Tower of God Vol2 Ch47 (127): Ambush and Devils of the right hand

Recap:

At the beginning of the chapter, Koon gets suddenly ambushed - something pierces his heart.

Scene changes to Xiaxia lighthouse, where Viole is visiting her for information. He apparently asked about Horyang and she tells her that he stopped there before. Viole also finds out that some black-haired big guy also came looking for the Devil of the right hand, who is the person in the picture. She tells Viole that they went to Arlene's hand.

And finally, we get to Arlene's hand where Horyang (or Beniamino Ilmar), Beniamino Cassano and Koon's allies are going to start fighting.

We get some sweet eye candy here when Cassano attacks Ran and dodges Novick's attack. Cassano introduces himself (as Venimiano Cassano, in the scan that I'm reading) as the Devil of the Right Hand even though he uses his left hand.

Final scene changes back to Koon: after he's attacked someone snake-like person raises from the sand while Koon's still lying on the ground. Ambusher speaks to himself and reveals that he had been collecting a bounty and falls into a scheme of Koon: he "wakes up" and asks who sent him.



Koon was apparently saved by his armor and thinks that maybe his father gave it to him. He's not sure. Fight between the assassin and Koon begins and unfortunately the chapter ends here.

Comments and predictions:

It was a good chapter and I enjoyed the eye candy that we got regarding Cassano, Rand and Novick. We got couple of pointers here, which may affect storyline to come: Why is Koon targeted, who wants his head? I can't but to wonder who's got so much grudge against him so that they would put a bounty up for him.

The another "pointer" is more like a prediction, I think that Koon overpowers the snake guy, then finally arrives at the same time with Baam at the Arlene's hand. Koon may not recognize him at first, but I think this could be a suitable time for a meeting for two of them. If this happens I can't but to praise SIU (Slave in Utero), since I though that this could be sort of "filler" arc before the workshop battle, but this kind of important meeting between two main characters of the story after many years is intriguing.

It can't be helped: unfortunately we have to wait for the chapters to come,

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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.

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