Tower of God Q&A

We are almost at 100 chapters (well 10 more chapters) and I can't see this manga ending in another 100-200.

Don't forget ToG has a planned sequel, for all we know ToG could consist of Baam becoming a Ranker and leaving the Tower somehow, and the sequel could have his adventures on the outside within the TUS.

Is it confirmed that it always will be about Baam? There's always the option of having other main characters, not that I'd like it to turn out that way

Don't forget ToG has a planned sequel, for all we know ToG could consist of Baam becoming a Ranker and leaving the Tower somehow, and the sequel could have his adventures on the outside within the TUS.

This is a thing you gotta remember in anything you read... and few actually do.

So it's a good point.

Is it confirmed that it always will be about Baam? There's always the option of having other main characters, not that I'd like it to turn out that way

It is not, just in the same universe.

Don't forget ToG has a planned sequel, for all we know ToG could consist of Baam becoming a Ranker and leaving the Tower somehow, and the sequel could have his adventures on the outside within the TUS.

I did not know that ToG has a planned sequel. So it could be like the Breaker then? Interesting.

Let's hope it expands into a few hundred chapters (like One Piece) and then a Sequal, that would be wonderful ^^.

This question has been nagging at me..Just how the heck did Baam stay alive in the cave before Rachel showed up? Obtaining food, water, ect. Or was he just filling his stomach with shinsoo until she showed up with the munchies?

I have't seem anything to suggest Baam doesn't need to eat, so its possible he hadn't been 'awake? alive?' in the cave for very long before Rachel came. Maybe the cave was in his mind and he was really in a lab. Not enough information yet.

I believe that he is Unique (regardless of how he came to be there) he is a Being (perhaps not categorized as 'human') which is self-sustaining, doesn't consume anything in order to exist (live), He doesn't 'need' to eat, drink or even breath (these things were introduced to him by Lahel).
But I dont mean he doesn't require 'energy' to exist, but that he generate the energy (Shinsoo) himself which he then consume (more then he comsumes).
This would make him a Self-Sustaining existence, I know that in ToG you can fill your stomach with Shinsoo but we dont know if you can do that forever (whether its a downwards spiral or not) but I do believe it is, and in such making Baam special.

But yes he wouldn't "know" how to do it, but I believe its natural for him (like how we breath naturally and how our hearts beat), to him food and drink is mere luxury and comfort, though it might be possible that he's got so used to eating and drinking that he's forgotten how he was originaly.

how old is Baam i don't think age matter in TOG just wanted to know

I would suggest quite young given that he is still aging (from S1 to S2); however I do not think it is known afaik

Don't forget ToG has a planned sequel, for all we know ToG could consist of Baam becoming a Ranker and leaving the Tower somehow, and the sequel could have his adventures on the outside within the TUS.

As long as the main characters are given satisfactory conclusions within this manhwa [before the sequel], I have no problems with a sequel - pls no shippuden crap

As long as the main characters are given satisfactory conclusions within this manhwa [before the sequel], I have no problems with a sequel - pls no shippuden crap

Haha I prefer Shippuden over the original just saying, but when I said sequel I should've just said another story within the TUS, it could even be a prequel which would be nice.

I find it really hard to believe that Yuri Zahard is still just rank 500~.
I mean, if i remember correctly, the rank is given when you reach the top of the tower. Yuri has already been in the tower many years after reachig the top. It's not crazy to say that she has "improved" since them.

I just can`t imagine 500 people stronger than her. Maybe 100 or so, but not 500. For example, She is far stronger than Ren or Yu Hang Sung (by the way they react when she threatened them), and they are pretty strong.
Our "main" characters (Baam, Koon, Androssi, Anak, etc...) are far behind that power, but they would became even stronger than those 2 (for sure).
I'm just afraid of how the author would handle this (like "astronomical power-ups" or people with strength off the charts).

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Allow me to inform you that Yuri Zahard is mostly famous for a few things, on of those being that she became a High Ranker after merly 100 year after becoming a Ranker.

And why do you have problem imagining 500 people stronger then her? We haven't seen how strong she is (only the strength of her "flick").

And Ren isn't a High Ranker, its quite obvious he would fear her. As for Yu Han Sung how have been offered a High Ranker position (or seat perhaps) but declined, we dont know what rank that would be, and most of all we dont know the power difference between the ranks, and dont forget that Ranks include an Individuals influence over/on the Tower (Which is why Luslec is Ranked above some of the Family heads).

And there isn't something like "power ups" as far as I know, you Train, hard and long, year after year for 100 of years and you improve.
Urek Mazino holds the Record for fastest climb of the tower of 50 Years, and Yuri's feat of 100 years between Ranker and High Ranker is considered Great.

The fact that all ranker are (seemingly) incapable of dying due to old age and can therefore continuesly keep improving themself until they reach their limits.

But as for the Main Characters, yes they all have far of, perhaps a few hundred years (200-400 perhaps) until they become rankers (if they are even capable of such powers) and then probably additional few hundred to thousands of years until (if they possess the initate abilities for it) they become High Rankers, and in there they'ed spend even more thousands of years climbing the ranks.

But as for Viole, he is an Irregular and they are Stronger, (there is a reason why all the Irregular who have climbed the tower are in the Top ranks [1. Phantaminum, 2. Enryu, 3. Zahard, 4.Urek Mazino] (and the possible Family Heads)), and considering that Urek fought (and was acknowledged as stronger) [Current]Nr.5 Arie Hon on the 100th floor (i think he lives there), but I acknowledge we dont know how strong he was when he entered.

Either way Viole will grow allot quicker and allot stronger then his Friends/Comrads (that is if SiU retains the consistency of the story with the past).

Well, it's just my personal opinion. She is one of the first characters we see in the story, and we can assume that she is going to be very important in future events.
Maybe I'm just mixing "greater power" with "greater impact" in the plot. But thats how I see it.

Yuri is waaay stronger than any other MC at the moment, and still she is weaker than 499 other High Rankers. Like you said, it takes a lot of time to became stronger (time we propably are not going to see), so except for Baam, I can't hardly see any other character becoming as stronger as Yuri anytime soon (or ever), and even if they do, that doesn't mean anything really, because they will be weaker than 499 others. So, i can't picture them in the final episodes/floors of Tower of God (not even Yuri), where the story is supposed to end (at least for this part of the story)

The way I see it it's that, regardless of whatever rank she has, she is much stronger than that right now. This way, the gap between our main characters and the best Rankers wouldn't be so big.

Well, it's just my personal opinion. She is one of the first characters we see in the story, and we can assume that she is going to be very important in future events.
Maybe I'm just mixing "greater power" with "greater impact" in the plot. But thats how I see it.

Yuri is waaay stronger than any other MC at the moment, and still she is weaker than 499 other High Rankers. Like you said, it takes a lot of time to became stronger (time we propably are not going to see), so except for Baam, I can't hardly see any other character becoming as stronger as Yuri anytime soon (or ever), and even if they do, that doesn't mean anything really, because they will be weaker than 499 others. So, i can't picture them in the final episodes/floors of Tower of God (not even Yuri), where the story is supposed to end (at least for this part of the story)

The way I see it it's that, regardless of whatever rank she has, she is much stronger than that right now. This way, the gap between our main characters and the best Rankers wouldn't be so big.

It would be sensible for Baam to end up in the top 10 within the next few decades. So he is kinda out of the discussion since it's purely the authors matter to think about.

but the rest most likely won't ever become high rankers. (from season 2)

Although I think that Wangnan has a potential close to that of an irregular. We will see about that.

I don't think rankings are showing full potential of a character since Ranking Administrators used info of previous battles to rank people. If Yuri hadn't fought with 500 people before her, we can't be sure if she is weaker than them^^
Like Adori and Enne Zahard. Since they haven't fought with each other, ranking office couldn't decide which one is better and they both are ranked 7th place because of that.

Btw in here: http://towerofgod.wikia.com/wiki/Mangdol_Whale
someone actually insists the actual name is "net dolphin"(read the comment). Is this really true or is someone pulling a fast one? ^^;;

"'Mangdol Whale' should be wrong. The original word in webtoon is 'mangdolgorae'. 'gorae' in korean means whale but 'dolgorae' does dolphin. Likewise, 'mang' is net. So true translantion must be 'net-dolphin'. Sorry. I'm not good for english."

I'm starting to regret even posting this here. =P But if it's wrong, then I'll have to refute the reply 'cos I don't want to delete it.

Edited by Yu Han Sung, 28 April 2012 - 01:33 PM.

I find it really hard to believe that Yuri Zahard is still just rank 500~.
I mean, if i remember correctly, the rank is given when you reach the top of the tower. Yuri has already been in the tower many years after reachig the top. It's not crazy to say that she has "improved" since them.

I just can`t imagine 500 people stronger than her. Maybe 100 or so, but not 500. For example, She is far stronger than Ren or Yu Hang Sung (by the way they react when she threatened them), and they are pretty strong.
Our "main" characters (Baam, Koon, Androssi, Anak, etc...) are far behind that power, but they would became even stronger than those 2 (for sure).
I'm just afraid of how the author would handle this (like "astronomical power-ups" or people with strength off the charts).

If you look at http://towerofgod.wikia.com/wiki/Adori_Jahad you'll notice a few things. Adori Zahard is over 5000 years old and if you read about her you'll notice that there were rankers and high rankers before she became a ranker and the princess system was in place before her time. So there have been rankers polishing their strength for over 5000 years and Yuri is around 618 years old so the earliest she could possibly have become a ranker at is 518 years old (not likely since she has recieved black march, but let's just use it for the sake of the argument). If you think about thousands or rankers polishing their strength over 5000 years then it wouldn't be to strange if Yuri wasn't one of the strongest. The fact that she became a high ranker mere 300 years after starting to climb the tower is proof of how much of a genius she really is.
Btw, the reason she recieved Black March at the rank of 500 is probably because she has shown great potential and power growth. Yuri is still considered very young after all.