Review of Attack on Titan
Attack on Titan is a title that I have been avoiding for a while now. I'd like to say it's because the hype scared me off. In reality it was all of the MVs I watched for it. It was just too much characters kicking characters butts and things I didn't really care for. Boo on me. Because it's just a collection of scenes that fans like. Which apparently I don't like. That said once I started Attack on Titans I was addicted. This is definitely a series that you want to make sure that you have all episodes on hand. Because it's just cruelotherwise. Attack on Titan really surprised me by it's 100% original idea and world. Not to mention the mostly original plot that will please fans of Game of Thrones. Character deaths! Destruction and real consequences. Scary thing! Plenty of dark unanswered mysteries!
The not so unoriginal points detracted from the story. The pacing is super fast and the writing does what it can to establish characters so that they can be gruesomely killed. Sadly that doesn't always work out and you know which characters are going to either come back from the dead or at least be kept around for a while. Also, unoriginal stereotype leads. There's plenty of more interesting side characters that I would love to shine. Though I don't think AoT has the guts for that.
Other distractions are the dramatic eating scenes. Hey, I'm being eaten alive! I have time for a super dramatic monologue--often dragged out to ridiculous lengths--making it too hard to ignore how much they should be spending that time on not getting eaten. Or characters saving others . . . to be dramatically be eaten. I am baffled as to how others can't help each other without being eaten. Or why on earth no one has created a air pump quick jack to make hungry mouths open up. No really. One of the biggest things is getting eaten, no one has come up with something to stop mouths from closing or force them back open? Especially if it takes that long to be devoured. (Yeah, yeah it's all happening so fast that there's no saving them. Monologues say otherwise.) There's nothing like speed killing to make a death more dramatic. No really. Some happened that we didn't see and it had more impact. In fact, the ones that happened towards the end of season 1 had more impact because of the brutality and the speed in which the characters died.
I'll stop nit picking because in the end AoT was so much fun and just awesome. I have to pick on it a little so that you can see despite what would have normally killed or dulled down an anime for me was almost easily ignored. I'm hungry for more. Visually this is a stunner and I love how unique the whole thing is. It's refreshing. Sadly AoT suffers from the inability to answer questions or give us a decent development. So many questions at the beginning, and more by the end with none answered. I felt like despite the amazing plot setup that nothing was achieved. Not to mention that I still find the leads to be super annoying. My friends claimed that they grew and weren't so annoying . . . I just didn't see it.