What we can learn from anime, featuring Tower of God
“All Bam did was follow me. Why does he get everything? He’s just Bam.”
CrunchyRoll recently finished airing season 1 of its anime adaptation of Tower of God, which if you aren’t familiar, is a beloved webtoon with over 500 chapters out currently. Recently I joined the flood of people watching Tower of God and fell in love with it right away. In fact, it was so good I decided I couldn’t wait for the anime and went ahead and started reading the webtoon.
I’ll just go ahead and say if you haven’t checked it out, I highly recommend it.
Tower of God has a main character who is loathed by its audience. And I mean a loathed main character. She’s a Daenerys Targaryen, not a Jar Jar Binks. The way that they write her get got me thinking: “This is how you write a hated character.” So I thought I’d share their formula below.
Full disclosure, spoilers ahead. I will only be talking about the first season of the anime here, but the spoilers in here are major for the anime. I’m on chapter 161 of the webtoon, but will try not to draw any bias from that.
