The following review contains minor spoilers with reduced details for Tower of God Season 2, Episode #7

Summary

• Viole’s motives are explored while his allies show tactical growth in Tower of God Season 2, Episode #7.
• The visual effects are uneven and the backgrounds are weak, but the fight scenes bring the characters to life in an impressive way.
• Tower of God Season 2 Episode 7 reveals a complex plot development that goes beyond a simple vertical climb.

Tower of God is in the middle of the Summer 2024 anime block and his second appearance is successful with fans, but Episode #7 is the biggest source of intrigue yet. After a deadly encounter with a dangerous Ranker, Viole is pushed to the sidelines. At the same time, the episode offers ample time to explain Jue Viole Grace’s motives for joining FUG and how the team operates around him, with some of the best storytelling and intrigue yet, with Ja Wangnan and the team around Viole making great strides in their development.

With the events of Tower of God Season 1 of the anime ended years ago, Bam’s alter ego as Viole, along with a drastic personality change, is a tantalizing mystery for pure anime fans. The tower’s secrets and stories captivate viewers, as do characters like Wangnan, who learn what they must do to protect Viole’s old friends.

But as Tower of God Season 2, Episode 7 quickly shows, through its strengths and weaknesses, why you can look forward to more of the series.

Viole’s motivations are explored in Tower of God Season 2, Episode #7

The rest of the team comes together and finds its purpose

While the premiere of Tower of God Season 2 was a visual adjustment for fans who wanted more of Takashi Sano’s style from the first outing in 2020. Episode 7 moves the story forward more aggressively than before. Faced with a particularly dangerous opponent, Viole, who would normally fight his enemies alone at this point, found himself surrounded by allies, for better or for worse. The most exciting part of the early act of episode 7 is Characters like Horyang show their tactical side and show no intention of leaving an ally behindand replaces the usual dramatic inner monologues of a typical shōnen series.

In typical Tower of God The mysterious Ranker, encountered in Season 2 Episode 7, is intrigued by Viole’s actions and recognizes his decision to risk harm or even death to protect his innocent allies. In the rest of the episode, Viole is left to fend for herself and viewers are treated to several characters, most notably Yeon Yihwa and Ja Wangnan, vowing to mend their ways. Finally, this is connected to a flashback where Viole is given his job as a FUG hunter. With the penalty of the death of his friends if he is not strong enough to succeed.

How strong do I have to become to never say goodbye again?

-Bam

Perhaps the most compelling positive point of this episode lies in these character developments, especially in Viole’s flashback. Faced with a list of his former Season 1 teammates being killed one by one for their performance, Bam, now Viole, simply asks, “How strong do I have to become to never say goodbye again?”

This explains his loner tendencies with his newer, moodier alter ego. It fixes an omission from the first season of Tower of Godwhat him a painfully sympathetic hero who takes matters into his own hands because he believes that no one around him deserves to suffer.

Tower of God Season 2, Episode 7 is still visually inconsistent

Different moments can be better implemented in anime

The interior of the Zygaena, similar to episode #6, is full of earth tones, which, while dull, do a good job of not distracting attention from a short but initially exciting battle.

It is easy to focus too much on individual details rather than the whole product, but the dreary backgrounds of much of the first half for Tower of God Season 2, Episode #7 makes for a less engaging viewing experience. The interior of the Zygaena, much like Episode #6, is full of earthy tones that, while dull, work well to not take the focus away from a brief but initially exciting battle. In a way the weak and uninteresting backgrounds prevent the viewer from being distractedwhich is largely pushed into the background in order to draw the audience back to the characters.

This is a welcome change, especially since Webtoon recently recognized Tower of God for how close Season 2 comes to the implementation of the original webcomic. The visual elements are impressive, such as the depiction of Viole’s fighting skills, especially the striking appearance of a healing exoskeleton around Viole, and a wonderful Bespoke shot of Viole fighting Mazino, which takes a dark turn as innocents could be injured or killed in the crossfire. There is a lot to enjoy as this series Tower of God The webtoon adaptation was taken seriously and the necessary sacrifices were made to adapt it into a film.

Climbing the tower has more direction

It is more than just a vertical climb

So much happens in this episode, and there is still a lot to discover further up in the tower.

It is far too reductionist to get to the heart of the plot. Tower of God Season 2 in a mission to climb the tower of the same name. That’s not wrong, but it’s not the most interesting answer either. Season 2, Episode #7 focuses on the challenges Wangnan must face. Viole is reunited with his old friends several floors up, and Yihwa vows to climb the tower, right her family’s mistakes, and help her team. There’s even a nefarious meeting between Ha Jinsung and a mysterious masked Ranker named Karaka. So much happens in this episode, but there’s still plenty to explore further up the tower.

The result is an intriguing emergence of important subplots, as Viole’s contribution is absent for the rest of the episode. This makes viewers sympathetic to the new ensemble while also promising a fateful reunion. Tower of God has flaws, such as visual compromises in the backgrounds or occasionally repetitive music. Nevertheless, the experience creates a potent cocktail of storylines and reminds viewers that Viole is far from the most dangerous character, nor even the most important one. Tower of God The structure of the world is expanding.

This review was made possible courtesy of a screener provided by Crunchyroll.