| It looks like the goal of the anime is just to hit the major plot-points and that's it, but that's not how a story works. The depth from the story often comes from things that are added alongside the plot-points. First of all, the anime fails at building the characters as real people. The characters here are presented as very bland because they're on-screen to the bare minimum to know who they are. But in the manhwa the earlier interactions between Horyang and Arkraptor help to build them as more compassionate people, especially Arkraptor's paternal instincts. One of the most important scenes in the manhwa was skipped, that being the reason why Bam's master agreed to train him. Instead, all we got was the final line, "I'll show you how to become a god." without the context. Then the post-fight dialogue for Urek Mazino was made much more cliche to make it painfully obvious that Bam is supposed to be special, whereas the subtlety in the way that Mazino noticed the scratch, realized it's origins, and got excited was much more engaging. On top of this, many anime viewers have forgotten the core concepts of the tower after these 3 years. But this is only made worse by dialogue cuts in the fight of Bam vs Love, so viewers don't understand how big of a deal that a regular fighting against a ranker is. Then the anime fails to describe what actually happened in the timeskip after Bam's team fought Urek, so nobody knows what floor Bam is on (floor 28) and the floor that Khun is on (floor 29) to contextualize the 2-year timeskip. The manhwa simply had textboxes with '28F' and '29F', so why couldn't the anime do the same. An adaptation is surely terrible, when anyone can insert a textbox in the top-left corner and make it a better watch. Then, Khun's team is shown to be put into a test when we know absolutely none of the rules, so how is the viewer expected to follow along. The manhwa also gave a short textbox for this as well, but the anime did nothing to make up for the lack of narration. All of this is not even including the obvious complaint many others have made about the sub-par art and animation when Tower of God is largely an action story. |
| Man, I keep imagining how much I would’ve enjoyed this if A1 were at the helm... |
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Animillion said:
Man, I keep imagining how much I would’ve enjoyed this if A1 were at the helm...
Man, I keep imagining how much I would’ve enjoyed this if A1 were at the helm...
Madhouse is the studio I want the most for ToG
| @Ri-iel I’m saying A1 because of Solo Leveling. It’s a more fair comparison imo |
| I am an anime-only, but I consider reading ToG manhwa more and more every week. The season 1 was so special with this animation and characters were not flat as it stands now. I love the curiosity and mystery behind this world presented in season one. The second season feels so hollow and rushed, the animation is also too simple and looks bad imo. I do really want to hope that the second cour will be better, but I don't think so :( |
wojo1 said: I am an anime-only, but I consider reading ToG manhwa more and more every week. The season 1 was so special with this animation and characters were not flat as it stands now. I love the curiosity and mystery behind this world presented in season one. The second season feels so hollow and rushed, the animation is also too simple and looks bad imo. I do really want to hope that the second cour will be better, but I don't think so :( I'm still waiting for the "they are just saving budget for upcoming fights" moment like the glazers keep telling ;d Like bruh, it's been almost 12 episodes and nothing got better in any way, it's time for the glazers to stop coping and being delusional. |
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| Bad directing, bad pacing, bad visuals across the board can really ruin even the best of stories. Especially in a season where it was such a dramatic shift from the first one story-wise and cast-wise too, which needs a more delicate handling of the transition. |
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