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Sep 14, 2020 10:55 AM
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Is the anime adaptation a disappointment?


Okay, I really enjoyed the first 3 episodes of the anime, and I was willing to turn off my brain and watch cool fights, but each new episode of the anime just makes everything more messy, chaotic and with a bad pacing. The anime doesn't know whether it wants to be a funny fighting anime or a complex political anime about gods and the fate of the world.
Also, they really want to make the concept of chaeriok look great, but they don't bother to explain how it works or how the power level is, making each fight look like a deus ex machina and power up bullshit.
Sep 14, 2020 11:08 AM
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Basically, as animation anime only wise i give it a pass but for a webtoon adaptation, it fails, crunchyroll is dumb thinking that fitting 100+ chapters into 13 episodes was a good idea, it butchers the actual full meaning of the god of highschool story, at this point, GOH has to focus on fights and not on plot cause it either will rush it or do something negative to it
Ofcool2947Sep 14, 2020 11:12 AM
Sep 14, 2020 11:15 AM
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At this point I don't even know what to think abt GOH lol. I tried to like it, I really did. But it was just incredibly messy and all over the place to even make sense of it, forget liking it

My only takeaway from the show is that Aot S4 is in the right hands
Sep 14, 2020 11:16 AM
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I enjoyed the 1st couple of episodes. IMO After that its just a clusterfuck. Only people with the webtoon experience are enjoying the show and maybe some others who don't really care about the issues. I couldn't even enjoy of fights cause there need to be at least something, tension or stakes etc. Now the show just feels unconnected. If I have to compare I would say that it gave me the same vibes as Justice League. Just the way of overall presentation is what I'm talking about.
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Sep 14, 2020 11:58 AM
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I dont understand why it is rated so high. Yes it has fantastic animations, but that is all it has to offer. In my opinion anime is more than just the visuals. It is about the story, the characters and literally everything else.

GOH so far has a complete mess of a story, it is all over the place and 9/10 times I honestly have no clue about what is happening and why. Sure watching it mindlessly and forgetting about it after might make it a decent show, but I pay attention to what I watch.

I thought that after episode 3 they would take the boring route to explain all unanswered/explained events, but instead they slammed more confusing clusterfucks per episode into our faces. I really am not enjoying it. I will just finish it for the sake of having finished it.
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Sep 14, 2020 12:17 PM
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As someone who started the Webtoon as a result of watching a few episodes, I can't describe how rushed and botched this translation to animation is or I'd be here all day. I'm still enjoying watching the fight scenes but what the hell were they thinking trying to cram basically the entire first 2 volumes (112 chapters if they actually make it to that point) into 13 episodes????? Any bits of story that were there originally were thrown out to try to sell this strictly on the fight scenes, so it leaves people who have never read the webtoon feeling lost at the breakneck pace its trying to move at. I know a few friends of mine straight up dropped it because they were looking for a traditional tournament fighter anime and didn't realize GoH is nothing like that, which I put down as an advertising failure.
All in all, if you like the concept of what you're watching, I recommend trying out the webtoon to see if the source material gives you a better experience and just enjoy the fight scenes in the anime.
Sep 14, 2020 1:50 PM
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Ofcool2947 said:
Basically, as animation anime only wise i give it a pass but for a webtoon adaptation, it fails, crunchyroll is dumb thinking that fitting 100+ chapters into 13 episodes was a good idea, it butchers the actual full meaning of the god of highschool story, at this point, GOH has to focus on fights and not on plot cause it either will rush it or do something negative to it
it was the author of goh who wanted 100+ chapters
Sep 14, 2020 2:35 PM
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Lenn123 said:
Ofcool2947 said:
Basically, as animation anime only wise i give it a pass but for a webtoon adaptation, it fails, crunchyroll is dumb thinking that fitting 100+ chapters into 13 episodes was a good idea, it butchers the actual full meaning of the god of highschool story, at this point, GOH has to focus on fights and not on plot cause it either will rush it or do something negative to it
it was the author of goh who wanted 100+ chapters

Really? If so, ngl, the author is stupid or was too good to be true
Sep 14, 2020 5:26 PM
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The story feels all over the place, but it still gets a pass from me since I love the animation of the fights.
Sep 15, 2020 12:15 AM
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Aside from the great combat the show is complete trash!
Super rushed, zero character development and all the usual tropes.

Could have been something special.
Sep 15, 2020 12:47 AM
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Idk I don't read the webtoon, but I really enjoy this anime, I watch it for the fight tho
But at least ppl in my circle that read the webtoon for years say they like the anime, the cut and change still understandable
Sep 15, 2020 6:29 AM

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Lol i do not read this webtoon but i gave a 7 due animation and sound
A bit rushed but no biggie for me
Dont know the origina material
I cand get upset
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Sep 16, 2020 3:45 AM
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Bhaskar_Singh said:
I enjoyed the 1st couple of episodes. IMO After that its just a clusterfuck. Only people with the webtoon experience are enjoying the show and maybe some others who don't really care about the issues. I couldn't even enjoy of fights cause there need to be at least something, tension or stakes etc. Now the show just feels unconnected. If I have to compare I would say that it gave me the same vibes as Justice League. Just the way of overall presentation is what I'm talking about.


Your description reminds me of my experience with Kami no Tou (Tower of God), in the first episodes, it feels like something really interesting is shaping up, but as it goes on, it becomes a jumbled, incoherent mess and it hardly qualifies as a story anymore. Around the second half, until then end of Kami no Tou, I was just watching it only because I started it and wanted to finish it, not because I cared anymore. And when the second season launches, I will not watch it, ever, simply because I don't care about the story anymore, because the pacing and storytelling got so bad that I naturally lost interest in the story, I couldn't even get disappointed, it somehow naturally became unrelatable to me.

I only watched 2 episodes from The God of High School and I'm starting to feel the same way - there is no excitement, no emotion, I'm just watching it because I have a pack of roasted sunflower seeds to eat while I watch... I could easily watch something else.
Sep 16, 2020 7:28 AM
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actually lots of things beats the manhwa

it is great as anmation

also i don't see big differences in story or character
Sep 16, 2020 7:48 AM
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It's terrible. The animation isn't even good and I'm a MASSIVE fan of well animated (and more importantly well choreographed) fights. They aren't all bad, don't get me wrong. But for every good fight, there are three rushed, ugly and boring ones. If you like MHA fights, you will probably like GOH fights, but that's about it.

And the animation is the only thing that can even be debated as possibly good. The characters and the story are uninspired and boring, but also just messy. A single episode contains way too many chapters, so have fun flicking from perspective to perspective as twenty characters, all with separate story lines, are presented to you, while you don't give a damn about any of them.

Honestly, cheap isekai anime is better. At least they try to do a few things to differentiate themselves from the rest, with an original character or a more interesting world/story. At least they can be entertaining because they aren't trying to be anything more. To sum it up, the anime (like TOG) is casual anime fan bait from CR. Flashy visuals, but any anime fan worth their weight in body pillows will see it for what it is.
Sep 16, 2020 8:27 AM
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Is not a disappointment for me is just rushed i still enjoy it, it could have been better adapted though.
Sep 16, 2020 9:09 AM
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It's terrible. The animation isn't even good and I'm a MASSIVE fan of well animated (and more importantly well choreographed) fights. They aren't all bad, don't get me wrong. But for every good fight, there are three rushed, ugly and boring ones. If you like MHA fights, you will probably like GOH fights, but that's about it.

And the animation is the only thing that can even be debated as possibly good. The characters and the story are uninspired and boring, but also just messy. A single episode contains way too many chapters, so have fun flicking from perspective to perspective as twenty characters, all with separate story lines, are presented to you, while you don't give a damn about any of them.

Honestly, cheap isekai anime is better. At least they try to do a few things to differentiate themselves from the rest, with an original character or a more interesting world/story. At least they can be entertaining because they aren't trying to be anything more. To sum it up, the anime (like TOG) is casual anime fan bait from CR. Flashy visuals, but any anime fan worth their weight in body pillows will see it for what it is.


The animation looks choppy tbh, like in ep 10 when mori was fighting ilpyo, his moves looked stuttering, it’s ok with normal animation but when it uses mocap, it makes the character movements choppy
Sep 16, 2020 10:02 AM
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Nope, I kind of figured how the adaptation will be after tower of god.
I expected awesome fight and half assed story development. I got it.
Webtoon to enjoy the plot, anime to enjoy fights.
The case won't be much different with the upcoming Noblesse adaptation I guess.
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Sep 17, 2020 5:03 AM
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MistaAsh said:


My only takeaway from the show is that Aot S4 is in the right hands


Lmao Looking forward to that one haha XD
Sep 17, 2020 5:15 AM

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People sure like to hate on webtoon adaptations.

It's not a revolutionnary manwha/anime by no mean, but it still delivers good fights & animations with a serviceable (albeit predictible) story and endearing MCs. I don't read the webtoon so I cannot say if it is rushed, but it's certainly not hard to understand if it misses some plot.

I feel invested in the story, the secondary characters are quite interesting as well ; there are lots of mysteries but I actually give a fuck and look forward to know more about them (a way better adaptation than Tower of god in that sense, as the story didn't make me want to feel invested in the abundance of voluntary plot holes that just made no sense).
Sep 17, 2020 6:15 AM

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The latest eps are actually quite saddening - they had the makings of a "really good episode" with all those fluid animation and pretty hyping developments, and yet I can't feel excited about them because in the end, they look so random and disconnected. We weren't given any proper worldbuilding and the characters aren't exactly likable (they're annoying me in fact).

Some fight choreography was also like "start the fight -> get hit a lot and be overwhelmed by the opponent -> suddenly turn the fight around with one move, disregarding any damage earned from the earlier bout". Must be because the anime's just rushed overall, including the battles. Really disappointing in that regard since I was looking forward to the martial arts part.
Sep 17, 2020 9:39 AM
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People sure like to hate on webtoon adaptations.

It's not a revolutionnary manwha/anime by no mean, but it still delivers good fights & animations with a serviceable (albeit predictible) story and endearing MCs. I don't read the webtoon so I cannot say if it is rushed, but it's certainly not hard to understand if it misses some plot.

I feel invested in the story, the secondary characters are quite interesting as well ; there are lots of mysteries but I actually give a fuck and look forward to know more about them (a way better adaptation than Tower of god in that sense, as the story didn't make me want to feel invested in the abundance of voluntary plot holes that just made no sense).


No, the GOH webtoon manhwa is a revolutionary manhwa, it was made in 2011 like really in the beginning days of webtoon, the people hate on it, mostly the webtoon readers cause the anime is rushed, recently the anime butchered mira’s special moment against ilpyo, and ilpyo’s victory against mori which unfortunately never happened in the anime and made mori a overpowered boring MC
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Sep 17, 2020 9:43 AM

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im actually in the minority that loves fast pacing of an anime thats why im a hardcore Imaishi fan

so this is a good anime for me ye the story is just average but the Rule of Cool of the cool sakuga animation makes it good enough for me to look forward in watching it every week
Sep 17, 2020 9:56 AM

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deg said:
im actually in the minority that loves fast pacing of an anime thats why im a hardcore Imaishi fan

so this is a good anime for me ye the story is just average but the Rule of Cool of the cool sakuga animation makes it good enough for me to look forward in watching it every week
This ain't only rushed thou. The story was changed a lot and episode 11 hit the nail on that lmfao. Also the fight scenes are far better in the webtoon.
Sep 17, 2020 9:57 AM

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MegamiRem said:
deg said:
im actually in the minority that loves fast pacing of an anime thats why im a hardcore Imaishi fan

so this is a good anime for me ye the story is just average but the Rule of Cool of the cool sakuga animation makes it good enough for me to look forward in watching it every week
This ain't only rushed thou. The story was changed a lot and episode 11 hit the nail on that lmfao. Also the fight scenes are far better in the webtoon.


i might check out the manga/webtoon if i ever cleared my plan to read list in the near future
Sep 17, 2020 10:09 AM
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I really like the animation, but that's it. I had high hopes for GOH, but it wasn't as good as I had hoped. I'm suprised it's somewhat high rated. I thought it was boring half the time. I'll read the Webtoon
Sep 18, 2020 9:39 AM
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You're tripping i guess 😜
Sep 19, 2020 6:48 AM

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its not a disappointment,ITS FUCKING AWESOME
just saying it's fucking awesome doesn't mean anything. What's the reason behind those words of yours? First explain that my friend.
Sep 19, 2020 6:51 AM
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Shows a fucking garbage m8s
Sep 21, 2020 6:10 AM
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im actually in the minority that loves fast pacing of an anime thats why im a hardcore Imaishi fan

so this is a good anime for me ye the story is just average but the Rule of Cool of the cool sakuga animation makes it good enough for me to look forward in watching it every week


I'm the same as you, at first I was afraid of this anime because of the tower of god, but I'm really enjoying this adaptation

I know that there were changes in the story in relation to the original material, but what they changed was not anything bad or hurt my experience with anime, in fact the anime is hurried, but in this case it is doing more good than evil (different tower of god that i didn't understand anything that was happening from beginning to end)

The worst episode so far was the wedding episode, which I think a lot of people didn't like and gave up on the anime because of it
Sep 21, 2020 9:34 AM

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It is a disappointment for sure but.......
Not everything goes how we want it to...

Things I absolutely love about the Show are OST (OP/ED) Art/Animation and Amazing Martial Art!!

Characters were Good, Plot was good............
It's just that the Story was rushed.....

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If this was just a battle tournament show which focused on martial arts and abilities it would have been fine. The supernatural elements really sink the whole show, its just a confusing mess with good animation.
Sep 21, 2020 12:49 PM
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Yea this shit fucking sucks tbh
Sep 21, 2020 1:06 PM

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Let's be truthful the animation and fight scenes are on point you can't say anything about that. But the pacing is horrible let's just say this anime was more meant for the webtoon readers to see all the hype fights. If you're an anime-only none of this makes sense.
Sep 21, 2020 6:44 PM

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It is a disappointment for most of the readers but not for the majority of anime-only viewers.

It worked as a standalone adaptation and it managed to pull potential readers successfully to the manhwa itself. It also worked as a business card for MAPPA to show people what they can do with creative liberties and maximum visual output.

With that said, we all are now aware that Jujutsu Kaisen and AoT S4 are in really good hands.

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Sep 21, 2020 9:32 PM
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As an adaptation, yes, its a dissapointment. I started reading the manhwa and i can say this shit is even more rushed than Tower of God, and that one was already a shitty adaptation.

This is what you get when you adapt 80/112 chapters in 13 episodes. If i had hopes that Tower of God Season 2 would be better, i now seriously doubt it. Crunchyroll cant adapt webtoons properly it seems.
Sep 21, 2020 9:38 PM

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Everything else except the story and the characters is top notch for me, and those where the important parts, the story and the characters.

The show made me not give a fuck about any of them, the only character I actually like is Commissioner Q.

The adaptation overall is even more worse than Tower of God, but at least TOG has some really interesting world and lore, enough to make me want to read the manhwa and the manhwa became one of my favorites.

But GOH, even if I turn my brain off and just enjoy the fights there is just something wrong with it.
Sep 22, 2020 12:54 AM

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Disappointment is the understatement of the century. It had lots of potential but Crunchyroll's incompetence squandered every last bit of it. They shouldn't be allowed to mess with the production of an anime ever again. First Tower of God, and now this. I swear to God if they're the ones who are in charge of Solo Leveling's adaptation I'm going to be pissed.
Sep 22, 2020 1:15 AM
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I am a manwha reader who is up to date with GoH manwha.

I have to say that this was a disappointment. After ep 5 I thought it may be legit but it just went downhill. There is literally bo fucking way they can fit 100 chapters in 13eps. The pacing was too fast. The plot got messy.I can enjoy the chakreyok fights bcz i read the manwha but god knows how anime only feels. It looks too random. Random powers and jumbly power levels. The fights were good and had amazing choreography. If this show had about 18-20 es it would be a success. But Crunchyroll ruined it
Sep 22, 2020 2:56 AM
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I think the pacing is ok. Just assume it was an original anime, there won't be many there complaining about cutting stuff and things not explained. In many stories things are shown first, and explained later how they work, so most anime only watcher will only get curious not confused. There's no way manhwa readers are confused, they only think this kind of adaptation will be confusing to anime only watchers. Overall the story is ok, it's simple. The fights are cool, it won't win any awards for its story, but it's fun.
Sep 22, 2020 3:15 AM

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I wouldn't say it's a disappointment? I'd definitely appreciate a longer season so they could have fleshed some things out because it is super fucking rushed. I really hate Crunchy for this, because they could have just focused on individual projects (ToG, GoH, Noblesse) and given them proper 24-26 episode seasons that properly adapted the first season of each respective series. But nope, gotta churn out 13 episode seasons, anime viewers get bored fast so lets throw all these different coloured jelly beans at them (Which is true tbf, most anime viewers are fucking inept, myself included).

They are the only production committee on this so I understand why they did it, but doesn't mean they couldn't have done things a different way. If they properly did these shows, well-made seasons with limited release blu-rays or something to that effect, they would have easily made their money back on this from the respective fanbases. I keep thinking about the timeline where Mubong and Mandeok giving each other shit about their names got animated and the Triple Hwechook looked much better.
Sep 22, 2020 3:56 AM
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I am not disappointed by this.
As the series progressed, the action scenes became cooler (if you're for action, most
are).

Action scenes aside, there's more to the series. The story seems fun ; gonna start reading its webtoon series.
Sep 22, 2020 4:31 AM
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I honestly also a manhwa reader of this series. They really did some changing in some scenes but to be honest I still love the adaptation. I don't know why, although there are many changes that exist in anime, they just make it more cooler than in manhwa. But my conclusion is the anime until now still haven't dissapointed me.
Sep 22, 2020 6:41 AM
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What a huge disappointment this show is, the combat and animations are great but hoy shit the story and characters are terrible! So damn rushed and badly written.

The show had so much promise, the powers, setting and everything i really like, i'm gonna go read the webtoon instead, heard its much better.
Sep 22, 2020 7:28 AM

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Is the anime adaptation a disappointment?


Okay, I really enjoyed the first 3 episodes of the anime, and I was willing to turn off my brain and watch cool fights, but each new episode of the anime just makes everything more messy, chaotic and with a bad pacing. The anime doesn't know whether it wants to be a funny fighting anime or a complex political anime about gods and the fate of the world.
Also, they really want to make the concept of chaeriok look great, but they don't bother to explain how it works or how the power level is, making each fight look like a deus ex machina and power up bullshit.


I feel EXACTLY the same. The first 3 eps were just mindless fun, I'd rate them 8/10; then, higher stakes required proper time to develop the story and now I lowered my score to 5, possibly a 4.

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