Tower of God review

BluePikmin111
Mar 25, 2021
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 end had me wanting more, maybe the hype was all justified. See, the 'fans' will keep telling you that it gets better so I kept on reading.

The first half of the second season was a mess, absolutely horrendous. I could barely get through 30 chapters before quitting for a week. Maybe I was missing something? There is no way in hell people got hyped for this and called it better than the first season. Turns out, not many people actually liked it. 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 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


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