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Where to read: What do you desire? Fortune? Glory? Power? Revenge? Or something that surpasses all others? What ever your desire, 'that, is here'. Tower of God.. Since Reiche was kind enough to start a manhwa thread, I felt motivated to update/redo the op. Something a little simpler this time should suffice. Where to read Recommended -> http://www.mangapanda.com/1757/tower-of-god.html http://mangapirate.net/Tower_of_God http://www.batoto.com/comic/_/comics/tower-of-god-r1 http://www.thcmpny.com Master Author Blog/Translations Thread on Batoto http://www.batoto.net/forums/topic/...ted-2012-03-12/ Now lets meet some of the Cast from Act 1 Baam (25th Night) Left the hole in the ground he called home in chase of the only contact of life he ever encountered, Lahel. He's quite determined to find her.  Lahel (updated: Rachel) Left Baam to climb the tower, her wish is to look at the starry sky.  Koon Agero Agnis A demonic tactician and noble blood. Joins Baam to climb the tower.  Ha Yuri Zahard High Ranker and Princess from the Ha Family. Lends Baam the Black March of the 13 Month Weapon Series.  Anak Zahard One of Zahard's Princesses. She is considered a half-breed though. Owner of the Green April of the 13 Month Weapon Series.  Androssi Zahard Another one of Zahard's Princesses. She is very strong, and a bit haughty, although nowhere near as much as Anak.  Rak Wraithraiser A Regular. A ManGator. But not a Turtle. He unwillingly teamed up with Baam and Koon during the first test on the second floor. He is a large and poweful warrior, and very full of himself.  ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ About the Tower from the Blog 1. The Tower is largely catagorized into three parts: The Outer Tower, the Inner Tower, and the Middle Area. 2. The Outer Tower is the residential district of the habitants, and each floor of the Outer Tower is as large as the continent of America on Earth. 3. The Inner Tower is the place where the Regulars take exams, and the Regulars are selected by the Guardian of the first floor, Headon. 4. Regulars must take the exams to reach the next floor until the 20th, and they can go in and out of the Middle after the 20th floor. If they wish, they can settle at the Middle Area. 5. Middle Area is the place where the Regulars and Rankers live together, although people who are not Regulars live here, too. (Mostly the family of the Regulars) The area is smaller than the Other Tower, and it varies by the floor. There is some interchange with the Outer Tower. The standard of living is much better. 6. The 77th floor is the only floor ruled by someone who's not one of the 10 Families. And it's the only place where the interchange between the Outer Tower and the Middle Area is equal. 7. The 43th floor is without a Guardian, because Enryu killed the Guardian of that floor. Because of this, the Regulars do not take an exam here, and go to the next floor using the road in the Middle Area. It's rumored that Garam Jahad is hiding here. 8. Rankers can go to the Outer and Inner Towers as they wish, and they are guaranteed premium treatment in their lives. Regulars can get premium treatment according to the floor they reached. 9. The relationship between the Regulars and the non-Regulars is similar to that of the ruling class and the subjected class. 10. The open top floor is the 134th. 11. There are Guardians each floor, and they have control over the Shinsoo on their floor. 12. There are Rulers each floor, and they rule over their floors under the permission of the Guardians. 13. Each area of the Outer Tower and Middle Area is managed by the Ruler (The title is different each floor. President, Chief, etc.) of the area. The Rulers are all followers of the family owning the floor, and they are all Rankers. 14. The Rulers are all High Rankers or above. 15. The Ruler has the right to decide the exam of his floor. But if the Guardian raises objections, he must follow the Guardian's wish. 16. The cultures of each floor of the Outer Tower are all different, and the climates and temperatures are all varied. They are all decided by the preferences of the Guardian and Ruler of the floor. 17. The culture of the Middle Area are all similar (although very multicultural) because the Rankers and the Regulars come and go a lot. However, there are noticeable characteristics in each one. Regular: A Regular is a being from inside The Tower that has been chosen to climb it. The choice of who will climb is made by Headon, the Guardian of the 1st floor. Regulars can be chosen for many reasons, such as intelligence, powers, fights, weapons, or seemingly just at random. Irregular: An Irregular is a being that has entered the Tower without granted permission of Headon. Irregulars are all famous for being extremely powerful and have wreaked havoc and terror within the Tower. Ranker: One who has climbed to the top of the tower. Very rare. High-Rankers are the cream of this small crop. That Blonde Bitch: Finish Act 1 Battle Positions (introduced after the Crown Game to name a few) Fisherman, Spear Bearer, Scout, Light Bearer, Wave Controller, Guide 
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The Company, thcmpny.com, is scanslating this, chapter 59 is out. You can find it easily on major reader sites. Best place to read it is http://www.batoto.com/comic/_/comics/tower-of-god-r1 The Holy Queef fucked around with this message at Aug 18, 2011 around 22:47 |
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The art is so hilariously inconsistent in this, it always makes me laugh. He's pretty good at covering up his problems and shortcuts, though. Also, those demonstration pictures are JPEG'd to hell and back. Not really the best advertisement for the series, you can hardly make out anything.
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| # ? Aug 18, 2011 16:38 |
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Er, isn't Baam's name 25th Baam, not 35th?
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| # ? Aug 18, 2011 16:52 |
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Reading this on any of the generic sites does a world of crap to the quality of the image. OP, you should definitely put this site into your post. It keeps the chapters in their long page format and all of the art is in full quality.
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HenryEx posted:The art is so hilariously inconsistent in this, it always makes me laugh. He's pretty good at covering up his problems and shortcuts, though. True that. His art IS inconsistent, but I was still fascinated nevertheless. Not the best pics, but I thought it'd get the job done. I'll redo them when I get the time with higher quality. Reiche posted:Reading this on any of the generic sites does a world of crap to the quality of the image. OP, you should definitely put this site into your post. It keeps the chapters in their long page format and all of the art is in full quality. Done, right at the top
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Glad there is finally a Tower of God thread, it deserves it. even if the OP's images are kind of poo poo quality This is the only ongoing weekly "manga" I read. It's pretty much Hunter X Hunter, when hxh was good, in full color. http://www.batoto.com/read/_/21834/..._by_the-company Actually, the latest chapter is a great example of the art. I think the author has gotten a lot better at faces especially. Compare chapter 59 with the first few chapters, even though it's a chapter with no text context, there aren't any stupid looking faces in it at all. And yeah, I recommend reading at Batoto. Not only is it in long form and perfect image quality, it's where the translation group posts their work, so it comes out there the fastest. TheDemon fucked around with this message at Aug 19, 2011 around 08:16 |
| # ? Aug 19, 2011 08:11 |
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Holy wow. For very little dialogue, that was a great chapter.
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| # ? Aug 19, 2011 19:45 |
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Manwha gets so little love here, I'm surprised people actually pay attention to this series. Although I have to say, I hate the way this scanlation group does the translations. Too bad there just arent any groups doing manwha to have better translations for us to have a choice in the matter. The story itself is inconsistent in certain aspects. I mean in the beginning they're killing each other with little or no remorse in a battle royale, the tests have life/death consequences and all of a sudden they just suddenly become Griffindore vs Slitherin. Baam is painted early on as a kid who knows next to nothing about the world and is desperate to reconnect with Lahel but when he finally meets he doesn't say two words to the girl even though he knows she's lying to hide her identiy from him. A lot of the characters all share the common personalities depending on the different types of tests. At one they're all ruthless killers. At another they're all idiots. At another they're all sentimental shonen level school kids living a high school life. What the hell. Other than that the story seems to be good, even though it seems the author still hasn't really nailed down what type of story he wants to write, and it is fast paced enough to keep me interested. Frankly I'd think it'd be a lot better if they spent less time explaining how awesome Koon's tactics are and a little more time developing the action scenes.
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| # ? Aug 19, 2011 20:39 |
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Been reading this series since chapter 1 came out, glad someone finally made a thread for it.
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| # ? Aug 19, 2011 23:20 |
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Really, really enjoying this. As others have said, it really does scratch that early/mid HxH itch that I've been missing. Spoilered for those not caught up:I love that Baam finds Lahel so quickly and it ends up being kinda awkward and weird for them. I do hope she develops a bit more beyond "Crippled Flower in Wheelchair" during the next test.
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| # ? Aug 20, 2011 23:03 |
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What I like about this series the most is that they make it clear from practically the very beginning that Baam is one crazy motherfucker. Considering the object of his monomania it's relatively benign, but sometimes he still gets kind of creepy. 
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I really don't think he's human. Although, now that I think about it, no one seems to make distinctions like that in the tower. There just are people who are lizards and gators and squirrels, or have tiny useless bat wings, or whatever the hell else, and it ain't no thing. No one bats an eye.
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Baam was trapped in a cave. That was all he ever knew. Now, odds are he didn't spontaneously come into existence out of thin air, so presumably someone put him there for some reason. He is definitely a monster of some sort, though I doubt it will involve transforming or anything.
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Serious Frolicking posted:Baam was trapped in a cave. That was all he ever knew. Now, odds are he didn't spontaneously come into existence out of thin air, so presumably someone put him there for some reason. He is definitely a monster of some sort, though I doubt it will involve transforming or anything. Also, someone must have been feeding him before Lahel came along.
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Slime posted:Also, someone must have been feeding him before Lahel came along. Not necessarily. I'm under the impression that his life has been entirely sustained on Shinsoo, which could explain a number of things. That said, Chapter 60 is out on naver.
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Slime posted:Also, someone must have been feeding him before Lahel came along. Not neccesarily. Remember what that one guy said about the energy in the tower? It's possible his body survived just off of that.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 17:25 |
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Baam is secretly King Jahad or his son, which explains why princesses can't resist his charms. 
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 19:22 |
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Just marathoned through the first 25 chapters (everything through the game of crown) and I just felt the need to say: WHAAAAAAAAT! AFTER 11 CHAPTERS OF THAT GAME HE GIVES IT ALL UP FOR THAT BITCH AAAGGGHHHH. I mean a sense of honor is one thing, but WOW this guy is out of control.
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That arc as a whole made me come dangerously close to giving up on this manwha. Someone said that the author's still trying to figure out what kind of story he's writing, and all i hope is that he'll never write another crown game arc again.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 20:08 |
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Y'all are weird. The crown game ruled.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 20:22 |
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The Holy Queef posted:dang-
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 20:34 |
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The crown game in itself wasn't very good, but it developed Baam's character pretty well. That is, it made it very clear that the boy is loving nuts.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 22:13 |
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I'm curious how he knows what he was named when Lahel was his first interaction with another person. There is so much unexplained in this story, they're only just about to leave level 2 of 137 or whatever of the regular levels and doesn't Lahel's dream actually require them climbing the rest of the levels that rankers can't climb/aren't allowed to climb? I'd just like a chapter devoted to actually explaining what the gently caress is going on in the world the series is set in.
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 22:19 |
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So where exactly DID Baam and Lahel come from? Underneath the tower? Why was she out turning over random boulders when she first found them? Considering she seems to have met people other than Baam in her pre-Tower life, why didn't she ever introduce him to them?
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| # ? Aug 21, 2011 22:35 |
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We're curious precisely because the comic's being so elliptical with the "big picture." I definitely think we've got all the information we need to enjoy it. The world demands constant competition, sortition and ranking. It can give you what you want, but only if you're good enough (and, secretly, if you don't want things that threaten the status quo). Into this comes a monomaniacal kid of uncertain origins who makes friends readily. That's it, you're ready to read on. I'm not sure how things beyond the scope of the story could matter to it. You might as well ask whether Sando in Shin Angyo Onshi was human: the ambiguity serves an artistic purpose. E: although I definitely do think that what led to Baam living in a cave might be important later. Doc Hawkins fucked around with this message at Aug 21, 2011 around 22:38 |
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XultheDestroyer posted:So where exactly DID Baam and Lahel come from? Underneath the tower? Why was she out turning over random boulders when she first found them? Considering she seems to have met people other than Baam in her pre-Tower life, why didn't she ever introduce him to them? It may or may not be important depending on whether they're from the outer tower or some completely different world. EDIT: Also we know they were eating something because Lahel's stomach rumbles in that one part. Sindai fucked around with this message at Aug 21, 2011 around 22:40 |
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I kinda liked this story at first when it was a esoteric series of tests that person must pass, but I don't care for the ninja school stuff. 25th Baam implies that he's one in a series. Possibly a clone, or maybe experiment #25, or prisoner #25. And the tower doesn't have windows? Why does Lahel have to climb to the top to see the stars? Can one leave the tower and live on other lands? Has anyone tried scaling the tower from the outside?
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| # ? Aug 22, 2011 14:23 |
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25th is his date of birth.
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| # ? Aug 22, 2011 16:19 |
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People do come into the tower from somewhere "outside" of it, and they can go back there too (remember that Ho was attacked by a ranker as a child). We know you can't see the stars "outside". We have no idea what kind of shape the tower has, what kind of space it occupies, from the perspective of being in these "outside" lands. I think it isn't necessarily a "tower" as we'd imagine it: it might not have an outside wall to climb.
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I'm pretty sure that the regulars we see in the tower are from the "outer tower" which is striated and part of the tower itself. The testing and all that is done in the "middle tower" and is also the only way to go about between different floors of the tower. At least that's what I got from slamming this whole thing in one day like a case of High Life.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2011 07:36 |
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Nah, the testing is done in the Inner Tower. The Middle Tower is used for travelling between the floors and the Outer Floor is where people live.
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| # ? Aug 23, 2011 20:29 |
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So then the middle tower is where the first princess Bamm met is right now, as she tries to get to Evankhell's Hell, the inner tower is where Baam and co. are, and the outer tower is where people who haven't yet been chosen by the tower are?
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| # ? Aug 24, 2011 01:15 |
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People who haven't been chosen are not in the tower. They're just some other place where stars are just legends.
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| # ? Aug 24, 2011 04:55 |
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Tower of God 60 is out. Not much to say beyond the explanation of the test, but the bull creature is pretty awesome looking.
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 02:23 |
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Reiche posted:Tower of God 60 is out. I thought it was just going to be a ranker, dressed up or something. But, poo poo, that's pretty creepy looking.
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 07:55 |
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So glad someone made a thread for this. I'm hooked on this story like no other. Despite its several flaws, the art, characters and plotline are just so damned magnetic. Can't wait to see how they make it through this next challenge.
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I'm not sure, I kind of agree that I loved the original premise but the whole school thing has been boring me. Why set it up that the whole purpose of the tower is how tall it is and that you have to climb it only to then stick them on floor two for ages? And to reintroduce the object of Baam's climb so early strikes me as odd. I much preferred the chase motive to the I'm going to be your legs motive. Also, as demonstrated by the awesome design of the bull I love the sheer variety of characters we were shown at the beginning while now nobody gets culled and hardly anyone new is introduced.
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 15:39 |
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I forget; did Baam ever get Black March back? She was cool the one time we saw her.
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| # ? Aug 26, 2011 16:06 |
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Nope, Anak still has it.
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