Tower of God: Review - Definitely recommended

At first I was very reluctant to read Tower of God because of form in which it is published. I simply freaked out because of those long pages and being used to manga, all those colors. Thank god it was only a matter of getting used to it. I've read all chapters of Tower of God which have been published in the span of couple of days and I have to say that I'm really happy that I finally got over my anxiety of reading this splendid webcomic.

Tower of God starts with introduction of the tower: It's said that once you manage to climb on top of the tower you may achieve anything you desire. Our story starts Baam and Lahel (later translated as Rachel), who seem to be in some sort of a cave. Rachel disappears right under Baam saying she's going to climb the tower. Baam says that he's going to follow her to death, hence he opens the door to the Tower to climb it. Inside he finds that Rachel isn't anywhere to be found and that him coming in to the tower isn't anything usual - he's considered as "irregular", someone who open the doors to get inside instead of getting chosen by rulers of the tower. In past all irregulars have been exceptionally powerful, but Baam is nothing like that. Not long after the tower shows it true colors: it's nothing sort of a deadly competition and backstabbing..

Tower of God is part of Talse uzer story.

I'd say that the art gets after (very rough esimate) 30 chapters from good to very good. Fights are very well drawn and once you get used to the colorful world they are such a eye candy, especially on the second part of the series.  If you've usually used to reading black and white manga, don't get scared because of the very different form of showing us the story. I have to say that this way of drawing actually brings the story in some cases more alive than in traditional manga!

Characters of this series are definitely enjoyable. Some of their goodness however comes from the story twists, which can of course be said to be character qualities in some way also. Not much to say about the people in this series: they are simply good, SIU certainly knows what he does when he's making this webcomic for people to enjoy.

Well, what can I say about the story? I could say that it's pre-set idea isn't anything special at first, but it will be getting more complex (but easy to understand) pretty soon. It's truly entertaining story which has very good twists. What I like about this series is that even though it sort of is pretty "generic" shonen because of it's idea of getting stronger through advancing the towers floors the immense power difference between top people of the towers is very well designed and relied to readers through work of story and art. It basically shows us unlimited potential of this story and makes it interesting. I've heard people also say that this can be a bit humorous read - it's usually of secondary importance for me, but I can imagine that some people find it important.

It's also great to see that the author is actively blogging and communicating with his fans. Through his communication with the fans, from which the important parts are fortunately translated we get a lots of "background" information about the tower, it's design and especially it's residents.