Bubbleblabber’s Definitive Top Ten International Animated Series of 2020 (English Dubbed)
7) Tower of God
There are a lot of shounen anime at this point. In fact, there are too many, but the popular genre is clearly not going away. The glut of this kind of content can give some audience’s reservations when yet another shounen anime series comes along, but it also means a whole lot more when one of these series can defy expectations and genuinely do something different. Tower of God is an anime that revolves around a mysterious and magical Tower that presents itself as one thing, only for it to be vastly different in reality. Brilliantly, Tower of God the anime pulls off the same kind of magic trick where it begins and acts like a basic shounen dungeon series, only for the show to pull the rug out from under the viewer as it steadily changes into more of a nihilistic character study that has a lot to say about society, human nature, and the desire to be seen.
There's got to be some kind of twist that's going to happen with this. I don't know if they're setting up an April Fool's joke now or what's going on, but it seems too strange that they'd suddenly reverse on doing a fourth and fifth season after the show was already renewed and they were even just talking about working on those seasons like a couple months ago or something. Or maybe the two episodes yet to release will secretly somehow each be like a "season" in themselves?