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Tower of God is decent at best. It is by no means a masterpiece nor is it the best-written plot like claimed by many.

The only thing that really keeps you interested is the tower itself and the mystery around it. There was a lot of potential in the premise, it could've been done wonderfully.

Sadly, not all things turn out as you wish. The first season of the Manwha was very good, it seemed to have delivered with a good plot, well-done characters while still keeping intact the mystery.

The first half of the second season was a mess, absolutely horrendous. I could barely ... get through 30 chapters before quitting for a week. I am not going to spoil much but the first half decided to introduce a completely brand new set of characters who were all thinner than a piece of paper, it was insane how much of a turn the entire plot took and that's in a bad way. Not to mention the cheesy dialogue and the new edgier bam didn't add much either.

Anyhow, after a week of asking around to when it actually got good, I finally got an arc. It was the "Workshop Arc" that was directly after the horrible stuff. I decided to continue on and finally got to it. Surprise, the story had another major issue now. It was paced way too slow, literally reading through the chapters started becoming a chore. It was all just so uninteresting and I genuinely couldn't care less. It was like a filler arc, but somehow worse. The plot was a bit better but it really didn't matter.

As I kept on reading, it became way too apparent that the show wasn't going to get better, even if it was, I am not going to read through another 200 chapters of absolute garbage to get to it.

The story seems to have gone from the bizarre nature of the tower to how many useless side characters we can add in one plotline. It was way too obvious that SIU was trying to compensate for his lack of ideas and answers by adding more and more characters to show some sort of meaningless "depth" in his one-dimensional story.

I gave this Manwha way too many chances, even read through visceral trash, and after 200+ chapters, I think I can finally make a judgment of it.

Don't get me wrong, it's am not giving up on it just yet. I might just keep reading extremely slowly. Maybe even forget about it in a while, but if it all actually ever gets good. I'll update this score to an 8, no matter how much better. If a show takes 400 Chapters to get better, it isn't worth it.

If you're someone who rightly expects a story to be good within its first 200 chapters, then ignore this Webtoon at all costs, but if you can handle painstaking going through bad chapters, 100s at a time then you might just find something at the end of the tunnel. I am however not going to go that far

This series was especially conflicting for me, it has probably the best animation we'll ever see, but on the other hand, the show is unbearable most of the times.

[Very Mild spoilers, considerably none]

I've had to drag myself every single time to finish an episode, and as much as I'd like myself to enjoy this show. It's just God awful in every other factor apart from animation.

First, starting with the good elements:

The Animation, done by UFOTable, is beyond God-tier. Every frame of this show is wallpaper worthy. The bold art style and the CGI fits in perfectly with my taste and is done by the ... most talented people in animation. The atmosphere and the music go wonderfully with the theme of the show. Before this, I'd consider with just those factors alone, that a series would be worth every minute.

But, and here it comes, this show is hot flaming garbage. I am somebody that enjoys mindless Shonen, even the acclaimed shitty/mediocre ones. Naruto, Dragonball, etc. Even if they're cliched to death, at least they bring something interesting to the table character/plot-wise. This show, on the other hand, adds absolutely nothing. It makes things worse.

This show is a step down from a shitty shonen linear story formula. Which is very hard to do. Awful comedy, cringe-inducing characters, and the worst pacing I've ever witnessed. It was honestly the hardest thing to watch. It's sad, and all in all just plain stupid. The show is dumbed down to a point where there's nothing left. Watch any episode and you'll realize 90% of it is filler. In a 25 minute episode, almost all of it is spent on unnecessary monologues, life stories, and flashbacks. The fights, which I have to agree, are the pinnacle of Animation as of now, last at the most for 2 minutes. Even, in these 2 minutes the characters most of the time ruin it with offhand "jokes" and monologues. Just how much BS can you tact on a 26 episode series? It's painfully obvious the show is nothing more than it's animation.

The characters in this show are the definition of annoying and uninspired. Tanjiro, Zenitsu, Inosuke are the main characters. They're also the most annoying. Especially Zenitsu. His specialty is that he sleeps in the middle of his fights? sent off as a joke? Yes, a great idea. Even the side characters apart from a few are very linear and uninteresting. The demons hardly have any impact on the story. The character development is non-existent after the first 3 episodes.

Honestly, If I were to go on, It'd take me a few days to finish this. I'd also spoil a lot, so I am going to leave it here.

All in all, I feel like the community for the show has 2 sides. They either enjoy it or absolutely hate it for the writing. Like me. This show is very much overrated, but it's understandable why. I just wouldn't, in any state of mind give this show anything above 5/10. Would be an insult to every other show rated lower.

If you're considering watching this. Don't. Just go watch the fight scenes on youtube and read the summary of the story. The same thing either way. For this, this show is gold-plated dogshit.

Tl;dr
[Story] - 4/10 - Generic, almost no substance
[Pacing] - 1/10 - Just bad. Really, really bad
[Art] - 10/10 - Probably the best Animation on any show, ever.
[Sound] - 9/10 - Every atmospheric and fits in perfectly with the theme
[Characters] - 2/10 - Dreadful, uninspired, and annoying
[Enjoyment] - 3/10 - Had to drag myself to finish it.
[Overall] - 5/10 - The animation saved it from 2/10. this show is utter garbage in every other element.

Spoilers ahead, duh.

To the point,
The first 2 or 3 episodes weren't as bad, not the greatest but still good enough. They did a decent job of setting up the world and creating a semi-tense atmosphere. BUT, as soon as they try to add this half baked "Mind games" element to the show, it fell apart instantly. Their lazy jab at Psychological horror is so horrendously bad that it was actually hilarious. You could tell that the show had absolutely no substance whatsoever to begin with, they'd just keep going on with this "Complex twists" sham to try and extend the same plot arc further. ... Every episode was just an awful attempt at one-upping the previous episode, ending with a beyond cheesy plot twist. The tension in the show was non-existent, it was just a bunch of Panning shots like anything was ever going to happend, surprise surprise, nothing ever happens.

Coming to characters, they were awful too. Norman, Ray, Isabell were too busy one-upping each other, Emma might as well have not existed and Don, Gildua were just there to mess things up for the main crew. The only real interesting Character with any personality whatsoever was Sister Krone, she was done pretty well in my opinion, but that doesn't matter since everyone else might as well have been bricks

In the end, the show reaches absolutely nowhere. All that really happend in the 12 episodes was them getting out of the orphanage. You still know nothing about the world, the 'Demons' or any of the major plot points. Sister Krone's arc kind of expanded on them a little bit but that's about all you get. The whole of the show could've been summed up in 3 or 4 episodes. The show was hardly worth the watch, wouldn't recommend it to anyone. Unless you're bored out of your mind.

P.S. Formatting was done on phone, so might have alot of mistakes.