Story and characters are connected. The problem is that story is developing too slow - first chapters are short and laters are long and... empty.
Let me explain what this series is - it is about Boy called 25th Bam who has enterned to mysterious Tower. He has some purpose that forced him entenring there. In first or Second Chapter it was explained that when you enterned a Tower you have to climb on it's top where you can :
- find any treaure
- satisfy any need of yours
- find something that transcendents those above
It was said that through time in Tower was created a political system with King and Nobles.
At moment of begining of series there is a Royal Family and 10 Great Families - those guys seem to keep rule in Tower.
So you know something about Tower! Well let's talking about why ToG is empty and characters weren't fully used. That will include also Art of series.
Our main Character - 25th Bam from begining was meeting those guys from 10 Great Families and even has met members of Royal Family. They even became his companions...
What could go wrong? Author has focused on making Shounen from this Series.
I mean there is way too much fights. Author created good universe (Tower) where he can add everything. And here those characters from 10Great Families can help to improve series - Explaining, talking more about the Tower, it's system, rules or whatever they were teached. And not only those guys from Nobility - every character can add something - rumors, own experience.
After 10 years of publishing author keeps doing one thing - you won't know about something until that thing will be involved in MC's way.
One thing was in Season 1, then it was more explained in late Season 2, and after that... still waits to be explained,
Also fights are big problem - they're exist just to cover a website. On begining They're good but in Season2 there is one pattern :
- drawning Character A in left up corner
- drawning Character B in bottom right corner
- they're shouting names of their attacks
- then between them draw a white rays like those on Jesus' portrait or other Deathstar's laser or whatever to cover space between them.
Only because that late chapters are long - few infomation about Tower/world/characters and tons of Lasers/holy rays.
Art of characters - here you can see Authors evolution! While on begining it was not interesting in Season 2 it is absolutely Beautful!!!
At now I'm confused - on the one hand we have got a tons of characters who can be developed and wait what will be done with them. Also same goes with world of Tower where still a lot of things have to be explained.
On the other hand there's tons of unused characters and occasions. Lot of empty chapters and following overused schemes.
However I was still enjoying - these series has given me what I like the most. A new universe where I'm flooded with informations about it, then imagine and whinking about all this World.
