I'm pleased to see that this will be recapped. Thank you @solstices and dramabeans crew for choosing to cover it.

Oh, thank you so much for recapping! I enjoyed this first episode so much. Hwang Min-hyun seems perfect for a role where he has to be spacey but also swashbuckling.

My favorite part was Se-hyun discovering that the reason Ga-min is bad at studying is that he's kind of...stupid.

I had oddly high expectations and... this met all of them? I thought it would just be a silly comedy but I loved everything about these two episodes! The humour, the bromance, the action sequences, the surprising depth, the relatively quick runtime, the acting and fire hiphop music... All 10/10.

Look forward to seeing this Study Group expanding and some female characters joining the cast!

BTW, will you be recapping two episodes per week, or just one?

~~All the blushing and smiling between Ga-min and Se-hyun gave me such BL vibes~~

Se-hyun is my favorite. He has main character energy -- a genius hero with a tragic backstory. I just want him to stop getting bullied, escape from his abusive father, and transfer schools. Se-hyun is ranked second after Han-wool, but was Han-wool's ranking fixed?

Ga-min is so earnest, but he needs to accept that he will never be good at studying. I felt Se-hyun's frustration while explaining the cake example to him. Ga-min takes notes word-for-word even in math. Why do his test papers have so much written on them?

I love Ga-min's mom when she consoled a crying teen Ga-min that it's okay if he's bad at studying. But why didn't they research Yusung Technical High School before sending Ga-min there? I can't believe that he's still second to last place when those other kids probably sleep through the test.

This show's OSTs slap. All high school fighting webtoon-turned-dramas need rap OSTs à la Weak Hero Class 1. Hyun-woo needs his ass kicked -- not a redemption arc.

I did not expect to enjoy this as much as i did.

Ga-min being a kind but stubborn, oblivious and adorably violent nerd with bad grades, is such a unique setup.

The humour was well done too, the classmates exaggerating what happened was hilarious, and the accusations that he ate a devil fruit made howl (one piece manga readers stand up lol)

The supporting cast is great as is the soundtrack, im staying with this till the end

This drama has been the most pleasant surprise in a long time.
After watching the first two episodes with a smile on my face I already wanted to rewatch them (I didn't) and that's something almost never happens to me.

I started the drama with curiosity (because of the PD) but zero expectations, however from the first sequence I thought: "this is very cool and promising!".

After that great first episode I was afraid the second one was a let down but it wasn't!

I'm already sad this is only ten episodes 🥲

Fighting high schoolers is not usually my cup of drama.... but this one I drank with a big pleasure. This is also so far Hwang Minhyun's best role, he is totally adorable as the earnest student and protective friend. I'm looking forward to the next episodes and I'm happy Dramabeans decided to recap it, thank you!

(Fair warning: although the fights have a manga flavour and there is a lot of injected humour around, there is still a lot of real violence.)

This was so fun!!! Hwang Min Hyun was a great choice for portraying a cute, clueless and kind-hearted student who only wants to be good in his studies when he clearly can't. He can always choose a martial arts career though. Se Hyeon is equally adorable and I am already enjoying their camaraderie. The fight scenes are well done and the way the music is used is chef kiss.
I am worried for the new homeroom teacher's safety -this is a bloody violent school environment. Will she survive?
My only complain is the short duration of the episodes, 40 min is not enough.

If I hadn't read the extremely positive response to the first episode, I would never have given this drama a chance. Lucky me. The first episode was over far too quickly. Fortunately, I happened to see yesterday that the second episode has already been released by Viki.

I'm keeping all fingers crossed for Ga-min that he's successful with his study group and that he climbs up a few ranks.

There's a scene in the second episode that reminds me of Buster Keaton or Charlie Chaplin, the innocent who obliviously avoids danger while somehow beating the bad guys. Great physical comedy.

Thanks @solstices for doing such a great job for this one. We need the marketing to be on point so more beanies join us in this watch. School violence is not my go to but this has the Goldilocks effect with the ratio of likeable characters, humour, and story balancing out the violence. It is very easy to fast forward through the violence if necessary.

I am so loving this drama, I wish it was a single drop.

Not much to say but join the chorus of praise for the premiere. It's rare for me to watch high school dramas unless they're as well done as this.

I only wanted to note what a pleasure it was to see Hong Min-ki on my screen again after his wonderful turn in Love Your Enemy.

Wow. This was an unexpected FUN watch.
I owe it to the beanies here as Study Group wasn’t remotely on my watchlist.
Great choreography! Interesting characters.
Let’s go!!!!

No mention of my absolute favoritist Yoo In Soo's cameo role???? (who has been non-stop on screen for the last 4 years but is now doing his patriotic duty with Korean military). It's great fun that he was in buddy Hwang Min-hyun's newest drama, but I need more info before I try to track this one down. I miss my guy. 🙁🙁

Just to give way too much uninteresting personal information here, as a high school nerd through to adult nerd (but I'm not a senior citizen nerd, no, not at all!) my fantasy was to be really smart and yet be an unbelievably tough athlete. Of course I failed on both counts, but a dedicated student who puts learning first easily dispatching vicious bullies with his incredible athleticism is without a doubt my dream male lead.

Now, is Hwang Min-hyun my dream male lead? No, but that's what makes these first couple of episodes such good action-comedy. I'm afraid the comedy is already giving way, in episode 2, but still I'm kind of hooked on this one already!

The zany editing and cinematography is such a delight! This show doesn't do much that's new, but it does it well and I'm having so much fun.

Hello! Will start by shyly introducing myself as a long time kdrama watcher but new to what seems like a super cool community 👋 I look forward to joining in on your discussions 😊

Premiere episodes of Study Group felt really new and fresh. Haven't seen this kind of energy in a while in the Kdrama world! Lots of scenes that had me laughing out loud, and equally (and unexpectedly) many moments that were actually a little terrifying. I've seen this being compared a lot to Weak Class Hero 1 which I haven't seen but am thinking of watching if it has a similar energy to this one.

The only negatives - episode length and number! But maybe less episodes means tighter writing through the whole run?