Tower of God Volume 2: The Prince of Zahard: “Last Chance” (Episodes 1 through 5) Webtoon Review
Major Spoilers are included in this webtoon review. Please read with caution.
On September 4, 2020, I started and finished Tower of God Volume 2: The Prince of Zahard’s first story arc: “Last Chance”.
On the official Webtoon site, the volumes are called “Seasons”, but I changed it to avoid confusion for future anime reviews that I will call “Season 1, Season 2, etc.”.
Anyway, Volume 2 is a game-changer that looked set-up to be a soft reboot, but then the final episode in the arc had a plot twist involving a certain character that blew my mind. Before I get to that plot twist though, let’s dive into how Volume 2: The Prince of Zahard kicked off.
Volume 2 opened with an episode 0 involving Lady Yuri and her older sister Repellista Zahard. We also met another one of Zahard’s Princesses—Khun Maschenny Zahard—who picked a fight with Lady Yuri about the 13-month weapons. Based on the name, Maschenny is definitely related to Khun in some way. Anyway, the point of this Prologue is Lady Yuri asking Repellista for help to locate Baam.
Lady Yuri believes Baam is alive somewhere and wants to find him because she has a crush on him. Well, at least she’s honest about her attraction to Baam. Repellista agrees to help in exchange for Lady Yuri finding something for her, which sets up the Prince of Zahard’s long awaited return. After this, the “Last Chance” Arc officially gets underway.
I enjoyed the Volume 2 Prologue set-up, and the foreshadow on the Prince of Zahard. The story’s doing an excellent job keeping my interest in the Zahard’s Princesses narrative and building that lore up with more Princesses being introduced into the series. At this point, I could care less about Baam and Rachel.
Speaking of our protagonists, they didn’t appear until the last episode of the arc in a flashback, which tied into the plot twist I mentioned earlier in the review. The “Last Chance” Arc mainly followed Ja Wangnan and his journey to pass the Tower’s 20th Floor in order to become King of the Tower. However, he is also in debt—in threat of losing his actual organs to a loan shark named Lurker—after failing to pass the first time around.
Ja Wangnan had me cackling throughout this arc. The most comedic thing to happen was his inability to stop teaming up with people—first a dark figure to avoid getting beaten and later four other people. I was honestly getting comfortable with the idea of Ja Wangnan being Tower of God’s new main protagonist.
Anyway, this was how the plot twist got me once we learned the dark figure’s true identity and how it connected to the Baam-Rachel flashback in which Rachel told the story of how the Tower came into existence and what Baam took from that story: how sad and lonely the man must’ve felt building the Tower without anyone else there to be with him.
Overall, Tower of God is worth the climb. That’s how I’ll conclude this Webtoon review. Thanks for keeping pace with me in these reviews—the link to my other Tower of God Webtoon Reviews is here—and let’s keep it up! Like I said when I started the journey, “I’m just getting warmed up!” Cell to Vegeta for a lack of better reference.