Tower of God

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Synonyms: Sin-ui Tap

Japanese: 신의 탑

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Type: Manhwa

Volumes: Unknown

Chapters: Unknown

Status: Publishing

Published: Jul 5, 2010 to ?

Genres: Action, Adventure, Drama, Fantasy, Mystery

Serialization: Naver Webtoon

Authors: SIU (Story & Art)

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Score: 8.37¹ (scored by 79,064 users)

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Ranked: #253²

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Popularity: #42

Members: 187,337

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Twenty-Fifth Bam had been alone his whole life until he met Rachel. Now, however, Rachel is set on climbing the Tower, and she is willing to leave Bam behind to do so. After Rachel disappears in a veil of light, Bam follows her, vowing to ascend the Tower in hopes of meeting her again.

But the Tower is a dangerous place full of ancient secrets, fearsome monsters, and nefarious humans. Each floor is protected by an Administrator who puts the daring challengers through grueling tests that will push them to their limits.

As he confronts Headon, the Administrator of the first floor, Bam learns that he is an ''Irregular,'' someone who was not chosen by the Tower but was able to enter it on his own, an extremely rare event inside the Tower. Regardless of this revelation, however, his path forward is clear. Be it wealth, power, glory, or even reuniting with Rachel, all desires will be realized at the top of the Tower.

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Tower of God has been published digitally in English by LINE Webtoon since June 30, 2014. It has been published in print by Wattpad Webtoon Studios under its Webtoon Unscrolled imprint since November 22, 2022.

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Kami no Tou, Kami no Tou 2nd Season

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Khun, Aguero Agnes

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Twenty-Fifth Bam

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Wraithraiser, Rak

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Rachel

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Jahad, Endorsi

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Jahad, Ha Yuri

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Hwaryun

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Mazino, Urek

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Lero-Ro

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Hatz

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Nov 12, 2019

Wasakanene

Recommended

Preliminary (452/? eps)

I've been waiting for this on MAL for so long and now it's finally here, I can finally put it on my list of one of my favorite Manhwas.

This btw, is one of THE BEST manwhas out there, for me tho, dunno about you guys. But I got hooked on this since the first chapter and didn't want to stop reading this for days, weeks or even months whenever I have the time to. This has become bread and butter in my daily life. That is how Intrigued I was with this, in short I got addicted since the day I laid eyes on it.

Well ... enough chitchat shall we? Time for the review I guess?

Story 10/10: the story is about a tower built by someone (A god maybe? XD). No, it is actually about a boy who was left all alone at the bottom of a tower (more like a basement) since he was a baby, until he was found by a girl. Then they grew up together on the outer areas of that tower and one day this girl decides to go up the tower, for some unknown reasons, her dream maybe? (nah..she just want to see some sparkly things up there duhh). The boy then ran after her for he doesn't want to be separated with her (talk about clinginess to the max). Then they found themselves at the door and accidentally the one who was sucked in or rather chosen was none other than our protagonist BAM! (leaving the girl behind???? XD hey no spoilers you mofo!). And that was it. A new adventure awaits BAM. As he was searching for the girl (he loves?) new mysteries unfold about his past, his fam, his powa! While learing about the purpose of the floors and the tower itself, about why hasn't anyone reached the top yet, And why do they have loooooong lives? About the harem king which is on top, jk, He will each solve these mysteries as he meets his new badass friends along the way (and possibly a waifu! Make that two, no it is a HAREM!) And so the story goes on and on.

Yeah. So the story is magnificent. The pace is not too fast not too slow either, good balance between suspense and drama, I don't mind it being to long since I'm enjoying every part of it. Well that for me tho.

Art 10/10: It is simple and at the same time it's beautiful. Simplicity is beauty.. you can easily distinguish scenes on every panel. Characters designs too are badass. Watch out for BAM his transformation is the best!

Characters 10/10: hohoho man, the best there is, the development is quite good. As you go in deeper you'll find out even more cool ass characters and even bad ones.

Enjoyment 10/10: well I haven't caught up and waiting if I didn't enjoy.

Overall 10/10: you guys should probably read this. It's a must!

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Feb 29, 2020

bluemanatee

Mixed Feelings

Preliminary (417/? eps)

ToG was one of the first manhwa that I ever read around 5 or 6 years ago, and I do remember enjoying it but still dropped it somewhere along the line. I recently decided to reread it again after seeing overwhelmingly positive reviews for it (8.74/10 makes that pretty obvious), however, I found it awfully mediocre (especially the 2nd and even more, the 3rd season).

Story: 6/10. The first season was decent. But the second season and third season just seemed like a remodelled first season. I stopped there, but I assumed the 4th season would be the same. This is a problem with the very ... concept of 'tower-climbing'. This story can very easily become an endless repetition of having to overcome obstacles after clearing levels. That's why character development is so important (I'll get to that later). What could have added depth to the story is the whole Rachel conflict motive, however, this also falls super short. We are barely given insight into Rachel's motives, her thoughts etc. She has absolutely no significant meaningful development. And because of this, the whole story just collapses in on itself. Not to mention the whole load of inconsistencies.

Art: 7/10. The art does improve and it is pretty good and has some detail. However, since it is a fantasy, with a pretty interesting and (at the time, 2010) unique tower concept, I thought the art could deliver more in terms of world building. The backgrounds tend to get very boring and repetitive, and fail to create a real sense of immersion with the world, and since I find the action and character part of ToG pretty bland, I was hoping for some redemption here, but alas. Also, the character/costume design is utterly bland.

Characters: 3/10. This is my main problem with ToG. The characters are so boring, and undergo no meaningful development over the 417 chapters that I have read. There has been some development, yes, some development hinted at sometimes but never followed through... hardly enough development for all the trials the characters have been through. The characters are vehicles for the plot which shouldn't be the case. The characters should be informing the plot, not making generic decisions with no personality, just to further the plot along. All the characters just lack dimension and personality. Especially Rachel and Baam. And they are arguably the more important characters...

So, overall 5/10 is pretty generous considering my ratings for characters and my enjoyment of the series. I just don't want to rate it 4/10 because ToG isn't 'bad' per say, rather just not for me since I enjoy stories with good character development, which ToG did not have. I am also older than the target audience (10-15 year olds?) so that might be a factor limiting my enjoyment as well. However, I can understand why someone who doesn't mind mindlessly consuming manga/manhwa that has a semblance of a plot and characters can enjoy ToG. It is readable. Just mediocre.

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Feb 29, 2020

abystoma2

Not Recommended

Preliminary (238/? eps)

Never before I had to force myself to continue reading a comic so much like I had with Tower of God. Having to load another of the endless chapters pained me greatly and often I found myself distracted by literally anything else rather than to continue reading. This means that it took me great amount of time to arrive at this chapter count and my strength and will weaken with each another chapter. I'll try to continue, but I don't know for how much longer I continue this thorny journey.

Sure, there are a lot of worse manga, but at least those tend to be entertaining, ... if only because of how bad they are. But not Tower of God. ToG is just blunt boredom. Weaponized boredness. The work where you'll be wishing to do anything else than reading it.

Now, lot of fans keep saying that it does get better and that I should keep on going. I recognize this pattern, I've already seen it with Homestuck and Salad Fingers communities. And like them, I hope Tower of God will be left in the dust of history someday and my life will be peaceful again.

Real talk though, does it actually get better? Well... yes. Technically. But mainly because the first part is so horrendous, that even the mediocre continuation is an improvement. Although, the main improvement is art. Let me describe the art of the earlier chapters a bit more. It looks like 2009 deviantart creation made entirely in MS Paint. The character design is like that of a fanfiction OC originating from the forementioned site. Worst are the drawings outside of action scenes, where the characters are frequently off-model and just unpleasant to the eyes. But yeah, the art gets noticeably better. We're talking about almost 100 chapters of bad illustrations though.

The plot is, as you might have guessed, a big mess. Most of the time nothing interesting happens, and the rare moments that might distantly resemble entertainment are gone quickly. The pacing is horrible and it takes forever for the plot to move somewhere, especially with the trials that tend to get too complicated and drags on forever. The plot doesn't seem to be much well thought and it's more likely that it's made up on the go. I get the feel that the author just thinks of some elements that sound cool and throws them into the next week's chapter without much thought. The plot goes both everywhere and nowhere. There is both too much stuff happening and nothing happening at the same time. I have no idea how the author managed to attain this zen state of storytelling, but I can tell you that it's nothing enjoyable.

The most glaring problem are the characters. The cast is bland, shallow, one-dimensional and instead of actually developing at least some characters, the author just throws in bunch of more new characters to get your attention. There is barely any chance to get attached to any of the characters and the comic doesn't really try to get you do so beyond the tactics akin to "look what cool power this character has". This results in fights that should in theory have some stakes but that fall flat because you just don't care what happens to the characters at all. As the cast is treated as props, not as real people, all of this feels just artificial and distant.

The worst case is the main character. He's pretty much a blank state that miraculously keeps getting more powerful pretty much by being at the right place in the right time, not to mentioned being marked as "predestined" to be powerful right from the start. Blank, because we know near to nothing about this character. For most of Season 1 of the comic, all we know about him is his name and that he came from outside of the tower. And even the little background info we get later is ultimately nothing. Now, I'm not against the idea of protagonist with mysterious background, but this is just taken too much to the extreme. Not to mention that Bam's only personality seems to be "I have to protect my friends with my power". That's it. The core characteristic of generic battle shounen with nothing on the side. Of course, this makes the protagonist perfect for self-insert. Huge power, "cool" aura and no starting personality. Just insert the reader.

In fact, the protagonist is so uninteresting that the best part that I've read so far was the part where he was gone. For a brief time the webcomic switches to a secondary protagonist that comes from more ordinary background and follows this character and the group around him for a while. This is also the closest the characters get to... actually having a character. Of course, that is ruined when the focus shifts back to the main protagonist and the dullness takes the lead again.

At this point, even if rest of the chapters were magically somehow really good, it still doesn't change that over two hundred chapters were dreadfully awful, and that alone is enough for ToG to lose the right to be labeled as "good".

Ultimately, I wouldn't recommend this to anyone unless your preferable medium of choice is soulless product that you can keep mindlessly consuming. I fail to see why anyone would continue reading this except for the Sunk Cost Fallacy. The story sure keeps raising a lot of questions, but I prefer reading something where reading the story itself is enjoyable, not just the "waiting for the answers" part.

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