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You know the saying: “If you can’t say anything good, then say nothing at all?” Yes, if I followed that, the review for this week’s episode would be a blank page.
This is without a doubt the worst episode tower of god So far. Visually, it looks lazy and unfinished. The action isn’t exciting or creatively depicted. At mid-range and beyond, character lines become rough and detail disappears almost entirely – not to mention that proportions can become a bit wonky as well. The only time things look okay are in close-ups where the characters don’t move beyond their mouths. That said, the visual effects are just one of the reasons this episode sucks.
This is the first episode after our time jump. The idea of time jumps in anime is to skip either A) the important parts that add to the mystery and completely subvert the status quo or B) the boring parts – the endless daily training and normal life between adventures. for tower of godthis time skip is designed as the latter option. We’ve skipped over a year of climbing towers and heading towards Workshop Battles as a team.
However, this episode didn’t make things interesting. While this episode is almost non-stop action, it’s the most boring action imaginable. We know very little about the stakes of this battle or the problems our heroes face. We don’t know their limits and we don’t know the limits of their opponents. Whether they were in any actual danger, we had no real frame of reference. This makes the action little more than visual mumbo jumbo – full of “flashy” attacks that are supposed to be cool but don’t have the necessary context to pull them off.
In this episode, we get a brief look back at Bam’s original team (well, one of its members), and then alternate between Rachael and Wangnan’s teams. We know nothing about the characters on either team – except that they currently act like well-oiled machines.
The only important thing about this episode is the introduction of Emily, a ChatGPT-style artificial intelligence that the people in the tower seem to rely on too much. I’m sure we’re sending a message about placing too much trust in artificial intelligence and the information it collects/regurgitates, but that’s about it for now: setting. This episode adds almost nothing to the overall story and looks terrible.
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tower of god Season 2 is currently streaming on Crunchyroll.
