Kami no Tou Episode 13 Discussion

I saw this coming a mile away. Our protagonist is a typical sucker who will never learn even after this betrayal. How many times must he get screwed over before he learns? Rachel only cares about herself and hes too blind to see it. Its rather pathetic and it sucks that this anime ends on this note. I will still watch season 2 but have to lower my expectations.

Here we go, my opinion as a manhwa reader. A bit late to the party but whatever.

To begin with, I have to say that unlike the majority of readers, I consider the original to be a masterpiece from beginning to end (if you consider the workshop battle the end, anyway). You won’t get “it starts okayish but gets better later on” from me.

Now, I understand that it’s not easy to adapt such an amount of work in 13 chapters, I get it. From what I have read, SIU’s involvement with this was minimal, too, which does not help. Stil, it does not excuse this show for being the unwatchable mess that it is.

What is the problem with this adaptation, then? The problem is that it fails miserably at everything it does. There is no passion, no love, no ambition to tell a good story. There was never a desire to understand the source material as the team behind this just didn’t care. Don’t let them fool you, this is not Tower Of God.

Specifying:

1. Scene changes. They changed almost every scene as they see fit, without any valid reason, leaving people confused (again, we cannot use the time constraints card here). You can leave mysteries unexplained so that people can keep looking forward to the next chapter/episode, like the original does but you can’t leave them unable to understand anything at all, like they did here. They took the “oomph” out of every scene, too: no “Please die, Baam”, no “Because I am afraid of the night (Baam)”. Jesus Christ.

2. Character changes. They did it. They actually did it. They managed to make me hate all the characters that I used to love. Everyone is so out of character it makes me cringe. They tried to push the Nakama thing too faar, too. Friendships were formed during the time they spent in the floor of test but some people, like Anaak, didn’t actually care all that much about Baam, or “climbing together”. Also, Khun, my man, what did they do to you? They transmuted him into a damn yandere who is thirsty for Baam and made him do stupid things like antagonizing Rachel from the beginning or warning Baam against her. Khun is way smarter than this, actually. He knows better than to ass meddle into a situation he clearly knows nothing about and was actually never hostile to Rachel when they first met. Later on, when he has a motive to be hostile to her, he is still smarter than taunting her with childish comments that would make Rachel (who’s actually not stupid) realize that he’s onto her. Ha-ha. 2/10.

I am going to have to join the people recommending the original (rough art style at the beginning, though). Also, for those saying how crazy the fans are for “overhyping” this, keep in mind that what we were hyping was in fact the original work, not the anime adaptation. That criticism would only be valid if the adaptation was even remotely faithful to the original, which is not. Even “most helpful” reviewers fail to realize this. Eww.

Have a nice day.