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Tower of God  
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Description
What do you desire? Fortune? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all others? Whatever you desire, 'that is here'. Tower of God.

From LINE Webtoon:
BAM, who was alone all his life has entered the tower to chase after his only friend, RACHEL, but how will he survive without having any special strength or power?

Original Webtoon / Original English Version

Type
Manhwa

Related Series
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Associated Names
Башня Бога
神之塔
신의 탑
Dievo Bokštas
Shi-nui t'ap
Top of God
Torre de Deus
Torre de Dios

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Latest Release(s)
v.2 c.139 by LINE Webtoon (6d ago)
v.2 c.138 by LINE Webtoon (13d ago)
v.2 c.137 by LINE Webtoon (20d ago)
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Status in Country of Origin
Season 1: 79 Chapters (Complete)
Season 2: 139 Chapters (Ongoing)

Completely Scanlated?
No

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Forum
17 topics, 73 posts
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User Rating
Average: 9.1 / 10.0 (1657 votes)
Bayesian Average: 9.05 / 10.0
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Last Updated
February 28th 2015, 10:14pm PST

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Action  Adventure  Comedy  Drama  Fantasy  Mystery  Romance  Shounen  Supernatural 
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Author(s)
SIU

Artist(s)
SIU

Year
2010

Original Publisher
Naver

Serialized In (magazine)
Naver Webtoon (Naver)

Licensed (in English)
No

English Publisher
Line Webtoon

Activity Stats (vs. other series)
Weekly Pos #147 decreased(-26)
Monthly Pos #84 increased(+10)
3 Month Pos #73 decreased(-7)
6 Month Pos #63 decreased(-35)

List Stats
On 5632 reading lists
On 1166 wish lists
On 90 completed lists
On 104 unfinished lists
On 546 custom lists

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Forum Posts
The Tower is Real 342 days, 13 hours, 52 minutes ago
Ch. 84 489 days, 11 hours, 48 minutes ago
Announcing the first Tower of God RPG Game 524 days, 2 hours, 55 minutes ago
Has anybody noticed this? 580 days, 23 hours, 21 minutes ago
Tower of God RPG 586 days, 1 hours, 12 minutes ago

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 As of late it disappoints...   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by rhin33
February 22nd, 2015, 9:12am
I like ToG. I has many characters, its interesting keeping a tab on them all. It manage to be both funny and serious at times. There are a lot of nice twists here and I await the moment when all of these OP characters will start turning on each other - OP battle is dream come true. However... lately it seems to be stuck. I stopped reading more than a year ago in order to wait for more chapters and when I decided to catch up I found out that for that time nothing happened! WTF?! New characters are there but the old ones are pretty scarce. Bam acts too cold and damn it! Why the hair? I liked his girlish looks :< Oh, well. ToG is again on hold and I`ll probably give it a try after maybe 60-70 new chapters. See you next year ^^

... Last updated on February 22nd, 2015, 12:42pm
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 Declining Quality   
Rating: 4.0 / 10.0
by Opec
February 5th, 2015, 5:29am
This webtoon is divided into 2 parts and sadly even the quality is divided into 2 just as that

Part 1
- Team Work
- Great Characters
- Great Games
- Mystifying Tower and it's secret
....Overall PERFECT! 10/10

Part 2
- Great Beginning, Dark baam was good reveal at first
- Workshop arc it stars "the Slow Death" of this webtoon
- Redundant and too many lame characters, now it's hard to keep track of anybody...
- Games does not have that same shine that Part 1 have infact it feels Boring and draggy
- Lame twists and manipulation, doesn't have that "Wow WTF" Factor of part 1
- MC doesn't have any Goal except Chasing Rachel (aka sasuke)

I have to say part 2 has made me completely despise this webtoon and hence the low score

... Last updated on February 5th, 2015, 5:31am
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 Rachel?   
Rating: 7.0 / 10.0
by bnad
February 2nd, 2015, 1:11am
While the 1st season was great, the 2nd season is kinda a bummer. Serious drop on quality of writing.

On the other note, I still don't really understand Baam's motivation. I mean, cmon,she's not even Jennifer Aniston's Rachel. She's the backstabbing jerk Rachel. Just hire a high ranker hitman and move on. Baam's whining over and over on how he need to meet Rachel is becoming hard to read.
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 It sucks now   
Rating: 1.0 / 10.0
by wick29
December 8th, 2014, 3:09am
Only the first season was worth reading

The second season is like whirlwind of characters and arcs...the author endlessly tries to highlight other characters more and more which is confusing because after a while one cannot tell them apart. The main plot only progresses after 60-70 chapters.
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 Such a disappointment.   
Rating: 8.0 / 10.0
by MondSemmel
September 14th, 2014, 9:26am
The first season of ToG was amazing. Twists, betrayals, and atypical characters were everywhere, and the season ending was a particular highlight.

But at some point early in season 2, something went wrong. The tone changed: a large proportion of the plots became predictable or boring or pointless, the author wrote far more characters than he could meaningfully sustain, etc.

All that said, ToG at its worst is better than many series at their best (e.g. Noblesse) - if that weren't the case, I would've stopped reading a long time ago. As is, I still habitually read each new weekly chapter as it's released, hoping for the brilliance of the first season, but this expectation is basically never met.
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 It's only going to get better   
Rating: 9.5 / 10.0
by NimbleTurtle
July 15th, 2014, 11:01am
I can't talk about everything but touch on a few key topics:

World Architecture:
Here, I will only say that very few things are truly original... things often seem original because of our ignorance. With that said, I find ToG's world building quite deep. SIU clearly thought a lot about giving meaning to each position (fisherman, spear bearer, light bearer, wave controller, etc.). He has so many ideas he can't possibly fit all of them into his story, which is why he has a separate blog for these details. Immediately, the readers begin to appreciate the fact that these ideas are pre-planned, thoughtful, and multidimensional. The tower exhibits three layers; in addition, its complex due to the mystery of "what is at the top of the tower" and the 'world outside of the tower'. Social hierarchy - based on the ranking system, blood line, and floor - all add depth to an already mysterious, complex world. Very few comics (manga, manhwa, etc.) have this scale of complexity.

Plot:
The thing about ToG is that it has multiple plots. In the beginning, you assume it's about finding Rachel. And then you get more ideas like "becoming a ranker", "thwart the rule of the king", "escape FUG", "going outside the tower", etc. It's endless. The author already has 6 seasons planned out and we have yet to finish season 2.

Art:
Art in the beginning of season 1 and second half of season 2 are... "okay". The first half of season 2 is an astounding improvement over these two sections. The reason why the art has progressively gotten worse lately is due to the author's wrist injury. As I type this, he is currently taking a 8-9 week... which he should have taken long ago before his wrist became permanently injured. The shading and drawing have gone downhill... it probably pains the author more than it pains the readers.

Characters:
Characters are interesting- a wide diversity of races, personalities, color, etc. There is also synergy between the characters. You have a one-dimensional kind Baam contrasted with the multi-dimensional ruthless Koon. In season 2, you get characters who often pair up in the parent-child position (e.g. Horyang, Goseng, Arkyraptor, Viole vs Miseng, Yeon, Prince ).

Someone could say that main character Baam is fairly one-dimensional in personality and is OP-starting character. There's no denying either of these things, except that they're not good criticisms. Baam's one-dimensional personality owes itself to his background and is what derives fascination from his peers; it provides a nice contrast to Koon who he is anything but simple. Baam is made simple based on SIU's good judgment. On the other hand, he isn't lacking in any sort of character development, as one will see in season 2. Of course, one-dimensional personalty can be a problem in other series. As much as I love Attack on Titan, Eren lacks a personality that fits his origins and synergy with the other characters. I think the author did try to portray him as being slightly psychotic but he could have done a better job with that.
Koon is another major character of the series. Clever - and sometimes ruthless- realizes that in order to climb the tower, sacrifices have to be made. Sacrifices have to be made to keep so that those precious to him, can also climb the tower. He's willing to dirty his hands so his friends do not have to.

Counter-argument to common criticisms:
Nothing is truly original... something only seems original when you don't know where the ideas stem from. The real reason people look down on "cliche ideas" is because it gets old... not because its not original. What's important is inventiveness... how well you combine the ideas of your predecessors and contemporaries. ToG does this fairy well while adding new innovations. Although character development is hardly a universal standard for a good comic (e.g. look at Cowboy Bebop), I agree that some characters could use some more touch. The problem here is that SIU introduced so many characters there is simply no time to cover the background of each in detail, especially when many of these characters are really secondary and we'll probably see very little of them in the later seasons. This is kind of what befuddles the readers, who often grow attached to characters without realizing that they're not that important.

My own criticisms:
SIU has worked hard to satisfy all his audience... the problem is you can't satisfy everyone and sometimes you got to follow your own intuition. In the afterwords, you'll often see the author pondering over whether or not something seemed too fast-paced or slow-paced, whether more fight scenes should be added, etc.
I guess you could say SIU tried to dumb down ToG a little for a lot of his audience (the immature ones typically), which almost pains me. For instance, ToG in season 1 and beginning of season 2 was more brutal than the latter half of season 2. He admits that ToG was planned to be more violent in the beginning but he toned it down a little. I would like to see what SIU originally had in mind.

In addition, his drawing of fight scenes are not very good. He just isn't very experienced... therefore, he needs to spend more time drawing these out. The whole tournament arc was a bit of a mess and this is the first time I will ever complain that the story had way too many PLOT TWISTS. How often does this happen? Never. The tournament arc was a fantastic idea in SIU's head but I don't think he realized how much work it would take to bring it on paper. For instance, it felt so linear in its first combat round, utilized only a handful of items, and used few strategies. It didn't really feel like a game. And I think SIU understands this better than anyone else, considering how much thought he puts into these sort of things. You just don't realize it soon enough when you're the one drawing these things. That coupled with his wrist injury... well quality was bound to go down.

Conclusion:
I have a lot of hopes for the author? Why? Because he clearly has well-thought provoking ideas pre-planned about the world he is building. Because he works harder than almost any author I know, having to draw and color simultaneously, despite facing a wrist injury. Because he is not incompetent and listens to the criticisms of his fanbase. Anyone giving this series less than a 8/10 can't be taken seriously unless they've seen many flawless comics... I have yet to see one.
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 Genius Author   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by enryu022
June 23rd, 2014, 8:32pm
This webtoon is amazing , SIU is genius , i finish reading and it is the best thing i've ever read , the story and the world , everything about it is so refreshing , the thing that surprises me the most is , there are characters that didn't make any appearance and yet at the same time the way i started to love them was equal or higher to the ones that we see every time and are present in the story .

When i finish the story i went to visit the wiki and reading all the info , i realize i know nothing about this comic even after i finish reading all both seasons , it seems the author released info about the story and the characters that hasn't appeared yet and put it in his blog their background or their accomplishment , you can find the translation in the wiki . I am looking forward to when those characters appear .

... Last updated on June 23rd, 2014, 8:39pm
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 cant stop reading it !!!   
Rating: 10.0 / 10.0
by Skydown
April 29th, 2014, 11:53am
ToG is the best webtoon i have ever read, even though it started a bit boring and at one point I was even thinking of dropping it ... but ToG got better and better! I love all the characters, especially Baam/Viole, because he really is loveable and has an interesting background. The art is also really beautiful, I can't get enough of it ^^
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 Was Good but now Average   
Rating: 5.0 / 10.0
by strixflash
April 3rd, 2014, 11:22pm
Tower of God started out good with an interesting premise, a good cast (most of them pretty generic) and some intelligent tests/games. There are times you might draw comparison with Hunter x Hunter or some RPG games, but most of the time it standed out on its own.

Yes, it's not original or something unique in even world building (like many people here claims) as ToG borrows most of the world building elements from other works but that's not bad if it's done well.

But the second season has been disappointing. Author has dragged many arcs in the second season maybe thanks to the popularity of Season 1. The tests are boring & they are not intelligent at all like Season 1. Many of the characters are flat & boring, and sadly the main character (Baam/Viole) still remains the same unidimension shonen idiot (the generic protagonist who has a heart of gold but brainless fool). There are battles which are dragged on for many chapters, the fights are boring to be honest. Most of the characters are drawn as some child.

Tower of God was one of my favorite read during its Season 1 despite the main character's generic & flat personality; but Season 2 has ruined it for me. Author seriously needs to stop wasting time on unnecessary things (especially taking more than 30-40 chapters which is terrible).

In short, Tower of God doesn't deserve such high rating.
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 Rehash? Probably not, and this author knows /exactly/ where this story is going.   
Rating: 9.0 / 10.0
by kichiX
March 30th, 2014, 10:52am
I couldn't agree more with Rennov.

A lot of people, after ToG became popular, started complaining that it's a rehash of fantasy elements seen in other mangas; I would argue that it, in actual fact, is not, but the logic which equates this irrevocably with a bad manga is beyond me anyway.

The author knows exactly where this story is going. He is not pulling tricks out of the hat or grabbing at straws to stretch this out. If you read the afterwords in season two you'll realise this, and also that there was no way he could have foreshadowed some things in the ways he did without knowing what was going to happen. The foreshadowing might be subtle, and it might be seen only by those who read the notes The Company attached to the end of each chapter to find out about the ToG universe, but it shows how truly, truly vast the universe is, and just how much the author knows what is happening, and will happen, in his story.

(I have only one last thing to add, and that is to those who say Baam is the standard protagonist who is kind to everyone: what have you to say over the workshop battle now, then? More specifically S2 Chapter 72?)
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