
The first season of the domestic science fiction animation "Tower of God", which was launched in 2019 and ended in 2021, took nearly 6 years to complete. Although it only has 16 episodes, it has a playback volume of 670 million and nearly 10 million followers. Nearly 100,000 people gave it a score of 8.3 on Douban and won more than ten animation industry awards including the "Golden Dragon Award" and the "Golden Monkey Award".
This animation produced by Yihua Kaitian has attracted a large number of loyal viewers with its excellent visual effects, complex and vivid group portraits, and extreme exploration of human choices in the doomsday world. At the end of the first season, whether the male protagonist Mark still has humanity after transforming into a beast, and whether Mark's lover Ran Bing can be resurrected, etc., also made many viewers persevere in "urging for more updates". One viewer left a message: "I didn't expect my baby to come out earlier than the second season of "The Cage of Spirits."
Nearly four years after the end of the first season, the second season of "Tower of God" was finally broadcast online on May 23. The reporter observed on the broadcasting platform Bilibili that nearly 130,000 people watched the first episode of the second season online at noon that day.

On May 23, the second season of the Chinese science fiction animation "The Cage of Spirits" was officially launched on Bilibili
The human choice in the doomsday world
The first season of "The Cage of Spirits" tells the story of a future where the Earth has experienced a devastating catastrophe and the surviving humans have to take refuge in a lighthouse suspended in the air as their last home. There are evil creatures on the ground, and good and evil are in opposition in the lighthouse, and it is difficult to distinguish right from wrong.
The play is based on the struggle and resistance at the end of the world, and discusses a series of ultimate questions. It creates a group of heroic characters, with Mark as the core, who fight for their ideals, ambitions and hopes, as well as a group of negative characters, represented by Charles, who disregard the future of mankind in order to satisfy their own twisted desires.
According to the creative team of Yihua Kaitian, the choice of "The Cage of Spirits" as the title of the drama is precisely to express that only by unity can human beings break free from the predicament and usher in the dawn.
As the second season unfolds, the audience will follow the protagonist Mark to the ground that was once heavily polluted. The emergence of more human survivors reveals the realistic possibility of humans returning to their homes on the ground. Among the survivors on the ground, a special group of "Awakeners" who work as a team have emerged. They have stimulated special abilities related to "Life Essence" to help them avoid danger and find resources in the harsher ground environment.

Stills from the second season of "The Cage of Spirits"
Production fully upgraded
Since the project was launched in 2014, "Tower of God" has gone through a five-year creation cycle. In 2017, the work attracted much attention as soon as it was released. The 17-minute official PV promotional video broke the B station playback record and set a record for animation PV.
On the eve of the second season of "Tower of God", advance screenings were held in Wuhan, Shanghai, Beijing and Guangzhou. At the Shanghai event where reporters participated, an audience member exclaimed, "This is even more delicate than the first season, and the fighting and scenes are more grand and smooth." In the post-screening session, the main creators revealed: "Compared with the first season, we used a completely new set of processes and production specifications. Although "Tower of God" is a long animated series, we still hope to strive to reach a higher production standard with limited time and technology."
It is understood that the number of shots in this season has exceeded 10,000, and the difficulty of special effects shots has increased exponentially. The application of new technologies has greatly improved the texture of light and shadow. Judging from the results presented in the second season, the scene atmosphere rendering is more delicate and realistic, and the polishing of light and shadow levels and environmental details builds an immersive science fiction world; the micro-expressions of the characters make the emotional tension of the characters come alive on the screen; the battle scenes are connected smoothly and naturally, and even the texture of the skin texture and muscle movement of the extreme beast have achieved a visual effect with clear texture details.

Stills from the second season of "The Cage of Spirits"
In the first and second episodes that have been aired, Longgu Village is eye-catching. It not only shows the organic integration of traditional culture and scientific imagination, but also paints a new picture for the audience of humans on the ground facing disasters and pursuing hope.
At present, the domestic animation industry is accelerating towards a new stage of diversified development. On the one hand, domestic animated films continue to break Chinese film box office records; on the other hand, high-quality animated series such as "The Cage of Spirits" have also made great progress. With the official launch of the second season of "The Cage of Spirits", this science fiction work focusing on survival games, faith choices and the evolution of civilization will lead the audience to once again delve into the future world full of suspense and unknowns, and start a new exploration.