Review of Attack on Titan
This will be a review for S1 to S3 Attack on Titan has a bunch of problems early out of the gate that keeps it from becoming as amazing as I have heard people claim it to be. Although the show is firmly planted in the fantasy genre it also leans heavily on reality to convey its gory and macabre tones, which immediately falls apart when it fails to stay faithful to the things it's trying to convey. The civilization it attempts to set up is one that is vulnerable and the military and war it sets up is again an attempt to ground itself inreality, a human struggle against an impossibly overpowered foe which sounds compelling no?
A few episodes in you start watching protagonists performing impossibly acrobatic acts that would put strain and forces on their bodies that would cause any real human to break bones or hemorrhage their internal organ, not just the protagonists but nearly every member of the military is performing these acts which should be evidence that these humans are far more durable than your typical real life counterparts, nope, they get swatted like flies.
Aight, well that may be just one inconsistency, I doubt there's another...
Well it turns out titans are impossibly light for their size and strength since their amputated limbs can be picked up quite easily, the show also goes out of its way to show they can take damage easily from punching with any good amount of their strength, yet they are conveyed in a way that their weight scales realistically with their height which would make even running enough to break their bones let alone some of the more acrobatic maneuvers they perform ultimately contradicting itself in the process.
Even the way a younger Erin Yeager behaves is unfaithful to the character traits he displays as an adult which I can't get into 'cause it's potential spoiler territory.
It's not too bold to say that almost every interesting or major development in the series is either contradictory or haphazardly handled.
It's not perfect, it's ridiculously flawed, but I had a bit of fun watching it regardless, sound design is good, the animation is good, the pacing is trash, character moments are trash, it has this thing where characters will start yelling and the atmosphere will change to make it all seem dramatic when it's nowhere near as dramatic as it thinks its being, some "horror" moments are just laughable but despite all this, you can at least enjoy it for what remains.
I give it a 6.5/10 since I can't ignore its flaws, idk, maybe Tokyo Ghoul fans will enjoy it, they're typically impartial to quality.