The following review contains minor spoilers with details reduced for Tower of God Season 2, Episode #7
Summary
Viole's motivations are explored as his allies show tactical growth in Tower of God season 2, episode #7. The visuals are uneven, with weak backgrounds, but impressive fight scenes bring the characters to life. Tower of God season 2, episode #7 demonstrates a complex plot direction that goes beyond a simple vertical climb.
Tower of God is halfway through its Summer 2024 anime block with a successful second run with fans, but episode #7 is the source of the greatest curiosity ever. After a deadly encounter with a dangerous Ranker, Viole is sidelined. At the same time, the episode spends a lot of time explaining Jue Viole Grace's motives for joining FUG and how the group operates around him with some of the best story and curiosity ever, with Ja Wangnan and the group around Viole making great strides in their development.
With the events of Tower of God season 1 having passed many years ago in the anime, Bam's alter ego Viole, along with his drastic personality changes, is a fascinating mystery to anime fans. The mysteries and legends of the Tower captivate viewers as well as characters like Wangnan, as they learn what they must do to protect Viole's old friends.
But as episode #7 of Tower of God season 2 soon showed, with its strengths and weaknesses, why should we expect more from this show.
Viole's motives are explored in Tower of God Season 2, Episode #7
The rest of the team bonded and found their purpose.
While the Tower of God season 2 premiere was a visual refresh for fans craving Takashi Sano's style from the 2020 debut, episode #7 makes the story stronger than before. Facing a particularly dangerous enemy, Viole, who usually fights her enemies alone at this point, is surrounded by allies, for better or worse. The most interesting part of episode #7's first act is seeing characters like Horyang reveal their tactical side, with no intention of leaving their allies behindreplacing the dramatic inner monologues common in typical shonen series.
In typical Tower of God fashion, the mysterious Ranker encountered in season 2, episode #7 is fascinated by Viole's actions and realizes his choice to risk harm or even death to protect his innocent allies. For the rest of the episode, Viole is healed and viewers get to see several characters, primarily Yeon Yihwa and Ja Wangnan, vow to improve themselves. This ultimately ties into a flashback to when Viole was assigned to be a FUG assassin, with the penalty being the death of his friends if he is not strong enough to succeed.
How strong do I have to be to never have to say goodbye again?
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Perhaps the most compelling positive aspect of this episode lies in the character development, mostly in Viole’s flashbacks. Faced with a list of his former teammates from season 1 who are set to be killed off one by one based on his performance, Bam, now known as Viole, simply asks, “How strong do I have to be to never have to say goodbye again?”
This explains his lonely tendencies with his newer, sadder alter ego. It clears up a flaw from the first season of Tower of God, which made him a very pitiful hero who takes matters into his own hands because he believes that no one close to him deserves to suffer.
Tower of God Season 2, Episode #7 Still Uneven Visually
Different Moments That Were Better Translated In Anime
The interior of zygaena, like in episode #6, is filled with earth tones, which while boring, is effective in avoiding distracting from what is a short but exciting battle at first.
It's easy to focus too much on individual details rather than the assembled whole, but the drab setting of much of the first half of Tower of God season 2, episode #7 makes for a less engaging viewing experience. The interior of the zygaena, like that in episode #6, is filled with earthy tones that, while boring, work well enough not to distract from what was initially a short but exciting battle. In a sense, Weak and uninteresting background helps keep viewers from getting distractedMuch of the emphasis is toned down to draw the viewer back to the characters.
This is a welcome change, especially since Webtoon recently recognized Tower of God for its close resemblance to the webcomic's original. The visuals are impressive, as is the demonstration of Viole's fighting abilities, especially the impressive appearance of a healing exoskeleton surrounding Viole and a bThe scene alone of Viole fighting Mazino takes a dark turn when innocent people are injured or killed in the gunfight. There's a lot to like about the series taking its Tower of God webtoon adaptation seriously, making the necessary sacrifices to do it in a cinematic style.
Climbing the tower has more directions
It's not just a vertical climb.
There's a lot going on in this episode, but there's still a lot to explore up above the Tower.
It would be too simplistic to summarize the plot of Tower of God season 2 as the quest to climb the eponymous Tower. While not wrong, this is not the most interesting answer either. Part 2, Episode #7 delves into the challenges Wangnan faces, reuniting Viole with his old friends from several floors above, and Yihwa vowing to climb the Tower and right her family's wrongs, and support her team. There's even a dark encounter between Ha Jinsung and a mysterious masked Ranker named Karaka. There's a lot going on in this episode, but there's still plenty to explore further up the Tower.
The result is a compelling emergence of important subplots in the absence of Viole's contribution for the rest of the episode, making viewers root for the new group while also promising a fateful reunion. Tower of God has its flaws, such as the visual compromises in the setting or the occasionally repetitive music. However, the experience creates a strong plot mix to follow and reminds viewers that Viole is far from the most dangerous character, and not even the most important. Tower of God Open world building.
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