Not many care about Korean webcomics, and the tv airings in both Japan and Korea were fairly low. Basically, it wouldn’t have made such a splash if Covid-19 did not sabotage the competition. In reality, there wasn’t much competition during that season, thanks to all the far more famous competitors like Sword Art Online, Oregairu, and ReZero getting postponed because of the pandemic and leaving only Kaguya Sama as the only actual threat.

That is how it managed to be the most popular show during the season it aired in and was made to come off like a modern classic in the making. It was also just another case of the rather large fanbase that was reading the webcomic hyping it up as the best shit ever and that somehow explaining the quality of an animated adaptation they hadn’t even watched yet.

It was all a scam for Crunchyroll to make a badly adapted infomercial for promoting the webcomic, as well as for selling subscriptions to easily impressionable buffoons who would love to be part of a supposed new era of anime… that never came. Aside from being from Korea there was nothing special about it, as an adaptation it was below average, and aside from the three Korean adaptations they shoved out close to each other no other webcomic was adapted for years to come. Consume product and be excited for next products. It wasn’t, but we were constantly told that we HAD to support it, so they can make even more Korean webcomic adaptations. PREAIRING HYPE Tower of God was heavily marketed as the first Korean webcomic adaptation as well as the beginning of a new era for anime.

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