Post — Aaron Ngo

Major Spoilers are included in this Webtoon Review. Please read with caution.

On September 8, 2020, I started and finished Tower of God Volume 2: The Workshop Battle’s eleventh story arc: “Thorn”. The arc dealt with the aftermath of Viole being captured and everyone who didn’t know Viole was Baam learning that truth. Hatsu also informed everyone that Viole was captured and being used to power the real Thorn with his Irregular strength. Knowing this, Khun planned to continue playing The Workshop Battle—playing by the rules—to summon Viole out of his predicament. Wangnan and Quaetro are essential to that plan, as they are the ones racing off to the summon center.

There was a lot of excitement going into this arc. Beta entered the tournament arena—through a loophole—to kill Viole’s friends, encountering Rak and Yihwa along the way. While he didn’t engage in combat with them, Rak and Yihwa did have an interesting match with two creeps from Team FUG, with Rak finally growing into his original form and taking them both down. Rak and Yihwa’s character dynamic is also hilarious—if not borderline sexual harassment. Yihwa is given a lot of crap in Tower of God for some reason.

Yuto—Hwa Ryun in disguise—Horyang, and Novack are on the way to save Viole, with Horyang and Novack fighting off two members of Team Mad Dog and a giant Workshop Patrol robot named Blue Titan.

The cliffhanger with Viole escaping and attacking Blue Titan was quite an exciting way to end the story arc. Hwa Ryun revealed things about Viole and the Thorn that made his latest power-up quite epic. I did enjoy this story arc for uniting the characters with the same goal—saving Viole—and reading Leesoo feel angry and bitter about FUG ruining their reunion made me feel some type of way. Like stop ruining the payoffs, FUG. Let the main characters be happy.

Tower of God is blowing my mind the higher I climb up. The last nine days—August 30 to September 8—reading this Webtoon should’ve fried my brain out by now, but I’m somehow hanging on. I’m also going to keep it reading with every nerdy bone in my body! BELIEVE IT!

Thanks for keeping up with me on these Webtoon reviews, everyone! For those who hadn’t read my previous Tower of God Webtoon reviews, the link is here. Let’s keep it climbing up the Tower!

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