Review of Attack on Titan

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AoT's soundtrack is also outstanding, especially when it comes to dramatic scenes or epic fights. And believe you me, there are a lot of dramatic scenes and epic fights. Unfortunately, apart from being an eye candy and.. ear candy(?), I found Attack on Titan to be very disappointing.

First of all, why is %95 of the cast so overly dramatic? I liked the dramatic tone when Dot Pixis addressed the soldiers before a suicide mission, or when Armin stuck his neck out for his best friend in trial but it gets ridiculous when they keep using the same tone over and over everywhere.

Oh Eren doesn't want to eat his bread? Drama time!
A couple of guys have a disagreement over something? LET'S YELL OUR HEADS OFF!! WAAA!

Can we stop with the yelling?! The characters are so emotional that whenever something bad happens they either immediately lose hope and start looking at the air like a bunch of idiots or start fighting the enemy head-on like a gang of hot-blooded rascals. But wait there has to be some interesting, realistic characters right?

Well we have Levi and Mikasa! A couple of cold, perfect robots; basically the exact opposite of the rest of the cast. It's like whenever someone is unnecessarily dramatic the show needs one of these two to come in and alleviate the situation. Although I'll admit the vibes I got from Levi weren't as bad as Mikasa's, in these 25 episodes AoT didn't really show me a different side of him. I do feel he might develop nicely in later seasons though.

Other than a few side characters (looking at you Jean <3) I felt like no one had any subtlety to them. Everyone was so one-dimensional since... I guess they had no time for character development with all those unnecessary flashbacks? But a show doesn't have to have amazing characters to be good right? Well, AoT's storytelling is nothing great either.

My biggest complaint has to be the foreshadowing. I found this annoying not only because it's done so obviously, but also because the show makes sure to flashback to those annoying moments multiple times throughout the series expecting me to go "Ohhhh that's why he said that!! Of course!!". They must have assumed that the viewers are as clueless as the sharp genius Armin who can't even recognize Annie's titan form.

Overall, Attack of Titan is kinda like Mikasa. Gorgeous but shallow.