Tower Of God is a South-Korean manhwa written and illustrated by S.I.U. Since its release in 2010, it has garnered a vast loyal fanbase, and almost after a decade, the hype around it does not seems to die.
Rather, with its return after a hiatus of almost one year, it is going strong more than ever- creating and shattering records. Much as the writing style of S.I.U. This manhwa, with its interesting plot and twists, keeps us in a loop, always asking for more.
Tower of God is a fantasy-based manhwa that revolves around the life adventures of a boy named – Twenty Fifty Bam. Bam spent his entire childhood in a dingy cave underneath a mystifying tower and is unaware of the outside world.
During these times of misery, his only companion is his lifelong friend Racheal. Suddenly, one fine day Racheal decides to leave and climb the Tower. On seeing his only companion leaving, Bam follows her and soon is introduced to the mystifying world of the Tower.
The Tower is a mysterious place of unknown origins and consists of massive floors containing huge civilizations and kingdoms often unaware of the Tower and their respective existence.
The Tower is enwrapped in the field of Shinsu – a substance that offers magic-like abilities to the people, which flows throughout the Tower just like oxygen.
People battle out to advance to the next floor and eventually the top as it is the place where ambition comes to fruition. Riches unfathomable by the human mind are given to the players who advance to the next level.
With its mind-blowing twists and battle sequences, it sweeps us right off our feet. Tower of God is the basic underdog rises to power story but with a twist – just with 100x more thrill, suspense, action, and dark twists, which leave our heart yearning for more.
When a series goes on a hiatus or we, have read through all the available chapters and waiting for new ones, a feeling of emptiness creeps our heart. Hence to relieve the fans of that pressure, we have compiled a list of manhua/ manhwa/ manga that is similar to Tower of God to read in the meanwhile.
Plot: Real account is a popular app that allows users to link reality to the virtual world.
However, one day a high school boy named Ataru Kashigawa is sucked into the virtual world of the app along with other users.
The players have to compete in the horrific tasks given by the controller to survive and return home.
As Ataru progresses further he encounters an exact copy of himself which complicates the matter further. Will Ataru be able to uncover this mystery and return home?
Plot: One fine day Ageha Yoshina comes across a mysterious card with the word Psyren written on it.
Trying to decode its meaning, he receives a phone call and is sucked into the mysterious world of Psyren- a wasteland inhabited by monsters called Taboo.
To return home, he needs to defeat the monsters and grow stronger due to a mysterious substance that flows through Psyren; people manifest magic-like abilities.
Will Ageha be able to defeat the monsters and return home, or another cosmic mystery awaits him?
Plot: Due to a sudden rift in the universe, monsters started appearing on Earth. Aided with special abilities, humans soon began hunting these monsters for fame and money.
While on such a raid, Lee Sung Hoon is heavily injured and suddenly regains his memories of the past life- he was the high and mighty Sorcerer King Kratarus.
With his newly found abilities and his drive to protect his loved ones, he marches forward.
Plot: One fine day King Grey is suddenly transported into another world where he is now born as Arthur Leywin; however, he retains the memories of his past life.
With the emotional maturity of a middle-aged man and the body of an infant, he ventures into the mysterious world of mana beats and mages.
In the continent of Dicathen, a mage controls a single element; however, Arthur is a quadra elemental mage, something that was unprecedented till now.
With dungeons, beats, and epic battle sequences, Arthur sets forward to uncover the mystery behind his transportation to this world.
Plot: With the appearance of mysterious gates and dungeons containing heinous beasts all over the world, humans are being awakened with mighty magic-like abilities to maintain balance.
While a dungeon raid, the hero Sung Jin-Woo comes across a certain power that reorients his world into a game where he could level up and grow stronger by completing the quests.
When an outer-worldly war between the Monarchs and Rulers threatens to wipe off the earth, Sung Jin-Woo rises like a warrior to protect his home.
Plot: Mori Jin is a 17-year-old teenager who is a trained martial artist. He enters a tournament named – The God of the High School, where high school students battle out each other.
The winner gets anyone’s wish fulfilled no matter the consequences by the organizers of the tournament.
Along with martial arts, students fight using certain special powers which are borrowed from gods, demons, and even deities.
However, all that glitters isn’t gold, just like the organization behind the tournament is trying to fulfill their shady objective. Through the course, Jin realizes that the tournament is much more than a simple competition.
Plot: The story revolves around a teenager named – John Doe who studies in the prestigious Wellston Private High School.
It is a world where everyone possesses some magic-like abilities. Based upon this ability, distinctions are made in the society where the weak, referred to as cripples, are mistreated by the ones at the top.
John is subjected to bullying by his classmates as he does not have any ability.
However, John is hiding a secret that can destroy the social distinctions of this academy, something which can turn the world around.
Plot: Gosu is an action-adventure-based manhwa written by Ryu Ki-Woon.
Following the death of his master, Gang-Yong set forwards to avenge him with supreme martial art techniques and outer-worldly fighting style Yong is all set to wreak havoc.
However, the people behind his master’s murder are already eliminated.
In a world full of pure-blooded asuras and demons what kind of cosmical fix has he landed in. Determined to avenge his master Yong marches forward to unravel this mystery.
No. of Chapter : 142 (ongoing)
Where to Read: Webtoon
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Plot: The protagonist of this series Cha Yeon Woo decided to climb a mysterious tower after his twin brother is betrayed by his comrades and wrecked.
Hence, to uncover the mystery behind his brother’s death and to avenge he tries to climb the Obelisk.
It is the tower of Sun God comprising of 100 floors. Each floor is ruled by demons and sometimes gods.
Players from different dimensions and universe battle out and climb the tower to reach the apex as it is said that a person who conquered this tower will become God himself.
No. of Chapters: 86 (ongoing)
Where to Read: second-life-ranker (unoffcial)
Here, was our list of the Top 20 manhua/manhwa/manga like Tower of God.
Stay tuned for more updates and interesting articles until then do give some of the above-mentioned series a read.
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