There are many works Ive read at this point that start with a certain concept that end up diverging and doing a genre change for the sake of increased plot complexity to increase readership and possibly so the author can experiment with art styles or do what they wanted to do in the first place. One of the biggest failures in this endeavour in my memory was Gosu which started off as a fun little gag manhwa and turned into an extremely boring and generic wuxia battle manhwa and left every ounce of comedy behind to make way for a tepid battle series with incredible art but a disappointing and limp plot. One that succeeded in this genre shift was Sakamoto Days that also starts as an action gag manga but moves into far more serious action violence territory but does it in a very successful way to become one of the better currently running shonen manga with an interesting plot and a host of excellent and compelling characters. Peerless Dad is somewhere in between where the genre shift is not quite so extreme not entirely unsuccessful but also not very good at it. To get it out of the way the art remains extremely good the whole way through with vibrant colours consistent character designs and fairly well choreographed action. While theres not as much action in this title as you would expect for something focused on a practicing martial artist what is there is well done. The manhwa starts with the titular father having to take on guard duty at a martial arts groups gate to make some money to raise and make a better life for his triplet sons and daughter after their mother passes away in childbirth. While the story starts with this fairly simple premise of a morethanordinary guards life it turns into a winding tale of a bunch of bog standard wuxia tropes about elaborate schemes to take down the world of martial arts of battles between many schools of higher level masters who can bend the elements. The fairly grounded premise gives way to something that is very needlessly and overly drawn out that all ends in a severely rushed finale that hurriedly wraps up its many dangling plot threads. Even the established goal for the father to make money for his kids and give them a better life turns into an intricate scheme of mob bosses and rival gangs and it all becomes very hard to follow because of how long ago they were introduced. Too many characters come and go and it becomes harder and harder to keep track of where all the tertiary characters are and what their purpose is to the main premise. The pacing is also extremely inconsistent with some of the parts in the middle dragging at a glacial pace and the ending rushing to wrap things up. Theres also a romance subplot that springs up that takes over half the manhwas runtime to resolve in a foregone conclusion that was telegraphed at almost the very beginning that moves at a snails pace to move in a straight and boring line. While I am quite negative on how the genre shift was executed and the mess of the main story it remains true that the father is an interesting and fun character throughout with his rambunctious children who slowly grow up through the course of the series and the core parts revolving around the central family remain engaging and fun. It is the whirlwind around them that is tepid and boring that I wish it wasnt there to ruin what should have been a fairly fun story about a father trying his best for his kids.