Tower of God: The Power of an Intriguing World
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- čas přidán 12. 09. 2024
- First off, apologies if I mispronounced anything. I'm used to knowing how with Japanese, but Korean names spoken in Japanese fried my brain a bit. Second, I hope you enjoy the video! Tower of God had me hooked basically since the end of the first episode and I can't wait until we see more and more of this mysterious world. As always feel free to let me know what you think about the series and video.
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Haha I've read all the webcomics and you're only scratching the surface. Later world-building gets a lot more personal in nature to Bam, but just remember Season 1 is just the prologue!
Yeah!, but i think that they are moving very fast,i mean, i readed the webtoon, but when i whatched the first ep, of the anime it was prety bad, although i have read the web i diding understand anything!!
fairy law just wait until they learn abt Rachel🤦🏽♂️
@@malachilee2455 yeah!
I mean ratchel in the end, must have some important reason for abandoning bam in the first place, i mean it is obvious that the part about climbing the tower to see the star is just a crap!!
Besides, her past is just as mysteries as bam, in fact it is much more mysteries.
@@malachilee2455 i have just realized we somehow making some searies spolier over here..
Even though the world building is great, the thing I love most about Tower of God are the very realistic, nice and likable characters like Bam, Khun or Rachel.
Meh, they are all generic character tropes.
I'm not some authority on the subject so don't take my words as gospel, but:
Bam is just the generic "I'm very nice, weak and humble, fish out of water kind of guy who is actually really strong for some reason but i don't know it yet"
Khun is the generic intelligent, brooding, sad backstory kind of guy who needs to "open up" and "learn to trust others"
And we literally know jack shit about Rachel, other than that she wants to go to the top of the tower for either a shitty reason ( see the stars ), or a reason we
don't know about yet.
Haven't even talked about the annoying lizard guy, who needs to shout everytime he does something so that we the audience know he is the comic relieve guy and "see look guys!? see how wacky he is! look! he cares about bam! such a tsundere".
Then you have lizard girl, who is mad. Thats her thing. She is cocky and angry, because she wants revenge. Makes sence, but does not really make her likeable ( though, i don't really think the other characters are also nice and likable ).
I just don't really like them. And thats fine, maybe the serie is not for me. But imho, the characters are the thing i like the least about Tower of God. Though to be fair, i also don't really like the world.
Look at hunter x hunter. The world feels like a real place.
Same for one piece, or naruto, or bleach.
The tower seems like some weird challenge tower, where they need to do these arbitary, lame tests ( the deathmatch was alright, but the main characters kinda didn't do shit , the door test was boring. the water test was boring ), but wait, now it's a magic school! where they need to be trained at certain roles and do equally weird tests ( get 10 friends? really? ). Imho, the story and world are all over the place, and it does not really feel grounded.
Nope, not a fan.
Nice. I see what you did there.
@@MrXandervm Rachel's motives are more grandiose than you may think, I say watch to the end of the season and you will see why. Remember this in Korean, Bam can mean night or chestnut. If you stick to it, in the end, you will love it.
*squints* I think we got us a reader of the webtoon here..... (says a guy who is also reading the webtoon)
@@MrXandervm the character very much grow on and have more depth than they initially show, especially in the anime. Anaak and Rak (the reptiles)... Hasn't really gotten as much as the other 4 where I'm at in the webtoon, but still.
Anywho, part of that all over the place feeling for things is that the Anime is trying to compress 70-some chapters into a standard 13 episode season. That means it has a lot of ground to cover and, while I'm sure they'll cover the stuff they've skipped later, that pace could be to the detriment of the world-building and so on. Just remember that this is basically the prologue of the story, and the juiciest bits, both of it and of the series as a whole, are yet to come.
Webtoon reader here. I have to say, I am impressed with this video. The way you understood the world in place from the few episodes shown so far is incredible, and a lot of the info you mention is stuff people don't think about until later on in the series. A+
One thing I will recommend tho, is that eventually (if you are interested anyway) you could dive into the wiki as it has info given to the readers by SiU about the world at large with topics like (Races, Air vs Shinsu, etc). The wiki does have spoilers tho so be careful about what you search.
Thanks so much! I was actually a little scared that I would be just completely off-base with some things, but I'm glad to hear I was able to pick up on the bits that SiU has placed here and there. And I'll totally check out the Wiki at some point!
@@TazerLad It is kind of a problem, because some things are not really spoilers but additions to the world that the story never touches on, so it never gets explained or expanded on. SIU does so in his personal blog that gets some translations and there are a lot of things that aren't really spoilers, because seen if you read the webtoon you wouldn't know these things, only if you dive into those blog posts or dive into the wiki. One thing as an example is a fact about Raks environment, and I'm not even sure how serious SIU is with this explanation, that says that Raks race simply lived in a place where the only other thing that lived there were turtles, so if it wasn't his race it had to be turtles, because there was nothing else. This is information that is never revealed anywhere but SIUs blog and you can't even tell if he is serious or just kidding around.
The first idea of SIU was to create a universe and the tower was only one of the things in it, but I'm not sure if he is still following that or changed his mind because Tower of God is already vast enough that he will probably never have time to fit any other story in his universe idea. He even rewrote some things himself, like the end of the crown game in the anime, but never changed it in the original story. I always felt that SIU is closest to Oda, both with vast ideas and world in their mind but not enough time on earth to be able to finish it all.
(I think Tower of God has a lot of similar strengths with One Piece, both have this ethereal target (One Piece/Top of the Tower), completely different 'worlds' with culture biomes etc (islands in One Piece, floors in Tower of God), similar world building and a giant cast of character that all kind of stay relevant (more so in Tower of God than One Piece).)
I’ve read the comic (currently on what will be season 2) and the world building still holds up at the point I’m at. Also the story is good and it does get better. Also there are a ton of twists especially with the characters.
ToG is some good shit. Good anime. Good Webtoon.
The adaptation skips A LOT, but doesn't necessarily leave out a lot. I think they've done a great job and I'm loving the Doom-esqu soundtrack!
It's just shit, not good shit.
@@bastek66 The best stuff is yet to come.
@@bastek66 I don't know how you can say that. It gets progressively better in the webtoon so the best is yet to come.
Jaydeep Patel How can you say it's getting better when it become another high school anime and new challenge is Tag game. What's next? Hide and seek?
@@bastek66 probably because he's read the webtoon. The high school ends now that Tag is running. More than that, this is still all the prologue. I wouldn't recommend assuming the whole series will be like the first season when it's in for a DRASTIC switch up at the end of the Test Floor stuff.
@5:13 "...the Tower has just beaten the will to continue out of them."
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Yours vids are seriously good bro
Tower of God didnt need World Building... Its just a Building
I like the side note that if a series is feeding you info at an okay rate you trust the series not to leave you hanging on info and just let everything display itself smoothly :O
It keeps adding more stuff and explains close to nothing, so it's not exactly doing a great job
This is one of my favorite anime this season and I love your ideas on what makes it work. The Tower seems like a world that has a million aspects that could be explored in the future.
The thing that drew me into this show, was honestly how much it reminded me of "Furi"
that game was such an experience, and this show seems to be that but blown up to bigger proportions and scale.
You have the "guide" that doesnt seem to care about you, a mysterious world, and floors of challenge that are stopping you from reaching your goal, poor memory, crazy fights, and epic music. Tbh, I was playing the furi soundtrack in my head during some of the "fights" so far.
the tower is an interesting idea, it reminds me of furi like I said, and of slay the spire, and id love to see where it goes in Tower of God, ill probably end up reading the webtoon once the anime season is done ngl.
Have been reading this series for almost a decade and I can say that I am fairly pleased with how the anime turned out, even though I wish they would have extended the season to include a few more episodes. The mystery and vastness of this universe (in and out of the tower), coupled with the good plot is what makes it fun for me to read, and unfortunately the anime skipped some of the set-ups for future events/ intrigues/character development, etc. I think the viewers of this anime get a good taste of ToG, but my main fear is that due to the limited content included in the 13 episodes of this season viewers might not get to experience the essence of this story. Manhwa readers also have access to weekly blog posts where the author shares tidbits of info that are not included in the anime. Hopefully with the success of the first season, the second season will have a better budget and the story will include what I have mentioned. Also, many anime fans are not aware of this, but the story takes place in the Talze Uzer Story Universe, which is explored in the author's previous works that are now unavailable, but salvaged by fans. All I can say about the universe outside of the tower is that it seems as impressive as the tower itself, but with new mysteries, powers, etc. Overall it's just a fun story to be into and a good, passionate community.
It's far from a great anime/webcomic, since it has a dozen major issues, explained on my channel
@@ThatAnimeSnob Firstly I don't think advertising your own channel on someone else's without their permission is appropriate. Secondly, a big portion of your 1:31 minute video is actually content taken from another channel as filler for lack of argumentation.You came up with 3 factors on why ToG is not great without any sort of argumentation, I guess I am supposed to take your word for it. I understand that you dislike it, and I agree that it's probably not for everybody, but to say that it's bad and bring some really weak, subjective, arguments is silly. You make an effort to sound smart but I wish you would actually make an effort of reading the manhwa without any bias. Also, since you are so confused about what is happening in the manhwa, you can ask me.
@@xicor6871 I am not confused, it's most others who are confused, which is why I quoted them as evidense
@@ThatAnimeSnob but how do you know that "most" players are confused? This manhwa has hundreds of thousands of readers, and yet you see 5 posts of people at different points in the story not understanding something that they are not supposed to understand yet and make this as "most" players are confused. I just see bias coming from you. You did not find ToG to your liking so you created a video where instead of expressing your opinion directly, you did it indirectly through really bad arguments disguised in fake popular opinions.
@@xicor6871 Whereas if I had simply said it's my personal opinion and not something many others agree with would make it far more creditable, riiiiiight?
Really cool video! ToG definitely feels like it's gonna get more interesting as wel follow Bam learning about how everything works 😁
Tower of God's world building is fantastic. Throughout the entire series so far the author is a genius at letting you know enough lore at the time to understand but at the same time also letting you know that there's much more that hasn't been revealed. His blogposts are big part of that as well when he talks about topics that will never been mentioned in either the Webtoon or the Anime. I'm so glad anime watchers are seeing that as well.
I would love to see the author's planned progression and ending for the whole series. It would be fascinating. Even as far as the Webtoon is, I'm not sure if the series is even half way through yet.
There is not much world building within the anime, and if you need external wikis for getting 90% of what is going on is proof of how bad the world building is
@@ThatAnimeSnob The only reason why the wiki has much more information than the anime is because the Webtoon is a 10 year old series and obviously more things has been revealed.
I believe the anime will explain all the important things, it's just extra little tid bits of information that the author sprinkles that you would have to search for.
I'm loving the show so far, very well crafted. Though where people are getting the hxh comparison I don't see
Yeah the more I've thought about it, the less I agree with the comparison.
come on man, your name... look at your name.
don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the show. but I'll explain the obvious comparisons and shortcomings.
this first arc is the 'hunter exam arc'. everything except the world-building is done poorly in comparison to it.
HxH was the first thing that came to mind when I saw a crowd of mishmash random elites from around the world taking a multitude of wacky/lethal tests to get 'permission to climb the tower' (instead of a hunter license).
the characters are pretty lackluster in comparison, and the roles they play are ripping off HxH as well. to go through them:
"Gon but he's chasing after Rahel instead of his dad" -this main character is hollow, much more hollow than gon.
"Killua with a suitcase" -this guy does some interesting stuff so I'll put him on an equal level to Killua at best (as a character).
"Leorio but he's been turned into a brawn>brains lizard man" -who fulfills his role as comedy relief in a much more immature way than Leorio did.
"Kurapika but he's a brawn>brains lizard girl" -who's trying to avenge 'her mum' instead of 'the entirety of his clan'.
"nice Tonpa" -stirs the pot around, getting some interactions happening early on.
I hope you've opened your eyes, as I said, I enjoy the show, and I'm hoping they'll change it up once this arc is over. but for now, it's a HxH bootleg.
I forgot to give props to ToG for it's faster pacing. you know, it does it the same way MHA is a faster-paced Naruto.
@@treesaregreen That's way too many caveats to seem even a shallow comparison. "It's this character except they have these motivations and a completely different personality and look nothing alike and don't have similar dynamics at all and..."
@@HxH2011DRA
same motivation (ripped off).
more immature/shallow personality (worse).
changed appearance (the only difference, which isn't even a positive)
factoring the first 2 aspects, there's worse dynamics.
these are the obvious comparisons, if 'obvious', means 'surface-level', hence 'shallow', so be it.
the characters I've taken an interest in are, 'killua', 'nice tonpa', 'sleeping bag', and 'red horn' for his inferiority complex.
...just chill out or change your name, don't want to argue about something so shallow.
@@treesaregreen Oh spare me with the "I dont want an argument" shit, I hate dishonesty. If you don't want to talk about it anymore since you realized your premises are shit that's fine but don't present points and then mumble off at the end about not wanting to talk when you came to me talking like I don't know shit.
"Nice tonpa" is a contradiction- His character is DEFINED by being an asshole. Literally no similarities between these 2 characters besides ironically their looks.
There's a huge difference between following some into an area for romantic reasons and vaguely searching for your blood relative because you're curious about their occupation. The don't share the same function in the narrative or themes. Bam isn't even actively pursuing the same thing as Rachel.
These are just an examples, none of your comparisons are sound- they're not even shallow. You're talking completely out of your ass
Bam didn’t actually become Shinsu, it was a mistranslation.
As someone who is a big fan of the source material, i think the adaptation is doing a pretty good job. Its not easy to transform a manhwa into an anime, as they arent very similar to mangas, mostly in terms of character interaction and backgrounds. The adaptation isn't the best thing ive ever seen, and i would never choose it over the manhwa, but i definitely do see why people like it.
If anything certain Manhwa are easier to adapt because of the interaction, the manhwa shows motion and direction better than the typical manga.
How the character moves and the scene has already been drawn by the artist, while a manga is more static and requires the animators to fill in the blanks.
At least thats how I see it
@@imo098765 i find that manwha focuses more on the face of the character speaking, while manga is more about the scene itself, and the scene fits better when it comes to anime. Not to mention that manwha is often very action based, where manga usually has more tame laid back parts that are good for character development, and work nicely to keep the pace of an anime slow paced enough to give watchers a break.
My favourite thing to do with Tower of God (and its lore) is to nitpick it (much to the chagrin of my gf).
For example in episode 5 when Yu Han Sung says 'that the purpose of the tests is to maintain the safety of the Tower', I started talking about how the tests have been (in order), testing whether you fear death (floor 1 test) , whether you are bloodthirsty enough (the deathmatch), whether you were powerful enough (wall of shinsoo) and whether you were impulsive and made spontanious decisions based on little to no information (door test). Thus I concluded that they wanted powerful, spontatnious, bloodthirsty maniacs who don't fear death.. and that the people who run the tower seem to think these are traits that will help ensure the safety of the tower (because powerful, spontatnious, bloodthirsty maniacs who don't fear death are all trustworthy traits!).. or that Yu Sung is coming up with a load of bs and he thinks Lero-Ro is an idiot... or Yu Sung is an idiot...
Holy shit.... i never saw it that way, thats a really good theory
The tests are ultimately pointless if there are participants who begin broken or have centuries of experience. Having a typical tournament would be more than enough to find the most worthy than all this nonsense abour playing children's games.
@@ThatAnimeSnob A typical tournament might be the more straightforward way to prove who is the most powerful or 'worthy' but that goal is mostly antithetical to the goal of 'maintaining the saftey of the tower'. Whoever is the most worthy or capable are typically going to be the ones who pose the most risk to the saftey of the tower as they possess the greatest ability to effect (negative) change (i.e. harm). Ironically, if minimizing risk is all they want, then you don't need testing at all, since leting no one through is the most simple and reliable method of minimizing risk.
Or to make an analogy. A sports stadium has a bomb threat made against it. To minimize risk you probably should cancel all future events, or if that's not possible, you should at least set up security to check whether anyone or anything entering has bomb (making) material. What you don't do is run a bomb making competition in the premises to select who is allowed to enter.
"Dangerous to the Tower" doesn't mean powerful, it means that someone has both enough power to change the Tower and the ideas to do so. If you're just bloodthirsty, powerful, not afraid of death, etc, you'll fit perfectly with the current system of the Tower, even reinforce it. But someone like Baam, who not only has an extreme amount of potential, _but also does not like how the Tower currently is,_ is dangerous to the status quo and thus must be weeded out and stopped before he gains momentum. That's partially what the tests are for, especially the early tests.
That's my perspective, anyway.
Really solid content 🙌🏻
You seem to have some misconceptions about what was shown in ToG thus far.
Firstly, the society outside the Tower is not less developed than the one inside the Tower, there were symbols removed from the inside of Bam's cave that have great relevance to the overall story. You could say that Bam's cave was made for him for a certain purpose, not that it is indicative of the world outside; in addition, you could also say that the cave has been tainted by someone else visiting it over the years.
Secondly, Shinsoo is the water/air/force of the Tower, it is really hard to explain but when you hear about the ages of people in the Tower just remember that Shinsoo allows for those ages to be as they are. Bam did not become Shinsoo, it is explained later but there is a lot more to Shinsoo then meets the eye. There is a moment that the anime skipped where Ren (Bam's Wvecontroller teacher) tells Bam that it took him 2 years to make one Shinsoo bang and he was called a genius, but Bam managed to make one in under 2 weeks. This is a very important scene and it angers me that they left it out, this along with dialogue from Black March and Headon were cut that has extreme importance to the overall story. At least Headon's dialogue may be seen later, but remember with Headon there are no accidents he is old and wise.
Thirdly, the Administrator is a vague term it is implied that all Administrators were placed in the Tower by the Tower's creator to sorta rule over it; with Administrators on the top having more control than those on the bottom. Early in the manwha it is revealed that the King of the Tower made an agreement with an Administrator to become the sole ruler of the Tower, there is more lore but that is in spoiler territory. (I only want to fill in gaps left by the quick nature of the anime.) You can think of Administrators as being the body of the floor itself and the Shinsoo inside the floor is directly regulated by them, there are only like 20ish beings in the Tower that Administrators can't control unless those being want to be controlled. This has to do with the original purpose of the Tower, which is explained by Khun but did not make it into the anime; however, it has more relevance in later chapters so I will not speak on the topic any further. Also, sometimes "administrator" is used as a term for those conducting the floor tests this of the Administrators themselves, you will see this very soon but it is a subtle clue and many overlook it.
Fourthly, the outside ring of the Tower is so big that each floor has its own kingdoms, all under the King of the Tower of course. This area is hard to traverse but it is even harder to travel between floors on the outer section of the Tower, hell even in the inner Tower it is hard to manually move to another floor. Guides are needed to find the path, we saw this the Evan guiding Yuri to the Floor of Tests which is the second floor. So, everyone who thought that Bm was still on the first floor is wrong we are currently on the second floor. Also, think about the timing it has been several weeks since Bam has seen Yuri meaning manually going from the 1st to 2nd floor takes a long time. So, just as a brain teaser think about this "How did Yuri know to go to the 1st floor of the tower to see Bam enter the Tower?" It's said in episode one and expanded upon later, but really cool lore about someone extremely powerful.
Fifthly, the dialogue at the beginning on ToG is only applicable to certain people; yet, the statement about everything being up at the top is applied to everyone. You were right in a sense climbing the Tower is the opportunity but the question is for whom is it an opportunity for. The anime skipped the part about the King of the Tower's agreement, in which he stopped everyone from finishing the Tower and allowed Regulars to climb. (I encourage you to really look at my wording here, as it is revelations that give a whole new meaning to the story that are not directly stated.)
I love Tower of God and I have read it many times, so I know a lot about it. In knowing so much about the story I can say that the anime really needed more episodes. A lot of really important subtle clues to things are either changed, removed, or conveyed in a different less effective manner. I must say that reading the manwha is the only way to see the full picture, as the anime does not correctly show everything; yet, it is still a good watch. I have only shown you the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the in-depth lore of Tower of God.
Having started reading more recently, I must have missed them saying the king just.... stopped anyone from finishing. It's come up where I'm at (season 2, chapter uhh..... 238), but I thought that that was the first time it did.
most of the points you make are only revealed in the webtoon, there is no way for anime viewers to know this. The creator of this video doesn't have a 'misconception' about the series, it's just that the anime isn't that advanced yet (only 7 episodes out so far), so chill out with the info man
As a fellow reader i appreciate the comment!
not having seen the anime i can't confirm, but it's sad that many hints (as pieces of information) have been removed, mainly because i have enjoyed ToG because i felt like watching a puzzle come together, like the video stated, having missing pieces would leave a bad taste in my mouth, the anime seems great tho!
You don't even now the half of it dude. The world building in this series only gets better as it goes on!
The world building is great so far!
Btw do you like the current anime art style?
Yeah! I enjoy the colors and overall designs of everyone.
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Love the anime, and the webtoon, which I read afterwards. It’s humongous world-building!!
Wow. You really are hitting the nail on the head.
i like its settings because of how different each level is and the different themes it lets it tackle
Adaptation is mostly just to get viewers attention(as it always is). They're rushing through a lot of stuff and skipping a lot of info to cover 78 chapters in 13 episodes. Its an average adaptation with very good ost but as a webtoon fan, Its very underwhelming compared to the original source material. I highly recommend the webtoon, early art is bad but that also get much better starting from season 2.
now I want to watch this...
2:00 Except for the floor of death but assuming you get to the manwha that will be explained
The adaptation isn’t as good as it could have been and I have some of my own criticisms of it but a lot of the “tower of god is bad” videos miss a lot or they’re just not paying attention. It’s not the shows fault you weren’t watching khun having a hard time his bag or come away with bam just being a normal boy even tho it’s routinely drilled into your head that irregulars are a big fucking deal
Having read the source material - I can't wait till they get to some of the best stuff, which is yet to come. Looking at it from the perspective of "The entire first season is just the prologue," gets me really excited, since that means that whatever season 1 ends up being, however rushed it may be (and with them cramming 70-some chapters into 13 episodes, it REALLY is rushing), there's a good chance that the later better stuff will be given the proper time. (or so I hope).
That said, the one change they've made that actually rubbed me the wrong way, even if it does make sense for pacing, was removing the "Safe Zone" in the Tag test that just started, and Khun's plan for the test. The starting zone, where they left Shibisu sit as bait for Best Boi Quant, was supposed to be a safe space, where Quant isn't allowed to enter. It's actually a plot point for Bam's team taking the test that he can't, but it wasn't mentioned in the show. Edit - removed complaint about Khun's plan. The adjusted one worked well enough. Shouldn't have complained till I saw all of it. XD
Great video. You deserve more views
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I've read the webtoon, and i am enjoying this adaptation. It is different, but good. I'm excited to see how the story progresses
Huh, OK this got me intrigued, thanks for sharing!
Wait til you see the shocker at the end of the season which will either be the next episode or the one after that.
I read the source material years ago. I liked it, but it gets progressively less interesting and more focused on, well, having power. Power creep enters the scene at some point.
I dont see the bad in it, yet. It reminds me of a hunterxhunter type show and scratches that itch for now
I'm not even halfway through, and it's already getting boring reading the webtoon.
@@griffy6759 Train sucks but some cool fight scenes, the next two arcs are all lore but kinda drawn out and have good fights, then the end of Season 2 is straight fire but is pretty short.
It's not the tower that prevent people from climbing it, it's Zahard. The anime adaptation is surprisingly good, but I'm not sure why they translated Baam's name to Yoru (I get it, there are some puns on his name in the story, but still uncalled for). As well as the way they read Rachel's name as Rahel.
Not gonna lie, I lowkey didnt say Rachel in the video because I had no idea how to say her name correctly. Haha.
I don’t think there’s a right answer to translating Baam’s name cause the roots are in korean not Japanese. There’s no great answer but I will concede there was probably a better one
@@TazerLad Most of the English webtoon readers use to call her Rachel, but how she called in the anime is her real Korean name/pronunciation. In the English dub she is Rachel. But it doesn't really matter...
@@brianlowe904 I dont think there is any real reason besides a direct translation of his name of the 25 Night, which is kinda funny because if Bleach's english dub did the same Ichigo would be called strawberry
Reading Rachel as Rahel is, surprisingly correct? In the original/fan translations, which also happen to be most of the pronunciations for names, Rachel was Lahel. Supposing that that is the correct pronunciation, Lahel/Rahel is the most accurate pronunciation I guess?
I still call her Rachel but yknow
This is still just the prologue. Not even close to the beginning of the story and honestly I'm not big on series in either reading or tv or movie material that take too long to get the ball rolling. Tower god took a long while to get moving for me and while the adaption certainly tried to keep things visually interesting I can't say tower of god was anything good. Maybe they'll have beater luck with god of high school. At least in terms of action since that's mainly the reason my old Korean buddies recommended it. Much like manga there's a lot of stories out there and not everything is gonna be a massive hit or the next dragon ball or that one that gets a SAO lucky break where it aired during a certain point of entertainment history that got people's attention. With the whole covid19 situation on top of all this causing delays and potential cancellations cause time is mony as businesses right now I'm in the process of looking back on series I missed out on or overlooked or just didn't know about till recently. Currently checking out birdy the mighty to see if it's an under appreciated work where apparently nearly everyone liked it yet for some reason was dropped after season 2.
he's called baa-m, like, baa like a sheep and add a m. not bae-m
Talking about Worldbuiling without mentioning One Piece is a sin.
orly?
No, that was more of a joke. But One Piece' Worldbuiling is S-Tier, so it have fit to mention it.
bro he already read the webtoon
Would you believe me if I said I didnt?
I was pretty disappointed with the adaptation but that's more because the original is just really dam good than because it's a bad anime, It's probably a good idea to just watch the anime first then go read the webtoon if you want to really enjoy both.
...if I had to bring up a specific reason for it i think it's because the artwork in the still image version manages to give a strong sense of movement and impression of intent through it's use of color/layout/etc to draw your attention through everything in a scene while the anime has a surprisingly hard time doing anything of the sort...I haven't actually watched enough of it to figure out the reasons why but going from what I've seen and the clips here they just straight up don't know how to show movement and makes do with simply putting distracting business all over the screen or *_shudders_* speed lines (and other similarly cheap to animate methods).
oh! they also changed some pretty important shit right off the bat but you're GOING to need to edit a lot to make an anime out of something like TOG so they could easily have been trying to smooth out changes they made further down the line and/or were trying to keep more in line with changes much farther down the road in the manhwa...assuming they actually sat down and planned things out...I really hope they actually sat down and planned things out.
every other time there's been a really disappointing show made out of something I really liked and I stuck with it I regretted it later so I'm probably not going to remedy my lack of knowledge here.
oh yeah! forgot one other hugely important little problem: the people doing the translation work for the anime are absolute garbage at it to the point where a lot of it was just plain illegible even when you already know what's supposed to be in the scene...hell if I know why so many anime (and more to the point manga) flat out refuse to use fan translations when even the worst of those are at least on par with the average professional job...only thing I can figure is that it's a liability issue but it would HAVE to be far less work for far better quality for far less money to just check an already finished freely offered no-strings-attached fan translation complete with the translator(s) in question often offering to help fix any problems free of charge.
did you guys not read the manga on webtoons smh, imagine being anime only
I like it, but I think the anime had a terrible start. It throws you right in a tournament arc with barely any context. It gets alot better later on, but this leaves me with a sour taste in my mouth.
Thats exactly what the webtoon did too. All the regulars in tower are prepared to fight from the start because they know about it, while Bam entered as an irregular besides not knowing anythings but Rachel and he wasnt prepared for it. So us following Bam's story are just as clueless as him, kinda cool how the mc and the watcher/reader has the same experience finding out things for the first time.
wait, divisive? how?
In the normal way when something gets popular. Some people call it the best thing ever, others then relent at that idea and call it awful. Rinse and repeat.
It was overhyped by fanboys but people are slowly realizing what kind of turd this show is.
When some call it the best ever and then you see it's far from that, it becomes divisive
You dont need to comment on everything. Just leave.
@@TazerLad Why?
Another example of good world building in anime is Fire Force. The whole conspiracy and mysteries surrounding the church are so interesting to me
The lore is just there as bait and doesn't matter much in the longrun since very few parts of the levels are ever fleshed out in terms of history. No story is good just by baiting the viewer with mystery that is never explained properly or satisfactory, therefore it's not a positive trait.
currently i see tower of god as a bootleg HxH, waiting to see how it'll change it up after it's 'hunter exam arc'.
Right? why does everybody think it's so great? I don't get it
@@MrXandervm they just havn't seen HxH, poor lot. xD
Well I have seen HxH so... they both are able to stand on their own imo.
@@TazerLad i'll just copy and paste this, not expecting a response:
don't get me wrong, I'm enjoying the show. but I'll explain the obvious comparisons and shortcomings.
this first arc is the 'hunter exam arc'. everything except the world-building is done poorly in comparison to it.
HxH was the first thing that came to mind when I saw a crowd of mishmash random elites from around the world taking a multitude of wacky/lethal tests to get 'permission to climb the tower' (instead of a hunter license).
the characters are pretty lackluster in comparison, and the roles they play are ripping off HxH as well. to go through them:
"Gon but he's chasing after Rahel instead of his dad" -this main character is hollow, much more hollow than gon.
"Killua with a suitcase" -this guy does some interesting stuff so I'll put him on an equal level to Killua at best (as a character).
"Leorio but he's been turned into a brawn>brains lizard man" -who fulfills his role as support and comedy relief in a much more immature way than Leorio did.
"Kurapika but he's a brawn>brains lizard girl" -who's trying to avenge 'her mum' instead of 'the entirety of his clan'.
"nice Tonpa" -stirs the pot around, getting some interactions happening early on.
I hope you've opened your eyes, as I said, I enjoy the show, and I'm hoping they'll change it up once this arc is over. but for now, it's a HxH bootleg.
I forgot to give props to ToG for it's faster pacing. you know, it does it the same way MHA is a faster-paced Naruto.
The "hunter exam arc" part of the ToG id basically the entirety of season 1, which serves as a prologue. Whilst there are things i think season 1 does better than season 2, most people seem to vastly enjoy season 2 to season 1. That's the case for the webtoon though and i have no idea how well season 2 will be adapted, if it ever does get adapted.