A new key visual has been revealed for the upcoming second season of Tower of God, which is scheduled to begin broadcasting in Japan on July 7, 2024. The visual features the season’s new tagline “Return of the Prince.”
Kazuyoshi Takeuchi (Gekijouban City Hunter: Angel Dust) is the chief director for the second season, with Akira Suzuki as series director, Erika Yoshida (Bocchi the Rock!) as the screenwriter and co-scriptwriter with Takeshi Miyamoto (The 8th Son? Are You Kidding Me?) and Riuji Yoshizaki. The Answer Studio is in charge of the animation production for season two, taking over from Telecom Animation Film, who handled work on season one.
Miho Tanino (Blue Thermal, Tower of God season one), Seigo Kitazawa (Gekijouban City Hunter: Angel Dust), and Isamitsu Kashima are the co-character designers, with Kitazawa also credited as chief animation director, Yusuke Ikeda (D4DJ All Mix) as art director, and Kevin Penkin (The Apothecary Diaries) as music composer.
Yoshida, Tanino, and Penkin returned from the first season of Tower of God to work on the second season.
Meanwhile, the second season’s voice cast includes:
- • Taichi Ichikawa as Jyu Viole Grace/Twenty-Fifth Bam
- • Yuuma Uchida as Ja Wangnan
- • Sayumi Watabe as Yeon Yihwa
- • Saori Hayami as Rachel
- • Nobuhiko Okamoto as Khun Aguero Agnes
- • Yu Shimamura as Yeo Goseng
- • Saki Miyashita as Yeo Miseng
- • Kenichiro Matsuda as Kang Horyang
- • Kento Shiraishi as Hon Akraptor
- • Kengo Kawanishi as Prinz
- • Natsuko Abe as Nia
- • Naoki Irie as Rai
The anime adaptation is based on the Tower of God webtoon manhwa by SIU, which was released on June 30, 2010 on the WEBTOON platform and is currently on “Season 3.” The series is available in the U.S. via WEBTOON as of July 2014. In addition to the digital version, Wattpad publishes the series as a graphic novel under its WEBTOON Unscrolled imprint, with Volume 4 set for release in June 2024.
Crunchyroll is streaming the first season of Tower of God, which describes the main synopsis as:
Reach the top, and everything will be yours. At the top of the tower exists everything in this world, and all of it can be yours. You can become a god. This is the story of the beginning and the end of Rachel, the girl who climbed the tower so she could see the stars, and Bam, the boy who needed nothing but her.
Source: Tower of God Official Anime Twitter, press release
