"IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK" (idroveapickuptruck)
09/10/2014 at 11:05 • Filed to: manga, manhwa, webtoons, anime, comics
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"IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK" (idroveapickuptruck)
09/10/2014 at 11:05 • Filed to: manga, manhwa, webtoons, anime, comics | 2
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Tower of God is a Korean Manhwa, or the Korean version of Manga. Except unlike a traditional manga or comic book that is printed Tower of God falls into the classification of a 'webtoon' which is originally published online in full color and is read in one long rolling strip.
Frankly is probably one of the best things currently on the internet. The art is fantastic, the story and setting original, it has great character design with great diversity in that design. The plot has the perfect mix of action, drama, comedy and tension. The plot is complex but the tension is so high that the first time I read it I blew through it so fast I missed things. I've almost finished rereading the entire series and I'm understanding everything much better now.
Since it's in full color and not separated into distinct pages it flows much more like an animation than a manga in some senses. It's hard to express just how good it is if you haven't read it, the plot is deep yet accessible, there are huge shades of gray in the morality of the different characters, almost nothing is black and white.
It's incredibly popular, with the 4th highest rating of any series on !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! . It's proven so popular that the Korean publisher has released it all translated online for free with weekly updates of new chapters here: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!!
But I prefer the fan translations since I think the website is formatted a bit better and they provide useful translation notes. But to each their own. Fan translations can be found here: !!!error: Indecipherable SUB-paragraph formatting!!! Once you open a chapter make sure to select the option in the upper right hand corner "View in long strip mode"
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Just go read it, go read it now.
Mattbob
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
09/10/2014 at 11:13 |
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I just have a hard time getting into the reading style. I'm so used to normal manga style, the long strips with so little comparatively going on is harder to read on a phone IMO.
RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
09/10/2014 at 11:14 |
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The Korean comic arts industry is very interesting, because due to bans on import of Japanese culture until lately, you have a very similar school of design but subtly different. You have a lot of the same artistic tropes, but developed in a different way because fewer people overall grew up reading manga from Japan - and there's probably some influence from the schools producing frame artists for subcontracted western TV shows. I'm sure somebody could write a doctoral thesis on the similarities and differences.
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> Mattbob
09/10/2014 at 11:22 |
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Hmmm in some ways I prefer reading webtoons on a phone compared to traditional manga. Throw the thing in landscape mode and just scroll and scroll. It's really best viewed on a tablet or computer though, I found is disorienting at first as well but now I can switch back and forth pretty seamlessly.
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/10/2014 at 11:25 |
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Korea is still largely unexplored by western culture, Japan has been an object of fascination for decades but we're just now getting to Korea. I'll admit I don't know much about Korea but it's fun to learn more, there are some really great Manhwa out there that rival anything coming out of Japan.
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Mattbob
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
09/10/2014 at 11:27 |
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my main issue, and maybe it was just where i was reading, is that relatively little happens in the story for each time I have to click to go to the next page.
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> Mattbob
09/10/2014 at 11:29 |
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Which is why it shouldn't be read that way, it needs to be read in longstrip/webtoon mode where you never switch between pages, you just continually scroll down until you reach the end of the chapter.
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Mattbob
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
09/10/2014 at 11:30 |
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that makes sense. So I can read it that way at the link you posted? (Im at work so I can't check.) If so, I am on it when I get home.
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> Mattbob
09/10/2014 at 11:34 |
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If you're reading it at mangacow there is a option in the upper right hand corner of the screen that says "read in longstrip mode/webtoon"
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> Mattbob
09/10/2014 at 11:37 |
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The other link I posted will probably work better for mobile viewing:
http://m.webtoons.com/episodeList?ti…
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RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
09/10/2014 at 11:58 |
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There's a long family history with SK in my family, so I've been exposed to one thing and another from SK for years - more so than Japan.
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> RamblinRover Luxury-Yacht
09/10/2014 at 12:02 |
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Being 1/4 Japanese I'm in the opposite situation, but the western world has had a Japan obsession since the 80s, and tends to assume that Korea is just like a baby Japan which is not the case.
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Mattbob
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
09/15/2014 at 08:22 |
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started reading TOG last night. I'm 32 chapters in. Reading it in long view is WAAAAAAAY better than what I was trying to do before. This is a good read. Definitely digging it. I'm also very tired this morning because of reading it last night.
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IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
> Mattbob
09/15/2014 at 08:29 |
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Haha yeah I've been there before, getting sucked into a series with a lot of existing chapters is both awesome and terrible at the same time.
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Mattbob
> IDROVEAPICKUPTRUCK
09/15/2014 at 08:33 |
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its not as bad as when I decided to pick up one piece a couple years ago. That was a life ruiner. It sucks when you catch up though.