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Caught up on Tsutomu Nihei's Tower Dungeon, and it's fascinating in how I love it deeply and find its compositions, architecture, and setting a real step up for Nihei, but also the way the moving parts of the plot are conveyed show a real roughness to it

At this point it definitely reads like an actual play OSR game, where a huge number of characters are needed to make the greater scale of combat work, but the way it gets all the pieces together feels rushed for a manga

That all being said, every exposition-y conversation is had while walking through the coolest hallways you've ever seen, and the sheer variety of colorful characters is cool, and speak to a rich world, so it's hard to be put off by its belligerence

Despite the weaknesses, the presence of him actually trying to write weird gay people who are actually characters elevates it immensely imo

Yes!!! Or seeing the sister being kinda into the catgirl knight and nihei being "yeah she's definitely in love with her, watch her follow her into danger so she can hang out more"