Review of Attack on Titan

Attack on Titan had the potential to be one of the greatest works of fiction and it completely squandered that opportunity. Here's why - The first few episodes establish a world where massive hunks of meat with eerie grins rip people's heads off on sight and for no reason whatsoever. No one has the guts or means to kill the damn things. You can feel the helplessness, the horror and the dark vibe of the series. You connect emotionally with the characters and the series sucks you in. After a horrifying yet heartily entertaining start we want more. What's gonna happen? How can you fendoff a giant baby looking tub of meat that doesn't give a fuck about anything other than ripping you and everyone around you to shreds? Turns out there are people that can fly through the air at 100 miles an hour with 2 glorified machetes and slice those bitches like a shef in a sushi joint. Slice here, slice there and that 10 metre hunk of terror suddenly becomes ridiculous and comical. What the supposedly mere human characters do in this series suddenly becomes supernatural.

The series literally makes fun of its strongest selling point. Suddenly, you have "titans" running around like babies, jumping around like frogs and characters swirling around in the air like katarina in league of legends. If that wasn't bad enough, the pacing grinds to a complete halt and everyone with a German surname starts arguing for episodes on end. The series suffers from a severe DBZ syndrome of having characters talk shit for way too long for no reason.

Ultimately, the titans look like they could use super-sized diapers, the characters end up being shallow, the story goes nowhere and you're left wondering what the fuck happened to all the black people.

However, the series did have monumental potential and the first 2 episodes are a testament to that. 15 metre giants running through everything and everyone without a single care in the world is something you will never see once you switch your PC off and from the start it was the series' pivotal strength. Titan fighting scenes are gargantuan in scope and execution. The sound effects accompanying them are nothing short of spectacular.

But that's about it. Everything else might as well been written by Tommy Wiseau. Shallow characters, constant deus ex machina solutions to killing something that at the beginning was established to be near unkillable and pacing that will leave you confused.

Watch it for the action, don't take it seriously and you'll be mildly entertained.

5 points.