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May 6, 2020

Tower of God (Manga) add

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This series is riddled with problems. One of them is the characters. The characters are very retarded. They also talk a lot in exposition, which is completely stupid as that is not how actual people talk. Whether it's dialogue or monologue, the exposition is used to dump information which may be important to the story sometimes, but is mostly useless garbage.

Also, the author decided to ditch the original side characters of Season 1, like Anak and instead brought in a lot of others. That itself would not constitute a bad thing, but unfortunately, we don't come to care for these secondary characters. I couldn't ... care two hoots about these characters if I wanted to. Not only do they not appear long enough for us to care about them, they are also badly written. There's so many of these insignificant characters in Seasons 2 and 3 that I've lost count. The vast majority of them don't even have any influence on the plot.

Adding to this is the complete lack of character development for most characters, making things worse. The characters also don't have consistent motivations and many characters also change their personalities out of nowhere. One minute they are ruthlessly killing their own teammates and smiling while doing so and in the next, they are crying "how could you?" at the villain for killing their mother. The only well written character in the entire series is Rachel and I haven't seen her even once in Season 3.

The next problem is the story which initially had an interesting and promising premise, but quickly went the uninteresting shounen way. Shounens themselves are not bad, HxH is a very good example of a shounen. This story is extremely bad due to the way it is excecuted. Two things were incorporated which made things worse - the power of friendship from Naruto and Dragon Ball Z style attacks. The fights only have flashy shinsoo light explosions now. There's no intelligence to the fights.

Another huge problem is the excessive focus on Baam, who is the typical angelic and flawless shounen MC. In ToG, whenever you get an interesting premise for an arc, 90% of the arc will be about power levels and how special Bam is, with the villain then getting two pages worth of back story after he's defeated and the arc ends. That's a problem with with plot and characterisation at once.

The plot has been going nowhere since Season 2 and I'm not even sure there's a plot to the story anymore, there no longer seems to be an end goal. The first Season was rather nice, had quite a lot of potential. But man the 2nd season was a bore. The story after the workshop arc was such a pain. I had to force myself to read through it. I've hadn't read something so boring and generic for such a long time. ToG is essentially a series which had potential, but squandered it terribly. I don't think the series is worth investing time into. There are way better series out there that you can read instead.

Overall, completely overrated and not worth investing time in.

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Oct 17, 2019

Kubera (Manga) add

Recommended

Preliminary (413/? chp)

Kubera: One Last God is a Korean Webtoon that has been going on for more than 9 years. It comes under fantasy, mystery, tragedy, drama, adventure, action, romance, comedy, etc. So you may like it.

It's has an absolutely amazing story and plot structure, as well as very well developed characters and extremely well thought out world building. Be warned though, it will take a lot of patience to appreciate. Foreshadowing is very important in this comic and seemingly trivial details will become extremely important and vital to the story later on.

It does take a while to pick up steam, as most of the first ... season is mainly world building and basic setting, in fact, early readers maybe frustrated by how seemingly very little happens in the first season. However, even the most trivial of details in the first season will become very important in the 2nd and 3rd Seasons. The second season will really give you a very different impression of the story than which was given at the beginning. It gets incredibly good in the 3rd season. The world the author Currygom creates is complex and the main characters are well-developed.

But there are a lot of hidden hints about the story and it's future that are so well camouflaged in the first season that you wouldn't realize that they were hints until you read the second season. The story is a mystery and although we have a basic idea of what's going on, there's still a lot of stuff that we don't know, a lot of mysteries haven't been resolved. Also, for each question answered and each mystery resolved, many more questions and mysteries pop up, which makes the story very exciting. It's one of those stories that have only gotten better with time and chapters and it's gotten better with each rereading.

Forgive the art in the first season though, it improves greatly in the second season and I guess a lot of improvement had happened even by the end of the first season. Also, pace has been sacrificed for depth.It really requires a lot of patience to appreciate, which many average readers don't have. It's excellent for those who tend to over think things and like to create theories and attempt to predict what's going to happen.

Remember that Kubera is a mystery series. The author doesn't reveal the story in a linear manner, it's like a jigsaw puzzle. She is constantly withholding information from the readers.

The jumbled or jigsaw puzzle plot structure of the story is not a flaw, it is one of the story's greatest assets and specialties. It can be disorienting for someone who is used to the usual linear narrative methods and plot structure of other works, and if they can't adapt to it, it's not the story's problem.

The characters have come a long way and there's a reason for everything they do. Their personalities stay consistent throughout except in cases where they gradually change and develop.

So overall, the plot, world building and character development is absolutely amazing. This is a masterpiece and a must read for anyone who loves great fantasy. I'd absolutely recommend to anyone and everyone who loves great stories.

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