DO NOT discuss the source material beyond this episode. If you want to discuss future events or theories, please use separate threads.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
DO NOT ask where to watch/download this episode or give links to copyrighted, non-fair use material.
DO NOT troll/bait/harass/abuse other users for liking or disliking the series/characters.
DO read the Anime Discussion Rules and Site & Forum Guidelines.
| Hell of a way for them to reintroduce this show again. Cool to see Wangnan Ja entering this show with that personality of his. After some of the character introductions, it looks like this season isn't wasting much time getting the juicy part of the story again. Jyu Viole Grace is another noticable character who had been advertised in the promotional material. Wangan Ja is kind of a hothead but it shouldn't take too long to get used to. This served as both an opening and setup episode. On the other hand, Jyu Viole Grace is more of a badass who lets his action do the talking. Not sure how many episodes this season will have but I'm ready for more Tower of God. |
 |
| The return of the OG manhwa anime adaptation of SIU's Tower of God after 4 years, with a different studio plus staff overhaul, and a rather generic artstyle that's not as unique as Season 1 back in Spring 2020. NiziU's OST is rather OK, though the visuals more than make up for the lack of song attitude. The constant reminder that "all homies still hate Rachel for the betrayal she brought to Bam", the end of the beginning of the Tower begins to turn its head once again on the Jahads, especially Yuri, who now has two of 13 Month Series weapons. That's the short recap for Season 1 a.k.a Part 1 Contuting with Part 2 of the story, taking place 6 years after Season 1, switching protagonists from Bam to the Prince of the Jahads, Ja Wangnan, he resides on the 20th Floor of the Tower, who's been trying to surpass the level for God knows how long he's stuck on the floor from failing the E-rank exam again and again. Not to mention that Wangnan is on a heavy debt, and he's only given one last chance to pass it. Sadly, whom Jangnan encountered is another examinee who's already done the job he's supposed to do, and Bam sure has aged since Rachel's betrayal. The other examinees who've made their way to the same arena for the next test, it's a pointless affair since Bam can defeat everyone without any issue, since he's a member of the anti-Jahad group FUG, which forces everyone to work together to stop Bam. Wangnan barely survived the ordeal, as Bam climbs the elevator, in remembrance of Rachel. A good return with Part 2, though less refined than Season 1. |
KANLen09Jul 9, 2024 8:33 AM
 |
| TOG is back after four years, but were those four years used well to up to animation? Well...... NiziU's OP musically is OK. Visually, might just be the worst OP I've ever seen. Same thing with their ED. Well right off the bat you can tell something different about the character designs compared to last season. Animation is the same as last time, average. It's really just the character designs and art style that changed, and I mean, their more anime-ish so sure okay. That aside, half the episode is just setting up this new character that'll be the Khun of this season ig. To which then, the second half finally shows us our dude Baam again. Dude took that betrayal from Rachel to heart. Doesn't even look like Baam anymore. I like that he's acting likke a real MC now, but does he have to say the most edgy things every... lol. Fighting animation looked rather decent. If I'm not mistaken though, all the scenes in that fight were in the trailers.... it's not looking too good if that's the case. And no way this dude contiues to have visions of Rachel after what happened... ffs. OSTs are as good as ever, thanks to Kevin. At least Baam will be tolerable as an MC this time around. But the question still remains, will the pacing actually be good this time around? |
 |
| They are seriously pronouncing FUG as fug and not F U G? Sounds so wrong. The action animation looked cool and Bam has gotten stronger and better at using his powers and some new powers too. He's now joined the opposing faction of Zahad even though Zahad princesses are fawning over him. Talking about princess you could see two different pictures. In one Androssi crying cause Bam's dead while Yuri believing that he didn't die and looking for him. Love Yuri so much. OP/ED were both okay, might grow on me dunno. Good first episode to comeback with. While my favourite arcs are way later so this season won't be going anywhere near those but it still should have good stuff in it like introducing more characters, lores and such and slowly reaching for the peaks. |
 |
| This is the starting point of TOG where shit really gets good. I'm up to date with the manhwa and it will only get better. The shift in the style is something I gotta get used to, but it's not anything bad I'd say. Bam also looks magnificently better and he's not some kid anymore who can't use his powers. Also Yuri (best girl) believes in him that he didn't die from that. |
   “You yourself have to change first, or nothing will change for you!” ' |
| Tower of God is back and man is the hype for this almost non-existent compared to when it first aired. Now obviously the source material was very hyped with a lot higher expectations for the anime to be great, alongside the benefit of the pandemic starting to create more buzz for people to watch it but seeing the forums online not flooded does spell different times somewhat compared to before. The first episode was a little clunky visually but not a surprise. Obviously the artstyle being an underwhelming change does not help for me since I always liked season 1's artstyle and character designs. But the animation while having a couple nice impact frames and effects with Viole's shinsoo, did look a bit stiff even here with the action since the movement and angles at times did feel a bit awkward at times and not quite met the sakugafest standards that some of the show's counterparts have been delivering in terms of action this season like Wistoria's premiere or the Elusive Samurai premiere to name a couple. Not bad overall and you could argue the action had more appeal to it than some of the first season's action but definitely not perfect either. Pacing was alright for this episode since the ending point made a lot of sense so that is good. Jyu Viole Grace is here and not taking anyone's shit and basically wanting to ascend the tower and not get close to anyone, even throwing down and dominating the others in the test there rather than just patiently wait the whole time through to the very end to get it done. Wangnan's here too and while he isn't a personality type I love the most, it was nice seeing him and the newer cast here that this season of Tower of God will follow for the time being. Ultimately, the anime wanted to show JYG being a massive threat, especially since he is from FUG, and it shows. The intensity surrounding Viole is good and does make up for some deficiencies with this episode to build up this part of Tower of God and have it start off in this kind of fashion. A definite change in tone compared to the first season a bit. Yuri also met with Maschenny after returning with the Green April and meeting up with Repellista to seek help in locating Baam. I will say, Yuri is my favorite character in Tower of God and both the Japanese and English versions that I saw before had her sounding really good but she felt a bit off in this episode, almost sounding like a different character at times. I don't know if it's just been that long since I saw this show in Japanese but it was strange admittedly. Kevin Penkin's music still is really good and one of the definitive highlights of Tower of God's anime since its inception. But I will say, the music complimented season 1's unique, mysterious artstyle compared to this. There was a bit more of a disconnect for me hearing badass tracks present here with a much more standard, generic artstyle. Made in Abyss' music is fantastic but if that music played over completely generic, bland art, the music would be far less powerful than compared to what Kinema Citrus offered for it. Similar feelings for me are with this, some tracks sound perfectly fine with the anime and some feel a bit off, even if it sounds really good with my eyes closed. I've had my say about the opening. It's by no means perfect whatsoever but considering what I was hearing about the opening being one of the worst ever, it's definitely not. It's different and a bit more creative even with the limited animation. The Urek Mazino cut in particular albeit brief, was really good. The song isn't that good but I generally have never liked music like this and I will say, I found it a little better with the opening than just listening to it on its own. It isn't an Opening of the Year or Season contender but there have been far worse than this. Far, far worse and far, far blander and lazier. I can say that the ED is not good though. It does follow the webtoon reading style but doesn't shown enough drawings of characters there which did feel a lot lazier in that sense. Song is worse too. I'll take these over Stray Kids music though, I don't listen to K-pop at all and when I heard their Tower of God songs 4 years ago, those were absolutely terrible. |
animejasJul 7, 2024 8:20 AM
Reply to Kronosyo
@animejas I'm guessing that the panels at the end will get more and more with each episode
| @Kronosyo You are probably right but yeah, it is definitely a lot more annoying for the start at least since man it looked way more incomplete than I thought. I've seen shows that hide a little with an opening or ending and show it fully later but not this much hidden material to unlock. |
| This ep was pretty gas, last few minutes were so much fun and looked great. Viole oozes so much more aura than Baam did and should make s2 a lot of fun hopefully for others as well since ik a lot of people had issues with Baam as a character in s1. Penkin's music is still so, so good. |
Reply to MegamiRem
They are seriously pronouncing FUG as fug and not F U G? Sounds so wrong. The action animation looked cool and Bam has gotten stronger and better at using his powers and some new powers too. He's now joined the opposing faction of Zahad even though Zahad princesses are fawning over him. Talking about princess you could see two different pictures. In one Androssi crying cause Bam's dead while Yuri believing that he didn't die and looking for him. Love Yuri so much. OP/ED were both okay, might grow on me dunno. Good first episode to comeback with. While my favourite arcs are way later so this season won't be going anywhere near those but it still should have good stuff in it like introducing more characters, lores and such and slowly reaching for the peaks.
| @MegamiRem I might be in the extreme minority but I always pronounced it as FUG together than separately when reading it so it felt more normal to me. It rolled off the tongue a lot smoother and natural that way for me. Kind of like how NASA is said as NASA and not just N, A, S, A separately. |
Reply to animejas
Tower of God is back and man is the hype for this almost non-existent compared to when it first aired. Now obviously the source material was very hyped with a lot higher expectations for the anime to be great, alongside the benefit of the pandemic starting to create more buzz for people to watch it but seeing the forums online not flooded does spell different times somewhat compared to before.
The first episode was a little clunky visually but not a surprise. Obviously the artstyle being an underwhelming change does not help for me since I always liked season 1's artstyle and character designs. But the animation while having a couple nice impact frames and effects with Viole's shinsoo, did look a bit stiff even here with the action since the movement and angles at times did feel a bit awkward at times and not quite met the sakugafest standards that some of the show's counterparts have been delivering in terms of action this season like Wistoria's premiere or the Elusive Samurai premiere to name a couple. Not bad overall and you could argue the action had more appeal to it than some of the first season's action but definitely not perfect either.
Pacing was alright for this episode since the ending point made a lot of sense so that is good. Jyu Viole Grace is here and not taking anyone's shit and basically wanting to ascend the tower and not get close to anyone, even throwing down and dominating the others in the test there rather than just patiently wait the whole time through to the very end to get it done. Wangnan's here too and while he isn't a personality type I love the most, it was nice seeing him and the newer cast here that this season of Tower of God will follow for the time being. Ultimately, the anime wanted to show JYG being a massive threat, especially since he is from FUG, and it shows. The intensity surrounding Viole is good and does make up for some deficiencies with this episode to build up this part of Tower of God and have it start off in this kind of fashion. A definite change in tone compared to the first season a bit.
Yuri also met with Maschenny after returning with the Green April and meeting up with Repellista to seek help in locating Baam. I will say, Yuri is my favorite character in Tower of God and both the Japanese and English versions that I saw before had her sounding really good but she felt a bit off in this episode, almost sounding like a different character at times. I don't know if it's just been that long since I saw this show in Japanese but it was strange admittedly.
Kevin Penkin's music still is really good and one of the definitive highlights of Tower of God's anime since its inception. But I will say, the music complimented season 1's unique, mysterious artstyle compared to this. There was a bit more of a disconnect for me hearing badass tracks present here with a much more standard, generic artstyle. Made in Abyss' music is fantastic but if that music played over completely generic, bland art, the music would be far less powerful than compared to what Kinema Citrus offered for it. Similar feelings for me are with this, some tracks sound perfectly fine with the anime and some feel a bit off, even if it sounds really good with my eyes closed.
I've had my say about the opening. It's by no means perfect whatsoever but considering what I was hearing about the opening being one of the worst ever, it's definitely not. It's different and a bit more creative even with the limited animation. The Urek Mazino cut in particular albeit brief, was really good. The song isn't that good but I generally have never liked music like this and I will say, I found it a little better with the opening than just listening to it on its own. It isn't an Opening of the Year or Season contender but there have been far worse than this. Far, far worse and far, far blander and lazier.
I can say that the ED is not good though. It does follow the webtoon reading style but doesn't shown enough drawings of characters there which did feel a lot lazier in that sense. Song is worse too. I'll take these over Stray Kids music though, I don't listen to K-pop at all and when I heard their Tower of God songs 4 years ago, those were absolutely terrible.
The first episode was a little clunky visually but not a surprise. Obviously the artstyle being an underwhelming change does not help for me since I always liked season 1's artstyle and character designs. But the animation while having a couple nice impact frames and effects with Viole's shinsoo, did look a bit stiff even here with the action since the movement and angles at times did feel a bit awkward at times and not quite met the sakugafest standards that some of the show's counterparts have been delivering in terms of action this season like Wistoria's premiere or the Elusive Samurai premiere to name a couple. Not bad overall and you could argue the action had more appeal to it than some of the first season's action but definitely not perfect either.
Pacing was alright for this episode since the ending point made a lot of sense so that is good. Jyu Viole Grace is here and not taking anyone's shit and basically wanting to ascend the tower and not get close to anyone, even throwing down and dominating the others in the test there rather than just patiently wait the whole time through to the very end to get it done. Wangnan's here too and while he isn't a personality type I love the most, it was nice seeing him and the newer cast here that this season of Tower of God will follow for the time being. Ultimately, the anime wanted to show JYG being a massive threat, especially since he is from FUG, and it shows. The intensity surrounding Viole is good and does make up for some deficiencies with this episode to build up this part of Tower of God and have it start off in this kind of fashion. A definite change in tone compared to the first season a bit.
Yuri also met with Maschenny after returning with the Green April and meeting up with Repellista to seek help in locating Baam. I will say, Yuri is my favorite character in Tower of God and both the Japanese and English versions that I saw before had her sounding really good but she felt a bit off in this episode, almost sounding like a different character at times. I don't know if it's just been that long since I saw this show in Japanese but it was strange admittedly.
Kevin Penkin's music still is really good and one of the definitive highlights of Tower of God's anime since its inception. But I will say, the music complimented season 1's unique, mysterious artstyle compared to this. There was a bit more of a disconnect for me hearing badass tracks present here with a much more standard, generic artstyle. Made in Abyss' music is fantastic but if that music played over completely generic, bland art, the music would be far less powerful than compared to what Kinema Citrus offered for it. Similar feelings for me are with this, some tracks sound perfectly fine with the anime and some feel a bit off, even if it sounds really good with my eyes closed.
I've had my say about the opening. It's by no means perfect whatsoever but considering what I was hearing about the opening being one of the worst ever, it's definitely not. It's different and a bit more creative even with the limited animation. The Urek Mazino cut in particular albeit brief, was really good. The song isn't that good but I generally have never liked music like this and I will say, I found it a little better with the opening than just listening to it on its own. It isn't an Opening of the Year or Season contender but there have been far worse than this. Far, far worse and far, far blander and lazier.
I can say that the ED is not good though. It does follow the webtoon reading style but doesn't shown enough drawings of characters there which did feel a lot lazier in that sense. Song is worse too. I'll take these over Stray Kids music though, I don't listen to K-pop at all and when I heard their Tower of God songs 4 years ago, those were absolutely terrible.
animejas said: TOG didn't become TOG in one day. It's a lengthy series with a lot to take in and a very well established world that was built upon years. Nowadays people just want cool action happening one after another with fast paced build up like most battle shounens out there. Also forums have been less and less active ever since the covid lockdown ended and people went on with their lives. Very few animes have over 100 comment in episode threads these days.Tower of God is back and man is the hype for this almost non-existent compared to when it first aired. Now obviously the source material was very hyped with a lot higher expectations for the anime to be great, alongside the benefit of the pandemic starting to create more buzz for people to watch it but seeing the forums online not flooded does spell different times somewhat compared to before. |
|
Reply to animejas
@MegamiRem I might be in the extreme minority but I always pronounced it as FUG together than separately when reading it so it felt more normal to me. It rolled off the tongue a lot smoother and natural that way for me. Kind of like how NASA is said as NASA and not just N, A, S, A separately.
| @animejas lmao quoted each other at the same time. It just sounds weird to me cause I've been pronouncing it F U G forever now. |
|
Reply to MegamiRem
@animejas lmao quoted each other at the same time. It just sounds weird to me cause I've been pronouncing it F U G forever now.
| @MegamiRem @animejas From research, FUG written as 퍼그, which is pronounced as 'peogeu' if what i saw be correct. So the pronounciation basically does indicate it is fug together. |
| so....this is back after a long 4 years....all I can say is...Kevin Penkin carrying. |
| Don't believe the hype. |
| Kami no Tou is back with a Bang!!! Was interesting to see both the old as well as new set of characters. Come on time to climb up the tower!!! PS: OP was pretty okayish. But the ED was a great one. I hope the ED of this episode will be the OP for upcoming episodes |
RKASHYAP621Jul 7, 2024 8:49 AM
 |
| Like this episode. Nice to see ToG of so long. Also the animation is looking better than season 1 during the fight sequence. |
| Animation does look kinda inferior to season 1, but it's not like S1 had amazing animation either... |
MadanielFLJul 14, 2024 9:30 AM
 |
| It’s been so long since I’ve read the manhwa, so I kind of forgot what is going to happen. All I remember is fragments, so I feel like I am going into this fairly fresh. I loved the reintroduction to this world. Bam was devastated by Rachel’s betrayal and all he wants to know is why she did it. But the answer is the same as it has always been. All the answers are at the top of the tower. Wangnan was also a cool highlight of this episode. (8/10) |
| Knowing what’s to come this season, my only fears are studio dropping the ball hard in what is supposed to be a two cour thing and yeah the obvious, pacing. But yeah, at this point you need to convince yourself and go read the manhwa. Decent return for the adaptation if nothing. |
 |
| wow, Urek Mazino is show up in opening, hell yeaaaa |
| Pretty much a leveled up sequel this time compared to the last season, that looked like a colored manga, Penkin sure gave a touch to this one. We started with some good intensity already and I never even expected the long haired guy to be Yoru. Cant wait for the rest of the season, its gonna be a blast |
| I don't remember much from S1 and didn't bother rewatching it, but let's jump back in. It was a pretty okay start and I'll admit, some of the action sequences in this episode looked really good. Lets see where the story goes from here. Also I got a good chuckle out of the pronunciation of FUG. 💀 |
| People on MAL refuse to actually enjoy watching anime. Your taste in anime isn't a personality trait. MAL is literally just anime Twitter as its own website lol. |
| Great first episode |
 |
| I'm pretty sure I read this part after finishing the first season back when it finished airing to see what happens and I still have no idea what's going on. |
| Welcome back old friend...it has been four long years. I'm so happy to have you back. This show had a lot of upside. Please be a long season. I want to get lost in this wonderful world again. |
| I haven't updated in years but now I have changed that. I'll be free soon. |
Reply to MegamiRem
animejas said:
Tower of God is back and man is the hype for this almost non-existent compared to when it first aired. Now obviously the source material was very hyped with a lot higher expectations for the anime to be great, alongside the benefit of the pandemic starting to create more buzz for people to watch it but seeing the forums online not flooded does spell different times somewhat compared to before.
TOG didn't become TOG in one day. It's a lengthy series with a lot to take in and a very well established world that was built upon years. Nowadays people just want cool action happening one after another with fast paced build up like most battle shounens out there. Also forums have been less and less active ever since the covid lockdown ended and people went on with their lives. Very few animes have over 100 comment in episode threads these days.Tower of God is back and man is the hype for this almost non-existent compared to when it first aired. Now obviously the source material was very hyped with a lot higher expectations for the anime to be great, alongside the benefit of the pandemic starting to create more buzz for people to watch it but seeing the forums online not flooded does spell different times somewhat compared to before.
| @MegamiRem This is why I kind of don't like Fire Force as it is legit just that. Demon Slayer is kind of like that too. I'm not trying to hate on them but people really have forgotten long form storytelling in this medium. |
| I haven't updated in years but now I have changed that. I'll be free soon. |
| Hell yes man, Tower of God is back 4 years later, that hurts so much to say lol, life was pretty different when Season 1 was airing, Covid was at its peak and I was doing online college, and a lot has happened between now and then. And I will admit, while I did like the first season quite a bit, I wasn’t super into it in Spring 2020, but I rewatched it recently because I absolutely needed to lol, and going into the rewatch with the added nostalgia and knowledge of Season 2 being right around the corner, I gotta say I was way more hyped and engaged than before, so it’s great to finally be here and see what’s beyond the ending of the first season. And this was a great first episode, it got us introduced to some new characters, they aren’t quite as colorful as the cast we had before but there’s also less at the moment, they’re definitely interesting tho. I like the supposed new “MC” Ja Wangnan, he’s got a cool design and his personality is fun, very different from Bam, and speaking of Bam (that’s obviously him right lol), he’s certainly different now too, folks will probably be more into him now after he suffered and went through training. And the plot is about tests once again, this time to climb even further up the tower, but they were very interesting last time so I’m excited to see how wild they get now. And of course people are giving the art and animation shit, imo the art is perfectly fine, it looks slightly different than before but it’s still very good, and the animation I have no issues with either, the fight scenes in this episode looked great, but of course when this will really matter comes later, I’m not a source reader but I imagine it’s just gonna get more wild as we go. And it’s unfortunate we aren’t getting Korean artists for the OP and ED like before, but NiziU ain’t a bad pick one bit, their songs are gonna have to grow on me a bit more but I like them already, and those ED visuals are kinda lame rn but I’m betting those panels will change the further we go in so it’ll look more lively by the end. |
| Music and animation is on point. I'm happy it is back! |
| “Do what feels right in your heart. You will be criticized either way.” (Eleanor Roosevelt) |
| I don't mind the animation, but what's important to me is it being very close to the webtoon, or at least it didn't skip anything substantial like season 1 did regularly. |
 |
| I thought I'm watching different anime, but turn out they change the style. I don't mind but is just like different anime |
More topics from this board
Poll: » Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan Episode 8 Discussion ( 1 2 )Stark700 - Aug 25, 2024 |
95 |
by Atylgan
»»
Yesterday, 6:40 AM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan Episode 11 Discussion ( 1 2 )Stark700 - Sep 15, 2024 |
93 |
by Ittan_Momen
»»
Feb 4, 10:36 AM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan Episode 6 Discussion ( 1 2 3 )Stark700 - Aug 11, 2024 |
104 |
by Ittan_Momen
»»
Feb 3, 4:19 PM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan Episode 13 Discussion ( 1 2 3 )Stark700 - Sep 29, 2024 |
105 |
by SlippyOne
»»
Jan 28, 5:20 PM |
|
Poll: » Kami no Tou: Ouji no Kikan Episode 5 Discussion ( 1 2 3 )Stark700 - Aug 4, 2024 |
103 |
by Unleashed_SM
»»
Jan 27, 12:13 AM |