
Rather than organically introducing the setting, characters, and politics, the show haphazardly drops names and exposition onto the audience. Constantly it is implied there is a huge fantasy world out there, but it’s never actually shown. Maybe it will be explained in the next season.

How has it shaped their lives? I have no clue what the world is like outside of the tower. Those attempting to climb the Tower strive for riches, influence, and the power to become a God. The premise is simple, but the execution is threadbare. I’m not reviewing chapter 400 of the manhwa. I've heard it gets better later on, but I don’t care how long it takes to become worth watching. That way we won't have to write it, instead, we'll just call it a mystery. Fantasy stories make tons of money too, so we'll say outside of the tower is a sprawling fantasy world. or ten comic relief characters, they'll love it! We'll even shoehorn a school into the Tower. Superheroes are trendy, let’s add superpowers.

Tournament arcs are successful, so the entire show will be a tournament arc. It recycles familiar anime tropes, plot points, and character archetypes to create the anime equivalent of Frankenstein’s monster. Crunchyroll milked it because it was their prized cash cow, more interested in money than creativity. I’m in awe that this miserable fanfiction got an anime adaptation.īecoming popular is the reason why ToG was adapted. Somehow its pseudo-deep story has tricked thousands of people into thinking it’s good. Tower of God is an awful clusterfuck of anime cliches haphazardly stitched together.
