Episode 5 – Tower of God Season 2

After 4 episodes, we have been nonetheless left with a variety of burning questions, like “What occurred to our season one heroes?” and “Did Rachael actually get away with homicide?” This episode is all about answering these questions.

As an alternative of Bam, Wangnan, and the remainder of the brand new workforce, this episode is all about Khun. However whereas it does function a well-known face, the episode itself is constructed like a mini-mystery. It’s instantly obvious that issues aren’t fairly as we anticipated. Once we final noticed our heroes, they have been agreeing to hold Rachel to the highest of the tower in reminiscence of Bam. However that’s now not the case. Solely Khun and Rachel are nonetheless collectively as they try to kind a brand new workforce to proceed the climb. We’re simply left questioning why.

For a lot of the episode, it looks as if Rachael, regardless of being separated from the primary workforce, has achieved her aim. She lounges in mattress whereas her workforce does all of the exhausting work of climbing the tower. However then comes the massive reveal: Khun is aware of that Rachael killed Bam.

For years, he’s been taking part in the lengthy con. He separated her from the workforce of individuals loyal to her (and solely informed one different individual the reality about what occurred to Bam) and changed them with a workforce loyal solely to him. Whereas he outwardly helps her, in actuality he’s working to find the identities of those that helped Rachael kill Bam and their motives for doing so. Solely after he learns this info will he kill all of them, together with Rachael, and get revenge for his finest good friend.

However that is not the one twist. Primarily based on Rachel’s closing scene, she appears to know what Khun is doing and finds his “betrayal” hilarious. So we’re left questioning who’s actually utilizing who and who finally has management over their relationship.

That is all nice stuff. It’s stable character drama with twists that redefine every thing we’ve seen within the earlier episode. It’s additionally nice to lastly hear what’s occurred to the workforce since season one, even when it’s largely rumors and rumour. Actually, it’s a aid to know that we’ll be following characters apart from Wangnan’s workforce at occasions as issues progress.

As at all times, the visuals are the weak level of the episode. Of the 2 fights we get, one occurs on display and the opposite is over in two bursts. Whereas the flashback scene is essential for reintroducing Khun, it makes the change in artwork course from season one painfully apparent.

The music, however, is nice this week. These songs might have been taking part in within the background this whole season, however the slower tempo and dialogue-heavy scenes actually do them justice. At this level, I’d simply purchase the soundtrack for this music.

All in all, this could be one of the best episode of the season to date, particularly because the latest pacing points really feel like a factor of the previous. Hopefully, this marks a turning level for the anime.

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Tower of God Season 2 is presently streaming on Crunchyroll.