Audience reviews
20 · Sample from the first available page, separate from the total number of ratings.
Fairtale
It is one of those series like "Lost":
- they keep the mistery alive till the last episode, then the last episode doesn't explain shit.
- some weird convoluted "mistery" as an excuse to mash thousands of genres together and call it "all part of the mistery". is it fantasy? future? past? crime? thriller? why not everything at the same time, while failing at them all?
Spend a whole series watching this and then realize nothing actually happened. the plot didn't move at all. still same characters, still same goals, nothing changed and nothing progressed.
I even watched the first episode of the second season because FINALLY it felt like something was going to happen...But no. Second season starts the same way: avoiding the plot and introducing new characters to avoid progressing the story.
I…
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I do not recommend! anime is boring and uninteresting and for those who try to say that the anime is "good" they have to start explaining things.
The anime starts out meaningless and ends the same way it started, it's dull, lukewarm, and without development, especially from the potagonist, it starts off as rubbish and ends the same. the secondary characters and the plots with them are more interesting than everything involving the protagonist that we know absolutely nothing about.
For those who love this anime, I'm sorry for your lives, go find something better.
For those who still want to see this anime or will see it and won't read this, I'm sorry, I hope you can forget the time you wasted watching it
Read at the sourceOndine_chan
I don't even know what to think about this anime. Theoretically, it should be a 10, but it really left a lot to be desired. Starting with Bam, the main character, for me, he was completely forgettable, the most indifferent main character I have ever seen in an anime. It bothered me that everyone who met Bam liked him because it seemed like the audience was being forced to like Bam for no reason. He lacks personality and seems like a person without ambition, without motivation, and with a lot of mommy issues.
In an anime like this, you would expect incredible world-building, but it feels like they mixed 40 different worlds and spat them on the screen. What do I mean by this? Basically, you see different races, people who look like they're from different eras, a world that seems religious a…
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Started out fairly promising but never really got any better, only continuously more confusing. I haven't read the Manwha but i get the feeling so much of the world of this manwha was left out in the anime. The whole anime is almost lacking of any substance or context. Things just happen and appear without any explanation. Motives for characters are not revealed at all for all 13 episodes except for the Green Lizard girl who is really the only one with any background and even hers is kind of vague. Idk it just feels like an anime that was rushed and probably missing a lot of major character development that may be in the source material. The idea is great the execution is poor.....it feels like an anime that is trying to appear to be deeper and more intellectual than it actually is. In a w…
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What happens when you take a dated idea and use every single trope in the genre to make a story out of that idea? You get Tower of God. It strikes me as oddly funny how this show has become so popular in an anime community that tries so hard to convince itself that they only like the cream of the crop because this show doesn't do anything different. No new ideas. No new takes. Every moment of this show is spent on making the same points made by other "edgy" shounen shows. Which brings us to the question of is this show worth watching? What qualities does Tower of God have that make it stand out? What makes this show so boring to anyone with half a brain cell? Finally, will Tower of God be worthy of your time as an anime viewer?
I suppose for the good parts of this show I'll make it quick…
Read at the sourceKoumazoku
There is a phrase Japanese which directly translate to the Poop of a Goldfish (金魚の糞). The phrase refers to 'a hanger-on' or someone who persistently sticks around. This anime is about a boy named Yoru (Also known as Baam) who climbs the 'tower of god' to find Rachel. The Tower of God is a completely unique tower that has many environments inside it, and to climb to the top of the tower you must defeat these monster things which test your strength.
Story - 2/10
Literally about Yoru being an absolute simp. He climbs the tower to see Rachel and becomes powerful to find her. The tower concept isn't anything really new, but it isn't exactly a ripoff or a generic fantasy action-adventure anime.
Art- 3/10
It's not bad but it's not good. Just average. Not really my style, it's kinda new I gue…
Read at the sourceSwaheelee
It's a story about a simp. This story defines what a simp is. What a simp will do. This could be the definition of simp when someone googles it.
The story is "simple" it's about a simp named Bam. He will do anything for this girl, this girl doesn't even like him, she abandons him at any moment, will kill him, will do nothing for him, but bams just steady being a simp.
I realized that this story of this simp was about a simp on the first episode. The only good thing about this anime, are the other character's who aren't bam or rachel.
People like Khun Or Rak-san. They aren't simps, it's very refreshing to watch them not be simps, but then you're plunged back into the simpness with bam being a simp at every waking moment. It's dreadful. I wish he'd just kill rachel. It'd instantly be a th…
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If I made it to the top of the tower, I would wish for a more coherent testing system where things were actually explained so that climbing the tower didn’t give everyone a massive headache due to how poorly it’s conceived.
But some wishes just aren’t meant to come true.
Tower of God is an anime that’s grown in popularity due to the unique fact that it’s one of the first Korean web comics to receive a television adaptation. And with the added bonus that the source material is highly revered, what could possibly go wrong? Bad direction apparently. Despite having several upsides and what I believe to have the potential to actually be something great, there’s one major flaw I have with this anime that kept it in the realm of mediocrity in my eyes.
I just don’t get it.
Now at the time of w…
Read at the sourceDukino
This show is one I became very disillusioned by towards its end. It's decently easy to get wrapped up in the genuinely good moments of this show and overlook the gaping holes it presents imo. Because at the start it was all so just crazy to see that I became awestruck. However over time especially this last arc in the anime things evened out so to speak. Those holes became bigger.
Certainly garnered a lot of hype when the anime was announced from the webtoon readers which I also think worked to its detriment. I very much like to separate fanbases from the work itself but here I feel an exception here, just like with fgo players, simply because they really worked certain angles and pushed agendas that drug the series down a ton. The whole hating Rachel thing is so fucking lame. I mean com…
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In your mind what's makes a good epic fantasy anime.
Massive World-building?
Well, detailed power system?
Interesting lore?
High and impactful stakes?
Engaging politics?
These are the elements that make a worthwhile fantasy anime. Vinland Saga, The Heroic Legend of Arslan and Hunter x Hunter are great example of fantasy series that follow the requirements of an epic fantasy setting.
Sadly now and then we get a handful of bad fantasy anime that fails to have elements however very rarely do we get a downright horrendous fantasy series that not only is incapable of doing at meeting the basic requirements of a fantasy anime but also frequently treats the viewer like idiots with its inept writing and directing.
That's Tower Of God a broken, unpolished and cringy pile of waste that fails to a…
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I remember it well. Back in 2011, when webtoons were starting to get popular, there were two names that echoed louder than the rest: 'Tower of God' and 'Noblesse'. The debate was real as everyone was arguing over which one is better. And here I stand, 9 years later, trying to decide which one is worse.
Tower of God is essentially Korean Naruto with Bleach-swords. The entire first act is a fast paced exam-training-rescue arc hybrid, and that's pretty much how it differs from classic Japanese shonen, which take their sweet time doing each of these one at a time. The idea for the story can be figured out by reading the title: Reach the top of the tower and you will become something of a God. The motivation for our main character to attempt this very thing is to rescue a girl. The means that…
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Watching Tower of God unfold every episode is like reading a comic book. Starting from the first page, you read and flip each page to see what's new. From every one of those pages, you may find something that catches your eye, or something that gives you an underwhelming sigh. Tower of God unfolds its plot with principles that seemed intriguing at first. But as more and more pages are turned, the anime slowly dies and leaves me with little to get excited about. Helmed by Crunchyroll as one of the leading projects of the Summer lineup, this is not an anime that deserves such amount of hype.
First, I do want to say that I am an anime original viewer so coming into this show is a fresh new experience. On my first viewing, Tower of God reminds me of the classic Hunter x Hunter as the protagon…
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If the 2010s were the decade of isekai, the 2020s very well could be the decade of awesome manwa adaptations. Tower of God is the first of what promises to be an impressive couple of years for Korean webtoons.
ToG mixes together top class world building along with top class fights. If that weren’t enough, the series boasts impressive art, animation, a diverse and fun set of characters and an OST by Kevin Penkin(Made in Abyss, Tate no Yuusha, etc.)
Coming into the series having no exposure to the source material, I felt the show did a good job of fleshing out the world and characters’ motivations. The intrigue of the tower, the concepts of irregulars and regulars and the general lore of the series really does suck you in and keep you excited for new episodes. It really does feel like you…
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Tower of God is a hideously ugly, embarrassingly incompetent, grossly corporatist shitstorm built upon a trite mess of an overhyped SAO fan-fiction which doesn’t even have the creativity or sensationalism to be outrageously offensive or unacceptable beyond its hysterically unfounded popularity. Having heard nothing but its alleged excellence over the years, I desperately sought out the manga in light of the anime’s shocking lack of any quality whatsoever only to be immediately nauseated by the exact same brain-numbingly amateur storytelling and vacant dialogue which the anime had just assaulted me with. Drowned in the confused vapidities of a writer who couldn’t possibly have escaped the clutches of puberty, supported by ESL internet stans lacking even the tiniest modicum of emotional matu…
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Before I get into the review, I just wanna say two things. First, I’m a big fan of the Tower of God manwha, and I had high expectations for this anime adaptation. Second, this is my first review, so yeah... Let’s just jump into the review now
Story: 4/10
Tower of God is supposed to be an epic adventure with great world building that should make the reader want to know more and more about its world. However, the anime fails to accomplish this, mainly due to cut content, changed dialogue, and horrible pacing. The anime is very, very rushed. This was to be expected however, as they had 13 episodes to adapt a whopping 79 chapters, averaging out to about 6 chapters per episode. That’s way more than other shows with long source materials. To give you an idea of how absurd 6 chapters per episode…
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The anime adaption of Tower of God was met with a lot of hype, both from the fans of the webtoon as well as a good portion of the anime community in general. It was the first real adaption of a Korean manhwa (disregarding the couple OVAs Noblesse got. It’s getting a proper anime adaption later this year too) and its success could likely open the floodgates to a world of new content that’s ready to be adapted from manhwa.
So, did the adaption of Tower of God live up to the hype? I would honestly say it did not. In fact, it falls way short. It’s nowhere near how good it could’ve and should’ve been considering the content that was to be adapted. Most of the reception to the anime as a whole has been fairly positive over the internet, but for someone who’s been a fan of the webtoon, it turned…
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This review may contain vague spoilers but it is mostly spoiler free.
Scenario:
You need to write an extra test to give to the main character Bam. What would you think is the best test to give to him?
A: Give him a trial to do only by himself, thus strengthening his character and showing what he is capable of without others helping him?
B: Give him a trial to do mainly by himself, thus still showing what he can do and at the same time rounding out other characters?
C: Give him a trial to do nothing, where his only job is to stand still and have his friends protect him?
If your answer is C, then you might not mind some of the others problems in the show, but if A, B, or another option, you might have a rough time making it through the series without many questions about things that don'…
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"The writing is unfortunate, attempting clever repartee between the attractive stars, but just succeeding in making everyone slightly embarrassed with rushed and perfunctory."
-YESTORAKS, GeeKon Magazines
Arguably, expectations may have been set a bit too high for The Tower of God, the first cinematic adaptation of Webtoon celebrated series, a self-proclaimed magnum opus which began with a webtoon actor, SIU. A project which was taken years to reach realization, the distinction would eventually fall to Japanese writer, Erika Yoshida who famously (not really) be as a Scripter in Double Decker and be as a Series composition in Namu Amida Butsu, etc.
Having broken out into international acclaim as a director, Sano Takashi (who be as a key animation of Detective Conan) seemed an inspired cho…
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Tower of God anime is one that is full of build-ups and with no pay-off. Should the pay-off ever be realized, it’s going to take another dozens of (hypothetical) episodes to even start getting to that point.
The story of Tower of God is not an interesting one, but it tries to hide this by posing as a sort of “saga”, spamming tons of characters, new concepts and “world building”, seemingly trying to do something similar to One Piece level of setting, but in the case of ToG it’s just a red herring serving to keep the audience from finding out that the story sucks. For those who might wonder if it’s even fair to compare this to One Piece, I’d say it’s a simple way to demonstrate the core failing of ToG. In One Piece, the world is vast and so is the cast and various powers. The difference is,…
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This is the a train wreck on fire diving straight off a cliff. And we all watch it because its interesting to see things fall so hard.
Tower of god, heavily promoted and even more praised for the only fact that it is a webtoon. I went in with high hopes but its not just disappointment that brought me to a score of 4. The only redeeming point is that the opening and ending is kinda catchy.
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This looks like more paper drawn art style, close to the webtoon. I think this was a bad choice because the animation looks lazy by the lack of movement, action and detail. The art felt underwhelming and rather boring. It didn’t make the characters pop out or made the Shinshu (their magic?) enchanted. I would say it is easy to look at because the calm colors and easy going detailing.
Th…
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