Unpopular opinion here, Tower of God is overrated and the attention the anime seems to receive is going to be short-lived. Note that I'm writing this review, having read the webtoon for many years but decided to drop it.


At first, the story seems really captivating in the beginning. A character named Bam is trying to reach the top of the tower, to have his wish granted. Not to mention, Bam's relationship with Rachel. All these are really interesting to start off a series like this. However, the concept of reaching top of tower isn't exactly new or really thought provoking, hell even SAO did it already. Characters need to progress through levels in the tower to reach a specific goal, sound familiar? What SIU does well is presenting his ideas, in his own image, to the world via the form of webtoon.

Sadly, the story/plot gets forgotten really fast after the first arc or I could say first 50 to 80 chapters of the Tower of God webtoon. Suddenly theres no coherent plot or even story telling. The author at that point is just mindlessly introducing an endless amount of concept and ideas, which sadly fails to build upon a story unless you are willing to religiously dedicate your time to it hoping somehow it will be fulfilling which it never does. Exposition after exposition, nothing seems to capture readers like it did in the first few chapters.

Character interaction just doesn't seem to build upon anything and is just downright bland. The anime so far is sticking close to its source material which I hope the studio is able to wrap it up in the last few episodes.

Art-style, while its typical webtoon, don't expect much. I'd argue other webtoons are much more worthy of your time; God of Highschool, The Gamer, Hardcore Leveling, Solo leveling, Girls of the wild)

I honestly think that people are mistaking a good story with endless exposition of ideas. But you might argue, if its so bad, why is it so popular? Well this is just my opinion. Being popular doesn't exclude the fact that it can be bad or boring. TOG is just the result of SIU imaginations which doesn't deliver much in terms of story or character interaction.

I regret having spent so much time reading the TOG webtoon expecting it to deliver an experience which it probably never will.

The only thing good about the TOG anime that is really making it interesting, for me at least, are the voice actors. Anything else, is just due to the source material being downright boring.


TL:DR: I dont like the webtoon and think the anime will run dry after the first cour.