Review of Attack on Titan

Sometimes there is an anime that garners so much hype and attention that it completely eclipses all other anime that are released during the year. These rare occasions usually mean that it’s popular in the west before being localized and usually means that even people who aren’t big into anime may have already heard about it. Honestly, I was kinda dreading watching this show, mostly because of all of the hype surrounding it, because you know what they say. The bigger the hype, the harder they fall. Now, does it live up to all of the hype, you ask? Well…to some extent. Overall, Attack onTitan does a lot of things right, with its great animation, fascinating plot twists and tragic and realistic characters. Through observing them, we learn from Aren that a man who gives up freedom for security deserves neither, we learn from Mikasa that the world can be cruel and usually boils down to kill or be killed and Armin lets us know that people who are unable to abandon anything will likely fail to produce any change. Although the lackluster ending and large amount of deaths kind of drag the show down. All in all, I feel like the overall message that Attack on Titan is trying to convey is that we shouldn’t take our life, our world, for granted. The people in Attack on Titan have never seen glaciers, or deserts or anything outside of their walls and these are things that we take for granted everyday, the real beauty of our world.

I give it an 8/10.