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“Evil sorcerer kidnaps princess to Dragon Tower; farmhand Yuva joins rescue quest with pot lid shield.”
Tower Dungeon
タワーダンジョン
8.13
599 rank · 20,840 readers · 265 favorites
Action
Fantasy
Shounen
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Synopsis
Evil sorcerer kidnaps princess to Dragon Tower; farmhand Yuva joins rescue quest with pot lid shield.
An evil sorcerer slays the king and takes over his body, kidnapping the princess and spiriting her away to the legendary Dragon Tower. The Royal Guard is rebuffed in their attempt to rescue her, and to replace the wounded, a young farmhand named Yuva is called up into service. With only a pot lid for a shield and a strong back to carry supplies, Yuva joins the soldiers on the perilous quest to climb the tower and rescue the princess. But the Dragon Tower houses untold horrors...! (Source: Kodansha)
What people say
Community consensus
Derived from 9 sampled reviews
8.3
/10
What 9 readers settled on.
100%
recommend
Score distribution
median 9
mode 9
σ 1.15
Agreement
Mostly aligned
σ 1.15 · some divergence
The polarity gap
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Not enough recommend signal yet
Score over time
↓ 0.67
Running avg · Jul 2024 → May 2026
Snap verdicts
· shortest highly-rated reviews
- 10 “Great. The story seems at first to have a basic ideia behind it, a Dungeon showed up and a wizard captured a princess and took her to the highest level of it, now a group of knights try to rescue...”
- 9 “Tower Dungeon is as basic a dark fantasy manga can get, yet it breathes such a refreshing take on the genre. I am by no means a fantasy connoisseur but this has quickly become one of my favorite....”
- 8 “You know how most people have a 3 episode rule before judging an anime? The same applies to this but give it 3-4 chapters. At first you might be turned off by the ROUGH art style and vague...”
Verbosity
Short · 44%
Medium · 56%
Long · 0%
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A Manga Publication
- Published Oct 2023 – ongoing
- Source Manga media type
- Ref. BS-M71440 catalog