This manga is trash.
Don't be fooled by the seemingly unique power system. The author doesn't know how to use what he created himself, you expect a battle shonen with unique powers, but all you'll get is the same "my punch is stronger", only worse.
There is practically no worldbuilding, the little the author has built is full of holes, in each chapter you will find yourself asking questions you shouldn't ask. The author managed to create a generic, empty and broken world.
The characters are not just generic, but poorly made, their motivations are comically artificial, in fact, even the author doesn't seem to take it seriously
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Jun 24, 2020
Kami no Tou
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"What do you want? Go up the tower and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower, there is everything in this world, and all of this can be yours. You can become a God. This is not the story of Rachel, a character almost tertiary, but Baam, the boy without charisma that she indoctrinated. " This is Tower of God, the first fruit of Crunchyroll's ambitious partnership projects with Webtoon. I never read the manhwa, which is freely available in English, so it is irrelevant in the experience with this anime, if its execution is better or worse, I ... will probably never know. In technical terms, the work stands out at first sight, different character design, Kevin Penkin's soundtrack, fluid animation, static frames are practically nonexistent, at the beginning of the series, nothing impresses, it's not bad, badly done, but it doesn't stand out , the differentiated design is nothing more than an adornment, fluid animation is not used in sequences to fill the eyes, music is used in a banal way, everything is empty, it undergoes a change in the end, the beautiful sequences in the last episodes, animation fluid is well used with the differentiated design to generate beautiful sequences, which added to the music are a delight for the viewer. In the end the work marked its goal of honor. The execution of the work is confusing, at times it is hurried, ignores information and processes, as if there was little time to tell the story, but at other times it is slow, almost stopping, spending a lot of time with dialogues that are useless, which they don’t inform, it’s like a class where the teacher spends little time explaining the material, but a lot talking about mundane things that you don’t know. In the end you leave with more questions than answers, but this is the fault of the story, the main sin of this anime. In short, this is the story of a boy, Baam, going up "The Tower" to find the girl he likes, Rachel. What is "The Tower"? How do you get into it? What are the criteria to be able to enter it? They never bothered to explain, it is probably not something important, what matters is that to climb the Tower you must show yourself worthy by passing tests, and then we have the two big problems in history. First, the tests are meaningless and Baam, our protagonist, passes them thanks to the convenience of the script. Second, Baam is a tuber with a small set of expressions and one of the worst protagonists that a story could have, he doesn't know anything, and he doesn't want to know anything, he doesn't do anything, and he doesn't want to do anything. Unlike everyone else, Baam was not invited to the Tower, he entered it in a clandestine way, this makes him an irregular, special person, author, wonderful way of trying to justify why he is so special. For reasons not explained, the Tower has a selection process, and even an irregular one has to participate in it. Thus begins the story of the boy of prophecy who only wants to find his love and rescue his peaceful life beside her. The story starts by handing over your first big problem, the first test even makes sense, to deserve to go up the Tower you must have a strong objective and are willing to risk your life for it, what is the big problem then? It would be virtually impossible for Baam to have passed it if it were not for a series of conveniences. In the second test this is repeated, it is a Battle Royale, it makes sense, you have to be able to survive by yourself to climb the Tower, but it would also be virtually impossible for the protagonist to have been approved if it were not for a series of conveniences. After that there is a stupid "between tests" for the excess of candidates who passed the second test, which is stupid since the number of candidates who passed the test was fully controllable, the only reason for his existence is that the author can repeat that Baam is special and exposing which characters will be minimally important in the story amidst so many background characters, is in reality, a selection of secondary characters. The third test, this no longer makes any sense and is solved thanks to a comic relief, the only reason it exists is for the author to insert a clue to the deuteragonist Koon's past and establish the group's dianics, Baam is the potato, Koon the guy who solves things and Rak the comic relief. The story again has a second "between tests" that thanks to the examiner's boredom, compared to the others is the most interesting, a battle game between groups, due to the peculiarities of the game, strength is not the only factor that can guarantee victory, and the characters take advantage of that. In this test the characters that matter show a little of their qualities and characteristics, with the exception of Rachel, who surprisingly appears in the test, but is an empty peel, and Baam, who remains a potato and spoils the test outcome because the author needed again to point out that he is special. The fourth test is the test of positions, which are the roles that each member of the group occupies in the climb of the Tower, are poorly explained, but more poorly explained are the tests of position and how the characters pass them. Here, the work basically becomes a school history in an intern, with the right to relaxed conversations in the canteen. What really matters in this part is that Rachel doesn't want Baam to find her, the excuse is that he would be a weakness for her, Baam like the potato he is, instead of trying to understand and resolve the situation, he pretends to ignore it and lives his life. school life in relative peace, that is, send the main plot to the corner. The position test concludes with a supplementary test, a game of "hide and seek", but in fact it is like the test of stealing tags from HunterxHunter, the difference is that instead of a one-on-one dispute, the test is it sums up in two groups against an examiner, who is a Ranker, apparently the strongest people in the Tower. This test should serve to show the positions, their group dynamics, how they work in practice, but there is nothing like that, the unimportant characters are defeated in any way and the important characters resolve the situation using poorly explained strategies and that simply happen. To make matters worse, even with a "map" the location of the characters is confusing, you don't know how a character went from place to place, how a character knows where the other is, who is doing what and where. If that weren't enough, the Ranker, which should be a big threat, is just a script feature to take the unimportant characters out of the scene, he poses no threat to the important characters, he's a goof. But the biggest problem with this small bow is not these big defects, but a subplot of a semi-tertiary character that only serves, once again, to point out that the special Baam, at least this time causes a conflict, but it is crude and boring and has an ending worthy of a Mexican soap opera of dubious quality. Thanks to the outcome of the previous arc, the story trains return to the main storyline, Baam can now force the girl who pretends not to know him to accompany him, the relationship of these two is bizarre, Baam does not necessarily seem interested in Rachel in a romantic way , he seems to have a psychological dependence on her, it makes some sense since she is his maternal figure and indoctrinated him to believe that betraying her is equivalent to a crime against humanity, wanting to be with her is an obsession for him, meanwhile the girl he always seems uncomfortable and apathetic around him, in addition to exposing that he wants distance from him. Chasing his obsession, Baam decides to take Rachel who has become paraplegic to the top of the tower, and his friends decide to help him in this endeavor, as Baam is special he manages to circumvent the rules and get Rachel to participate in the final test. The final test finally presents a bit of world building, consists of a classic conflict "Men vs. Nature", it has three subplots, comic relief, Jahad's conspiracy and the protagonist couple. The comic relief was born dead, the comedy in anime is deficient, most of the time it is childish and placed at inappropriate times, when it hits it is by insistence, excess of attempt. The involving the princesses of Jahad had conditions to be interesting, it had a certain construction and it made sense, but the execution is so crude that it throws all the expectation down the drain, characters acting inappropriately with their positions, characters coming out of nowhere and for nothing, taking unexplained actions, and simply brooding fights, the director's inability to make interesting fights is surreal. The protagonist couple's subplot is the best, it's a spark of quality that gives me positive hopes for the future of the series, despite the obvious "plot twist", it was in this small part that the director apparently decided to work, the final episode that is the subplot of the couple by Rachel's vision is the highlight of the series. The final episode added to the small sub-arches of some tertiary characters made me question whether the theme of this series is about the conflict between people who are born with everything, the chosen few called geniuses, and people who are born with nothing. If that is the case, I hope it will be better explored in the following seasons, as it was only scratched in a superficial way. If it depends on the protagonist, it will not happen, he is an empty character, which is not a demerit when done well, it is not the case, he is an empty, useless, inactive character, devoid of any charisma, and he never reflected on this, for him everything is fine as it is, at a given moment a character goes crazy and commits suicide, blaming him for it, and his reaction is apathetic to that, we don't know if he agrees or disagrees with the character, because he is not neither does he speak for the moment when another secondary confront his unreal idealism, and he practically ignores reality. Every success of the character is derived from constant series of conveniences, all based on the fact that he is someone special, almost a messiah, he does not worry about the fact that if it were not for these conveniences he would be dead, he ignores, at most, he lets his fate in the hands of the other characters, when he acts, is reaction and to protect the woman because he is obsessed. He doesn't evolve, there are embarrassing dialogues where the main secondary and Baam himself comment on his supposed evolution, something that never happened, he ends the series as empty, useless, inactive and devoid of charisma as he started, everything he acquired, was thanks to conveniences and your destiny, the script conspires for him. It doesn't even have an interesting design, it's as generic as the unnamed background characters. Luckily there are secondary characters. The cast is saturated, luckily a good part of it is cut, although it still ends with a certain excess of character, they are all caricatures, but at least they are interesting caricatures. Among the main secondary players, Koon stands out, the protagonist's friend who fulfills the role of intelligent character, who acts to solve problems with his intelligence, basically, who should be the protagonist. His motivations are ambiguous, apparently he is an outcast in his family for helping his step sister become a princess and that's why he decided to go up the Tower, it is not clear what his relationship is with his sister or with family, much less his conflict is developed. The False Princess, Anaak, who seeks revenge, and the vain and narcissistic Princess Androssi Zahard, they play the role of the muscles, are stupidly strong, their plot is interesting, but underdeveloped, I personally would prefer to see more of them than Baam. And finally the comic reliefs Rak, the alligator that fulfills the role of the big and nice guy, and Shibisu, the normal guy. It's just comic relief, nothing more, nothing less, of the two I prefer Rak. And finally the deuteragonist Rachel, for some reason fans of the series hate her, I don't understand why, she is the character that has the best development this season, not to say that she is the only one. She is a normal person, destined for a mediocre life, but who has a dream that goes far beyond that, her desire to want to reach the stars is a metaphor for her ambition and desire to shine above others, she always "took care" of the protagonist, seeing him in a position of submission and dependence, of inferiority, but he discovered that he is the one who is destined to shine above others, he is the one who is destined for a life of glory and greatness, and this generated envy and hatred that she feels for her stalker, feelings that conflict with her narcissism that likes the fact that Baam is the only one who treats her as something special, which she clearly is not. The character is incapable, inept, inactive, but she recognizes this and unlike Baam, who just ignores her disability and relies on the conveniences of the script, she tries to make excuses and hold others or the world itself responsible for her disability, she acts like a human being, a lousy and distorted human being, but still human, is not an empty shell like the Baam. The whole conflict of the character, in being destined to be nothing, while his "doormat" is destined to be everything she desires is extremely interesting, that's what a character needs to be good, an interesting conflict. Despite the empty protagonist, the lack of explanation, the convenient script, the construction of a world that is almost nonexistent because it is so superficial, and some idiotic dialogues, this series ends with a positive balance, the last episode was well done and my desire to see a second season, Rachel is a relatively well-written character, which leaves me with the hope that the other side will be well developed when explored and if it falls into the hands of a good director this series can have some great fights and some memorable scenes. Maybe an epic fight
Reviewer’s Rating: 5
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