Review of Attack on Titan

There's lots to like here with AoT. Cool slick animation, ongoing and engaging story lines, and mondo bonus points for not being stereotypical shonen anime by numbers. There's a large and diverse cast to root for and against. The stakes are high and clear and not everyone is going to make it out of this alive, and you know this given the horror of their situation. All that praise and yet "why only a six out of ten?" you ask. One quick reason is I am a harsh critic who tries to reserve fives for top of the line everyone should watch anime. Let meexplained why I lowered AoT's score, starting with Camille Biden, I mean Eren Jaeger. First he's all gung ho about killing titans. Then he joins the military and can't quite figure out how to function as a team player. Something crucial to the titan killing effort. It's also long and drags with terrible pacing at times. The entire attack on trost arc is what one whole day? One episode spans 23 seconds. 23 seconds of thought and dialog is stretched to fill a 22 minute episode. AoT is predictable at times, but the worse possible times; but this is due to the pacing issue. I'm trying to not leave spoilers (I dunno why we've all seen it) it's just too obvious at times when they're trying to create drama. But what grieves me the most is the stupid society they live in. Why do we not have any data on the titans? Why is Zoe the ONLY character interested in learning about the titans? Why has science been suppressed? What is the survey corps doing? I will add this is a pretty gory show. That doesn't lower it's score at all, because it's supposed to be gory. But not safe for little kids and those who have triggers that require warnings. Hence the six out of ten, if you can put up with, endure, and tolerate AoT I recommend it, but not too highly as I can understand how it may not be everyone's cup of tea.
There's lots to like here with AoT. Cool slick animation, ongoing and engaging story lines, and mondo bonus points for not being stereotypical shonen anime by numbers. There's a large and diverse cast to root for and against. The stakes are high and clear and not everyone is going to make it out of this alive, and you know this given the horror of their situation. All that praise and yet "why only a six out of ten?" you ask. One quick reason is I am a harsh critic who tries to reserve fives for top of the line everyone should watch anime. Let me explained why I lowered AoT's score, starting with Camille Biden, I mean Eren Jaeger. First he's all gung ho about killing titans. Then he joins the military and can't quite figure out how to function as a team player. Something crucial to the titan killing effort. It's also long and drags with terrible pacing at times. The entire attack on trost arc is what one whole day? One episode spans 23 seconds. 23 seconds of thought and dialog is stretched to fill a 22 minute episode. AoT is predictable at times, but the worse possible times; but this is due to the pacing issue. I'm trying to not leave spoilers (I dunno why we've all seen it) it's just too obvious at times when they're trying to create drama. But what grieves me the most is the stupid society they live in. Why do we not have any data on the titans? Why is Zoe the ONLY character interested in learning about the titans? Why has science been suppressed? What is the survey corps doing? I will add this is a pretty gory show. That doesn't lower it's score at all, because it's supposed to be gory. But not safe for little kids and those who have triggers that require warnings. Hence the six out of ten, if you can put up with, endure, and tolerate AoT I recommend it, but not too highly as I can understand how it may not be everyone's cup of tea.