She will ultimately depart, leaving him behind to enter the Tower.īut he doesn’t want that. She has a dream, too-to see the stars, to shine like them. She heals him, and patiently teaches him, and soon becomes his entire world. He is taken care of by a kind, joyful girl with golden eyes. One that is linked with all the pain and suffering in the world, with the reason why reality ( Kami no Tou’s and ours) constantly breaks into painful fragments and goes into cycles of horrifying self-destruction.Ī nameless boy awakes without memories in a system of caves where he cannot see the stars. Despite the swords, powers, characters who combine medieval, fantastic, contemporary and futuristic styles, and the clever ways of overcoming difficult challenges, this is not the Heaven’s Arena of Hunter x Hunter, and it certainly doesn’t have that show’s leniency with the murderous organizers of these challenges for super-talented individuals.Īs Bam goes up, level after level, we come nearer to the ultimate temptation, the fall, the consequences like concentric waves, and the dark mystery of evil, a mystery that defies understanding and rational explanation. Its colorful tower of broken dreams and people who are constantly left behind has a constant aura of threat and dread, even in the more innocent scenes.
#Anime kami no tou full#
The human heart and its darkness are certainly at full display at Kami no Tou.
#Anime kami no tou free#
So starts a quite atypical shonen, based on a beloved webtoon, with cartoonish, colorful, quite original designs, powerful music (“TOP” by Stray Kids is an opening for the ages), references to the book of Genesis, and a deep, unflinching depiction of sin, by which I mean evil of the darkest kind, the only true evil, chosen by the human free will, in a way that can poison the universe and kill that soul forever. And of Bam, the boy who went after her without a desire of his own. Tower of God (Kami no Tou) tells the story of Rachel, the girl with golden eyes who left everything to climb, desiring to shine like the stars.
That’s what every character in this show believes.
Whatever you may be looking for, you will find it there. Reach the top of the tower, and it will be yours.
What do you desire the most? Honor and pride? Authority and power? Money, and all sorts of shining riches? Revenge? Helping, or saving, or mattering to someone other than you (even when you’re not piloting a giant robot)? Or perhaps… something even more significant, more transcendent?
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