts and shows affection towards Jaegu, who does not reciprocate. She has good cooking skills, most probably inherited by her mother, Jeongran Park, who is a celebrity chef in Korean cuisine and regularly appears on television; Daldal sometimes appears in her mother's TV cooking shows. In later chapters, she develops feelings towards Myunghwan, but denies these feelings (in the last chapters, they start dating). Reception. In 2014, "Girls of the Wild's" was selected for its international popularity as one of the Naver webtoons to be published on their foreign  language service WEBTOON, from the LINE Corporation. Clinton Stamatovich, a blogger at "The Elkhart Truth", listed "Girl's of the Wild's" among six manhwa titles.