Personally I havent read the manhwa. I have to say that I 've read an enormous ammount of manga and spent many months of my life watching anime. So I will write this review as someone who meticulously watches many anime each season and in general has viewed many hyped anime in his life.
This anime...this story...this worldbuilding...is absolute GARBAGE.
I am not going to sugarcoat it.
I dont give a damn if this gets good after chapter 356 on the manhwa.
For what we are given this should not be getting a chance to reach that point of the story. There are much better stories out there that should be getting a chance to be animated.
Story? Worldbuilding? Characters? what's that?
This was supposed to rival one piece in these regards? Are you serious right now? All these 9s and 10s that I see as a score for this anime..are you serious?
Why??
Which character is the memorable here?
Which animation part?
Which part of the story?
Which scene?
Which soundtrack?
Are the OP or the ending even decent?
Nothing. The great void. This anime has nothing going for it.
STORY 3/10.
Simple premise really. Climb to the top of the Tower, make your desires a reality.
Ok ok.
So lucky protagonist Bam enters the tower while not even knowing what it is or how he enters it in search of his only other known person to him who left him with no explanation to attain her own wish which is also not explained.
BTW BAM is an irregular.
What is an irregular you might ask.
Excellent question poor viewer!
What? You wanted an answer to that question? Well sucks to be you. This is world-building peasant. No time for these we have to introduce characters without background. If we introduce 100 of them then what the hell 1 or 2 will be interesting right?
On to Tests. You have to pass tests in order to climb the tower. What is the main characteristic that you have to possses in order to pass the tests?
Strengh? meh
Intelligence? meh
Luck? YES thats its. I shit you not. its LUCK. Couple that with inherent being born with powers and you have what it takes apparently to clear the tower.
I could go on and on about the caretaker the first test the princess the weapon the different "races" but the brain of the human is a smart organ you know. It identifies when you are trying to hurt yourself and it stops you. Recalling what happened to these episodes is physically painful. Main reason being that this anime was HYPED. OMG poor hypers. I legit pity you. I could not be more sιncerely sad for you right now. Honest to the tower's owner.
CHARACTERS 3/10.
Lets start with the MC, Bam.
Every time the MC speaks you want to yawn.
Weak. Blunt.
No brain.
No plan.
No common sense.
zero knowledge of how the world works.
No power (which he earned).
No special features is his character design.
Nothing special about him.
He has a goal I ll give him that. But you cant even call him determined. Its your typical "I am going to befriend everyone and never dirty my hands" type. You know, the one that if he didnt have armor plot would be dead in seconds because thats not how the world works.
Watching paint dry on a wall would be more interesting than watching this man be a protagonist.
He instantly copied, nay, MASTERED the technique of a ranker-a person who has cleared the tower? HOW? WHY?
He is lucky? Chosen? why????? It shouldnt take 300 episodes to learn why.
A very weak protagonist.
Then there is Rak. Excuse me Rak is listed as a main character? Really? Its a talking standing crocodile who is supposed to provide some comic relief? He does no such thing.
No background for this one as of episode 9 and he doesnt showcase anything special.
He wants to eat and fight. Then watch out because he....SLEEPS. Thats it. And he is not even particularly strong. So why is he a main character?
Ok next is Agnes. Now he is the only reason why I am not rating this anime as a 1. He is strong. Mysterius. Smart. With a past you give a damn for. Promising weapon. Nice design. Even nice one liners. The actual protagonist? Maybe.
Finally Rachel. Oh Rachel. The Golden Apple of Discord.
Laughable really. This is going to be the heroin? Whatever goes for the MC goes for her as well.
Vague. Weak. Uninteresting. You dont care about her at all. She could die and besides the MC nobody would care.
ART 5/10
Art is decent. Just that. Nothing to write home about. I would never judge an anime by its art alone.
I assume that this is how the background of the original material was.
Otherwise the 5 rating would be generous. I dont know. I dont want to know because the anime is not giving me any incentive to find out.
Blunt background and colors. No details at all, nothing special.
Not much to talk about really. Plain and boring.
SOUND 4/10
Same as the art. Absolutely nothing memorable. You will never see a part of tower of god's soundtrack in any top anything list.
The opening is called "never let you go" which to me is very funny since this is the exact opossite of what you should be doing with this anime.
ENJOYMENT 2/10
I am out of words really and as I said that is mainly because this anime was HYPED and because it keeps getting good reviews for some reason.
BUT, if I had to describe it with one and only one word that would be BORING.
Its also bad but mainly it is boring and I hope with the passage of time when the hypers move on the score on myanimelist will slowly deteriorate to a more realistic one which would place it between 1-5 (TOPS!!!).
You who have read this review please note that I am not joking I am not over reacting I am not biased in any way. Just STAY AWAY from this anime for your own good :)
